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The headlines: Bangladeshi police says militants have attacked a cafe

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in the capital and are holding a number of hostages.

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Residents say they heard sustained gun fire -

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police have sealed off an affluent district in Dhaka.

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Commemorations have been taking place in Britain and northern France

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to remember the fall of hundreds of thousands of troops

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The British government has scrapped a pledge to cut the budget surplus

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by 2020. It said country cannot afford it.

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These are the lucky ones - Welsh fans gather in Lille ahead

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of their crucial Euro 2016 match against Belgium but hundreds of less

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fortunate supporters have been held up on the wrong side of the Channel

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We start with breaking news and we're hearing of a gun battle

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in the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka.

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The head of Bangladesh's elite police force says militants have

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attacked a cafe in the capital Dhaka and are holding

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Some reports suggest foreigners are among those being held.

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The cafe is in the affluent district of Gulshan

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and is popular with expatriates and middle-class families.

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Residents said they'd heard sustained gunfire shortly before

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There's been a spate of murders in Bangladesh recently,

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which have been blamed on Islamist militant groups, but high-profile

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Police have sealed off the area and say at least three

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people have been injured, two of them police officers.

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Three men have been killed. And we are getting more information and

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want to go to our correspondent. Akbar Hussain joines

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me now from Dhaka. This is a serious situation. What do

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we know? It is a very serious situation here in Dhaka and police

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say a group of men entered the restaurant at night and took a

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number of people hostage. When they entered the restaurant, they started

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firing indiscriminately and police told us that they believed a number

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of foreigners are being held hostage inside this area. The elite force,

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the police chief has told the journalist that they are trying to

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negotiate with the criminals, and they might belong to a hardline

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Islamist group and the manager of the restaurant and edge to escape

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and he told the local media that he heard there are at least 20

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foreigners being kept hostage by the gunman and maybe some of them tried

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to escape but they could not manage. Release are trying to negotiate with

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the gunmen to avoid further bloodshed and locals say they could

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hear sustained gunshots for more than one hour and both police and

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tourists exchanged hundreds of rounds in that area. A very scary

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situation. The restaurant is situated in one of the most affluent

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areas which is also a dramatic career and also, all the foreign

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ambassadors in Dhaka are located there. It is a very compact area.

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This is very strange to see, how the attackers managed to get inside the

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restaurant and hold hostages. Where many foreigners are believed to have

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been trapped. Tell us more about this area. It is the diplomat --

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diplomatic quarter. Any indication if any diplomats or ambassadors are

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being held hostage? This restaurant is a very popular destination for

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foreigners living in ten three. Basically, European and American

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citizens frequently visited this restaurant but we have not received

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any information that they are trapped inside. The information we

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have, the people who managed to escape say that there are around 20

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foreigners being held hostage. They are basically European and some from

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that in America. There are no diplomats trapped. The information

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so far we're getting is that the militants have taken a very strong

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hold on the restaurant and were firing towards the police, police

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tried at one stage to get inside the restaurant but later decided it was

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better not to go inside and rather it was better to go see it with the

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terrorists because they need to avoid further bloodshed and many

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foreigners are trapped inside. Thank you very much for that update. The

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US State Department is holding its briefing and a spokesman said it was

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much too early to say who was involved in this attack. Mr Kirby

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said that he had accounted for all Americans working for the chief of

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mission authority in Dhaka and the situation was very fluid and live

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stop. Our South Asia Editor,

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Jill McGivering, is here with me. months. We still do not know who was

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behind this but the suggestion is it could be Islamist militants and if

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they are the kind of people involved in this spate of targeted killings

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we have been seeing in Bangladesh, that would be unprecedented, that

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would be a real step up any sort of attacks they have been involved in

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but you are right, there has been growing concern about the security

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standard were in Bangladesh throughout the last year with an

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increasing number of targeted attacks often hitting religious

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minorities, liberals and some gay activists and nobody is quite sure

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who is involved. Some suggestion that the Islamic State group says it

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has been involved but the Bangladesh government has been quick to say

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they think that these are home-grown groups and they do not accept the

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idea that this has to do with any international terrorist network. We

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are looking at pictures coming in from Dhaka, it looks at very fluid

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situation. No deaths, as we know it yet. Do we know that these are

