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Tonight at ten...

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The Prime Minister has

suffered her first House of Commons

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defeat in the Brexit process.

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The ayes to the right, 309, the noes

to the left, 305.

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By a majority of just four,

MPs voted to change the EU

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Withdrawal Bill, calling

for the final Brexit deal to be

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approved by a new law.

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I am pleased with the outcome.

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I felt it was a vote

that had to be taken,

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particularly in view

of the intransigence and difficulty

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we had trying to reason

with the Government.

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We have had seven days of committee

stages with multiple votes, we have

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won everyone but this and we lost

this by four votes.

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It's a setback but it's

a fairly minor setback,

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it won't frustrate the Brexit.

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Theresa May's team spent much

of the day trying to persuade

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a handful of Conservative MPs

to back the Government's plans.

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And tomorrow the Prime Minister goes

to Brussels for an EU summit

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which is set to give approval

for the Brexit talks to move

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on to the next phase.

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Also tonight...

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The road cyclist Chris Froome,

four-time winner of the Tour

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de France, is fighting

to save his career after

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failing a drugs test.

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Eight people have been

sentenced for smuggling drugs

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into prisons by using drones.

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A special report from

the Democratic Republic of Congo,

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where the UN says a cut

in the number of peacekeepers

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is creating more instability.

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And six months after

the Grenfell fire, we report

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on the lasting impact

in London's wealthiest borough.

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And coming up on Sportsday on BBC

News, England captain Joe Root calls

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for a big performance

from his players ahead

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of the crucial third Ashes Test.

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Good evening.

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The Prime Minister has

suffered her first defeat

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in the House of Commons

on the Government's

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legislative plans for Brexit.

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By a majority of just four,

MPs supported a change

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to the EU Withdrawal Bill,

which called for the terms

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of a final Brexit deal to be

approved by a separate new law.

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Repeated offers of concessions

by ministers were not

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enough to win the day.

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The amendment had been proposed

by the Conservative MP

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Dominic Grieve, a former

Attorney General who'd

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said it was time to put

country before party -

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as our political editor

Laura Kuenssberg reports.

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The Tory rebels, huddled among their

colleagues on the left, and Labour

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on the right, for they had lost.

Weeks of energy and effort gone to

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waste.

But watch that shuffle of MPs, the

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four approaching in the middle.

The signal Theresa May had been

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beaten.

The ayes to the right, 309,

the noes to the left, 305.

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There was only four votes in it. One

of the Tories who had voted against

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the Prime Minister on the top left

in white, reaching two colleagues in

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congratulation. Cabinet ministers

tucked behind the chair wondered

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what would happen next.

The key thing is the balance between

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getting the legislative detail in

place for a smooth Brexit and making

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sure parliament has the proper

transparency and accountability, so

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we will look again to make sure we

get the balance right, it is a minor

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setback but will not stop is leaving

the EU in March 20 19.

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But the first defeat of its kind for

Theresa May is not a minor incident.

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It is a success for the opposition

parties and a powerful group of Tory

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Remainers.

We've got to get over this,

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cooperate together to make sure this

bill is in a proper state to do what

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people want, which is to deliver a

smooth and effective Brexit, and we

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will do that.

I will get together with my

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colleagues and continue the work. I

will be heartily glad when it is

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over.

No question, this emboldens

the opposition. As well as Tories

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with doubts about how the Government

is managing Brexit.

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At last Parliament has asserted

itself, the Prime Minister tried to

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power grab, pushed through an EU

WIthdrawal Bill without proper

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Parliamentary scrutiny and take

powers away from Parliament.

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Parliament resisted.

Ministers had

mounted a full-scale operation to

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avoid losing. As the vote began,

watch the small knot of Tory levels

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on the top left corner, hoping they

still happen is... Tory rebels.

