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Tonight at Ten: The advance of the Taliban.

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They've now taken control of key parts of Sangin in Helmand province.

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Afghan security forces are battling to regain control of the area once

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patrolled by British troops as ministers deny the fight

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We did hear from families who said all the blood that British troops

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They are too far away and they don't see the reality.

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We will be reporting from Afghanistan where local

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commanders have appealed for more NATO support.

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Also tonight: More problems for Cumbria as the county is flooded

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for the third time in a month and more rain is forecast over

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We can't go on like this, not if towns like this

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The Forth Road Bridge reopens earlier than expected

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after emergency repairs but heavy goods vehicles are still banned.

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Enjoy the wine and the mince pies. Goodbye.

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Festive greetings to the media from Louis Van Gaal

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following speculation about his position at Old Trafford.

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And it won't be long, just a couple of hours,

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before The Beatles' music is finally made available

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Later on BBC London: Out on the street.

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A sharp rise in the number of renters in London facing

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And, riding through red lights and on the pavement.

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The Taliban say they're back in control of the town of Sangin

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Fighting between government troops and the Taliban has intensified

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in recent days and militants say they've taken over the main police

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base and the government headquarters.

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But the Afghan government claims that the fighting is still going on,

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with British military advisers helping the Afghan troops.

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There have also been clashes further south at Marjah.

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Our correspondent Shaimaa Khalil sent this report from Kabul.

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As the Taliban announced victory in Sangin district,

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Afghan troops are desperately fighting to push them back,

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not just from the strategic town, but other districts

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It looked as if things could get better for the Afghan soldiers,

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after supplies were airdropped and additional troops arrived.

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TRANSLATION: We're ready to defend our country,

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And when we get the order, we will fight the enemy.

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Here in Kabul, the acting Afghan Defence Minister insists

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the Army is still resisting and that the operation

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What do you say to British families who have lost relatives in Sangin,

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in particular, who said the British military provided support,

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training, money, they paid in blood, only for the Afghan army to fail?

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The British and other nations, they have contributed

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with their blood and their contributions and sacrifice,

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that is always appreciated by the people of Afghanistan.

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But at the same time in just one year we took over responsibility,

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we were thinly spread throughout the country.

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We tried our best to hold all those areas.

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The latest fighting in Helmand has exposed weaknesses in the Afghan

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army and the government in maintaining a solid grip

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of security after the withdrawal of Nato forces.

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It is in that weakness that the Taliban found the chance

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to regroup and deal heavy blows to the Afghan troops

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Each loss of a strategic position also means loss of Afghan lives

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and families getting caught in the violence.

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TRANSLATION: We fled home with the clothes on our backs.

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I went to the market and saw Taliban militants there.

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In a statement today, the Taliban condemned the British

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troops for returning to Helmand province to support Afghan forces.

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They said the British Government has broken its promise to the people not

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More than 100 British troops were killed in Sangin alone

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and as the Taliban continue to tighten their hold

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on the districts of Helmand province, many will continue to ask

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Are the authorities there saying that without extra support of some

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kind from NATO retaking Sangin is simply not possible? Essentially

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that's what they're saying and you hear that from the local commanders

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on the ground and the front line but also from the officials. For

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example, as I spoke to the defence Minister earlier today I asked him

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what do you want from NATO troops? He basically spoke about the right

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kind of support. He said that 10, 20, 100 troops on the ground will

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not make a difference but if we have the right equipment, the right

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training and, crucially, air support, that is going to make the

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difference. Remember, that in any of the other battles that has been

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happening between the Taliban fighters and the Government forces

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for months now, the real thing that shifted the balance in any of those

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battles has been air support and that's why you hear from fighters in

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Sangin how exposed they feel without that so any conversations between

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the Afghans and NATO allies on how to move forward is definitely going

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to be about air support. Thank you for the update.

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The Met Office has warned that Christmas could bring more heavy

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rain to parts of Cumbria, where some homes and businesses have

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been flooded for the third time in a month.

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The River Eden has again burst its banks, forcing some people

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Forecasters say gale force winds and more heavy rain are due over

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Christmas, as our correspondent Ed Thomas reports.

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Hopefully the council will pick it up.

