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Tonight at Ten: Fighting resumes on all major

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fronts in Syria, ten days after a ceasefire was announced.

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The city of Aleppo has suffered its heaviest

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bombardment in several months, but President Assad

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I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having

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As the need for humanitarian aid becomes more critical by the day,

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there are renewed calls for President Assad to go.

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The idea of a unitary Assad-led Syria is over and we need

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We'll be reporting on the latest diplomatic efforts as the Syrian

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army announces the start of a major new offensive in Aleppo.

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Also tonight: In Egypt, relatives grieve for hundreds

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of migrants who drowned yesterday trying to cross to Europe.

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There's been a great deal of tension and anger here in

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Relatives were waiting outside the gate right through the night

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The internet giant Yahoo confirms that security details

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from 500 million user accounts were hacked in 2014.

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More protests on the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina,

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where a black man was shot dead by a police officer.

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And Hull tells the world what's on offer - as it prepares to become

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And coming up in Sportsday at 10:30pm on BBC News:

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The County Championship title race is going down to the wire.

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The season ends tomorrow with Yorkshire, Middlesex

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Fighting has resumed on all major fronts in Syria,

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just ten days after a ceasefire was called.

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The city of Aleppo has suffered its heaviest

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Entire streets in some of the rebel-held areas

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President Assad, whose forces are launching a new offensive

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in eastern Aleppo tonight, has blamed the Americans

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for breaking the ceasefire when Syrian soldiers were killed

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The UN has tried again today to deliver humanitarian aid,

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as our diplomatic correspondent James Robbins reports.

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Aleppo last night. These aren't verified pictures, but show

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warplanes chopping incendiaries honourable warheads -- rebel held

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territory. At least 45 people were reported killed.

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TRANSLATION: For anyone who heard the air strikes, they would say it's

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a world war in Aleppo, a war of ethnic cleansing. The streets are

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totally empty because of the intense bombing. I've never seen such

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intense bombing in Aleppo. Elsewhere in Syria, including the central

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provinces of Hama wontons, there seems little left of whatever

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ceasefire there was. -- and Homs. In an interview with the Associated

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Press news agency, Syria's President Assad was defiant. He denies

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besieging eastern Aleppo. He denies using barrel bombs to kill

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civilians. A bomb is a bomb, what is the difference between different

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kinds of bombs? All bombs are tools to kill but it's about how to use

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it. When you use armament you use it to defend the civilians, you kill

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terrorists in order to defend civilians. We don't have the moral

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incentive to kill civilians, we don't have the interest. Hit the

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war, he said, would drag on as long as outside powers interfered and as

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for Monday's attack which destroyed a UN Red Crescent humanitarian

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convoy and killed 28 workers, President Assad denied any

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involvement. Regarding the claim of the White House yesterday, accusing

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either the Syrian or the Russian in that regard, I would say whatever

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the American official said about the conflict in Syria in general has no

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credibility, whatever they say is lies. And his government forces are

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gaining control of yet more territory in Syria. Today, over 100

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rebel fighters and their families were evacuated from opposition held

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district of Homs. Elsewhere United Nations aid convoy did get through

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to a rebel held suburb Damascus but so far none has been allowed into

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Aleppo, something the UN said must change. Please, President Assad, do

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your bit to enable us to get to eastern Aleppo and also the other

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besieged areas. Hello, Foreign Secretary. In New York Boris Johnson

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told me he hadn't given up on diplomacy but conceded prospects

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were fading. We've seen more bombing of civilians in Aleppo overnight,

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almost certainly by the regime or by the Russians themselves and yes, I

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think people would have to say that Kerry Lavrov process is very much in

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jeopardy. The space for dialogue is shrinking full stop instead, the

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Syrian military has announced a major new attention on Easter --

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offensive on eastern Aleppo, after all the people there and across so

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much of Syria have already suffered. Those talks at the United Nations

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are still going on and James Robbins is there. AU detecting any signs of

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even minimal progress there? No. None. I have to say. You heard what

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President Assad was saying, you heard a little of what the Foreign

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Secretary has been telling me. Every day this week I think Syria has been

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on the slide, further and further downwards. It's been the same, I

