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The war in Yemen - the UN accuses both sides of killing and maiming

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children. The smallest are the most vulnerable to famine, even in

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All the oxygen has stopped, and this happens all the time.

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The Saudi-led coalition is blockading a port

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in a rebel-held area, stopping food coming in.

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If something isn't done soon, literally hundreds of thousands

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of children will die in the next four to five months.

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We have a special report tonight, a rare glimpse inside what the UN is

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calling the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

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Also tonight: The four men accused

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of the Barcelona attack - in the last hour, one has been freed

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without charge. Donald Trump admits he's

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changed his mind and decides to send Businesses across the north

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of England call on the Government to commit to greater transport

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links. The Great British Bake

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Off on Channel Four - will it benefit or suffer

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from our changing viewing habits? And at the last minute,

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England's women beat France to make it through to the Rugby World Cup

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final. And coming up in

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Sportsday on BBC News: Celtic are into the group stage

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of the Champions League. Despite defeat to Astana

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of Kazakhstan, they progress 8-4 We start with a special report

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tonight on the desperate crisis in Yemen and the ongoing suffering

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of its people. In two leaked reports,

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obtained by the BBC, the UN accuses both sides in the war

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there of killing and maiming children and says that the Saudi-led

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coalition is blocking the delivery Yemen is now in its third

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year of war, which has created the world's

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worst humanitarian crisis. 17 million people don't

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know where their next And seven million more

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are facing famine. The war is between a

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Saudi-led coalition, It includes many of the Gulf states

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and is backed by the US and the UK - on the other side Houthi rebels,

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with some support from Iran. Nawal Al Maghafi's report is from

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the Houthi-held area of Hudaydah. You may find her

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report distressing. Many of Yemen's children have

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only ever known war. And Hudaydah Central

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Hospital is full of them. Victims of a conflict that has

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left their country battered, I first met Dr Abdullah

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Al Zuhayri a year ago. He tells me things

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are now much worse. TRANSLATION: We have

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started to see so many more Now, it's not only

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the poor bringing their children here, we are seeing cases

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of severely malnourished children He takes me to meet boy,

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just three years old, He needs intensive care

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but there are no beds available. As we talk, the doctor

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interrupts us. A bed has been freed

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and he is rushed This is one of the area's

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last functioning All these people have spent all

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the money they have to get this far. Now the electricity

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is off, so all the machines are off, all be incubators

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are off, all the oxygen has stopped. The war between the Saudi backed

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government and the Houthi rebels The region's richest nation -

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bombing its poorest. It's killed thousands

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and left millions homeless. Where ever you go, displaced

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people line the streets. With all borders closed,

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there's no escape. Even the refugee camp offered no

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protection for Mohammed and Hudaydah is Yemen's main port city,

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it should be a lifeline, but now it's barely operating,

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after the Saudi coalition bombed the cranes

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and blocked their replacements. Food should not be

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a weapon of war, food 95% of all the food

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that we need to feed the innocent people comes

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through this sport. If this port is bombed

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and completely made useless, literally hundreds of thousands

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of children will die and millions of But it's not just

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starvation that the Yemen now faces the worst cholera

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outbreak in the world This 13-year-old caught it

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along with 18 members of In the intensive care unit we get

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a desperate call from As his father says goodbye,

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the family asks us to carry on filming, to show the world

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these heartbreaking images. A three-year-old boy,

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starved and broken. Another child born into a war that

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has now taken his life. Our Middle East editor,

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Jeremy Bowen, is here. Images distressing beyond words,

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the scale of the suffering in Yemen Yeah, it's absolutely horrendous.

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I've got some figures actually about that area, where that report was

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filmed. I've got the figures from Save the Children, who are very busy

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in that part of town. They've got a lot of information. It's one of the

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hardest areas, areas hardest hit by cholera and malnutrition. 27% of

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under fives have malnutrition. Almost 94,880, they say, are at

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imminent risk of death from starvation. Don't forget as well

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that malnourished children are three times more likely to die from

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cholera than otherwise healthy children. The figures are terrible.

