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A fewer at a fertiliser plant in Texas, triggers a massive explosion.

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It is not yet clear how many people are dead.

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-- fire. A father and daughter thought they were watching the fire

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from a safe distance. Then this... Are you OK? Yeah. I can't hear. I

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can't hear. Get out of here. Please, get out of

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here. The hunt is on for survivors,

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scores of buildings, including schools and a care home were

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destroyed. There was a major explosion.

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The windows came in on me, the roof came in on me. The ceiling came in.

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I worked my way out to get more help.

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We bring you the latest from the scene which has been declared a

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disaster zone. Also tonight: President Obama and his wife,

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Michelle Obama, remember a tragedy of a different kind at a memorial

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service for those killed at the Boston Marathon.

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A teenager is convicted of raping an 11-year-old girl, just 20

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minutes after a meeting with his probation officer.

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The UN describes the situation in Syria as a humanitarian catastrophe.

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We have a special report on life inside the capital.

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COMMENTATOR: Who is going to get it?! One of Britain's greatest

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Olympians says he last race is over. Sir Chris Hoy says he is quitting

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cycling. I'm here with Sportsday as Andy Murray is thrashed at the

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Monte Carlo Masters. Going down in Good evening.

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There has been a massive explosion at a fertiliser plant in Texas. It

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is not yet known how many people have been killed. The volunteer

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firefighters are believed to be among the dead. The blast which

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registered on the Richter scale, flattened buildings in the town of

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West. Survivors said it was like being hit by a tornado. Officials

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believe that hundreds could be injured. A search and rescue

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operation is still underway. Alastair Leithead joins us now live

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from West in Texas. Well, the police have cordoned off

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a huge area, surrounding the area where the factory exploded. They

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are calling it a search and a rescue operation. It seems unlikely

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that anyone will be found, but we got in to access, to see the

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factory area, this place which was hit by the huge explosion.

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This report, I must warn you, there is some flash photo-y here. It

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started with a fire. Filmed on a mobile phone from what seemed a

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safe distance away, but this was a huge explosion.

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Are you OK? Yeah. I can't hear. I can't hear.

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Get out of here, please, get out of here.

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Within minutes, the volunteer firefighters that had come to

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tackle the blaze were calling for urgent back up.

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We need erambulance we can get this way. It is bad. There are a lot of

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firemen down. Darkness complicated the rescue operation. It became

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clear that the power of the explosion was huge. As the fires

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burned across the town, how wide an area had been affected? There was a

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major explosion. The windows came in on me, the roof, the ceiling

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came in. I worked my way out to go get more help.

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We lost all communication as the power went out.

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radius of the blast. Some were trapped inside as the building

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collapsed. I saw the rest home. The people

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were buried. The rest home was gone. Yeah, just evacuating the rest home,

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helping them. Getting the critical ones into the hospital here.

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It was just crazy. The plant was in a small Texan town

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of West. A few miles from Waco. The blast was felt up to 45 miles away.

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The plant was close to a school, homes and a care home. It is

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thought that the company had 20 tonnes of ammonia stored on the

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property. At first light, we drove into the

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worst-affected areas, next to the factory. This two-storey apartment

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block, torn to shreds by the force of the blast. Some homes had burnt

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to the ground. Rain helped to douse the flames but they were

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smouldering hours later. The impact of the explosion on street after

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street was quite astonishing. People pulled from the wreckage,

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scores were injured. On the sight of the plant, the fires were

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burning. Huge silos were torn open by the explosion. This is what is

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left of the fertiliser factory that caught fire and exploded. Sending a

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fireball across the neighbourhood. Parts of it are smouldering as the

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investigators work to establish what caused the explosion. It was

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hours before the teams of special pro tect or -- in special

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protection equipment were able to look for people.

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We are blessed to have the best emergency management team in the

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country. They were at their best last night along with the citizens.

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It is a huge clean-up operation and investigation, picking through the

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rubble and dozens are still being treated for their injuries.

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President Obama offered his support and prayers to the victims of the

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explosion in Texas. He was attending the scene of another

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tragedy, the marathon bombings in Boston. He attended a memorial

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service with his wife on Monday. They e hope to have identified a

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suspect. A man has been seen on CCTV dropping a bag and walking

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away from the sight of the explosions.

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Here is our North America Editor, Mark Mardell. The President came to

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the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in the city he once called home as a

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law student, to praise the people's resilience and resolve.

