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Tonight at Ten - dozens of countries, including the UK,

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agree to work together on tax rules for multinational companies.

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Here in the UK - the controversial recent deal between Google and HMRC

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has led to calls for more fairness and transparency.

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Why is there one rule for big multinational companies and another

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for ordinary small businesses and self-employed workers?

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This company and other companies will pay more

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in future than they ever paid under Labour.

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We'll have more on the Google row - and on today's tax agreement

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As more migrants arrive in the Greek islands -

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Greece is accused of 'seriously neglecting' its obligations -

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The grandparents of a severely disabled teenager -

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have won the latest round of their legal challenge -

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Brazilian scientists are stepping up the search -

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for ways of containing the zika virus - which could be causing

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And, for the first time since 1977 - a British woman progresses

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to the semifinal - of a Grand Slam tennis tournament.

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Will the head of Scotland Yard be out of a job by August -

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because of a delay over reappointment by the Mayor?

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And a warning for runners about the long-term damage

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Dozens of countries - including Britain -

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have signed an agreement - to deal with tax evasion

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and avoidance - by some of the world's most

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The deal was agreed by the G20 nations in Paris -

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following concern about the way some big firms -

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move their profits - to countries with lower tax rates.

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During the day - David Cameron defended the recent deal

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between Google and HMRC - to pay ?130 million

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Labour has written to the National Audit Office -

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asking for the deal to be investigated -

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as our political editor Laura Kuenssberg reports.

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How much should be companies pay in tax? A well-known one many others

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use every day nearly has just paid ?130 million to catch up on its bill

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for the last ten years. That sounds a lot but when in just one year its

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sales were 4.6 billion command profits were more than 100 million

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over 18 months Jeremy Corbyn doesn't think that sounds quite right, or

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maybe even fair. Many people go into their HMRC offices or returning them

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online this week will say this: why is there one rule for big

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multinational companies, and another for ordinary small businesses and

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self-employed workers? The Prime Minister tried to tough it

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out. When I came to power, banks didn't

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pay tax on all of their profits are allowed under Labour and stopped

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under the Tories, investment companies could cut their tax bill

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by flipping the currency their accounts were in, allowed under

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Labour, stopped under the Tories. Companies fiddle accounting rules to

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make losses disappear into thin air, allowed under Labour and banned

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under the Tories. Politicians have been keen to praise Google's

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success, and when the firm announced after nine years of negotiations

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they were finally going to cough up, the Chancellor claimed it was a

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victory for the Government. He needs to come clean and tell is acceptable

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the details of the scheme is, how he arrived at it, why he has arrived at

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it and why it is 3% when other companies pay 20% or 30%. Most

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people find it's unacceptable and we need to know why. If you were the

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Chancellor what would you do that was different at this moment? We

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wouldn't have a delight this? You would tell HMRC not to do the deal?

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We would have openness and transparency. Should politicians

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publish their tax returns? Yes. Would you publish your tax return?

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Yes. Remember, there is no suggestion Google has broken the

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law. Big companies' tax bills are not just calculate it by where they

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do business but by the kind of business they do in each country.

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When you are looking at which country gets what tax you don't

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carve it up as to where the sales are under current rules. The closest

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simple principle to how you carve it up to negotiate it is where is the

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value added? Ministers have already changed the law to make it harder

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for firms to avoid tax. The government is careful to point out

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the deal with Google was brokered by the taxman at HMRC, not a deal that

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was done in back rooms by ministers themselves. But this is simply too

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tempting a political attack for Labour to leave alone. They'll use

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every chance to embarrass the government to try to make it hurt.

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There have been awkward conversations about other big

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brands. Dozens of companies have signed up today to tighten the rules

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but that won't shut down the debate here about who pays what and what is

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fair. Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster.

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Today's agreement in Paris - was described in some quarters

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as the most fundamental change to

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for almost a century - and it's being seen as a vital step

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- to make big global companies - pay more tax.

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For its part - Google says it is operating entirely

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within the law - and has done nothing wrong.

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To take a closer look at how tax rules affect multinational companies

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- here's our economics editor Kamal Ahmed.

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International tax law is certainly complicated -

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Let's try and unpick how Google operates.

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Britain is the tech giant's second biggest market.

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It sells ?4.6 billion worth of its products here.

