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All state schools in England will become Academies.

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The plans will be announced in tomorrow's Budget.

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The Chancellor George Osborne will insist that the plans deliver

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greater freedom to decide on the curriculum and admissions.

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There are certain freedoms around curriculum, around the way you use

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resource that you have as an academy that you don't have

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But the move will end the long-standing role of local

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authorities in providing education and Labour says it's a distraction.

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This feels like it's a press ahead with an agenda that there is very

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little evidence for, to hide from some of the really

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We'll have more details of the academies plan and we'll be

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looking at what else is likely in the Budget.

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A major security operation in Brussels.

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The investigation is linked to last year's attacks in Paris.

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A welcome home for Russian fighter pilots, among the first to be

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withdrawn from Syria by President Putin.

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A special report from central Africa on the urgent need for action

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to save the elephant from poachers and traffickers.

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There are another four of these carcasses spread all around

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They arrived too late to catch the poachers who were long gone.

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And from dismay to despair, the champion player beaten

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by a computer and what it says about the future

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And coming up in Sportsday later in the hour on BBC News,

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find out if Manchester City reached the Champions League quarter-finals,

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despite an early injury to their captain Vincent Kompany.

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There's to be a radical shift in the way state schools

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The plans will be announced by the Chancellor in tomorrow's

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Ministers want to force all schools in England to become academies

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making them independent of local authority control.

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Schools would have to convert by 2022.

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Ministers say it would give them greater freedom

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to decide their curriculum, admissions and staff pay.

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Our education editor Branwen Jeffreys has more details.

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It is the school revolution that began under Labour. Failing schools

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closed under the council and reopened as academies. As Education

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Secretary, Michael Gove gave cash to more schools to convert. Now a

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Conservative government wants to finish the journey, ending more than

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100 years of English councils running local schools. My next

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ambition is this. 500 new free schools, everyone and Academy, and,

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yes, local authorities running schools a thing of the past. Academy

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schools have more freedoms, to choose what to teach, and decide

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what to pay staff. It is meant to encourage fresh ideas, offering

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parents greater choice, and had teachers the chance to work together

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in a chain of skills. The real winner is working in a multi-Academy

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trust because you have a collaborative environment where you

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can hold each other to account and the learning is deeper and richer in

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that kind of environment than perhaps was traditionally the case

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in local authority schools. Already in England, 2000 secondary schools

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are academies, more than half, but fewer than 3000 primary schools have

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changed, so most are still run by councils. Now council schools will

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have 4-mac-6 years to start becoming academies. Officials will be working

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on finalising details of plans and this will require a change in the

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law. It goes much further than before. Not just intervening in

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schools which are failing or under performing, this will radically

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change how even the best schools in England are run. Labour says there

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is little evidence these plans will mean a better school system. Some

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academies have struggled and failed to. There are some areas,

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Lincolnshire, mostly, my own area of Manchester, where schools are

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already academies but still require improvement. What is the government

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strategy for these areas? And from the Chief inspector, a warning just

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a few days ago. Some academies are paying top executive salaries but

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delivering poor results for pupils. For the Chancellor this is about

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putting his stamp on public services, reshaping skills and

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taking England on a different journey from the rest of the UK.

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Tomorrow's Budget will be the eighth delivered by George Osborne.

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And in the four months since his last report on the state

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of the UK's finances, economic growth has dipped and tax

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Added to that is the political challenge posed by the referendum

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on Britain's future in the European Union.

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In a moment we'll be talking to our political editor

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Laura Kuenssberg but first our economics editor Kamal Ahmed reports

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on some of the likely measures to be announced tomorrow.

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Home to the Chancellor, number 11 Downing Street,

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and where George Osborne has been spending the last few days

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Four months ago the Autumn Statement was full of optimism.

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I report on an economy growing faster than its competitors,

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and public finances set to reach a surplus of ?10 billion.

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The Chancellor will travel from here down the road to Parliament.

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He will have his red box with him and in there he will have

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new forecasts, and they are likely to show that the UK economy has

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taken something of a turn for the worse.

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The Bank of England has revised economic growth downward

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Our wages are rising less quickly, just 3% a year.

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Both reduced tax revenues for the Government, which,

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don't forget, is facing debts of ?1.5 trillion.

