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the fugitive American intelligence officer Edward Snowden is given

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asylum by Moscow. The temporary asylum papers that allowed the

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whistle-blower to finally leave the airport where he has been for weeks.

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The whereabouts of Snowden, who leaked a US surveillance secrets, is

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an -- unknown. We are extremely disappointed that the Russian

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government would take this step, in spite of our very clear and public

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requests to have Snowden expelled to the United States.

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Some politicians are calling for a rethink on relations with Moscow.

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Italian justice finally catches up with Silvio Berlusconi. The Supreme

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Court upholds a prison sentence for tax fraud.

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The Lloyds Banking Group is back in profit. The government could start

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selling the taxpayer stake as early as Monday. Nobody should ever have

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to go through what I went through... Harrowing testimony from

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one of the three women held captive by Ariel Castro for a decade in

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Cleveland. He is jailed for life. What are they hiding from?

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Zimbabwe's opposition says these are Robert Mugabe supporters bussed in

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to vote illegally. And a captain's innings as Australia make a solid

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start to the third Ashes test. Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News,

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we will have a report on Swansea City's return to European football.

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They have been playing in their tension between the United States

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and Russia tonight after Moscow granted the fugitive American

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whistle-blower Edward Snowden temporary asylum. Snowden, who went

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on the run after leaking details of secret US surveillance programmes,

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had spent a month at an airport in Moscow, but left today and is now at

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a secret location. The White House has said it is extremely

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disappointed. This was the moment this afternoon

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when Edward Snowden, wearing a black rucksack, with his back to the

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camera, climbed into a car and disappeared into Russia. The biggest

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country in the world. For five and a half weeks, he'd been stuck in

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limbo, in the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. He

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was insisting he would not go to America to face trial. Tonight, his

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lawyer showed me a copy of the document that grants him political

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asylum in Russia for at least one year. He told us Edward Snowden is

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in a hotel, but he would not say where. TRANSLATION: The question of

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his security is obviously very important. A great power is trying

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to catch him and the name of that power is the United States of

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America. In a statement, Edward Snowden himself said, over the past

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eight weeks we have seen the Obama administration show no respect for

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international order mastic -- or domestic law. This evening,

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Russia's in August to serving dissident pondered whether he knew

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what he was doing. TRANSLATION: He had the most noble of intentions,

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promoting freedom of information in America, but he finds himself in

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Russia, where the situation is much worse. Edward Snowden lifted the lid

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on the mass electronic surveillance by the National Security Agency, in

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particular, a programme called Prism, which has been collecting

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internet data since 2007. America is seeking him on espionage charges,

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including theft of government property and unauthorised allocation

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of National defence information. There were more revelations from

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Snowden in The Guardian today, suggesting that Britain's GCHQ

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received �100 million of funding from US intelligence services in

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recent years. By granting Edward Snowden asylum, the Kremlin is

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making a calculation, plotting several moves ahead in a diplomatic

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game of chess. It will not mind upsetting America a bit. But

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President Putin will not want to alienate Obama altogether. President

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Obama is supposed to be in Moscow in one month's time for the first full

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summit between the two leaders. Now, that is in jeopardy. We are

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extremely disappointed that the Russian government would take this

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step, despite our very clear and lawful request, in public and

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private, to have Mr Snowden expelled in the United States to face the

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charges against him. Relations between the two countries were

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already bad. Today, after what seems to have been a deliberate manoeuvre

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by President Putin, they took a definite turn for the worse.

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Our North America editor Mark Mardell is in Washington. There was

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some angry rhetoric from America. What are the chances of this turning

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into any sort of action? Certainly, some senators are hoping it really

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will. They are talking about this being a stab in the back, a slap in

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the face. John McCain is saying that there should be some action that

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really annoys Russia. He is talking about expanding NATO to include the

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country of Georgia, which would really make them cross. I have to

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say, that is not the Obama way. He believes in engagement and he thinks

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America needs Russia because of moves on Iran and because of arms

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control talks that are happening next week. But they are saying, the

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White House are saying, they could pull out of this summit next month

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in Saint Petersburg. They say they are examining its utility. That is

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polite and which four, is there any point? They are presumably thinking

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about the G8 meeting not long ago between the leaders, which was so

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incredibly uncomfortable because of the disagreement over Syria.

