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Tonight at Ten: The High Court rules it is the responsibility of the NHS

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to fund a drug that prevents HIV but should it pay for the treatment?

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Campaigners argue the drug is a gamechanger, dramatically

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This gives us the first chance to really start

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There are other diseases and conditions that we need

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to prioritise the resources of the NHS for.

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As NHS England says it plans to appeal the court's ruling we ask

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what the health service's priorities should be?

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Also tonight: There've been sharp drops in home ownership in all major

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urban areas in England and particularly in Manchester.

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A man is jailed for life for the rape and murder

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of 20-year-old India Chipchase whom he met outside

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Seeking justice for a minority community hounded and persecuted

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Getting ready for Rio, Brazil says it's confident

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And, wanted, a teacher for a very small school on a very small island.

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And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News:

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UK Anti-Doping says its waiting to learn exactly why the British

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cyclist Lizzie Armitstead was cleared to race in Rio

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The NHS in England has been told by the High Court that it can fund

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a drug that helps prevent the transmission of HIV,

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a ruling that's being celebrated as a victory by campaigners.

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The court rejected the Health Service's argument that

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the groundbreaking treatment, known as PrEP, should be

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But the annual cost stands at an estimated ?10 to ?20 million,

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and the NHS has said it will appeal the ruling.

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Sadiq's life was put on hold when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive.

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Just a month before he thought he'd be chosen for a trial of the drug

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now known to prevent infection, but he narrowly missed out.

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He's back now to his training as a circus performer and says

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the argument in favour of the drug, known as PrEP, is clear.

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That's one thing that I don't think we think about PrEP a lot,

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is it stops the transmission of the fact, but it also

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stops the transmission of the psychological effects

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of being diagnosed with HIV, which can and do

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PrEP is currently available in some other countries, including the US,

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The NHS argument is that in England local authorities are responsible

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for sexual health and prevention, so they should pay for it.

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That was rejected by a High Court judge.

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The cost of the pills is up to ?400 a month.

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The estimated annual bill for the NHS would be

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between ?10 and ?20 million, but campaigners say it's cost

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effective because lifetime patient for an HIV patient

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ARCHIVE: If you ignore AIDS, it could be the death of you.

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AIDS is no longer the threat it was at the time of this

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Thanks to new drugs, HIV patients are much less

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likely to develop AIDS, but campaigners say reducing the HIV

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infection rate is still a priority and today's ruling is significant.

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We're really delighted and it's such an important decision that

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could have such great impact for people at risk of HIV.

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Why do you say the NHS should pay to protect people

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when they could look after themselves by having protected sex?

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The majority of gay men do protect themselves by using condoms

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and we know from studies that condom use among gay men is much higher

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than the general population but, as with the general population,

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often people aren't able to successfully use

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The legal battle is far from over, NHS England says it'll

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appeal against today's High Court ruling and,

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even if that fails, it's under no obligation to fund the drug or do

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anything more than consider its cost effectiveness, alongside treatments

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PrEP, subject to the appeal, will be seen and considered

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alongside 13 other treatments, including treatments for children

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with cystic fibrosis, prosthetic limb loss and certain

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It's all about assessing competing demands on a finite budget.

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Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are also deciding whether

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As far as Sadiq's concerned, the new drug deserves

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I missed that chance and that's why I advocate for PrEP.

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Other people in my position, with the right knowledge,

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which can be provided, can stop themselves from contracting HIV.

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Even though I am in a good place and I am strong and I am

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healthy and I am fit, it's still hits me every time

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Do the health services' concerns over funding this drug go wider than

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this particular case? Well, yes. The background to all of this is

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increasing number of new drugs and treatments coming on stream the

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whole time and patients want them but there is a constrained special

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budget at NHS England. That was a key fact Forrest them going to court

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to show that under law in England it's local authorities who

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There is a wider point which both sides in this have noticed which is

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that the judgment includes the following phrase, the power of NHS

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England includes commissioning for preventive purposes, which sounds

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quite a broad definition. I am told NHS England wants to go to the Court

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of Appeal to find out exactly what that means, to get clarity. Does it

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mean they have a much broader role than they thought over prevention as

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well as care? Does it mean there might be other drugs and treatments

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for people who are otherwise healthy on the off-chance they might get an

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infection or disease? What might it cost? Doesn't public health England

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have a role? Some campaigners and MPs are saying hang on, NHS England

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have lost the argument, they should gracefully accept defeat and get on

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with assessing this drug which has been proved in trials to be so

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highly effective for those most at risk of the HIV infection.

