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Iraq says it has launched air strikes against the Islamist

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militants who say they're planning to take Baghdad.

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Iraq's Ministry of Defence has released footage of strikes

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in the north of the country, after fighters linked to Al Qaeda seized

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the cities of Tikrit and Mosul. President Obama says he won't rule

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anything out. There will be some short-term immediate things that

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need to be done militarily. Our national security team is looking at

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all the options. the cities of Tikrit and Mosul.

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As Iraq's government promises a fightback,

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hundreds of thousands of refugees are forced to flee their homes.

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They are waiting to see what the government response will be in what

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they fear is a massive onslaught of artillery and air strikes. As long

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as they believe that will happen, they will remain here in safety.

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are forced to flee their homes. Also tonight...

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New measures to tackle the backlog of passport

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applications, as the Home Secretary admits there's no big solution.

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Taking the heat out of the housing market.

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The Bank of England's given new powers to stop banks

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making risky mortgage loans. And I'm Brazil,

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where the opening ceremony of the World Cup is about to get underway.

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But there's been more violence as protestors clash with police

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over the amount of money being spent on the tournament.

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As fans gather ahead of tonight's kick off, FIFA insist

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everything is ready to go. On BBC London.

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City Hall says it has confidence in the Met to root out corrupt

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officers. And the campaign to stop photos

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of children being published without a parent's consent,

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launched by Paul Weller's wife. Good evening and welcome to the

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BBC News at Six. Iraq says it has launched air

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strikes against Islamist militants advancing on the capital, Baghdad.

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They're targeting the ISIS fighters, linked to Al Qaeda,

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who're already in control of the major cities, Mosul and Tikrit.

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President Obama has spoken for the need of immediate short-term

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military action in Iraq. the major cities, Mosul and Tikrit.

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The Sunni militants are now within about 80 miles of the capital

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after taking Iraq's second city of Mosul on Monday.

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The cities of Fallujah and Tikrit have also now fallen

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into their hands, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee.

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The Kurdish military has moved in to take control

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of the oil-rich province of Kirkuk after the national army fled.

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Paul Wood is in Iraq. It is a chaotic and fast-moving

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situation. President Obama's remarks will be taken as evidence that the

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Americans are considering drone strikes. The Iraqi government has

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certainly requested them in the past and it's highly likely they have

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asked them again, now that so much territory has slipped from their

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grasp. Just a few miles from where I'm speaking, the jihadis are

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consolidating their grip on Mosul. They have announced a 16 point

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Sharia law code, for instance, women may not leave the house and is

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modestly dressed. They've also threatened to destroy shrines,

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exactly the kind of thing that raises fears of a sectarian war

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here. They are pushing towards Baghdad and meanwhile, here in this

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part of Iraq, more frightened people have arrived. In the Kurdish

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countryside a safe haven for the Middle East's latest displaced

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population. They left Mosul with little, so all the familiar

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machinery of an aid operation cranks into gear. Many fled because they

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are afraid of the counterattack the Iraqi government has threatened to

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recapture Mosul. But many are here, too, because they feared the

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jihadis. The family of a murdered policeman. Three old era's father

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was shot and killed a year ago. They were terrified of ISIS even before

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the jihadis swept into Mosul. The guns growing louder, they left their

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bread baking in the oven ran. Bush work describes a harrowing escape.

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TRANSLATION: The Army discarded the uniforms because of ISIS snipers.

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Then the snipers fired that everyone, soldiers and civilians.

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The initial glut of terrified people has abated somewhat but there's

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still a steady flow through this, the first Kurdish checkpoint they

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encounter from Mosul. Behind them they leave the beginnings of what

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ISIS calls its Islamic emirate. The jihadis want nothing less than to

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redraw the map of the whole Middle East. In Mosul, ISIS rally the

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faithful. We have vanquished the Americans and their allies, he

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declares. God willing, we will establish a state ruled under the

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Koran. You are soldiers of Islam and Samarra, Tikrit and in Baghdad. The

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camera phone of an ISIS guard shows the Iraqi army's captured soldiers.

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They are humiliated in defeat. But the government fightback has begun.

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This is cockpit video from Iraqi planes bombing Mosul, as the Prime

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Minister promised they would. In the capital, government loyalists rushed

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to join up. Baghdad is majority Shi'ite, it's barely conceivable it

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could fall. But a sectarian civil war is one possible outcome of this.

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Another is that Iraq ceases to be a single country. Paul Wood, BBC News.

