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Tonight at ten, riot police

on the streets across Iran

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amid the biggest anti-government

demonstrations for a decade.

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At least 22 people have died

during six days of demonstrations

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across the country.

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Iran's supreme leader has

blamed foreign enemies

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for causing the unrest.

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We'll be asking how serious these

protests are for the Iranian

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government and what impact

they could have on the region.

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Thousands of routine operations

postponed this month

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because of sustained pressure

on the NHS in England -

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one doctor says conditions

are the worst he's seen.

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I want to do the best I can

for the patients that I'm seeing.

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I want to do the best I can.

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But I'm not being given

the resources to do that.

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The biggest increase in rail fares

for five years. Train operators say

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it is vital to address decades of

underinvestment. The plastic

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problem, wider UK under pressure to

find new ways to recycle waste.

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A helping hand for China's poorest

people - as its president vows

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to lift 43 million from extreme

poverty in just three years.

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And the new kid on the block -

a 27-year-old former electrician

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causes a sensation in

the world of darts as he's

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crowned world champion.

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And coming up on Sportsday on BBC

News, we'll have all the action

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from tonight's Premier League games,

where it has just been

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raining goals this evening.

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Good evening.

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Riot police are out in force

in cities across Iran tonight as

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anti-government protests continue.

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At least 22 people have died

since the demonstrations

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began six days ago.

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Hundreds of people

have been arrested.

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Today, Iran's Supreme Leader

broke his silence for the first time

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since the protests began

and accused his country's enemies

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of stirring up the unrest.

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The protests are the boldest

challenge to Iran's clerical

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leadership for almost a decade.

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Tonight, America urged Iran

to exercise restraint and to restore

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people's access to social media.

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Here's our Middle East

Editor Jeremy Bowen.

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In Tehran, squads of motorbike

police are cruising the streets

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to break up groups of demonstrators.

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The protests have changed

since they started last Thursday.

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GUNSHOTS

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To begin with, they

were about the economy.

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Most of the protesters

are young men - more than 50%

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of Iranians are under 30 -

and perhaps 40% of

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them are unemployed.

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But pent up political frustration

is spilling out and much of it has

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been directed at this man,

the supreme leader

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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He is the powerful figurehead

of the Islamic Republic,

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and attacks on his posters will be

seen as attacks

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on the Islamic system.

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He's blaming Iran's foreign enemies.

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TRANSLATION:

Following recent

events, the enemies have united

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and using all their means -

money, weapons, policies

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and security services -

to create problems for

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the Islamic Republic.

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It's not just Ayatollah Khamenei,

the supreme leader,

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who's blaming foreigners.

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Mohammad Khatami, the former

president, who's a reformist,

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says Iranians have the right

to protest, but he blamed Iran's

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enemies, led by the United States,

for inciting people to destroy

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public buildings and to

insult religious values.

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President Obama, in 2009,

was careful not to give the last big

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protest his backing.

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But President Trump has

tweeted his support.

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The people of Iran,

he declared, are finally acting

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against the brutal and corrupt

Iranian regime.

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The Americans are

encouraging the protests.

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But they deny they are behind them.

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We all know that is

complete nonsense.

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The demonstrations are

completely spontaneous.

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They are virtually

in every city in Iran.

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This is the precise picture

of a long oppressed people rising up

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against their dictators.

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The last big protests in Iran

were in 2009, after a disputed

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presidential election.

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Back then, they were defeated

by the power of the state,

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even though they were led by top

politicians and faced a badly

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divided Islamist leadership.

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The new street level protests don't

have national leaders

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and may run out of steam.

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This is not a new Iranian

revolution, though it's clear that

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many Iranians are fed up

with increasing poverty

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and years of repression.

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The fact the protests are happening

at all is very significant for Iran,

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its allies and enemies in a chaotic

part of the world.

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Jeremy Bowen, BBC News.

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Jeremy is here with me.

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How serious are these protests for

the Iranians government?

Very

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serious, you can see by the supreme

leader's reaction that he is very

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concerned. Things are very fluid, it

is unpredictable and chaotic in the

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wider region, so predictions are, in

a way, a mug's game. At these

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protesters do not seem to be

interested in the reform of the

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system, they want something new.

