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Tonight at Ten - the escalating dispute between Prime Minister

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and First Minister on the question of a second referendum

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Theresa May tells Nicola Sturgeon now is not the time -

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she says the focus should be on getting a good Brexit

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The reason I say that is because all our energies should be

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being put into the negotiations with the European Union.

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But the First Minister says the democratic mandate

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at Holyrood is not being respected by Westminster.

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We have a Conservative government with one MP in Scotland saying

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that they will stand in the way of the choice of

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I mean, this is like winding the clock back to the bad old days

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We'll have the latest as Nicola Sturgeon warns the fate

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A record fine for the Conservative Party for breaking campaign

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spending rules in some of the key marginal seats.

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But it's bad news for Donald Trump - his new attempt to impose a travel

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ban has again been rejected by the courts.

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A former Team Sky cyclist tells the BBC he broke the rules

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on taking supplements, but it was covered up.

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And what happened when a BBC team faced the volcanic fury

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On BBC London a man dies at a construction site after an explosion

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in Highgate. We'll have the latest. Find out why actors are performing

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for an audience of animals. Theresa May has signalled

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that she would refuse permission for a referendum on Scottish

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independence before the UK The Prime Minister said the current

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focus needed to be on securing the best Brexit deal

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for all of the the UK. Scotland's First Minister,

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Nicola Sturgeon, said it was democratically

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unacceptable to block Scotland's right to choose and that

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history might look back on today as "the day the fate

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of the union was sealed". Our political editor

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Laura Kuenssberg reports on the growing tensions

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between the two leaders. And even no to talks

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about a referendum. We should be working

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together, not pulling apart. We should be working

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together to get that right deal for Scotland,

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that So I say that's my job

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as Prime Minister, and so for that reason I say to the SNP,

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now is not the time. The Prime Minister's

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Westminster message deliberately timed

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to land in Edinburgh. Just moments after the First

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Minister's weekly grilling. Where Nicola Sturgeon's

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audacious vow to hold a second referendum

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was Can the First Minister

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tell us this...? Does she plan to spend

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the next few years leading a Will Scotland be

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guaranteed to be a full membership member of

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the European Union or not. Can she guarantee that?

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If she can't, it's all Well, the band is well

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and truly back together, Tory and Labour combining again

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to talk this country down. Number ten's refusal

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even to discuss another independence referendum

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for But these two tough,

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normally cautious, I think it would be completely

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unacceptable and outrageous, almost anti-democratic, for a Conservative

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government with one MP in Scotland to seek to block the democratic

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will of the Scottish parliament. Here's number ten's

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calculation: a majority of Scots voters chose this centre

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of power the last time out. And private Tory

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focus groups over the last few months suggest their

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message of "Not now" is a relief to some who simply don't want to go

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through the whole thing again. But for others it

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will be patronising, Technically, it is down

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to Westminster to say yes or no, but telling the Scottish

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Government they can't even talk about another referendum

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for two years? This miscalculation, this finger

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wagging at Scotland, this Theresa May laying down the law, thou shalt

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do this, thou shalt do that, it's not going to work,

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it's going to backfire spectacularly,

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and I think Theresa May will rue the day she edged towards telling

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the Scottish Only a week ago expectations were

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that the SNP was getting a big move As they prepared for their spring

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conference that will start Before that stage is even set,

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the drama whose ending Laura is at Westminster, we'll talk

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to her in a second. First to our Scotland editor Sarah Smith who is

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that the SNP conference, due to open in Aberdeen. When we look at this

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stand-off and the escalating tensions here, what do you think the

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next moves are for Nicola Sturgeon? Well Nicola Sturgeon was expecting

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this move from the Prime Minister and they have their next moves

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carefully planned out. She is basically not going to take no for

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an answer because she's sure she can probably do well out of this

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argument with the Prime Minister. So the plan is that the Scottish

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Government will go ahead with the vote in the Scottish Parliament next

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week demanding another referendum, and they will win that vote, and

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they'll still make a formal request to the Prime Minister for another

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referendum, forcing her to officially deny a request that has

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come not just from the SNP, but that has been voted through the Scottish

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parliament. Then there comes an argument it's not about the right

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and wrongs of whether Scotland should be independent, it becomes an

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argument about who decides when or if Scotland gets to make a choice

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about its future. It's an argument that can suit the SNP very well. The

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Tories know that being too heavy-handed could easily backfire.