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Blink and you would a figure joins

them, the Defence Secretary, until

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weeks ago the Chief Whip. Taking one

of them aside for a quiet chat. You

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might not see clearly but moments

after that conversation finished,

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the MP stays on the benches, drops

his head to his phone to tweet that

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he would abstain, not vote against

the Government.

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In front of your eyes, the guts of

how close votes are lost or won all

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afternoon, her topless tenants were

trying to avoid this result.

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REPORTER: Has the Government Dinning

is to be the rebels?

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But what is it about? Some Tory MPs,

opposition parties and these hardy

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campaigners were backing so-called

amendment seven. Demanding a legal

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promise from the Government that MPs

will have a chance to votes and

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debate the deal between Britain and

the rest of the EU, crucially before

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it is signed.

Stop Brexit.

The Government had promised a vote,

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there was just not trust that they

would stick to it. The debate has

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been bitter and rough.

Large numbers of people telling won

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that one is a traitor, some, I have

to say with regret, of one's

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honourable and write honourable

friends saying things I say, go find

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slightly startling.

Deep suspicion those who wanted to

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stay in the EU are trying to run the

referendum again.

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Clause nine is not about

implementing leaving the European

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Union.

Read it! Read it!

Sits down!

If people in this Haas

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use that amendment for those

purposes, the backlash from the

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British public will be like non-seen

before. He should beware of that

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consequence.

The idea written how undermines the

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referendum decision is a load of

rubbish and he well knows it. If he

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had any better arguments he would

put them rather than using something

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that is so ridiculous.

The Downing Street offensive,

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however much charm there was...

REPORTER:

What will it take?!

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Calling in rebels, did not work.

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After hours of debate, a last-minute

concession was dangled.

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The Government is willing to return

a report stage with an amendment on

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the face of the bill, making clear

the undertaken assurance that I gave

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in my speech but statutory

instruments under clause and I will

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not enter into force until we have

had a meaningful vote in Parliament.

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It is tabulate, you cannot treat the

Haas in this fashion.

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It was too latent too little.

Parliament, not the Tory party, had

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its day.

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Laura, what is your sense on the

impact of this on the Prime

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Minister's authority at Westminster

and in Brussels?

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It was nail-biting and it will be

embarrassing for Theresa May to have

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to arrive to that crunch summit in

Brussels to greet the EU leaders,

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having a few hours before been

beaten by her own site. It is a

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drama for number ten today but it is

not an out and out disaster. We

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should not overemphasise the impact.

The vote was very close, this vote

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does not stop Brexit in any way and

the legislation is a long way from

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ending up on the statute books, so

like it or not there months and

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months of argument ahead. Something

important has happened tonight, MPs

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from all parties, Tory, Labour, SNP,

Lib Dems, working together to make

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the collective will of the Commons

chamber speak louder than the

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Government. There were only four

votes in it, it is not the case at

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all that Parliament will certainly

have its say on everything to do

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with Brexit, the Government has

suddenly become a better player, but

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it is an important moment and it is,

don't forget, the first time that

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Theresa May has been beaten in the

Commons on her own plans since

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becoming Prime Minister. I think it

stiffens the sinews of people in

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this place who have been timid about

rebelling, timid about making

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trouble, and are probably also

stiffens the Lord's down there, who

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are pretty much certain to cause a

lot more trouble than those in the

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Commons chamber. And I wonder if it

leaves Theresa May with a choice.

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Until now she has taken a very tough

line uncompromising on anything to

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do with Brexit. Her critics inside

the Tory party would say she has had

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to be dragged kicking and screaming

to anything that looks like a whiff

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of compromise. I think tonight she

now faces a choice, does she change

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her tone and try to work together

with people in her party, or does

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she allow the bitterness to spread

and continue if she carries on the

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kind of course she has so far? There

are Tory rebels who tonight looked

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over the edge and decided they were

willing to cross it.

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Thank you very much, Laura

Kuenssberg with the latest after the

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vote at Westminster.

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Chris Froome, Britain's most

successful road cyclist,

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is facing the prospect

of being banned from the sport

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for failing a drugs test.

