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This is BBC World News Today with me, Chris Rogers.

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The headlines: a British inquiry highlights Europe's failure

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to stop people smuggling across the Mediterranean.

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Over 1,000 migrants were picked up on Friday off the coast of Italy -

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some said the smugglers didn't give them a choice.

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A UN diplomat becomes the first woman appointed as secretary general

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Also coming up: Thousands attend the funeral of a top Hezbollah

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military commander killed in an explosion inside Syria.

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And the Canadian prime minister arrives in Fort McMurray -

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the town devastated by a raging wildfire that forced the evacuation

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The European mission to stop migrant smuggling

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in the Mediterranean is failing - that's the verdict from a group

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Hundreds of migrants have arrived in Europe from Libya in the past 48

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hours and the report says there's little prospect of stopping more.

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That's in contrast to the route via Turkey that has

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seen a dramatic fall - mainly due to the EU's deal

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with Turkey to stem the number of Syrians making the crossing.

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It's the Libyan route however that's causing most concern for officials.

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The lack of a stable government in Libya is allowing more and more

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boats to make the treacherous crossing to Italy.

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Through most of the crossing, they slept.

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Huddled beneath blankets as if trying to shield

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themselves from the world they struggled to survive in.

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But by morning, there was a much brighter mood.

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A new future - and whatever Europe is, it must surely be better

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233 mostly economic migrants from West Africa.

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Italy's ports are founded on mercantile trade but this

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This 20-year-old said the boat was the only escape

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Yeah, we were beaten and you normally eat once in a day.

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We found them two days ago, drifting in this rubber boat off

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The people smugglers had packed them in and gave them just enough fuel

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An hour after this rescue, a storm blew in.

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And this is what happens when the waves get bigger.

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This is the moment that they dreamt of.

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The moment that many of them had risked it all for.

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Their first steps onto European soil.

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232 here, 801 in Messina, over 1000 migrants just today.

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Among those also leaving today were 51 young men under the age

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Here is one from Guinea-Bissau.

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It is a lonely world for a boy so young.

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One proposed solution is to send Europe's navies into Libya's

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waters but to do that, you need a Government

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The inescapable truth is: so long as there is money to be made

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from this dirty business of people trafficking, they will come.

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Migrants heading to Europe from Libya.

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By contrast, there are signs the efforts to stop the flow

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of migrants into Europe from Turkey - are beginning

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Numbers arriving from Turkey onto the Greek islands are down

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around 90 per cent in April compared with the previous month

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following a deal struck between the EU and Turkey.

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But as our chief correspondent Gavin Hewitt now reports from Izmir,

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political pressures mean the deal is looking increasingly vulnerable.

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These are the Turkey beaches from where tens of thousands

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of refugees left for their perilous journey to Europe.

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Today, all that remains are discarded clothes.

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Almost no refugees are making the crossing to Greece.

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But the deal between Turkey and the EU to solve the migrant

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Go into the fields near the Turkish coast close to Greece and you find

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Syrian refugees who once dreamt of going to Europe

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The deal signed in March has all but blocked the migrant trade.

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TRANSLATION: The sea border with Greece is now closed

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and if someone wants to go to Europe, they cannot.

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The Turkish Coast Guard patrols are much more rigorous.

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Just two months ago, 8,000 refugees crossed

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So far this month, the numbers are around 300.

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And for those who make it to Greece, the route through the Balkans

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is lined with fences and riot police.

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There is no possibility to move further from Greece and in Greece,

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the movement from the islands to the mainland became impossible now.

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So, in Turkey, the tables where the smugglers did their deals

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are almost empty and the shops cannot sell air life jackets.

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The Turkish government says it has honoured its part of the deal.

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TRANSLATION: If the refugees go outside the cities

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where they are registered, they are told to go back.

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If they try to reach the coast and escape,

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The easing of the refugee crisis depends on a controversial deal

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Turkey, clamping down on the migrants, in exchange

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for visa-free travel to much of Europe.

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But the European Parliament is insisting that first, Turkey must

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Turkey says it has done enough and the whole

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So there is a risk of a migrant crisis returning.

