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This is BBC World News Today with me, Tim Willcox.

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In an age in learning our language face benefit cuts. -- N-Gage.

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Germany's message to migrants which Angela Merkel says will make

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it easier for asylum seekers to enter the workplace.

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Two powerful earthquakes have struck southern Japan,

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causing buildings to collapse, sparking fires

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Marching so the world doesn't forget their daughters.

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The campaign for the release of Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped

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exactly two years ago by Boko Haram militants.

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And can teenagers keep off their phones long enough

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One of America's largest cinema chains decides to let

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people use their mobiles to text during films.

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Learn our language or risk losing your benefits.

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Those are the conditions soon to be imposed on migrants wanting

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The country has been struggling to find ways of handling

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the one million migrants who arrived last year.

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The flow of asylum seekers into Europe isn't letting up.

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As countries in the east of the continent tighten

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their border controls, many migrants are once again turning

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to the dangerous route across the Mediterranean.

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The weather is improving and already there has been a marked increase

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in people making the risky sea crossing in recent weeks.

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Dangerous crossing to Europe is an option.

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Despite the efforts of European Navies to contain the

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central Mediterranean route, the smuggling

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There is no end of desperate people prepared to make this journey -

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and no shortage of unsuitable boats ready to carry them.

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Last year, 87% of 900,000 migrants reaching Europe came through Greece.

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Following a new deal with Turkey nd the tighter restrictions in the

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Balkans, this central route across the Mediterranean from Libya is back

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The crossings to Italy in March were three times the figure

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The UN's refugee agency said 100,000 more

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migrants are already packed into towns and cities in Libya

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The National Crime Agency already has a presence in

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Sicily, they would like to be in Libya but the Government there want

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So, it's likely that, as the summer progresses, the pressure

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will mount - not only on the Italian coast but on the northern French

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Last summer, the Eurotunnel was closed on several

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Calais and Dover have spent millions tightening security.

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Now, the NCA sees evidence that criminal

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gangs will look into alternative routes, through smaller British

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ports, like Hull, Tilbury and New Haven.

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Some migrants, he said, have paid up to ?12,000 for a

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crossing from Dunkirk - in rigid, inflatable boats.

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Europe is planning to send naval ships closer to the

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Libyan coast line to intercept migrants in-shore.

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It's a plan backed by the British Prime Minister.

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He knows that, two months from the

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referendum on Britain but my future in Europe,

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On his side, Brussels must demonstrate it has the answers.

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As we mentioned, Germany has proposed new legislation which it

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says will better integrate migrants into the country.

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The new measures include making the new arrivals attend language

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courses and job training, they could also be told

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Let's listen to what the vice Chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel,

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TRANSLATION: Introducing the integration law is one of the most

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For the first time ever, any history of the Federal

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republic, Germany get its own integration law.

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Those who wish to belong here will now have

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opportunities to make their own contribution to society.

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This law signals performance is worthwhile.

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Those who participate win recognition, prosperity and

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freedom - and hopefully also rights and duties

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as a citizen after a certain time.

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Our correspondent Damien McGuinness joins me now from Berlin.

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What happens to those who don't take part in these programmes? Welcomer

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at the big controversial aspect of this new law, Kim. What will happen

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theoretically is that benefits and support could be part. Whether that

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will really happen is another question because you can obviously

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leave people with the destitute. What you have, really, it's an

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interesting compromise between the centre left and centre right

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Government in Germany. They are saying, on the one hand, integration

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has to come from society but also from the asylum seekers themselves.

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This is all about, as Angela Merkel would say, write in support for

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asylum seekers but also obligations and UG. As you quite rightly said,

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that is about giving and guaranteeing a language classes and

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courses in Jenin culture and job opportunities. On the other, it also

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means possibly saying to asylum seekers that, if they don't take up

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these offers, then support could be topped. How that would actually

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happen still remains vague because what, in this law, they say is the

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theory, they don't say how it would actually be an planning to do

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though. It seems like a principle rather than a pragmatic approach.