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Google is also an American company and, under tax law,

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that sales money is mainly taxed in the US -

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via, somewhat controversially, low or no tax countries like Ireland

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That structure is comparable to a British company selling

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products abroad - it would pay most of its tax here.

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So why does Google pay any tax in Britain?

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Because Google in America pays mooney to a subsidiary,

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Google UK, over ?1 billion between 2014 and 2015

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The profit from that payment - as Laura's piece mentioned -

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Just over ?46 million, actually a figure pretty comparable

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In Paris today, the global economic organisation,

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the OECD, signed a new deal on global tax.

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Nobody's willing to pay more taxes than they should.

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The question is: are they going to pay the taxes that they should pay?

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And all we are saying is - fair share - and all we are saying

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is - logic - you pay taxes where you generate the profits.

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There will be more transparency on who pays what where and other

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countries are keen to ensure that Google pays more tax

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TRANSLATION: It's a good thing that Google resolves its problems

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in the UK, but Google also has to sort out

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We do not want to reach a one-off agreement,

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We are looking at what activity a particular

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company has in France so we can request a fair amount of tax,

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not more, not less than other companies.

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as I said, last year Google paid ?46 million in tax.

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And that's from a company that tonight announced profits

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of over ?1 billion globally for the last three months.

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It is unlikely that this controversy has run its full course.

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The Greek government has defended the work of its border control

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agency - after being accused of 'seriously

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The criticism was made by the European Commission -

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and focused on Greece's control of the external frontier

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of the Schengen zone - the passport-free area

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Our correspondent James Reynolds reports from Samos -

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one of the islands identified by European officials -

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The kids in this camp in Samos have made meticulous drawings

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of their mile-long sea trip to Greece.

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The European Commission wishes that Greece itself had been as thorough

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Over the last year more than 600,000 migrants and refugees have made it

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Some were fingerprinted, others, to Europe's

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Tonight the mayor of Samos told me that his

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island was doing all that it could to get the process right.

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We ask and demand from the European Union to

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understand that we are the front liners of Europe.

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And they say you're not doing enough?

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In some places the island has taken steps.

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It's built this hillside camp in order to screen

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The draft report concludes that Greece seriously

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neglected its obligations and there are serious deficiencies

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in the carrying out of external border

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controls that must be overcome and dealt with by

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Greek officials have managed to register the migrants at this

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on to the rest of the continent.

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blamed for a Europe-wide problem.

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And it's worried about what may happen next if the EU decides

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to seal borders further north, Greece fears these, its islands,

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Europe insists that it has no plans to isolate Greece.

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But it does want to find a lasting way of documenting

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and then limiting the numbers who wish to make Europe their home.

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Let's go live to Brussels and speak to our Europe editor Katya Adler.

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The Greeks today said they didn't like the sense of being isolated in

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some sense by this criticism. Is the aim to isolate Greece here?

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Greece feels this is unfair but for months it has failed to really

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register refugees. It is far easier to wave them northwards and make it

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another country's problem, but arguably the weakness in the

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Schengen agreement, the agreement allowing for passport-free travel

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among 26 European countries isn't one nation, Greece, it's that the

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architects of the agreement didn't make provisions for the fact that

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the southern flank of Schengen is guarded by Greece, Spain and Italy,

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four years collectively known as Europe's poorest soft underbelly. So

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why were these provisions not put in place? Why was there no back-up plan

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cousin -- back-up plan? Schengen is seen as one of the greatest

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achievements of the EU increasing trade and travel and increasing the

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meeting of minds and the EU is desperate not to let it die but in

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the last months we have seen countries like Austria, Sweden and

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Hungary saying they cannot accept the number of newcomers they did

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last year. Up until now there is a never used our kids all in Schengen

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allowing the border controls to remain in place for up to two years.

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If there is found to be a weak link, in this case Greece. That's what

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today's announcement by the commission is all about, trying to

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save Schengen in the face of the migrant crisis. Thank you for your

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analysis, Katya Adler in Brussels. The convicted murderer -

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Levi Bellfield has admitted - for the first time -

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that he abducted, raped and killed Milly was 13 years old when she was

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abducted on her way from school in Walton-on-Thames

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in Surrey in March 2002. Bellfield was jailed

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for life in 2011 after pleading not guilty

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to the teenager's murder. Surrey police say he made

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his admission of guilt when he was being interviewed

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by detectives about claims The Court of Appeal has ruled

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that the government's spare room subsidy - the so-called 'bedroom

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tax' - discriminates against the family of

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a severely-disabled teenager - and against a victim

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of domestic violence. They had both argued that changes

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to housing benefit - unlawfully discriminated

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against them. The Government has been given

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permission to challenge the ruling - as our home editor

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Mark Easton reports. The Government calls it the removal

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of the spare room subsidy, but to many it's the hated bedroom tax.