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Thank you. The housing crisis, so commonly

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associated with London, has spread to other regions of England,

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according to new analysis. The think-tank The Resolution

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Foundation says that areas in northern England and the Midlands

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are becoming increasingly unaffordable, with the proportion

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owning their own home falling most Our home editor Mark Easton

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is in Salford and sent this report. If we thought the housing crisis

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was just a London and south-east New analysis of official figures

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suggests the impact has been And nowhere more so than

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in Greater Manchester, where the proportion

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who own their own home has fallen dramatically over

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the last 10 to 15 years. Welcome to Reservoir Street

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in Salford, Greater Manchester. A terrace which mirrors the story

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of inner-city housing. When these homes were built

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just over 100 years ago, Home ownership was only

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for the privileged few. Over the decades, they were bought

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by their occupants. But then as people left the inner

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cities, they fell into disrepair. Now, after a refurbishment,

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more than half are being rented again, mostly from

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private landlords. I've been trying to save for a fair

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few years now just to get Unless your parents can help you,

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really, these days it's so hard I've noticed a few for sale

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signs, who's buying? My landlord is actually

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someone from London. A lot of people are coming up

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here to buy them because they are cheaper investments

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than anything down in London. And then renting them

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out to people like you? Yes, it's people like us

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who are renting them. Local estate agents say recent

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changes to stamp duty are deterring some buy-to-let landlords,

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but the market has been A lot of first-time

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buyers were being beaten They were paying a good price

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for a good property and the first time buyers just weren't getting

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a look in. Reservoir Street has

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another claim to fame. It was the original

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Coronation Street in the titles of the soap opera when it

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launched back in 1960. Then, most people in

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Manchester rented. Two decades on, and Margaret

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Thatcher's Right to Buy legislation Home ownership in England

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peaked in 2003, but has Social housing has also been

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declining, with the private rented There have been big

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falls in homeownership in Greater Manchester,

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in the West Midlands, In Scotland yesterday

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the Scottish Government ended 30 years of Right to Buy for council

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tenants, saying it was important to protect and expand

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social housing. In England, they're extending Right

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to Buy and introducing schemes like Starter Homes with Ministers

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focussed on reversing We've helped over 300,000 people

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since we came in in 2010 to get The Prime Minister was very clear

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outside Downing Street when she took over that there's more to do,

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and she wants to ensure that people who work hard have the chance

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to own their own home. The government says it will build

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1 million new homes in England by 2020, but with the average house

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now costing more than five times the annual earnings of the average

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first-time buyer, home ownership looks likely to remain a distant

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dream for millions. Mark Easton, BBC News,

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Greater Manchester. Two years ago, the self-styled

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Islamic State group launched Thousands of members of the ancient

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Yazidi community were trapped. Most of the men were executed

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and hundreds of women forced The attacks spurred

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the international community Now the BBC has been given

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exclusive access to a group of lawyers and investigators,

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who are trying to bring Our security correspondent

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Frank Gardner went to meet them. On the run, dehydrated

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and terrified. Hundreds of Yazidi families fled

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for their lives when Islamic State fighters attacked their villages

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near Mount Sinjar, Many escaped, including those

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rescued by helicopter. But two years on, the women

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and girls who were captured on the ground are still

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enduring a living hell. "Where is my yazidi girl",

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demands this IS fighter? He and the others are discussing

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a modern day sex slave market for Yazidi women and girls,

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some as young as nine. Now investigators are working

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to identify those responsible. Here, amongst all these boxes

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of documents in a European capital that we have been asked not to name,

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is the evidence that war crimes investigators say points

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to the culpability of senior Islamic State commanders

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for the mass abduction and sexual slavery of hundreds,

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possibly thousands, of Yazidi women We have hundreds of women

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that remain enslaved... Bill Wiley is heading

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the investigation. His team's research

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into war crimes by IS, also known as Daesh,

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is being funded by What we have is a lot of evidence

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that there was a policy, an unwritten policy,

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that this was permissible and the key for us is to establish

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the criminal responsibility, not of Daesh as a whole,

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but individual leaders within Daesh. Tracing the Daesh or IS leadership's

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involvement in sexual slavery has identified over 40 slave owners

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and over 30 senior IS figures. Beneath the leader of

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the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, are those

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believed responsible, like this former school

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teacher Abu Alaa Al Fri, Still assumed to be at large,

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though, are the economic and finance Emirs in the town of Tal Afar named

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as Haji Bakr and Abu Ali. They take these women and they see