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We heard the UN representative there pointing the figure of plain at the

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Saudis, who are leading a coalition for amongst other things blockading

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the port. The Saudis see it very differently, though. Yes, they will

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also point to, in that leaked report, there were information there

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about grave violations carried out by Houthis as well, including

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recruiting child soldiers, but the Saudis see the Houthis very much as

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tools of Iran. When all this started, I sat with a senior Saudi

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diplomat and he said, "We are going into Yemen and we're going to sort

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this out once and for all. We cannot have the Iranians active on our

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doorstep." Now there are many analysts who say the Iranians are

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not as active as the Saudis say. But that is the big motivation why

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they're there. The UK is involved. It is supporting the Saudi-led

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coalition. Yes, Britain over the years has done some absolutely

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massive arms deals with the Saudis. We continue to maintain as well

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through various contracts some of their equipment. So, yeah, we're a

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major supplier. Britain is a major supplier to the Saudi armed forces

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and the Air Force. The Air Force has carried out a lot of killings,

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according to this UN information, of children in the area, these grave

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violations, as they're called. Now there's pressure inside the UN and

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from other players outside as well to say that this Saudi-led

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coalition, which is all the countries in it are strong allies of

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the West, including Britain, that they should be put, the pressure

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says, on a blacklist of countries that carry out grave violations of

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human rights against kids particularly. Jermey Bowen, thank

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you. The four Moroccan men,

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suspected of the attacks in and around Barcelona last week,

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have appeared in court. One of them admitted that another

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bigger attack was being planned. But in the last hour,

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one of the men has been The latest now from Tom

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Burridge in Barcelona. In the wake of the deadliest terror

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attack in Spain in years, four men One by one they were led into a high

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security prison outside Madrid. The four men in court

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today are all linked in different ways to last week's

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attacks and a wider plot. Mohamed Houli Chemlal this morning

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taken to court in his Last Wednesday he was badly

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injured in an explosion He admitted in court the group

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was planning a larger attack. He will remain in prison

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and faces terrorism charges. Driss Oukabir's passport

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was found in the rented van, which was driven

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with such deadly effect He has also been in

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prison and charged. The man driving the van, Younes

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Abouyaaquob, was shot dead by police yesterday in countryside outside

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bars loanament another suspect, he owned an internet cafe. Tonight he

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remains in custody pending further inquiries. There have been police

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raids tonight in Ripoll and elsewhere. The fourth man in court,

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Mohammed Allah denied being owner of the Audi A 3 used in the attack in

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Cambrils on Friday morning. Today he has been released without charge.

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It's now been confirmed a speed camera clocked four of the attackers

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as they drove to Paris in that very car the week before the attacks.

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Police in Catalonia say their investigation is far from over. On

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Las Ramblas, five days on, there is a palpable sense of defiance. Spain

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is a country where much of life is lived outdoors and no amount of

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terror will change that. But of course, many lives have been cruelly

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touched forever. Brave British tourist Harry Athwell, held a young

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boy, after he had been hit by the van. I was afraid for the boy at

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that point, when I looked at his injuries. They were severe. I was

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actually quite emotional as well. Because I knew straight away this

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boy, had to be seven or eight years old, that's the same age as my son.

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Like I said, due to the injuries, I was quite upset. The first thing I

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tried to do was just to check his pulse to see if he was alive. His

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hair was similar to my son's hair. It was a bit shorter than my son's

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now, but the hair was the same, beautiful, thick, brown hair. I

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stroked it, I tried to talk to him. As more facts are revealed about the

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perpetrators of this, questions hang in the air.

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President Trump has gone back on his often repeated calls for US

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troops to come out of Afghanistan and announced that instead he'll be

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In a speech, he made a rare admission that he had

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changed his mind and that the US would stay in Afghanistan

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not to nation build, but to attack its enemy

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America's 16-year involvement in the war has seen over 2,300

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troops killed and more than 20,000 injured.

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But as our North America editor, Jon Sopel, reports, there was no

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detail about how many extra troops will be deployed and for how long.

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Donald Trump on his way a rally in Phoenix, Arizona,

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with a tricky sales job on his hands.

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The man who likes to be a crowd pleaser, and who throughout

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the campaign delighted audiences with his promise to pull US

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forces out of Afghanistan, "a gigantic waste of money

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But last night, as the band played Hail to the Chief,

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he was preparing to hit the reverse thrust button on that policy.

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My original instinct was to pull out, and historically, I like

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But all my life I've heard that decisions are much different

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when you sit behind the desk in the Oval Office.

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But what this flip-flop means in practical terms is hard to assess.

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The president would not say how many additional troops he would send,

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nor commit to how long they would be there.

