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Tonight at Ten, more details emerge about the two men who murdered

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a priest in a church in Northern France.

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A video was published this evening apparently showing the two

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men pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group.

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Yesterday's attack has brought demands for tougher security

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Pope Francis, visiting Poland, says the world is at war,

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but he insists religion is not the cause.

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TRANSLATION: I'm talking about war, seriously.

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We'll have the latest on the Pope's intervention

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Official figures show the UK economy grew faster than expected

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in the months before the EU referendum.

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The Labour leadership contender Owen Smith apologises after saying

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the Prime Minister should be "smashed back on her heels"

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Hillary Clinton delights in smashing a glass ceiling,

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becoming the first woman to be nominated by a major party

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And we meet one of Team GB's best medal hopes in Rio,

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the world champion gymnast Max Whitlock.

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And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, Team GB arrive

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We'll have a special report from their holding camp for you.

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More details have emerged about the two men

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who murdered an elderly priest in a church in Northern France.

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Police say they're close to identifying the second attacker,

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The group calling itself Islamic State has released video

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footage allegedly showing the two men pledging allegiance

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In France, there have been calls for improved security

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at thousands of places of worship, and Pope Francis said the recent

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attacks were proof that the world was "at war" but not

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a war of religion, as Lucy Williamson reports.

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France's elite police marking the site of its

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Inside those walls, two teenagers had taken the congregation hostage,

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knifing one man and cutting the throat of his priest.

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Before long, the police move in, these pictures of their

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neighbour who was woken by the noise.

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Someone just cried "Allahu Akbar" inside the church, he

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As amid fears that there might be explosives, the

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Today, so-called Islamic State released a video it said was made by

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the two attackers pledging allegiance to the group.

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One of those men, Adel Kermiche, was a local 19-year-old

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Last year he was arrested in Germany while trying

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Two months later, he was caught again in Turkey and sent

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In March this year, he was released with an electronic

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tag which allowed him to leave his house between 8:30am and 12:30pm

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In the streets where he grew up, former friends

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remembered him as a well known sympathiser of IS, also known as

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TRANSLATION: He was clearly pro-Daesh.

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Once his parents took him to the police station.

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They said, "Lock him up, he's going to commit a crime."

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The police said they were already monitoring him but couldn't lock him

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On his way to an international meeting of

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Catholics today, Pope Francis responded to this attack on one of

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TRANSLATION: For a long time, we have been

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saying that the world is at war.

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There is a war for money, for natural resources.

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With every new target and every new location, the stakes here

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So that the death of a local priest in this small suburban

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church becomes a test of national resilience,

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In Paris, the government was left defending itself against

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the charge that its defence of France had failed.

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But was this a failure of intelligence, security or

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Or simply the result of freedoms the country wants to

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TRANSLATION: Everything that can be done under the rule of law has been

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There can still be some changes, discussions.

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We are open to suggestions from the opposition.

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But you cannot protect the rule of law

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In Notre Dame, prayers to honour Father

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Jacques Hemel and the hostages at St Etienne.

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But faith in France's protectors is harder now, with a

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country divided over what protection means.

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Let's go live to Paris. Lucy, what is your sense of the progress that

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has been made in this investigation? As you said, nothing confirmed from

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the police yet about that second attacker but there are unconfirmed

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reports here tonight that he might also have been flagged up to the

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police. It is not known how he might have been radicalised but when it

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comes to the first attacker, his former friends said he had fallen in

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with the wrong company and that was also something that was known to the

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security services. And I think all of this points to a key question

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here tonight, which is, how do those security services effectively

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monitor people who have committed no crime as yet, who was simply known

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to be jihadi sympathisers, when there are already more than 10,000

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of them listed as potential threats to the state? Thank you.

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The latest figures show that the UK economy grew in the months leading

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up to the vote to leave the European Union.

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According to the Office for National Statistics,

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Gross Domestic Product grew by 0.6% in the three months to June.

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The Government claimed the figures showed Britain was entering

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negotiations to leave the EU from a position

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Our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed, has more details.

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Better figures than expected today, and an announcement

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by London City Airport that it was expanding.

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For the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, not exactly blue skies ahead

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The UK economy is fundamentally strong as we go into the challenge

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And that gives us the tools and the scope to respond

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And do you really think, as some suggested, that we could be

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Well, I think it's far too early to say how

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Inevitably, people's reaction to a surprise is caution.