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Paul Wood is in Iraq. So what's behind the current

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bloodshed in Iraq, and how has the Iraq government attempted to

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deal with the problem of sectarian violence in the country?

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Our security correspondent Frank Gardner reports.

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Street battle this week. Iraq as a nation risks falling apart. This

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unverified footage appears to show Shia militia men fighting the Sunni

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jihadist is of ISIS, an Al splinter group. Both Syria and Iraq are

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experiencing violent insurgencies, increasingly sectarian. Mostly

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between Sunni and Shia Muslims. The Sunnis, he used to rule Iraq,

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concentrated in the north and west and they now feel dispossessed. ISIS

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is a fanatical Sunni group, present in both Iraq and Syria. In Iraq,

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it's been helped by the Sunni resentment against the government.

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In January, their fighters took the town of Fallujah, this month they

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had taken Mosul, Iraq's second city. From there, they pushed south to

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take Tikrit. All of this could be the genesis of a new Islamist

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mini-state right in the heart of the Middle East. The only force that can

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match them in northern Iraq is the Kurds. Today they took over the oil

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town of Kirkuk, to stop it falling into the hands of the fanatic ISIS.

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ISIS fighters are now threatening the capital, Baghdad, itself divided

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between Shia district in green and Sunni district in bed, where they

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will have some supporters. Iraq's Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, has

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been in power for eight years. He has won fair, democratic elections

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but his rule has been controversial. In 2011 he rejected a deal that

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would have kept US troops in Iraq for support. He has concentrated

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many of the key ministries in his own hands and, as a Shia, he is

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distrusted by much of the Sunni minority for not sharing enough

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power. So will all this fighting drug in foreign powers? Iran has

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hinted it may help the Iraqi government, but NATO and Britain are

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saying no to military involvement. We are very concerned about the

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hundreds of thousands of people who have been displaced. Britain, with

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our very largely monetary and budget, we may be in a position to

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assist with that we're looking at now. But we will not be getting

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involved militarily. But it looks like America will. Tonight,

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President Obama says the US is considering short-term military

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action to defend its ally, Iraq. In our consultations with the Iraqis,

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there will be some short-term, immediate things that need to done

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militarily. Our national security team is looking at all the options.

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But this should also be a wake-up call for the Iraqi government. There

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has to be a political component to this. Iraq needs help. This

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government promotional video belies the fact Iraq's Armeec simply run

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away from the fighters of ISIS. But if those ISIS militants do push on

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to Baghdad, they may well overreach themselves and their sudden success

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could be curtailed. Frank Gardner, BBC News. Our correspondent is in

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Washington. We heard President Obama speaking earlier. What do you make

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of his comments? A key part of what President Obama had to say, there

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was a lot of talk about, military, technical and intelligence, there

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were no options of the table. We talked about short-term military

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action, whether national security interests of the were threatened in

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the US and UK feel that ISIS represents a threat to its national

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security interests. We've heard that from the intelligence communities in

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both London and Washington in the past. What does that mean? I agree

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with my colleague, it either means probably drone or perhaps S4C

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strikes from US bases housed in Turkey. Interestingly, President

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Obama has come in for a lot of criticism for his policies with

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regards to Syria and elsewhere in the region. People have accused him

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of failing to respond strongly enough, failing to support the other

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side. As far as the Iraqis are concerned, they want more help.

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Frank Gardner reports. The Home Secretary, Theresa May,

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has announced new measures to deal with a backlog of around 30,000

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passport applications. People who need to travel abroad

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urgently will now have their applications fast-tracked free

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of charge, and more staff are being drafted in.

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Labour says the Government's handling

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of the matter has been a shambles. Our deputy political editor

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James Landale is outside a passport The Government says officers like

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these have been bombarded with more applications for passports than at

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any time in 12 years. Some blame the economic recovery, others blame a

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decision to stop embassies issuing passports overseas. Either way,

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Labour claims the government anticipated this last summer and

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failed to act. The Home Office denies that but is now promising to

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act. Although the detail is a work in progress. Summer has arrived, the

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beach is beckoning, time to get some sun. But before getting here, some

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of us will have to spend time here... Quite a long time. The

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Government says 97% of passports are issued on time, but 30,000 are

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taking longer than three weeks. And perhaps here is why. At this office

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today the computer went down. Some of the helplines weren't working.

