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This is BBC World News Today with me, Kasia Madera.

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A 72-hour truce in Gaza seems to be holding, but what now for the

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residents returning home to bury their dead and rebuild their lives?

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The international community continues its calls

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The senseless cycle of suffering in Gaza and the West Bank as well

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More gains in Iraq for the Islamic State - oilfields and a dam.

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Are the fighters formerly known as ISIS,

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fast becoming the best-resourced militant group in history?

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We'll be talking live to UNICEF in Iraq.

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Close encounters with a comet far, far away...

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After a 6 billion kilometre journey, a European space probe sends back

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its first close-up pictures from somewhere between the orbits

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An aspirin a day keeps the doctor away, and, it seems, reduces

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The 72-hour ceasefire in Gaza is in its second day -

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the longest lull in fighting since the conflict began four weeks ago.

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More than 1,900 people have died and hundreds of thousands have been

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displaced, and many of them no longer have a home to return to.

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The United Nations has been sheltering tens of thousands

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of people in school buildings, but as our Middle East

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correspondent Orla Guerin reports from Jabalia, some families are

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facing fresh uncertainty about where they can find refuge.

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Her report contains images you may find distressing.

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Families who fled Israeli shelling now having to leave

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a UN school where they thought they had found refuge.

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At Jabalia Elementary Boys School, they told us UN staff said they

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Today they announced on the school microphone there will

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be no services, no food or water, said Mr Yousef.

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Those who want to leave can leave, we are not responsible

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Do any of you have homes left standing to go back to?

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Well, these families say they are in effect being given no choice

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They tell us they have been told there is accommodation available

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in government schools, but they say these schools are close

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to the Israeli border and to Palestinian training camps.

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They say it is a front-line area and no place for children.

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UN schools have sheltered almost 300,000 people during this conflict.

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It is unclear why desperate families at the school were threatened with

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That is not our policy, that is not what will happen.

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Food for that area simply has not been

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Similarly, I am checking on water but it should

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But generations of this family were terrified of losing the roof

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72 relatives now call this classroom home.

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They are kicking us out of here, said Zainab.

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Where should the women and children go?

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They started packing hoping to join relatives at another UN school.

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Two family members died there in shelling, but they said it was

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Then they got word it was already full.

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Nearby, we found five-year-old Mohammed who is paralysed.

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His devoted mother Sara was trying to keep the flies off of his face.

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She told us she is worried that he may not survive.

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Indirect talks between Israeli and Palestinian representatives,

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to negotiate an extension to the current ceasefire,

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The Israeli government say its objectives in Gaza

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and its aim to "return quiet and security" to the people

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Our correspondent Wyre Davies reports from the Israel-Gaza border

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on how locals feel about the chance of lasting peace.

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In an era. An older daughter will never see her father again and her

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two sons fantasise about becoming super egos so that they can bring

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back their father. 36-year-old man, he was an Army reservist and killed

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during a battle with militants inside Gaza. I had mixed feelings. I

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did not want him to go down there but I understood there was no other

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option for the sake of our country, because if we do not protect

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ourselves, we are doomed. The sense of vulnerability is felt most

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acutely in these areas near Gaza weather has been both a human and

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economic cost. Here, crops have been lost and residents have fled. We

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cannot let them win. We will remain here in the fields and with the

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children that know how to go to a shelter when they are three years

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old. This is the fourth war Israel has fought with Gaza in the space of

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less than ten years. Whilst these Israeli communities right up against

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the Gaza border support the actions of the government, they expect

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another the Gaza border support the actions

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of the government, they expect war in two or three years time because

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the problems behind the crisis are not being addressed. Toksvig Egypt

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in to extend the three-day cease-fire and the firepower of

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Israel has been pulled back from Gaza but it is not in any position

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to claim a victory says one of the biggest critics of the government.

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As long as this siege on Gaza continues and as long as life in

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Gaza will be like life in a cage, the life of Israel will not be

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secure, this is a basic understanding. Benjamin Netanyahu

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this evening spoke for the first time since the cease-fire was

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announced. As you'll be played regrets every civilian casualty.

