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No agreement so far among European leaders on tackling

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In the past few days, thousands more have crossed the sea

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from Turkey to Greece, leading to urgent talks

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But Turkey's Prime Minister makes some controversial demands,

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including speeding up his country's application to join the EU.

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There are many challenges in front of us.

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The only way to respond to these challenges is solidarity.

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We'll have the latest from the summit in Brussels,

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where leaders say they need more time.

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One of the biggest names in sport, the tennis star Maria Sharapova,

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I have to take full responsibility of it.

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It is my body and it is what I put into my body.

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I can't blame anyone for it but myself.

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A teenager is found guilty of killing this 16-year-old boy,

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who was stabbed at his school in Aberdeen.

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The British and French governments restate their commitment

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to a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point,

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And a trip to Sweden, to see what a driverless car

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They're going to ask 100 or nip Merry people to commute in an

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autonomous car. And coming up in

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Sportsday on BBC News. The Olympic cycling champion,

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Victoria Pendleton gets the green light to race at the

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Cheltenham Festival, only a year after her

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first riding lesson. The latest attempt to solve

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Europe's biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War

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has run into difficulties. EU leaders at a summit

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in Brussels said they needed more time

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to consider controversial new proposals from the

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Turkish Prime Minister. He's offered to help reduce

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the number of migrants sailing from his country

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to Greece, but in return, he wants a doubling of aid money

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and a faster process for Turkey The Turkish government has tonight

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denied using the refugee crisis Our Europe editor Katya

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Adler has the latest. Today is about stopping this. And

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this. And this. Or at least trying to, at yet another emergency

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migration summit here in Brussels. The aim of the meeting, neatly

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summed up by the Belgian Prime Minister. TRANSLATION: We must stop

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irregular migration, pure and simple, if any one country holds the

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key to alleviating this crisis, it is Turkey. Most refugees bring the

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people smugglers beanies trying to enter Europe through the Greek

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islands. The Turkish Prime Minister arrived at the summit sounding

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reasonable. The challenges will only be sold through our cooperation and

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Turkey is ready to work with the EU. But behind closed doors, he slapped

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the EE with additional political and funding demands, making it harder to

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reach agreement a night. -- the EU. The EU wants Turkey to crack down on

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people smugglers, preventing Dinize Wilsch migrants leaving for Europe

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in the first place. It wants Turkey to accept back wall migrants unable

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to claim asylum in the EU. In return, Turkey demands double the

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amount of aid originally promised by the EU to help with the migrant

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crisis. It wants the EU to take in an unspecified number of Syrian

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refugees directly from Turkey. It is insisting on its bid for EU

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membership being accelerated and to the EU to make it easy of a Turkish

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citizens to get visas. The EU is desperate for a Turkish deal. The

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migrant crisis is ripping Europe apart. The German Chancellor's

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political future hangs in the balance. But Turkey is not in a

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hurry. It is the gatekeeper to Europe and as such, can keep upping

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its demands. The shoe is very much on the other foot from the days when

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Turkey virtually begged a disdainful EU to join the club. Now the EU

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needs Turkey so much, it seems able to abandon even some of its

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cherished principles. Closing one eye at least the human rights abuses

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and the crushing of press freedoms. This was the Turkish governor to's

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response this weekend to protest against its takeover of Turkey's

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largest newspaper. With the EU overwhelmed, Nato is now wading into

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help, with a new mission aimed at stopping people smugglers. The

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British Royal Navy is taking part. It is important we help the

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continent of Europe to secure its external border. It is in our

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interests. That is why we are sending British ships to do just

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that. But that is far from enough to solve your's migrant crisis and EU

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leaders know it. There's been discussion tonight about breathing

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life into the unpopular plan for most countries to accept a quota of

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migrants stuck in Greece as well as taking in Syrian refugees from

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Turkey. The taking in Syrian refugees from

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this. But all too often in EU circles, promises are made to be

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broken. With farmers' fields and city squares like this filling

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everyday with more migrants, trusting neither Turkey nor its EU

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neighbours to help, Greece fears it is fast becoming the refugee camps

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are the continent. Katya Adler, BBC News, Brussels.

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As we heard, Turkey's Prime Minister has offered to limit

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the flow of migrants passing through his country,

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many of them sailing from the area around the port of Izmir,

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heading for the nearest Greek islands.

