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I'm Alice Baxter with BBC World News.

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Police reveal the massive haul of weapons found after America's

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deadliest mass shooting for three years but still no motive.

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14 people killed in California after a married couple open fire

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President Obama vows that the police will get to the bottom of it.

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It is possible that this was terrorist-related but we don't know.

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It's also possible that it was workplace related.

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The US Defence Secretary announces the opening of all military combat

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To succeed in our mission of the national defence, we cannot afford

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to cut ourselves off from half of the country's talents and skills.

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We have to take full advantage of every individual who can meet

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Oscar Pistorius faces a return to jail, after South Africa's Appeal

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More arrests are made in Switzerland over multi-million-dollar bribery

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allegations at Fifa on the very day it announces major reforms.

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I am aware that the road will be difficult, the challenge is there

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And the gene therapy breakthrough which

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could prevent diseases being passed from one generation to the next.

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Police in the Californian city of San Bernardino are still

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searching for a motive to Wednesday's mass shooting which left

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The suspects, a husband and wife, dropped off their six-month-old

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daughter before arming themselves with assault rifles and opening fire

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President Obama said the United States has a history

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Well, within the last hour, the assistant director of LA branch

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of the FBI, David Bowdich, gave a news conference in which he

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went through what investigators know so far about the suspects.

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If you look at the amount of obvious preplanning that went in, the amount

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of armaments he had, the weapons and ammunition, there was obviously

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We don't know if this was the intended target or if there was

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something that triggered him to do this immediately.

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We just don't know and again that is going to take time

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It appears he came back into the US in July 2040, as I said earlier.

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I do not know all the countries he visited.

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We know he did go to Pakistan at one point and we know she is here on

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a K-1 Visa under a Pakistani passport.

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Well, for the latest into the investigation

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our correspondent James Cook has sent this report from the scene.

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The streets, awash with police, hunting for a young man who had

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gone on the rampage with his wife at a festive party.

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Syed Farook reportedly left the gathering after a disagreement,

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before returning with Tashfeen Malik, armed with automatic weapons.

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We have two suspects both dressed in black.

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They went into the room and locked the door.

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I haven't tried to call her because I didn't want the phone ringing.

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And so the hunt began and hours after the shooting parts

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This is the second scene we are at now, around a couple of miles from

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But just up that street, it was over the two suspects.

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After a car chase through the city, they died here in a gun battle,

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I don't know who was shooting who first but they were both

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We work in the building and we hid in the back

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Syed Farook was a 28-year-old American.

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On an old dating profile he called himself a good Muslim looking

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for a girl who liked snowboarding and would wear a hijab.

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The FBI are asking the same question,

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scouring the couple's home for explosives.

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Terrorism is a possibility they say but so too is a workplace

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Either way, the country he leads has by one count assume that more than

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-- Either way, the country he leads has by one count seen more than

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We are going to have to search ourselves as a society to make sure

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we can take basic steps that would make it harder, not impossible

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but harder for individuals to get access to weapons.

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This tense and grieving city is still short of answers.

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Why did a mild-mannered man and his wife spark all of this, leaving

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Our correspondent Laura Trevelyan is in San Bernardino.

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And what other details that came out of the press conference that the

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police chief gave to journalists in the last hour was the huge amount of

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weapons these people possessed. Yes, many details are coming out of

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that press conference, not least now that there are a total of 21 people

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were wounded after the shooting rampage. 14 people killed. At the

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home of the suspects, police discovered 12 pipe bombs and 3000

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rounds of ammunition and they discovered the tools for making

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explosive devices. In addition, at the scene where I am now where the

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shooting took place yesterday at this community centre for disabled

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people, the authorities found in the car belonging to the suspects 1600

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rounds. That is an extraordinary amount of ammunition. And more

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details about the explosive device found in the centre. The authorities

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described it as being one pipe bomb combined of three which was being

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operated by some kind of remote control car device which apparently