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They are trying to handle this carefully, though it's a pretty

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risky move they've taken today. They think they can get away with it

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because they believe a lot of people in Scotland don't want another

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referendum. As the SNP start to make the argument that Scotland is being

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denied its choice by Westminster, that could build support not just

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for having another vote, but for independence itself. Norret dude you

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detect any kind of possible common ground between these two leaders? --

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Laura, do you detect? They have a lot in common, they are both highly

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driven, well-respected, both known for believing in having a tight grip

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on government. They are absolutely both known for making their own

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decisions even though they are both, of course, under huge political

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pressure from their own parties and whoever else wants to chip in with

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their opinions. But on this issue these two leaders are absolutely

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miles apart and there are powerful arguments on both sides, of course.

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We've seen again today that although Theresa May's message from

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Westminster was very firm, she was also not ruling out a referendum

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until the end of time. Her argument is it can't happen before the UK has

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left the EU and there must be no discussions until that point. A

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strong message, yes, but also not ruling it out for ever more and a

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day. As we were discussing only a few days ago when they all exploded,

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ultimately it's quite hard to see if in the long-term, how and SNP

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government keeps pushing and pushing and pushing, perhaps for several

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years, it's hard to see ultimately how Westminster -based government

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would be able to continually turned that down. One final thought. You

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know the other thing these two leaders are absolutely known for,

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despite this week's huge budget U-turn in Westminster, neither of

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them is known for backing down. Thanks very much again, Laura

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Kuenssberg at Westminster and Ferris with our Scotland correspondent in

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Aberdeen. The Conservative Party has been

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fined a record ?70,000 for breaking the rules on election

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spending in some key marginal seats The party claims the failure

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was an administrative error. But the Electoral Commission

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has referred the case to the Metropolitan Police,

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saying there was a realistic prospect the money had given

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the party an advantage. Our home affairs correspondent

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Daniel Sandford has more details. So let's get out there, let's go

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campaign... The South Thanet constituency in 2015, where the

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Conservatives were battling Nigel Farage. Desperate to stop him

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winning a seat. Any chance of counting on your support? They

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poured big names and resources into it but now they've been given the

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biggest ever fine, ?70,000, for breaking the rules on recording

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election spending. Here and elsewhere. We've never issued

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findings to that extent before and I think they are some of the worst in

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the fact that they were unable to provide evidence when we needed it

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and the reports were inaccurate and the spending returns did not contain

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things they should have done. 18,800 and 38... Craig McKinley the Tory

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candidate won the seat, his official expenses after the campaign showed

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he'd spent ?14,838. Just short of the legal limit in the constituency.

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Now the party spending here is under question. The Conservative Party

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spent thousands of pounds on hotels here in the South Thanet, ?15,000 in

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a single hotel on the hill here in Ramsgate. The electoral commission

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says at least some of that money should have been included in the

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local candidate's election expenses. One of the local Ukip leading lights

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told me they always felt the Conservative Party had cheated. Just

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the sheer number of bodies, the sheer number of full-time staff down

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here. The sheer number of buses that were running bringing in volunteers

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at the weekends, or fed and watered and had money spent on them. I'm on

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the bus. I'm on the bus. The Conservative Party also had battle

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buses of activists touring other marginal seats, 29 across England.

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The party declared nearly ?39,000 of transport and hotel bills but didn't

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declare over ?63,000. The electoral commission says some of that

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?102,000 should've been put on local candidates expenses, possibly

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pushing them over their spending limits. So far 12 police forces have

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sent files to the Crown Prosecution Service, though Kent is not one of

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them. There was other undeclared expenditure, too, more than

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?108,000. Tonight at an event in London David Cameron, who was leader

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at the time, insisted his victory was not tainted. In this country we

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have an independent electoral commission which has demonstrated

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its independence, quite rightly, once again today. We have the rule

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of law, no political party is above the law, all have to comply with the

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law. What began as a Channel 4 News investigation could still lead to

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criminal prosecutions and even by-elections in constituencies like

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South Thanet. Recently the Liberal Democrats and Labour have also been

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fined for illegal expenses returns. The electoral commission is worried

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parties are starting to see the fines as a cost of doing business

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rather than a way of keeping British elections fair. Daniel Sandford, BBC

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News, Ramsgate. President Trump has suffered two