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Almost 130,000 migrants have arrived in Greece

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In the first few days of this month, just over 5,000 people arrived,

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compared to 10,000 for all of March last year.

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Our international correspondent Ian Pannell has been speaking

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to some of those making their way from Syria to Turkey,

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There are some flashing images in his report.

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It's not easy being told you are not welcome.

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But that is the reality for those trapped here inside Syria,

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knowing their escape has just got harder and more dangerous.

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It is not much of a haven on the other side.

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Armed police have stepped up checks in Turkey.

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But still, refugees and migrants gather

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in port cities to plan their route to Greece.

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The challenge is how to persuade many of them to stay in Turkey.

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You are still going to do the crossing to Europe?

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This is where we met two friends, both

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Syrian, one planning to cross and the other staying behind.

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Fatima is leaving because she struggles to make ends

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And yet, you have decided you are going back

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I was not comfortable with the idea and I'm scared of the sea anyway.

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The only reason I thought about leaving was because I'm not

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So friends, families and neighbours are driven

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apart in the desperate search for sanctuary and a better life.

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But that promise carries a deadly risk.

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This is the route Fatima must take, across a small stretch of water

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And there, in the middle of the Aegean, a reminder

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More than 300 have drowned in these waters just

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Imagine the desperation that leads them here.

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This is a crisis driven by war and want.

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For many, the fear of staying behind outweighs the fear of the journey

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Rescue ships pluck families from the sea almost every day now.

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But others, like these Afghans, could be sent back.

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Many thought this crisis would ease this year.

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Because in Afghanistan, there is war.

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The life of the people are in danger.

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We have just come up to a rubbish dump on the island of Lesbos

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and you can see, they have been placing hundreds of thousands

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It looks like a passport photo, possibly of one of the refugees

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If we walk around here a little further, you get some sense

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of the scale of what is taking place here.

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There are sites like this dotted around the island of Lesbos,

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repeated on other islands and across Greece.

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Really, the challenge for Europe and Turkey's leaders is how to stop

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this mound growing, how to deter people

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from risking their lives to come here in search of a better future.

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Aid agencies offer the first glimpse of humanity many have known

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Greece has taken much of the strain, helping to house and feed

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the thousands of people landing here every week.

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Mohammed and his family arrived two days ago.

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They are from Deir ez-Zor, on the front line between Syrian

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Is there anything that would stop people coming across the borders?

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It is very, very hard to cross the border because even

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Even though you know it is dangerous and

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It is almost two years since the mass exodus began.

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Thousands have died, many without the dignity

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Politicians meet, borders close, but countless more

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are ready to risk it all to come this way.

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Let's go back to Brussels and our Europe editor,

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The leaders say they want more time. Do we read into that but they are

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giving serious consideration to the Turkish demands? -- that they are

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giving. It means they are serious about trying to get a deal done with

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Turkey. It means the EE worries about its credibility and the

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European Union and the future of Greece. But however desperate the EE

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you is to get the migrant crisis solved, it can't abandon all its

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principles. It wants to send all economic migrants back home and to

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look after refugees closer to theirs. But the UN has warned this

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could break international he-man Terry and law when some asylum cases

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should actually be heard here. These are some other is with the Turkey

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deal. And EU countries are still discussing the fraught issue of

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taking in quotas of refugees and asylum seekers already in Europe.

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The UK is not part of that plan but a number of countries who are loudly

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object to it. And then there's the issue of border closures along what

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is known as the migrant route from Greece to Europe's Richard North.

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Germany, for one, wants all of those restrictions lifted now but tempers

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frayed and there are still supposed to be a long night of discussions

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ahead. -- Richard North. One of the biggest names in sport,

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the former tennis world No 1, Maria Sharapova has revealed tonight

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that she failed a drugs test at the Australian Open

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earlier this year. The Russian star, a five-times

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Grand Slam champion, tested positive for meldonium,

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a substance she said she'd been taking for ten years

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for health issues. Our sports editor,

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Dan Roan has the latest. She is one of the most famous and

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richest sports stars in the world but tonight, Maria Sharapova faces

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an uncertain future after an admission that has sent shock waves

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through tennis. When the Russian called a press conference today, the

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talk was of retirement. Instead, an announcement that no one saw coming.

