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This is BBC World News Today, broadcasting in the UK

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Fears of a humanitarian disaster in Iraq -

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as tens of thousands of people flee Falluja.

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Turkish police use tear gas and rubber bullets in Istanbul -

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as gay activists defy a ban and march through Istanbul.

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Church leaders in Britain pay tribute to the politician Jo Cox -

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Meanwhile, campaigning resumes ahead of the EU referendum.

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A four-year project to unlock the closed world at the bottom

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underground for a festival in an Icelandic volcano.

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Government forces in Iraq may have claimed victory in Fallujah

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but they now face a battle of a different kind.

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Aid agencies say a humanitarian disaster is unfolding -

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with refugee camps like this one buckling under the pressure.

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The UN says 80,000 people have fled over four weeks of intense fighting

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between the government and the so-called Islamic State.

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Inside the city, people are trapped without food and water.

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With more, here's Our Middle East Editor Alan Johnston

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The Iraqi army has been driving forward hard.

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In a major offensive, it has thrust into

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Islamic State fighters used to own these streets.

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Now, they belong to the government's forces.

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They have pushed the militants back, seized most of the city.

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But the army's fight is far from over.

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IS is holding out in some neighbourhoods.

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And as the soldiers come at them in street after street,

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they are hitting back - sending out suicide

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One report said 20 soldiers died in clashes near a hospital

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And all around on this battle ground, there is the wreckage

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Reminders of ordinary lives ruined by the war.

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The people who raised families and went to work in the streets

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Tens of thousands of Falluja's people have come to camps

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like this, where there is not enough of anything -

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But even this is better than what these children endured

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back in Falluja under Islamic State rule.

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TRANSLATION: The IS militia promised us food,

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We wanted to flee, but they hemmed us in.

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There was no gas, and the schools were closed.

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What there was were rockets, air force jets and tanks.

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Now the aid agencies must care for this mass of people.

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And that is posing a major challenge in this desperate, desolate place.

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Right now as we speak there are thousands without any

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They have slept overnight out in the open.

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They are now stranded out there in a sandstorm under

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the sweltering sun without any protection.

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And the question of latrines, toilets, sanitation.

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If we don't get those in order in the next hours,

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Just an hour's drive from the misery of the refugee camps,

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In Baghdad, they have been celebrating what they see

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But the feeling among these people in the capital is that,

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very slowly and very painfully, the war against the

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Well, in neighbouring Turkey police in Istanbul have fired rubber

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It's after gay, lesbian and transgender activists

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defied a ban and marched through the city's streets.

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The authorities said the rally would NOT allowed

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But organisers said the ban is a 'flagrant violation

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of the constitution and law' and marched anyway.

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Defy authority in today's Turkey, and this is what happens. Police

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firing tear gas and rubber bullets against those daring to march for

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gay rights. Today was meant to be the Trans Pride, but it, along with

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next week's Gay Pride was prohibited by the Government. Those refusing to

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accept the ban were attacked. The scuffles begun when an anti-Pride

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protester destroyed one of the banners. The government said it had

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to cancel the rallies because of threats from nationalists groups but

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protesters say that's caving into pressure. Gay Pride marches have

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been held in Istanbul since 2003. But last year, for the first time,

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it was broken up, allegedly for disturbing the Muslim festival of

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Ramadan. Although it is always held in the same period. Critics say it

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is another sign that democracy in Turkey is being squeezed and human

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rights violated. Last night more tear gas against those protesting

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about an attack on music fans by Muslim groups, another sign of

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Turkey's secularisation. Social tensions in an unhappy country, once

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again, reaching boiling point. Landslides and flash flooding have

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killed at least 24 people Days of torrential rain left

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thousands of homes buried under mud. Such heavy rain is common

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on the group of islands where millions of people live

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in areas close to rivers. Firefighters in southern California

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are struggling to control a blaze which has forced hundreds of people

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from their homes. The fire in Santa Barbara County