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setbacks during the day. A Senate committee has ruled

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there was no evidence for the President's claim

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that his home at Trump Tower in New York had been put under

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surveillance by President Obama. And the President's renewed attempt

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to impose a travel ban against six mainly Muslim

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countries has again been Our North America editor

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Jon Sopel has the latest. Saint Patrick's Day is being

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celebrated in Washington, but Donald Trump doesn't seem to be enjoying

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the luck of the Irish as his problems pile up. Remember his claim

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in a series of tweets that Barack Obama had tapped his phone, and that

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his predecessor was sick and bad? Last night the president gave an

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interview in which he stood by the claim. The wiretap covers a lot of

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different things, I think you're going to find some very interesting

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arguments coming to the forefront over the next two weeks. But today

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the Senate intelligence committee flatly contradicted him.

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At the tetchy White House briefing, the President's spokesman said Mr

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Trump continue to stand by the claim coming even suggesting British

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intelligence could have been involved. But again, no evidence was

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offered. Despite the fact that the Senate intelligence committee

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says... But... Does the President... You stand by it but you are

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mischaracterising what happened today. Past night in Nashville,

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Tennessee with just hours to go before his second attempt at a

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travel ban was due to come into effect, bad news. A judge in Hawaii

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blocked the measure again and a frustrated Mr Trump let rip. We're

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going to fight this terrible ruling, we're going to take our case as far

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as it needs to go, including all the way up to the Supreme Court. We're

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going to win, we're going to keep our citizens safe. Feed ban from

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these six mainly Muslim countries has strong support among the people

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who cheered the president to the rafters last night, but governing in

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America requires you to work within the checks and balances of the US

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Constitution. And there may be similar battles to come over the

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President's budget, which was unveiled today. It proposes a big

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boost spending for the Armed Forces and border security. But Major cuts

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to overseas aid and the environment. And the Democrats say domestic

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programmes which help the most vulnerable. It is billions of

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dollars at defence while ransacking America's investment in jobs,

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education, innovation, clean energy and life-saving medical research. It

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will leave our nation we can. No one can accuse Donald Trump of not being

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true to his election promises. But turning an easy campaign pledge into

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something more concrete is turning out to be extremely difficult. If

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most eye-catching proposals are stuck in a thick judicial and

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legislative mud. Jon Sopel, BBC News, Washington.

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The Japanese car-maker Toyota is to invest almost

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a quarter of a billion pounds to modernise its plant

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The factory, which makes the Auris and Avensis models,

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But the company also warned that the future success of the plant

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would depend on continued tariff-free access to European

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Our industry correspondent John Moylan has more details.

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This was Toyota's first plant in Europe.

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It has been making vehicles here near Derby

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4 million cars later, and the company is investing again,

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laying the foundations for the future.

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That means building cars with quality, high-productivity,

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low-cost and this investment helps us hugely to be competitive

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So, we think this is a huge part of preparing for the long-term future.

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Toyota will invest ?240 million to upgrade the Burnaston plant.

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In return, the Government is providing ?21 million

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It's all good news for the 2,500 workers at this site.

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The truth is, this plant needed to be upgraded simply to be able

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to compete with Toyota's plants around the world to build new cars.

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Now they currently make the Auris and Aventis here.

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A decision on whether to bring a new vehicle to this plant

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This investment can make all the difference.

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But as we leave the EU, all UK car manufacturers face

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the prospect of higher costs, with tariffs on the components they

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Despite assurances from the Government,

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Nissan has warned it will re-evaluate its UK operations once

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Today in Derbyshire, as the Business Secretary Greg

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Clarke toured the Toyota plant, the company warned that tariff-free,

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barrier-free access to Europe would be vital for its success.

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If you look back at history, there were turning points.

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We don't want Brexit to be another point of those turning points

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and a hard Brexit, where we end up with tariff

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barriers, I think, would threaten the viability of some of the plants

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It was down last year amid the uncertainty

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So Toyota's decision today will be seen as a vote

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of confidence in a sector which is facing challenges ahead.

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

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A 17-year-old student has been arrested after at least eight people

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-- four people were injured in a shooting

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The attacker, who was armed with a rifle,

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handguns and grenades, is reported to have been involved

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The man charged with the murder of an Irish woman

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Danielle McLaughlin in the Indian state of Goa

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CCTV footage allegedly shows her walking with

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the suspect on Monday - the day before her body

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was discovered in a field by a local farmer.