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have to say, for the diplomacy here. The situation does look

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extraordinarily bleak. I mean the Foreign Secretary was saying to me

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in that interview, look, we have to pin our chances on dialogue. That's

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what we do, that's the only way eventually to try to get you out of

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a war. He appealed to the Russians to do what he said would be the

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right thing, to stop their support for the Assad regime, and to do what

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he says they've committed to, the Russians, which is to help negotiate

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a political transition away from President Assad. But there is

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frankly no sign of that and all the signals I'm picking up from the

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meeting that's going on now involving the Foreign Secretary,

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John Kerry, Sergei Lavrov, the other key powers, all the signals coming

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out of that meeting is that they are making no progress, they are not

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going to break down and never agreed to meet again, they're going to keep

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on talking and meet again, but it's very clear they really see little or

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no prospect of any form of breakthrough. James, thanks once

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again, James Robbins, our diplomatic correspondent at the United Nations

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in New York. Four men have been arrested in Egypt

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on suspicion of people-trafficking after a boat carrying migrants

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capsized off the coast yesterday. Survivors told the BBC

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there were about 550 people on board The Egyptian authorities have

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rescued around 160 people. It happened 12 miles from the shore

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near the town of Rosetta. From there our correspondent

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Orla Guerin sent this report. Reclaimed from the sea,

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survivors of the latest tragedy Saved by the Egyptian military

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but taken into police custody. Some overwhelmed by exhaustion

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after up to eight Most were young Egyptians from poor

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communities who told us they wanted They said more than 550 people

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were crammed onto the boat. It was very small, said Ahmed,

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who is 17. We were at sea for days

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and they kept bringing more people. Before we capsized,

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half the crew got away. Mohammed survived, but without his

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cousin, who was just 14. TRANSLATION: May God have mercy

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on him and all the I was going to die but God

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helped me. I recited a prayer before death,

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not once but ten or 15 times. Outside the police station,

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anguish and anger. Some relatives complaining

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the authorities took hours to respond to distress signals

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from the sinking ship. But then what they'd

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all been waiting for. Well, the survivors

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are emerging now. They are being reunited

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with their families. Many of the relatives have

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been maintaining a vigil here right through the night,

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hoping against hope to get news of their loved ones,

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hoping that they were not They survived but his eight-year-old

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brother did not. He has barely spoken

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since he was rescued. And this father, beyond

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words in his grief. Ahmed had just found

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out his 16-year-old son is no One more young man who died

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trying for a better life. Orla Guerin, BBC News,

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Rosetta, Northern Egypt. It was exactly a year ago that

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ministers meeting in Brussels agreed to relocate thousands

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of newly-arrived refugees and migrants to different parts

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of the European Union. They pledged that 120,000

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who'd arrived in Italy, Greece and elsewhere were to be

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included in the plan. Today, human rights groups said that

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in Greece more than 60,000 are still stranded in camps, with

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only six per cent relocated so far. Many of those left are living

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in poor conditions on the island of Lesbos, from where our special

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correspondent Fergal Keane reports. In a camp cramped more

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than twice its capacity. A defining symbol of how the year

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has changed the political response We don't even know who we are, this

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Congolese man says. We came as

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refugees, now we are There are many young men here,

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some are refugees from conflict, This week tents were set on fire,

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apparently in response to false rumours of a mass deportation.

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Conflict. Hundreds spent the night in

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the open. Without information,

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without knowledge about when their asylum claims will be processed,

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when they can continue their journey, people are growing more

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and more frustrated and more fearful The camps are within

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sight of the Turkish coast from where people

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were There are just over

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1000 people here. Women and children,

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families traumatised by Yet even here, a cumbersome asylum

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process keeps people waiting massacred, raped and enslaved

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by the so-called Islamic State. This man says his family has

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been waiting six months. When they burned our home we escaped

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with only the clothes 11 of his relatives are trapped in

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Iraq under IS rule. It is a place of slow

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rhythms but growing impatience with the presence

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of the camps on their doorstep. You've humiliated the most beautiful

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island in the Aegean, this man shouts

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at a government office. Tourism has collapsed

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since the crisis began as TRANSLATION: People are frustrated

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because of the migrants in the camp. They've caused problems