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One unhappy customer sent us a photo from inside showing just how busy it

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was. I've got to pay another ?128, I've already paid ?72 online plus

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how much it cost in to London, I'm not happy. I've e-mailed, e-mailed,

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faxed, I've got everything that I've done all in my bag ready. I just

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hope they manage to give me a passport today. A few days ago The

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Home Office was denying there was a backlog. Not any more. What is

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necessary is not a grand political gesture. What is necessary is the

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slow, careful consideration we have been giving, which will now lead to

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urgent action by the passport office. She said people will be able

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to fast-track their applications for free, if they have an urgent need to

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travel. Expats will be able to get a one-year extension before renewing

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their passport. And there will be emergency travel documents for

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children who need to get back to the UK. But she blocked plans by

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officials at this and other offices to be lax checks on overseas

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applicants. She said The Home Office could take direct control of the

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passport office. Labour were not impressed. This has been a sorry

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shambles from a sorry department and Home Secretary who can't even bring

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herself to the word. Government incompetence means people are at

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risk of missing their holidays, their honeymoons, their businesses.

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Here at the passport office, the waiting continued. It's a good idea

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to get the ones in the UK fast tracked as. Everyone has their

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holidays booked. It's not an excuse, it's a service they are

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supposed to provide for UK citizens. It does strike me as being a bit of

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a panic mission by the Government in relation to something that perhaps

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should have been foreseen. The politics of passports can be toxic.

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If voters think the Government can't do something as simple

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If voters think the Government can't do something as as is your passport,

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they can begin to question its confidence and a Home Secretary's.

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It is little wonder Theresa May has been forced to act fast.

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James Landale is outside a passport The Bank of England is to be given

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new powers to set limits on the amount people can borrow, in

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relation to their income, to buy a house. The Chancellor, in his

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Mansion House speech tonight, will say that if there is evidence of a

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housing bubble, the Bank will be able to impose a cap to stop banks

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making risky mortgage loans. Our business editor Kamal Ahmed reports

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on the latest fears that the UK's housing market is running out of

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control. The chancellor donned a hard hat today not to protect

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himself from people who could not afford a home but two to a housing

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development in London. Tonight, George Osborne will announce new

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powers to cool down Britain's housing market as prices rise by 8%

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here. Now the Bank of England will be the judge and jury on how much

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people can borrow. I'm acting against future risks in the housing

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market by today giving the Bank of England new powers to intervene and

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control the size of mortgages compared to family incomes and house

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values, and I'm also taking new steps so we build many more homes in

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our towns and cities. I am told that the Jansen believes rates could be

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tackled following warnings from the International Monetary Fund and the

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European Union. -- the Jansen. This morning Vince Cable told the BBC he

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was appalled that banks were lending so much. If you lend people five

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times their income and something goes wrong, there will be serious

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trouble, and it is just feeding prices so that people on an ordinary

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income cannot get into the market. The UK housing market is certainly

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mixed. In London, where prices are rising quickly, first-time buyers

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borrow nearly four times their income to buy a home. For the whole

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of England, that figure drops to 3.5 times. In Scotland, it is just under

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three times. Northern Ireland is similar at 2.9 times. This is what

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the Chancellor is worried about, residents who are so keen to get on

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or up the housing ladder they push themselves to far. When interest

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rates rise, as they are likely to next year, people could be left in

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houses they cannot afford. With parts of Britain overheating, buyers

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argue they have to borrow much more than they earn to have any hope of

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affording a house. But for people like Tom and his girlfriend Rachel

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from Bristol, a mortgage of four times their income could cause

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problems if interest rates rise. If it goes up to 3.5%, I don't know how

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it's going to affect me, but it's going to make repayments higher, and

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everything else is going up, petrol prices. It's going to be had and

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worry me. As the Mansion House is prepared for the Chancellor's big

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speech, evidence is emerging that the housing market is actually

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cooling. Bankers believe rate rises could will lead to a fall in prices,

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and then it would be a question of not stopping a bubble butt rescuing

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small mortgage holders. Our top story this evening:

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The Iraqi government launches air strikes against Islamist militants

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who are trying to seize Baghdad. President Obama says there is a need

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for short-term military action. And why you the unique camouflage of

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these World War I battleships is being recreated in this Liverpool

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dock. who are trying to seize Baghdad.

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Later on BBC London, the capital's first dental hospital

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in 40 years opens its doors, training the next generation

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of dentists and transforming patients' lives.

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And the other World Cup scrap, who will have this year's

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biggest football song? In Brazil, police have clashed

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with protestors near the stadium in Sao Paulo just hours

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before the World Cup kicks off. Brazil take on Croatia in Sao Paulo

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tonight in the first of 64 matches in the tournament.

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But before that, tens of thousands of people have gathered

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in the stadium to watch the opening ceremony, which begins shortly.