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What about numbers? This could apply to maybe 100,000 people. You have 1

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million people who have, over the last 12 months to Germany. Yes, that

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is right. 1.1 million is an estimate. It is an enormous amount

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of people. The reason why this integration was seen as so important

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year is because it's really, I'm the one hand, the aim being to integrate

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new arrivals into the country but the other aim is clearly true ballet

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fears are among a large -- allay fears among a large group of people.

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Because of those years, we have seen a rise in anti-populist parties

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across Germany. On the one hand, it is to support refugees but it is

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also really need to stave off that rising support for the anti-migrant

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parties which the covenant is getting increasingly afraid of.

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Thank you very much indeed. -- the Government is getting afraid of.

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The southern Japanese island of Kyushu has been hit by a strong

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earthquake that has caused several houses to collapse, trapping

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The quake had a magnitude of 6.5 but Japan's seismology office

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recorded the shaking at some places to be as intense as the huge

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earthquake that hit the country in 2011.

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From Tokyo Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports.

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Japanese television reports have shown CCTV pictures of the extremely

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intense shaking that took place in the city Kumamoto

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The quake struck there at around 9:30pm this evening

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On Japan's own scale of earthquake intensity,

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That is the highest level and as high as the devastating quake

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that hit northern Japan back in 2011.

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Fortunately, this time, there

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has been no tsunami and damage appears to be limited.

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TRANSLATION: We are currently doing all we can to

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We have had reports of homes that have

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However, we have not had any reports of any irregularities in

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At least ten houses are reported to have

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collapsed and a number of people are trapped.

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Some are reported to be talking to rescue crews but at least one

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After two years of nothing, finally, something -

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perhaps a glimmer of hope for the families of the missing

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abducted by Islamist extremists two years ago, today.

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The Nigerian government has seen a video which appears to prove that

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The two-year anniversary of the girls' abduction has been

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marked by vigils and protests over the government's

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Our correspondent in Abuja - Martin Patience - joined relatives

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They've come out on behalf of the girls that could not

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and are marching of towards the presidential palace.

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There's some family members in this crowd

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and they want answers from the government.

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In almost two-years, two years now, not a single one of

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the girls has been rescued and there's defiance and anger.

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They want the government to dedicate more

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We had news of a video that emerged, the first time that the girls had

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There is a renewed sense of hope that some

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of the girls maybe one day will be brought back alive.

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The UN Special Envoy for Global Education -

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the former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown - told me

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that the international community needs to do more

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I think the first thing is, we have to feel sympathy for the parents

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this morning that they don't know whether their children

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They may have seen them in some of these videos but they're

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They're not sure whether they been molested, violated, raped, or

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married off - or are slaves and are working for the Boko Haram.

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First of all, we tried with the different

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governments doing air surveillance to try and locate the girls.

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There was some success but, in the end,

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these girls are dispersed across Nigeria and perhaps outside Nigeria.

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If one group was rescued, another group would be

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There are sensitivities about how you go about this.

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Secondly, what we had to do was, make sure that the

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other girls in Nigeria and the surrounding counties were safe.

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So, we have the safe schools initiative

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to make sure the schools that are vulnerable to attack are

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safe for the girls who are still trying to go to school and, in some

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I think, after two years, the United Nations Security Council should

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I think they should look at whether China, France,

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Britain and America could come together to do a further

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surveillance admission and then leaving, the military on the ground

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You defended Goodluck Jonathan at the time.

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You visited him shortly after these girls went missing and it

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even admit that they had been abducted.

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How remiss was he in following this up?

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I also talked to the new president, President Bukhari, and I

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spoke to new ministers of the Nigerian government regularly about

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There is a real problem that I mentioned that, even if you could

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spot and locate some of the girls, the minute

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you moved in, you'd put the

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That has been a real worry for presidents, both of

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them, and also the Nigerian military forces.

