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Tonight at Ten: Life after Brexit - the Government sets out its hopes

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for how the UK will trade with the EU and the rest of the world.

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Buying and selling across borders - the Brexit secretary insists keeping

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trade as simple as possible will work for the EU as well.

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BMW do not want to have to have a customs border

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that is going to slow down their sales and add

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But one of the EU's main negotiators says the Government's

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The Grenfell Tower inquiry will look at the cause of the blaze

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and the response of the authorities - but not the wider

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Anger as millions of rail passengers face the biggest hike in train

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India, the world's most populous democracy, celebrates 70

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And I'm in the city of Amritsar looking at the country's potential

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and the problems that are holding it back.

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And the cloakroom attendant plucked from the wings at the last minute

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as a stand in at the world famous Wigmore Hall.

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And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News,

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we'll have the pick of the action as Liverpool face

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Hoffenheim in the first leg of their Champions

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The Government has set out its plans for how it wants to trade

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with the EU and the rest of the world after Brexit.

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Ministers say they want to avoid a sudden and drastic change

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for business so they're calling for a temporary relationship

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with the EU while a more permanent arrangement is developed.

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Their ultimate goal is to have a system of trade

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with the EU that is as close as possible to what we have now.

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But the EU parliament's chief negotiator described

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Our business editor Simon Jack reports.

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Nearly 20% of all goods traded with the EU come through here.

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Businesses fear any blockages to trading arteries like this

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would have serious consequences for them and the rest of the UK.

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For logistics firms, like this one in Kent, time is money.

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Our business runs on a just-in-time basis, moving goods

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If we ended up having shipments, having to do customs clearances both

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inbound and outbound, that would be damaging in terms

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of the amount of time we would spend at Dover getting in and out

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of the country and that would almost grind our business to a halt.

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There may be 21 miles of sea between here and France,

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but in trade terms there is no barrier, thanks to our membership

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It's a club of EU countries in which individual

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Goods move freely and with minimal check-ups.

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But there is still an external border between the EU and the rest

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of the world at which goods are checked and, in some cases,

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So, what happens when we are outside the club?

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Today the Government said it wanted to leave,

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it wanted a new deal, but that could take

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The interim period, when we get to it because it'll take time to get

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the structures in place, will be a bit like

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But it will be not the current customs union, we will not be

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a member of the single European Union and we will want to

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By technically leaving the customs union, while leaving border

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arrangements pretty much unchanged for a couple of years,

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we get minimised disruption, while at the same time forging

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new trade arrangements with people around the world before

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we eventually end up with an almost frictionless arrangement

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Which is why many think there's one long recipe

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The European Parliament's top negotiator described parts of this

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While David Davis' direct counterpart said there were more

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important things to settle first, like citizens rights,

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Any additional friction at this border could be very

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It's the impact on the politics in Northern Ireland.

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How would Sinn Fein, the second largest party

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in Northern Ireland, actually react to the manifestation

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They would see this as a repartition,

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Borders, customs, trade - this is complicated enough

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without party politics, which something have

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shaped these proposals and today's response to them.

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Well, why don't we just stay in the customs union?

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If they want to have something, that, you know,

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if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck,

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quacks like a duck - you know, it's a duck.

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They seem to be going to great lengths to differentiate something

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that's pretty much identical to the customs union

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This seems to be all about the problems in

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the Conservative Party and, really, not about addressing

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the challenges faced by the British public and the needs

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We're leaving, but nothing will change at the border for now.

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That, at least, is what the Government is hoping for.

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In a moment we'll speak to Chris Buckler, who's on the Irish

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border, but first Eleanor Garnier is in Westminster.