That will scare quite a few

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Iranians. As well as that, they will

draw down upon themselves, if this

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goes on, the coercive power of the

state. They might simply run out of

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steam. In the wider region, if all

feeds into the most dangerous at

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fault lines in the Middle East, the

ones which have Iran and its allies

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on one side, and the US, Saudi

Arabia and Israel on the other. Now,

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if there was three decide they want

to up the pressure on Iran, because

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of the internal crisis going on, it

could result in all kinds of

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unpredictable potential escalations.

That is something which, again, is

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dangerous. Later this month,

President Trump himself has a chance

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to reimpose sanctions on Iran which

were suspended because of the

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nuclear agreement. Now, if he

decides to do that, to try to do

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down an agreement which he has

always said is completely worthless

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and useless, the real risk of war

that existed in the region before

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the agreement was signed would come

snapping back into sharp focus.

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Jeremy Bowen, thank you.

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Hospitals in England have been told

to postpone tens of thousands

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of non-urgent surgery and outpatient

appointments until

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the end of this month.

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NHS chiefs say it's to ease

pressure on services

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after a busy Christmas period.

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It comes as some doctors have been

speaking about the extremely

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difficult conditions at A&E.

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Our health editor Hugh Pym reports.

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There is always great pressure

on the NHS in the New Year.

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Some patients have held off

until after the seasonal holiday.

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But the strains seem

even bigger this year.

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Two Ambulance Services in England,

covering the north-east and east,

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are on the highest state

of operational alert,

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asking families to use their own

transport to bring patients

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into hospital for possible.

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Here in the north-east,

they say they've prepared as much

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as they possibly could.

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It's unprecedented levels of demand

that we're dealing with -

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you know, if I take just the period

from the 23rd of December

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until the 1st of January,

we've seen 30% more calls.

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Now, you know, we do

plan for winter.

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We start planning in the summer,

so we are predicting and forecasting

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activity from historic periods,

but we didn't anticipate

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a 30% increase.

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The trust running Scarborough

and York Hospital said

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there were high numbers of patients,

and staff were under

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considerable pressure.

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One doctor said in his view

it was unprecedented.

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I've worked in a number

of different emergency

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departments around the country,

and that's the worst I've seen.

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I just want to do a good job,

I want to do the best I can

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for the patients that I'm seeing.

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I want to do the best I can, but I'm

not being given the resources

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to do that job properly.

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I feel like I'm fighting

a losing battle.

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I feel like I've already

lost the battle, because

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I can't do any more.

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Twitter carried reports from some

staff at other hospitals.

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An emergency doctor in Stoke said

he personally apologised to local

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people for what he called

Third World conditions

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due to overcrowding.

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NHS England has told hospitals

to postpone all nonurgent operations

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and outpatient appointments til

the end of January, an escalation

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of temporary measures announced

just before Christmas.

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In that time hospitals won't be

penalised for putting

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patients in mixed-sex wards.

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This is a planned response

to a winter that we knew

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was going to be difficult,

and we are managing that

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in the way that we expected,

and we are taking early action.

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We're not waiting to have

to respond to a problem.

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Have you got pain at the moment?

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The authorities in Scotland,

Wales and Northern Ireland

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are saying they are facing higher

demand from patients and more

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pressure on front line services.

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With flu cases on the increase,

the worry now is that the predicted

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outbreak may become a reality.

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Of course, many hospitals are

getting on with implementing plans

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drawn up for just this sort of

winter scenario. They say while they

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are very busy, they are basically

coping. I was at one such hospital

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earlier today and we are told

repeatedly this is always the

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busiest time of the year. The

question is, will be pressures ease

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up in the weeks ahead? The fact that

energetic blend needs its hospitals

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focusing on just emergency care,

even if it means nonurgent work,

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shows that there is concern that

things could get worse before they

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get better.

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A man who killed two previous

partners has today admitted

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to murdering a third.

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Theodore Johnson attacked

Angela Best in north London a year

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ago after they broke up

and she began a relationship

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with someone else.

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The Old Bailey heard he was

an abusive and controlling man.

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He'll be sentenced on Friday.

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Train operators have been defending

the biggest rise in rail

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fares for five years,

insisting that it's necessary

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to address decades

of under investment.

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Average ticket prices across the UK

have gone up by 3.4%.

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Unions say commuters

are being priced off the trains

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as the burden of paying

for the system falls

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increasingly on passengers.

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Here's our transport

correspondent Richard Westcott.