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Resident Putin was looking cross and annoyed with President, Obama. They

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may think, is there any point in the meeting? Should we just back today's

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prison sentence given to expire minister Silvio Berlusconi for tax

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fraud. After several previous trials, this marks the first time

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the media mogul has definitely been convicted of a crime. Tonight, Mr

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Berlusconi called the sentence baseless. This report contains flash

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photography. In the early evening, a crowd waited

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outside Italy's Supreme Court. At stake, the future of the man who has

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dominated Italian politics for 20 years, Silvio Berlusconi. Inside,

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five judges filed into court to deliver their verdict. They upheld

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the prison sentence which a lower court had given Silvio Berlusconi

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for tax fraud. The former Prime Minister is unlikely to go to jail

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because of his age. But he faces one year of house arrest, or community

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service. Outside the court, a small crowd celebrated. TRANSLATION: I am

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happy, at last we have reached a condemnation, definite and

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irrevocable. Two miles away, Silvio Berlusconi was inside his palazzo

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when the verdict came. Many believe that the judgement as effectively

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ended his political career. A lower court had banned him from holding

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public office for five years. That was lowered to three, and that

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sentence will be reviewed again. means that his season is officially

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over. But it does not mean that the Berlusconi mood in the country is

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over as well. We will see a tense period. I think the 20 years of

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Italian politics are going to finish, in a very dramatic and

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hectic way. Silvio Berlusconi, who is here at his residence tonight,

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has long argued he is one of the most persecuted men in the world, a

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victim of left-wing magistrates. He has faced up to 30 cases when he has

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been convicted he has always launched an appeal. But now he has

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received a definitive verdict from Italy's highest court. He had

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previously been conflict that of having underage sex with a dancer

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and for abusing his office to help her. He is still appealing those

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convictions. Tonight, supporters came to Silvio Berlusconi's

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residence. There is said to be a lot of tennis. His party is in the

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governing coalition and one of his close allies said they would not

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undermine the government. sentence was unfounded and he would

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continue his struggle. The Italian president urged the country to

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the taxpayer, has returned to profit. The bank may just over �2

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billion in the first six months of the year. It made a loss of �450

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million for the same period last year. The government could start to

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sell its stake in the bank as early as next week.

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Lloyds. Taxpayers have owned a huge chunk of it since the crash of 2008

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and the sale sign is about to go up. In fact, the privatisation could

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begin with the disposal of up to five Ilion pounds of shares to big

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city investors as soon as Monday morning. The chief secretary of the

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Treasury did not rule that out today. We have not set a fixed

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timetable. We are not going to rush it. I think the results are welcome,

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as a sign that the bank is continuing on the right part of

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returning to help. Lloyds, in dire straits a few years back, can be

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sold because it is almost back in the pink. Profits for the first half

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of this year were �2.1 billion, compared with a loss in 2012 of �456

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million. Lloyds is very close to being fully fixed. Costs have been

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significantly reduced and lots of the business is no longer considered

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to be part of the growth strategy and have been sold or execute.

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are the numbers the Chancellor will look at when deciding to sell now.

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71p, that is how much he needs to get for the shares to prevent a sale

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adding to the government debt burden. 73.6 p is the price we paid

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for Lloyds shares when we bail out the bank. 74p, the market price

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tonight, higher than what taxpayers paid for them. One of the reasons

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why Lloyds is so much more recovered and closer to privatisation than the

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other big semi-nationalised bank, The Royal Bank of Scotland, is

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because Lloyds is all about this, branch banking. Retail banking. It

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does not have RBS's big and complicated investment banking or

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much overseas. RBS, probably still years away from its privatisation.