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hostages whether these are people just trapped in the building 's? It

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is very confused. One issue is that police are clearly still trying to

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get control of the situation. They have sealed off the area but they

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are outside the building, trying to negotiate with people inside but

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they have confirmed that people are being held hostage and my colleagues

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in the language services spoke to a woman who lives nearby and she says

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she knows two female relatives and two of their friends still inside so

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clearly this is ongoing and there is a lot of concern for the safety of

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the people inside. Thank you. Events have been held

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to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme,

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which started 100 years ago today. It was the bloodiest battle

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in the history of the British armed forces and came to define

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the brutality and horror The ceremony was held in the shadow

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of the famous memorial It bears the names of 72,000 British

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and South African troops whose The Prince of Wales,

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David Cameron and President Hollande were among those who took part

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in the presence of hundreds of descendants of those who fought,

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as our special correspondent It is the largest First World War

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memorial anywhere, its scale commensurate with the loss of life

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in these fields. It is a memorial to

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the missing of the Somme. The names of 72,000 men with no

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known graves are carved here. Its plea to posterity, to us,

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is plain - never forget. Heads of state and government,

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present and future, listened to Clive Adlam as he read

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the words of his father, Lieutenant Tom Adlam,

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who fought and survived. You did a job out there and I never

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realised that there was There was a job to be done

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and you just got on and did it. I was more frightened

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going up to the trenches, I was very frightened then,

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very frightened indeed. We were taught we had to be

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an example to our men and that, if we went forward,

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they would go with you, you see. And you'd sort of lose

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your sense of fear, The nurse Olive Dent

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treated the wounded. Here, her words described that first

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week on the Somme. I am too tired to sleep,

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too tired to shut out of sight and mind the passionate

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appeal of two dying eyes and the low faint whisper of,

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"Sister, am I going to die?" A week after Britain voted

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to leave the European Union, David Cameron took his place beneath

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the memorial to the enduring alliance between the UK and France,

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and described a moment of mutual respect between enemies as a British

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major risked his life to rescue a wounded soldier

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from no man's land. He walked as though

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he was on parade. The Germans never fired a shot

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at him as he went. They never fired a shot

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as he went back. And they cheered him as he lifted

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the man onto his shoulders. The poppy and, in France,

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the blue cornflower are the emblems of the sorrow of war marked

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in two minutes of silence. In these moments of remembrance,

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the dead cry out their warning In the words of the poet

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Siegfried Sassoon, recited here today, "Do you ever stop

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and ask, 'Will it all happen again?' Look down and swear

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by the slain of the war that There's been a significant

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development here for the UK economy. Chancellor George Osborne has

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abandoned his key economic target of restoring government finances

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to a surplus by 2020. It's been one of his long cherished

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plans but he now says the UK must be realistic in light of the country's

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vote to leave the EU. Here's our Economics

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Editor, Kamal Ahmed. We will fix the roof

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when the sun is shining. We are going to fix the roof when

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the sun shines. Fixing the roof when

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the sun is shining. Repairing the public

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finances while the economy Today, a very different tone,

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many predict the post-Brexit sunshine will be weaker

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for the UK economy. It's incredibly important

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we maintain fiscal credibility, that we are tough on the deficit

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while being realistic about achieving the surplus

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by the end of the decade. That is exactly what our fiscal

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rules provided for. They explicitly acknowledged

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the impact of a significant The Chancellor insisted he wasn't

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breaking his own budget rules. The austerity target

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on cutting public spending It does mean there is now likely

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to be an easing of the Government's Since 2010, the Government has cut

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public spending by 10%. The amount the Government borrows

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has fallen from ?137 billion a year to ?75 billion -

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that's a lot of cuts and tax rises. Now the Chancellor has suggested

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ending the Government's central target of balancing the books

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by 2020, which could mean fewer cuts In some ways I'm pleased,

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he's acknowledged the reality What we need now is a clear

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investment programme so we can counter the recessionary trend

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we have in the economy, but also, we can start investing in the areas

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that felt left behind and therefore Pain deferred for the country

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is not pain cancelled. Chancellors have choices

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about what they do into the future, but it looks like we'll be borrowing

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quite a lot more in 2020 That will have to be

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paid down at some point. It may well be that we get more

