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A muslim convert admits killing soldier Lee Rigby in London and

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tells the Old Bailey this is a war. Michael Adebolajo from Essex says he

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targeted Lee Rigby because of the UK's foreign policy, claiming his

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actions would save other lives. We'll get the latest from the Old

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Bailey. Also tonight. Ambulances forced to queue outside A How

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some patients are waiting hours to be admitted. The football fixing

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allegations spread. Police consider if this booking was deliberate.

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Remembering Mandela. Last-minute preparations for tomorrow's memorial

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service as his daughter speaks of the moments before he died.

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Everybody called everybody here who want to see him and say goodbye. It

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was the most wonderful day for us because the grandchildren were

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there. We were there. And Ashes angst for England as

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Australia celebrate winning the second Test in Adelaide.

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Coming up, David Moyes says he takes complete responsibility for

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Manchester United's results. Back-to-back home defeats have left

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and ninth in the Premier League. Good evening and welcome to the BBC

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News at Six. One of the men accused of murdering Fusilier Lee Rigby on

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the streets of London in May has been describing how he chose his

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victim and then killed him. 28-year-old Michael Adebolajo, a

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Muslim convert from Essex and a father of six, told the Old Bailey

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he was a soldier of Allah and blamed Lee Rigby's death on UK foreign

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policy. Our home affairs correspondent June Kelly is at the

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Old Bailey now. June. Sophie, I am a soldier and this is war, the words

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of Michael Adebolajo today. From the witness box. He described Lee

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Rigby's death as an act of war and said he planned to Martin self by

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running at police officers and hoping they would shoot him dead. --

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martyr himself. This report contains some distressing details. Day six of

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this trial and the start of the defence case. The men in the dock

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are accused of the murder of Lee Rigby. They are also facing charges

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of conspiring to murder and attempting to murder a police

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officer. They are pleading not guilty to everything. Michael

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Adebowale and Michael Adebolajo have said they want to be referred to by

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their Muslim names. In the witness box, surrounded by security guards,

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Michael Adebolajo laid out his political and religious beliefs. He

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told the jury: he described how he had been brought

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up as a Christian and had converted to Islam when he was at university.

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He took part in demonstrations, angry at British foreign policy

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pulls up today he spoke of the war in Iraq. And said it was the

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treatment of Muslims which led him to kill. Of events in Woolwich, he

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admitted trying to decapitate Lee Rigby and said, as a soldier, he has

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an obligation to fight, despite having a wife and six children. His

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youngest child was just four days old when he took a soldier's life.

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He said it was Allah who told him to kill Fusilier Lee Rigby. He and

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Michael Adebowale were looking for a soldier and went for Lee Rigby

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because he was carrying a military rucksack. He told the court, :

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this was Michael Adebolajo running towards officers armed with a meat

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cleaver. Police shot him. Today he said he wanted to die. Lee Rigby's

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sister, being comforted by her mother at the family left court this

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evening, after sitting through his testimony. He has now completed his

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evidence and the rest of the defence case is due to be heard tomorrow.

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Michael Adebolajo was asked about Lee Rigby's family and says he has

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no bad feelings towards them and said every soldier has a family who

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loves him. And then he went on, my family didn't stop loving me the

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moment I became a soldier. June, thank you very much. Some patients

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who are taken to NHS hospitals by ambulance are being held in a queue

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outside for far longer than they should be. Patients should be

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admitted to accident and emergency within 15 minutes of arriving. But

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data released to the BBC, under the Freedom of Information Act, shows

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many patients in England, Wales and Scotland are waiting longer. One was

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kept waiting in an ambulance for more than six hours. Our Health

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correspondent Branwen Jeffreys reports. Gerald 's mother is in

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hospital for the business than a week was called for the 85-year-old

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by a GP worried was becoming seriously ill. But the A was

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overloaded so Marion spent four hours waiting outside in the

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ambulance. It's unacceptable. No one in this country, this civilised