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The four-time Tour de France winner

registered twice the limit

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of a medication used to treat asthma

during a race in Spain in September.

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Cycling's world governing body has

launched an investigation.

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Both Froome and Team Sky have

denied any wrongdoing,

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as our sports editor

Dan Roan reports.

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Chris Froome has told the BBC

tonight into standard will come as a

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big shock to a lot of people but

insists he has not broken any rules.

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-- that he understands it will come

as a big shock to a lot of people.

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Having come to dominate

cycling's biggest race,

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Chris Froome's established himself

as the pre-eminent force

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in his sport, but the British

star now faces a fight

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to save his reputation.

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It was here during his historic

victory at Spain's grand tour

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the Vuelta that he was found to have

exceeded the permitted legal level

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of the asthma drug salbutamol.

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He says on doctors' advice

he increased his dosage due asthma,

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And at a training camp in Majorca he

told the BBC he had done nothing

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wrong.

I understand it has come as a

big shock to a lot of people, but I

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stand by what I have always said, I

certainly have not broken any rules

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here. I have not taken more than the

permissible amount and I am sure at

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the end of the day the truth will be

told.

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Riders can take salbutamol, but the

rider has given a you're in sample

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with traces twice the permitted

amount. He says it can be explained.

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It can be affected by a lot of

different factors. Dehydration, the

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way the body metabolises it, for

example. This is not a positive

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test, all asthmatics out there will

no what salbutamol is and obviously

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I have only been too happy to try

and help the UCI fill in the blanks.

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In a statement the Team Sky boss

said...

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There is a medical need, what needs

to happen is that the support around

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the athlete needs to improve in

terms of this his asthma is that

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bad, should he be cycling? Is it a

health issue? Your asthma is that

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bad, you're taking that much

salbutamol, you are still

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symptomatic, shall we call it a day

and come back tomorrow when the

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asthma is better.

Scrutiny on Team Sky has intensified

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in the last year, with management

grilled at a Parliamentary select

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committee and a UK Anti-Doping

investigation into allegations all

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denied a not proven surrounding a

mystical medical delivery to Sir

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Bradley Wiggins in 2011.

Froome meanwhile has taken a strong

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moral stance on the controversial

use of TUV, or therapeutic use

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exemption is, for usually banned

substances.

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I think most people will listen to

everything we are saying about

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hearing sent offensive etc and will

not care, as far as they are

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concerned it is yet another thing

what has happened to Team Sky and

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cycling, as far as the reputation of

cycling is concerned it is

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enormously damaging.

Next year Froome plan to seal a

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remarkable fifth Tour de France

triumph, but instead the potential

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ban and the potential loss of his

Spanish title hang over him.

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He faces a very anxious wait, as

does Team Sky at the headquarters of

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the National velodrome in

Manchester. They have built their

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brand around him and are trying to

recover from recent controversies.

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Froome has come to symbolise a new

era for the sport after it's deeply

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troubled doping past and there is a

huge amount at stake for him, his

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team and for cycling.

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The US Democratic Party has been

celebrating an unexpected victory

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in a special election for the US

Senate in the state of Alabama.

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Doug Jones beat the controversial

Republican candidate Roy Moore,

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who'd been strongly backed

by President Trump.

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Mr Moore had faced allegations

of sexual misconduct

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with teenage girls, allegations

he'd consistently denied.

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The result means the Republican

majority in the US Senate now

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stands at just 51 to 49.

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Our North America correspondent,

Nick Bryant, reports.

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Amidst all the noise and rage

of American politics,

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it's worth remembering elections

are often decided in quiet suburbs.

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That was true in Alabama,

where moderate Republicans didn't

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turn out for their party's

radical, scandal-hit candidate.

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and where many don't much

like Donald Trump either.

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It's a rejection of Donald Trump.

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Tracy James is a lifelong

Republican, who yesterday

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went Democrat.