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The proposed takeover of Sky by Rupert Murdoch's

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21st Century Fox is to be examined by the industry

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regulator Ofcom to see if it's in the public interest.

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The Murdoch family already owns a minority share.

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A previous attempt to take full control was abandoned in 2011,

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because of the phone-hacking scandal.

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A former British cyclist has told the BBC

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that he broke the rules governing the sport by secretly injecting

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himself with vitamins when riding for Team Sky.

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Josh Edmondson insists he confessed at the time

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Our sports editor Dan Roan has this exclusive report.

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He was one of British cycling's top young talents,

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But below the surface, former Team Sky rider Josh Edmondson

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was struggling to deal with the pressure, and,

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for the first time, the 24-year-old has broken his silence

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about the depression he suffered, telling me he linked it

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to the controversial painkiller tramadol, which he secretly took

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The dangerous thing about it is you don't know

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So I'd be pushing and pushing and pushing.

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Normally you just would be like, I can't keep going.

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But you just go a little bit further than that.

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It's not a performance enhancing drug, it doesn't

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make you any better, you're dead next day,

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And I think the withdrawal from that, just immediately

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I was at a point where I didn't leave the house for two months,

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you know, so it doesn't really get much worse than that

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While it's not banned, Team Sky have had a strict no

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tramadol policy since 2013, and there is no suggestion

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they were aware of Edmondson's use of the painkiller.

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But he then says he went a step further and broke

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the sport's no needle rule, by self injecting a cocktail

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of legal vitamins he bought from Italy in the build-up

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I bought the butterfly clips, the syringes,

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carnitine, folic acid, Tad, damiana compositum, and B12.

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And I'd just inject that two or three times a week maybe.

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Especially when I wanted to lose weight, I'd inject

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carnitine more often because it was very effective.

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Actually putting the needle in and making sure there are no

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bubbles in the butterfly clip, because if there is air in it,

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it can give you a heart attack and people can die that way.

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It is a very daunting thing to be doing.

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Edmondson was then reported to Team Sky when vitamins

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However, Team Sky say Edmondson denied using the needle and,

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because of concerns over his mental health, their former clinical

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director told me he'd advised senior management not to report

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If I'd done that, and I suppose I'm looking at safety issues,

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I did think there was a really big risk this lad would be

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He told us very clearly at the time he hadn't done the injection

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because he didn't know how to use the needle.

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He said, I've never used needles, I've never seen the needles before.

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This is what he told us at the time and, as I say,

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you've got to remember that without going into too much detail,

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I haven't got a person who's in a good place in front of me.

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I've got someone who is breaking down.

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Edmondson, however, claims he did confess at the time,

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but that senior management covered it up.

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They would have had to say publicly, you know, there was a kid,

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Injecting anything's bad, it wasn't that they were banned substances,

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it is against the rules to inject, self administer anything, I believe.

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What he is suggesting is that the team covered up what had

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happened because they wanted to preserve the reputation

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I mean I can see his interpretation, I'm sure some of the public

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We did it in good faith, and we did it on two counts,

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one is that the team discussion was we didn't think he had actually

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violated, and the second, the most important was,

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These revelations come with British cycling under unprecedented scrutiny

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Edmondson, meanwhile, said he will cooperate

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with the authorities and hoped his story serves

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In Sicily, eight people - including a BBC television crew -

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were injured in an explosion on Europe's most active volcano,

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Mount Etna, which began erupting yesterday

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for the third time in the space of three weeks.

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This image from a European Space Agency satellite

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caught the ferocity of this explosion.

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The BBC's science correspondent, Rebecca Morelle, was one

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of those present and she sent this report.

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It's one of the world's most active volcanoes.

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And for the last few weeks, Mount Etna's been erupting again.

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We were filming a lava flow that had formed overnight.

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The lava's so slow-moving it's usually considered safe.

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The hot rocks mixed with snow and ice, causing

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Our camerawoman, Rachel Price, filmed as rocks, boulders and steam

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And there were cuts, burns and bruises.

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But incidents like this, involving people, are rare.

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A vulcanologist said it was the most dangerous event he'd experienced

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We've made it back down the mountain, and what happened

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is only really just starting to sink in.

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This hole was made by one of the incredibly hot pieces

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of volcanic rock that rained down upon us.

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We really thought we were all going to die.