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The mission would be judged by results, not timelines.

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And although Kabul may be a long way from Charlottesville,

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recent events in Virginia were clearly on his mind

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Loyalty to our nation demands loyalty to one another.

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Love for America requires love for all of its people.

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When we open our hearts to patriotism,

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there is no room for prejudice, no place for bigotry,

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And some of his harshest words were aimed at the Pakistani

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government, whom he accused of harbouring terrorists,

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while taking billions of dollars in US aid money.

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He called his new policy strategic realism, and summed it up this way.

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In Phoenix long lines have formed ahead of the president's rally this

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evening. What do his supporters make of the Afghanistan U-turn? I think

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Mr Trump has received new information. I'm reluctantly going

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to follow his lead. He's been listening and he knows exactly what

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he needs to do now. So that's why I am for his decision. I don't like

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what I'm seeing in Afghanistan. But I'm going to reserve judgment until

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I see the fruits of what's actually going to come out of this. The

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fruits right now are my money's being wasted. We're creating more

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terrorists going over there and I don't like it. Though Donald Trump

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has tried to dress this speech up as marking a significant shift in

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policy, the most striking thing about it is the sense of continuity

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with the Obama White House. And one other thing - now that this major

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policy announcement has come, this is Donald Trump's war in Afghanistan

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not Barack Obama's, not the generals'. Now he has ownership of

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something he never wanted to buy. In that speech, President Trump

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declared there would be more onus on the Afghan government

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to perform better, in civilian But the Afghan government barely

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controls just over half of all the districts in Afghanistan,

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and the Taliban are gaining ground. It's estimated 31 Afghan

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security force soldiers are being killed every day -

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along with civilian deaths. From Kabul, here's

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Secundar Kermani. This is the Kabul military training

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centre, one of the largest In a few months many of the young

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men here will be on the front lines For the past two and a half years

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it's been Afghan soldiers, as opposed to international forces,

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that have taken the lead There's no doubt that

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they've sacrificed a lot, thousands upon thousands have

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lost their lives. Yet they've been unable to stop

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the level of violence In the first half of this

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year alone, over 1600 Whilst the government only controls

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just over half of the country. So the commitment by President Trump

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not to allow Afghanistan to fall to the Taliban, has been widely

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welcomed by authorities here. TRANSLATION: The message

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is that the US will stand The tougher stance on Pakistan

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was also well received. TRANSLATION: Our neighbour has been

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given a clear message - Afghan security forces have long

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claimed that attacks like this one are masterminded in neighbouring

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Pakistan. That's always been flatly

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denied by authorities in the Pakistani capital Islamabad,

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who point of the country's losses It has suffered casualties,

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30-40,000, and I think wounded is over 100,000,

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and we've lost manpower and we are We have lost civilians,

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and they say we haven't done enough. President Trump today seemed

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to recognise there was no military solution to the conflict and instead

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there would be some kind For the moment, though,

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many more young men like these will go out to fight,

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and many will never return. The former boss of the retail chain

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BHS, Dominic Chappell, is to be prosecuted by the Pensions Regulator

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for failing to provide information BHS went into administration last

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year, causing 11,000 people to lose their jobs,

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and leaving a 571 million This time last year

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and everything must go - the end of an era of a once great

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high street name. Dominic Chappell, its former owner,

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he had no retail experience, but he bought the loss-making

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chain for ?1. Just over a year later,

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BHS collapsed into administration. This used to be BHS' flagship store,

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here on Oxford Street. The shutters are still down

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on what's coming next. What was revealed today, though,

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is that Dominic Chappell is being prosecuted by the pension

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regulator for failing to provide information and documents

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about a reasonable excuse. It wants this material

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because the regulator is still pursuing Mr Chappell over

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whether he avoided his responsibilities

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to the BHS pension scheme. I want to give an assurance

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to the 20,000 pensioners, Sir Philip Green sold

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BHS to Mr Chappell. After that promise to MPs,

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he eventually paid more than ?350 million in a settlement

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with the pension regulator. For this MP, BHS is still

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unfinished business. There is going to be a search

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for truth and justice, even if it takes a long time,

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and the select committee will help play its part in that

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great unfolding drama. Many stores still lie

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empty as Mr Chappell He's previously pledged

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to fight any legal action, denying he was responsible

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for the hole in the pension scheme. An end to the north-south divide

