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This is BBC World News Today with me Tim Willcox.

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Jailed for fleeing demented violence - Afghanistan's imprisoned

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women and girls for a so-called moral crimes.

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No other Government things that running away is ensure area.

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Afghanistan stands alone in that and termination.

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Torture of the innocent, the United nation's human rights this area's

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children have been targeted and that President al-Assad should face

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charges of crimes against humanity. The man who got his life back,

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after a face, teeth, tongue and Jock transplant.

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Also coming up in the programme: Educating children out of extremism.

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How Nigeria holds a new wave of state schools will help the young

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to say no to militants. And the latest Enola -- box-office

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treasure. Hello and welcome.

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Far Afghan women, the decision to flee domestic abuse are forced

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prostitution mainland and in jail while their abusers walk free.

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Human Rights Watch says nearly 400 girls and women prisoners have been

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jailed for what are called moral crimes. The our organisation call

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such abuse the black eye on the face of a post Taliban Afghan

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Government. The international community promise

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that one of the things they would change in Afghanistan after the

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fall of the Taliban was a oppression of women. But the Human

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Rights Watch survey of women makes for grim reading. Some have been

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convicted of offences which were not even considered crimes anywhere

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else in the world, even in the most Conservative Islamic countries. The

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report they have been rate, for running away from violent or

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abusive marriages. But Afghan courts have confirmed these as

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crimes recently. The Afghan Supreme Court has said that the crime of

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running away can be found in shinier. But when we looked around

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the world, no other Government thinks that running away is in

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Sharia law. Afghanistan stands alone in that interpretation.

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of the stories in the report tell of women who are jailed after

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asking strangers far help, only to be turned into the police. After --

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or after fleeing families where they face constant sexual abuse

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from male relatives. Most of the time the cases, the punishment is

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10 years in prison. Why? Because she ran away from home without

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permission by the husband. Which in this case is not really part off at

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Dunlop. There has been some progress for women, particularly in

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education were women are now treated equally. But although

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President Karzai has spoken sympathetically about the women --

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a case of women jailed for running away, his presidential pardon has

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not been acted on in the majority of cases, so the women remain in

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jail. Just as reform has been slow in coming and was highly tried Atul

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until recently. Now the international community is seeking

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to reform Afghan justice, working through the constitution and a less

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harsh interpretation of Islamic law. But it is a slow process.

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Earlier I spoke to a member of the Afghan Parliament to defender the

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Government's laws regarding violence against women. We have a

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good love for women. For example we have lost far elimination of Women

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Against Women. But unfortunately the interpretation has been a

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problem but we still have women who because of running away, or for

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other reasons, they are in prison. But it has improved a lot. We have

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achieved a lot. We have a big number of women in Parliament. We

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have a few women in the Cabinet. We have a lot of girls, they are going

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to school and university. I think compared to the Taliban time, it is

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much better and we have achieved a lot. But still women suffer, that

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is true. Women suffer from violence. They are still at home. They do not

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have enough education. A lot of women, they cannot go to work. The

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problem is here. But we have achieved a lot. It is impossible to

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come here with 10 years before. talk about President cars side's

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law against violence against women. -- President Karzai. How worried

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are you about what is going to happen when international forces

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leave the country and 2014? award came back in Afghanistan, I

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am sure the women's situation and security will be very bad. I hope

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that this international community help us after 2014 and support the

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country end -- and especially the women in Afghanistan. There seems

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to be two injustices. While the women are jailed for a moral crimes,

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the perpetrators are not facing justice for at all. I am not sure

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about the report. This was only bandwith interviews with the

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victims in prison. It should do more investigated, to be sure that

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if the women in that prison is there just because of running away

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or if there is some other problem. The UN's human rights chief has

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told the BBC there is enough evidence to indict side they are's

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that there -- President Assad on charges of crimes against humanity.

