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After months of fighting, the Islamic State group is now

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battling for survival - in both Iraq and Syria.

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We report from the front line in Mosul, the Iraqi city

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where the "global caliphate" was declared three years ago.

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This is the final push forward against the so-called islamic state.

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It's a gruelling advance here in the heat and the dust.

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This battle has dragged on for more than eight months.

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And in Syria, where US forces are supporting the fight,

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IS is under siege in the city of Raqqa.

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But the question is - what happens when the caliphate falls?

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Because, as we know from Afghanistan and Iraq,

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it's always easier to get in, than it is to get out.

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We'll have the very latest on the fight against IS,

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as military experts say that their forces are trapped.

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The judge who'll lead the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower

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fire visits the site, as local people express their fears.

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Whether he will get to the bottom of who was responsible for causing

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the fire in the first place, is a different matter and that's

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the one that's really concerning residents at present.

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The ayes have it, the ayes have it. Unlock.

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By a majority of 14, the Commons approves the Queen's Speech,

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and two years of the Government's legislative plans.

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One of the most powerful figures in the Catholic Church,

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Cardinal George Pell, will return to Australia to deny

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Rupert Murdoch's bid to buy all of Sky is likely to be referred

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And - we have the findings of a major new study

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into the effects of pesticides on bees.

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And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News:

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Despite a heavy fall, Johanna Konta recovers to underline her

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Wimbledon credentials, with victory over the world No.1,

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Angelique Kerber, in the quarterfinals of Eastbourne.

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After months of relentless fighting, the Islamic State group

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is facing defeat in Mosul - its last big powerbase in Iraq.

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Government forces say they're finally set

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It is three years ago to the day that so-called Islamic State

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in Mosul declared a "global caliphate".

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Back then, IS controlled vast regions of Iraq

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Now, after prolonged battles and countless military offensives

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in both countries, IS has been pushed back

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to the cities of Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq.

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In both places, they are now surrounded and

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We'll be reporting from Syria in a moment, but first this report

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from our correspondent Orla Guerin, and cameraman Nicolas Hameon

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Covering fire, as troops dart into position.

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We joined them, pushing forward but keeping low.

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They can see his hiding place, and he can see them.

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A heavily armed brigade from Iraq's emergency response division,

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But they manage to press on across the rubble

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of a hospital complex, treacherous terrain,

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closing in on the last remaining IS fighters.

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"Please warn unit two that those IS guys are on the move", he says.

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"Thank god we don't have any injuries now".

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A coalition air strike adding to the embers of battle.

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This is the final push forward against the so-called Islamic State.

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It's a gruelling advance here in the heat and the dust.

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This battle has dragged on for more than eight months.

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We've just been told that three IS fighters have fled

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from the building right in front of us.

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It is clear that most of the militants who remain

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But so will the troops who are determined to bury

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the Islamic State where it was born, in Mosul.

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Iraq has paid a high price for this battle,

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TRANSLATION: We lost many martyrs here, all of them young.

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I miss them, their families miss them, and the country misses them,

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but they didn't die for nothing - they died for this country.

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And today, another fallen soldier carried from the battlefield,

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after troops reached what's left of the al-Nuri Mosque,

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It was here the IS leader proclaimed himself "ruler of all Muslims".

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The liberation of Mosul may be at hand, but it

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Mohammed Abdul Karim was held at this makeshift IS prison,

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right behind his own house, just for repairing mobiles.

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TRANSLATION: They brought a prisoner here and tied him to a tree.

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Then they brought two electric cables and shocked

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He told us that man was one of two he witnessed

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Mosul is emerging from the shadows after three long years of tyranny.

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The caliphate now lies in ruins where it was declared,

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but the IS ideology has long since spread from here,

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bringing anguish to cities, including London and Manchester.

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In this battle of our times, there are many front lines.

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As we mentioned, across the border in Syria, so-called Islamic State

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Its fighters there are under heavy siege in the city of Raqqa,

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surrounded by a coalition of Kurdish and Arab fighters, backed

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already preparing for life after the defeat of IS.

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Our correspondent Gabriel Gatehouse, who's north of Raqqa,

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If and when Raqqa falls, it will be thanks in large part

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to the American military and their allies, including

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This is their main logistics hub, an airstrip cut

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discreetly into a hillside somewhere north of Raqqa.