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No such caution today from pharmaceutical giant

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GlaxoSmithKline, which announced a ?275 million investment

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But the maker of Night Nurse and Panadol did lace its good

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This was the company, after all, that was a firm supporter

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My guess is that we will probably see some choppy signals

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I don't think we'll see a dramatic shift to the left or the right

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but we will see some choppiness and some things which are indicative

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of a bit of a slowdown, and it's likely we will see some

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With business investment still continuing, like here

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at London City Airport, some people might wonder,

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what was all the fuss about with the economy

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I think there are two big things worth considering.

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Firstly, we are still largely looking in the rear-view mirror.

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Most of the economic information published today

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is actually from April, when business confidence

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And many senior economists I've spoken to who are very close

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to the Government warn against a false sense of security.

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Britain is still facing uncertain times.

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Uncertainty has been an issue for this leather company in Oxford,

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which has found the post-Brexit world a more difficult proposition.

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The weaker pound helps exporters like GSK.

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Everything we buy is in dollars from South America.

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This means there's an immediate effect of the pound is very weak,

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so everything since the night of Brexit is costing us 14% more,

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so this has an immediate effect on our costs.

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Put simply, selling purses becomes more difficult,

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and the figures post the referendum do suggest business

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Well, the data suggests that the economy was performing well

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What we've seen since the Brexit vote is quite a significant slowdown

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in business sentiment, in consumer sentiment,

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and this will have an impact on the economy over

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Next week, the Governor of the Bank of England will announce his latest

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The bank may even agree to cut interest rates to boost growth,

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a move that will only come if the economic news has indeed

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The labour leadership candidate Owen Smith has apologised for saying he

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thinks Theresa May should smash back on her heels. He said the remarks or

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inappropriate. He has been outlining his campaign, which includes looking

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at the NHS in England. Our political correspondents in this report.

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Owen Smith needs to make an impact and he's only got

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Ladies and gentlemen, Owen Smith.

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So today he made a direct pitch to those who last year propelled

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Jeremy Corbyn to the party leadership.

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We need a revolution, but not some misty eyed romantic

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notion of a revolution, where we're going to overthrow

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capitalism and return to a socialist nirvana.

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But a cold-eyed, practical socialist revolution.

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And Mr Smith showered his audience with new policy ideas.

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The public sector pay freeze would end.

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We would be spending an extra 4% per annum on the NHS, an equality

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A ?200 billion promise to borrow funds at historic low rates in order

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Mr Smith chose his words less carefully when he launched this

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It pained me that we didn't have the strength and the power

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and the vitality to smash her back on her heels and argue that these

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Later he apologised for an inappropriate

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The task for Labour is daunting, they've lost dozens of seats

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in Scotland and elsewhere Ukip are breathing down their neck.

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What would you do about Ukip voters, those who've left Labour,

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in the north particularly of England?

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Well, I'd give them hope that there's a Labour government that

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That understands that they feel Britain's very unfair.

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That understand that they feel that some people get a fairer crack

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That's what Labour's about, bread-and-butter issues.

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Simple things, but things that Labour needs to hang on to.

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They're our ideas, we should be delivering them.

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So what do voters make of Labour's problems?

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I mean, I don't know this new one who has come up.

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I've heard a couple of speeches, but I don't know him yet.

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Yeah, I don't know him yet because they put their nice

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suits on and they get there, and it's all spin.

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I'm a bit disillusioned with them at the moment.

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They're losing me with the stuff they're coming out with.

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It's going in here and coming out here.

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One day, Owen Smith wants to be Prime Minister,

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but before that he has to convince Labour Party members to back him.

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He hopes they'll look at his long list of left-wing policies and be

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persuaded that he would present them far more effectively

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But his supporters say he's been setting the agenda,

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Jeremy was the person who stood alone in that at a time when it

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wasn't fashionable and he started putting forward these policies.

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It's quite easy for people to jump on the bandwagon now,

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What people want is a politician who stand up for what they believe.

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Owen Smith made his speech today on the site of a former coking

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He believes his vision will regenerate the Labour Party.

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The higher rate overtime bill for hospitals has risen by a third. A

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BBC investigation has found one doctor in Lancashire and an extra

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?375,000 over 12 months. The Department of Health said it is

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working to reduce overtime costs in England.

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from patients, but only a limited number of consultant doctors,

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another sign of the pressures facing the health service across the UK,

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and it adds up to a rising wage bill for extra overtime

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The average basic salary for a consultant is ?89,000,

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but across the UK extra overtime costs ?168 million last year,

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One doctor made nearly ?375,000 in extra payments on top

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Most consultants we know work well beyond the standard working week.

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They work at weekends, they work at nights.

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This work is even additional work beyond that.

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Additional work often asked for at short notice.