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The developments are being followed closely in Germany, where most

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of the previous refugees went and by the referendum

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You can get more on our website and smart-phone app.

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We've explained this crisis in seven charts,

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looking at the numbers of people arriving and

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mapping their journeys - just go to BBC.com?news,

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World football's governing body, FIFA, has served notice that radical

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changes are intended for the organisation by making

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a surprise appointment of a new Secretary General.

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FIFA president Gianni Infantino told the organization's annual

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congress in Mexico City that Senegalese UN diplomat Fatma Samoura

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is the first female secretary general in the history

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of the male-dominated world football organisation.

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She is working since 21 years in the United Nations.

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She is a great person, she is used to managing big

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organisations and she will bring a fresh wind to Fifa.

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Somebody from outside, not somebody from inside.

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Not somebody from the past but somebody new.

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Lizzie Greenwood Hughes joins us from the BBC Sport Centre.

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What do we know about her? We know that she's 54 years old and

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speaks for damages and she spent most of her career working for the

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United Nations, specialising in the development and working a lot in

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Africa. She's pretty working in Nigeria. We also know that she has

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never worked in football. It is interesting because this is going to

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be the number two interesting because this is going to

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football. She will be the right-hand woman now to the Fifa president.

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The former president was banned. She's never worked in football but

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as the president said she is this new face. She will be part of the

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shake up and has a proven ability to lead teams, she also understands

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that transparency and accountability are at the heart of any well-run and

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responsible organisation and that is in response to all the scandals that

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have been surrounding Fifa and world football over recent years.

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I said earlier that it does serve notice that radical changes really

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are ahead. Will this be enough to settle peoples opinions about Fifa

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and where it is going and where has been?

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That is a big question. Will it be enough? Who knows. Fifa has a long

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way to go. They have a lot of the bridges to build. There is been this

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awful cloud hanging over the organisation for many years now.

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Will appoint one lady to the second-in-command role, the

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Secretary General role, will that be enough? We'll have to wait and see.

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It is a start. They're really trying to make a difference. They have

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appointed a woman for the first time to the second most important job in

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people. That has to be a start. Any think about how women's football is

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been on the rise of the recent years packed there is little bit more for

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people to do but we can only hope that this will make a difference.

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Now a look at some of the day's other news.

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We're getting reports of an attack on a supporters club of the football

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As many as 14 people are reported to have been killed in the shooting

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which happened in the predominately Shia town of Balad - about 130

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A group of men are reported to have entered the building an opened fire.

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Witnesses claim they were from Islamic State.

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The Ugandan opposition leader has been charged with treason. He was

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the main challenger to the president in recent elections. He insists he

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was the rightful winner and held a mock swearing in ceremony earlier

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this week. The US Secret Service has said it

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will investigate the former butler of the Republican presidential

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candidate, Donald Trump, over Facebook posts calling

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for President Obama to be killed. Anthony Senecal,

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who's 84, and served as Mr Trump's butler until 2009,

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confirmed he wrote the posts, some A spokeswoman for Mr Trump

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distanced his campaign Thousands of people have turned out

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in Beirut for the funeral of one of Hezbollah's top leaders,

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Mustafa Badreddine. Hezbollah announced earlier today

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that he'd been killed in Syria where he was reportedly

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the movement's senior commander. His funeral is taking place

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in the southern suburbs of Beirut Rami Ruhayem is there

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and describes the atmosphere. Yes, we are in the middle

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of the funeral procession As you can see it is a very

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crowded funeral procession. Just a few minutes ago,

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Hezbollah supporters were firing their guns in the air

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and there was quite an emotional scene as the body of

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Mustafa Badreddine, the Hezbollah military commander went past us,

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along this street on to the cemetery As you mentioned, it is not clear

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at all whom Hezbollah They issued two statements this

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morning, where they announced that The first contains very little

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detail, only an implicit reference that the assassination

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took place in Syria. The second one contained

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a little bit more detail. It said he was killed in a large

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explosion close to the Damascus International Airport,

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and they said in the statement that the explosion could have been

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caused by an air strike, or by artillery fire,

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or by a missile attack, so that leaves the door open

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for many different possibilities, including an assassination