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This report contains flashing

images.

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It's one of the most reliable

things on the railway -

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every January, without fail,

the fares go up.

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This year's rise is especially

steep, the highest in five years.

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This is the busy commuter line,

people coming in from Cambridgeshire

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and Hertfordshire into Londona

and plenty of people on this train

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and Hertfordshire into London

and plenty of people on this train

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are just a few pounds

shy of the £5,000 club.

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£5,000 for an annual season ticket.

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That's gone up by about £600

in the last five years, the price

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rises have been relentless.

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Average fares across

Britain go up by 3.4%.

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Season tickets, which are regulated

by the Government, go up by 3.6%.

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It adds more than £140 to a ticket

between Crewe and Preston.

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If you commute into London

from Swindon, it's now

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£300 more expensive,

and the Glasgow-Edinburgh

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commuter goes up by £136.

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Different parts of the country,

but most people have similar gripes.

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It's pretty disgusting.

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Well, you're not even

guaranteed a seat.

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So, I think it's wrong.

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I travel around Cardiff quite

a lot using the train,

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I find that quite convenient,

and I find it quite

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affordable to do that.

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It compares quite well

with the bus and it compares

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quite well with driving.

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Better service, please,

more trains and there'll be more

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people, wouldn't there?

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They'll get people

off the roads then.

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This is where a lot

of the money is going.

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London Bridge has just had

a £1 billion makeover.

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And there's a whole new line snaking

under the city, Crossrail,

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although critics argue too much

is spent on London.

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The Government says it's

investing record amounts

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to improve the trains,

but it's also changing

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who foots the bill.

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A smaller proportion now

comes from the taxpayer,

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which means more has to come

from ticket sales.

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Well, for every £1 that

a passenger pays in fares,

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97p goes directly into running

and improving the railway.

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But also, with more people

using the railway, that means

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we have more money to invest.

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Campaigners suggest people

are being priced off the trains.

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This graph shows what's been

happening to fares in recent years,

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and here's how it compares

to the average pay packet.

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You can see how ticket prices

often outstrip wages.

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Labour want to

re-nationalise the network.

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If we can continue to make savings

by bringing the railways back

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into public ownership,

stop wasting money on franchising,

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stop wasting money on the complexity

of the arrangements between all

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these different companies,

and we don't pay out dividends

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to state-owned companies

across the Channel.

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They've accused the Transport

Secretary, Chris Grayling,

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of hiding away today.

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He's on an official visit to Qatar,

a trip he's defended.

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And I make no apology for trying

to help win jobs for Britain and I'm

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here because there is a major

contract, multi-billion pound

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investment programme,

taking place in the airport.

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I'm here to try and make sure that

British firms win part of that,

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so we get jobs for Britain.

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Many people have little choice

but to do this every day and little

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choice but to pay the higher fares.

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Richard Westcott, BBC News.

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Winds of up to 90 miles per hour

are expected to hit parts

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of Northern Ireland and northern

England tonight with

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the arrival of Storm Eleanor.

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So far the Atlantic coast

of the Republic of Ireland

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has taken the brunt,

with serious flooding

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in the city of Galway.

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As the storm moves eastwards,

there'll be high winds

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across much of England,

Wales and Northern

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Ireland overnight.

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13 monkeys have been killed

in a fire at Woburn Safari

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Park in Bedfordshire.

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The blaze in one of the enclosures

was spotted by security guards

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during a routine patrol,

but despite efforts to rescue

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the animals, none could be saved.

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The safari park's manager says it

may have been caused

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by a faulty generator.

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Britain's recycling

system is about to be put

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under severe pressure.

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Until now, almost half

of what we recycle every year has

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been sent to China to be

dealt with there.

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But yesterday, China introduced

a ban on recycling many types

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of plastic wastes from abroad

to try to reduce pollution.

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So what will happen now

to all the plastic we throw away?

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Our science editor,

David Shukman, reports.

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Ever wondered what happens

to our recycling?

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Well, great streams of it are sorted

in giant centres like this one

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in south-east London.

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The tins are extracted by magnet

and are sold to food

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and drink manufacturers.

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A vigorous shake separates bottles

from paper and cardboard,

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they're also in demand.

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The machines then try

to pick out the plastic.

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The bags make this much harder.

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But if all this can be sorted,

it can be sold on and the biggest

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market has been China, until now.