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since the beginning that these have But locals are also volunteering

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in the camps, like this The classes break the tedium,

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but suggest an air of The internet company Yahoo has

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confirmed that hackers have stolen information from around 500 million

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of its user accounts. The company said it believed

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the attack, which happened in 2014, Our technology correspondent

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Rory Cellan-Jones is with me now. It's the scale of this which is

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quite stunning? That's right, we knew there was evidence of some data

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from Yahoo was on sale on the Internet, not thought to be that

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serious. But unlike Yahoo has revealed the scale of the breach,

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that it looks like the biggest data breach in history. This is what they

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are saying about the data involved. It may include names, e-mail

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addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and encrypted passwords and

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crucially security questions and answers, that could be very useful.

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It may not include they say, they don't think it includes more serious

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information like unprotected passwords, payment card data and

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bank account information. But there is serious. They are writing, they

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say, they are really mailing -- e-mailing those customers affected

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telling them to change their passwords and there is advice to

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change your password anyway, especially if you haven't done so

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since 2014. They are talking about it being the result of action by a

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state-sponsored actor. There is some speculation that could be Russian

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hackers. The advice was clear but there's another as well, which is a

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kind of timing problem for Yahoo was well? It's a very bad time for this

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to happen to Yahoo. The company has just sold itself to the American

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mobile phone operator and there is on but that deal hasn't yet gone

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through. Tonight, that company put out a statement which will not be

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seen as very reassuring to Yahoo saying it had got limited

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information about what was going on and it would evaluate it as the

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investigation proceeded, to see what impact it might have. It casts a

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very dark shadow on Yahoo's future and the future of that deal.

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Tens of thousands of operations were cancelled at short notice

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by hospitals in England last year, but they were not counted

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in official figures for last-minute delays.

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The body that represents NHS Trusts in England says the number

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of operations cancelled at the last minute is often down to a shortage

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of critical care beds or surgeons and anaesthetists.

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The NHS has insisted that the proportion of late

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Our health editor Hugh Pym has the story.

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It should have been a routine operation but it turned

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into a nightmare experience for Iona Hevican from Cornwall.

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After a wait of several months for a hysterectomy,

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the operation was postponed the day before it was due and then cancelled

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She felt so upset she went straight to her local radio station

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in her hospital gown to talk about the experience.

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As you can see, I've still got my name tags on.

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The operation did eventually take place and went smoothly, but Iona,

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who is self-employed, won't forget distress caused

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by being told of cancellations with very limited notice.

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Every time they give you a date they are going to do an operation,

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there's been lot of preparing before you go in so any cancellation that

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you get is obviously a very traumatic time

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because of everything, all your plans you made,

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Official figures show 7.7 million operations were carried out

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With 1%, there were last minute cancellations on the day

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Patients were guaranteed a new date within 28 days.

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But a BBC investigation with information from some hospitals

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has revealed more short notice cancellations.

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They said nearly 41,500 were cancelled one to three days

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These aren't included in official figures and they only cover

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Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland use different definitions

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Hospital chiefs in England admit there's a problem but say increased

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patient numbers are putting pressure on wards and operating theatres.

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In a situation where we've got so many people needing planned

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operations and an increasing level of emergency admissions,

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then we have a situation where we often need to cancel

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And isn't that pretty devastating for the patients involved?

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It's absolutely devastating for the patient involved.

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We don't underestimate what that means.

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Iona simply feels she was passed around the system with no

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They could do basically what they want and they don't

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I've got problems as much as the next person.

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The local hospital said it was working hard to reduce short

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Iona's view is that it has to be a priority for hospitals

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A state of emergency has been declared in the US city

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of Charlotte in North Carolina, after a second night of protests

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over the death of a black man who was shot by police.

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Riot police fired tear gas to disperse angry crowds in the city

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centre and the National Guard is to be deployed to

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There's a heavy police presence in the city of Charlotte tonight.

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Our correspondent Nick Bryant is there.

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There have been two nights of violence and the fear is of a third.