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From this base, they support their own forces and arm the SDF,

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the coalition of Arabs and Kurds who are leading

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All of this infrastructure has gone up in a really short space

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of time, and it has coincided with rapid advances

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But the question is, what happens when the caliphate falls?

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As we know from Afghanistan and from Iraq, it's always easier

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Already, they are looking to a future post caliphate.

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Here to meet local leaders in waiting, the US envoy.

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The American presence here has been growing quietly.

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If you look at the record to date, we have now coalition backed

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operations in Iraq and Syria which have cleared out 60,000 square

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We have liberated over 4 million people.

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As the coalition advances into Raqqa, families are fleeing.

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All lived under the harsh rule of the group that calls

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One corner of the camp is reserved for the wives

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This woman left Lebanon for Raqqa two years ago

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When he was killed, she married a Tunisian and

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so joined the ranks of a relatively privileged group, the wives of

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We challenged her on the treatment of sex slaves at the hands

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TRANSLATION: The men were spending their money on sex lives.

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They bought them the best make-up, clothes and accessories.

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American troops in Syria number in the hundreds.

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Their special forces are involved in the fighting on the

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Their planes bombing Raqqa from the air.

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When Mosul is liberated or Iraq is liberated,

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there is a lot of hard work left to do.

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I asked the general if he knew the whereabouts of Abu Bakr

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al-Baghdadi, the self-declared leader of the caliphate.

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If you know, please tell me and we will kill him forthright.

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At least once a month, we have someone

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Reports from the front line today suggest

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that US backed forces have Raqqa surrounded.

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But as we learned in Mosul, capturing the city itself

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will likely prove a long, hard fight.

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The fall of Raqqa will effectively mean the end of the caliphate but it

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won't necessarily mean the end of IS or its ideology. It definitely won't

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mean the end of the conflict in Syria. Remember, apart from the

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Americans, Turkey is deeply involved here, as of course is Russia. For

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the moment, they are all sort of United in a common enemy, but when

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the Islamic State goes, what we're left with is this big powers backing

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opposing sides in an unfinished war. Already earlier this month we saw

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the United States fighter jet shoot down a Syrian aeroplane that

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belonged to the Russian backed regime in Damascus. The potential

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for further confrontation is very real indeed.

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Thank you very much for the latest from Syria.

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The judge appointed to lead the inquiry

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into the Grenfell Tower tragedy has promised to leave

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no stone unturned, as he tries to get to the truth

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Sir Martin Moore-Bick, a retired Appeal Court judge,

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has been asked by the Prime Minister to produce an interim report

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But Sir Martin has said that he is "doubtful" the process

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will be as wide-ranging as some residents hope.

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Our home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds reports.

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Our reputation is absolutely in the gutter.

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Kensington and Chelsea was forced to abandon a meeting this evening,

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Councillors decided they weren't prepared to speak freely,

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their lawyers had warned it could even interfere

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An inquiry which will be led by a senior judge.

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His background already scrutinised by the Government,

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I've never seen anything like that building, which is now completely

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gutted so that you can see through it in many places.

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I'm absolutely determined that this inquiry will be open and full

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and will cover all the ground, so that we reach conclusions that

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are reliable and can prevent anything like this happening again.

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The Chairman, Sir Martin Moore-Bick, was born in Wales and went

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to Christ's College Cambridge before becoming a barrister.

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He was appointed to the High Court as a judge of 1995,

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hearing commercial cases, and to the Court of Appeal,

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the second-highest court in England and Wales, in 2005.

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People here are desperate for answers.

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The Prime Minister has said she would like an interim

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Today, the judge said that could include details

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of how the fire started, why it spread so fast,

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But, he said, even that could take up to a year.

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After all, the remit of the inquiry has still to be

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The cause of the fire will clearly be a core topic,

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but that could involve delving deep into the regulations

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governing tower block safety, and the pressure to examine social

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and political causes is unlikely to go away.

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Well, I've had a brief conversation with some of the residents...

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He spent several hours listening to the views

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of survivors and local people, but already he and they appear

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to have different views of the inquiry's aims.

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He may certainly get to the bottom of, you know,

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what caused the fire to spread so quickly.

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Whether he will get to the bottom of who is responsible for causing

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the fire in the first place, is a different matter,

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and that's the one that's really concerning residents at present.

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We want a wider inquiry, the one that would include

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So basically, the attitude towards people.