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This is the tip of the iceberg of

what we all send off for recycling.

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What the Chinese have done is said

that they're no longer

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going to accept anything that's

difficult to handle.

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So, anything that's dirty or this

kind of thin plastic

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that's hard to recycle.

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In fact, a mix of different

types of plastic.

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This has sent shock waves

through the recycling industry.

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Already huge bundles of recycling

turned down by China

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are piling up in Hong Kong,

and mountains of unwanted plastic

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waste may build up in Britain.

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I think it's a game

change for the UK.

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I think for the last two decades,

at least, all our collection systems

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have been geared up to having

the Chinese market.

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China take virtually half

of everything that we produce

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in terms of paper and plastics

in the UK.

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So what'll happen?

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Well, there's now a rush

to try to sell the stuff to India

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and other countries,

but there's a limit

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to what they'll take.

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Another option is to

burn the plastic here.

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Most incinerators generate

electricity, so this

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wouldn't be a total waste.

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But the greenest solution is to turn

plastic into the raw material

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to make new plastic objects,

like milk containers,

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and we may see more of this.

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We've made incredible progress

in terms of recycling in this

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country, but we're stalling now

and the Chinese ban to import bad

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quality may be a great incentive

and the best chance ever

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for this country.

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It takes a human eye to pick out

what the machines miss.

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Householders are often confused.

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Most thin plastic film

can't be used again.

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Different councils have their own

rules and few products are designed

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with recycling in mind.

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There is now pressure for all that

to change, and China's ban may

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actually encourage that.

0:18:110:18:12

David Shukman, BBC News.

0:18:120:18:21

Police investigating the death

of a woman in North London over

0:18:210:18:24

the Christmas period have charged

a 31 year old man with murder.

0:18:240:18:27

Kasim Lewis will appear

in court tomorrow.

0:18:270:18:37

The body of juliana Tudo,

who was 22 and worked in a pub,

0:18:390:18:43

was discovered in Finsbury Park last

Wednesday.

0:18:430:18:44

She had disappeared

while walking home in north

0:18:440:18:46

London on Christmas Eve.

0:18:460:18:56

The former England footballer,

Trevor Sinclair, has admitted

0:18:560:18:58

racially abusing a policeman who'd

arrested him for drink-driving.

0:18:580:19:05

Sinclair - here in the grey suit -

0:19:050:19:11

was sentenced to 150

hours' community service

0:19:110:19:13

at Blackpool Magistrates Court.

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He's been banned from

driving for 20 months.

0:19:140:19:16

Scientists in Oxford have

developed a system which can

0:19:160:19:18

diagnose some diseases more

accurately than doctors.

0:19:180:19:20

It uses Artificial Intelligence

to analyse scans and in clinical

0:19:200:19:22

trials it outperformed human

specialists for lung cancer

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and coronary heart disease.

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The technique could save

the NHS billions of pounds

0:19:250:19:27

through early diagnosis.

0:19:270:19:28

Here's our science

correspondent, Pallab Ghosh.

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Scans are modern medical miracles,

but they still need a doctor to make

0:19:300:19:33

a diagnosis, until now.

0:19:330:19:34

Scientists have developed artificial

intelligence, or AI systems,

0:19:340:19:36

to do the job better

than the best doctors.

0:19:360:19:38

The Government's health care tsar

says that AI systems are set

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to revolutionise medicine.

0:19:410:19:42

20 years from now, health care

will have AI embedded in a whole

0:19:420:19:45

variety of different levels and much

of the health care system will be

0:19:450:19:48

enabled by smart systems that help

you identify people at risk,

0:19:480:19:51

diagnose disease earlier,

diagnose disease more precisely

0:19:510:19:52

and identify who will benefit

from what interventions.

0:19:520:19:54

It changes the whole way

the paradigm operates.

0:19:540:19:58

This is Ultromics, the world's

first cyber cardiologist.

0:19:580:20:04

Developed at the John

Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford,

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it's an AI system that can

analyse heart scans.

0:20:080:20:11

Here, Ultromics has identified areas

of heart disease, shown in red.

0:20:110:20:17

It then gives a recommendation -

positive, which means that it

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believes there's a risk

of the patient having

0:20:220:20:23

a heart attack.