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But there will be an important piece of progress tomorrow with the

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announcement of a new chief executive. Meet Ross MacEwan, the

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new boss. It was actually a very good ride... From New Zealand. Back

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at Lloyds, an initial sales share would raise between �2.5 billion and

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�5 billion. Very much a first step along the road to taxpayers getting

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back our �20 billion. The first results in Zimbabwe's

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election are being released tonight. President Robert Mugabe's

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party has all but claimed victory. Earlier, his main rival, Prime

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Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, said intimidation and vote rigging by

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Mugabe supporters meant that the poll was null and void. Some local

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election observers have also before an official announcement is

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due, President Robert Mugabe's party is confident of victory. Zanu-PF

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officials say their party has sailed home in both parliamentary and

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presidential polls. But Robert Mugabe's main opposition, the

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Movement for Democratic Change, is calling this a sham election and say

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there is clear evidence of vote rigging. The MDC claimed these

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pictures show Zanu-PF supporters being bussed in to vote illegally in

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Tsvangirai, who has been priming estate in an uneasy coalition with

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Robert Mugabe, declared the election a fix. This has been a huge farce.

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The credibility of this election has been marred by legal violations. It

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is a sham election that does not reflect the will of the people.

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Zimbabwe's main monitors, the fairness of the election has also

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been challenged. They say up to 1 million voters have been turned away

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from polling stations in MDC strongholds and they cast doubt on

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the left or roll, pointing to much higher registration in the homeland

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of Zanu-PF support. The election was seriously comprised by an effort to

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disenfranchise urban voters. At that it is hard to decide what the actual

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result is. Monitors have said that the elections appear to be peaceful

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and credible, but have not made a final judgement. The question now

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is, what will the regional observers from the African union and SADC say?

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They now hold the key to this election. 89-year-old Robert Mugabe

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insisted he would accept the will of the people. His party is in no doubt

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what that verdict will be. Morgan Tsvangirai has accused your party,

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ZANU-PF, of vote rigging. That is the talk of someone who cannot

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accept defeat. People will be hoping to avoid a repeat of the violence

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which marred the last election in 2008.

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There has been a huge explosion at an ammunition depot in the Syrian

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city of Homs. Opposition activists say the blast, which sent a fireball

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hundreds of feet into the air, killed at least 40 people in a

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government controlled part of the city. More than a hundred were said

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to be injured. A man charged with the murder of

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four British soldiers in the 1982 IRA bombing has been granted

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conditional bail. He is accused of being involved in planting a car

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bomb that killed members of the household cavalry. He will be

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electronically tagged. Ariel Castro, the American man who

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kidnapped three women in Cleveland and subjected them to a decade of

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sexual and physical abuse, has been sentenced to life in prison without

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any chance of parole. One of his victims, Michelle Knight, spoke in

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court just feet away from Castro. She said, "I spent 11 years in hell,

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now your hell is just beginning". From Washington, David Willis

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reports. Ariel Castro had already pleaded

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guilty to more than 900 charges under a deal struck to spare him the

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death sentence. Today came further detail of the ordeal suffered by his

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captives as he came face to face with one of them, Michele Knight,

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for the first time since her release. Gina DeJesus, Michelle and

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Amanda Berry were abducted, tortured and raped by Ariel Castro. The court

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heard how he turned the house into a prison, keeping the women chained in

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two squalid rooms. Their ordeal ended after one escaped and call the

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police. Michele Knight launched herself into the arms of the first

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police officer she encountered. Legs, arms, she kept repeating, you

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saved us. Today, Michele Knight hugged relatives of the other women

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before giving in with the ring indictment of the man who beat and

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staffed every time she became pregnant, forcing her to miscarry

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five times. I spent 11 years in hell. Now your hell is just

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beginning. From this moment on, I will not let you affect who I am. I

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will live on. You will die a little every day. As you think about the 11

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years of atrocities that you inflicted on us. In a letter found

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at his house, Castro described themselves as a sexual predator and

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today he told the court he was addicted to crime -- pornography. I

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am just sick, I have an addiction, just like an alcoholic has an

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addiction. It is out of my control, my addiction. I could not control my

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addiction. Sentencing the former boss tries to

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life in prison, the judge said his victims had suffered terribly and

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the effects of their ordeal would live with them for the rest of their

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life. BT has launched its new sports TV

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service this evening. It challenges Sky's 20-year-long dominance of

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sports television. The rivalry will be particularly fierce over

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football. BT has the rights to show 38 live Premier League games per

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season for the next three seasons at a cost of over �700 million. Our

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sports editor reports on a new front in the rivalry between these two

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media giants. After months of hype and over �1