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We heard that one senior EU negotiator has described these

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proposals as fantasy. What is the Government hoping to achieve? With

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Brexit talks hoping to get going again later this month, it is partly

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about the Government trying to show that work is being done and it does

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have a plan. It's also an attempt to demonstrate political unity after

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differences of opinion from inside Cabinet have spilled out into the

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public over recent weeks. Clearly, this is about much more than

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domestic political battles. The Government has presented its wish

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list, if you like. As we have heard, some in Brussels have called parts

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of it a fantasy. That does raise a key question. Are these proposals

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actually achievable? Even before the Government gets to the detail, its

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first task on this issue is to get the EU to engage on the topic of

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trade and on the UK's future relationship with the EU. Tonight,

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Brussels is not budging. It is sticking to its plans and saying no,

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those discussions can only come after sufficient progress is made on

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the divorce talks on the Brexit bill, on EU citizens rights and on

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the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. For

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now, talks about the future relationship will have to wait.

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Thank you. We will go to that border, the Irish border. Chris

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Buckler is there. Where you are illustrate a difficult path ahead

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is? Yes, 300 miles of the Irish border, and you will find reminders

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of what used to be. Old border huts and derelict customs houses. The

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government back and we'll publish a second document, a decision paper on

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the future of the border, and it will make clear it does not want to

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see a return of buildings like this and barriers. This is the old Dublin

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to Belfast road. It has been largely replaced by a motorway that runs

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parallel to the very busy motorway. There is not that much need for this

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road and money changing facilities. Technology has dealt with some of

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the difficulties posed by different currencies. We have heard time and

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time again from the Government today, and we expect to hear it

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tomorrow, that they believe technology can really help with

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dealing with problems posed by problems. -- customs. You will find

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a lot of what was said today repeated tomorrow. It is partly

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because Westminster knows that Brussels wants to talk about the

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Irish border. It is one of their three priorities. On the other hand,

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the UK wants to talk about trade, as well as customs. This is a chance to

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get it on the table by talking about the Irish border. The other thing

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you can expect is a repeating one of the phrases we have seen in recent

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months. The idea that there should be no return to the borders of the

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past, that there should be a seamless, frictionless border. But

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we have also heard cynicism from the EU, the idea that an invisible

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border is something that is fantasy. The likes of the Irish government,

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they will be looking closely at the proposals, looking closely at the

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detail to see if they have something that is workable there. Thank you.

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The public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire -

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which left more than 80 people dead - has officially got under way.

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It will look at how the blaze started, the design

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and refurbishment of the tower as well as the response

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But broader questions about social housing will not be considered.

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That has prompted criticism from the local MP,

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residents and campaigners - as our special correspondent

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Hanging from near the top of the tower.

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There are still remains to be found, victims to be identified,

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And still, so many questions to be answered.

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Questions the public inquiry will now look at.

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The inquiry now says it will examine the cause and spread of the fire,

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the design and construction of the tower block,

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including safety regulations, and the response of the Fire Brigade

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to the blaze, and central and local government's response after it.

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But it won't look at social housing policy, or the relationship

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between residents and the council, and the tenant

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Karim Mussilhy is still waiting for the remains of his uncle,

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Hesham Rahman, to be found and identified.

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We thought that it's covering pretty much

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what we want it to cover, in terms of, you know,

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the cause and spread of the fire, the response with the local

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authorities and the residents, before and after.

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Do you think the inquiry could be broader?

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I think it should be more broader and be more

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You'd like it to look at social housing?

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But he still can't say he has confidence in the inquiry.

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Confidence is another, very strong word.

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I mean, I have more confidence in a criminal investigation

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While Sir Martin Moore-Bick, the head of the inquiry,

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won't examine policy on social housing, the Government

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There is a listening exercise we need to do in Government

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as well as about wider social housing policy and that is precisely

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what I will be doing over the coming weeks and months.

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As residents marched in silence last night to remember the tragedy,

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many still feel the inquiry doesn't go far enough.

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Sid-ali Atmani escaped with his family from the 15th

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The social housing policy should be a part of the terms of reference.

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The reason why I'm saying that is because there

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are people that moved there, they used to live on high floors,

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That's why it should be added to the the terms of reference.