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Every single one. We do not target them or seek them. The people of

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Gaza are not our enemy. This woman has no desire for her children to

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follow the path of their father and fight in Gaza but it is something

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she knows might be inevitable. As those diplomatic efforts to find

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a solution to a more permanent ceasefire continue in Cairo, there

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have also been efforts elsewhere. In New York, the

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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon addressed the UN's General

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Assembly at a special meeting He called for an end to the cycle

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of violence. Do we have to continue like this?

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Build and destroy continually. We can build again but this must be the

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last team to rebuild. This must end now. They must come back to the

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negotiating table. John Kerry too has been speaking

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of the efforts by the United States In an exclusive interview with

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the BBC, he said the US should be a major

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player in the process of any Gaza peace deal and clarified that the US

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does not speak directly to Hamas. In what was his first international

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interview since the ceasefire, the US Secretary of State was asked

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if he supported the Israeli We fully support Israel right to

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defend itself and the fact that it was under attack by rockets and

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tunnels and it had to take out Hamas. Hamas has behaved

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unbelievably, shockingly in engaging in this activity and, yes, there has

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been horrible collateral damage as a result and that is why the United

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States are working hard with our partners in the region, with

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visual, the Palestinian Authority, the Egyptians, to try to move

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towards a cease-fire. Finally, that cease-fire is hopefully in place

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that can allow all parties to common to the table and be able to not only

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deal with the question of how you sustain a cease-fire but the more

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critical underlying long-term issues as to how we are going to make

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peace, how we are going to eliminate these rockets, how we are going to

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demilitarise and move towards a different future and that is our

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goal, this is an important beginning with the cease-fire and hopefully

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the tops to get there. John Kerry speaking exclusively to the BBC.

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He's the President of the Arab American Institute in Washington.

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How can you bring both these sides together? There must be a role for a

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third party and unfortunately the United States has not been able to

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play that role because they often buckle under political pressure.

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Several presidents have buckled. President Obama tried in 2011 and

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then with pressure from Congress he folded and I believe that this

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initiative from John Kerry, as tirelessly as he works in trying to

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bridge the gap between the parties, at the end of the day, John Kerry's

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proposals are too close to that of a shield for the Palestinians to exit

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and so they broke down. Even though the US blamed additional in some

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ways, the proposals were weak, so I think that you can only bridge gaps

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decline a powerful country and a very poor and powerless country if

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there is a third party that can balance the scales, the problem with

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the US as they do not do that. They end up holding the courts for the

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most powerful side. Now that leave the ship in Egypt has changed, their

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relationship with Hamas has changed and so has their attitude to this

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region. There is no love lost between myself and Hamas, I find

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their ideology respectable and their tactics deplorable, the sabotage

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peace in the 1990s with bombings and since they have entered government

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their priority has been to be devastating to the Palestinian

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people. As you'll's behaviour has been even more deplorable and what

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we are witnessing right now from the Israelis as a clean-up operation,

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you Queen of public opinion, so they will go on duty full offence to see

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do not believe us, do not believe the lies and the media, it is all of

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the fault of Hamas and so on. The problem is that extremist groups

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like Hamas are born out of the spear and hopelessness and joblessness and

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anger and occupation and what Israel is doing to Gaza only reinforces

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those conditions and breeds more extremism. It is a huge problem but

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the US by seeing it supports the rights of visual and giving them

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more weapons in the wake of this assault does not provide the correct

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it necessary to restrain Israel and said to the people in Gaza, you have

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a friend outside who will stand with you, not with Hamas, but with the

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people of Gaza. John Kerry said the civilians of Gaza were not the enemy

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and Benjamin Netanyahu said they were not the enemy of Israel, it is

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Hamas. When Hamas says that it will not demilitarise when someone tries

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to take their weapons but instead take away their lives, what hope is

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there for any kind of initiation? Very little and that is the great

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tragedy. The statements from Hamas have been deplorable, but understand

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that if Israel says that the people of Gaza are not our enemies but they

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killed 1800 of them, but they left a couple of hundred thousand homeless

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then Pat -- bombed the power plants and there was no power or clean

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water, and for visual to come back and say that they were so good to

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the people of Gaza by providing them with electricity and water, they

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only had to do that because they would have been masses starvation

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and dehydration. This is a country that has used its overwhelming power

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indiscriminately and disproportionately and I believe has

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committed war crimes but that does not dissolve Hamas. They have

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committed crimes that have been wrong and they must be called to

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account on that. But you cannot only coal one side to account as the

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United States does, you have to call Israel to account as well. You have