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burnt through more than three thousand hectares -

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with extreme wind conditions whipping up destructive columns

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of swirling flames. Thousands of people have been

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protesting on the Japanese island of Okinawa against the presence

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of US troops and bases. The protesters are angry

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about the alleged rape and murder of a young local woman by a former

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US marine living on the island. The incident has reawakened

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widespread opposition to American Here in the UK, campaigning has

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resumed ahead of next Thursday's referendum on whether to remain

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in the European Union. Both pro and anti EU forces had

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suspended their campaign following the killing

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of the MP Jo Cox. Once again the debate has focused

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on the key areas of the economy and immigration, with some

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in the Leave campaign wanting to distance themselves

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from the tactics of the UK Our correspondent

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Ben Wright reports. The hurly-burly has returned,

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the referendum has resumed. On this Fathers' Day,

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here is one father who did not spend You have done a great job,

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you have put on the Stanley Johnson roused the Remain

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campaign, Boris rallied Leave campaigners on the

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other side of London. Take back control of

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huge sums of money. As this bitterly fought referendum

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enters its final day, immigration has again entered the debate.

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I am the proud descendant of Turkish immigrants.

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Let me stun you by saying I will go further, I am in favour

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of an amnesty for illegal immigrants who have been here for

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This is a Leave campaign straining not to sound divisive

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or inflammatory on the issue at the heart of their case

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They have distanced themselves from this, a poster unveiled by Ukip

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showing migrants walking to a refugee camp in Slovenia.

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It has drawn criticism from the official Leave campaign.

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I believe the way we secure public support for the benefits that

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migration brings and for helping refugees in need is if people feel

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they can control the numbers overall coming here.

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This morning, Ukip's leader stood by the poster and objected

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Michael Gove had better look at his own posters, Abu Hamza,

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warnings about terrorists and murderers coming into Britain

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Labour's leader said migration pressure would not disappear

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if Britain left the EU and was asked if there could be

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I don't think you could have one while you have free movement

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of labour, and that means you have to balance the economy,

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so you have to improve living standards and conditions.

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George Osborne said legitimate concerns about immigration

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were being felt in every Western country, but this referendum had

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Rich international investors are taking their money out

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of Britain, they are delaying investment, the stock market has

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gone down, sterling has been marked down.

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The British people cannot take their money out, they will be

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left with their livelihoods in Britain on Friday if we vote

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to leave, and they will be the people paying the price.

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As this Leave rally shows, the campaign will be hard

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fought until the end, because there is one point both

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This week's vote is a massive choice, an irreversible

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After a sombre three-day pause, this referendum campaign

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is back at full pelt, and soon you will have your say.

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British MP, Jo Cox, was remembered today with a memorial service

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in the town of Birstall in West Yorkshire, where

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Our correspondent Ed Thomas was there.

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It is four days since this town lost its MP.

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A husband a wife, two young children a mother.

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A place for people to reflect, on Jo Cox' life

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She represented love and peace for all the religions,

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it did not matter what colour or creed you are.

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I hope it brings the community together and that her memory lives

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on and that what she fought for people continue to fight for.

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Today, she was remembered at St Peter's Anglican Church

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in Birstall, the town she served, the place she called home.

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Her humanity was powerful and compelling.

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We would do well to recognise her as an amazing example,

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Today, this message from Brendan Cox, her husband.

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Already, a memorial fund in her name has raised more than ?600,000.

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What is striking here is not just the number of flowers that have been

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brought down, it is the messages that come with them.

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They are personal, genuine, and they tell the story of how

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Somebody who represented everybody, what Britain was really about,

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and somebody who could represent what Britain should be about.

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Tomorrow, Parliament will be recalled, MPs from all sides

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will come together to speak of a friend and colleague.

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Stay with us on BBC News, still to come:

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Going underground - Is this festival in an Icelandic

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# Down, down, floating down the river.

