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This is BBC World News Today with me Karin Giannone.

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Ten people are killed in a head-on collision between two commuter

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They were travelling at high speed on the same line.

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Investigators are trying to find out if human error or a technical

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There was blood everywhere and some people flew away,

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some hit their head on the chairs, or windows or armrests or something.

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The US state of New Hampshire votes for its Republican and Democratic

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With hundreds of thousands of Syrians facing life under siege

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in Aleppo, refugees are warned there's no more room in camps

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So it's very very difficult now to be here, now the regime has cut

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one of the two roads that supply Aleppo city.

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And, as Japan starts catching Minke whales in defiance

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Offered international court ruling we ask if eating whale meat is part

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of Japanese culture. That's the big question after two

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German trains crashed They were travelling

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on the same single track, heading towards each

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other at full speed. At least ten people were killed -

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with another hundred or so injured. Several carriages were derailed

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and emergency teams worked for hours On a quiet commuter line,

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the violence of a head-on collision. This footage was taken

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moments after the I can't move my arm,

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one woman shouts. Don't worry, a passenger replies,

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the police will be here soon. The man who took this

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video escaped unhurt. There was blood everywhere

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because some people flew And some hit their head

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on the chairs or Windows or armrest The train line runs between a wooded

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hillside and river. Easier to carry the dead

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and injured away by air, TRANSLATION: The collision

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was head-on and at high At the accident site the speed limit

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is around 100 kilometres There is a bend in that stretch

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of track and you have to assume the train drivers had little if any

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eye contact before the collision. Investigators have recovered two

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of three black boxes. The crash happened

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on a single track. Trains use a nearby station

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where there is a double track There is an automatic braking system

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designed to halt any train that Joe, a regular commuter,

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told us his train usually stops and waits for the oncoming

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train to pass. This morning, he said,

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was different. Normally the train has to wait five

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minutes for the oncoming train. And three minutes, waiting three

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minutes, suddenly it set off. This has horrified

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Germany, a country where rail crashes

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are relatively rare. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel

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said she is saddened and shocked And bear this in mind,

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it is the school People tell us on a normal morning,

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these trains would have been As the light fades,

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the work continues. It will be weeks

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perhaps months before The crash site is illuminated with

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floodlights. It is a little bit hard to make out exactly what is going

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floodlights. It is a little bit hard at the moment, there is indication

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that there may be movement of some of the carriages. Not quite clear.

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We understand the police investigators will continue

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We understand the police work early tomorrow morning, when

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the sun comes up. We work early tomorrow morning, when

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three black boxes, data recorders, have been recovered but a third is

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missing and that will be crucial for investigators trying to work out

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what went so horribly investigators trying to work out

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track behind me. How unusual is it for a country like Germany to suffer

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a transport tragedy like this. This is unusual, it has been described as

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one of the worst train crashes in Germany's recent history. Many of

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the people here are in shock. This is a little commuter line. Something

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that takes people to work and takes many children to school every

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morning. The idea that this could happen, this line of track, we are

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told, has a special system on it, whereby there is a red light to

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prevent people from proceeding if there is a red light. What went

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wrong? People find it hard to understand. There is deep mourning

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for the victims and their families. Thanks.

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The US says North Korea has restarted one of its nuclear

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reactors, in defiance of international agreements.

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The US director of national intelligence said the plutonium

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reactor could provide fuel for nuclear weapons.

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On Sunday, North Korea carried out a long-range rocket launch,

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just weeks after conducting a banned nuclear weapons test.

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Lawyers for the South African president have told the country's

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Constitutional Court that Jacob Zuma will repay all improvements

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to his ranch that were not security-related.

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Mr Zuma's lawyers made the announcement

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whether he should pay back some of the $23 million

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of taxpayers' money spent on refurbishing his private home.

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The case has been brought by opposition parties,

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some of whom held demonstrations outside the courthouse

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in Johannesburg chanting "pay back the money" and "Zuma must fall".

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Former Bosnian Serb general Zdravko Tolimir, described

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as commander Ratko Mladic's right-hand man during the Bosnia

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war, has died in custody in the Hague.

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The 67-year-old was convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal

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of genocide and crimes against humanity during the Bosnian

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His crimes included the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of eight

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thousand Bosnian Muslim men and boys.

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Voting has begun in the US state of New Hampshire,

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the second of fifty states to choose its candidates

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for the presidential election in November.

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Opinion polls suggest Donald Trump has a strong lead

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for the Republicans, while in the race for the Democrat

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nomination, Bernie Sanders is way ahead of Hillary Clinton.

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That is the scene at one polling station in Manchester, New

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Hampshire. A stream of people coming in to cast their vote. We can get a

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report from our North America editor.

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I hear we're going to do well, but the snow is out there.

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But in the blizzard of predictions about New Hampshire,

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the one constant has been the real estate mogul in the lead.