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A few days ago, I received a letter from the IDF that I had failed a

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drugs test at the Australian open. -- ITF. I did fail the test and I

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take full responsibility for it. Sharapova tested positive for

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meldonium, medicine she's a jihad been prescribed for years on health

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grounds but which has been found to increase athletic performance and

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which has recently been added to the world anti-doping agency's list of

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banned substances. I had legally taking the medicine for the past ten

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years. But on the 1st of January, the rules had changed. Meldonium

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became a prohibited substance. I did not know that. Sharapova lit up the

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tennis world when in 2004, she became the third youngest woman to

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win Wimbledon. Her power and conviction quickly turned her into

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the Golden girl of the game. But her achievements on the court were more

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than matched by her popularity off it. Sharapova became one of the most

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marketable female faces in sport. Her image earned her countless

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lucrative endorsements. As she grew older, a spate of injuries began to

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take their toll but now it is suspension which will prevent her

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from playing. I made a huge mistake. I have let my fans down. I have let

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the sports down, that I have been playing since the age of four, that

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I love so deeply. I know that with this, I face consequences. I don't

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want to end my career this way. I really hope that I will be given

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another chance. This could be the end of one of the most accessible

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and lucrative careers that tennis is ever seen and not with Sharapova's

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suspension beginning next week. Whatever the circumstances of her

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shock admission, leaving hers on a growing list of sports with doping

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questions to answer. Dan Roan, BBC News.

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The French energy giant, EDF has confirmed that its finance

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Thomas Piquemal was understood to have been concerned

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about the company's involvement in the ?18 billion nuclear power

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project at Hinkley Point in Somerset.

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The company's shares fell sharply on the news.

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The French and British governments have said they remain committed

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to the project - the most expensive of its kind in the world -

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which is also reliant on Chinese funding.

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Our industry correspondent, John Moylan, has more details.

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Lined up at Hinkley Point, some of the largest earth-moving

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They have been idle for months awaiting to EDF's decision

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Britain's first nuclear power plant in a generation will provide 7%

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But it will be one of the most expensive man-made structures

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in the world, which is why this man, Thomas Piquemal, has

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As chief finance officer at the huge French firm,

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he believed that pressing ahead with the project now would put

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Make no mistake, Hinkley Point will be a hugely expensive power plant.

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Its projected cost is ?18 billion, but the final sum could

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EDF's Chinese partner, China General Nuclear,

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will pay around a third of that, but EDF must find the rest.

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So the British Government is guaranteeing the French energy

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giant this, more than ?90 per megawatt hour.

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Now that's the price to be paid for all the electricity that

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Hinkley Point will generate and it's more than double the price today.

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Its new plants, here at Flamanville in France, and in Finland,

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Its revenues have been hit by falling power prices and,

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with mounting costs ahead, French unions, which sit on EDF's

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board, believe Hinkley Point should be delayed.

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I think we have to wait before we go ahead with Hinkley Point

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because we have four reactor constrictions and zero-hour working.

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At a summit last week, David Cameron and the French President,

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Francois Hollande, called Hinkley Point a pillar

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With one less senior executive to oppose it,

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a final decision could come within weeks.

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The facts are that the reactor is not a good reactor,

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EDF are in a powerless financial state, so it looks as if we need

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If Hinkley Point doesn't happen, the lights won't go out, we can

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But that would blow a hole in our climate change targets.

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EDF says its decision will become clear in the near future.

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A 16-year-old boy has been found guilty of killing a fellow pupil

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in a fight at their school in Aberdeen last October.

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He was accused of murder, but the jury at the High Court

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in Aberdeen convicted him of the lesser charge

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The boy who died - Bailey Gwynne - who was also 16 -

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Our correspondent, Kevin Keane, reports.

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It is one of Scotland's best-performing state schools,

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producing high-achieving students from an Olympic medallist

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But at lunchtime on October 28th last year, Cults Academy became

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Bailey Gwynne was stabbed in the heart and died within minutes.

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He was a quiet boy, the last person many would expect to be in a fight.

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It was a disagreement which started over a packet of biscuits.

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Outside court, Aberdeen's education director said it had been

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There are no words that can sum this up for us.

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The emotional impact of what happened last year,

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and it's still hard to make sense of Bailey's death.

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The boy who has been convicted is a 16-year-old fellow pupil

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who had a history of carrying knives and knuckle-dusters.

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He had been warned by the school about the dangers of such weapons,

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Several years earlier, he had attacked another child

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The victim ended up in hospital with concussion.