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them as a value to them. This investigator asked to remain

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anonymous for his own safety. I asked him how optimistic

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he was these men would face justice? Well, our focus today is to ensure

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that the failures of the past aren't repeated and those failures

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of the past are that no evidence It's for that reason that we think

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first and foremost we need to do the job of evidence

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collecting while we can. Justice for the Yazidis, though,

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may still be years away. There is, as yet, no court set up

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to try their tormenters But the investigators are adamant,

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sooner or later, they say those who ordered this ongoing atrocity

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will be held to account. Eyewitness accounts from Syria

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suggest toxic chlorine gas may have been dropped on a town

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near to where a Russian military transport helicopter was shot down

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by rebels yesterday. Dozens of people, including women

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and children, are believed to have been affected, but there are

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no reported fatalities. More than 4,000 migrants have died

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across the world so far this year, according to new figures,

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an increase of more than a quarter The international Organisation

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for Migration says three-quarters lost their lives attempting

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to cross the Mediterranean. The bodies of 120 migrants have been

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found on the Libyan coast A man has been found guilty

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of raping and murdering a young woman he promised to get home safe,

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after approaching her outside Birmingham Crown Court heard that

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52-year-old Edward Tenniswood found India Chipchase in a drunken state

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outside the club in January. He's been sentenced to life with a

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minimum of 30 years in prison. India Chipchase, friends

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described her as a delightful girl, But one night in January,

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the wrong place, the wrong time, This is the man who killed India,

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52-year-old Edward Tenniswood, India was a young, intelligent woman

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at the start of her life. She should have been able to enjoy

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a night out with friends It is clear that India was targeted

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by Tenniswood at a point in her life where she was most vulnerable

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and unable to defend herself. Tenniswood was passing by this

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Northampton nightclub She'd been on a night

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out with friends. On security footage from outside

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the club, he can be seen leaning into his victim,

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urging the 20-year-old Tenniswood was a self-confessed

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alcoholic who'd drink three He claimed when he met

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India Chipchase here, he had managed to charm her,

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despite the fact she was 30 He went on to tell the court

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that it was she who had first The pair can be seen in the top

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left of the picture. He admitted in court that he'd

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promised India she'd Instead, they stopped

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here at his terraced house, He then headed to a local hotel,

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where he spent the next 22 When Miss Chipchase's family raised

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the alarm, the police traced Tenniswood to the hotel

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where he was arrested. India's father, who lives abroad,

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recorded a victim impact We love her now and we

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will always love her. Even though we'll never

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experience her smile, her laughter, her caring again,

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her photographs will adorn our walls, the memories of her 20 years

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will live on and her spirit India Chipchase had,

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in the weeks before her death, decided she wanted

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to become a paramedic. That dream ended at the hands

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of an opportunistic killer. Sangita Myska, BBC News,

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Birmingham Crown Court. A brief look at some

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of the day's other news stories. Thousands of people have attended

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the funeral of the French priest killed in his church in Normandy

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by Islamist extremists. Father Jacques Hamel, who was 85,

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was killed by two French teenagers, who pledged allegiance to Islamic

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State. A man suspected of murdering

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a six-year-old boy in Cambridgeshire, 22 years ago,

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has been arrested in Portugal The body of Rikki Neave was found

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in woodland near his Extradition proceedings

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are underway. A group of MPs says the public

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should be told which BBC stars are earning more than the ?143,000

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salary paid to the Prime Minister. The Commons Culture,

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Media and Sport Committee is also recommending a separate

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Six O'Clock News for Scotland. The BBC says it's considering

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the idea and a decision will be made The UK's new European Commissioner,

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Julian King, is to lead the EU's Sir Julian's appointment must now be

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approved by the European Parliament. He replaces Lord Hill, who resigned

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following the Brexit vote in June. The US Republican candidate

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for president, Donald Trump, is facing fresh criticism tonight

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for his comments about the Muslim parents of an American soldier -

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this time from the French President, Francois Hollande, who said his

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words "made him want to retch." Mr Trump has also came under attack

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once again from Barack Obama and who said he'd be voting

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for Hillary Clinton. Here's our North America

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editor, Jon Sopel. Please welcome the next President

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of the United States - Please welcome the next President

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of the United States - The music is all right now,

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but things have been very far from all right these past few days

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for Donald Trump after his damaging spat with the parents of a Muslim US

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army captain killed in Iraq But today Mr Trump was able

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to brandish a gallantry medal of his own, though it had been

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given to him by a vet who had been purple heart because,