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Navi Pillay says Syrian security forces have detained and tortured

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children. She was speaking before the news that Syria had agreed to

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Kofi Annan's ceasefire plan. In a place where we cannot name,

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with faces we cannot short, this is a kind of therapy first area's tell

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survivors. These are lessons organised by activists for children

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who can no longer go to school. Some have seen parents tried do we

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in the night. Others have fled from the bombardment of Homs. This child

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describes being at a March, hearing the chanting. And then the moment

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the army opened fire. Now in an exclusive interview, the UN's top

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human rights official has accused the Syrian Government of

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deliberately targeting children. They have gone to the children --

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for the children in large numbers, detained and tortured. I have seen

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some of the evidence gathered by the commissioner. I have talk to

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parents and victims. It is just horrendous. The Syrian Government

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denies the accusations and accuses a High Commissioner of bias. But

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under international law, does back -- President al-Assad responsible.

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That is the evidence. There is enough evidence pointing to the

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fact that many of these acts committed by the security forces

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must have received the approval of complicity it at the highest level.

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Because the President can issue a single order, released all these

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children and stop the killings. High Commissioner also criticised

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abuses by opposition groups. But the UN and human rights our

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organisation say the majority of violations are being carried out by

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the Government side. Much of what bombs and bullets did to the bodies

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of children is simply too distressing to shore. And the

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trauma inflicted on young minds is being -- is beyond calculation. In

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Homs, a cameraman met a boy whose Is President al-Assad ever going to

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face action against his actions? One day he will face justice.

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in these days -- rooms in Syria, Justice as far away.

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UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon has urged the Syrian President to

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immediately implement the six-point peace plan brokered by his

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predecessor Kofi Annan. Despite its pledge to sign up to the deal wish

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him as a pillar to Government troops from opposition cities, this

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latest verified reduce shows continuing Government bombardment

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in the city Homs. Elsewhere the Syrian army has regained control of

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another city after four days of fighting opposition activists take

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40 people died in that conflict. Australia's Communications Minister

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has called for an investigation into hacking and piracy. There was

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a report in the Australian Financial Review that news coverage

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has set up a unit to sabotage his competitors by hacking into the

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cause required for a subscription television and then make them

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available on the black market. News Corporation denies all the

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allegations. Poetic has met Cubans former

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revolutionary leader Castro father first time. The meeting came after

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the poll lead a huge open-air Mass in Revolution Square. He told that

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Yemen Government to give more rights to the Roman Catholic Church,

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especially the freedom to religious education in schools.

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Mahli's ousted President says he is safe and well and still in the

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country. In his first comments since last week's military Cook, he

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told the AFP news agency that he hoped peace and democracy would

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triumph and Mahli. He was forced into hiding after a group of

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soldiers seize control claiming they were unhappy with their way

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and a rising in the north of the country was being dealt with.

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And after being taken to court for alleged false advertising for the

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new iPad, Apple has offered to refund Australian customers who

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felt misled about his 40 capabilities. Australia's consumer

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watchdog began legal action because the Tablet does not work on America

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-- Australia's 40 network. An American gunshot victim has been

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given a new face, teeth, tongue and Jock and what is urgency is the

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most extensive facial transplant ever performed. -- in what surgeons

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say. The man, Richard Lee Norris, has been a Nicholas says he was

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horribly disfigured an airgun accident 15 years ago. One week

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after the operation, doctors say he is recovering well.

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Surgeons at the University of Maryland lead a team of over 100

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medical staff in a 36 or operation. They believe it is the most

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expensive face transplant procedure ever carried out. When he was

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accidentally shot in the face 15 years ago, Richard Lee Norris lost

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his nose, his lips and most of the movement in his mouth. Surgeons are

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used finely-tuned computerised techniques to advance on the bones

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in his nose and the area around it. They then gave my new job,

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including teeth as well as a new tongue. But finally all his soft

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tissue was replaced, right from his airline to his neck, including

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nerves and muscles. Six days on he can move his tongue and he can

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smell for the first time in 15 years. We look at the donor and