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There's a feeling around the tower that he should examine

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whether warnings about fire safety were ignored because

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Whether my inquiry is the right way in which to achieve that,

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I'm more doubtful, and I'll give that some thought and in due course

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But there may be other ways in which that desire

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for an investigation can be satisfied, otherwise

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than through the work that I'm going to do.

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So you may not be able to give them the very wide inquiry

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Local people will be consulted about the inquiry's remit,

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but the chairman will have to keep their support.

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Inquiries like this can go wrong - the child abuse inquiry

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Women from Northern Ireland will no longer have to pay for abortions

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The concession was made by ministers to avoid

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a Conservative rebellion in votes on the Queen's Speech.

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The Government's legislative programme

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for the coming two years was eventually passed by a majority

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The majority was gained with the support of

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the Democratic Unionists, as our political editor

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The Prime Minister, on the red carpets of Europe.

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Everyone in a good mood, her German colleague says.

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To avoid being humbled by the House of Commons,

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Ministers had to make a last-minute promise that women

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from Northern Ireland who go to England for abortions

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Intends to intervene to fund abortions in England for women

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It is welcome that the Government is now saying they will

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However, he will know, as everybody know, the devil

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And ministers had to do that billion pound deal with the DUP

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to get their numbers, to fury, even on their own side.

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I can barely put into words my anger at the deal my party

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What is grubby about money being put into the infrastructure

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Money going into the health service of Northern Ireland?

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The Prime Minister returned this afternoon to help pass the vote

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to improve her government's programme, stripped of its most

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And then out at the front to face the opposition's main complaint.

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It cannot ensure that when people go to work,

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It can't maintain our public services.

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That's a government that doesn't deserve to remain in office.

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I do not see, Mr Speaker, how the nations of the UK can cope

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with the drastic economic hit that will come as a result of Brexit.

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Is there a determination to stand up to the most powerful,

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To coin a phrase, the answer is no, no, no.

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But Labour itself faced embarrassment.

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Nearly 50 of this number defied the leadership,

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voting for a Brexit amendment that failed, with three shadow ministers

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Yet it was the Government that was repeatedly on the back foot.

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..Taking the hard decisions that will set Britain on course to seize

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the prizes and achieve a brighter global future.

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The case that, in the end, had its way.

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But tonight and for some time, wins that will be cobbled together.

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No sign of cruising to any victories.

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You could almost hear the sighs of relief from Number Ten.

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Had it been defeated, this fragile administration

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Yet with no overall majority and less authority, ministers know

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that even as they win tonight, it is Parliament and not

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the Prime Minister that can really show its power in the months ahead.

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Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Parliament.

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Some campaign groups in Northern Ireland have

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welcomed the decision to offer free access

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Among them are many women who've travelled to other parts

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of the UK in the past, where they've had to

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Our Ireland correspondent Chris Page has more on today's reaction.

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We said pro-choice, they say no choice!

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Abortion may be an intensely personal issue,

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but in Northern Ireland, it's also highly controversial.

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Strong campaign groups push for the law to be changed,

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and others passionately defend the status quo.

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Every week, women go across the Irish Sea to

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Four years ago, the BBC filmed Sarah as she went to England

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Her baby wasn't expected to survive birth because of

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She says today's decision will make a difference

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It's a good thing that we're now going to get it in hospitals

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across the water instead of a clinic.

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But at the same time, if it's OK for us to go over

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there and have it on the NHS, it should be OK for us to have

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it here with medicals in our own hospitals.

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I was lucky to have family and friends that were able

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Last year, doctors carried out 16 abortions in Northern Ireland

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But 724 women travelled to have a termination in England.

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The Government believes the new arrangement will cost

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But at Stormont, there is no political consensus about

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So some organisations have tried to bring change through the courts.

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In 2015, a judge ruled that abortion law here breached

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the European Convention on Human Rights.

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But just today, the ruling was overturned after an appeal.

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Pro-life campaigners have welcomed that decision,

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but criticised the one made by the Government.

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Absolutely disappointed, totally outraged.

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In some way, we would hope we can overturn this

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We won't stop until every unborn child in Northern

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Neither side in this debate expected the news from Westminster today.

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It adds a new dimension to an emotive ethical argument

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Staying with Northern Ireland, yet another deadline has passed

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to set up a new power-sharing executive, and yet another

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Downing Street says talks between Sinn Fein

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and the Democratic Unionists will continue until Monday.