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by the Israelis, especially But there are also

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other possibilities. Just a few minutes ago,

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before the funeral procession, the deputy leader of Hezbollah

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was speaking, and he said, that Hezbollah, within the next few hour,

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will make an announcement about who they think

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is behind the assassination, and will take whatever action

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they choose to take depending Canadian Prime Minister Justin

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Trudeau is visiting the fire-ravaged town of Fort McMurray -

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meeting people who have been on the front lines

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of the devastating blaze. The efforts have been hampered

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by high temperatures Our correspondent Rajini

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Vaidyanathan has more. Canada's prime Minster is meeting

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with some of the firefighters and rescue workers who helped battle

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those wildfires. He will be meeting them in Fort big muddy itself. It

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was devastated by those powerful wildfires. The worst of those fires

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have moved away from the residential areas but people still are not able

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to enter the area apart from contractors and some of the workers

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who were helping to try and rebuild that area. We were given access

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yesterday to Fort McMurray and it really was shocking to see how

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powerful those wildfires really well. You walked along some streets

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where houses on one side were perfectly intact and you just had to

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turn around to see a family home produced to just the foundations,

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ash and cinder. It was like a children's book just left in the

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remaining rubble. It really is heartbreaking. We saw cars that have

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been left as burnt out shells and green grass which is now black suit

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in large parts of Fort McMurray. 90,000 people were forced to flee

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their homes. It is remarkable when you see those pictures of those

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atrocious claims that no one lost their lives. There are tens of

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thousands of people without a home. Many do not know what has happened

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to their houses because about 80% of Fort McMurray was indeed saved but

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it will take some time for people to be able to move back into the area.

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That is a question that people will have four the Prime Minister. They

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want answers. How long will it take before they can go back home? You

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want to know what has happened to their homes in the first place. The

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Government has given people hear about 1200 and the Canadian dollars

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as a lump sum payment to help them out but many people say they are not

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going to be able to for weeks. They are homeless and they have to start

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paying rent when they start moving out of some of the emergency

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accommodation that they have been provided with so they don't know how

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they are going to survive for the weeks and months to come.

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In India, the River Ganges is the most sacred river to Hindus,

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But it's highly polluted and now the government has launched

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an ambitious three-billion-dollar programme to clean up the river

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The river flows across northern India and into Bangladesh -

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and one sign of the pollution is the fall in the numbers of Dolphins.

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In the second part of our special series on India's

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greatest and most sacred - our South Asia Correspondent,

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Justin Rowlatt went to the shores of the Ganges, and got rather lucky.

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This is the holiest city in all India. But just take a look at this.

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It is also a huge source of pollution. The ancient practices of

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Riverside cremation are one tiny part of it. A far bigger problem is

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the waste of the living. We can only treat a third of the

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sewage. The city generates more than litres of waste. You rest go

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straight into the Ganges. The figures elsewhere on the river

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are even worse. Independent studies show 18% of sewage is untreated. The

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Government says it plans to big massive new waste treatment

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infrastructure, environmentalists say it cannot come soon enough for

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at least one clean species. The hope was that we might be able

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to spot the incredibly rare dolphin. And incredibly, within minutes of

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arriving here I saw the dorsal bin of one of them breaks the water and

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the real challenge I think is going to be filming them. We've got a

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boat. This is the cameraman. How difficult do you think it will be to

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film the dolphins? We have seen a couple. It is quite

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tough and caused pop-ups suddenly. You are an expert on the dolphins.

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One of the programmes is to protect this rare animal. How rare is the

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dolphin? The dolphin is an Endangered Species

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and it is rare to spot these animals.

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Today there were a dolphins all around us.

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Six or seven. They have to service every two minutes or so to breathe.

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The challenges guessing where they are going to be. After a bit, he

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gets his eye in and just look at this. This has been extraordinary. I

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never expected to see anything like as many dolphins as we have seen. It

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is such incredibly good news because what it tells us is this river is

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capable of supporting these wonderful animals and it also shows

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us what is at stake. I'd is so important that the Indian

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Government's efforts to clean up this river succeed.