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society, should have to wait that long to have medical treatment. She

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was sent by her doctor to hospital to have specific medication. The

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average hand over time is just 50 minutes but the figures obtained by

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the BBC revealed some shocking delays. Wales has some of the worst

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but one case of over six hours. Overall, England was better. But

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still had long waits, up to five hours. Scotland had no weights about

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length. The longest was under two hours. And Northern Ireland has one

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weight of more than three hours. This morning, 69-year-old Judith

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came in after a fall. Her care handed on to A staff within

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minutes. At the Royal Glamorgan, they no longer keep ambulances

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waiting. The decision we made was we would rather have a patient in the

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department where we can see them and assess them, rather than sitting on

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an ambulance in the car park and not know what is there. So we felt the

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save the decision was to bring them into hospital, even if that meant

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the department was very crowded. The A is running smoothly here. But

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there are concerns elsewhere. Wales has struggled with ambulance

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handover times for several years. Although the situation has improved

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slightly, there are still some areas where patients are waiting for up to

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five or six hours before being taken into the care of A The ambulance

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service said it's trying to get similar progress elsewhere. Long

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handovers during this winter could make it hard answer urgent calls. It

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shouldn't be happening. It's not beneficial to patients. It's not

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good for staff, and it doesn't help ambulance response times when they

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are delayed outside hospitals. Handover times are one sign of

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pressure on emergency care. Something the NHS around the UK says

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it is working hard to improve. As part of the BBC's NHS Winter

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Project we're launching a website which lets you see the latest weekly

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statistics for every major A department in England. Go to

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bbc.co.uk/nhswinter and enter your postcode to find out how your local

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hospital is coping. Investigators have found no evidence

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of engine or gearbox failure in the police helicopter which crashed

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killing nine people in Glasgow ten days ago. However a preliminary

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report found the main rotors and tail blades had stopped rotating

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moments before impact. It also said the helicopter had about 95 litres

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of fuel when it crashed into the Clutha pub. The singer and former X

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Factor judge Tulisa Constavalos has been charged with supplying class A

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drugs. The charges relate to claims that she sold cocaine to an

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undercover journalist following an investigation by the Sun newspaper

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earlier this year. The Blackburn Rovers striker DJ Campbell is one of

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five players who have been released on bail in connection with

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allegations of fixing in football matches. A sixth is still being

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questioned. They were all arrested yesterday after the former

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Portsmouth player Sam Sodje told a reporter he could arrange for

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players to be booked or sent off in exchange for cash. Andy Swiss

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reports. He has been a striker at the highest

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level. Highlighted here in the red shirt, this was DJ Campbell playing

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for Blackburn last week. The left of the picture comedy brings down one

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of his Ipswich opponents and picks up a yellow card. It's a challenge

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which the Sun newspaper claims is under the spotlight. Yesterday, the

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sun on Sunday released undercover footage of the former Portsmouth

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player Sam Sodje claiming he once deliberately got sent off in

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exchange for ?70,000. He also said he could get other players involved

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in fixing. Allegations that have shocked supporters. If you want your

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team to win, obviously, you wanted to be fair play. We don't want none

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of that. If you want to see a game, you want to see real effort going in

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there. You want to see the real team come out and win. Before arriving at

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Blackburn, DJ Campbell played for several clubs in the Premier League.

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He's a very familiar name to football fans are so these latest

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allegations but the sport and even sterner scrutiny. Last week, two

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players with a non-league side were charged after supper investigation

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into claims of match fixing of non-league football. After this

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latest enquiry by the National Crime Agency, some believe it's up to

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players themselves to take a stand. If this whistle-blowing in

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particular that you need to look at, modern organisations now have in

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their tool bag of governments, this issue of getting employees to be

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able to feel free to whistle-blowing without repercussions, so I think

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that is essentially one of the areas they need to focus on. And this

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investigation has involved high-profile players. Sam Sodje's

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former club Portsmouth said they were saddened by allegations which

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have once again cast a shadow over the integrity of Ingush football.