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to be fair to both sides and we have not been. Thank you for your

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thoughts. Scientists

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in Europe have been celebrating after an unmanned spacecraft

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successfully caught up with a comet after travelling through the Solar

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System for more than a decade. The Rosetta probe will orbit the

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comet for at least a year and try to The probe at the moment is

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at a distance of 550 million A little earlier I spoke with senior

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scientific consultant Mark McCaughrean from the European Space

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Agency's mission control in Germany. It has been a fantastic day here

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today. The mission has been going on for ten years and ten years before

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that to even build it. It is like we have been in the car for ten years,

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people saying, are we there yet, and today we are there. We now see a

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Comet that no one has ever seen in this detail before. We have now got

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an intense period because we have to characterise and learn about this

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Comet, what it is made of, what the surface structure is, before it gets

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active. It is starting to get active as we speak, as it gets closer to

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the sun it will get active. We have got to pick a landing site and then

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drop a lander onto the surface, without hitting any boulders or

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crevasse is. It is an incredibly structured comet, a lot going on

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there, a lot of work still to do. Is it true that this could provide the

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origins of our existence, this comet? They are treasure chest of

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ice, locked up and left over from the birth of the solar system 4.6

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billion years ago. By digging into one in more detail than has been

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possible before, we can indeed go into answering these questions,

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where did the solar system and planets come from, how where they

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build up, and where did water on the earth, from? It was probably not on

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the planet when it was very young, so it could have come from comets

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later on. And complex molecules, the building blocks of life, they were

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also on comets. This really is a Rosetta Stone, hence the name of the

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mission. We think about dinosaurs when we think about the aqua one,

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but this is something that could have brought life onto Earth? It is

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one of the great contradictions, the solar system is an amazingly chaotic

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and crazy place, things go on, planets move around and get hit by

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things, which can be bad for you and in this case very good for you. We

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congratulate you very much on your mission. We wish you all the best

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for November. Thank you very much, we hope everybody follows along. It

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is a great adventure for everybody. 50 people have been killed in the

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rebel held city of Mo all in a rock. -- Mosul. A missile hit a

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prison holding fighters from the jihadist group previously known as

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ISIS. Thousands have fled into the mountains in the north-west of the

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country after Islamic state jihadist overran a town. We can now speak to

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a spokesperson from Unicef who is where many Iraqis fled after the

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city of Mosul fell to the Islamic state. I know you are concerned in

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particular about the children, but just describe what the situation is

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on the ground. The situation is pretty grim. There is continuous

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displacement of children and families, there is a mass exodus

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that happened on Sunday where we estimate that at least 150,000

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people were forced to flee overnight when the district was taken over. We

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are very concerned about 25,000 children who are currently reported

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stranded in the mountains in the area. These are children in dire

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situations, they need everything, basically, food, water, shelter.

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They are in desperate need and we cannot access them. Talk us through

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the reports that 40 children have potentially died? That's right,

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Unicef received reports officially that 40 children have died on their

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way out of the area while they were leaving. They could have died for a

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number of reasons, including severe dehydration and also health reasons.

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It's very hot here. It could go up to 50 degrees. It's very difficult

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for an adult, let alone a child who has been uprooted and forced to walk

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for sometimes long hours in the sun. It is a pretty grim situation here.

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In terms of the work of Unicef, how are you getting provisions through?

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How you making contact and looking after these people? We have been

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working around the clock with teams on the ground. Since the outbreak of

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the crisis in June, we have had teams providing people with drinking

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water and medicine for the children, shelter, tents and

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blankets, with whatever is needed and whatever we can do, we are doing

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it. But the needs are huge and they continue to increase every single

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day. The crisis broke out in mid-June, and got stabilised for a

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couple of weeks, and then on Sunday, we were into another crisis. It is

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an emergency on top of another emergency. It is increasing the need

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for children and their family every single day. We wish you the best of

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luck, thank you for speaking to us. The Ebola outbreak has been declared

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a national emergency in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country,

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after a nurse became the second person to die

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from the disease there. The World Health Organisation says

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the death toll from the Ebola outbreak

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in West Africa has risen to 932. It's convening a panel of experts

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to examine the use of experimental Russian President Vladimir Putin has

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banned or curbed agricultural imports

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from countries imposing sanctions on The decree did not specify