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The songs and the players and readings were aimed at comforting a

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city in mourning, but there was no stinting the grief when the

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President spoke of the victims. Our prayers are with the Richard

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family of Dorchester. Our hearts are broken for eight-year-old

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Martin with his big smile and bright eyes... He said that those

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he called the small, stunted individuals who wanted to destroy,

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would face justice and would not win.

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Your resolve is the greatest rebuke to whoever committed this heinous

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act. They sought to intimidate us, to

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terrorise us, to shake us from those values that we are described,

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the values that make us who we are as Americans. Well it should be

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pretty clear by now that they picked the wrong city to do it.

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The President praised those who rushed to help on Monday, despite

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the danger to themselves. People like Dr Natalie Stavos.

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They were there cheering for me, to get me through the finish line.

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They lost their lives and limbs. I have such sorrow. Healing is

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clearly important. Justice can be a big part of that. The best clue

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that the police have right now comes from a camera in a department

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store just down there. The police are sifting through

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hundreds of videos but the store's cameras have caught shots of people

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who the FBI want to speak to in particular. Though they are not

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described as suspects. So why have not the pictures been made public?

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There is a reluctance to jump the gun. To release information that

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may not be accurate. To send people chasing in the wrong direction, but

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it is important to take a step back, to let the law enforcement

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investigation proceed on course as it is. We think back to the Olympic

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bombing in 196, they misidentified the suspect initially. President

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Obama came to a city in shock. His message that America will not cower

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but pick itself up and carry on. Mark is in Boston for us. The bombs

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in Boston, the explosion in Texas, the Americans must be wonder eing

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what next? But President Obama seems to be striking a positive

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note there? This is true. This is not the first time he has had to

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make emotional speechs in the wake of tragedies. He has done it after

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mass shootings and natural disasters but this is the first

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time he has had to d it after an act of terrorism. Yes, there was

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defiance and sorrow but a brightness. A deliberate optimism

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to his words. He does not want America to dwell on this, to feel

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it is living in an age of darkness, in a country under attack. He used

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the image of the marathon itself. Saying that there were helping

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hands around the course. People cheering them on, that the race

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would be won and would be -- would be run and would be won. A teenage

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paedophile is facing a possible life sentence after being found

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guilty of raping an 11-year-old girl in a park as she made her way

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home from school. Opemipo Jaji, 18, has previously been convicted of a

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sex attack on another girl and for downloading indecent images of

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children. Sangita Myska has this report.

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18-year-old Opemipo Jaji, seen here at the time of his arrest, a brutal

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sex offender. At the time he raped a child he was already known to the

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authorities as a dangerous sexual predator. This is Opemipo Jaji

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filmed on CCTV in November of last year. Moments before he spotted his

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11-year-old victim on board this bus.

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Opemipo Jaji followed the victim off the bus to this park as she

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made her way home after school. He gagged her, threatened her with a

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knife and subjected her to a three- hour ordeal after which she needed

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surgery to recover, but this was not the first time that Opemipo

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Jaji attacked in this way. In February, 2011, he robbed and

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sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl. A young offender, he was

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sentenced to a year's detention, he was not put on the sex offender. A

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year later, he admitted downloading indecent images of children. He was

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with his row baigs officer, 9 0 minutes before the attack of the

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11-year-old girl. Opemipo Jaji has never admitted his

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cupability in all of this. That forced the victim to give evidence.

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Tonight, the Ministry of Justice is to review if there were failures in

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the Opemipo Jaji supervision, if he should have been placed on the sex

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offenders register. Syria is facing a humanitarian catastrophe with

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almost 7 million people there likely to need outside help. The

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assessment from the United Nations which warned that the conditions in

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the country are getting worse. There has been fighting in and

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around the capital, Damascus. Jeremy Bowen is there. He has this

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report. Close your ears to the sound of the

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guns and Damascus looks almost normal. The regime controls the

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heart the city it is battered and expensive but it still functions.

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Go to the edge of the suburbs that ring the city centre and the spell

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breaks. A few hundred yards down the road are the armed rebels,

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controlling tracts of greater daplsz.

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Right now, the rebel -- Damascus. Right now, the rebels don't have

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the strength to break from the suburbs.

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We could hear soldiers, guns, tank but but we could not film them.

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The war in the country is more than just a Syrian matter. Because of

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the way that it is exporting trouble elsewhere in the Middle

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East. The world's big powers can't agree and really don't know how to

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stop the fighting. Increasingly, they are funneling

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arms and other military supplies to their favoured sides in the

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conflict. The outlook for the Syrian people is desperate.