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In the polls no-one is even close, which makes the battle all the more

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intense for which mainstream Republican is going to take him on.

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Senator Marco Rubio, young, emerged from

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On the streets of New Hampshire he's faced protesters.

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But at the weekend, in the final televised Republican debate,

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he was subject to a brutal political mugging.

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You see everybody I want the people at home to think about this.

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The drive-by shot at the beginning with incorrect and incomplete

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information and then the memorised 25-second speech.

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That is exactly what they just gave him.

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The kicking came from the New Jersey governor, Chris Christie.

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I spoke to him last night about what impact his

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There was a march by the media towards Senator Rubio,

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that march is now over because they know he's not ready.

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Has it risen for governor Christie then?

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But all that is now in the hands of these people - the voters.

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Donald Trump has led here in New Hampshire in every

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His challenge today is to turn a poll lead into actual votes,

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something he failed to do in Iowa last week.

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On the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders has a similar

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But this is a state that has a history of springing surprises.

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This is the fervour that you find at a Bernie Sanders rally,

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young people, and the not so young, believing that a different type

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of politics is possible from Vermont's veteran socialist

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All of which has left Hillary Clinton, the runaway

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favourite from six months ago, on the defensive, lowering

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expectations and looking to future battles where she might find

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Jon Sopel, BBC News, Manchester New Hampshire.

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Let's get more from New Hampshire from Kim Ghattas who's in

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Iowa last week and New Hampshire today, what is the difference

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between caucuses and primaries? It is an interesting difference and it

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is part of this process, that Democrats and republicans go through

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to nominate their candidate for each party for the presidential race. In

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Iowa we saw caucuses, where political supporters, registered

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voters on the Democratic side and Republican side come together

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separately in different precincts, over 1600 of them, they come

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together in a room in high school, public library, to decide which way

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they will go and which candidate they will support. On the Democratic

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side you had supporters of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders coming

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together in one room. You try to pull people in different into one

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corner or the other until one side wins. At the county level they have

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a delegate count and it adds up to the delicate number at state level.

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At the end of that we saw Hillary Clinton had a razor-thin majority.

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One, two extra delegates she won Iowa. In New Hampshire it is

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different, more traditional voting, where you go to the polls, they

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opens this morning, people go in and cast a ballot for the preferred

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candidate. What is interesting about New Hampshire, you can vote anyway,

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Democrat or Republican will stop it is the independents who will this

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way the result. Is it getting nasty, all par for the course? This is a

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very unusual election year. We have seen upsets on both sides. We have

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Hillary Clinton, who did not expect to be challenged the way she has

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been challenged by a 74-year-old socialist senator from Vermont. He

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has run a phenomenal campaign, tapping into a sense of frustration

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within young people, he is getting the youth vote at levels we have not

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seen, more than 80% of young people voting for him in Iowa. He is

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getting support from young women, which Hillary Clinton is struggling

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with stop on the Republican side, I do not think last year at this point

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or even in the summer, anyone expected Trump would lead. And so

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far at a national level as well. New Hampshire, as we heard, it has a

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history of sprinting surprises. Bernie Sanders is expected to win

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here and Donald Trump is expected to win on the Republican side. It is

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still a long race to go. Concern is growing over the fate

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of Syrians escaping a government The UN says it is concerned that

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hundreds of thousands of people in and around the city could be cut

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off from food supplies. Tens of thousands of

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Syrians have left Aleppo. Medecins Sans Frontieres say in one

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town on the Turkish border, families are sleeping

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on the streets in the open air, Aleppo in the north of Syria

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has seen almost 10 days Government forces -

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backed by Russian air strikes - The red area here shows

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what they controlled And this is what they control now -

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the centre of Aleppo virtually surrounded, and key supply routes

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for opposition fighters, and the civilians at the centre

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of it all, cut off. The city's a huge prize for both

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sides in Syria's intractable conflict, and government forces

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are determined to seize it. Hamza Alkhatab is a doctor in one

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of the hospitals in a rebel held area of Aleppo, he told us

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what the situation is like there. Last year we got news

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about the explosive powers then the Russian aircraft bombing,

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now it's heavier bombing over Aleppo This morning, we had three aircraft

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bombing in three neighbourhoods. Seven people were

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killed, all civilians. One of them was a child,

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seven years old, so it's very The regime has cut one of two roads

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that supply Aleppo City. Now we only have one road and it's

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very threatened now. There are reports that Japan's

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whaling fleet has begun catching minke whales in the Antarctic

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in the past few days. That's despite an international

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court ruling calling on Japan to stop what its government calls

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a "scientific whaling programme". Japan sent the fleet

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back to sea in December, saying whaling is an integral part

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of its culture that's been carried Our Tokyo correspondent

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Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports. There is nowhere else like Tokyo's

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famously chaotic fish market, which is by far the

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biggest in the world. That's because Japan

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is still the world's biggest But I have come to find whale meat,

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and this woman is my guide. Today, there is very

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little for sale. This is minke whale meat, and this

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is from endangered fin whale. The owner tells me he sells

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about 20kg a day - It has been falling for years.