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There are calls for this to form part of a review,

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announced today into last year's stabbing.

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I want to see a clean and full investigation of that incident,

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so that we can be reassured that there is nothing we could have

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done then that would have prevented what has happened now.

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There was an outpouring of grief after the stabbing as friends

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gathered, struggling to comprehend what had happened.

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The incident itself was over in less than 30 seconds.

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A teacher saw Bailey and his attacker exchanging punches.

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He didn't seem badly hurt at first, but quickly lost consciousness

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Bailey Gwynne's family have maintained a dignified silence

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The 16-year-old pupil will return to court next month to be sentenced.

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The five-year conflict in Syria has claimed the lives of an estimated

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250,000 people, and driven millions of people

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It has also resulted in the persecution of religious

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minorities - including the Yazidi sect - by so called Islamic State

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Our correspondent, Caroline Hawley, has been speaking to one young

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Yazidi woman - who was abducted and then trafficked by IS -

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Marooned on a mountain, members of Iraq's Yazidi minority who fled the

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advance of IS. This is the story of one girl, 15 at the time, who wasn't

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able to escape. We are not identifying her because she has

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family members still held captive. TRANSLATION: They came with their

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fighters and they beat us and put us against a wall. And they each chose

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one of us. I was there with my sister and cousin. I was selected by

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a 25-year-old Iraqi man. What was he like, this man?

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TRANSLATION: He was like a monster. A monster with no humanity. He raped

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me there and then again at his family's house where I was beaten.

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After a month and a half, he went to fight in Syria and was killed there.

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She then managed to escape, but IS was in full control of Mosul and she

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was soon recaptured and given to the brother of an IS commander.

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TRANSLATION: I refused to go. He had already raped me. He told me he

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bought me from the family of the dead fighter for $800 and I had no

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choice. I was screaming and crying. A few months later, she realised she

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was pregnant. TRANSLATION: I tried so many times

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to get rid of the child inside me. By taking pills and care rig heavy

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weights. I felt I had IS in my belly and the baby would turn out like

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them, a criminal and a monster. Her son was born seven months ago in a

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Mosul hospital. TRANSLATION: The IS man said he

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wanted to marry me because I had given him his only son. I refused. I

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love the baby, but I wanted to get back to my family before he got used

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to me and I got used to him. But I still think of him. He is still part

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of me no matter what. This is where she lives now, a relative of the man

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who bought her helped her escape when her son was three-months-old on

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condition she left the baby behind. She now wants to go back to school

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and one day she hopes to marry and have a family. First, though, she

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wants her two sisters still held by IS back. Caroline Hawley, BBC News.

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Britain's most senior anti-terrorism officer has warned that the UK

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is facing the threat of "enormous and spectacular attacks"

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The Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner,

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Mark Rowley, said IS wanted to attack "Western lifestyles".

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A US airstrike in Somalia has killed more than 150 fighters

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The attack on a training camp involved fighter jets

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Pentagon officials say intelligence indicated that the militants had

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The former director of the British Chambers of Commerce,

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John Longworth has denied he was forced to resign after saying

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Downing Street has denied putting pressure on his employers

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Mr Longworth insists he stood down because he wanted greater freedom

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to speak out, as our business editor, Simon Jack, reports.

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It's rare for the British Chambers of Commerce annual meeting to keep

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But last Thursday, its Director-General chose to break

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ranks with the organisation's neutral stance on EU membership,

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by telling the members what he really thought.

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We have the capacity and capability to create a bright,

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if not brighter, economic future outside of the EU...

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Crucially, he had the element of surprise on his side

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with even his most senior colleagues unaware of what was about to happen.

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We had no prior knowledge of what John was going to say.

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I think that everyone is entitled to their own personal opinion,

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but when you are the leader of a non-partisan organisation,

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then it is important to maintain that neutrality.

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At his home in Yorkshire, new pursuits may now beckon,

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so why did he choose to lob in these surprise comments?

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I think it was important that I was able to get the message out

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and actually that may not have been the case had all of the things

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My personal views I decided to add in later on.

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It is fair to say that on the day of the speech, both in media outlets

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before and afterwards, you stirred up a bit of a hornet's

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nest, communication from Number Ten must have been hostile?