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It was also a protest vote

against the president.

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I do think Donald Trump has

a problem in the Republican suburbs.

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You don't know what's going to come

out of his mouth next.

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You don't know whether we're

going to go to war with North Korea.

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You don't know if he's

going to insult a woman in Congress.

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I think they're very

uncomfortable with that.

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Modern-day Democrats aren't supposed

to win in staunchly conservative

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states like Alabama.

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It hasn't happened

here for 25 years.

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No wonder the blizzard of confetti.

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Alabama has been at a crossroads.

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It has been at crossroads

in the past and unfortunately,

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we have usually taken

the wrong fork.

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Tonight, ladies and gentlemen,

you took the right road.

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The losing Republican

candidate, Roy Moore,

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thought he was on his way

to Washington, but he was hit

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by allegations, which he denies,

of sexual misconduct against teenage

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girls and shunned by senior figures

in the Republican establishment.

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That's where the anger of his

dejected supporters was directed.

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It's really sad for the people

of Alabama what took place

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in this state tonight.

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You think you've been betrayed

by the Republican establishment?

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Absolutely, no doubt about that.

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# You can't always

get what you want #.

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It's true, you can't

always get what you want.

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A lesson for Donald Trump,

who has strongly backed Roy Moore.

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So get out and vote for Roy Moore.

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Do it.

Do it.

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So this is a big black eye

for the president and also a failure

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of the Trump political playbook,

to deny accusations of wrongdoing

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as fake news and to attack accusers.

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With a Republican majority

in the Senate reduced to a single

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seat, it will be even harder

for the president to enact his

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stalled legislative agenda.

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The Democrats hope this result

is indicative of an anti-Trump wave

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which will help win them back

Capitol Hill in next year's

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Congressional elections.

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This Senate race doubled as a battle

for the soul of the Republican

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movement and thus marked a defeat

for conservative insurgents

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against the party establishment.

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That too is a setback

for Donald Trump and his

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unorthodox brand of politics.

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Nick Bryant, BBC News, Alabama.

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A fourth child has died

after a house fire in

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Greater Manchester

earlier this week.

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Three-year-old Lia Pearson died

in hospital earlier today.

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A 35-year-old woman remains

in a serious condition.

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The fire was started in the early

hours of Monday morning.

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Earlier today, two people

made their first court appearance

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charged with murder in relation

to the fire.

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Wages have grown more slowly

than the cost of living

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for a seventh month in a row.

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New figures from the Office for

National Statistics show that pay

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in the year to October increased

by 2.3%, while inflation

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currently stands at 3.1%.

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There were also 56,000 fewer people

in work in the three months

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to October than in the previous

quarter, the biggest fall

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for more than two years.

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Eight people have been

sentenced for smuggling drugs

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into prisons by using drones.

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Craig Hickinbottom,

a former armed robber,

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organised the flights from inside.

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Police have identified at least 49

drone flights carrying contraband,

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thought to have been worth as much

as £1.2 million.

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Our home affairs correspondent,

Daniel Sandford, has the story.

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Cameras originally set up to take

pictures of wildlife,

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catching instead Britain's most

prolific drone smuggling gang.

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Recording the pilot, Mervyn Foster,

time and again flying the drone

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from a field outside

Hewell Prison in Worcestershire.

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Its illegal cargo hanging

underneath on fishing line.

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From the field, the smugglers had

a view directly into the jail

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and the prison block

where the drone's cargo was pulled

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in through the windows.

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Over the months, the gang grew

in confidence and sophistication.

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They'd started by simply throwing

the drugs over the prison wall,

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But then they started using drones

and they added to the contraband -

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mobile phones, weapons,

screwdrivers and even a Freeview box

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with a remote control.

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Cameras inside Hewell Prison caught

one of the ringleaders,

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John Hickinbottom,

with an improvised hook used

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to catch the fishing line

and recover the contraband.