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austerity through the 2020s. It may not be just one decade, but

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a decade-and-a-half of austerity. I think reality bit today

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for the Chancellor and his officials An economic reality

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and political reality. Few economists would want to be

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raising taxes and cutting spending in the teeth of a possible

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contraction in the economy. And politically, Theresa May,

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the favourite to be the next Prime Minister, has already said

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she wants to consign George Osborne's pledges on spending

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to the waste paper basket. Frankly, George Osborne

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had nowhere else to go. He's been the hard hat,

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hi-vis Chancellor, warning of economic shock, but we haven't

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had any post-referendum economic data yet and the markets have

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recovered their pre-referendum mojo. Whatever happens, Mr Osborne

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wants to be prepared Slovakia has now taken over

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the rotating Presidency of the European Union and confirmed

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that there will be no negotiations on Brexit before the UK triggers

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the leaving procedure known Prime Minister Robert Fico said

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there will not even be informal talks and that all the other 27 EU

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member states had agreed on how to proceed at their meeting

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earlier this week. He also stressed that he wanted

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to make a breakthrough when the EU leaders meet in September

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after saying he saw immigration as the biggest issue

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the organisation faces. Austrians are heading back

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to the polls after the country's highest court annulled the result

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of the recent presidential election. Independent Green candidate

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Alexander Van der Bellen won the May The Freedom Party candidate,

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Norbert Hofer, lost That result was challenged

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by the far-right Freedom Party, which is known

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for its anti-immigration views. Today the Constitutional Court

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ordered another election after finding irregularities

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in the way postal Freedom Party leader

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Heinz-Christian Strache has welcomed the news,

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saying it's a win for democracy. TRANSLATION: I believe

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that the Constitutional Court's election will hopefully also be

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a healing shock so that something And so that the electoral law can be

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optimised and improved. His victory may have been

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short-lived, but Presidential candidate Alexander Van der Bellen

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says he's very confident TRANSLATION: Of course I will stand

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for the repetition of the election, The Constitutional Council

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decided as it sees fit. And we will once again organise

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a large citizen movement in Austria It's thought the re-run could be

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held in September or October. Here's our correspondent,

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Bethany Bell, from Vienna. The Freedom Party brought in a legal

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challenge shortly after the result of this election was announced,

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the election it so narrowly lost to the former Green Party leader

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Alexander Van der Bellen. And the Constitutional Court has had

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a number of hearings over the last few weeks where they have heard

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testimony that there were widespread irregularities when it came

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to the ways that postal votes Some of them were opened too early

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and some were opened by people And because of this, the court has

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ruled that the election They say they did not find

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evidence of manipulation. What they needed to do

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was to reintroduce trust In just under an hour's time,

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Wales will play Belgium in the quarter finals of Euro

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2016 in Lille. It is their biggest match

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in almost 60 years. But there might be heartbreak

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for some Welsh fans caught up Broadcaster and singer

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Cerys Matthews was among those stuck at the Eurotunnel,

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and called the situation a shambles in a series of tweets,

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saying she faced five-hour delays. We have been here

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personally since 11am. There hasn't been any particular

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movement that we can see at all, even though we have been

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promised that there is movement expected and with promises of more

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trains this afternoon. But it is the afternoon

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and the clock is ticking. As we could hear, very miserable

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situation for the fans. She has made it, but what about others? She is

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over there and has finally made it but she is one of thousands stuck at

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the Eurotunnel, trying to get onto the Channel Tunnel to make the

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journey of to Calais and France. Many of them were tweeting about the

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chaotic situation at the terminals and they were not told there were

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problems when they set out on the journey. They allow for plenty of

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time but they were not planning on a one-hour queue just to get into the

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terminal and after that, a five-hour wait on the terminal. And with the

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clock ticking ahead of such a very big game, lots of worried faces and

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people in tears and some begging other passengers who did not need to

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go to sell their ticket. This is an astonishing moment for Wales. Very

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depressing for the fans cannot make it. What was the problem? It started

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yesterday evening. There was a train that broke down in the tunnel,

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mechanical problems, around 500 passengers evacuated during the

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night and that took several hours. That has caused knock-on problems

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through the day because of was going to be a very busy day and Eurotunnel

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needed full capacity but this train was out of service and others were

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not in the right position. As a result, it was not until the

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afternoon that they could run all of the trains they should have been but

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by that stage, a huge backlog of thousands of people, including Wales

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fans. Simon Jones, thank you. Let's concentrate on the game,

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because whilst the Welsh fans might not have made it,

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John Bennet, our reporter, has. This is a huge moment for Wales.