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Scientists will now continue to track how

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Our close call only shows how dangerous these

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Rebecca Morelle, BBC News, Mount Etna.

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China has declared that Islamist separatists

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in the far west of the country are the greatest threat

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The president has promised to build what he calls

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a great wall of iron to safeguard the country's

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vast western region of Xinjiang - home to a community of some

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ten million Uighurs, mostly Muslim people,

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and the government is concerned that they are vulnerable

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to radicalising propaganda from Syria and Iraq.

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Widespread intimidation makes reporting from the region

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difficult, but our China editor Carrie Gracie

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gained exclusive access and sent this report.

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Southern Xinjiang, once the fabled Silk Road

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Now, the front line in China's war on terror.

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They call it an all-out offensive, a new great wall of iron.

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Thousands of troops pledging to lay down their lives and shed blood.

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We are heading for the scene of the only confirmed attack this year.

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China doesn't want the world to see the police checkpoint.

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Body searches in every public building.

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We are the only foreign reporters to get to Pishan County.

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Three young Uighurs knifed a group of Han Chinese

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The government offers huge rewards for information and some are glad

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You don't need to be afraid, she says, this place is full

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of police, you can feel safe, it's a lot better than before.

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Recent attacks here have all been local and low-tech.

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A handful of young farmers armed only with knives.

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They show no sign of delivering the kind of large-scale atrocity

:27:39.:27:42.

that will explain the government's call for an all-out offensive

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and sending thousands of troops to this so-called front line.

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But some say there are more attacks than the government admits to.

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They say it is backward here, they would get out if they could.

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But Beijing worries about where they would go.

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The so-called Islamic State posted this video of Uighurs in Iraq,

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promising rivers of blood in China's heartland.

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Beijing fears they will come home to kill.

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And so religion in Xinjiang is under ever-growing pressure.

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No young people in the mosque, no beards, except the very old,

:28:29.:28:33.

and propaganda slogans urging the public to thank their

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Ablajan sings a tune that Beijing likes.

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They call him Xinjiang's Justin Bieber.

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A reminder that Uighurs were once more famous for song, then violence.

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He tells his fans to seize every chance the government offers.

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But the relationship between Uighurs and Han Chinese?

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Foreign critics warn this repression is the recruiting

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And, until then, every Uighur is suspect.

:29:34.:29:43.

An estimated 20 million people in Britain have

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at least one tattoo and at the current rate,

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it's reported that around one and a half million works of body art

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The industry is reported to be worth ?100 million a year.

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An exhibition at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall is devoted

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Our arts editor Will Gompertz has been to Falmouth to take a look.

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Tattoos, as you know, are all the rage nowadays.

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You have the geometric all-over design, the Star Wars

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Stormtropper and, of course, your classic love heart.

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Do you know what, Lal, I'm as pleased as punch with that.

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Back in the late '70s, Lal Hardy made his living

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Today he's taking part in a major museum exhibition,

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I think the perception of tattoos has changed because there is so much

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I mean, every genre and subject is covered with tattooing now.

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There's so much beautiful stuff, you know there isn't a stigma

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like there used to be attached to it any more.

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It's this shift in the perception of tattoos that the exhibition

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charts, as well as taking on what the curators feel,

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We start with disspelling the myth that is Captain Cook brought

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British people had been tattooed for hundreds of years before.

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We start to see evidence of that in the pilgram tattoos that

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people were going to have in the Middle East,

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when they were going out in the pilgramages in the 1600s.

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This is one of my favourite parts of the exhibition,

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we are trying to challenge the idea that tattooing is gender

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It's not just people that are getting tattooed but also

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Justine Knight the tattooist was once the target in a circus

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Now she's at the business end of the target no more.

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It must have been really hard for her tattooing

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in what was predominantly a man's world at the time, in as early

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as the '20s, '30s, '40s, but her art is so beautiful and it

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So the exhibition finishes with 100 hands.

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It's a snapshot of what's happening in Britain and I think it shows not

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just the diversity of styles, but the true beauty and artistic

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Not everybody will agree with that appraisal.

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Some see them as a symbol of moral decline, an image this exhibition

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seeks to altar by presenting them as an expression of

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Of course, mine wasn't a real tattoo.

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Lal Hardy said if I just rub it with this, it'll come...

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Will Gompertz there getting a little more than he bargained for.

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Here on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.

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