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Ben Brown is in Brazil. Ben.

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Yes, Sophie, Brazil is a football crazy nation, but also an angry

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nation at the moment. For the last year there have been strikes and

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demonstrations here against the eye watering cost of this tournament,

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and today more protests just before the first match, violent clashes

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between riot police and demonstrators, the last thing the

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organisers wanted the watching world to see. Chief sports correspondent

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Dan Roan reports from Sao Paulo. With the wait over and the world

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watching, this was the last thing Brazil wanted. Just hours before the

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start of the World Cup year, further clashes in Sao Paulo between

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authorities and a small group of protesters angry about the huge cost

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of staging the tournament. Riot police used stun grenade and fired

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rubber bullets. They treated a teacher like an

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animal, this man says, they have ignored his civil rights, they

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dragged him like an animal. Here at the stadium preparing to host the

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glittering opening ceremony and the curtain raiser between the hosts and

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Croatia, a heavy security presence amid concerns that the protests may

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reach here as kick-off approaches. What was billed as the dream World

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Cup has arguably become the most controversial ever, but now the

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action is finally about to start here in Sao Paulo, the authorities

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will be desperately hoping that this football mad country gets behind the

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event. In a country where football is

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religion, these were the scenes outside the stadium today a full six

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hours before kick-off. We have to think about all the good things that

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the World Cup will bring to the country, you know, so we are very

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excited about having the World Cup in Brazil. We are really happy to be

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here and make part of this party, we can say! Last-minute work at

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night's venue, just one of the stadia that FIFA has been most

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worried about. These temporary stands have never been tested at

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full capacity. Is Brazil ready? For the World Cup? For sure. I mean it

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took a lot of planning, we had hard times, but we are sure we have

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covered all major angles of the World Cup preparation and all

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infrastructure needed to guarantee the success of the event, and

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present the world with a very festive atmosphere, a carnival

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atmosphere in Brazil. Meanwhile, the Brazilian team prepares to carry the

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hosts of a nation. To say expectation is high would be an

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understatement. Only willing it will make a good World Cup, that is the

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standard of this nation. Whenever they go to the World Cup, they have

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to win it. And then after, they have to win it well, because they will

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always get compared to the previous stars. This is a date many thought

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would never come, but a World Cup mired in problems and unrivalled

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passion is here, ready or not, Brazil's moment in the son has

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arrived. It is not just the anger at the most expensive World Cup ever,

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the race against time to get the stadium ready, the deaths of

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construction workers, but also allegations of corruption against

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FIFA. There is a sense that football is a sport needs this event to be a

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success. The best chance of that happening is if Brazil wins tonight

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and carries on winning and lifts the trophy for a sixth time. The nation

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will tonight hold its breath and hope that happens, and if it does,

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it is hard to not believe that this could be, in spite of everything,

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one of the most memorable World Cups ever. All right, Dan, thanks very

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much indeed. England are preparing for their

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first match in Manaus on Saturday. They will face not only Italy, but

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searing heat, impressive humidity and a pretty ropey page. --

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oppressive. Natalie Pirks is in Manaus for us this evening.

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It is just after one o'clock, and it is 30 degrees, 70% humidity, it is

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oppressively hot, but England play at six o'clock, when it will

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hopefully be cooler. Nevertheless, running around for 90 minutes will

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be a test. first match in Manaus on Saturday.

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Life is played out at a more sedate pace in the rain forest.

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In the gateway to the Amazon, they are so relaxed that two days

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out, the builders are still here. Inside, though, Manaus, not known

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as a hotbed of football, now has an arena fit for a gladiator.

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It is undeniably impressive. Well, when England and Italy sit

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here on Saturday, it's the heat and humidity of Manaus that will

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hit them first, but there have been concerns over the state

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of the pitch. As you can see,

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they are working frantically to get it ready for Saturday, and to be

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honest, it doesn't look nearly as bad as we were led to believe.

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Still, the parched surface is not quite up to where England

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have been training in Rio. But like for Manaus's officials,

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the World Cup is for some a dream realised, not least

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for former factory worker turned striker Rickie Lambert,

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who has journeyed from League Two to Liverpool and England.

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I didn't think this chance would come, to play in a World Cup.

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I've got it, and I'm going to make sure that I take my chance and

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whatever minutes I get, that's the most important thing, and that's

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where I'll be trying to do my best. The World Cup is tantalisingly

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close for him and England fans. # Roy Hodgson is taking us

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to Rio, to Rio... # The intrepid travellers amongst them

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are starting to arrive and getting to know this remote city

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of two million. Travelled up the Amazon last week,

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three days from Colombia and we're here in Manaus.