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If there's no agreement by then, there could be a return to direct

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Our Ireland correspondent Chris Buckler is at Stormont.

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How do you see the prospects of some kind of agreement by Monday? It is

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worth mentioning that time and time again, Westminster had made clear

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that four o'clock this afternoon was the final deadline for a deal. This

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evening, Stormont still has no government and the DUP and Sinn Fein

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remained deeply divided on a range of issues, particularly Sinn Fein's

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demand for legislation that would give official status to the Irish

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language. Despite warning of serious consequences, this evening the

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Northern Ireland's Secretary James Brokenshire has given the parties

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the weekend to try to find a compromise. But on Monday, he will

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have to take action because a lack of government here is starting to

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have consequences. Decisions are not being taken. There are implications

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for budget and public spending. However, the reality is that he has

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only a few options. Technically, he should call for elections or have

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Westminster step in to take over the running of Northern Ireland for a

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time. But he may well simply try to extend the time for talks. The DUP

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and Sinn Fein both said there are still the possibility of a deal,

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although they both say that is on the basis that the other party gives

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up ground. They have been saying similar things since January, when

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power-sharing first collapsed. Chris Buckler, our Ireland correspondent.

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One of the most powerful figures in the Roman Catholic Church,

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Cardinal George Pell, has said he will defend himself

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The former Archbishop of Sydney and Melbourne said that he'd

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suffered a relentless character assassination and was looking

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forward to having his day in court in his native Australia.

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Cardinal Pell is the Vatican Treasurer and one

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Our religious affairs correspondent Martin Bashir is in Rome tonight.

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Yes, today was meant to be dominated by a solemn ceremony as the Pope

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presided at the feast of Saint Peter and Take That Paul, whose ministry

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and martyrdom helped establish the Church -- Saint Peter and St Paul.

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But as the Cardinals gathered in Saint Peter's square behind me, one

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senior official was surprisingly absent.

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A public holiday for the people and for Pope Francis,

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an opportunity to celebrate Mass with several new cardinals.

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But one of his most trusted officials, effectively the head

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of the Vatican's vast property portfolio and finances, was not

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administering the sacraments, but facing the press after becoming

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the highest ranking Vatican official to be charged

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The alleged offences relate to an ongoing inquiry back

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in Cardinal Pell's native Australia into instances of historical

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The whole idea of sexual abuse is abhorrent to me.

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Cardinal Pell had been Archbishop of Melbourne during the 1990s,

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where hundreds of individuals claimed to have been

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He was interviewed by the inquiry last year via video link.

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Several survivors travelled from Melbourne to witness his testimony.

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Then, in the early hours of this morning, came this.

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Cardinal Pell is facing multiple charges in respect

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of historic sexual offences, and there are multiple complainants

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Pope Francis has prioritised the issue of child sexual abuse,

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setting up a commission for the protection of children.

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But one member who resigned earlier this year says

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the institution itself is reluctant to change.

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"Why should we change? There's no need to change.

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That attitude of complacency has to go.

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In his homily today, Pope Francis asked his hearers

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if they were people who just talk about their faith,

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but do not display the marks of godliness in their daily lives -

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a question that Cardinal Pell will have to answer

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It's 20 years since Hong Kong ceased to be a British territory

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and was transferred to Chinese sovereignty.

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To mark the anniversary, President Xi of China has

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visited the territory amid high levels of security,

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given the prospect of protests by democracy campaigners.

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Our China editor Carrie Gracie has been meeting some of those young

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people born in the year of the handover.

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Hong Kong's patriots greet their president and First Lady.

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Flags, but no umbrellas allowed, because umbrellas

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He said he'd come to support Hong Kong.

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That's not how democracy activists see it,

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occupying a monument that China presented

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One student insisted on her freedom to protest as she was arrested.

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Hours earlier, she had illustrated her feelings

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But she's no longer optimistic about what protest can achieve.

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Another Hong Konger, born in the year of the handover.

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This coffee shop barista and freestyle footballer

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In one of the world's most unaffordable cities,

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he resents the people from mainland China who he says

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To find a 20-year-old who's celebrating this week,

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Sunny Tan is a student here, but she grew up in China

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and from an early age was taught to be proud of her country.

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This vigil, calling for the release of a political dissident,

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would be impossible anywhere else in China.