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A day old, the royal baby is sleeping tonight in his could the at

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home. Earlier today he was taken by his mother and father to the Palace.

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The real focus of attention was the world's first woman cosmonaut. What

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do you think of the first woman in space I think it is a wonderful

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achievement. I might be able to persuade the wife, if I could, to

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get her to go up there for a little while. This is BBC News world News

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Today. Here are our main headlines: Aid workers in rye rack have warned

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that a-up tearian disaster sun following, following a mass exodus

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of civilians from the city of Falluja. -- --

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Aid workers in Iraq have warned that a humanitarian disaster is unfolding

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following a mass exodus of civilians from the city of Falluja.

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Karl Schkembri from the Noreegian Refugee Counil explained to me

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the difficulties faced by the displaced people.

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The thousands who have gone out of Falluja in their droves now are

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obviously exhausted. They have walked for long hours and they are

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hungry, they are thirsty. They need shelt and were text and they need

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medicine and we are lacking a bit of everything. We are running out of

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safe drinking water, food is running out. There are no tents for many of

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them. Thousands are staying out in the scorching heat, in the sun,

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sleeping out in the open in the middle of nowhere and apocalyptic

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scenarios where sand is unavoidable and I have met handicapped people,

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pregnant women, children, who are totally totally exhausted and it is

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unacceptable that they have just fled from one humanitarian disaster

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and stepping into another one. You describe a very desperate scene. Why

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is it that we have this situation, because we knew the government was

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going to go into Falluja, didn't we? Indeed. We have been warning about

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the unfolding disaster even before we had this mass exodus of at least

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30,000 people in just about three days. The problem is that the local

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authorities, the government and the United Nations need to step in and

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we need international donors to fund this will emergency. We are running

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out of funding. Iran has a croppies displacement problem. We have been

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seeing millions, now - over 3.3 million Iraqis since the beginning

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of this year and the funding has only covered less than 30%. Now on

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top of all that, we have Falluja and soon we are going to have other

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places. This is not going to end and we have been to the government and

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it the international community and to international governments, our

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appeal is you cannot forget the thousands of civilians, after you

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have just retaken Falluja, you cannot abandon them there in the

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middle of nowhere. British scientists are leading

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an international mission to reveal the secrets of the deep Atlantic

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Ocean. The ATLAS project -

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which involves teams from around the world -

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will spend four years exploring unknown ecosystems and measuring

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the changing ocean currents - as our science correspondent

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Victoria Gill explains. Half a mile beneath the surface of

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the ocean and teeming with life. But this is far from tropical waters,

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it's the chilly Atlantic off Britain's North coast. It is just a

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glimpse of the hidden treasures that a new scientific endeavour is

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setting out to explore. At ATLAS project is an international

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four-year mission into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean ATLAS is the

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biggest project looking at deep Atlantic eco-systems ever

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undertaken, by working through the plan we have, we will have a better

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understand of how eco-systems function in the deep ocean and will

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have a better understanding of them in the feature. This involves 24

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institutions around the North at loan tivenlingt 25 vessels will go

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out to explore over a dozen deep sites throughout the ocean. As on

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island nation our seas seem so familiar. The coast is so much a

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part of our lives but you only have to go about 100 miles offshore

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before there are areas that we know very, very little B and there are

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rich eco-systems out there already being impacted by climate change and

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that are already being explored by industries like fishing and oil and

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gas extraction. Pick up the GPS every time it comes to the surface

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and it'll send the data back to Scotland. As well as working from

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research vessels, scientists will use remote devices to take

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continuous measurements of ocean chemistry and currents that affect

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our climate. These can remain at see for months at a time, gathering

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information that researchers say is needed urgently Humans are having a

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large impact on the planet. Until we can make the fundamental

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measurements to understand how they are sustained and evolving, we have

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no chance of managing our natural resources. The vast majority of the

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ocean remains unexplored, undiscovered. This mission aims to