0:20:230:20:28

Doctors get one in five

of their diagnoses wrong,

0:20:280:20:31

the artificial intelligence system

does much better.

0:20:310:20:34

So how much could hospitals

save using the new system?

0:20:340:20:38

12,000 heart scans alone

are misdiagnosed each year,

0:20:380:20:41

that costs the NHS £600 million.

0:20:410:20:45

Because artificial intelligence

is more accurate, it

0:20:450:20:48

could save £300 million,

and that's just the start.

0:20:480:20:50

AI can be used to diagnose

many other conditions.

0:20:500:20:56

The software tells us the risk

of it being cancerous.

0:20:560:20:58

So we can just click on it and it

tells us the risk is 14%.

0:20:580:21:05

This system looks for early

signs of lung cancer,

0:21:050:21:07

it can rule out harmless cases

several months earlier

0:21:070:21:09

than human doctors.

0:21:090:21:11

It can save the NHS money

and patients a lot of anxiety.

0:21:110:21:15

What we have developed is software

that will help us decide

0:21:150:21:21

whether the patient has a nodule

that we need to follow up

0:21:210:21:26

or is likely to be cancer or is one

we don't need to follow up,

0:21:260:21:29

and then we can

discharge the patient.

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Britain leads the world in AI

and the systems currently

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being developed will be available

for free to NHS

0:21:340:21:36

hospitals next summer.

0:21:360:21:37

Pallab Ghosh, BBC News, Oxford.

0:21:370:21:42

More than 7,000 extra grammar school

places have been created

0:21:420:21:46

in England since 2010,

according to new

0:21:460:21:48

analysis by the BBC.

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That's the equivalent to opening

around 11 new grammar schools.

0:21:510:21:58

In many areas, the schools have

added the new places in areas

0:21:580:22:01

where there's no demand for more.

0:22:010:22:02

Our education editor,

Branwen Jeffreys, reports.

0:22:020:22:04

The Cotswolds, a landscape

shaped by tradition,

0:22:040:22:08

home to some of the oldest grammar

schools in England, schools close

0:22:080:22:14

to the village where Henry

and Florence have grown up.

0:22:140:22:19

They're both now at grammar schools

after passing an academic test.

0:22:190:22:26

Their mum, Ruth, is pleased

more grammar school

0:22:260:22:28

places have been created.

0:22:280:22:29

It's a consumer society,

so if parental demand is there,

0:22:290:22:32

and there are children that

want to go, and I do think

0:22:320:22:36

it's harder for children

to get good results,

0:22:360:22:38

get to university and get a job.

0:22:380:22:40

So anything we do to help them

seems to me a no-brainer.

0:22:400:22:42

Was their anxiety here

about the number of grammar school

0:22:420:22:45

places that were available?

0:22:450:22:49

We are competing with children

coming up from Swindon,

0:22:490:22:56

and Wiltshire and Bristol,

and some people are even relocating.

0:22:560:22:58

You know, they're doing the test

and then they're moving from another

0:22:580:23:01

part of the country.

0:23:010:23:02

Which is fair, I suppose.

0:23:020:23:03

But another part of me thinks it's

unfair, because it's five

0:23:030:23:06

miles from where we live.

0:23:060:23:07

Every grammar school

in Gloucestershire has added more

0:23:070:23:09

places, even though the number

of 11-year-olds

0:23:090:23:11

hasn't been going up.

0:23:110:23:12

Grammar schools can

expand because they're

0:23:120:23:14

so popular with parents.

0:23:140:23:19

After all, they only take

the children who are already

0:23:190:23:21

doing well at school.

0:23:210:23:25

But that also means the larger

they grow, the greater their effect

0:23:250:23:28

on other neighbouring schools,

and some fear that could

0:23:280:23:30

reach a tipping point.

0:23:300:23:34

In many parts of England,

grammar school places have increased

0:23:340:23:36

faster than pupil numbers.

0:23:360:23:40

In 2010, there were just

over 110,000 pupils aged

0:23:400:23:43

11-15 in grammar schools.

0:23:430:23:48

By 2017, that had reached 118,000,

the equivalent of 11

0:23:480:23:51

new grammar schools.

0:23:510:23:55

This risks a knock

on impact on other schools.

0:23:550:24:00

Results are above average at this

secondary in Warwickshire,

0:24:000:24:04

but both the nearby grammar schools

have added lots of extra places.