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Some Trusts are struggling to attract staff.

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At Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, where the unnamed highest

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earning consultant works, they've had to downgrade an A

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To cut waiting times for operations, they're left with little choice

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But just a few miles away, in Wigan, they've changed the way they work

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and are saving money that was previously paid

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Specialist nurses, like Euan, now carry out procedures that once

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That's better for patients because they can get to see Euan

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a lot more frequently and it saves the hospital an awful lot of money.

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The main benefit is that we, as an organisation, have less

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financial pressure because we're not having to pay out

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By working together, we can solve some pretty tricky problems.

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You know, the bottom line is, it's the patients who benefit.

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At present each Hospital Trust can make its own arrangements on how it

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pays consultants for extra work, reflecting the different pressures

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So there are two big factors at play.

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The first is in planned surgical care where often, to keep

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within waiting times targets, consultants are having to do work

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at weekend and need to be paid overtime for that.

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The second, in emergency care, where often we don't

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have enough consultants, is they have to end up covering

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for each other within their rota and then have to be

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In England, a new contract for consultants is being negotiated,

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but the changes at Wigan demonstrate it is possible to cut down

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Dominic Hughes, BBC News, Wigan.

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For the first time in history, a woman has been nominated

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by a major party to be President of the United States.

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The Democratic Party has formally backed

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Hillary Clinton as its candidate at its convention in Philadelphia.

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23 years have passed since she first entered the White House,

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as First Lady, with her husband, President Bill Clinton.

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Our North America editor, Jon Sopel, has the story.

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You felt history in the hall as the votes were cast.

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It's 96 years since women got the vote in the US, Jerry Emmett

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And, 51 votes for the next President of the United States

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Then it was the turn of Vermont, home of Senator Bernie Sanders.

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In a move that delighted the Clinton camp, he called for the rules

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for the rules to be suspended, so she'd be elected unanimously.

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I love that all votes, all votes cast by delegates,

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be reflected in the official record and I move that Hillary Clinton be

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selected as the nominee of the Democratic Party

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The keynote speaker was an ex-President, who might just

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Those of us who have more yesterdays than tomorrows tend

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to care more about our children and grandchildren.

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The reason you should elect her is that, in the greatest

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country on earth, we have always been about tomorrow.

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Your children and grandchildren will bless you forever if you do.

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The one advantage the Democrats have over the Republicans is glitz.

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Alicia Keys sang, Meryl Streep had a walk on part.

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Eight years ago, Hillary Clinton famously said she'd made millions

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of cracks in the glass ceiling when she'd fought Barack Obama

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for the nomination, but now it had shattered.

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If there are any little girls out there who stayed up late to watch,

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let me just say - I may become the first woman President,

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I can't wait to join you in Philadelphia.

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Some in the hall cried with joy and relief, but the polling data

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shows Hillary Clinton has a lot of negatives.

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The glass ceiling that awaits her in November

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Very high approval Railtrackings. The Hillary Clinton campaign will

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welcome his intervention. He will talk about the character and

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intellect you need to be President and will say Hillary Clinton's got

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that. Donald Trump hasn't. Now, Mr Trump has caused a furore today by

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effectively saying the Russians should commit an act of cyber

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security and hack the emails of Hillary Clinton. You will remember

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this Convention started with a giant hack that was blamed on the Russians

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should commit an act of cyber security and hack the emails,

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condemnation led by the former CIA chief. Of the Democratic National

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Committee which was hugely embarrassing. I'm sorry, clearly, a

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bit of a satellite issue there with the timings there with Jon. Apology.

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I think we got the gist of what he was saying. Jon Sopel there at the

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democratic convention in Philadelphia.

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At least 40 people have been killed and more than 100 injuredin a bomb

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It happened in the predominantly Kurdish town of Qamishli,

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The blast was caused by a truck bomb which struck

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The group calling itself Islamic State said it was responsible.

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In Iraq, families are still grieving for the 292 people killed

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by the Islamic State group in a bomb attack in Baghdad

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The bombing of the shopping centre, in the Karrada district,

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led to the highest death toll of any single attack by IS.

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Our chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet,

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has been back to meet some of the victims' relatives and sent

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An elegy for the dead, some comfort for those who survive.

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This is the street where 292 Iraqis died.

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Once a busy shopping centre, now a make-shift shrine.

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Sadiq Maroof, a shopkeeper, was one of the few

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They pulled the window from its frame and jumped.

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It's now clear most died, not from the bomb itself,

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but the terrifying fireball that followed.

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TRANSLATION: There were no fire escapes.

