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evacuated from their homes. I can't even think about it. I would have

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done anything to have saved my home. The Prime Minister visits the

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marooned residents and promises action. We are facing extraordinary

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weather events, from the coast and from the quantity of rain, but the

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government will do whatever it can to coordinate the response.

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And there's flooding across other parts of southern England too, from

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Cornwall to Oxfordshire. Also tonight: The Prime Minister

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says the UK would be deeply diminished if Scotland votes for

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independence. Did a Briton drive this suicide

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truck bomb into a Syrian jail, sparking a battle to free hundreds

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of prisoners? A spectacular opening ceremony for

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the most expensive ever winter Olympics.

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And 50 years ago today Beatle-mania hit the USA.

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In Sportsday: A tribunal rejects West Ham's appeal against Andy

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Carrol's suspension. Good evening.

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Large parts of southern England are enduring another battering from

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heavy rain and winds of up to 80mph. Marines are on stand-by to step in

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again tonight amid concerns more people may have to be evacuated from

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the Somerset Levels. After days of complaints from residents there,

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today they received not one but two visits. First, the chairman of the

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Environment Agency, Lord Smith, took the flack. Then David Cameron

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arrived in Somerset, pledging to tackle the flooding, but warned it

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could take some time. Jon Kay reports from there.

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The people of Moorland tried to defend themselves, but they have

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been beaten. Villagers who were told to evacuate their homes will now

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return to waterlogged properties. Thank you. It is the call she has

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been dreading. Briony's house is among those that have gone under.

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She and her family had to leave last night as the water rose. It is in.

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In the house. I would have done anything to have saved my home. What

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do you do? This afternoon, the Prime Minister came to see things for

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himself, to see the differences that have failed, the pumps that did not

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do enough, and the families who believe they have been let down by

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the outside world. The resources are there, the money is there, councils

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will get the money from central government, the military are on

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stand-by to help where they can. We will go as fast as we can but these

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things will take some time to get right. We are facing extraordinary

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weather events, both from the coast and in terms of the quantity of

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rain. It emerged today that Mr Cameron was called by Prince Charles

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earlier this week, after he paid his own visit here. Another high-profile

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visitor today, Lord Chris Smith, chairman of the Environment Agency,

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the body many here blame for causing this crisis by not dredging the

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rivers. Our house is going under, as simple as that. Moorland has gone.

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It is nice to see that this time you actually have a pair of wellies on.

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Lord Smith agreed to meet the handful of locals behind closed

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doors. Briony was among them. What is going through your mind? Let's go

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and see what happens. They talked for more than an hour in what

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appeared to be a tense meeting. Lord Smith told them he had no intention

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of resigning, but afterwards he revealed dredging would begin

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shortly. These people have told you they feel let down by you. Do you

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agree you have let them down not just recently but over years? I can

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absolutely understand the distress and concerned local people have. The

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sort of weather we have been seeing over the last two months has grown

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more water at the Somerset Levels than it has ever experienced

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before. So, was Briony satisfied with what she heard? If they are

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going to dredge, we can go on and rebuilt our lives and it is a fight

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worth fighting. Are you more confident? Yes. Going home will not

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be for a while, but she was reunited with her horse, who she thought had

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drowned. Back together, but miles from home.

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It's not just Somerset that's suffering. Great swathes of the

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south of the UK reported flooding today, from Cornwall to Kent, and

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with more heavy rainfall hitting part of southern England and Wales

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again tonight, the Environment Agency is warning of more flooding

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misery to come. Our Science Editor, David Shukman, reports.

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For mile after mile after mile, the endless vistas of flooding that have

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transformed so much of Britain this winter. Between Bristol and Exeter

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today, a train forced to a halt, stranded amid a vast and spectacular

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ocean covering the fields, just one of countless examples of what

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extreme weather can mean for us. Have another check on Riverside. For

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the second time in a week, the village of Bridge in Kent has been

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flooded. There has been so much rain that water is now bubbling up

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through the ground, but unlike in Somerset, people here do not think

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anyone is to blame. The real worry is the water coming up from ground

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water actually through the flooring now. So there is not a lot we can do

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with that, I am afraid. People keep coming round but there is no use

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pumping it now because as soon as they pump it, it still keeps coming

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up through the floors. In Surrey this afternoon, we found water

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spilling over the roads. The River Thames is rising again. You might

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expect this kind of thing every few years, but not nearly as often as we

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are seeing now. This lane has become something of a river. There are

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scenes like this up and down the country and the real challenge is

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the sheer scale of what is happening, and it is going on on

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multiple fronts. There is flooding from swollen rivers, and from

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intense rain, and from the sea. And the real difficulty is that it has

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just been going on for so long. Two months so far and the worst is that

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it is not over yet. Yet again, the Environment Agency's flood map is

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crammed with warnings, including two severe ones meaning life is at risk.