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had failed to detonate. So the level of preplanning which had gone into

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this attack is shown by the sheer range of ammunition and explosives

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discovered since the shooting happened. Staggering. One detail

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which remains a mystery is the happened. Staggering. One detail

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motive. Yes, law enforcement officials are saying little about

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that in the past hour. The leader FBI official said it would be

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irresponsible and premature to call this terrorism. They do not have the

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motive still, said the weed or lease office. This is now an FBI

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investigation which suggests authorities want to explore the

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possibility this is terrorism. At the press conference, the officials

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were asked if the male suspect went abroad and was radicalised and they

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said they were looking into it. He said he came back into the US in

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July 2014, having visited Pakistan among other countries. But still no

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more answers and it could be a long time until there are definitive

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answers and in the meantime this community is grieving for those who

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died. We are told that later this afternoon the names of the dead will

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begin to be released. This has issue of gun control back into the

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spotlight. Thanks. The American Defence Secretary has

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announced that all US military The historic move comes

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after several years of study, and plans to wipe away generations

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of limits on how and where women Women will now be able to contribute

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to our mission They will be allowed to drive tanks,

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fire mortars, and lead infantry They will be able to serve as

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Army Rangers and Green Berets, Navy SEALs, Marine Corps infantry,

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Air Force para jumpers and everything else that was

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previously open only to men. Even more importantly,

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our military will be better able to harness the skills and perspectives

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that talented women have to offer. "No exceptions" was the

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recommendation of the secretary of the Army, the secretary of the Air

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Force and the secretary of the Navy, as well as the chief of staff of

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the Army, chief of staff of the Air Force and Chief of Naval Operations

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and the commander of Our correspondent Barbara

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Plett-Usher is in Washington. It opens up more than 200,000

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positions to women which were formally closed. The secretary of

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defence listed some of the things they will now be able to do. At the

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same time, this has been happening gradually over quite a long time,

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especially over the past three was, because in January 20 13th the army

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lifted its ban on the final restriction on women serving in

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direct combat ground rules. But then restriction on women serving in

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the leaders of different military services studied how this would work

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and to ask for and argue for those exceptions. Only the Marine Corps

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asked for partial exceptions. The secretary of defence said that

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because it is a joint force he had decided to make the decision across

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all the forces and that is because mainly the US military had to draw

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from the broadest pool of talent and couldn't afford to cut off 50% of

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the population. He says it also reflects what has been happening

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during the Iraq war, women fighting in fighter jets, submarines, and

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paying with their lives, killed and wounded. Now they will be able to

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officially apply for these roles which have been closed for them

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before. The Paralympic athlete Oscar

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Pistorius has been found guilty of murder after an Appeal Court

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judge in South Africa overturned The athlete killed

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his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp The judge said mistakes had been

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made in the first trial and that Pistorius must have known

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that he would kill someone when he repeatedly shot through

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a toilet door. He could now face a minimum

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of 15 years in prison From Johannesburg Nomsa Maseko

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reports. It is nearly three years since

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Reeva Steenkamp was shot dead Today, the long wait

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for her family was finally over. The accused's conviction and

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sentence on count one was set aside Guilty of murder with the accused

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having had criminal intent As they anxiously gathered

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in the courtroom, one of the prosecution lawyers

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hugged Reeva's mother. At least we have the truth now

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and the right decision and the right judgment

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and it is not up to me to say... They were South Africa's

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glamorous couple. But in the early hours

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of Valentine's Day 2013, she was killed in his bathroom

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when he fired four high-calibre Pistorius denied intentionally

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shooting his girlfriend, saying he believed he was shooting

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at an intruder in self defence. The prosecution however argued that

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he shot her in a fit of rage, The Supreme Court today said that

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the athlete should have foreseen the consequences of his actions

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when he opened fire, regardless By shooting through

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a locked toilet door, the judge concluded he must have known that he

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was going to kill someone. The judge also found there were