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The gang, led by armed

robber Craig Hickinbottom,

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is thought to have smuggled in over

a million pounds worth

0:19:070:19:10

of drugs and phones,

continuing even after they'd been

0:19:100:19:12

arrested and charged.

0:19:120:19:13

The contents of the loads,

on at least 49 flights,

0:19:130:19:15

were specifically ordered

by individual inmates

0:19:150:19:17

from the Midlands to Scotland.

0:19:170:19:21

The recent epidemic of drones

being used to airlift contraband

0:19:210:19:24

into prison grew from nothing

in just four years.

0:19:240:19:26

We didn't see this one coming.

0:19:260:19:28

So, the drones literally

came from nowhere.

0:19:280:19:32

They were flown in and it actually

just was a game changer for us.

0:19:320:19:36

So we had to really

relook at our systems,

0:19:360:19:39

our procedures and methods

of gathering intelligence.

0:19:390:19:41

And it gave the gangs of opportunity

to actually breach the secure

0:19:410:19:49

perimeters almost effortlessly.

0:19:490:19:50

To crack this case, officers

downloaded the memories

0:19:500:19:52

of the drones they seized and linked

that to mobile phone calls

0:19:520:19:55

the smugglers were making.

0:19:550:19:56

The prisons' ministers had to invest

millions of pounds in a new national

0:19:560:20:06

network of police and prison

officers working together,

0:20:060:20:08

which helped catch this gang.

0:20:080:20:09

What we've shown here is that this

is the most prolific gang we've come

0:20:090:20:13

across and we've been able

to deal with them.

0:20:130:20:15

They're going to be serving jail

time, and that is a huge success.

0:20:150:20:18

But with huge profits being made

by the smuggling gangs,

0:20:180:20:20

keeping drones away from prisons

is going to be a lengthy battle.

0:20:200:20:25

Daniel Sandford, BBC News,

at HMP Hewell in Worcestershire.

0:20:250:20:30

The United Nations is warning that

a reduction in the number

0:20:300:20:34

of peacekeeping troops

in the Democratic Republic of Congo,

0:20:340:20:36

in Central Africa, is likely

to lead to more instability

0:20:360:20:38

and loss of life.

0:20:380:20:40

Last night we had a special

report on the unfolding

0:20:400:20:46

humanitarian crisis in the DRC,

where nearly 1.5 million people have

0:20:460:20:49

fled their homes and severe acute

malnutrition is affecting hundreds

0:20:490:20:51

of thousands of children.

0:20:510:20:55

The desperate situation began last

year in the Kasai region

0:20:550:20:59

of the country after a conflict

between government-backed

0:20:590:21:01

troops and rebel fighters.

0:21:010:21:02

Both sides have

committed atrocities.

0:21:020:21:05

Our Africa editor Fergal Keane

and cameraman Tony Fallshaw

0:21:050:21:08

travelled to Kasai.

0:21:080:21:14

You may find some images in this

report distressing.

0:21:140:21:16

The grass grows over, it conceals.

0:21:160:21:18

Day by day the truth recedes

in view, but the UN patrol knew

0:21:180:21:21

where the bodies had been dumped.

0:21:210:21:23

You can smell it.

0:21:230:21:26

One of 87 known mass

graves in Kasai.

0:21:260:21:28

"Some bones here", the soldier says.

0:21:280:21:34

Fragments of atrocity.

0:21:340:21:39

The clothes of the dead.

0:21:390:21:40

At least 3,000 people

have been killed - shot,

0:21:400:21:42

hacked, beaten to death.

0:21:420:21:47

Nearly a million-and-a-half

displaced.

0:21:470:21:48

The blood is speaking.

0:21:480:21:49

The blood is speaking?

0:21:490:21:50

Yes, the blood is speaking.

0:21:500:21:51

This is the blood of my brothers.

0:21:510:22:01

Even myself, if I was there,

I could be killed also innocently.

0:22:040:22:06

We met a woman who says

she saw the army arriving.