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This is Charlotte, a city that prides itself of being a symbol of

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the new American south, a modern, multiethnic community that has tried

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hard and achieved a lot of success in excavating the legacy of

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segregation. But it has joined a long and expanding list of US cities

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hit by violent protests. The racial turbulence that marred

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the American summer has The latest flash point,

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not a crime-ridden neighbourhood but the heart of downtown Charlotte,

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rioters running amock amidst The fury was unleashed by yet

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another police shooting. The third black man killed

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by US police this week. What precipitated this is police

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brutality and you see the end result of something that happened,

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by a police force that is supposed to be hired to protect

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and serve by the taxpayers. There is now a familiar pattern

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to these disturbances. A police shooting is followed

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by peaceful protests We were doing peaceful

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protest the whole time. This could be Ferguson,

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Baton Rouge, Minneapolis. The Charlotte violence

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was sparked by the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott by a black

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police officer in Police say he emerged

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from his car with a handgun His family claims he

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was reading a book. His daughter was live

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streaming on Facebook Disturbing film also emerged this

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week of another fatal police shooting in Tulsa,

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Oklahoma. It shows an unarmed black man,

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Terence Crutcher, his arms held aloft, being shot by a

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female officer. Speaking at a black church

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in front of minority voters he is now trying to woo,

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Donald Trump strongly This young officer, I don't know

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We have two more names to add to a list of African Americans

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killed by police officers in these encounters.

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It's unbearable and it needs to become intolerable.

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This is the latest episode in a uniquely American tragedy.

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One that repeats itself every few months, one that defies resolution.

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Long-standing problems that keep on bringing anger and blood

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In the past few minutes, a key development. The police officer from

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Tulsa, Oklahoma has been charged with first-degree manslaughter. And

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Charlotte, police say the family of the African-American shot here can

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see police video of the shooting. They are saying it is inconclusive,

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but they are prepared to show the family that video, although they

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won't release it to the public. The Foreign Secretary,

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Boris Johnson, has said that Britain will begin formal talks to leave

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the European Union by "the early part of next year" and he's

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suggested that the discussions could be concluded before

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the two-year deadline. Mr Johnson was speaking in New York,

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where he's been attending talks The Government is working

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towards an Article 50 letter which, as you know, will be produced

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probably in the early That's still a subject

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for discussion. Our political correspondent

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Carole Walker is in Downing Street. Has he been a bit more specific

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about the timetable that the Prime Minister was? Indeed, tonight,

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Downing Street are sticking to the position Theresa May has set out

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several times since becoming Prime Minister, that she will not trigger

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article 50, the formal negotiations, before the end of the year. That's

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what she said when she met the president of the European Parliament

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earlier this evening. So Boris Johnson has gone further than

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Theresa May is prepared at the but he isn't contradicting her position.

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There is a lot of pressure on the government to be clearer not just

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about the timing but it's negotiating position, and the

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suspicion will be that Boris Johnson is trying to give that process a bit

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of a push. Not for the first time, Theresa May is making it clear she

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is not going to allow the Brexiteers in her government to set the pace. A

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source close to her said the decision would be hers and she would

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trigger Article 15 when she believed it was the right moment to get the

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right deal for Britain. Channel 4, which is spending

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?75 million on a deal to broadcast the Great British Bake Off,

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has bought a car with one wheel, according to Lord Grade,

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a former chief executive of Channel 4 and former

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chairman of the BBC. He spoke after news that

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Paul Hollywood will be the only member of the current presenting

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team to move from the BBC, after Mary Berry became

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the latest to announce Lord Grade said that the board

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of Channel 4 should be investigating the decision to buy the show,

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as our correspondent I could almost wring

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that out like a flannel. Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry,

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the judges on Britain's And now it is all over. Paul

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Hollywood, seen yesterday at Channel 4. He is going with the Bake Off.

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Mary Berry is staying with the BBC out of not busy that legacy and

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bidding a fare well to the soggy bottoms. Moving from one channel to

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the other should cause a problem but, once you've lost your two main

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presenters, once you've lost Mary, it almost makes it a different show.

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For every one that loves the Bake Off, there is a lot of uncertainty.

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... So the BBC loses the Bake Off but fights to hang onto the

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presenters. Channel 4 says it wants as few changes as possible but there

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is only one familiar face left. A lot of loyal fans are disappointed.