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That means the Government has to borrow more to pay

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So, what state are the Government's finances in?

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Well, so far this year, the Government has

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Now, that's 13.7% down on last year, but still a long way

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above the optimistic expectations of last autumn.

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The Government's target is to borrow ?73.5 billion this financial year.

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Will George Osborne hit that target in the Budget?

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And what about that ?10 billion budget surplus -

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The surplus that was forecast in November was already not that

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large when we are thinking about the four-year forecast.

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Things have moved against him since November so he may not

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have a lot of room for manoeuvre, particularly as there are number

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of giveaways already promised in the Conservative manifesto.

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In his Budget, George Osborne has always mixed pain

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What will the Chancellor want to trumpet?

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He could increase the point at which we pay tax on our income

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That could make taxpayers a few hundred pounds a year better off.

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He could also raise the level at which the higher 40p

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rate of tax kicks in, meaning fewer people pay it.

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He will announce support for major infrastructure projects -

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the high-speed rail link between Manchester and Leeds,

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His critics say this is all a bit of a diversion, but the real story

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of this Budget will be public sector cuts and tax rises.

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Fuel duty, the tax on petrol and diesel, is facing

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Unprotected departments at the Home Office could be facing

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There are likely to be higher taxes on business.

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Whatever George Osborne announces, he will have to sell it here,

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The Conservative majority is actually quite small and every

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debate is dominated by the European referendum.

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Fear of a Brexit could make this a rather more careful

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Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg is at

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the Chancellor's official residence, Number 11 Downing Street.

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We heard about some measures there and we talked about schools earlier

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but what is the main challenge for George Osborne tomorrow? There are

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three. He is likely to announce more cuts. He told the BBC as much as

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three weeks ago. That comes hard on the heels of six years of cuts which

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have hit millions of families around the country. He wants to show that

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the government is not just about that. They still have ideas for

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reform. I think the government's announcement to force schools in

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England to become academies with more cash and the option of

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extending the school day with more time for extracurricular activities

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as part of that. They want to show they have not run out of ideas and

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they are not all about balancing the books. He also faces polishing up

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his political reputation inside and outside of his party. After a series

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of defeats, tax credits, Sunday trading plans, something of his

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stock has fallen away in recent months and he will want to use a big

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day like tomorrow to rebuild that. The third big challenge is how he

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lets it all together, persuading all of us to vote to stay in the EU at a

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referendum at the end of June. Budgets are not just a bunch of

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numbers but a semaphore for the government and, in this case, the

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Chancellor's ambitions. There's been a major security

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operation in Brussels this evening, linked to last year's

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terror attacks in Paris, when 130 people were killed

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by Islamist extremists. Belgian security forces are said

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to be hunting for at least two people and one suspect

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has been killed. Our Europe correspondent

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Damian Grammaticas is at the scene. Yes, the raid took place this

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afternoon, a joint raid by Belgian and French police. Ever since the

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Paris attacks, both forces have hunted down any leads. There are 11

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people in custody already and any associates are being investigated as

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well and those investigations brought police here this afternoon

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to carry out this raid. One French policewoman was injured and one man

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armed with a Kalashnikov was shot dead. It has been confirmed this

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evening that he was not one of the prime suspects in the Paris attacks,

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that is Salah Abdeslam, still on the run.

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And police converged on Southern Brussels in the middle of the

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afternoon. They sealed off streets a few minutes drive from the centre of

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the capital, locking down the entire area. Belgian and French

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investigators had been following Leeds since the Paris terror

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attacks. They tried to search a flat here. When we reached the door, they

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were met by automatic gunfire. TRANSLATION: Two individuals are

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holed up in the building and a security cordon has been set up by

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police. Following the set up, special forces teams arrived and the

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operation is ongoing. Police kept the area cordoned off all afternoon,

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parents waiting on the street for hours. Dismantled me there was

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shooting in the Street and parents had to wait to pick up their

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children. My daughter told me she was sad, she was crying all

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afternoon, she says. We are still very scared. And officers took up

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positions on rooftops. Late in the afternoon they made their move.