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Today's opponents welcomed a Court of Appeal ruling that the policy

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which cuts housing benefit to those deemed to be under occupying social

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housing discriminates against vulnerable people. The Rutherford

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family from Pembrokeshire had gone to court arguing they needed a spare

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room so carers for their severely disabled grandson could stay

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overnight. A victim of domestic violence who is secure panic room

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counted as a spare room also sought a judicial review. Although both

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households get discretionary housing payments from their local council,

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the Appeal Court judges said the policy was a breach of human rights.

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I am a bit lost for words, I could almost cry with happiness. And I

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hope that other people in our situation are going to benefit from

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this court's decision as well. Bedroom tax, introduced in 2013, has

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reduced the housing benefit bill by almost ?500,000 per year -- ?500

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million per year. Of those households affected 45% saw their

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household composition change and 20% change their earnings, or found work

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and 12% moved to a smaller house. Among those still affected 57% have

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reduced spending on food and heating and 37% borrowed money and 29% have

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applied for emergency funding. The Department for Work and Pensions

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have said they have significantly increased the amount of the

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emergency help, ?500 million more available for discretionary housing

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payments since 2011 and an extra ?870 million over the next five

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years. But ministers say there is also a moral argument for the

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policy, that a spare room is a luxury people in the private rented

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sector have to pay for. Our fundamental position is that it's

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unfair to subsidise spare rooms in the social sector if you don't

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subsidise them in the private sector where people are paying a housing

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benefit. Nevertheless, an independent evaluation of the policy

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finds confusion, frustration and little certainty for honourable

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groups, news that ministers are appealing today's judgment was

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greeted by the Rutherford family with this may. I've just heard this

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minute that the Government are going to appeal, which to me is just

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ridiculous, because people like us don't need to be constantly,

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constantly applying for stuff, begging for stuff. To those that

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call it the bedroom tax, including both Labour and the SNP, the policy

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should be abolished. At ministers argue the removal of the spare room

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subsidy is encouraging tens of thousands to become less reliant on

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the state. Mark Easton, BBC News. A brief look at some

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of the day's other news stories. Five former brokers have been

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cleared of conspiracy to defraud in connection with an investigation

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into whether the interbank lending rate, known as Libor,

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was manipulated. The men were accused

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of helping Tom Hayes, the first person to be

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convicted of rigging Libor. The French Justice Minister,

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Christiane Taubira, has resigned in protest at proposed changes

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to the constitution which could see people convicted of terrorism

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stripped of their citizenship. She said she disagreed with the idea

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which was one of the measures announced in response to the attacks

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in Paris in November. The world tennis authorities have

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launched an independent review into allegations of corruption

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following claims of match-fixing. An investigation by the BBC

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and Buzzfeed News found that several top players had been allowed

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to continue competing despite suspicions

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they'd fixed matches. The frontrunner for the Republican

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presidential nomination, Donald Trump, has been ridiculed

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by rivals for refusing to take part Mr Trump pulled out of the show,

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hosted by Fox News, because he objected to the choice

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of moderator after clashing Brazilian health officials have

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reported a sharp increase in cases of microcephaly, a rare condition

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in which an infant's head Experts say they strongly suspect

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that the Zika virus is to blame and they revealed today

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that there have been more than 4,000 suspected cases since

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the start of last year. Researchers are using new genetic

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technology to try to contain the spread of the virus by mosquitos

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as our South America correspondent, Releasing hundreds of thousands

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of fertile mosquitos into the suburbs of Brazil's

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biggest city in the middle but these are genetically

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modified Aedes aegypti. The very species responsible

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for transmitting Zika When they mate, they'll pass

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on a self-limiting gene. What does it mean

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for their offspring? Well, they're offspring will die

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before they become new flying adults, which is the life stage that

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matters for disease transmissions. So they're going to die

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while they're larvaeing. Here we just have freshly hatched

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eggs and we have some really tiny This British-owned lab says

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the technique has reduced by over 90% the number of