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Japanese people don't eat whale meat Japan gets at most 4000 tons

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of whalemeat per year but even as the number

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of whales caught goes down The Japanese Government says whale

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hunting has been part of Japanese The truth is, Japan only

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began large scale hunting whales in the Antarctic

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after the Second World War, when this country

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was hungry and they But as soon as Japan became rich

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in the 1970s and '80s, people here lost their

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appetite for whalemeat, and today only a tiny percentage

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of people continue to eat it. OK, so, this is

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sashimi, this is raw? People like my old friend, Kato,

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who grew up in western Japan and as a child loved

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eating this, but It is with some trepidation that

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I take my first mouthful Initially, it feels like you're

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eating steak, but... Much stronger flavour,

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very gamey, quite chewy. It is certainly not

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what I would call delicious, The last time he ate whalemeat

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was three years ago. I don't need to catch whales any

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more because there is no custom Obviously, beef steak

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is much better than that And yet Japan is back in

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the Antarctic hunting whales again. This annual hunt cost Japanese

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taxpayers tens of millions of dollars, but it has nothing to do

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with Japanese culture. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes,

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BBC News, in Tokyo. It is one of the major

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inconveniences of long-haul travel - That awful, energy-sapping feeling

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when you get to the other end, you can't get enough sleep,

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or maybe you can't sleep at all. Scientists in the US say

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they've found one. You just have to be exposed to short

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flashes of light while you are asleep ahead of the flight

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to prepare your body Doctor Jamie Zeiter,

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the scientists who led the researchers of Stanford

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University's School of Medicine. I began by asking him how he got

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the idea that flashes of light might This came from some animal

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experiments colleagues had done. One of the benefits of having flashes of

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light versus continuous light is you can have this occurred during sleep

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and be exposed to flashes of light while he was sleeping and it does

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not interfere with your sleep. This is when your system is most

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sensitive to light. If you are travelling east, you will have liked

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in the morning, before you wake up. This is light exposure that would

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happen before you wake up, you would have flashes of light and be adapted

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to your new time zone. Eusebio flashes of light do not interfere

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with sleep, some of us would imagine they would -- you say. We tested

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this on a bunch of people and we cannot find an effect on sleep.

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There will be some people who are sensitive to light, to sound. Any

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sound or light they wake up to, but most adapt well to having an

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uninteresting stimulus this flashing stimulus is. They sleep right

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through it. It can work when jet lag is the case, how might it apply to

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things like shiftwork, even teenagers, who have different sleep

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patterns from the rest of the world? With shift workers, it is something

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we are working on. We are not quite there with shift workers. With

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teenagers we are testing it right now. We are exposing teenagers to

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light, so that their brains are living on New York time while their

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bodies are living in California. That way, when their brain tells

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them to go to sleep at 2am, it is only 11 o'clock at night local time,

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to enable them to get more sleep. I am sure many parents would welcome

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that! Something like this being incorporated into airlines, how they

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cater to you in a flight might be a possibility in future? We think

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building this into airlines, hotels, in a sleep mask, bedside lamp, these

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are the kinds of ways you can get exposed to it and can help people

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adapt, especially on long haul flights, if you are flying from the

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UK to China, it is difficult to adapt to. You can use this exposure

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to pre-adapt as well as when you get there, to finish that in more rapid

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form. We can bring new pictures from a colourful parade in Portugal.

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Carnival. A festive mixture of drums and whistles and light-hearted jabs

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at Portuguese and international leaders. The carnival has a

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reputation for social and political satire. Some of the floats showing

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economic hardship. And party leaders. Thousands visit the

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carnival 50 kilometres north of Lisbon to watch every year. The

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tradition has gone on for centuries. Never too late to start

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a new activity - and here's one man 93-year-old Svend Steensgaard had

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a career as an immigration After retirement, at the age of 77,

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he took up powerlifting, and is now the world's oldest

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licensed powerlifter, entering top competitions

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across the world and lifting up He's been telling us how he handles

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such a demanding sport. I am the oldest powerlifter in the

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world. 93 and putting us to shame with his

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fitness regime. The German authorities have given

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further details of a train crash in Bavaria, in which ten

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people were killed Two trains collided head-on

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during the morning rush hour. Investigators are seeking

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to establish whether it was the result of a technical problem

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or human error. The track was fitted

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with an automatic braking system But for now from me and the rest

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of the team, goodbye. Storm Imogen has passed but it has

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left a legacy of cold air across the UK and it will be pretty cold

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tomorrow. Just a few showers here and

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