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More than ?40 million has been written off by the government on a

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computer system for one of the biggest benefit changes, the

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Universal Credit scheme. But the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain

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Duncan Smith, who was appearing before MPs this afternoon, has

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rejected claims that his flagship welfare policy is a debacle. Our

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political correspondent Carole Walker has the story. How to

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construct a benefit system which installs you are better off in

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work, merged six different benefits into one, and moved 7 million people

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onto the new Universal Credit. Today, the minister in charge denied

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the whole thing was Ada Barker. The point I was making was, within the

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timescale and budget, we are delivering a solution that a

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debacle. You tell was in September it was

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working. We are now told it isn't working. No, it is working. You are

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talking about too many issues here. So who is getting Universal Credit?

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The latest figure from September shows just 2150 were claiming it.

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The target for April 2014, set two years ago, was 1 million. The

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department say that as an old timetable and no new figure has been

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set. By 2015, the time of the next election, an estimated 400,000 will

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be claiming it according to the independent office the budget

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responsibility. Labour support the principle of Universal Credit but

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say the scheme is in chaos. The Labour Party, and National Audit

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Office and others have all said that this project was off-track for

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months now and Iain Duncan Smith failed to listen and get a grip.

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This is about his leadership because he has staked his application on the

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Universal Credit and we now know that flagship policy lies in

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tatters. Though the minister in charge insists his big programme is

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on track, there's no doubt various targets and timetables have been

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abandoned. Perhaps he's just calculate it but accusations of

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delays and mismanagement are less damaging than moving people onto a

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system which can't cope leaving vulnerable people without their

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benefit payments. The complex computer system is at the heart of

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the problem. What has been most depressing about the Universal

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Credit IT is that what we have learnt is it is repeating failures

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which have been highlighted and we have been told by this and previous

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governments that those failures have been learned from and rectified. The

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government says step-by-step, it will build a system which works but

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it is a very long way from delivering the central plank of its

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welfare reforms. Universal Credit. Our top story this evening. Michael

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Adebolajo admits killing soldier Lee Rigby and tells the Old Bailey he's

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at war because of British foreign policy. Still to come. Bowled,

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beaten and bothered. England's Ashes woes continue down under. Coming up

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in sports day, on BBC News, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Franck

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Ribery are short listed for this year 's awards. Ronaldo is the

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favourite for the award. In Johannesburg final preparations

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are being made for tomorrow's official memorial service for South

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Africa's former President, Nelson Mandela. More than 100 leaders from

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around the world, including four British Prime Ministers past and

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present, will join tens of thousands who will on hoR his life. -- who

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will honour his life. Over to George in Soweto. Thank you. Good evening.

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We are just outside a stadium here in Soweto, where there will be that

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service for Nelson Mandela. It promises to be probably the biggest

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sippingle event of this week of national mourning. -- single event

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of this week of national mourning. Tens of thousands will gather, but

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many more will gather at various sites around the country, where they

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are erecting scenes for the public to watch. Today, Nelson Mandela's

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eldest daughter, Makeziwe, has been speaking to the BBC. It's her first

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broadcast interview and as our reporter Andrew Harding reports, she

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has been describing Nelson Mandela's final day, surrounded by his

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children and grandchildren. The stage is not quite set, but world

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leaders are on their way and tomorrow they'll join the crowds

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here at the World Cup stadium, to say goodbye to Nelson Mandela.