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The last two months have seen over 5000 homes flooded, but across the

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country well over a million homes have been protected. Many defences

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have worked. If we look at the aftermath of this and start to learn

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the lessons, one question to ask is how many homes would have been

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flooded, properties affected, if there had not been the work that has

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been done over the past five or six years. An effort to save Chal Grove

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in Oxfordshire. More storms are forecast. The country faces

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difficult choices for the future about where to defend and how best

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to do it. Duncan Kennedy is in Dawlish in

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Devon where the railway line was washed away earlier this week. It

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looks like the weather has set in again already. Absolutely, another

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storm rattling through tonight. You can see it pounding against the

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promenade behind me, wave after wave, smashing into the promenade,

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just like on Wednesday. The same kind of waves coming into night. It

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must be worrying for the people in those properties, which were damaged

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and flooded on Wednesday. We are seeing the same to night. 60 mph

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gusts rattling through. Tipping down with rain. The same conditions they

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had on Wednesday. One man was going to watch it from his bedroom window

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just over there. It is all adding to the chaos.

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The rain causing problems with our link there.

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For all the latest on the weather, you can visit our website. It has

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live updates on the situation across the country and a link to the

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Environment Agency's website. David Cameron has said he fears the

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UK would end up "deeply diminished" if people in Scotland voted for

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independence in September's referendum. He said people living in

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the rest of the UK should call on friends and family in Scotland to

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reject independence. The Confederation of British Industry

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has echoed his view that the UK is stronger together. But Scotland's

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First Minister, Alex Salmond, said Mr Cameron should debate the issue

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with him instead of, as he put it, delivering a "sermon from Mount

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Olympus". Our Political Editor, Nick Robinson, reports.

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Summoning up the spirit of the Olympics, David Cameron is calling

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on Britain's quiet patriots to save Team GB. Two summers ago, a Scot,

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Sir Chris Hoy, became Britain's greatest ever Olympian. The Prime

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Minister celebrated at London's velodrome that night. Today, he

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returned there to issue a warning about what might happen in seven

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months. If we lost Scotland, if the UK changed, we would rip the rug

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from our own reputation. There are 63 million of us who could wake up

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on September the 19th in a different country with a different future

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ahead of it. This plea to keep Scotland in the UK was delivered

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from England. David Cameron called on those who thought they were mere

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spectators, who don't have a vote, to join him in the cause. Frankly, I

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care too much to stay out of it. This is personal. This is our home

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and I could not bear to see it torn apart. Scotland's destination, he

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said, was a decision for those living there, but he wanted everyone

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else, including 800,000 Scots who have moved south, to help them make

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up their minds. You don't have a vote, but you have a voice. Let the

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message ring out from Manchester to Motherwell, from Pembrokeshire to

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Perth, from us to the people of Scotland, let the message be that we

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want you to stay. David Cameron came here in order to claim that Team GB

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represents a set of shared values. But he knows all too well that Alex

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Salmond is portraying him as an English Tory lecturing the people of

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Scotland from a long way away. Sir Chris Hoy is now leading the

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celebrations of another Games, the Commonwealth games in Glasgow.

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Scotland's First Minister says David Cameron should make the journey to

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debate with him. The Prime Minister of the UK against the First Minister

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of Scotland is the debate that should happen and people want to

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see. David Cameron cannot enter into that but not actually have it in a

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democratic fashion. He wants to pronounce from the Olympic Stadium,

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from Mount Olympus in London, instead of having the democratic

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debate. What if the rest of Britain joins the debate? What will they

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say? If they feel they can be independent from the rest of the UK

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and that is most important of them, they should go for it. I would

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rather Scotland stays as part of the UK. I believe we are stronger

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together. What difference would it make to me? You don't care? No. What

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made the Olympics special were the crowds who came. Today, David

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Cameron seemed to say, if Scotland won't listen to me, maybe they will

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listen to you. Lorna Gordon is in Glasgow for us.