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For this 18-year-old schoolboy, shot in the head by a sniper as he

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drove with his mother and sister to Damascus. They say that the bullet

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came from a rebel held suburb. His father is a retired officer, being

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treated in a Military Hospital. The family have been told that this

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boy will die. They support the regime and call

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the rebels terrorists. His mother held Britain, France and

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America responsible. TRANSLATION: I blame the countries

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supporting the terrorists. We don't want to eat, to drink, we just want

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safety. What should Britain, France, TRANSLATION: They should fight

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terrorism. Stop supporting the terrorists.

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Doctors say that between 10 and 50 casualties, mainly government

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soldiers aRightMove at the hospital wounded, dying or dead each day.

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On the rebel side, where there is not the same level of medical care,

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the figures are worse. $:/STARTFEED. This doctor fears

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Syria is bleeding to death. This level of casualties, what does it

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do to the country? It is destroying the country and destroying

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everything as a country. In the city centre, the top

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Damascus football team was getting ready for a big game. One of the

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president's best known supporters, runs the stadium. He said no leader

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could have got through the last two years without genuine support.

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TRANSLATION: Yes, sometimes we can hear some sounds of explosions and

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shelling. We can finish this conflict in a year or two, but the

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Syrians have the will to destroy all all those terrorist from Al-

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Qaeda. He said the fact that football has

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not stopped, is another sign of normal life here. But the way they

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were is just a memory for most people. Many Syrians are trapped

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between the rebels and the regime. Pakistan's former military leader,

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Pervez Musharraf, has fled from court in Islamabad after a judge

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revoked his bail and ordered his arrest. In extraordinary scenes,

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Musharraf was whisked away by his own bodyguards while police stood

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by and watched. The General who seized power 14 years ago in a coup

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is wanted over allegations he committed treason and he is also

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accused of not doing enough to protect the former Prime Minister,

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Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated. With all the details

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from a dramatic day in court, here's our Pakistan correspondent,

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Making a hasty get away, Pervez Musharraf flees the High Court, a

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humiliating retreat for the man who ruled Pakistan for nine years.

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Lawyers jeered, "look who is running away ", they said. But

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there was no move from the security forces to stop him. He disappeared

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behind the walls of his luxury villa, now a wanted man. His lawyer

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insisted he was unconcerned. He is smoking his cigar and sipping a cup

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of coffee and he is in a wonderful mood. Very hilarious. He is cutting

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jokes and what not. Pervez Musharraf remains here inside his

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heavily fortified farmhouse. There are police outside the door, but

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they are here to protect him, not to take him into custody. For now,

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there has been no attempt by the authorities to place him under

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arrest, but Pakistan's once all powerful military dictator is now a

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wanted man. Since returning from exile last month, he has been a

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political sideshow. Isolated, threatened by the Taliban and

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barred from running for election. Now, the former military ruler is

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being held accountable by judges. A landmark moment in a country with a

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history of military take-overs. There was a feeling that the Army

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has an impunity and cannot be touched by the judiciary or by any

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other institution, but it is no more the case. And I think this is

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a good omen in that sense and it also shows that democracy is

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gaining strength. Tonight, Pervez Musharraf remains

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in his farmhouse claiming to be the victim of a van a vendetta by

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judges he once detained. There is speculation the courts will let him

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stay here under house arrest rather The incoming Governor of the Bank

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of England has described Britain as one of the world's crisis economies

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along with the eurozone and Japan. Mark Carney takes up his new role

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in a couple of months. He made his comments on the same day that the

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head of the International Monetary growth figures in the UK weren't

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looking good. Here's our chief economics correspondent, Hugh Pym.

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He is set to become one of the UK's most powerful policy makers, Mark

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Carney, head of the Canadian Central Bank will take over as Bank

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of England governor in July. At a media event in Washington today, he

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ducked questions about his new role, though referring to analysis of the

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world table, he suggested the UK was in the crisis category.

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The US is breaking out of that pack of crisis economies which very

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importantly include the eurozone at the centre, the UK and with a very

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long legacy, Japan. He will arrive here in the middle

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of a big debate over how to get the economy going and whether

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Government spending cuts are making things worse. The Chancellor says

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lower borrowing is essential for the economy to this rife, but he is

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he is facing a challenge from the International Monetary Fund. Its

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top economist suggested that the UK needs to ease up on austerity. The

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MF chief said they aren't altered their position that change was

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needed only if growth didn't materialise. But the data did not

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look encouraging. Growth number -- the growth numbers are not good. So

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in a sense, this is a continuum of the position. What has change sd

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clearly -- changed is clearly the quality of the numbers.