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Richard, it is the blend of two individuals. Clearly there are some

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specific features like their nose and that Gen. But behind that

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skeleton it is Richard Norris. was the woman after her first face

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transplant in 2005. She made good progress and expose physical

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recovery is just the first part. With us at a surgery you do not

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recover quickly. He will gradually come to terms with this new thing

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that he sees in the mirror which is going to be his face. I hope he

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will have the support that enables centre his own it, to on his face

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as his face. Doctors funded by the US military have been developing

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face transplant techniques for a number of years. The aim is to

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refine techniques to help veterans returning from Afghanistan. For

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Richard Norris, after 15 years behind a mask, a chance for a

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normal life. Let's top to a professor from

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America who has written about the psychological aspects of face

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transplants. He seems physically to have made an extraordinary recovery.

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He is brushing his teeth, he is my lip and he is ducking and smelly

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things for the first time. Psychologically, how has are going

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to be? Far my study another recipients, what I think is up for

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him, there are two pass. One because of the expense of amount of

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tissue and bone that he received, he is the first person really not

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to have to worry about scars that will give off the face transplant

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look. So I think that will be helpful to hand. These multiple

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surgeries are lending the skin over years, might be avoided. The other

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path is one that is untested yet. What it would mean is to have a

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complete facial configuration from the donor, including some of the

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things that form one's identity. I wonder if his path may be more

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difficult also because he has spent so much time without being able to

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be in public. Now he has a completely restored face. A do you

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think conversely that might help? Further 15 years this man has been

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a recluse. He has used a mask when he went out in public. Now he has a

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new phase, perhaps this is all good news. I think it is all good news

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in the surgery is absolutely remarkable. I am astounded that the

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surgery could take place since there has only been a few in the

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United States. However, what I have started to look at our recipients,

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is what they say after they have been living with the new face. He

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is an interesting test-case for me in that he is going to be the most

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completely masked person, in a new way, from a cloth must to a face

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mask, that is a donor. I think over time we will know. It is the 23rd

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phase -- face transplant. How do you give these people the support

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Therapeutically, we don't understand yet. It has transformed

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the way we think about being human. Questions about what it means to

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wed the face of another person are so new to us as people, that the

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more exposed we are to Folks That have face transplant, the better.

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It makes conversations happen and the recipients will have good

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reception out in the community, especially if the scarring is kept

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to a minimum. We will know soon if that has to be the way most of

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these patients are handled in the future.

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Canada's indigenous communities are in crisis. Addition to prescription

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painkillers is rife. OxyContin, an opium drug, is widely abused in

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Canada but on isolated reserves, people talk of an academic. Linda

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Pressly travelled to Fort Hope to investigate the impact of drug use

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there. 1200 people live in Fort Hope. In winter, it is minus 30 and

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the only way to get here is to fly in all try from hazardous ice roads.

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The beauty can fit -- conceals the fall-out from drug abuse. 80% of

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the working-age population of Fort Hope are abusing OxyContin. It is

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as addictive as heroin but this is a prescription drug. Doris

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Slipperjack was hooked for four years. 180 milligram pale cells on

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the black market for $600 on the reserve and she spent thousands,

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all her welfare benefits on getting high. Sometimes her children went

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without food. It is difficult for me to face them every day because I

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hurt them so much. I don't even though where to begin. In Fort Hope,

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everybody knows somebody who is abusing OxyContin and stemming the

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flow of this addictive drug into the community is one of the biggest

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challenges. A visit by the native police services is a rare event.