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That doesn't escape the fact that we could have a more concerted

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After all, by satellite photography, you can

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almost pinpoint every tree in Africa.

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You ought to be able, not only to locate

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something about the fear that you have about by rescuing one

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You also criticised the global media response as being rather slow,

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If something like this happened in the west, it

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would be followed relentlessly forever.

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the fact that these are African children, do you think?

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the problems I face in the job I'm doing.

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Children's rights are being violated every day.

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In Nepal, we had an earthquake and children have

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been trafficked out of Nepal into India.

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In Syria, we have got incidents of rape, child labour,

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of girls that have gone missing and the trafficking from Syria into

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I think we don't take children's rights seriously enough

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and I think we have come to accept, almost, that these events will

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happen and we brush them aside, perhaps,

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after a moment's anger and

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a moment's identification with the parents.

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We have got to be more aware that children are at risk in

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all parts of the world and that our systems

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for protecting children's rights are indeed very poor.

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Let's catch up with some of the day's other stories.

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Colombia's health ministry confirmed two cases of Zika related

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These are the first cases in the country since

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US health officials said on Wednesday that infection

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with the Zika virus during pregnancy causes severe birth defects,

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Ukraine has a new Prime Minister: Volodymyr Groysman is from the same

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political party as President Petro Poroshenko.

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His approval ends weeks of infighting

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A number of people remain unaccounted for after the collapse

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of an apartment block on the Spanish island of Tenerife.

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According to local media, three people were injured -

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one seriously - when the four-storey building on the south

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Residents living near the building said they heard a large

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If you want something done, call the President.

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It's an annual event - and this time lasted precisely three

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Russian president Vladimir Putin's televised call-in show.

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It's where Russian citizens get the chance to ask

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more than two million questions were sent in for Mr Putin's Q

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marathon - including a few about the Panama papers.

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Who does these provocations? We know they are from American institutions.

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It is an immediate company owned by Goldman Sachs. We should not expect

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them to show any kind of remorse. They will keep on doing it and there

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will be more of this stuff closer to the parliamentary elections.

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Olga Ivshina from the BBC's Russian Service in Moscow

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Western conspiracies are his favourite topic. We try to check

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fact that he has mentioned and we did not find any proof that they are

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owned by Goldman Sachs. We tried but did not succeed. It might be that

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she has been misinformed by his secretary. On the other side,

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Vladimir Putin did confirm that most of the things measured in the Panama

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papers were true but he did point out that his friend actually spent

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most of the money just buying precious musical instruments and

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helping young talented Russians become better musicians. He always

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find their way out. These were cellos but they must be pretty

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remarkable cellos for that amount of money. That aside. We were told that

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some people had been taken to a Moscow resort to Ascot their

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questions and rehearse them. Was this stage? -- was this stage?

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TRANSLATION: We have better relations. Probably better than we

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used to have. I know that everything is in order. She's quite happy with

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her life. Also quite happy with my life. People who are elected to be

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members of the Parliament of the President so that they work but the

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issues of personal life, they are of course of interest to people. I have

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to understand that. Still, they are not the first priority. Maybe one

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day, I will be able to satisfy your curiosity. What is the feeling? Is

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this a genuinely live phone in or was he expecting a question like

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this? Overcoming gas. Questions like this are asked every year and this

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is no different. -- oh, yes. They are middle-aged women so they were

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about the president has not been married for such a long time of the

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we reserved on this. He never reveals much on this. There is

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nothing confirmed about his daughters, his wife's destiny or

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some independent investigations but we can only speculate.

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After a review last year, one London surgeon has found a new way to

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teach. Looking through virtual reality. You are watching a world

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first. The first surgery to be filmed in 360 degrees virtual

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reality and streamed live online for anyone to watch anywhere in the

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world. As these medical students turn their heads, they can see

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everything happening in the operating theatre from the

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perspective of a 360 camera directly above the patient.