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This is what we felt was going to happen at the beginning

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of this consultation process and this is what we've

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The inquiry's had a difficult start, with the judge accused

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He needs the confidence of the survivors, the bereaved,

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the whole community here, or this will be seen as a whitewash.

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And, after today's announcement, he still doesn't have

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The Grenfell inquiry will hold its first hearing next month,

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and hopes to have an initial report on the cause and spread

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One survivor said, "We just want the truth."

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Rescue workers in Sierra Leone have recovered almost 400 bodies

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after a massive mudslide near the capital, Freetown

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Homes were engulfed by mud and water when part of a mountain

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The authorities are planning mass burials for those who've been killed

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From Freetown, our correspondent Umaru Fofana reports

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The mountainside collapsed in an avalanche of mud,

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The deluge of water surged through streets, leaving total

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Outside the Freetown mortuary, it's been a difficult day

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Hundreds of bodies have been brought here.

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This is a disaster, which even by the reckoning

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of the head of this mortuary, who's been doing this for decades,

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He says it compares to nothing with the Ebola virus outbreak.

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It does not compare to the Civil War.

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He says he has never seen anything like this.

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Those who did escape look on other places where they used to live.

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This man lost eight members of his family.

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TRANSLATION: I first saw the body of my sister and called

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Then I started hearing other people nearby crying.

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Meanwhile, the rescue operation continues.

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It's hoped survivors might still be found.

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It is believed that hundreds of people are lying dead

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here beneath the mudslide and the hope is that they will be

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In fact, because of the late arrival of the heavy machinery and equipment

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needed for that initial reaction when this mudslide happened

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Many here believe that help did not come in time.

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The mudslide and flash floods have shaken this country.

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People here have already suffered a bloody Civil War

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The families of all of the 22 victims killed

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in the Manchester Arena terror attack in May are to

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That includes ?70,000 which has already been given

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The money is from an emergency fund made up of public donations.

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A court has heard how a cyclist, accused of killing a woman

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by crashing into her in a London street, began shouting at her

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Charlie Alliston - who was 18 at the time -

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was allegedly going 18mph when he knocked down

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President Trump has again blamed both sides for the clashes

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in Virginia over the weekend and accused some protesters

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on the political left of attacking white nationalists.

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Mr Trump had drawn sharp criticism from some within his own party

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for his initial response, because it had taken him until yesterday

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to criticise right-wing groups for the clashes.

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Tonight at a press conference in New York, he accused some protesters on

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the political left of attacking white Nationalists. (

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There was a group on this side, you can call them the left,

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you've just called them the left, that came violently

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So you can say what you want, but that's the way it is.

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You said there was hatred and violence on both sides?

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You look at both sides, I think there's blame on both sides.

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President Trump speaking a short time ago.

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Nick Bryant was at that news conference in Trump Tower.

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It was a bad tempered press conference. It was an incredibly

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angry press conference. Worth pointing out that it's the first

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time we've seen the presidential seal at Trump Tower. Last night was

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the first that Donald Trump has spent in New York since becoming

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president. I think that many observers and many people in his own

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party who have been critical of Donald Trump's response to

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Charlottesville will have regarded that as a very unpresidential

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performance because he reverted boo being to his position on Saturday,

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which was both sides were to blame for this violence that erupted at a

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rally organised by the far right. Members of the KKK, white

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supremicists, neo-Nazis. It took him away from the position yesterday at

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the White House, where he read from autocue, in a statement prepared by

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his advisors criticising those very groups. So, I think, we will revert

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to the criticism that Donald Trump received over the weekend. My

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abiding memory this afternoon press conference will be a question that

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was shouted by an African-American cameraman, very rare you get

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cameramen asking questions. He asked simply this: "What message does that

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send our children? Thank you.

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India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has led his nation

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in marking the 70th anniversary of the country's

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The division of colonial India in 1947 into two states -

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India and Pakistan - led to sectarian violence

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The Partition resulted in the movement of around

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It was one of the largest migrations ever seen.