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in investment in transport has been called for by two lobby groups,

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representing thousands of companies More than 70,000 people

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have signed a petition, demanding that the Government spend

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more outside London The high speed rail line HS2

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will provide a faster link - between London and Birmingham -

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then on to Manchester, But businesses want a commitment

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to HS3, which would cut journey times across the country

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from west to east. Jon Kay has been speaking

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to passengers, travelling between Liverpool and Manchester,

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to gauge opinions. This train will be calling at

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Manchester Victoria, Huddersfield... Heading across northern

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England tonight, the 17.10 On time, but for some

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it's just too slow. Yeah, it's terrible,

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it's absolutely terrible. Rona has spent six hours today

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commuting between Yorkshire and Merseyside and it's only 70

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miles each way. So for me, I left home at 6:30am

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this morning and I'll get home at 7:30pm tonight,

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so that's a very long day. So for my productivity,

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it impacts me tomorrow While she is recovering,

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tomorrow the north of England's politicians and business leaders

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will be holding a summit to discuss building a high-speed

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link across the region. It could cut the journey

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from Manchester to Leeds from 48 minutes to 26,

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and the 90 minute journey from Just the section between Manchester

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and Leeds across the Pennines can cost up to ?7 billion,

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so do rail users What do you think the money should

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be spent on instead, Spent it on education,

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spent it on health. It's always been the south,

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so why not the north for a change? I don't think it's a big deal

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getting somewhere ten I think if they're more efficient,

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on time, better services, cleaner, With a house on the Wirral

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and a business in Newcastle, Herb would love a faster line

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but he thinks they are cheaper and more realistic ways

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of getting business moving. To make sure anywhere along any

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of the Northern Rails you would never drop a phone call,

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you would always be able to have high-speed mobile

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data available to you, ideally Wi-Fi, but even just 4G

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would be a huge step forward. But Raman thinks a new railway

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is the only solution and would help him expand

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from the north-east For us, better links

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towards Manchester and Liverpool, that would make it easier for us

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to do business in those regions. It could actually lead

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to the opening of an office in those regions, because at the minute

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we are quite restricted, in terms But this could be a long

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and slow journey. It's about politics

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as well as the price, and the north of England is not

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the only region raising its voice and demanding urgent

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investment in infrastructure. A brief look at some of the day's

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other other news stories... Rescue workers on the Italian island

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of Ischia say they've pulled out alive three children from one

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family, including a seven-month-old baby, from the rubble

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of their home after an earthquake Two people were killed and 40 others

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were injured when it hit the holiday island off the coast

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of Naples. The US navy says divers searching

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for ten American sailors missing since their warship collided

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with a merchant tanker near Singapore, have

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found human remains. They were discovered

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in sealed compartments of the USS John S McCain,

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which was nearing port yesterday Over 13 million people watched

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the final of the last When it re-launches on Channel 4

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next week, the broadcaster will be relying on it to bring in increased

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revenue through advertising. But as our Media Editor Amol Rajan

:25:38.:25:41.

reports, the media landscape is changing, and the the way

:25:42.:25:43.

we watch TV is being transformed. Nobody wants to be the first

:25:44.:25:51.

person to leave... Great British Bake Off,

:25:52.:25:57.

poached from the BBC The winner of the 2015

:25:58.:25:58.

Great British Bake Off is... Watched by 13 million

:25:59.:26:05.

people on BBC One. Channel 4 paid a reported

:26:06.:26:14.

?75 million for three years. According to the man who ran both

:26:15.:26:19.

Channel 4 and the BBC, Bake Off Personally, I think Channel 4

:26:20.:26:22.

were out of their minds. Buying a show like that,

:26:23.:26:27.

using a cheque book to buy ready-made BBC show,

:26:28.:26:30.

the most popular show on British television,

:26:31.:26:33.

it's not what Channel 4 It's there to be a nursery

:26:34.:26:34.

for talent and ideas, VOICEOVER: Islamic State is

:26:35.:26:38.

the state of the Muslims and we... But this is why it is happening -

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though a public broadcaster, Channel 4 is commercially funded

:26:45.:26:48.

and believes only big audiences can generate the revenues necessary

:26:49.:26:52.

to fund shows that push boundaries. It's not going to jump,

:26:53.:26:59.

they can't jump. And the competition for eyeballs

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has become ferocious. Four of the five biggest

