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the world health organisation sees Zika virus needs a response.

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US presidential hopefuls make their final pitches

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I'll happily test on the campaign and Iowa.

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The culinary world reels from the apparent suicide of one

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We'll discuss the industry's pressures.

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The World Health Organisation has been meeting to discuss

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The world health organisation has the clear and Zika virus I global

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emergency. It said a coordinated response was needed. After a review

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of the evidence the committee advised that it constitutes an extra

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ordinarily invent and a public health threat to other parts of the

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world. In The View a coordinated international response is needed to

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minimise the threat and reduce the rescue. Members of the committee

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agree that the situation meets the conditions of a public health

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concern. I have accepted this advice. I am now declaring that the

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recent cluster of abnormalities reported in Latin America following

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a similar cluster in 2014 constitutes a public health concern.

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A very alarming sounding declaration.

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What does this mean? This puts it in the same class as Ebola. The whole

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point is to get research going to fast track it.

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It is a key priority for the countries involved to tackle this

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condition. You mentioned Ebola. There was

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criticism of the world health organisation after the outbreak at

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the time it took for that to become an emergency.

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The Dr was talking about how now is not the time to weights.

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We need a lot more research but she said it is important that all of

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this cause I head now even with the uncertainties.

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She said it was a strongly suspected link that it had not yet been

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proven. In terms of how many countries are

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affected did they get a sense of how it is predicted to spread?

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We have heard before from the world health organisation that it is

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expecting most of the Americas to encounter this virus. It is spread

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by mosquitoes. There are 20 countries at the moment reporting

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cases of this infection. The advice at the moment for pregnant women is

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that these should think about whether they should be travelling to

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these areas, seek medical advice, and cover up and protect themselves.

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More than 20 countries in the Americas are trying to fight disease

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macro. Brazil is the worst affected country.

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Our Science Editor, David Shukman, has sent this report from Recife

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A young woman four months pregnant has just heard she may be infected

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An agonising glimpse into a nightmare here

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Another pregnant woman who asked us not to show her face says

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This woman has red eyes - a typical symptom of the Zika virus.

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She is due to give birth in two months' time and she is waiting

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I am feeling worried, she says, because she has aches

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and a rash which are also indicators of the virus.

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And what makes everyone here more anxious is the uncertainty.

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What's so disturbing about what's happening here is that women

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are turning up with a lot of highly personal, very pressing questions

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Above all, what damage can Zika virus do to their babies?

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The painful moment when test results are handed out.

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Evidence is growing that the virus is to blame for deforming babies'

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brains but it's not certain so there's no way

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When you see the ultrasound has something wrong you have

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to tell her and then you know that after you tell her she will ask

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If the children will walk, will hear properly, will see

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Like several thousand babies in Brazil, this baby was born

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with a small brain and unless she is rocked all the time

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The mother, Michaela, is clearly overwhelmed.

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It is not the moment to get pregnant, she says.

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So far nobody knows where the virus comes from.

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All this adds to the urgency of killing the mosquitoes that

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But reaching them is difficult so from today officials

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have a new power, to break into homes if they need to.

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So the authorities are harnessing the Carnival spirit.

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A mosquito costume raises awareness of the dangers.

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Anything to get people to join the fight against the insects.

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All day as Michaela rocks her baby she worries about how

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This glance shows that there is some brain function.

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But no one can tell how this crisis will unfold.

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Let us stay in Brazil. Brazil facing the brunt of the Zika virus. Any

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reaction to the declaration by the world health organisation. This is

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welcome because it will get the attention and the funding perhaps to

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develop a vaccine for the virus. This is a 2-pronged attack. The

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eradication of mosquitoes is a must and that is happening in many areas.

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It is difficult in a country where the species of mosquito is

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widespread. The next thing is try and develop a vaccine against them

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by this itself. International efforts, international cooperation

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and finance is very important in that regard because of putting at

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least one year, possibly five years to develop a vaccine. The other

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least one year, possibly five years slightly good news for Brazil is

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that despite this dramatic declaration of an international

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health emergency there was no further travel advisory people not

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to come to Brazil. We have got Carnival now and the Olympic Games

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later on this year in Rio de Janeiro. Of course there is travel

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advice already out there. Pregnant women and women wishing to get

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pregnant. Finally it is important to point out that 4000 suspected cases

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in Brazil but only 300 confirmed cases. They are still going through

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the process of looking at the other suspected cases to see Ed they are

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also -- to see if they are verified. I do.