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Half of them could have survived if there had been a proper way out.

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Many young people would still be alive today.

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We went to visit Sadiq's family, they're inconsolable.

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Misery upon misery for Nada, already bent by a crippling disorder.

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Their sons were working in the centre, their wives

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This was the scene that night, an inferno set off by a bomb,

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It tore through shops of perfume, clothing and more, all fuelling

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the flames and anger too, many say their emergency

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services failed them, they deny that, and also mourn.

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TRANSLATION: I have never seen anything like it.

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We were ready to jump into the fire to save people.

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We did everything we could, but this was an overwhelming attack.

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In this ruin an extraordinary moment, a group of friends,

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survivors themselves, bring candles and a cake

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for their friend Hallid, who died here, it would have

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Whether by accident or design, this was the worst IS

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In the grief, there's fear there could be more to come.

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Lyse Doucet, BBC News, Baghdad.

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

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Detectives have released computerised images of two men

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who tried to abduct a serviceman outside RAF Marham

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They said there was no credible evidence the incident

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was related to terrorism, saying it may have been a case

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Police in Pakistan have started an investigation into claims that

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a British woman was murdered in a so-called 'honour killing'.

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Samia Shahid, from Bradford, died in Northern Punjab last week

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Her husband believes she was killed because her family

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Charges have been dropped against the last three police

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officers facing trial over the death of Freddie Gray, who died in police

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The 25-year-old died after he was injured

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His death sparked protests across the US.

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Three other officers have already been cleared.

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The man chosen by the European Commission to lead its negotiations

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on Britain's exit from the EU is a former French Foreign

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He will take up his post on the 1st October.

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Mr Barnier was less than popular in the City

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of London when was in charge of the EU's banking reforms.

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Our diplomatic correspondent, James Landale, is with me.

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What is the view, James, that he will be, well, vaguely sympathetic

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to British interests or not? He will make Brexit that harder for the

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United Kingdom hi is a veteran French politician, seasoned tough

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negotiator, Brussels inside her. A European Commissioner twice no less

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he believes in the European project. He will take no prisoners. More than

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that, he is also a man described as the scourge of the City of London.

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This is man when he he brought the banking reforms to the City of

:26:17.:26:20.

London in the wake of the Eurozone debt crisis he was interventionist

:26:21.:26:25.

over regulatory. Hugely unpopular in the City am when so many of these

:26:26.:26:28.

negotiations for Brexit are going to be about the nitty-gritty of with a

:26:29.:26:33.

financial services the UK can sell within the Eurozone. That process

:26:34.:26:37.

will be harder as a result of this appointment. Nick Clegg, the former

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Deputy Prime Minister, now the Lib Dem's Brexit spokesman said this is

:26:44.:26:47.

the European Commission firing a shot across Britain's boughs. It's

:26:48.:26:51.

not clear what role Mr Barnier will play in the negotiations. The

:26:52.:26:55.

assumption is 2 will be the European member states that drive the talks

:26:56.:26:58.

and do the deal, the Commission will do the nitty-gritty and detail

:26:59.:27:01.

there. Is a little bit of Brussels power play to be resolved there.

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When the negotiations start, probably next year, this guy will

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play hardball with us. OK. James, thanks very much, again. James

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Langdale there for us. John Hinckley Junior -

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the man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan,

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in Washington DC in 1981 - is to be released from a psychiatric

:27:22.:27:23.

hospital after 35 years. At his trial, Hinckley was found not

:27:24.:27:26.

guilty by reason of insanity, but a judge has now ruled he is now

:27:27.:27:29.

ready to live in the community. Hinckley has said he wants to fit

:27:30.:27:32.

in and be a good citizen our correspondent,

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Aleem Maqbool, has more details. It was a moment that left the world

:27:49.:27:50.

holding its breath - The President was shoved

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into his limo, an act that may well have saved his life,

:27:54.:27:58.

but others were left The would be assassin had been

:27:59.:28:00.

bundled to the ground. As Ronald Reagan was rushed

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through Washington, an agent with him put out

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the word he was fine. Though he recovered quickly,

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it was found a bullet had punctured The attacker was John Hinckley

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Junior, a man obsessed with Jodie Foster,

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who came to believe that killing the President

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would impress the actress. He was found not guilty

:28:20.:28:22.

on the grounds of insanity, but was sent to a psychiatric

:28:23.:28:25.

hospital, where he's Over recent years though he's been

:28:26.:28:28.

allowed on short trips home A judge has now ruled he should be

:28:29.:28:35.

released to live with her. Well, among the many conditions

:28:36.:28:39.