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Many Muslims fled east and west out of Hindu-dominated India.

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And millions of Hindus and Sikhs headed the other way.

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Reeta Chakrabarti is in India tonight at the Golden

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This is the holiest site of the Sikh religion.

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And it stands in the state of Punjab, which was terribly

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affected in the horrors of Partition 70 years ago.

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India has a lot to reflect on, in its past and in its present

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on this anniversary, with a huge young population,

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Modern day India has a huge and young population and a burningoning

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economy. It's recently seen a spike in religious violence directed

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mainly at Muslims. our South Asia

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correspondent, Justin Rowlatt, His report contains some

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distressing images. This is a day of

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celebration for India. The Indian Prime Minister,

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Narendra Modi, talked of the country's successes -

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its growing economy, its efforts to tackle corruption

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and his vision for a secure, developed nation with equal

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opportunities for all. He made a point of speaking out

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against hate crimes. TRANSLATION: In the name

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of religions, some people in this This is the land of Gandhi

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and Buddha and violence in the name He is talking about India's tiny

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minority of Hindu extremists, Modi is a Hindu Nationalist

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and tensions have been growing between the country's Hindu majority

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and its large Muslim minority. At the centre of the controversy

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is the slaughter of cows for meat. But the cow is a sacred

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animal in Hinduism, TRANSLATION: If I find someone

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killing my mother cow, I don't need the police

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or the authorities. Vijaykant is so passionate

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about protecting the cow he and his supporters take

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to the streets. They've been told they've got no

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permission to stop vehicles, Stopping these lorries to see

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if they're carrying any cows. TRANSLATION: I have information

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that they are smuggling cows Cow vigilantes have been

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increasingly active across the country since Modi took

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power and there have been murders. This Muslim man was accused

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of illegally transporting cows for slaughter by a different

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group of vigilantes. Avoiding communal conflict

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is crucial for India. This new bridge is just

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one of scores of major The country's doing well -

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the fastest growing large It wants to keep its hardline Hindu

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supporters onside but, at the same time, it knows economic

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success depends on the country With tensions between Hindus

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and Muslims running high, Justin Rowlatt, BBC

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News, Uttar Pradesh. This city Amritsar is right

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on the border with Pakistan, and as India celebrates its 70 years

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of independence, it is just starting to address publicly its brutal

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and bloody beginning, when the country was effectively cut

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in two by Partition. As I've been finding out,

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it was a difficult start for India - and for its first prime minister,

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Jawaharlal Nehru. One of a tiny number of transport

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links between neighbours. This train operates just twice

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a week, taking Indians over the border and bringing Pakistanis

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here to the outskirts of Amritsar. But it's a journey very few make,

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because of decades of mistrust between the two countries,

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which started with the Amritsar is becoming

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a centre of remembrance. This week, India is launching

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the first ever Partition museum here, recording the acts of violence

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and bravery of that time. People actually haven't spoken much

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about Partition in the past, The reason being that

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I think that generation when they came across,

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A, they were traumatised, and B, because they were so busy

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setting up their own lives, As the newly independent

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state of India was born, its first Prime Minister,

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Jawaharlal Nehru, was full At the stroke of the midnight hour,

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when the world sleeps, India His vision was of a democratic,

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secular state in which poverty and She lived through the horrors

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and only narrowly escaped with her life, hidden with a fruit

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truck and disguised in a burkha. Now 87, she's been recording her

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memories for her grandson Rishi and also reflecting on modern

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India and Nehru's legacy. TRANSLATION: All the dreams

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that he showed us, they've We thought that after independence,

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all sorts of things would happen. We are still better off,

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but there are many poor people. There is still so much

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poverty in India. There has been major

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economic growth in India, but Nehru's vision of a more

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equal society hasn't happened yet. One thing endures, the political

:23:55.:23:58.