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How has the speech by David Cameron gone down in Scotland? Much of the

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debate so far has been framed in economic terms. Today we saw a

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slight shift in the language. Every time he makes the case for the

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union, the Nationalists focusing on his refusal to engage in a debate

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with Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, going so far as to call him

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afraid for not engaging in this debate. They have the wind in their

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sales at the moment. There have been a few calls since the Scottish

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government published its White Paper in November, and they have shown a

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very small but perhaps significant shift towards the yes camp. An

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increase in the number of people who would vote in favour of

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independence. It is still a minority, but it is a shift, so they

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will continue to hammer away at this. David Cameron says he will

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come to Scotland in the coming months to make his case. He will

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make it directly to the Scottish people, and not in the gladiatorial

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arena of a TV debate with Alex Salmond. Thank you.

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A terror group in Syria claims a British citizen has become the first

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to blow himself up in a suicide truck bomb attack. The claim by the

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Nusra Front, a terror group linked to Al-Qaeda, was made as people were

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evacuated from the besieged city of Homs for the first time in 18

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months. Paul Wood reports. The siege of Homs isn't over. These

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are the first people to escape in a very long time. Weary and hungry,

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some 80 women, children and old men were allowed out through the Syrian

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Army's cordoned. They had in George 600 days of siege in the Old City of

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Hamas. -- of Homs. Food and water is so short inside, he says. Look at

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me. There are only bones. The Syrian regime has pursued a policy known as

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surrender or starve. The rebels want to keep people inside besieged

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areas. The regime has promised to allow some aid supplies in

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tomorrow, but not if any goes to the rebels. This cease-fire is extremely

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fragile. No cease-fire in Aleppo. A rebel commander tells his men, a

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suicide bomber just left. The whole Islamic nation will hear him raw.

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The bomber was British, driving this truck packed with explosives. He is

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thought to be the first British suicide bomber in Syria. The war

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continues, then, with no end inside. The Syrian regime's very

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slight easing of the siege of Homs might be seen as the first fruits of

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the UN sponsored peace talks in Geneva, but the jihadis are not part

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of that dialogue, and they are doing most of the fighting now in Syria.

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The 22nd Winter Olympics are officially under way, after an

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opening ceremony in the Russian resort of Sochi combined spectacular

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effects with the customary questionable team outfits. They are

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the most expensive Olympic Games ever. Building the infrastructure

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from scratch, as well as intense security, is estimated to have cost

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more than ?30 billion. 3000 athletes from 88 countries are set to take

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part. Another 700 will compete in the Paralympic Games next month.

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And, the world is watching. Some three billion people across the

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globe are expected to see the Games on TV. Our sports editor, David

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Bond, was watching the ceremony. There are flashing images in his

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report. After so many years and so much

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money, this was finally Russia's time. In front of 40,000 people in

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the Fisht Stadium, and opening ceremony designed to wow the world.

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It was an avant-garde journey through this country's cultural and

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political history, but not everything went according to plan.

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One of the iconic Olympic rings failed to open. Let's hope the

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president didn't see, for these games are a showcase for Vladimir

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Putin's modern Russia. For Britain's athletes, the expectations

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are also high, after the success of London, Team GB are aiming for their

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biggest Winter medal haul for 78 years. With the athletes parade

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over, the show returns to the theme of the evening - a celebration of

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Russia's might. But the significance of this display of traditional

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family values will not have been lost on those who have attacked

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Russia for its stance on gay rights. There were concerns that President

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Putin might try to hijack the ceremony, but in opening the Games,

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he kept it short. It was then left to two of Russia's most

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distinguished Winter Olympians to light the Olympic called run, and

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provide a stunning finale. So the Sochi Games are officially under

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way, and while tonight's ceremony has passed successfully, the

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organisers know they still face major challenges in the coming days.

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But, for now, all the concerns about security, human rights and

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atmosphere can wait. Tonight was all about Russia's party.