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address that in the Atlantic, before we exploit eco-systems we don't yet

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understand. We start at Euro 2016

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where the final two matches The hosts France are playing

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Switzerland in Lille. Only France from this group are sure

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of their place in the knockout stages but the top spot in the Group

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is still up for grabs. Plenty of chances for France but it

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is gill goalless there. Romania and Albania are playing

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in the other game in Lyon, only And an error by the Romanian

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goalkeeper allowed Albania Nico Rosberg has extended his lead

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at the top of the Formula One Championship to 24 points over

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Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton after winning the inaugural F1

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race in Azerbaijan. Rosberg started on pole

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and led throughout the race to claim his fifth win

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of the season. Ferrari's Sebastien Vettel

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finished as runner up with Force India's Sergio Perez back

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on the podium for the second Defending champion Lewis Hamilton

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finished fifth. The leaders have begun their final

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rounds at the US Open in Oakmont. Ireland's Shane Lowry had a four

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shot lead at 7-under par They teed off just under an hour ago

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but that lead has been halved. Dustin Johnson, the American

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searching for his first Major, birdied the second hole. And Lee

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Westwood has dropped two shots today, he slipped back to level par.

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The 7th and deciding game of the NBA Finals takes place in Oakland later

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as the Golden State Warriors host the Cleveland Cavaliers.

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The Warriors had led 3-1 in the series, it's now 3-all.

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No side has ever won after being 3-1 down in a series.

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I came back for a reason, to bring the Championship to the city of

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Cleveland to the north East Ohio and all Cavalier fans in the world. That

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has been my goal. I don't want to add too much more pressure on T I

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will go out and trust what I have been able to do, the work I have put

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into it and my team-mates have put into it and you go out there and see

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what happens. I don't feel any extra pressure,

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which is good. I just understand and want to enjoy the moment because

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growing up as a baseball fan, you kind of put yourself in so many game

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to win the finals in several situations, playing with your

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friends and stuff and this is my first crack at T so excited about

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it. I understand we have had two sub-par games and we need it make a

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couple of adjustments but we are capable of doing that. And resilient

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baseball team that is ready for the opportunity. And that's what I'm

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confident in. A huge night ahead in the NBA.

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That's all the sport for now. Back to you. Thank you very much.

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This weekend has seen the world's first ever

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live music performance, inside a volcano.

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It was part of a festival being held in Iceland,

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and an attempt by organisers to stand out in the crowded

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Chi Chi Izundu reports from the Thrinnukagigur volcano.

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Not your average journey to a festival.

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For this gig there are only two ways to get to the venue.

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A hike across lava fields with the changeable Icelandic

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weather or, if you can afford it, a short flight.

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The price for this exclusivity, ?1,400.

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The 20 tickets made available sold out in just ten days.

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This volcano erupted 4,500 years ago, but they only allowed

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the public to have access five years ago.

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The journey to get to this part is via this special lift.

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It would be the same nearly as me scaling Big Ben one

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# Down, down, down, floating down a river...

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Over the last decade, the explosion of festivals means

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Annually, tens of thousands happen across Europe alone.

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With the summer spent going from one to another, even this

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When I was asked to do this, my first thought was, when will

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But with the hefty price tag, was it worth it?

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Even not knowing what bands were performing, I knew

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Also to be part of something for the first time obviously merited it.

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I don't want to leave, I will stay down here!

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Events like this are not cheap to put on either, so it does not

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The rapid deterioration of the weather meant

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But the storm did not dampen spirits.

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Snr a selfie a must on a volcano. The top stories: Aid workers in Iraq

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have warned of a honourable member tearian disaster in the wake of a

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mass exodus of civilians from the city of Falluja. Over the past few

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days, tens of thousands of people have fled, as Government forces

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drove back fighters from the so-called Islamic State group.

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That's it from me. Goodbye for now. Good evening. Eastern areas enjoyed

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the best of the Father's Day sunshine and

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