0:22:060:22:09

We've protected her identity.

0:22:090:22:10

TRANSLATION:

The military

were burying the bodies.

0:22:100:22:12

We saw where they stopped and how

they dug to bury the corpses.

0:22:120:22:15

Some were as young as 12.

0:22:150:22:20

They did not only kill the militia,

they killed innocent people.

0:22:200:22:27

Across Congo, a small UN force

is struggling in the face

0:22:270:22:30

of growing instability.

0:22:300:22:32

In Kasai, it says the targeting

of civilians by all sides could

0:22:320:22:35

amount to crimes against humanity.

0:22:350:22:40

The violence escalated when security

forces killed this man,

0:22:400:22:43

Chief Kamuina Nsapu,

after he'd rebelled

0:22:430:22:48

against the government whose

president, Joseph Kabila,

0:22:480:22:50

is clinging to power despite having

served the two terms he's

0:22:500:22:52

allowed under the law.

0:22:520:22:56

In response, the Chief's followers

attacked everybody and anything

0:22:560:22:59

associated with the state.

0:22:590:23:03

Like these policemen, beheaded soon

after the video was taken.

0:23:030:23:09

Even civil society activists,

trying to register voters,

0:23:090:23:17

were attacked when rebels swept

into this town.

0:23:170:23:18

Offices destroyed,

family members butchered.

0:23:180:23:23

TRANSLATION:

I have lost my

daughter, who was a dressmaker.

0:23:230:23:25

She was beheaded with her husband.

0:23:250:23:28

Their children are orphaned

and they have remained here.

0:23:280:23:30

I take care of them now.

0:23:300:23:37

350 kilometers to the south,

Emmanuel showed me

0:23:370:23:39

the ruins of his home.

0:23:390:23:45

When the militia attacked,

he fled with his older child,

0:23:450:23:48

but in the chaos a sleeping

three-year-old girl was left

0:23:480:23:56

and burned to death.

0:23:560:23:57

TRANSLATION:

I was afraid

to be killed myself.

0:23:570:23:59

I wanted to save my life

and the life of the child

0:23:590:24:02

who was with me, hence the other

child was killed.

0:24:020:24:04

I keep crying, crying always.

0:24:040:24:08

The state fought back

with pitiless violence,

0:24:080:24:12

killing militia supporters,

who believed magic charms

0:24:120:24:17

could protect them from bullets,

and turning its guns on civilians

0:24:170:24:19

who lived in rebel areas.

0:24:190:24:25

This man told us what he'd witnessed

near the town of Chikapa.

0:24:250:24:34

TRANSLATION:

The military

were taking people, killing them

0:24:340:24:36

and throwing them into the river.

0:24:360:24:38

People started to run away and hide.

0:24:380:24:39

They followed them, killed them

and threw them into the river.

0:24:390:24:42

We saw the army do this.

0:24:420:24:45

These are not isolated accounts,

we've spoken with other witnesses

0:24:450:24:48

who saw bodies being thrown

into the river.

0:24:480:24:51

We met a 13-year-old boy,

shot in the chest, he survived.

0:24:510:24:55

We've heard from people who saw

women being dragged away

0:24:550:24:58

by the army screaming.

0:24:580:25:02

At this church in Chikapa we met

hundreds of villagers who'd fled

0:25:020:25:05

violence at the hands

of a pro-government militia,

0:25:050:25:07

drawn from another ethnic group.

0:25:070:25:17

TRANSLATION:

I saw people

with machetes, guns and clubs.

0:25:170:25:20

They were beheading people,

cutting arms and legs,

0:25:200:25:22

slashing bellies.

0:25:220:25:23

I had to climb over

dead bodies to escape.

0:25:230:25:25

I had four children,

but could escape with only one.

0:25:250:25:28

The other three were killed.

0:25:280:25:32

The government denies

the army committed crimes

0:25:320:25:35

against humanity and says it's been

fighting militia terror.