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as the New York Times documents today, on five occasions he avoided

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being drafted to fight Unease on the Republican side has

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resulted in the first Richard Hannah from New York said,

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"he's unfit to serve our party While I disagree with her on many

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issues, I will vote Today, at the White House,

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the President piled in. I think

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the Republican nominee is unfit I said so last week,

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and he keeps on proving it. The fact that he doesn't appear

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to have basic knowledge around critical issues in Europe,

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in the Middle East, in Asia means that he's woefully

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unprepared to do this job. Now another

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President has intervened, Although French may be

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the language of diplomacy there is nothing nusianced

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about Francois Hollande's He said Donald Trump's most recent

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comments made him want to retch, In the race for the White House,

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Donald Trump has discovered there is such a thing as political

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gravity after all. Sense the conventions there have

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been a slew of polls. Whilst they must have the usual

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health warnings, they all point That his support has gone down

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and Hillary Clinton's has gone up. Jon Sopel, BBC News,

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Washington. The prominent Conservative

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party donor Ian Taylor who's reported to have been

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recommended for a knighthood in David Cameron's

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resignation honours list Mr Taylor said he would request

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his name 'does not go forward' if indeed his name

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is being considered. Ian Taylor, who donated

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money to the Remain campaign during the referendum,

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said he was writing to both Mr Cameron and Theresa May to inform

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them of his intentions. The first of a series of trials

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are taking place in China of more than 300 lawyers who were rounded up

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last year in a major Those in court are accused

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of "subverting state power". There's particular concern that

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lawyers are being targeted to try to discourage the political

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activities of those they represent. Our China correspondent,

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John Sudworth, sent this report With the police surrounding the

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court, we were not allowed to film. The heavy security and closed roads,

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sure signs that the first in a series of highly sensitive

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cases was finally getting underway. Zhai Yanmin is a veteran human

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rights campaigner and one of around 20 activists and lawyers detained

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since the sweeping His supposed confession has already

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been aired on state TV and today he was the first of the group to be

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convicted on a charge of subversion. Yu Wang Zhiang Zhiang's husband

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is a lawyer and another Many relatives have heard

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nothing for over a year, but as the trials begin,

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they're not even allowed Zhiang Zhiang was sent home

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to Beijing where, a few hours later, we caught up with her and her

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four-month-old baby. TRANSLATION: It was only

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after my husband was arrested that They haven't let me see him since,

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so he may not even know he has It is this targeting of lawyers

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and their families that gives rise to the suspicion that these cases

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are politically motivated, designed to send a warning to tow

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the Communist Party line. For many outside observers,

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including foreign governments, there is only one conclusion to be

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drawn from what is happening inside this court, and that is that

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China is engaged in an effort to ratchet up repression,

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to rein in dissent and to Zhai Yanmin faced a maximum of life

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in prison today, but was instead given a three-year

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suspended sentence. If that relative leniency is shown

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in the subsequent trials, it may be a sign that China

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is paying some heed John Sudworth, BBC News,

:24:26.:24:27.

Tianjin. The first action in this year's

:24:28.:24:39.

Olympic Games starts tomorrow, ahead of the official

:24:40.:24:43.

Opening Ceremony on Friday. Common to other Games, the build-up

:24:44.:24:45.

to Rio 2016 has been fraught. There's been the ongoing doping

:24:46.:24:49.

crisis and questions over Brazil, though, is confident it

:24:50.:24:51.

will surprise the world. Wyre Davies is in Rio

:24:52.:24:58.

for us tonight. Wyre. Brazil is in the middle of

:24:59.:25:08.

this political and economic crisis and all those problems you mentioned

:25:09.:25:13.

will still be here after the athletes, journalists and visitors

:25:14.:25:16.

have gone. Brazilians and people here in Rio in particular insist

:25:17.:25:20.

they are ready for the Games. Brazilians love a party and they

:25:21.:25:25.

love their sport. Don't forget after the World Cup, this is the second

:25:26.:25:29.

time in two years that Brazil is preparing to put on a major,

:25:30.:25:31.

international sporting event. They were such a big part of making

:25:32.:25:41.

the London Olympics asuccess and will be equally as important

:25:42.:25:45.

here - 50,000 volunteers from across Brazil and across the world,

:25:46.:25:48.

including Suzanne from London, The atmosphere in

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London was incredible. The way it brought

:25:51.:25:53.

the whole people together. I think here it's going to be

:25:54.:25:55.

probably even better because I'm actually

:25:56.:26:02.