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This is now becoming all too familiar for newsagent

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Richard Maguire - for the second time hit by floods.

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When I first saw it, it was horrifying, really.

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We cannot go on like this all the time, not if towns like this

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We cannot have this as a regular occurrence.

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The River Eden had burst its banks, taken over the high street

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Well, the first time, a fortnight ago, was about here.

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Philip Mawdsley is still trying to cope after the first flood here.

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Where do you begin when you have lost so much?

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Just going to have to get on with it.

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The next storm is due to arrive on Christmas Day.

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The problem is that rivers across Cumbria are full.

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The ground in places like Appleby is absolutely saturated.

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So when it rains here, there is nowhere for all this to go.

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You may have seen an event like we saw yesterday perhaps

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Well, this is on the back of events over the last month or so.

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We are seeing a change in the way that the rain storms and rainfall

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So, how can people move on when they fear more

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The biggest issue here is the impact on our town.

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It has the potential to destroy the community, which...

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..actually is a very, very, very strong community.

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There will only be two properties occupied in the whole of this area

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on Christmas Day, which is really sad.

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But it is still an anxious time, because nobody is certain

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what the rivers here will do on Christmas Day.

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The UK economy grew less strongly this year than previously thought,

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according to the Office for National Statistics.

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Previously, GDP was estimated to be growing at 0.5% in the third quarter

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But today this was revised down to 0.4% due to slower

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than expected growth in the services sector.

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The ONS also cut its estimate for the second

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The lower growth means the Bank of England is widely expected

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to hold back from increasing interest rates

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The price of oil, which has fallen sharply over the past year to less

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than 40 dollars a barrel, has created a challenging

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environment for the oil industry, according to the producers cartel,

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But it says prices should slowly pick up over the next few years

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as demand recovers but will probably not reach the previous high of 100

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Our industry correspondent John Moylan is here.

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What happens to oil prices matters to all of us. What Opec says matters

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too because of its influence in the global oil market. Just 18 months

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ago prices were up at $115 a barrel. Then they started to tumble, 2015

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has been a year of real volatility. Oil was trading at $67 back in the

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spring. As the year closes, prices have

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fallen again. This week hitting just over $36 a barrel, its lowest level

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for more than a decade. So, why is this happening?

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Places like this are at the heart of an energy revolution that's

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boosted US oil and gas production and caused prices to fall.

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And when the countries that make up Opec opted not to cut production

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Now the oil producing cartel says growing demand in the years ahead

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will cause prices to recover to around $70 after adjusting

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for inflation by the end of the decade.

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There is a huge amount of physical oil above ground and this oversupply

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is going to keep prices low for quite sometime.

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Their assumptions that the price is going to rise to $70 by 2020

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is very unlikely, unless there is some geo-political intervention.

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There are winners and losers in this low oil price world.

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The steep fall in petrol prices this year has kept more cash

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But big oil producers like Saudi Arabia have

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seen their income fall, they're getting less cash

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The oil majors have also slashed investment, hitting employment

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An estimated 65,000 oil-related jobs have gone across the UK this year,

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I think there probably will be more job losses.

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There's been a tremendous number this year but if we don't get

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exploring again, if we don't get rigs back working and seismic

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vessels out acquiring data again I think we will see more losses.

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Back in the US, low oil prices are starting to hurt higher cost

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producers like fracking firms but Opec says its share of the oil

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market is still likely to fall by the end of the decade.

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Longer term Opec thinks oil prices could hit $95 a barrel by 2040. But

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that suggests that we will not be returning to those high prices that

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we saw just a few years ago. A brief look at some

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of the day's other news stories. In Iraq, a major military offensive

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to push Islamic State militants out of the strategic town of Ramadi

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is being held back by fierce fighting and bombs

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planted by the militants. Iraqi officials say they remain

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confident they will recapture the city before

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the end of this week. Labour says the Government's promise

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of an extra ?3.8 billion for the NHS in England next year will be

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swallowed up by hospital deficits and higher pension costs for staff

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and that very little will be left The Department of Health says

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Labour's assumptions were wrong, and they hadn't taken into account

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efficiency savings likely to be The Scottish Government's plans

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for a minimum price for alcohol would contravene