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Today, his daughter described his last days and moment, in her first

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broadcast interview since his death. Every day for the - I don't know how

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many past months - I would say, "I'm coming to see you tomorrow." Maybe

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he would open his eyes for just a second and close those eyes. So, for

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me, I think that until the last moment he was happy. Many of the

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family were at his bed side last week, when the doctors warned them

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he was slipping away. They told us in the morning that there was

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nothing they could do. And said to me, "Make a call." That people

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should come and say goodbye. It was the most wonderful day for us. That

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positiveness seems to have gained traction across the countriment

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people are flocking to his old house in Soweto in Johannesburg. It was at

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the nearby stadium in 1990 that he addressed a turbulent nation,

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immediately after emerging from 27 years in prison. Now, the stadium

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has been rebuilt and no up to a point, has South Africa. Perhaps

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there have been bigger and grander sent-offs than this one, but not

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many. In the modern era, it's very difficult to think of anyone more

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widely loved than Nelson Mandela. This is going to be a very special

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gathering. But a few miles away, the freedom he helped bring has proved a

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disappointment to some. This remains a profoundly unequal society. Yes,

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we do have our freedom and our rights, but we are abusing our

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rights. You are stuck in poverty? We are still stuck in poverty and I

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don't think poverty is going anywhere. It's not going anywhere,

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any time soon. If you few hold against Nelson Mandela himself.

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They'll be toasting him here tomorrow, even in this nation is

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still a work in process. When Nelson Mandela became South

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Africa's first black President he said himself -- set himself one task

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above all others - to reconcile black and white South Africans.

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Throughout his presidency he used the sport ng aR reign Na -- arena to

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achieve his goals. Never more so when South Africa reached the rugby

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World Cup final in 1995. He walked into the stadium wearing the

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Springbok jersey and it was a hated symbol in those days of white

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supremacy. In a fare tale ending Francois Pienaar's team won that

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game and I've been speaking to him about that day. A presidency that

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had its fair share of momentous occasions this was perhaps one of

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the most electrifying. Francois Pienaar, captain of the team,

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remembers a knock on the changing room door on that day. In walked Mr

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Mandela. I was incredibly emotional, because - We can take some time.

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Thanks. When he walked into the dressing room, wearing the Springbok

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on his heart, it was just wow. He just stood there and he said, "Good

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luck, boys." He turned around and my number was on his back. That was me,

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I couldn't sing because I knew I would end up crying. I was just so

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proud to be a South African at that time. Do you think Nelson Mandela

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made a calculated move in deciding that he was going to adopt rugby in

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this way? He understood the power of sport. He said that, that it's

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incredibly powerful and it can unite people in a way that little else

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does. And it had, because he understood the importance, but he

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really cared. He was genuine and it means a lot to a lot of people like

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you and you have a sense when people are real and when they are not and

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he's real. There are people who say he has already been failed and that

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South Africa is unequal and in fact it's become more unequal in the last

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two decades. I see that. Often we debate that. As South Africans. I'm

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not a politician. We have some fantastic leaders in the ANC, but

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also we have leaders who are not doing a great job NC and -- ANC and

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corruption is unacceptable and we need to stamp that out. What it

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tells me is that it's as if the nation were built on the shoulders

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of one man. That now that he's gone people are going to start panicking

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and saying, "Well, can we make it?" They respected the man, but

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respected his presence pels and they -- principles and they reflect on

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his leadership. We had him for such a short time, so there is that

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respect and I think hope that the leaders that follow in his footsteps

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would have the same moral compass and values and energy and love for

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the country that Nelson Mandela had. Francois Pienaar speaking to me

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earlier. I've just been given a programme for tomorrow's service. It

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turns out that President Obama will be giving a speech and so too, the

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Cuban President. It's a testiment to Nelson Mandela's reach. He's a man

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who will be mourned by this one nation, but he will also be missed

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by a world. It from us here. Back to you, Sophie.

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George, thank you. They are three of the most divisive

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issues in Northern Ireland. Politicians have been told to treat

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talks over flags, parades and the legacy of the Troubles with a sense

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of urgency. The American diplomat, Richard Haas, who is leading

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negotiations, flew into Belfast today and he has until Christmas to

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find answers to the problems. Every evening in North Belfast there's a

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loyalist parade. It's costing ?50,000 a day to police. This

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dispute is over a decision to prevent Orangemen from walking

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passed the mainly nationalist area and started in the height of summer.

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Protests are still taking place on a nightly basis throughout winter.