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fundamental errors in how the trial judge interpreted the law

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when she convicted Pistorius on a lesser charge of manslaughter, for

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which he spent a year in prison. Oscar Pistorius will remain here in

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his uncle's home on house arrest. Now branded a murderer

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by the Supreme Court of appeal, the disgraced athlete will wait until

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next year for resentencing to find It is unlikely that he will be

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able to appeal today's verdict. He now faces

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a possible 15-year jail term. British warplanes have carried out

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their first air strikes in Syria Almost immediately after the UK

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parliament approved military action, four Tornado jets took off from

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RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. The warplanes targeted

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the Omar oil field in eastern Syria, Jonathan Beale reports from

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RAF Akrotiri: This evening the reinforcements

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arrived at RAF Akrotiri. Another eight jets.

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This signals the rules have now changed, the border between Iraq

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Last night, within an hour of MPs voting yes,

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a pair of Tornadoes prepared for the first British air strikes in

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Syria, loaded with 500lb bombs, it was a carefully choreographed

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This is the second pair of tornadoes to leave tonight.

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After that Commons vote authorised military action in Syria.

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We have not been told the destination of these aircraft,

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but we understand they will be flying over Syria

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Their destination was the Omar oilfields, a source of funding

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It was not that long before they returned.

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The MoD said it was a successful mission.

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This is the first pair of RAF Tornadoes, they have been flying

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They went with three Paveway bombs and it looks like they've fired

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I think as the initial operation, firstly it is a piece

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of infrastructure and you can pre-plan it and

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of course you would want a fairly big bang after a parliamentary vote.

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There is low risk from the perspective of the pilots,

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high gain from the perspective of the politicians.

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These targets are part of a wider coalition strategy.

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Cockpit videos released by the Pentagon shows US warplanes

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hitting similar oil installations as well as tankers.

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It is one of the main sources of income for the extremists.

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But the Prime Minister admits it will take more to defeat IS.

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We will need to be patient and persistent, this will take time,

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it is complex and difficult what we are asking our

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pilots to do, our thoughts should be with them and their families as they

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These pilots will not be home by Christmas.

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This bombing campaign could take years.

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It will need more than warplanes to defeat IS.

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Should scientists be allowed to do research which alters the DNA

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It's a question being discussed by hundreds of scientists

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from 20 countries in Washington at a conference on what's known

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Our Medical Correspondent Fergus Walsh reports from the conference.

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From the discovery of DNA structure by Crick and Watson, to the dawn of

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IVF with the birth of Louise Brown, to the decoding of the human genome,

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decades of progress in human biology means scientists can now alter the

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very DNA that parents pass on to their children. Gene editing is

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cheap, simple and accessible to scientists anywhere in the world. It

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is like a molecular sat nav. It stands our DNA, reading the cold,

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looking for the error. Then it uses molecular scissors to slip through

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of strands, switching off a faulty gene or enabling a healthy copy to

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be inserted. Both techniques have the potential to treat or even cure

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genetic diseases. If gene editing was done in IVF embryos, that DNA

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change would pass down all subsequent generations. In theory,

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it could be used to prevent inherited conditions like cystic

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fibrosis or Huntington's disease. Let your from three people, a

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patient, ethicist tests, all with strong views. -- and scientist. I

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will lose the ability to control my body. Charles carries the genetics

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for Huntington's disease. It killed his father. His older brother now

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needs 24-hour care. He says gene editing offers real hope. It is too

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late for me but for generations to come this offers the priceless

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possibility of putting an end to a disease which affects generation

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after generation. But this ethicist argues it would be wrong to ever

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allow gene edited the children to be born. It is too risky, we do not

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need it, there are other ways to have healthy children, and it would

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open the door possibly to a world of genetic haves and have-nots. We do

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not need more inequality and discrimination. This man wants

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scientists to be allowed to edit genes in embryos, but at this stage

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only in a dish. He says cure is still years off. The ability to

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manipulate specific genes and test what effect that has an cell or

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tissue behaviour or organ behaviour, is really going to open up new

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avenues of research and understanding how our bodies work.