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Only Hong Kong has the freedom to protest, which is what makes it

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so special, but what also makes it a thorn in China's side.

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The culture secretary Karen Bradley says she intends to refer

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Rupert Murdoch's bid to take full control

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of Sky television to the competition authorities

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because of concerns about his "increased influence"

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Mr Murdoch's company, 21st Century Fox, wants

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to acquire the 61% of Sky it doesn't already own.

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The company says it's disappointed by the announcement, as our media

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Rupert Murdoch pioneered satellite TV in Britain.

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After transforming our newspaper market, his move into pay-TV nearly

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30 years ago with Sky made him the country's first

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Six years ago, he withdrew his bid for full control of the broadcaster

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because of the phone hacking scandal, which led to the closure

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On the question of whether the merger...

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Today in Parliament, it was concerns about his

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power and influence that

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led to his latest bid being referred to the competition watchdog.

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It concludes, "The transaction raises public interest concerns

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as a result of the risk of increased influence by members of the Murdoch

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family trust over the UK news agenda and the political process

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with its unique presence on radio, television, in print and online."

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Here is why the Murdochs are so desperate for this

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Digital giants like Amazon and Netflix are pushing another

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revolution in viewing habits by investing billions in programmes.

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So the Murdochs want full access to Sky customers in crucial markets

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With these 22 million subscribers across Europe, James Murdoch,

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the son of Rupert and chairman of Sky, thinks that the family

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The Murdoch family obviously have traditionally been very powerful

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in newspapers, but of course what has happened

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is that newspapers have become steadily less and less influential.

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We are now moving into a world where newspaper circulations

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are falling steadily and more and more people are going to get

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their news from places like Google and the social media companies

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As I have said to a number of other witnesses...

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But the Murdochs are nothing if not divisive.

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Alleged victims of their tabloid papers argue that the second stage

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of the Levenson enquiry, which promised to scrutinise

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James Murdoch's corporate leadership, but was dropped

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in the Tory manifesto, is needed before this

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It is in the newspapers' interests not to have the other

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part of the Leveson, they don't want their dirty washing

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out in public, they don't want us to see the double-dealing.

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Fox say they are pleased Ofcom deemed them fit and proper to hold

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a broadcasting licence and that they will work

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But with his enemies energised and new phone hacking trials due

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to begin in October, Murdoch's Fox faces an anxious wait.

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Scientists have this evening released the findings

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of a major new study into the effects of

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The investigation, involving three countries including the UK,

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focused on the impact of widely-used chemicals and found

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The chemicals have been banned in the European Union

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for the past few years, but there's growing demand for them

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to be reintroduced here, as our science correspondent

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Around the world, these vital pollinators are vanishing.

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Now, a major new study has revealed the role of pesticides

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The chemicals were used extensively for oilseed rape until a temporary

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Neonicotinoids really change the way we use pesticides.

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Instead of spraying fields, seeds are coated with the chemicals

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and this protects the crops as they grow from insects.

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But now an experiment on a vaster scale spanning 2,000 hectares,

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that's an area the size of 3,000 football pitches, has revealed that

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The scientists were given special permission to use the banned

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chemicals at sites in the UK, Hungary and Germany.

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Our findings are a cause for serious concern.

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We have shown for the first time negative effects of neonicotinoid

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We have also shown similar negative effects on wild pollinators

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This is important because many crops globally are insect-pollinated,

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and without pollinators, we would struggle to

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For bumblebees, scientists found that exposure to the chemicals

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resulted in fewer queens, so fewer new hives.

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For honeybees, in two out of the three countries,

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hives were more likely to die off over the winter.

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These are neonicotinoid treated seeds.

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But some farmers say since the ban, their crops have

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In the UK, oilseed rape production has fallen by 20%.

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It creates vegetable oil, cold-pressed.

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It's good for you on salad dressings.

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We think farmers will always want to grow oilseed rape

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but without neonicotinoid technology in difficult years,

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A major manufacturer says they're convinced that

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The EU will soon decide whether to extend the ban.

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But with Brexit for the UK, any decision may be short lived.

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Tonight, on the 20th anniversary of the handover, we will hear from the

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last British governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten. He calls the Chinese

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ambassador to Britain a man who doesn't know the difference between

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democracy and a wet haddock. That and other observations on BBC Two.

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That is underway on BBC Two. Now on BBC One, it's time

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for the news where you are.

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