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US presidential hopefuls are making their final pitches

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to people in the state of Iowa, where the first votes for party

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nominations will take place later on Monday.

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Polls suggest that Republican Donald Trump has a narrow lead over

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Ted Cruz, but both are well ahead of the others.

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The Democratic race is slightly tighter, with former US Secretary

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The great thing about Iowa is that it is so traditional.

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It is a state as wedded to its political dos and don'ts

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Or to its small towns where nothing seems to change from one election

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This election Donald Trump has defied all the Iowa norms

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He travels the state by private jet with his name screaming

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He whizzed into the state's biggest political gathering in a helicopter.

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And then most cardinal of all Cardinal sins,

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And once again his approval ratings went up.

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What is this - an abusive relationship?

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So the question is have Iowans just discovered their inner New York

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billionaire or have they concluded that the state of the country

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is so miserable that they are going to take the rule book and toss it

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Because when they are not flirting with the Donald they are

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Bernie Sanders' politics are the opposite of Trump's

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How has a grumpy self declared socialist who doesn't even talk

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about his faith done well in this conservative heartland?

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This Government belongs to all of us not just a handful of billionaires.

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To many Americans, advocating free health care and free college tuition

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as Bernie Sanders does is as extreme as telling Europeans that

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In a normal election it would simply be outlandish.

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I see conservatives that are drawn to him and his ideas basically

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I like how he is not taking any money from billionaires or anybody

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On Monday Iowa will tell us whether political norms really have

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been upended in America or if politics as normal

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Let's speak to our correspondent Gary O'Donoghue who is in

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How are the Paul's looking? We have had another survey in the last 24

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hours that has on the Republican side Donald Trump I haired on 31% of

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the vote versus 24% for Ted Cruz. -- Donald Trump ahead on 31%. It is not

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much of a lead 20 take into account the margin of error but it is

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something of a lead. On the Democratic side the latest survey

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has Bernie Sanders ahead by three points. That puts the survey the day

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before that had Hillary Clinton the points I haired. That is within the

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margin of error so they are neck and neck. -- Hillary Clinton ahead.

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Apparently she delivered coffee and doughnuts to her campaign team and

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she wants to get the vortex later. Donald Trump was at a rally and he

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did normal speech. He did his two of the things he hates. Then he said it

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is important to get out to vote, even if you cannot walk, if you are

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sick, go and vote. That is has advice for tonight. We will wait for

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the voting to begin. This begins in about five hours' time and then it

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takes three hours and the results will pour in where precinct by

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precinct 1700 is little meetings around the country, we will see who

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comes out on top. That will shape the race and the way it goes on to

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the rest of the primary is, New Hampshire, Nevada.

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And you can get much more on the Iowa caucuses

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Our North America editor, Jon Sopel, gives his take on the unpredictable

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race taking place at the Iowa caucuses -

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He says it is not so much retail politics as market stall politics.

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That's at BBC.com/news or use the BBC News app.

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Britain is the first country to approve the process of Jean editing.

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Critics say it is the first stage towards designer babies. -- gene

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editing. Now scientists can alter it

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genetically. Researchers will be using the needed embryos left over

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from IVF. I find it frustrating that I never

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had answers as to why I kept miscarrying. This research had come

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earlier and could have helped me provide answers it could have saved

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a lot of heartache. This is a five-day-old embryo. Already the

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sales are starting to differentiate. Scientists will edit the genes which

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will go on to form the foetus but who will be do it? Gene editing is

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cheap and accessible. It scans DNA, reading the called, looking for the

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error. It uses molecular scissors to snip through both strands switching

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of the faulty gene or enabling a healthy copy to be inserted. Both

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techniques can treat or cure diseases, potentially. For some this

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is the slippery slope which will lead to designer humans. In fact

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gene editing is ready being used to change all types of life and that

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may raise more pressing concerns. It has huge ramifications on the

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environment in terms of insects, animals and plants. Ramifications as

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to how you develop biological weapons. That is what you should

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concentrate on. Designer babies has not happened and it will not happen

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in the near future. It may take years before this research leads to

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better fertility treatments that across all areas of science gene

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editing is promising major advances. Improving human health is just a

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part of fats. -- part of that. With me is Dr David King,

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director of Human Genetics I do not have a problem with this