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This is operating theatre one of the Royal London Hospital. The surgeon

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is currently removing a tumour from the patient. She is passionate about

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using this kind of technology to train new surgeons. A lot of people

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in the world do not have access to safe and affordable surgery. We have

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to train people any much more efficient manner. People around

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to train people any much more world using low-cost technology

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through a headset, this can be shown around the world and we can train a

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lot of people at one time. He explained his actions do the

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camera and, hence, to the audience. How

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camera and, hence, to the audience. watching? It was an is amazing. This

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is something we would normally not be able to see and it

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is something we would normally not from it. To be in the surgery is

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great but you're not actually touching the patient. You are

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looking over his shoulder but, from this angle, you can see absolutely

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everything. We have nothing in your way as you're directly on top of the

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patient. The great thing about this is coming you can get to see places

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that you would not normally see but it is not as real as actually being

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here. Whether you would want to be is a completely different matter.

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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have arrived in the Himalayan nation

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of Bhutan where they've been welcomed by another

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young royal couple - Bhutan's King and Queen.

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They'll need to acclimatise today because tomorrow the Duke

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and Duchess will be hiking to a Buddhist monastery perched

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From Bhutan, here's our Royal correspondent, Nicholas Witchell.

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This is a country that proudly proclaims to be very different. A

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small nation strongly influenced by its Buddhist faith by the big thing

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is happiness. They even have a national happiness index here. A

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place with a difference for William and Catherine to visit but a

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destination that is hardly a priority -- Katherine. You might as

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why, other than to enjoy some happiness and contentment, why have

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them come to this small country in the Himalayas? Here is the official

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line. Jan has a new king. -- Bhutan. The new king is of a similar age to

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William and Katherine. He is constitutional rather than absolute

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monarch. He presides over a generation which

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monarch. He presides over a India. The king and queen has got

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their guests to a Buddhist temple where they lit candles. And here is

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another part of the experience, archery. Which is Cage discovered,

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is not as easy as it looks. -- as Kate discovered. Bhutan has some of

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the best archers in the world. It is their national sport. Not a lot of

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people know that, but then again, not a a lot of people know Bhutan.

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Are you ever in the cinema and itching to send a text?

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Well, one of the largest cinema chains in the US is considering

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letting customers use their mobile phones during films.

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In a magazine interview, the chief executive of AMC,

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Adam Aron, explained he was looking at ways to encourage more younger

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He said, "You can't tell a 22-year-old to turn

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"That's not how they live their life."

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With me is a lifestyle vlogger and youtuber whose typically

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Including right now when we are trying to what the Jungle cat

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MacBook. -- Jungle Book. I am actually completely against it. It

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is very difficulties they are away from your phone...

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Sorry. I am completely against it. Where is it acceptable? Would

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you...? Would you...? Typical. Would you be on your phone

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if you're at a dinner? It depends. If you are out with friends, it is

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OK. If you're out with family, it is a bit awkward. Is a generational?

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Yes, definitely. If someone was on the phone at the cinema, would you

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say I were just be I would just be put off going to the cinema

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altogether. A a lot of people are not going anywhere because there are

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so many other things to do. Usually quiet carriages on trains now where

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people have to ask to use their phones. That might happen with

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cinemas. Yes. We then look into copyright law, where do you draw the

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line? Exactly. I can understand that a lot of young people want to be on

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their phones only time. It can be tricky when you get to things like

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twilight of the hunger games, where the younger generation have made

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these films very successful. And heating. Exactly. The old I am

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completely against it. Yes. I'm going to end the programme so we

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can take all these urgent phone calls and text messages.

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But for now from me and the rest of the team, goodbye.

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That is quite nice actually. Yes, it is.

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Hello again. Then the one Saturday, we have had some were sundry

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downpours. This time, across East Anglia. We

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