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Definitely the most remote place I've ever gone to watch football.

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As the heat rises here, so will fans' nerves.

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In two days' time, the atmosphere won't be anywhere near as calm.

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Natalie Pirks, BBC News, Manaus. Grow not long to go before that

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first match, certainly the Brazilian government hoping that some of the

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anger and resentment we have seen today will dissipate once the

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football gets going. Sophie, back to you.

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Natalie Pirks, BBC News, Manaus. The wife of the comedian Rik Mayall,

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who died this week, says he suffered an acute cardiac event after

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returning from a morning run. He was found dead at his home in south west

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London on Monday lunchtime. His They were warships painted not

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in gun metal grey but in reds, oranges and greens, all to confuse

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German U-boats during World War I. 2,000 so-called dazzle ships

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were camouflaged in this way, and now the technique's been

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recreated as part of the Liverpool Biennial of contemporary art.

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From the Albert Dock, Will Gompertz reports.

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A retired Mersey pilot ship is having a make over

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in a dry dock in Liverpool. Out goes the boring old paint job,

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and on with an eye-catching new coat.

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And presto, the 777-tonne Edmund Gardner has

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become what was known in World War I as a dazzle ship,

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a floating piece of optical art designed to protect

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Britain's merchant ships from German U-boats

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that had them under siege. We wanted to launch the 14-18 NOW

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arts programme with a major public art commission for everyone to see

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that reflects on one of the most extraordinary stories of the First

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World War, the dazzle ships that were painted, many of them,

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right here in Liverpool. The Venezuelan artist responsible

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for the new dazzle ship design hadn't known about their existence

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until recently. TRANSLATION: For me,

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it was a big revelation that artists painted the ships

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in World War I, because it was

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of immense beauty and efficiency. It was also to see something

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that was made to be beautiful and promote something

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other than death. The British artist Norman Wilkinson

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came up with the idea of dazzle ships in 1917 when serving

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as a Royal Navy volunteer. He realised there was no camouflage

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that could conceal a ship, but there was one that might

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confuse the enemy. Wilkinson was working on the basis

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that a U-boat commander had a very short amount of time

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in which to race his periscope, look through it, identify his target

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and fire his torpedo. If he took too long, he would be

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spotted and his submarine sunk. Wilkinson's garish dazzle camouflage

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was designed to disorientate the U-boat commander,

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causing him to dither and miss. The contrasting stripes,

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bold curves and vivid spirals were decided to make it difficult

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to gauge the ship's direction of travel and speed.

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Did it do the job that it was supposed to do?

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We still don't really know the answer to that, we don't know how

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confused the U-boat commanders were, but we do know that the sailors

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on board the ships themselves loved their unique designs,

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and there was a keen boost to morale.

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When Picasso saw the dazzle camouflage, he immediately took

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credit for the idea, saying it was inspired by his Cubist paintings.

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Mother nature might argue that she got there first

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with her op-art design for zebras. Either way, these eccentric floating

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artworks are now a colourful part of Britain's maritime history.

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Will Gompertz, BBC News, Liverpool. A day of contrasts across the United

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Kingdom, you can see all this cloud bringing some rain and a cooler

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field to things in the north, but with the sunshine for England and

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Wales, 26 in the London area, a little bit warmer than it will be in

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Sao Paulo. Clear skies across much of England and Wales tonight, missed

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in rural spots, further north that rain into the morning, and it will

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be an unpleasant rush-hour, but the rain fizzles out into northern

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England, and then the cloud melts away, lots of sunshine to start the

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day across most of England and Wales. A warm day in the South, 17

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or 18 degrees at eight o'clock in the morning, lots of sunshine,

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setting up for another warm day across the southern half of the

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United Kingdom. Cloud will increase across England and Wales into the

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afternoon, but still fine, sunny and warm with light winds. That rain

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across the north of the UK becomes lighter into the afternoon, but we

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keep the temperature contrast, 26 or 27 is possible in the London area,

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pretty warm for central and eastern areas. We are not going to keep that

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warmth everywhere, low to middle 20s in some areas, but by Saturday the

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middle teens for many places, so a drop in temperatures through the day

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on Saturday as this cool northerly wind brings in a weather front.

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Further west, feeling more pleasant. Sunday is a similar sort of day,

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cool and breezy down the eastern side, most places fine and dry, and

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further west winds are lighter, temperatures up to about 20

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degrees. It is that little bit cooler through the weekend, but the

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weather is looking pretty good for

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