John Hinckley has had to agree to to be released, he's not

:28:40.:28:42.

allowed to come here, He can't look himself up

:28:43.:28:45.

on the internet and has to continue to get treatment but,

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in spite of all of that, there are still those who believe

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he shouldn't be freed. That includes the Ronald Reagan

:28:55.:28:57.

Foundation, which released "Contrary to the judge's decision,

:28:58.:28:59.

we believe John Hinckley is still a threat to others

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and we strongly oppose his release." He should be in jail for the rest

:29:03.:29:08.

of his life. I guess you have to

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let him out because... I mean, he didn't

:29:14.:29:15.

actually murder anyone. He attempted murder,

:29:16.:29:17.

but then he was sick, right? The most seriously injured

:29:18.:29:21.

among those shot in 1981 was the President's Press Secretary,

:29:22.:29:25.

James Brady, who was left paralysed. He fought for legislation on gun

:29:26.:29:30.

control, but the issues surrounding guns and mental health have only

:29:31.:29:36.

intensified over the years. For Ronald Reagan, who was shot

:29:37.:29:38.

just a couple of months into his presidency,

:29:39.:29:41.

it changed the perception Americans had of him,

:29:42.:29:45.

he was now a hero who cheated death. And 35 years after he almost

:29:46.:29:49.

radically changed the course of world history, John Hinckley

:29:50.:29:52.

could be sent home within a week. Aleem Maqbool, BBC

:29:53.:29:55.

News, in Washington. There's just over a week

:29:56.:30:14.

to go to the start of where Team GB are looking

:30:15.:30:16.

to win 48 medals. One of the squad's best hopes

:30:17.:30:20.

is 23-year-old Max Whitlock, the World Champion gymnast

:30:21.:30:22.

who was just a teenager when he unexpectedly won Team

:30:23.:30:24.

and Individual Bronze Since then he's struggled a bit

:30:25.:30:26.

with illness, but he's also won He met Katherine Downes

:30:27.:30:30.

at his training base in Essex. Focus - that's what strikes

:30:31.:30:34.

you when you meet Max Whitlock. Since bronze in London,

:30:35.:30:37.

he spent the last four years working I was an underdog going in there,

:30:38.:30:39.

I was only 19-years-old, I mean, I helped with the team

:30:40.:30:45.

result amd that's the first time And then, for me to get

:30:46.:30:55.

an individual bronze medal, I was so pleased with my achievement

:30:56.:30:59.

and what I produced on that day. While his friend and rival,

:31:00.:31:02.

silver medallist Louis Smith, became a household name

:31:03.:31:05.

after London, for Max The pair will go head-to-head

:31:06.:31:07.

again in Rio. At the end of the day,

:31:08.:31:10.

that's pushing both of us even more, which is the best

:31:11.:31:13.

thing for our team. The higher scores we have on those

:31:14.:31:15.

individual apparatus, the better score that we can,

:31:16.:31:17.

hopefully, come out with as a team. So, you know, it's

:31:18.:31:21.

healthy competition. While the rivalry might be healthy,

:31:22.:31:22.

Max himself has been anything but. Glandular fever laid him low

:31:23.:31:25.

for three months last year, but through sheer grit he fought

:31:26.:31:27.

back to become the first British man So how many times

:31:28.:31:30.

a day are you here? Six days a week, five to seven

:31:31.:31:41.

hours' training a day. We usually do two sessions

:31:42.:31:44.

with a lunch break in between. It's the piece that,

:31:45.:31:48.

you know, a lot of my focus I do double sessions

:31:49.:32:00.

on the pommel horse every day. I, sort of, use that as a lot

:32:01.:32:03.

of my motivation to push me even harder, to get to the highest level

:32:04.:32:07.

that I possibly could. What's it like going

:32:08.:32:10.

into an Olympic Games It calms me, knowing that I've got

:32:11.:32:12.

that title behind me. You know, some people can see it

:32:13.:32:15.

as a lot more pressure, but I see that as a result that

:32:16.:32:18.

I've got in the bag now. I need to go in and produce the best

:32:19.:32:22.

scores that I possibly can and I'm And with that, it's

:32:23.:32:27.

back to training. Newsnight's about to begin over

:32:28.:32:30.

on BBC Two in a few moments. Tonight, the president of the EU

:32:31.:32:37.

isn't hanging around, he's appointed a former

:32:38.:32:40.

French Foreign Minister So just how much hardball

:32:41.:32:42.

is he likely to play? Here on BBC One it's time

:32:43.:32:50.

for the news where you are.

:32:51.:32:54.

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