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mosquitos in some areas. Fed on a smelly mixture of fish

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food and sheep's blood, This technology was developed

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in the UK, indeed all of these mosquitos are descendants

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from the first eggs brought over Now, they produce about two million

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male mosquitos here every week and they're released

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into the general population to help in the fight against viruses

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like Zika and dengue. Zika's suspected of being

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responsible for a surge in microcephaly in Brazil,

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confirmed cases have almost doubled The government's announced help

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for poorer families, but the wider financial and social

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impact could be huge. At San Paulo's renowned

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Butantan Institute they're famous for research into anti-venmon

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and the production of biopharmaceuticals, now

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there's a new priority - finding a vaccine for Zika

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and they're starting from scratch. We still need to really describe

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and establish the link between the Zika virus

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and microcephaly, for example, but we do have the hypothesis that

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that relationship basically is true, but again, we need to demonstrate

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in order to even guide us to develop the best treatment or the best

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vaccine to prevent that problem. Trying to keep calm in the final

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weeks of pregnancy is not easy for expectant

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mothers in Brazil. At the beginning

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we were very worried. My husband, he kept putting

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on repellent on me all day. Developing a Zika vaccine could take

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10 years and with so much uncertainty about the illness,

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it's a time of real anxiety for many Ever since the modern

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computer was invented, the question of human

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versus artifical intelligence has Back in the 1990s, IBM's Deep Blue

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managed to beat the reigning chess The latest battle saw a computer

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beating a professional player at Go, that's the Chinese game that's even

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more complex than chess and played by more than 40 million people

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around the world as our technology correspondent, Rory

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Cellan-Jones, explains now. It's 2,500 years old and the rules

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are simple, but Go is a game of huge complexity and no computer has come

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close to beating a human champion Fan Hui is the European Go Champion,

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but five times in a row he played a computer programme

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called AlphaGo and lost. The programme was developed

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by a British artificial intelligence company, bought by

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Google two years ago. It's creator - himself a Go player -

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says the computer first studied the patterns that

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are repeated in games. After it's learnt that,

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it's got to a kind of reasonable standard through looking

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at professional games, it now plays itself,

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different versions of itself, millions and millions

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of times and each time gets As computers have advanced,

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they've taken on more In the 1950s, they beat

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Noughts and Crosses, a game with 362,880

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possible positions. In the 1990s, they cracked Chess,

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which has 9 million possible But Go offers complexity

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on a completely different scale. Here's the figure for how many

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different positions there can be in one game - 10

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to the power of 171. That's one and an awful

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lot of zeros. Amongst those trying to build

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advanced artificial intelligence, beating Go is being

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seen as a key moment. There have been teams from around

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the world in universities and companies all trying

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to solve this problem. This has been seen as a landmark

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for artificial intelligence research and it's very impressive that

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they've managed to get the people The man who's led this breakthrough

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believes artificial intelligence will now have applications

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far beyond games. It's going to yield some fabulous

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benefits for society. You know, ultimately,

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being applied to things and science to assist human experts

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make breakthroughs more quickly There's a lot of human brain power

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employed developing the strategy Now computers have learned to do

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this, they'll move on to even In the Libyan port of Benghazi

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a coalition, led by the Libyan army, is fighting on two fronts

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against the forces of so-called Benghazi, where the Libyan uprising

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started back in 2011, has for the past year-and-a-half

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suffered endless fighting which has left hundreds dead and many

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thousands homeless. One of the few journalists to enter

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Benghazi is Feras Kilani from the BBC's Arabic Service and he

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sent us this exclusive report. Struggling to hold their positions,

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these fighters are working with the army trying to stop

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the advance of Islamist militias. We are some of the few journalists

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to access these front-lines. It's impossible to reach this area

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without the protection This was the city that started

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the Libya revolution five years ago. Entire neighbourhoods have been

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destroyed and thousands have fled. The armed forces still control most

:25:32.:25:38.

of the city. But now they are losing

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ground to the Islamists. We just pulled up here

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on the side of the road, this is the only entrance

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to the city of Benghazi. If you come with me to this point,

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you can see how the front-line has moved forward in

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the last few months. Inside these damaged buildings

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are snipers which put all these roads and residential

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areas under threat. A growing number of commanders blame

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the losses on the army's leadership. TRANSLATION: What pushed

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us to this situation There's a big disagreement