mistrust between India and Pakistan, a hostility that some born many

:23:59.:24:02.

years after Partition We might just worship different

:24:03.:24:06.

gods but that doesn't But he's never been to Pakistan,

:24:07.:24:16.

which is less than 20 miles away. The border between the two countries

:24:17.:24:23.

is real and psychological. Partition is both history

:24:24.:24:27.

and ever present. It is very difficult for Indians

:24:28.:24:31.

to go to Pakistan and vice versa. There are few transport

:24:32.:24:35.

links and few The continuing political hostility

:24:36.:24:48.

between the states of India and Pakistan inevitably effect personal

:24:49.:24:52.

relations. People may have friendly feelings towards each other, but as

:24:53.:24:56.

for the states themselves, 70 years after Partition, they're still as

:24:57.:24:57.

far apart as ever. Back to you. Millions of rail passengers

:24:58.:25:02.

are facing the biggest rise in train Tickets are going up by 3.6%

:25:03.:25:05.

in January, because of a rise The increases will affect season

:25:06.:25:09.

tickets, so called "anytime" tickets Unions have called it a kick

:25:10.:25:14.

in the teeth for passengers. Our transport correspondent,

:25:15.:25:20.

Richard Westcott, has the story. Rebecca's commute from Taunton

:25:21.:25:24.

to Bristol costs ?3,500 a year, and it's due to go up by ?130 next

:25:25.:25:41.

year, as most commuters There's this gradual erosion

:25:42.:25:47.

of your actual real wealth that's happening to an awful lot of people,

:25:48.:25:53.

where you will find that your salary may have gone up, but everything

:25:54.:25:57.

else is going up so much faster and so much more that year on year,

:25:58.:26:01.

we're all actually, It's not the train companies that

:26:02.:26:04.

set around half of our rail fares, They've been putting

:26:05.:26:08.

the fares up for years because they want to change who pays

:26:09.:26:12.

for the railways. It's all part of a plan to shift

:26:13.:26:14.

the financial burden away from taxpayers,

:26:15.:26:18.

most of whom don't commute Fares used to account for about half

:26:19.:26:21.

the cost of running our trains. Across Britain, people

:26:22.:26:27.

are facing tough choices. If it goes on, I probably won't be

:26:28.:26:33.

able to afford to go to work. Because it's cheaper

:26:34.:26:37.

to get the car to work. That makes us worse off

:26:38.:26:41.

when they put up fares like that. I wouldn't mind the rise if you got

:26:42.:26:48.

a better quality carriage They're pretty tatty

:26:49.:26:51.

these things now. Campaigners have criticised the use

:26:52.:26:55.

of the RPI rate of inflation, The rail firms say they face

:26:56.:26:57.

the same increases. Railway companies costs are going up

:26:58.:27:03.

in line with that inflation as well. They have to cover the costs

:27:04.:27:07.

in order to provide the services Ministers argue that the money

:27:08.:27:11.

is needed to pay for a ?40 billion A lot of it is still Victorian

:27:12.:27:18.

and it's struggling cope with record Critics claim fares have outstripped

:27:19.:27:24.

wages for years and say it's The Government could still change

:27:25.:27:30.

its mind in the Autumn Budget. The British explorer

:27:31.:27:37.

Pen Hadow and his crew have set sail from Alaska,

:27:38.:27:43.

in a bid to become the first people ever to sail

:27:44.:27:46.

by yacht to the North Pole. It's been impossible until now

:27:47.:27:49.

because of Arctic ice. But that's melting at

:27:50.:27:52.

an unprecedented rate - meaning the 3.500-mile journey may

:27:53.:27:55.

now be possible. Hadow left Nome in

:27:56.:28:00.

Alaska earlier today. This is the route he and his crew

:28:01.:28:02.

will take in two 50-foot yachts - sailing along the Baring Strait

:28:03.:28:06.

into the Central Arctic Ocean. They'll then use satellites to plot

:28:07.:28:10.

the best route through the ice Our science correspondent,

:28:11.:28:13.