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This battle has become a bit of an Eton mess. A former boss of Channel

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4 and the BBC feels that the Bake Off issue could even go to offer

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comp. It also raises issues for the board of Channel 4 and its battle

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against privatisation, privatisation which he supports. Channel 4 has

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been arguing for two years with the government against privatisation on

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the grounds that they are a channel for innovation, a nursery for talent

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for production companies. I think that argument is now dead. The

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argument surfaces again, I think the move of Bake Off means they will

:26:36.:26:40.

lose that argument. Channel 4 said it wouldn't have the show if the

:26:41.:26:46.

relationship with the BBC hadn't broken down. Proud of their public

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service programming, they feel they have saved the Bake Off for free to

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air television. But what exactly have they bought? Legal opinions

:26:55.:26:59.

differ but an intellectual property expert feels that the BBC, with a

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few changes and caveats, return to the ovens. In my view, they could

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have a competition set in a tent in a country setting, having a slightly

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different version of the show. The BBC certainly wanted to hang onto

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its Bake Off stars. He even offered Paul Hollywood some appearances on

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Top Gear. But the Channel 4, one out of four when it comes to talent, but

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this format has gone around the world with all sorts of presenters.

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Even with half the audience, this would be a winner.

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There are 100 days to go until Hull becomes the UK City

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of Culture for 2017, and the year-long artistic

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The city is the second to have the title and fought off

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competition from Swansea, Dundee and Leicester.

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Among the highlights announced are Opera North performing

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from the Humber Bridge, and the city hosting

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There's a price tag of tens of millions of pounds for an arts

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festival that lasts 12 months, so our arts editor Will Gompertz has

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This is Hull, frantically getting ready to welcome the world

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in a little over three months' time when it takes on the mantle of UK

:28:09.:28:11.

City of Culture and hosts a 12-month arty party.

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Ferens Art Gallery, jewel in the crown of the city.

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The man behind the festivities tells me the

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gallery is having a ?4.5 million face-lift in preparation for hosting

:28:24.:28:26.

next year's Turner Prize, which is one highlight in a programme

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that includes citywide light shows, opera on the Humber Bridge and

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The overall aim, he says, is to tell Hull's story.

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It's investing hugely in green energy.

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It is a port to northern Europe, it is a gateway into Yorkshire.

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So I think what we try to find is that balance

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between celebrating the historic nature of this city as a great

:28:48.:28:53.

place, which once had great wealth, its ups and downs socially and

:28:54.:28:56.

economically, but also pushing it into the future as a vibrant place.

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Last year, I took a tour of the city with Hull-based theatre director

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And then behind it is going to be an amphitheatre.

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An amphitheatre? Yeah.

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It was amazing to see so many people coming down and

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We then went on to revisit a rundown area of the city known

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You can see that it's sort of halfway through its

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transformation, to become this cultural

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and kind of creative business hub really.

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It doesn't look like much at the moment, but this,

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all being well, come January, is going to be Hull's

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Truth be told, Madeleine, are the local people

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slightly fed up with all the disruption?

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Well, of course they are, because the entire city has been,

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like, barriers across it and trying to navigate those barriers can

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But I think everybody is starting to see those

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changes, they are starting to get on board with how brilliant it is

:29:57.:30:00.

People's interpretation of the city by physically coming

:30:01.:30:08.

here, looking around it, talking to people.

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It's nice to see so much regeneration in the city and I'm

:30:12.:30:14.

looking forward to seeing who comes in to do work

:30:15.:30:17.

I think it's going to be really exciting.

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I think people look down at Hull and they shouldn't.

:30:22.:30:23.

There's lots of excellent stuff going on in Hull.

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?130 million plus is being spent on the city's cultural

:30:27.:30:28.

The hope is that the 2017 arts festival will

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It is a party to which we are all invited.

:30:34.:30:37.

how many of us will want to go.

:30:38.:30:42.

Tonight, racial tension and rioting in response to police shooting and

:30:43.:31:02.

even terror attacks have become grimly familiar to the American

:31:03.:31:06.

people in recent years, but will the latest examples impact on the battle

:31:07.:31:12.

for the White House? Join me now on BBC Two or at 11pm in

:31:13.:31:13.

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