0:25:350:25:40

We are facing a terrorist

offensive from there.

0:25:400:25:42

We see no difference

between those people

0:25:420:25:46

and the Boko Haram or Shabaab.

0:25:460:25:53

In Kasai, only one force stands

between the actions of the state

0:25:530:25:56

and the different militias.

0:25:560:25:57

But the UN is under pressure.

0:25:570:25:59

In a country two-thirds

the size of western Europe,

0:25:590:26:07

there are fewer than 20,000 troops,

and even this force has been cut

0:26:070:26:10

back as America reduces

peacekeeping funding.

0:26:100:26:12

What can be achieved

with so few troops?

0:26:120:26:13

Quite simply, what would happen

if we weren't here?

0:26:130:26:16

We want to do everything we possibly

can with the resources

0:26:160:26:20

of the United Nations to save lives

and to make the situation better.

0:26:200:26:26

Amid deteriorating security

across Congo, survivors

0:26:260:26:27

fear fresh violence.

0:26:270:26:32

Like this mother and her 15-year-old

daughter, who were abducted

0:26:320:26:35

by the same pro-government militia,

separated and taken

0:26:350:26:37

to different farms.

0:26:370:26:41

TRANSLATION:

We had left our village

in April and were taken as slaves

0:26:410:26:44

on the farm the same month.

0:26:440:26:46

It's difficult to count how many

times I was raped because it was

0:26:460:26:49

during so many months.

0:26:490:26:52

I did not know where my

daughter was, she was

0:26:520:26:54

released after I escaped.

0:26:540:26:56

They told her - "go now,

for your mother has escaped

0:26:560:26:59

and can get us arrested."

0:26:590:27:00

Only then, when she joined me

in Chikapa, did I discover

0:27:000:27:03

that she had been raped too.

0:27:030:27:07

I have a lot of bitterness

in my heart because my little

0:27:070:27:10

girl has been deviled.

0:27:100:27:11

She's just a kid.

0:27:110:27:15

In Kasai, where the dead are cast

into rivers, into mass graves,

0:27:150:27:19

there is no real peace to keep,

only a daily effort to hold back

0:27:190:27:23

the forces of chaos.

0:27:230:27:29

Fergal Keane, BBC News, Kasai.

0:27:290:27:36

The Chief Inspector of Schools,

Amanda Spielman, says more than 100

0:27:360:27:39

schools in England are struggling

and haven't been judged good

0:27:390:27:42

by the inspection service Ofsted

for more than a decade.

0:27:420:27:45

The annual report warns that a core

of persistently underachieving

0:27:450:27:51

schools are struggling to recruit

teachers and to keep head teachers.

0:27:510:27:54

The Government says it's

targeting additional help

0:27:540:27:56

at challenging areas.

0:27:560:28:02

At St Paul's Cathedral tomorrow,

members of the Royal Family

0:28:020:28:05

will attend a memorial service

with many of those affected

0:28:050:28:08

by the fire at Grenfell Tower

in West London, in June this year,

0:28:080:28:11

exactly six months ago,

which claimed the lives of 71

0:28:110:28:18

victims and made hundreds

of people homeless.

0:28:180:28:20

Our special correspondent,

Allan Little, has been back

0:28:200:28:22

to the area where the disaster

happened and reports on the lasting

0:28:220:28:25

impact there and beyond.

0:28:250:28:26

It is the abiding image of 2017,

it scars the West London cityscape

0:28:260:28:34

and, perhaps, the conscience

of the country.

0:28:340:28:36

That it happened in one

of the richest parts of London has

0:28:360:28:38

made it for many a tale of two

Britons, living side

0:28:380:28:41

by side, but separately.

0:28:410:28:43

The Dale Youth Boxing Club used

to train in Grenfell Tower,

0:28:430:28:49

their gym was lost to the fire,

now they use this concrete corner

0:28:490:28:52

of a multi-storey car park.