Rebecca Morelle, reports. Setting off into uncharted Arctic

:28:14.:28:21.

waters, a pair of yachts attempting a first -

:28:22.:28:25.

sailing all the way A crew of ten and dog, Fukimi,

:28:26.:28:28.

have just departed from Alaska. Led by British explorer, Pen Hadow,

:28:29.:28:36.

they have a 3,500 mile voyage ahead. For the first time in human history,

:28:37.:28:43.

possibly for the first time in 130,000 years,

:28:44.:28:45.

it is now possible to sail It's the rapidly warming conditions

:28:46.:28:50.

in the Arctic that have made this This shows how sea ice

:28:51.:28:56.

has melted over time. The smaller the circle,

:28:57.:29:02.

the less ice that year. There's still data to come for 2017,

:29:03.:29:05.

but already it doesn't look good. A large-scale analysis,

:29:06.:29:09.

from the US Polar Science Centre, estimates that, from the late 1970s,

:29:10.:29:13.

half of the volume of It means that once inaccessible

:29:14.:29:18.

waters are opening up, and researchers say this could lead

:29:19.:29:24.

to significant changes, especially At Reading University,

:29:25.:29:29.

scientists say that instead of having to sail around the frozen

:29:30.:29:38.

pole, ships will have At the moment, we're

:29:39.:29:41.

seeing a few experimental In the future, as the ice continues

:29:42.:29:47.

to melt, the possibility of having more commercial ships travelling

:29:48.:29:52.

through the region Ice-strengthened ships may be able

:29:53.:29:54.

to go right over the pole The team do not know how

:29:55.:29:59.

far north they'll get. But this expedition

:30:00.:30:04.

into the unknown may be the start It's the stuff of dreams -

:30:05.:30:07.

a soprano is taken ill at London's world famous Wigmore Hall -

:30:08.:30:17.

and the person who's drafted in to replace her at the last minute

:30:18.:30:20.

is a 23-year-old music student, who usually takes the tickets

:30:21.:30:24.

and works in the cloakroom. For one night only, Milly Forrest

:30:25.:30:27.

swapped coats for the stage and wowed the audience

:30:28.:30:31.

and critics alike. Milly's normally back

:30:32.:30:33.

here taking coats and bags Sometimes she even gets to page turn

:30:34.:30:51.

doing a live concert. But not for the season's

:30:52.:31:04.

closing night. And that's because one of the

:31:05.:31:06.

evening's performers was taken ill. She says she was shocked

:31:07.:31:09.

by the opportunity. But when I had a good

:31:10.:31:12.

look at the music, I knew I could make sure

:31:13.:31:18.

I learned it in time. One critic dubbed her

:31:19.:31:22.

"breathtaking", even though at 23, her voice is still not mature enough

:31:23.:31:27.

to go into the profession full-time. A few people who I trust have

:31:28.:31:32.

said look at this girl. So we have to take care

:31:33.:31:36.

of her and make sure that we don't But there is a quality to the voice

:31:37.:31:42.

and her interpretation that came out very much,

:31:43.:31:46.

towards the end of Milly's heading to the Royal College

:31:47.:31:48.

of Music for her postgrad in September, but has already been

:31:49.:31:54.

booked to perform at the hall again. Maybe mum and dad

:31:55.:31:57.

will catch that one. I rang them and I said, "Mummy,

:31:58.:32:00.

I'm going to be stepping She said, "Oh, I really wish

:32:01.:32:05.

we could go, but we're My dad called me again and he said,

:32:06.:32:10.

"I'm sorry, treasure. You're going to have

:32:11.:32:15.

to forgive mum for this one." Next month, she'll be back taking

:32:16.:32:20.

cloaks and bags in that cloakroom. Here on BBC One, it's time

:32:21.:32:30.

for the news where you are.

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