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There was more gunfire and then confirmation of one body. Belgian's

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prime ministers said this evening that for officers had been

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injured. Tonight, the police operations were ongoing, still

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searching the surrounding streets, and sure if more gunmen were holed

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up there. The first Russian fighter jets to be

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withdrawn from Syria have returned to their home bases

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following yesterday's announcement by President Putin that most

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of his forces were being moved. The decision was welcomed by the US

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Secretary of State John Kerry, who said the withdrawal might be

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the best opportunity to end Our chief international

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correspondent Lyse Doucet The pull out starts at first light

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in Russia's airbase in northern Syria. The bombers are leading. Just

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hours after President Putin's sudden announcement, mission accomplished.

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The homecoming, a zero's welcome in Russia. A carefully choreographed

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parade. The band plays an old Soviet military song. This is all about

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Putin power. We are really glad our troops are coming home, she says.

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Surprised but happy. Thanks to our soldiers, he adds, the so-called

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Islamic State is doing worse, the Syrian army, doing better. That is

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victory. Russia sent its warplanes and advanced weaponry to Syria lasts

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member, ostensibly to target Islamic State but it bolstered President

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Assad's forces. President Putin's announcement took

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the world by surprise. Here, the government says its new all along,

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that is what you hear on the streets. It was expected, this man

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says, the agreement was for Russian forces to enter Syria for a certain

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period and now we are advancing step by step in the peace process. But

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Damascus, emboldened by Russian mite, is taking a tough line,

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refusing to discuss President Assad's future. I ask it prominent

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member of Parliament if Russia is exerting pressure. TRANSLATION:

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Russia is not putting pressure on us, they are talking to us, trying

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to find the best solution for the Syrian government. You are in the

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West are wrong if you think Russia is telling the government what to

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do. There is no denying Russia's pivotal role in Syria. Russia's

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military objectives here are clear so the question is what is President

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Putin's political plan for Syria? Does it include President Assad and

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if not who or what is the alternative? But the fighting in

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Syria is not over despite the partial truce. So Russia is not

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pulling out completely. It's military presence remains

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significance. Even that may not be enough to end this most tangled love

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for us. What are your senses of the

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prospects for a more robust settlement?

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I think millions of Syrians, after they have been through everything,

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they do not dare that everything could all be over. This truce has

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given Syrians are tantalising glimpse of what Syria could be like

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again. It is this truce and those docs that are slowly getting

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underway in Geneva that represent the best chance in years to try to

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move Syria a little closer to peace rather than further back towards a

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more destructive war. But you must be clear why it is happening. It is

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not because Syria's warring parties understand there is no military

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solution or they have put aside their profound differences, it is

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because they're outside powers, 17 of them, are sitting around the same

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table. They don't trust each other, they have different enemies and the

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genders, but it must be recognised that Russia's decision last

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September to become militarily and politically involved in Syria has

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galvanised a stagnant process. It broke the deadlock. It is to the

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credit of the West, particularly the US, reluctantly accepting that

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Russia has the best cards at the table and it should be allowed to

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play them. The difficulty, if not the danger, is that Russia is

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playing a bigger game, bigger than Syria, having a lot to do with

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Russia's position on the world stage and being taken seriously when it

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comes to solving world crises. Even Vladimir Putin with Russia's might

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may not succeed in Syria but for the first time in five years at least he

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and other major players are trying and in Syria now a little is a lot.

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Airlines, shipping companies and conservation charities are among

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those who've promised to share more information to make life harder

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for traffickers of animal products and wildlife.

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The declaration was signed by dozens of companies at Buckingham Palace

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One of the most urgent cases right now is the African elephant.

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Every year between 30,000 and 40,000 African elephants are killed

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With fewer than half a million left, their numbers are being dramatically

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cut by the endless appetite for ivory in Asia.

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Poachers and rangers are now in armed conflict in a number

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of African countries, with the Democractic Republic

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Our Africa correspondent Alastair Leithead has sent this

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It's tough terrain in around Garamba National Park,

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where less than 100 rangers are trying to protect the last

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of the elephants across thousands of square miles of grassland.

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We joined one of their foot patrols to a place where

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The grass is so high, the only way to see a carcass

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is from the air, and then to direct the rangers in.

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This elephant was clearly killed by a poacher.