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companies in the world - Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon -

:27:05.:27:07.

are moving dramatically Meanwhile, streaming services

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like Netflix and Disney are investing billions in original

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programming to broadcast directly to hundreds

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of millions of customers. The marketing body for Britain's

:27:17.:27:20.

commercial networks says This is a time of great

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commercial opportunity The internet is often pitted

:27:23.:27:31.

as the great competitor to TV. In fact, exactly the

:27:32.:27:36.

opposite is the case. The internet is the future of TV,

:27:37.:27:38.

it's how TV is expanding, Technological innovation

:27:39.:27:42.

is changing both the supply On the supply side, the choice

:27:43.:27:47.

for audiences is greater than ever, and in terms of demand,

:27:48.:27:54.

many young viewers increasingly consume TV across multiple devices,

:27:55.:27:57.

ignore TV schedules and in some Finally we called at the Clarks,

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and although it was Saturday Time was when families

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across the country would come together to watch a limited

:28:06.:28:09.

range of channels. That still happens,

:28:10.:28:12.

but on fewer applications. This family in Kent illustrate

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the changing way parents Is this a normal family scene,

:28:17.:28:21.

of how you guys watch TV together? When I come home it's the news

:28:22.:28:29.

that everybody watches, and they join in and then

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after that they watch Do you guys watch TV with your

:28:33.:28:35.

parents most of the time or not? I live away from home most

:28:36.:28:39.

of the time, so my access to TV is very different,

:28:40.:28:42.

it's through my laptop I'm usually spending my time

:28:43.:28:45.

on Nickelodeon or even watching the Food Network,

:28:46.:28:48.

Good Food. To quote the late Sir Bruce Forsyth,

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television is today While broadcasters from the BBC

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to Channel 4 compete ever harder for the flagship shows that can

:28:55.:29:02.

bring a nation together, technology is pulling

:29:03.:29:05.

audiences and families England are through to the final

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of the Women's Rugby World Cup. They beat France by 20 points

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to three in Belfast tonight, to set up a meeting

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with New Zealand on Saturday. Our Sports Correspondent Katherine

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Downes was watching the action. Sarah Harding lot, rugby fans.

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Brightening a great Belfast date with all the sparkle a World Cup

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semifinal deserves. Come to add their voices to the roar of the

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crowd, however small. England, defending world champion tonight,

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faced a familiar foe, France, who proved a thorn in the side of the

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red roses over recent Six Nations campaigns, and so it would prove. By

:29:54.:29:57.

half-time there were only six points on the board shared between the

:29:58.:30:10.

boots of Emily 's carrot and Izar. 40 minutes of crunching tackles,

:30:11.:30:14.

this was perhaps even more of a battle than expected. England opened

:30:15.:30:19.

up a slight lead at the start of the second half, another three points

:30:20.:30:23.

hard earned, ground up French mistake. Even that try when it came

:30:24.:30:29.

to was inched over. England's battering ram finally puncturing a

:30:30.:30:36.

hole in France's defence. 20-3 disco. But also rendered finally by

:30:37.:30:41.

a French Bumble at the final whistle. So relieved for England and

:30:42.:30:45.

the realisation that the World Cup double is still possible, but if

:30:46.:30:50.

France were tough to beat, four times champions New Zealand who beat

:30:51.:30:56.

the US is a earlier, wait in the final two claim the trophy they

:30:57.:30:57.

think is rightfully theirs. And so it is a fairy tale final for

:30:58.:31:05.

this World Cup, the two best sides in the women's game going

:31:06.:31:08.

head-to-head for the title, here in Belfast on Saturday. At the end of

:31:09.:31:11.

the summer of sport that has seen women contest that cricket World

:31:12.:31:16.

Cup, the football championship, the Solheim cup to name just a few, in

:31:17.:31:20.

front of the television audience of millions, this is another chance to

:31:21.:31:24.

showcase the very best of women's sport to an ever expanding audience.

:31:25.:31:27.

Newsnight's about to begin over on BBC Two in a few moments.

:31:28.:31:31.

Tonight, as Donald Trump's' new-found commitment to the war

:31:32.:31:35.

in Afghanistan and his generals sinks in, we speak to the mercenary

:31:36.:31:38.

backed by Steve Bannon who thought he would get a slice of the action.

:31:39.:31:44.

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

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