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Designer humans may be a long way off but these are designer dogs.

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Chinese scientists edited versions as embryos and the result is they

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have bigger muscles than other dogs. Modifying DNA raises profound

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questions which scientists and society are only just beginning to

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face. Now, a long time ago, in

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a galaxy far, far away, two unknown 23-year-olds were cast in leading

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roles in the new Star Wars film. The eagerly anticipated movie,

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called The Force Awakens, features Our entertainment correspondent

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Lizo Mzimba met them. There are stories

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about what happened. The saga is part

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of cinema mythology. For two relative unknowns, lead

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roles that could perhaps propel So

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for a few months I honestly didn't know whether I was coming or going,

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whether I was going to lose the job, and then being surrounded by people

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who really make you feel loved. I don't get recognised as much

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as people make out to be for now, but then that is going to change

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in a few weeks, but, yeah, It's just something that is

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going to happen regardless. Daisy Ridley was making small

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appearances in TV dramas and working in a pub

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when she first started auditioning for a part which could be career

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defining in all sorts of ways. Do you give much thought to

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the fact that it's not a guarantee I think me and Rey are similar in

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that, you know, she's just hoping for a better life, and I've been

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so lucky with what happened before. When I did Casualty,

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that was thrilling to me, John Boyega already has

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a few smaller films under his belt. Filming this at Pinewood,

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just outside London, alongside stars from the original

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trilogy helped him feel at home. The funny thing about it is being

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on this kind of like historical Hollywood set and

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then, you know, walking downstairs and seeing the crew talk about

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the latest episode of EastEnders. And as opening day approaches,

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how nervous do you feel? I'm so used to

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your voice talking about films, this is probably the most serious I've

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ever thought, oh, it is coming out. Yeah, I guess it is daunting but I

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just mainly want people to think I As football's world governing body,

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Fifa, unveils plans aimed at cleaning up

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the way it is run, two more senior Fifa's executive committee has

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adopted reforms including restricting its president

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to a maximum of 12 years at the top and tighter integrity

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checks on senior officials. But what timing -

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just a couple of hours earlier, Swiss authorities raided a hotel

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in Zurich and detained two Fifa vice-presidents as part of

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an ongoing bribery investigation. The BBC's Sports Editor Dan Roan,

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gave me more details. These gentlemen are not household

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names perhaps but they are effectively the two most powerful

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foot all administrators in the American called federations. One of

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the North Central American Confederation including the

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Caribbean, and one represents this South American Federation. These

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gentlemen were meant to be discussing the crucial reform

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package you mentioned, which is seen by many as representative of Fifa's

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attempts to rebuild public trust and confidence in it after a scandal

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ridden few months, and another controversial proposal to expand the

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World Cup to 40 teams by 2026. It is seen as something of a sweetener to

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certain associations around the world to tempt them to vote for

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reforms. Instead, those officials are in a ceric jail -- zero which --

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Zurich Jail. Reminiscent of the raids earlier this year. That set

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off the chain of events which led us here. Sepp Blatter currently

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suspended. Fifa is desperately trying to look forward but events

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like today prevented from doing so. It has been a few months of scandal

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to put it mildly. Many of people are asking if any amount of reform can

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help Fifa or if it needs to be overhauled or replaced?

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There are some who believe that it is so tainted it should simply be

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wound up. It is similar to a failed bank and there is no hope for it.

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Something new must happen, a new organisation or Federation will stop

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others believe there is hope for Fifa and if reforms are brought

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in... That is all.

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in... That is all.

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With Friday around the corner it looks like we are going to start the

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day on a relatively quiet note will stop mostly dry but the winds will

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strengthen throughout the day and eventually we will see some very

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heavy rain arriving into the far north and west. We have rain

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clearing away into the south-east corner

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