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European trade laws. That's the ruling of

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the European Court of Justice. Instead, judges said that tax rises

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on alcoholic drinks were likely The case will now go to the Court

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of Session in Edinburgh for a final Almost three days after

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a landslide in China a man has been pulled

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alive from the rubble The 19-year-old man survived

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by eating fruit that The accident was caused by a huge

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rubbish dump collapsing, burying dozens of buildings

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in a pile of earth and construction A huge rescue and clear-up

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operation is under way. At least four bodies have been

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recovered so far. More than 70 people

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are still missing. The Forth Road Bridge has reopened

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to traffic after urgent repairs The long delays and diversions

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suffered by drivers were eased as cars were allowed to cross

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the bridge between Edinburgh and Fife just before

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dawn this morning. Ministers were forced to close

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the 51-year-old crossing to all traffic earlier this month

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after a crack was found Lorries and other heavy

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vehicles are still banned, Christmas has come early

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for these drivers. For just under three weeks the road

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network in the east of Scotland had been cut in half after

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the Forth Road Bridge was closed to all traffic, but now

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it's working once again, with cars, small vans,

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cyclists allowed back on. It's tremendous that it's open,

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it's great that it's open early. Engineers dangling high

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above the Forth have been working hard to repair the cracked

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steelwork that forced Its shutdown led to traffic jams,

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long detours and packed trains for those who chose

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to leave the car at home. Local businesses that rely

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on the bridge for trade have been Christmas is normally our busiest

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time of year and it has been absolutely dead, but hopefully our

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friends from over the water While the bridge reopening has

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delighted most motorists, large lorries are still barred

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from it until a permanent repair The impact on the haulage industry

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could run to ?40 million. For us it is adding

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on a 60-mile round trip, The closure is costing

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her company dear. From our point of view,

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we operate 15 lorries and on average most of them will be crossing

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the bridge each day, so the cost for us is running

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into thousands of pounds a week. The effect of that could be

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catastrophic on us and other For some the transport disruption

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and worries continue, but for others the partial

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re-opening of this crossing is a much welcomed early

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gift for those heading This week we've been reflecting

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on this year's migration crisis which has reached record levels

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in Europe in recent months. Some experts have advised caution,

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stressing that mass movement of people has been an even greater

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challenge for the international community at key points

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in the past century, including the Second World War

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and the wars in Vietnam In the last of our series,

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our world affairs editor, John Simpson, takes the longer view

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over patterns of mass migration. The vast wave of would-be immigrants

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into Europe has seemed unprecedented, and yet this sort

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of thing has been happening again When Germany invaded Belgium

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in 1914, 1 million people fled the country, and 250,000

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came to Britain. After 1945, an estimated 12 million

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ethnic Germans fled Eastern Europe. They took refuge in

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East and West Germany. During the Kosovo conflict

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in 1988-89, hundreds of thousands During the Kosovo conflict

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in 1998-99, hundreds of thousands But there is something

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new and different about I think it is a crisis of politics

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rather than numbers. What's dramatic about today is this

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is the first time Europe has faced people coming outside of Europe

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in large numbers as refugees. So the fact that many are Muslims,

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that they are from the Middle East, is perceived often as threatening,

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as challenging Europe's identity. Even so, for centuries now, Britain,

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like the rest of Europe, has accepted great waves

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of immigrants, and each time it has needed at least a generation

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to absorb them. This process of absorption has never

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been as great as it is now, with more than 300 languages

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being spoken in schools Yet with each new wave

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of immigrants, the basic reaction NEWSREEL: The Asians arrived

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in cold, wet weather at Stansted... We saw this divided response

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when almost 60,000 Ugandan Asians were forced out by

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Idi Amin in the 1970s. Some people welcomed

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them, others didn't. If there was room, there was houses,

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there was jobs I would say nothing about it, nothing at all, but again,

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I say that we have too many coloured people in this country to absorb

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in our community at this time. That hasn't always been

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the international response. After the Vietnam War,

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the Vietnamese boat people, fearing Communist persecution,

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sought refuge abroad, and the United States persuaded

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the outside world to accept them. We have a global problem,

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which is poor global governance, if you like,

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at a multilateral level. The US doesn't have the influence