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Chris Coleman, the manager, has big ambitions. What are their chances? A

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very good chance, up against the Belgian side who have a lot of

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individual stars like Eden Hazard and Lukaku, who are big players in

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the Premier League. But Wales have proven that they can beat anyone on

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their day. They have Gareth Bale, the star of Real Madrid and one of

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the top five best players in the world and he is raising the level of

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the other players and they have particularly good defence, they have

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not given away a lot of goals. And they are proving to be very, very

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tough opponents. The plastic atmosphere here in Lille, but to

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150,000 Belgian fans have made the trip year, despite the fact that the

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fan zone only holds 30,000 in the Stadium only holds 55,000 but were

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only 25 kilometres away from the Belgian border so the Wales fans are

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a little bit outnumbered, it has to be said! You said the Belgian fans

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out there, Belgium must be the likely side to win this one is Mike

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definitely. They are the big favourites going into this, the

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pressure is on them. Officially, the most expensive squad at this

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tournament if you can add up all of the transfer fees their players have

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moved for in the past. Big individual talent coming from

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Belgium. They are called the Golden generation, the pressure is all on

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them and that could be the key factor. Wales, whatever happens they

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will have a heroes welcome. The first time in a major tournament

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since 1958 and back then they made it to the quarterfinals. That was

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the World Cup. To be here at the quarterfinals right now is

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incredible and to have a chance to go through to the last non-Ford

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teams, that would be something so special for the nation, it would be

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the biggest moment in Welsh history. Whatever happens, they will go home

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as heroes but if they win this, they will go home as icons, their names

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will never be forgotten in Wales. This is a massive moment in Welsh

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football history. Thank you very much.

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Researchers say they have found the first clear evidence

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that the thinning in the ozone layer above Antarctica

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The gains have been credited to the long-term phasing out

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Scientists say that in September 2015 the hole was around 4 million

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square kilometres smaller than it was in the year 2000.

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That is an area roughly the size of India.

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Our science correspondent Pallab Ghosh has this report.

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30 years ago, a team of scientists discovered that

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ozone, the atmosphere above the Antarctic, was thinning.

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The layer shields the planet from the Sun's harmful ultraviolet rays.

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Unchecked, skin cancer rates would increase.

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And plants and animals would be harmed.

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It posed one of the greatest environmental threats

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The ozone was corroded by chemicals used in aerosols and refrigerators.

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But in a triumph of international cooperation, these chemicals

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And now the most in-depth study to date has found the clearest

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evidence yet that the ozone hole, shown in blue, is beginning to heal.

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Over the past 15 years, it shrunk by 40 million square

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It probably will not go back to normal until mid-century

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so we do not expect to see complete recovering until 2050 or 2060 or so,

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but we are starting to see that in September, the ozone hole is not

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But experts warn that there is still some way to go before

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It is important to stress that there is still a big

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It is early days and it is beginning to show signs of tentative recovery.

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But worryingly, scientists are finding that illegal CFCs

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are beginning to find their way back into the system again.

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So there is certainly no room for complacency.

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Even so, researchers are pleased that efforts to repair the ozone

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And now for more on that gun battle at a cafe in the Bangladeshi capital

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Dhaka. A little while ago the BBC Bangladeshi service spoke to Rashila

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Rahim who lives in a building next to the cafe where the incident is

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taking place. TRANSLATION: I heard at around 10pm police shouting

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through the loudspeaker asking them to come out. They were maybe talking

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to the terrorists, after that we heard a lot of signed from police

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operations. When I tried to leave home at 8:30pm by Draper told me

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something was going on and he said, do not leave, there was firing going

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on. I heard a loud noise in my living room and the glass shattered.

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I heard continuous gunshots. My daughter and... That visit from the-

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bye for now. -- that visit from me. -- that is it.

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Good evening. The weather has been far from ideal today and if we go

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back exactly one year ago, the 1st

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