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between the front-line commanders, the army leadership,

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and the politicians. Just a few hundred meters away

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from the front-line, It has been hit before,

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but children are desperate Here the gunfire is constant,

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the pupils no longer react. Their teacher tries to reassure me

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"everything is fine", she tells me. But sfter missing almost

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two years of school, these children's

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futures are bleak. Emerging from the chaos in Benghazi,

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the so-called Islamic State is now We saw their black flag clearly

:27:18.:27:20.

visible from the only The group's influence is growing,

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as fighters from other Islamist Back on the front-line,

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the men rest after a long day. All of them here say they will keep

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fighting, but as disagreements within the armed forces grow,

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so does the strength That was an exclusive report for us

:27:50.:27:51.

from Feras Kilani. Football, and Manchester City have

:27:52.:28:21.

beaten Everton to reach the final Despite going behind early

:28:22.:28:23.

in the match and being in deficit from the first leg of the tie,

:28:24.:28:27.

they rallied to win 3-1 Sergio Aguero scored

:28:28.:28:30.

the decisive goal. They'll now face Liverpool

:28:31.:28:32.

in the final at the end of February. For the first time since 1983,

:28:33.:28:35.

a British woman has progressed to the semi-final of

:28:36.:28:38.

a Grand Slam tennis tournament. Johanna Konta, who was born

:28:39.:28:40.

in Australia, but moved to Britain as a teenager, continued

:28:41.:28:43.

her sparkling run at Andy Murray is also

:28:44.:28:45.

through in the men's competition, COMMENTATOR: Johanna Konta,

:28:46.:28:53.

from Great Britain, born in Australia and then moved

:28:54.:28:57.

to Great Britain and has had Johanna Konta joked she has more

:28:58.:29:00.

passports than Jason Bourne, she also holds

:29:01.:29:03.

Hungarian nationality. For tennis fans, it's the way

:29:04.:29:09.

the 24-year-old has upped her game UMPIRE: Game, set and

:29:10.:29:12.

match, Johanna Konta. When I was a little girl,

:29:13.:29:17.

I dreamt of winning Grand Slams and being Number One in the world

:29:18.:29:20.

and that dream stays the same, I think, as long as you're doing

:29:21.:29:24.

the career that you're on. In the last year-and-a-half,

:29:25.:29:28.

she's jumped 100 places Many believe it's new found inner

:29:29.:29:30.

strength rather than ability that's She used to really bottle it in some

:29:31.:29:36.

matches and that was why I was saying, you know,

:29:37.:29:47.

she's so impressive when she gets She's been working

:29:48.:29:50.

with a psychologist. You know, she's been

:29:51.:29:53.

trying to get this right. For Andy Murray, Grand Slam

:29:54.:29:56.

semi-final spots are He made it past David Ferrer

:29:57.:29:59.

to reach the final four and believes recent British success

:30:00.:30:04.

has bred success. Success like we had at the Davis Cup

:30:05.:30:09.

is obviously great and, you know, the other players

:30:10.:30:12.

see that and, you know, I mean, Jo has obviously worked

:30:13.:30:15.

extremely hard over the last 18-months or so to put herself

:30:16.:30:29.

in the position that she's Jo Durie was the last British woman

:30:30.:30:31.

to reach a Grand Slam semi, Eight years before Johanna

:30:32.:30:35.

Konta was even born. Two Brits through to the semi-finals

:30:36.:30:46.

of a Grand Slam. For the last time that happened you have to go even

:30:47.:30:52.

further back, 1977, Sue Barker and John Lloyd. Johanna Konta will be

:30:53.:30:58.

back on court in five hours' time. Her opponent, the German number six

:30:59.:31:02.

in the world. So no slouch. Who knows, Huw, by the time people wake

:31:03.:31:07.

up tomorrow morning we may have a British woman in the final of the

:31:08.:31:12.

Australian Open. Huw. Looking forward to finding out. John, thanks

:31:13.:31:18.

very much. John Donnison there for us in Melbourne.

:31:19.:31:21.

Newsnight's coming up on BBC Two, here's Evan.

:31:22.:31:23.

Tonight, we're leading on a story of something that didn't happen

:31:24.:31:26.

today and that something might affect the light and power

:31:27.:31:29.

To find out what it is join me now on BBC Two, 11.00pm in Scotland.

:31:30.:31:34.

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