0:28:520:28:54

3, 2...

Stay down.

0:28:540:28:58

The club coach is Gary McGuinness,

he says years of gentrification,

0:28:580:29:02

of regeneration projects,

have made the old London

0:29:020:29:03

working-class, who used to thrive

here, a diminishing presence.

0:29:030:29:06

Regeneration, what does the word

mean, like, you know?

0:29:060:29:10

You know, it seems like it means

clear out for the locals to me.

0:29:100:29:13

That's what's going on around here,

ain't it, basically, as you see.

0:29:130:29:16

You know, the locals

are getting pushed out.

0:29:160:29:19

The kids can't afford

to buy places around here.

0:29:190:29:21

Do you think it's got

worse over the years?

0:29:210:29:23

Of course it has, yeah.

0:29:230:29:24

Yeah, yeah.

0:29:240:29:25

Definitely, yeah.

0:29:250:29:26

You should be concentrating,

watching what he's doing.

0:29:260:29:35

The Grenfell Tower fire

exposed this long, steady,

0:29:350:29:37

drifting apart of rich and poor.

0:29:370:29:38

But don't push a simple rich poor

interpretation too far here.

0:29:380:29:43

Five members of Mutah Chellat's

family died in the fire.

0:29:430:29:45

For him, the problem is not

that there are rich and poor,

0:29:450:29:48

but that increasingly

the poor are disregarded.

0:29:480:29:50

If you're going to ask me

who I blame, I don't blame the rich

0:29:500:29:53

people in Holland Park

because they didn't come down

0:29:530:29:55

here and light the fire,

do you know what I mean?

0:29:550:29:58

They just happen to live where

they live, it's not their fault.

0:29:580:30:01

But if you're going to ask me

who the blame is, yes,

0:30:010:30:04

I blame the council,

I blame the local authorities,

0:30:040:30:06

I blame the Government that

are supposed to look after these

0:30:060:30:09

sort of buildings.

0:30:090:30:10

But why are they not

maintaining them?

0:30:100:30:11

That's when you could turn

around and say, well,

0:30:110:30:14

probably it's because they don't

care about these sort of people.

0:30:140:30:16

You know, these so-called

disadvantaged people that live

0:30:160:30:18

in these council estates

and things like that.

0:30:180:30:20

"So-called disadvantaged", he says.

0:30:200:30:21

For the people of Grenfell do not

recognise the version

0:30:210:30:24

of themselves that has entered

the public imagination.

0:30:240:30:25

Nina Masroh has lived on the estate

for nearly 30 years.

0:30:250:30:28

We were portrayed as a poor,

uneducated, disadvantaged

0:30:280:30:34

people who didn't work,

on benefits which is

0:30:340:30:36

the actual opposite.

0:30:360:30:37

A lot of people do work.

0:30:370:30:39

There are some very highly educated

people living on council estates

0:30:390:30:42

in Grenfell Tower itself.

0:30:420:30:44

There were architects,

there were engineers,

0:30:440:30:47

people worked in social media,

in technology, IT.

0:30:470:30:52

So to have this kind of view,

simply because somebody lives

0:30:520:30:57

on a council estate,

that they are not worthy

0:30:570:31:06

or they are less than anyone

else, is a complete...

0:31:060:31:09

It's a fallacy.

0:31:090:31:10

Did you feel insulted by it?

0:31:100:31:11

Deeply insulted, deeply insulted.

0:31:110:31:13

I think also there was that sense

of - oh, they're all just

0:31:130:31:16

a bunch of foreigners.

0:31:160:31:19

That's what makes London,

I suppose that's what makes the UK.

0:31:190:31:22

We're a multi-cultural society.

0:31:220:31:27

Its location has made

Grenfell Tower a graphic symbol

0:31:270:31:30

of inequality in Britain,

an inequality that before the fire

0:31:300:31:32

was hidden in plain sight.

0:31:320:31:42

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