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Parading's just one of the issues Richard Haas is trying to solve. I

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think it's a Mission Impossible. Expecting him to come in for a

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six-month period and solve all the problems in Northern Ireland. I

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don't think the guy's a magician. Richard Haas wants to find an

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agreement. But the Christmas deadline is hard to ignore. I've

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heard some say I'm optimistic. Others have described us as

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ambitious. I can live with both of these descriptions. In a place where

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flags can be the source of conflict, he's already asked a controversial

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question - should there be a new plaG to represent Northern Ireland?

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We are asking you to try and design a flag and we asked students at

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Queen's University to come up with ideas. This was one suggestion. I

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don't think there's going to be one in the feature that everyone could

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get behind. Who think a new flag would be a good idea? That says a

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lot. We've got enough to argue about. The other challenges dealing

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with the legacy of violence and many are determined to ensure that

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victims are not forgotten. You wouldn't turn around to somebody who

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had been a victim of child abuse and say, "Well, that happened 40 years

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ago, so it shouldn't really effect you." We take it seriously. It's not

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just the past. Last week near this protest, distent Republicans shot at

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police, a reminder of how important it is to deal with long-held

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divisions. Cricket now and England are now 2-0 down in the Ashes series

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after Australia made quick work of finishing off their remaining

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batsmen to win by 218 runs. It's no good arriving at the fifth day in

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Australia and expecting the weather to come to your rescue. Drizzle

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delayed play for ten minutes. England lasted less than an hour.

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The more obvious Australia make the trap, the more determined some

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players are to jump into it. So much for Stuart Broad. Out in the first

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over. Matt Prior played himself back into some form. There was a match to

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save? Batting is the connection of thought process and technique, is

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often in Adelaide the English thinking seemed scrambled. In truth,

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the cause had been lost days before. Matt Prior out for 69. Another ball

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into Australian hands. 312 all out when Panesar fell. Making runs

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should not be left to the tail end as it begins with the bantsmen and

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right at the top with England's captain. I need to score more runs.

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Simple. We all do. But that first, there's only so many times you can

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do it. I'm now at the top of the order and these last two I haven't

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been scoring enough. After two defeats, is England's golden Ashes

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era coming to a calamitous halt? It's all beginning to unravel. And

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we have had three series we have won comfortably and we'll get

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annihilated in this one. Their mind isn't right and there's no team. The

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next Test starts on Friday, 13th, in Perth, where England have a grim

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record. Sound encouraging? It could be 3-0 and then the Ashes really

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will be done. Time for a look at the weather.

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Beautiful picture there. As far as this week's concerned, I don't think

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it's going to be all clear skies. In fact, there will be a lot of cloud,

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but it will be mild. It will be mostly dry. Some spots of rain

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around and breezy. On the big picture, you can see the cloud

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streaming from the south and moving north. They normally move from west

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to east. They are trying to, but they can't. Why? Because there is a

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big area of high pressure. It's sitting over us and blocking the

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weather systems from piling through, so they sort of skirt around the UK,

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so that's why around Northern Ireland, the Western Isles of

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Scotland and the northern isles, there will be spots of rain and with

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the southerly flow it will be quite mild. Temperatures overnight around

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eight or nine. The exception and the extreme where we could see a touch

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of frost in the south-east. As far as tomorrow goes, it's more of the

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same because the high pressure is still there. It's not going away.

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Again, we have the cloud and bits and pieces of rain across western

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areas and the further east and south you are, the brighter the weather is

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going to be. There's no big freeze across Europe. It's fairly settled

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and lots of sun around. The really cold temperatures are in Moscow.

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Back home, first thing on Wednesday morning, I'll point out there's

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going to be a lot of dense mist and fog around the east and south. That

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should clear. Then, on Wednesday, it's the sunny day right across

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almost the country. Not necessarily across Scotland and northern

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England. It looks like there is light rain. It will be damp across

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the north and west. That's all from the BBC news at six. Goodbye from

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