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that it had, and the big powers don't agree fundamentally on some

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of these big issues, No-one can come in with a big stick

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and sort it out, therefore we are left picking up the pieces

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in ways that are extremely An entire century of

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exile and homelessness. So is the cause - conflict

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and bad government. Unless they are dealt with,

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the flow won't stop. The former England football player

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and coach, Don Howe, He earned 23 England caps before

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establishing himself as a renowned He was a key member of the coaching

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staff for three England managers in a career that spanned

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more than 50 years. Louis van Gaal, the Manchester

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United manager, spent just a few minutes fielding questions

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from journalists today before walking out of a news conference

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in response to all the speculation He's been criticised recently

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because United have been knocked out of the Champions' League and have

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also lost their last six games. Let's join our sports correspondent,

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David Ornstein, at Old Trafford. This was an extraordinary

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performance from Louis van Gaal. The like of which we rarely see in top

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level sport. The big question is, was this premeditated, an attempt to

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galvanise the players, fans and staff, to create a siege mentality.

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Or was it a sign of Louis van Gaal beginning to show the strain of

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Manchester United's worst run of form in 17 years? He arrived in May

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2014 to great fanfare and with a glittering CV. Louis van Gaal

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formerly of Ajax, Barcelona and Bayern Munich picked to take

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Manchester United back to the summit of their post-Sir Alex Ferguson

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plummet. He made a reasonable start, but now after a run of six games

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without victory the pressure is on. Today the media bore the brunt. Has

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anybody in this room not a feeling to apologise to me? Nobody has that

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feeling? That's what I am wondering. I was already sacked. I have read, I

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have been sacked. I helped my players. I wish you a merry

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Christmas and maybe also a happy new year when I see you. Enjoy the wine

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and a mince pie. Goodbye. And with that he was off. The glare said it

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all. But if Louis van Gaal felt isolated he felt a friend in a

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rival, the Premier League's longest serving manager. I personally have

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huge respect for Louis van Gaal and I think what's going on on there at

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the moment is disrespectful. This guy has worked for 30 years in

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football and has delivered unbelievable quality of work. But

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the world's biggest clubs demand success and van Gaal must now call

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upon all his experience to deliver what Manchester United expect.

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Fixtures over the Christmas period are always vital for van Gaal never

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more so than now. Chelsea's sacking of Jose Mourinho last week show that

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at the biggest clubs managers are rarely safe, however big their name

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or reputation. The bottom line is that it is results that matter most.

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Huw. David, thank you. In one sense, it's an early

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Christmas present for Beatles fans, because from tomorrow The Beatles'

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music will finally be available on streaming services such

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as Spotify, Google Play and Apple The tracks will go live at one

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minute past midnight, including their studio albums

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and their best-known compilation 1967, all you need is love,

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broadcast live by what was then the latest thing, satellite. But 38

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years on there's a new technology growing ology growing rapidly, 80% a

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year - streaming. All you need is a computer or smartphone. Any song at

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the push of a button. So if you want to listen to Yesterday, you've got a

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great choice. Kenny G? Andre Rieux... But not until now the

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Beatles original, the decision to stream though hasn't been taken

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lightly. Big old acts like the Stones and Led Zeppelin, they keep

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the lights on at record labels. For every Ed Sheeran or Taylor Swift, a

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lot of money goes into hearing about those artists and those artists

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don't often make money back. Remember, the biggest selling album

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of the year of 2000 was The Beatles. And visit Abbey Road studios and

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there's always a crowd of young people. So 50 years on after their

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heyday here at Abbey Road, The Beatles are still finding a new

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generation of fans, but are they buying the music? You like The

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Beatles? Of course. Have you ever bought a Beatles song? What?

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Actually no. No. I just YouTube it. No. My dad has it already. The

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problem is CDs brought a torrent of cash, streaming a dibble, but it is

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where the fans are going. If you're not, there even a song like

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Yesterday can be foregroten. E not, there even a song like

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Yesterday can be foregroten. -- forgotten. I don't know it. I have

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no idea. I don't know, mate. I don't know, mate. Happy Christmas! So,

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streaming might not be lucrative but it will at least give them a chance

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to meet The Beatles.

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