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There are another four of these carcasses spread around

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They arrived too late to catch the poachers,

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30,000 to 40,000 elephants are being killed in Africa every

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year, and with only around 400,000 left, it will not be long at this

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And with so few boots on the ground, those responsible often get away

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We followed their footprints, one of the rangers told me,

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There are perhaps 1,300 elephants left here.

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Garamba was of one of Africa's first national parks

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and a World Heritage Site, originally set up to protect

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the northern white rhino, but that has already been wiped

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Now, they are fighting to save the elephants that are left,

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in a place surrounded by civil war and heavily armed militia.

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And that's why African Parks, the group managing Garamba,

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This ranger explained how dangerous the work is.

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His patrol was ambushed by 40 men, probably from Sudan,

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Eight rangers have been killed in the last year.

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Training rangers takes a lot of time and money,

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and the men they are up against are hardened fighters.

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It feels like you're fighting a war against poachers.

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I think Garamba is probably today at the forefront of conservation

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I don't think there are not many other places which have so many

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This local man was arrested after a tip-off, and ivory recovered.

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By the time it reaches the market in Asia, it goes for at least ?750.

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Then reports came in of another attack.

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There are the carcasses, by the river.

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And we spotted a sixth further up the river.

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It's hard to make out, but you can see that their faces

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have been cut off and the tusks have been taken.

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They need hundreds more rangers to protect Garamba.

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On the front line of the poaching war, the elephants

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A brief look at some of the day's other news stories.

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The Church of England is to introduce changes to the way

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it deals with allegations of sexual abuse by clergy.

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It follows a critical independent report which has been seen

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It reveals that senior clergymen kept no record of claims disclosed

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A prison officer, Adrian Ismay, injured in a bomb attack

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in Northern Ireland earlier this month, has died.

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The 52 year-old was seriously hurt after a booby-trap device exploded

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A dissident republican group, widely referred to as the New IRA,

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A report into a helicopter crash off Shetland in which four people died

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says flight instruments were not adequately monitored by pilots

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in the moments leading up to the crash.

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The Air Accidents Investigation Branch report says the lack

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of monitoring meant a reduction in air speed was not noticed

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Americans are voting tonight in five states in primary contests

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for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees.

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The results could see Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump

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make significant steps towards securing their party's

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Mr Trump's recent campaign events have been disrupted by clashes

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between supporters and opponents and he's faced criticism

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for appearing to encourage the violence.

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Let's join our North America editor Jon Sopel in Palm Beach Florida.

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When Donald Trump arrives at his Private members club behind me later

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this evening he will be hoping the Republican race will effectively be

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over and he will be the undisputed champion. This, despite the millions

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spent by Conservative groups attacking him, and violence at his

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rallies,... If there's one place in America

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where Donald Trump shouldn't He's upset a lot of Hispanics

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with his rhetoric, and he's up against the local Cuban-American

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senator, Marco Rubio. But for all the controversy,

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if you join up the dots, Trump is the most important

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man in the world now. Trump is scary, but he's the only

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one who can beat Hillary Clinton. I think anything is better

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than Hillary Clinton. The latest firestorm is the violence

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that has erupted at Trump rallies as his supporters skirmish

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with protesters, scenes becoming increasingly tense, actions that

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should have no place And the charge against Mr Trump

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is that far from condemning, his language has condoned,

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even incited such behaviour I'd like to punch him

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in the face, I'll tell ya. You know what they used

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to do to guys like that They'd be carried out

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on a stretcher, folks. I would have been boom,

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boom, boom, beat the... So if you see somebody getting

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ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out

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of them, would you? I promise you, I will pay

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for the legal fees. Am I allowed to rip that

:26:49.:26:55.

whistle out of their mouth? And that sort of language

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brought this rebuke I know I'm not the only one in this

:26:59.:27:04.

room who may be more than a little dismayed about what's happening

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on the campaign trail lately. We have heard vulgar and divisive

:27:10.:27:14.

rhetoric aimed at women and minorities, at Americans

:27:15.:27:17.

who don't look like us or pray Yes, Donald Trump's comments

:27:18.:27:21.

have caused a furore, If anything, his poll lead

:27:22.:27:28.