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This dog has been trained to sniff out OxyContin. They hide it in

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their bodies and now the winter roads are open so they are coming

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in through vehicles. It is not just a policing problem, it is a social

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and community problem. The chief of Fort Hope is worried about the

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epidemic on the next generation. want to see the parents care for

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their children that they can't do it because they edit -- -- but they

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can't do it because they are addicted. They have set up a detox

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centre but they are 70 people on the waiting list. With so many in

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this community struggling with addiction to OxyContin, Doris is

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one of the few that has taken the step to recovery. She has been to

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rehab and is now one treatment. want to go back to school and

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hopefully get my high-school diploma and go to college and

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university. I want to become a Councillor and reach out to people

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that are struggling like myself. You can watch her film about how

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prescription drugs is devastating those committees on Our World at

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the weekend. The north-western Nigerian state of

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Sokoto hit the news earlier this month after two hostages, Chris

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McManus and Franco Lamolinara were killed in failed attempts to rescue

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them. Boko Haram was widely believed to have been behind the

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kidnapping. Now in an attempt to counter terrorism -- extremism,

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they want to build hundreds of new religious schools.

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A call for food. He has been forced into begging because other decision

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his parents talk to send him here. He is one of millions of Nigerians.

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They move far from home to a master of the Koran at informal schools.

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Now the Nigerian Government wants to build hundreds of official

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religious schools. Here in Sokoto, they have opened the first. Is your

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aim to drain the demand of the informal ones? To close them down?

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To some extent, yes. The school's principal is a former Almajiri. He

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says it will help students to integrate better into society.

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can study science, mathematics, Arabic. A model Almajiri school is

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an easy sell. The home of their spiritual leader of Nigeria's

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Muslims and the state that the highest proportion in poverty. The

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Government's plan to build schools and other northern states is a

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gimmick driven by security fears, some say. The Government is

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motivated by a desire to change at the heart and the minds of foot

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soldiers and ethnic religious violence. Security concerns have

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heightened. A failed rescue attempt took many by so slapdash by

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surprise. The killing of the foreigners Christmas virus -- Chris

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McManus wasn't the first time of criminal activity disturbing a

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piece for North West of the country. Bercow around have said his members

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are present here. Whatever the Government's motives, it is the

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schools that have passed from generation to generation without

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state health and there is little Animation has proved to be a

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treasure-trove for the film industry and now the British

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company have pirates to plunder it. The The Pirates! In an Adventure

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With Scientists is out in Britain today. It was released as Hollywood

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struggles to find its next big thing in animation as its

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franchises come to an end. The best bit about being a pirate is ham at

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night. Setting sail on the latest international expedition. It is the

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pirates in an adventure with scientists. It is a British plot

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storing a useless parrot and a demented Queen Victoria. It

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attracted star voices. How could I turn them down? British, never not

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adored any of their films. Their sense of humour is identical to

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mine in terms of surreal childishness. I couldn't say no.

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Fire Cannons! The highest animation house has been in trouble

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threatening to go overseas. Now, they are more likely to stay put.

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Three Oscars for Wallace and Gromit doesn't promise them a Hollywood

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hit. His last film made $46 million at the US box office. That his

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average. I am confident about it playing around the world. It is

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just America. Capturing America is tricky. They are less familiar with

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our style of comedy, apparently. What will please Hollywood is some

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of the Oscar nominees were obvious. Her first were not. There wasn't

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much to choose from. Toy story is over, Shreck has gone into Puss in

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Boots and Brad Bird is directing live action. Pick Saab does have a

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new idea rear. A fairy-tale called brave. If this works, the quirky

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humour could not feel foreign any more. I have always found that the

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more British you are, do more French, the for -- if you are

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French, the more French you are, the more chance you have of

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repealing anyone. It looks great. That is all from

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Hello. We has another warm day today. It is cold and clear through

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the night before tomorrow, a return of the sunshine and temperatures

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above average. The downside is it stays dry with these high is still

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dominating our weather forecast. We do have a change in our wind

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direction and we have more cloud around the coast of Scotland and

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Northern Ireland. Plenty of sunshine for Northern and central

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England. We are looking at 23 Celsius in London. Across the

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south-west, cloudless skies and higher temperatures around the

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south coast. Through Wales, that north-westerly breeze making it 22

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Celsius in Cardiff. For Northern Ireland, we have high cloud so the

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sunshine turning hazy. Much of Scotland stays dry. Further north

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