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The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, gave his reaction to the IMF's

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stance. They have argued for more

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flexibility. We have been flexible and we will be flexible because

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that's a common sense approach to the Rob and the Government --

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problem and the Government does its bit and we have a major deficit

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problem and we have got to continue to deal with it.

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At the Treasury they are waiting for figures showing how the economy

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performed in the first three months of the year. Any growth will come

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as a relief, but any any contraction will mean the second

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successive quarter of decline putting the UK back into recession.

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Labour called for George Osborne to change course. The next growth

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figures and then the new IMF health check due in a matter of weeks will

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A paralysed man who wants doctors to end his life without fear of

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prosecution has spoken publicly for the first time about his legal

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campaign. Paul Lamb says he is in terrible pain and his life is

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intolerable, but he is unable to end it without medical assistance.

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He has been speaking to our legal affairs correspondent, Clive

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Coleman. Paralysed from the neck down and

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suffering chronic pain for 23 years. Paul Lamb needs full-time help for

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almost everything. Having just minimumal use of one hand. He

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describes his life as tedious and pointless. The pain is horrendous

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and I just - I am getting less and less. I stay in this room. I stay

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in here just about all winter. I have no desire to go out most of

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the times. My will has gone. This was an active Paul Lamb before

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a car crash in 1990. Now severely paralysed, he can't end his own

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life, he wants a doctor to kill him. In law, that amounts to murder. He

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is taking up the legal battle fought by Tony Nicklinson. He died

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last year just days after the High Court rejected his bid to change

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the law. He wanted doctors to be protected

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from prosecution where patients were in intolerable situations and

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wanted to die. When Tony Nicklinson's case came to the High

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Court last summer, the judges said that it raised some of the most

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profound, ethical, moral and social and religious issues, but that only

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Parliament and not the courts, could change the law. But any

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change to the law will be strongly opposed. Many vulnerable elderly

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and disabled people will feel pressure whether that's real or

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imagined so as to end their lives so as not to be a financial or

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emotional burden upon others. Some campaigners for disabled

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people like Katherine Araniello want a different focus. It should

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be about re-evaluating why do people want to die and what can we

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do to improve the quality of life of individuals such as Paul Lamb so

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that he has a right, a change of mind.

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Paul Lamb will take his case to the Court of Appeal next month, but

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persuading it to change the law Great Britain's most success

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successful Olympian, Sir Chris Hoy has announced his retirement. He

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won six gold medals and eleven world titles, but says it is beyond

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him to carry on to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. He has been

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talking to David Bond. He is British sport's own Mr

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Incredible and for the last decade, Sir Chris Hoy dominated Olympic

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track cycling. The home of Scottish rugby was an unlikely setting, but

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today he called called time on a career which was supposed to end at

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next summer's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

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I feel I have had time to reflect on the last year and on the last 0

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years really -- 20 years really of my career and I feel as if I don't

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have anymore to give and I wouldn't be going there to be competitive. I

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would be turning up to get the tracksuit and to wave to the crowd

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and that's not what I want to do. Hoy tasted Olympic success in

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Athens in 2004, the starting point for a revolution in British cycling.

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In London, he bestrode the velodrome guiding Team GB to

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another gold rush on the track. What shape is British cycling in as

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you leave the sport? Well, British cycling has never been in better

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health than it is just now. You know, you look back over the years

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and you just see where it has come from. It is almost unbelievable how

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far it has come as a sport and just to have been part of that journey,

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I'm very proud of that. That's one of the biggest things that I can

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take from my career, that I have been part of this amazing

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transformation in this sport. Chris Hoy bows out as one of the

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giants of British sporting history, with six Olympic gold medals, he is

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the most successful Olympian this country has ever produced and he is

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arguably the greatest. That debate may never be settled,

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but there was support today for Hoy from one of British cycling's

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original trailblazers. He will leave a hole to be filled. We have

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got some great talent coming up, but it is a time to celebrate what

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he has done and what has gone before and it was an amazing career.

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He is the most iconic, best representative of British sport

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ever. Hoy says it is time to hand over to

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a new generation, but while others may try to emu late his success,

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few are likely to tower over his sport as he did.

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