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It is certainly true in the normal run of politics that,

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over the years, I have had communications from Number Ten

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and other Government departments, and some of those communications

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have been pretty hostile and pretty robust.

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But I am the sort of person who doesn't take any notice of those

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things and has always told things, shall we say,

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But that is not OK, according to BCC members like Phil Smith.

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I think he's paid by us, his members, to represent us,

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the Chambers of Commerce in the UK, and he clearly didn't.

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We at BCC have taken a view about being neutral

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He clearly had a personal view, which I admire him for,

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John Longworth is still keen to represent the view

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of Euro-sceptic business, but it will have to be

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from an organisation that appreciates his efforts.

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The Bank of England is to increase protection for banks -

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and other financial institutions - by offering extra funding

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in the weeks before and after the EU Referendum in June.

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The announcement comes on the eve of an appearance

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by the Bank's Governor, Mark Carney, before a parliamentary committee.

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I'm joined by our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed.

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What do we understand is going to happen? What is this about? It

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depends how you look at this, whether anything you talk, when it

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comes to the European Union and the possibility of Britain remaining in

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or leaving is highly toxic and is difficult politically. The Bank's

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central remit is financial stability. And they have said this

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is sensible contingency planning in the event that Britain votes to

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leave the European Union, many economists then argue that there

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would be market volatility, that the banks could struggle to maintain

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funding and the Bank of England has said, we will stand behind those

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banks. Critics of the Bank say this is part of Project Fear, making

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people fearful that if we leave there would be economic calamity.

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Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, appears before the

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Treasury Select Committee tomorrow. He will be treading a fine line. He

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will be asked about the economic consequences of whether if Britain

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were to leave the European Union, I'm sure he will try and tread very

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carefully there, and say on the one hand, on the other hand. He will be

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asked about David Cameron's deal that he has put before the British

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public on Europe and whether that does protect the City. On that, he

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will be more robust saying that is part of the Bank's remit. He will

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want to avoid criticism that he is becoming political but in such a

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political debate that will prove very difficult. Kamal Ahmed, thank

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you very much. The Swedish car maker Volvo

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is about to start recruiting 100 people to commute to work next

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year in driverless cars. The company says it intends asking

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them to do other things while at the wheel,

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such as reading a book, In the first of a series of reports

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on the likely impact of this new technology, our transport

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correspondent, Richard Westcott, has been given special

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access to try it out. There is some flash photography

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coming up. Home of Volvo, a place where drivers

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need to beware of the elks. On a test track, the company

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is showing me its unique experiment. And they will need members

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of the public to help. They're going to ask 100 ordinary

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people to commute in a car, And then they're going to tell those

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people they are actually free to do So perhaps they'll

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want to send an e-mail. From the track, to

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the evening commute. By next year Gothenburg's 100

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volunteers will be driverless That is roads with no

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cyclists or pedestrians, and bearing in mind

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it is Sweden, no snow. The computer needs to

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see the white lines. The man in charge of the technology

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told me what would happen If something unexpected happens,

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the car needs to be able We cannot count on a driver

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to immediately take over. So the car will be able to detect it

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and it will slow down in order It is not going to suddenly shove

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control back to the driver? No, the driver may be

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sitting relaxing, reading, we cannot count on him

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or her to intervene immediately, Things look a bit

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different in the UK. In Milton Keynes, public-transport

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pods will eventually use the pavements to shuttle people

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between the shops and the station. Would you happily share

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a pavement with one of those, The choices, it has to decide,

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it has to decide in an instant whether it has got to stop or it has

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got to carry on going for the safety of who's in it or who

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is on the outside. You don't worry about

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it bumping into you? No, you can easily

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move out of the way. They have just had their first

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crash, where the computer Experts describe a future straight

:30:35.:30:38.

out of a science-fiction novel. You're going to see this

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technology in forklift trucks, And that, for me, is

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extremely interesting. That this technology is not

:30:49.:30:55.

just about transport, Back on the test track,

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time to enjoy a drama on the telly. It could still take a decade or even

:30:58.:31:06.

two, but eventually children will marvel at the idea that

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people actually used Turkey, apparently now

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the EU's best friend. We are trying to assess

:31:13.:31:26.

whether today's talks really mark a turning point in

:31:27.:31:29.

the migrant crisis. Join me now on BBC Two,

:31:30.:31:32.

11pm in Scotland. Here on BBC One it's time

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for the news where you are.

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