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And you can see Justin's film - Killing The Ganges

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on Our World this weekend - Saturday and Sunday

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evening at 8.30 GMT - that's 4.30pm in New York -

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Still in China - and Apple is moving into the taxi industry -

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investing a billion dollars into the Chinese version of Uber.

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It's called Didi Chuxing - a car-hailing app

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which claims to have almost 90- per cent of the Chinese market.

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In January, its major rival - Uber - admitted it is losing

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more than a billion dollars a year in China -

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spending huge sums to subsidise discounted rides.

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Chinese company Didi Chuxing has just received a 1 billion US dollar

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investment from Apple and it could change the fate of the taxi industry

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in this country. How? I will explain. Didi Chuxing operates a

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phone app. The fall it came along the only way to get hold of a cab in

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this country was to get out into the street and try and hail one. Then

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along came Didi Chuxing and changed everything. And there it is. You can

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see the taxis available in this area. And here is my account. --

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might have. With the introduction of this app Chinese people have been

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able to leapfrog into the future. One day they cannot order a taxi at

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all, the next they are communicating with the driver, they conceive a

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drive up's real-time location and now you should try hailing a cab in

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a major Chinese city. You cannot get one because the drivers are rotating

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these bookings. However. Temp two has made and it bends of push into

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China and is popular with more affluent customers. Didi Chuxing has

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responded with its own premium car service. And now with this extra

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injection of money from Apple it is hoping it can expand its service and

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hoping it can expand its service and stable any challenge from Uber.

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Now considering her earnings, you'd think the tennis champion,

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Serena Williams, could probably afford to eat anything she wanted,

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but, get this, she's admitted to eating dog food.

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The star - playing at the Italian open -

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says she ordered a gourmet dish from her hotel's "dog

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She said it looked so good - she ate a spoonful.

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I order him this salmon and rice because I thought, ie salmon. So I

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ordered the salmon and rice and before you judge me, look at it.

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That is the salmon and rice. It is kind of all mixed together, right? I

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mean, come on. It looks good. I think it looks good. I thought I

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would try apiece, it looks good. So I eat a spoonful. Don't judge me.

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IAEA spoonful. So now I feel really sick. It was just a spoonful.

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Well, at least it had no long lasting effects -

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the tennis star made it through to the quarter-finals

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Now to a remote corner of Ireland, where some residents are 'feeling

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the force.' The filming of the next Star Wars film is rumoured to be

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starting in the country's most northern point -

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So could the wildly successful films mean a boom in tourism

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On land, far far away. Already as far north as you can go on the

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island of Ireland. Strange visitors from other worlds have been

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arriving. By which I mean the strange world of Hollywood. There

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have been weeks of preparation near Malin Head but local people have

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been sworn to secrecy about this shoot for the new star Wars film.

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I can't give too much away because I don't know too much about it and the

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little bit I do know they've asked me to keep confidential. In fact,

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confidentiality. Those agreements have not stop the

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speculation. Many believe that the rocks along the rugged coastline,

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this could be the millennium for Ken or at the very least another

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spaceship. It is the dramatic coastline which is the attraction.

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And the cameras are due to head back south near to the historic monastic

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retreat where filming took place the first time. But for the minute, it

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is the most northerly tip where they are hoping the power of the bourse

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and this blockbuster film franchise will put interests.

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This is going to make a massive difference to the tourist is that

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will come to the north-west. It is going to be bigger than people can

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imagine. A few fanatic fans have already

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arrived in Donegal, apparently from the dark side. But despite

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appearances, the visitors seem very friendly. After all, this is a place

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where even a storm trooper can PC eight the scenery.

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Now to a powerful volcanic eruption in Costa Rica that's been

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spectacularly captured by a thermal camera.

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The active Turrialba Volcano spread ash across the country

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after its explosion measured three kilometres over

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The national park where it is located is usually open

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to visitors but increased activity for the past two years has forced

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You can get in touch with stories or tweet me.

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

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This weekend will be cooler than last weekend by several degrees but

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there is still reasonable weather on offer. Earlier today we sell the

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cloud melt away. Showers in the south and west but it is this cloud

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which is of interest because it is a cold front moving its way south. The

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colder is falling

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