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Well, the Winter Olympics may have got under way smoothly, but

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preparations for this summer's World Cup in Brazil have been marred by

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violent protests in Rio de Janeiro. Among the grievances are complaints

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that while a huge amount of money is being spent on the football, life

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for many ordinary Brazilians is increasingly tough. From Rio, Wyre

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Davies sent this report. Led by the radical hard-core Black

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Blocs thousands of demonstrators marched through Rio, denouncing

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excessive World Cup spending. The protesters cry, FIFA, pay my fair.

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But events soon descended into violence, and the running battle

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between riot police and demonstrators. These are the most

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violent scenes we have had in Rio now for several weeks and months.

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Thousands of protesters have marched into the Central Station, where they

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are being met by riot police with tear gas and smoke bombs. The

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situation has become desperately violent. Hundreds of commuters were

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caught between the two sides, and the clashes spilled out onto Rio's

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Main Avenue. As what appears to be a home-made device, or improvised

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firework explodes, a journalist falls to the floor. First to help,

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we tried to stop the bleeding from a gaping wound to his head. Angry

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protesters blamed police for the attack, but it quite possibly came

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from the other side. Six minutes later we managed to get him to

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hospital, still alive, but now in a deep coma. And the clashes soon

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resume. These anti-World Cup, anti-government protests have not

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relented. The US says it's increasing its

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military operations in the Horn of Africa to try to tackle violent

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extremism. America's base in the tiny state of Djibouti is the focus

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for counter-terrorism operations against Al-Shabab in neighbouring

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Somalia and Al-Qaeda in Southern Yemen, both organisations which have

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targeted British civilians. Our security correspondent, Frank

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Gardner, has this exclusive report from Djibouti.

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In the deserts of Djibouti, the US military is stepping up operations.

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It is flying long-range missions all over East Africa, determined to

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counter what it calls violent extremism. These are special forces

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rescue paratroopers, trained to retrieve troops from deep inside

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Somalia. From its base in Djibouti, America is extending its reach

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across this region. It isn't alone. This is a French helicopter

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refuelling from a US tank. This long-range air to air refuelling is

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just one tiny part of the huge build up in US and coalition military

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operations here in the Horn of Africa, and Djibouti is the nerve

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centre. This former French colony has thrown in its lot with the

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West. Its Foreign Minister tells me it makes it a target for Al-Shabab,

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so he supports controversial US drone strikes launched from this

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country. These people are very dangerous, Al-Qaeda and Al-Shabab

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elements, so whatever it takes. If we can contain them, OK. If we can

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get rid of them, it's better, but we don't have to waste time in asking

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the rest of Africa if we should use drones or not. The US base here has

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swollen to over 4000 people. Soldiers are sent from here to fight

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Al-Shabab, seen by Washington as the main threat in the region. The

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reason we are here is to neutralise Al-Shabab in Somalia. That's why I'm

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sitting right hip, so I can assist the other nations to neutralise

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Al-Shabab in Somalia, so it will not leave Somalia or threaten the United

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States interests, or our country as a whole. America certainly has the

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tools and its armoury, but does it have the patience? 20 years ago, it

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rushed to leave this region after getting embroiled in Somalia's clan

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wars. Now it is trying a different approach, but defeating extremism

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here could still take years. It was 50 years ago today - that the

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Beatles conquered the USA. The Fab Four touched down in New York for an

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appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show that made them instant household

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names, from LA to Arkansas. Nick Bryant reports from New York.

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Severally the seventh 1964, and the Beatles arrived in a country that

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wanted something to smile about. -- February the 7th. Just 77 days after

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the death of John F. Kennedy. The Beatles were the tonic the nation

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needed. They lifted the national mood in an instant. Ladies and

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gentlemen, the Beatles. This was the moment they sang themselves into

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history. Their performance on the Ed Sullivan Show was watched by almost

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half the American population. It helped usher in the country's modern

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age. What happened inside this theatre changed America, from the

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clothes people walk to the way they style their hair. The Fab Four also

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set the musical agenda for the rest of the 60s. Memphis and Elvis gave

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way to Merseyside and the Beatles. Henry Grossman was there that

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night. It was incredible to be there, to partake in that moment in

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what we now know is history. This became an iconic image of the 60s,

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this teenager a symbol of a generation. I thought Paul McCartney

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was the best looking thing I had ever seen in my life, and I wanted

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to marry him. The Beatles thought they wouldn't make a lasting impact.

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50 years on, it is still being felt. That's all from

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