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which countries or which goods would be affected

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but did say that the measures will Russia buys fruit

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and vegetables from the EU worth A man arrested on suspicion

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of leaking Michael Schumacher's medical files has been found hanged

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in his cell. Swiss police say the man,

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an who has not been named, was Ex-Formula One Champion Michael

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Schumacher suffered a head injury in a skiing accident

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in France last December and was An aspirin a day could keep some

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cancers and heart diseases at bay. That is the message for people

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in their 50s and 60s, from a group of researchers looking at

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the drug's ability to stem disease. Scientists found that one low dose

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tablet, 75mg, every day, taken for five to 10 years could

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prevent 122,000 deaths from some cancers in the UK,

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particularly bowel and stomach It's also well known for reducing

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the chance of heart attacks. But aspirin does have side effects

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and can cause internal bleeding so doctors say people should check

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with their GP before they decide to It is a cheap, everyday medicine,

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which can be bought over the counter. Many people already take

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daily aspirin to avoid heart problems. Now there is further

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evidence that the drug might help prevent cancer. The researchers

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looked at a wide range of studies about aspirin. They found the drug

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helped prevent cases and deaths from stomach, bowel and oesophageal

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cancer. helped prevent cases and deaths from

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stomach, bowel The risks included having stomach bleeds or stroke, but

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the researchers believe on balance, many people aged between 50 and 65

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would benefit from taking a low dose of aspirin every day for at least

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five years. We think that individuals of this age should

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consider seriously taking aspirin, they should consult their GP to get

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advice about potential side effects, but overall, the benefits for most

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individuals seem to far outweigh the risks. Official NHS advice does not

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yet recommend taking aspirin to prevent cancer. Cancer Research UK

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said aspirin is showing promise but it believes in port and answers are

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still needed from other ongoing trials -- important answers are

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still needed soap Doctors could have that information on who might suffer

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side-effects. With me now is Dr David Wald,

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he's a consultant cardiologist based here in London at

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St Bartholomew's Hospital. He's also Chair of the Guidelines

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and Practice Committee of Thank you for coming in to speak to

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us. We have heard so much about aspirin but there are caveats in

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this? Yes, like many preventative treatments, there is a trade-off

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between the benefit and the hazard. For aspirin, the biggest problem is

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bleeding. That's always been the case. And I been prescribing aspirin

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for many years to prevent heart attacks and strokes, particularly in

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people who have already had such an event, and there has always been a

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risk of being those people. The issue is that the risk of aspirin

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was clearly outweighed by the benefit in people who had had a

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previous heart attack or stroke. In the general population, we have

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known about the benefits but the risks and the hazards really made

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the benefits marginal. Now what has changed with this new evidence is

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that aspirin appears to have rather remarkable effects in preventing

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certain cancers, in particular cancers of the gut. If you add the

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information on cancer to what we already know on cardiovascular

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disease, the evidence swing is clearly in favour of using aspirin

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for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer. So the number of

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people who would benefit compared to the number of people who could

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suffer internal bleeding is outweighed? Pretty much. If 1000

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people for example over the age of 50 took aspirin, you would prevent

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about 50 cardiovascular disease events and cancer deaths combined,

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for every eight serious bleeds coursed. And most of those bleeds

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would not be fatal. And that is an important distinction. I understand

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heart attack is thinning of the blood, but what it is with aspirin

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and cancer? Perhaps surprisingly, the mechanism by which aspirin

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prevents cancer is not known. That might mean to pricing because it is

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such a well-known drug and it has been used for many years. There are

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two theories. We know that aspirin reduces the effectiveness of

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platelets in the blood to stick together. That is the mechanism of

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the benefit in preventing heart attacks, it reduces the clock which

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forms in the coronary artery. The cancer, it is possible that these

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platelets also can carry cancer cells around, and if you block the

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platelet, you could reduce the cancer. The caveat is always talked

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your GP. Lots more on the website. Check out our details there.

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Goodbye. Hello. Still some room for a time

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overnight in the far north of Scotland, moving across the Northern

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Isles. Elsewhere, it becomes dry, clear and that will lead to a sunny

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start in the morning. Not quite as warm tomorrow but still warm, when

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the sun makes an appearance. High pressure coming in overnight. It

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will last into Thursday, of a fine day with that sunshine to begin.

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Cooler

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