is increasing, and at this polling station in Miami, he seems to be

:27:29.:27:32.

the only name in town. And for all the discussion

:27:33.:27:42.

of punch-ups, if he wins here tonight and in Ohio,

:27:43.:27:45.

the talk will instead be about having delivered a knockout

:27:46.:27:47.

blow to his opponents. Football, and Manchester City have

:27:48.:27:58.

qualified for the quarter-finals of the Champions League

:27:59.:28:00.

for the first time in their history. Despite going close to scoring a few

:28:01.:28:03.

times, they could only manage a 0-0 draw at home tonight

:28:04.:28:06.

against Dinamo Kiev. But they make it through to the last

:28:07.:28:08.

eight thanks to their 3-1 victory A computer programme designed

:28:09.:28:12.

by Google has comprehensively beaten a human champion of the ancient

:28:13.:28:20.

Chinese game of Go, winning Lee Se-dol, a Korean

:28:21.:28:23.

champion of the game, said he regretted the result,

:28:24.:28:27.

which has raised new questions about the power of artificial

:28:28.:28:30.

intelligence over human beings. Our technology correspondent

:28:31.:28:33.

Rory Cellan-Jones examines what's been learned from the contest

:28:34.:28:36.

and considers the future It's been an epic contest

:28:37.:28:38.

between man and machine, pitting a supreme player of

:28:39.:28:46.

a complex game against an artificial intelligence programme which teaches

:28:47.:28:49.

itself to play ever better. And, at the end of the final game,

:28:50.:28:54.

Lee Sedol's face told the story. Although he'd fought

:28:55.:28:59.

hard and even won once, the machine, AlphaGo,

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had come out on top. No triumphalism from the British

:29:03.:29:06.

founder of the company behind it. As with all powerful technologies,

:29:07.:29:09.

they bring opportunities and challenges and we have to make

:29:10.:29:15.

sure, as developers of these kind of systems, all AI researchers

:29:16.:29:19.

around the world that they think about the ethical

:29:20.:29:22.

responsibilities they have. The technology behind programmes

:29:23.:29:27.

like AlphaGo is already finding Better voice recognition software

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is one and Cambridge is one of the world's leading

:29:31.:29:36.

centres in the development At Microsoft's Cambridge research

:29:37.:29:39.

lab, you might think that this was down time, in fact, it's serious

:29:40.:29:46.

artificial intelligence research. Scientists here are using the game

:29:47.:29:50.

Minecraft to test how AI programmes The idea is to teach the AI how

:29:51.:29:54.

to interact with people and objects. The programme is all

:29:55.:30:01.

about augmenting the skills Another example, a system using AI

:30:02.:30:05.

to examine scans of brain tumours The researchers here

:30:06.:30:10.

insist that it's all about collaboration,

:30:11.:30:15.

not competition. I think we have a choice,

:30:16.:30:18.

we're in control of the technology, I think we should avoid that

:30:19.:30:21.

dystopian future of - I think we should make a conscious

:30:22.:30:25.

decision to create artificial intelligence as a deep partnership

:30:26.:30:30.

between humans and machines This is not about the rise

:30:31.:30:32.

of machines, it's about One of Britain's leading scientists

:30:33.:30:37.

says the sheer pace of change means There's a boundary between science

:30:38.:30:41.

and science fiction, we don't know quite where that lies,

:30:42.:30:46.

but certainly some people are raising concerns

:30:47.:30:48.

that a computer might, as it were, go rogue

:30:49.:30:52.

and if we have the internet of things, then a computer

:30:53.:30:54.

could interact with the real world If that happened, that

:30:55.:30:57.

would obviously be potentially It had been thought that a computer

:30:58.:31:04.

would take another 10 years to beat AI's victory has brought its

:31:05.:31:09.

potential and its risks into focus. Newsnight's about to begin over

:31:10.:31:14.

on BBC2 in a few moments. On our running order tonight,

:31:15.:31:25.

Brexit and the Press. Alastair Campbell says the papers

:31:26.:31:29.

are pulling the wool over our eyes, to persuade us to vote

:31:30.:31:32.

to leave the EU. He'll debate that with Sun

:31:33.:31:34.

writer, Trevor Kavanagh.

:31:35.:31:37.

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