going to be within the stadium. For Rio locals, or Cariocas,

:26:03.:26:08.

it's a moment of pride. "It's my city, my country and I'm

:26:09.:26:12.

really excited", she says. The run-up to these Games has been

:26:13.:26:16.

dogged by concerns about water pollution, the Zika

:26:17.:26:20.

virus and security. Some athletes have been training

:26:21.:26:25.

here for months, others We're confident we've got

:26:26.:26:27.

the right measures in place. We talk to sailing and rowing

:26:28.:26:34.

on a regular basis. They feel comfortable

:26:35.:26:37.

with the situation so, hopefully, Rio has been transformed since it

:26:38.:26:40.

won the right to host the Olympics. New infrastructure given a face lift

:26:41.:26:45.

after years of decay. The city's Mayor told me it wouldn't

:26:46.:26:51.

have happened without the Games. The Olympics was never about,

:26:52.:26:54.

you know, let's solve So these are things that we face,

:26:55.:26:57.

challenges that we still face, and it's a challenge

:26:58.:27:01.

for us Brazilians. It's not about the Olympics,

:27:02.:27:03.

it's about us. The longest, probably most

:27:04.:27:05.

geographically diverse torch relay in Olympic history,

:27:06.:27:12.

was designed to get this huge Sport is in the blood here and some

:27:13.:27:14.

events will be more popular than others,

:27:15.:27:23.

but all attention is now on Rio, hoping these can be a truly

:27:24.:27:25.

memorable Olympics. Wyre Davies, BBC News,

:27:26.:27:28.

Rio. Beautiful beaches, wonderful

:27:29.:27:35.

scenery and a school where the class sizes are,

:27:36.:27:36.

well, very small. Now, the tiny Hebridean island

:27:37.:27:40.

of Muck is having trouble recruiting a teacher for its only class,

:27:41.:27:43.

in its only school. So parents are taking the matter

:27:44.:27:46.

into their own hands and have launched their own search

:27:47.:27:49.

for someone who can cope with the unique lifestyle that this

:27:50.:27:52.

Scottish island has to offer. Lorna Gordon reports now

:27:53.:27:58.

from the Isle of Muck. Meet David, Jasper, Daniel, Kitty,

:27:59.:28:02.

Willow, Tara and Hugh - almost the entire school

:28:03.:28:04.

roll on Muck. The new term starts in a fortnight

:28:05.:28:09.

and they still need a teacher, so their families have taken

:28:10.:28:19.

to social media to try to sell I want a teacher that knows

:28:20.:28:22.

how to garden. A teacher that knows

:28:23.:28:26.

how to, you know, teach Have like a fun, imaginative

:28:27.:28:28.

and happy teacher. Muck is the smallest of Scotland's

:28:29.:28:36.

small isles, its one road a little You won't find a classroom

:28:37.:28:39.

like this anywhere else. Idyllic in the summer sunshine,

:28:40.:28:45.

but in winter very different. The island can get cut off,

:28:46.:28:49.

sometimes for days, and the outgoing teacher says her replacement

:28:50.:28:52.

will have to come prepared. Some days there's, you know,

:28:53.:28:55.

a short distance from Some days we wouldn't try that,

:28:56.:28:58.

it would be too windy to risk taking So when we say, good waterproofs,

:28:59.:29:04.

we mean REALLY good waterproofs. The island's at the mercy

:29:05.:29:12.

of the weather and the Atlantic -

:29:13.:29:25.

letters, food supplies and the doctor all have

:29:26.:29:32.

to come by boat. There are other rural and remote

:29:33.:29:34.

communities in Scotland which from time to time also have

:29:35.:29:36.

problems recruiting a teacher and then getting

:29:37.:29:38.

them to stay long-term. While there can be challenges

:29:39.:29:40.

in a place like this, There's a very, very good

:29:41.:29:43.

strong sense of community and everybody wants to,

:29:44.:29:56.

you know, everybody The children will get supply

:29:57.:29:58.

teachers until a permanent They know here that island life

:29:59.:30:05.

is not for everyone, but there's already been interest

:30:06.:30:13.

from across the world They hope someone will fall in love

:30:14.:30:19.

with Muck and its school. Lorna Gordon, BBC News,

:30:20.:30:25.

on the Isle of Muck. Tonight, how much will remain

:30:26.:30:30.

of Chancellor Osborne's legacy? We ask if the May Government is out

:30:31.:30:35.

to wipe the slate clean. Here, on BBC One, it's time

:30:36.:30:41.

for the news where you are.

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