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particular research. My concern is it is the first step on a process

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that has already been mapped out towards the creation of genetically

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modified designer babies. My previous guest said the slippery

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slope is there but if you are willing to rate fruit where you do

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not have too feared that in that footwear is regulation. That

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metaphor always gets used. It is not an adequate metaphor. It implies

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that something passive is going on. There are thousands of people

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employed to constantly push us down that slope. The regulator, I do not

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think it deserves to be called a regulator. That is the British

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regulator. That does not deserve to be called at regulator. It never

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sees no. It is an approval body. It acts as a cheerleader for every tech

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dollar G. Like a lot of regulators it has been captured by the industry

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that it regulates. I am sure that if the regulator was hugely speak for

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itself it would refute what you are saying strongly but what about this

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question of understanding what goes wrong in so many embryos, why they

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do not come to fruition, why so any IVF treatments feel? And that

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knowledge that we heard about in that report. People seeking answers.

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Why do you want to stop that? I do not have a problem with this

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particular piece of research what worries me is the next thing that

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would be researched with the designed specifically to improve

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techniques retreating embryos with a few to creating babies and there but

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the proposal before Parliament. Already in 2014 it was oche to have

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the patent embryos. You have only decided that as oche to genetically

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change human genes so that is what we are going to be told then. The

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problem is that we are likely to keep on. In the meantime surely you

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are denying developments that have so much potential in a positive

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sense. I am not denying that this particular research. But 25 years of

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experience of watching how the scientific establishment works how

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the industries and the radiators work, I have never seen a case where

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the regulator said stop there you cannot do that. It does not happen.

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Thank you. The United Nations' special envoy

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for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, is holding talks with the main

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opposition umbrella group. Representatives of the the

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Saudi-backed High Negotiations Committee arrived at the hotel

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in Geneva where Mr de Mistura, is trying to launch indirect peace

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talks between the Syrian Government The opposition group is demanding

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that the Government lift sieges on rebel-held towns,

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allows in aid, ends air strikes, Now a look at some of

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the day's other news. A British woman, who took her

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14-month-old son to Syria to join the Islamic State group,

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has been jailed for six years. Tareena Shakil sent messages

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to her family, insisting she wanted to die a martyr, and allowed her

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toddler to pose for photographs, 20 people are reported to have died

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in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan. the English club, Manchester City

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have pulled off the biggest deal, but it's for a manager,

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not a player. The highly-regarded Bayern Munich

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manager, Pep Guardiola will become their new head coach

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at the end of the season still in the race

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for four trophies. The Chef Benoit Violier,

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whose Swiss restaurant was named the best in the world in December,

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has been found dead at his home. Mr Violier, who was 44,

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ran the Restaurant de l'Hotel de Ville in Crissier,

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near the city of Lausanne. It earned three Michelin stars

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and came top in France's La Liste ranking of the world's

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1,000 best eateries. Swiss police said Mr Violier,

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who was born in France, With me is restaurant critic

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and food writer Andy Hayler, who's eaten recently

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at the Restaurant de l'Hotel de Ville, while Monsieur

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Violier was Head Chef. A tragic story. How good a chef was

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he. He was very good. He to go over from another famous chef. That

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restaurant has a great history. The two meals I have had there are some

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of the best I have ever eaten. I have been to every three star

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Michelin restaurant in the world. He was at the top of his game. He

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served fantastic flawless classical cuisine. It is a great shame

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obviously for the industry and for his wife and their son as well. The

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process of achieving three Michelin stars is quite something. There are

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only 100 people who have achieved that in the world. Not just to get

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to that stage but arguably ranked at the very top of that is quite

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remarkable achievement. We cannot speculate about his individual

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circumstances but what about the pressures of cooking at that sort of

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level? The profession is tough and people work long hours. Financial

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pressures, customers and so on. Who knows what happened in this

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particular case. But it does put a lot of pressure on people. It is a

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high-pressure job. Is there a sense that if our chef is feeling immense

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pressure they are not in a position to let anyone else around them know

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about it? That is true of any leadership position. If you are a

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chief executive officer or a general you are supposed to be in charge and

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not showing any signs of weakness to others. And in terms of a legacy to

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the world of food he would you diss fine him -- who would you define

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him? He was at the top. It is a restaurant but I had a fantastic

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time is at. He will be remembered and sadly missed. Thank you.

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