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billion of investment, BT's challenge to Sky's dominance of the

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sport TV market finally went live tonight, launching its new sports

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channels from fast new studios on the Olympic Haq. All day, BT's team

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had been getting ready but its strategy is not only about TV. I

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offering its content free to broadband customers, BT hopes to

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defend its position as the country's leading Internet

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provider. Broadband and the ability to retain customers in that world is

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the most important thing for BT and having a sports channel business is

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the way that we believe, one of the ways, we can retain and acquire new

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customers. Sky is still the main player in the football rights

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market. Its package of live Premier league games is more than three

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times bigger than BT's. We have always had challenges. We relish the

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challenge. It drives us on and gets us in big array to and excited and

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we can't wait for the new season to start. You only have to look at the

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scale of this place to realise BT's ambition but with so much money

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being pumped into English football, it is not only a big day for

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television, it is potentially a defining moment for the national

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game. The first deal with Sky in 1992 was worth �190 million but the

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three-year deal starting this season is worth over �3 billion. That is

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6.5 million a game. The new windfall will not ease the tension between

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the all-powerful Premier League and those who run the England team. Some

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think the time has come to rebalance the priorities of the game. There is

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an opportunity to bring all of football together, stop sniping and

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say, what are we trying to achieve? And bring football together on the

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basis of all trying to achieve a set of goals. Whoever wins the battle

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between Sky and BT, one thing is clear. The Premier League's

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financial control of the English game has just got bigger.

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Major donors to each of the three big political parties were included

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on a list of new peers appointed to the House of Lords today. Altogether

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30 new peers were announced. They include the JCB boss Sir Anthony

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Bamford, whose family and firm have given �2.5 million to the

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Conservative Party, the Scottish businessman Sir William Haughey, who

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has given �1.3 million to Labour, and the Dominos Pizza entrepreneur

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Rumi Verjee, who has donated more than �800,000 to the Liberal

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Democrats. Today's additions brings the total number of active peers to

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785. Carole Walker is in Westminster now.

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This is a government that talked about reforming the House of Lords,

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now they have just made it bigger. Yes, the House of Lords is bigger

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than it has been any time since hereditary peers were abolished in

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1999. It is second only in size to the National People's Congress of

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China. Interesting names, Doreen Lawrence, the Justice campaigner

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whose son was killed, but the list is dominated by party insiders and

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this is an uncomfortable day for all party leaders. Nick Clegg wanted to

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half the size of the House of Lords and have most of its members are

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elected. Having failed in that, he has added another ten to the list

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today. David Cameron has been talking a lot about wanting to

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reduce the cost of politics but he has contributed another 14 to that

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additional 30 peers that were added in today more all in all adding more

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than �1 million to the cost of politics. Labour are criticising him

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for doing that but adding to the tally themselves. The UKIP leader

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says it makes Westminster looked like a developing world

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dictatorship, but he would like a few extra UK peers in there to even

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things up. By the time of the next general election there will be far

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more peers in the House of Lords that could ever squeeze on those red

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benches, if of course they ever turned up on the same day.

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In cricket, the Australia captain has seen a return to form, scoring a

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century on day one of the third Ashes Test against England at Old

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Trafford. England lead the five-match series 2-0 and need to

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avoid defeat to keep the Ashes. Joe Wilson looks back at the day's

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action. Lancashire had its test match back.

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Time to be ruthless, for both sides. Last chance territory for

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Australia. 84 from Chris Rogers. James Anderson, battling for

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nothing. Shane Watson out, Tim Bresnan bowling, . The umpire

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decided Usman Khawaja hit the ball. Usman Khawaja did not. Minutes of

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replays but the decision was still upheld. The Australian prime

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minister said it was one of the worst umpiring decisions he had ever

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seen. Fortunately there was some batting to focus on. A masterclass

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from Michael Clark. England thought they got Steve Smith out virtually

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every ten minutes. England had used up their reviews and could do

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nothing. Clark told us who still believe in Australia but runs speak

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louder than words. -- told us he still believed in Australia. They

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are presenting England now with their biggest challenge of the

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summer. How are you going to get him out? Have you got any tips?Michael

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Clark is still going, Australia past 300, just three wickets down.

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