0:24:040:24:10

With the places, they take a bigger

share of local pupils and the cash

0:24:100:24:13

that follows them through school.

0:24:130:24:14

Over five years with a backfill,

it would be, let's say,

0:24:140:24:17

£600,000 that is brought

in by adding an additional class.

0:24:170:24:21

And that's a tension,

regardless of what the school is.

0:24:210:24:25

It may be selective,

it may be non-selective.

0:24:250:24:29

To offer enough subjects

in their sixth form,

0:24:290:24:32

they need enough cash

and pupils coming through.

0:24:320:24:36

But here, and other places

where grammar schools are expanding,

0:24:360:24:38

the competition is getting tougher.

0:24:380:24:39

Branwen Jeffreys, BBC News.

0:24:390:24:49

You can read more about

that story, including

0:24:550:25:02

in your area on our website,

that's at bbc.co.uk/news/education.

0:25:020:25:04

The Chinese government has set

itself an extraordinary target,

0:25:040:25:06

it says it will lift 43 million

people out of extreme poverty

0:25:060:25:09

in just three years.

0:25:090:25:10

The country's President, Xi Jinping,

says he recognises the pressing

0:25:100:25:13

political need to close the gap

between China's urban rich

0:25:130:25:15

and some of its desperately

poor rural communities.

0:25:150:25:17

But some of the obstacles

facing remote communities

0:25:170:25:19

will be challenging.

0:25:190:25:21

Our Beijing correspondent,

John Sudworth, reports.

0:25:210:25:24

It's best not to look down.

0:25:240:25:34

Step-by-step and heavily laden,

this is the only way

0:25:340:25:36

to the village at the top.

0:25:360:25:39

But the two-hour, 800-metre

climb is easier and safer

0:25:390:25:42

than it used to be.

0:25:420:25:49

The old, home-made wooden ladder -

still visible here and there -

0:25:490:25:52

has been replaced with a spectacular

series of steel ladders.

0:25:520:26:00

Remote mountain communities

like these, languishing so far

0:26:000:26:03

behind China's big cities,

now find themselves

0:26:030:26:06

on the front line of a massive

anti-poverty campaign.

0:26:060:26:11

The improved access to this clifftop

village has won praise from none

0:26:110:26:14

other than China's President,

Xi Jinping.

0:26:140:26:24

But life here remains tough.

0:26:260:26:27

While President Xi may be promising

to lift 43 million people out

0:26:270:26:30

of this kind of extreme poverty,

not everyone's convinced.

0:26:300:26:36

TRANSLATION:

We have no income.

We are poor.

0:26:360:26:40

We grow corn and potatoes,

nothing else.

0:26:400:26:44

The government says that it wants

to wipe out poverty in the next

0:26:440:26:47

three years in China.

0:26:470:26:49

Do you think it's possible?

0:26:490:26:50

TRANSLATION:

I don't

really think so.

0:26:500:26:52

China has a more radical

solution, though.

0:26:520:26:59

In the past 12 months alone,

more than 3 million of China's

0:26:590:27:04

poorest people have been relocated

to new homes.

0:27:040:27:10

A smiling President Xi looks down

on the new schoolrooms.

0:27:100:27:16

This family has now left its remote

mountain village for good.

0:27:160:27:19

You no longer have the open

fire, you no longer live

0:27:190:27:23

close to your animals.

0:27:230:27:28

Do you miss those things,

those traditions?

0:27:280:27:31

TRANSLATION:

We don't

miss the old way of life

0:27:310:27:35

or the unhygienic things,

like having a pigsty

0:27:350:27:38

right at the door.

0:27:380:27:41

Meanwhile, the anti-poverty

slogans are everywhere.

0:27:410:27:43

Even the new ladder

is a national news story.

0:27:430:27:48

This is poverty as propaganda.

0:27:480:27:53

It's an issue that's now dominating

the domestic news agenda,

0:27:530:27:55

and it's driven by the vision

of just one man.

0:27:550:27:59

President Xi Jinping

knows that the continued

0:27:590:28:02

existence of serious,

widespread poverty represents

0:28:020:28:07

a threat to the very legitimacy

of a Communist Party that came

0:28:070:28:10

to power promising to help

communities like these,

0:28:100:28:13

not leave them behind.

0:28:130:28:17

Even if China can help

all those living below

0:28:170:28:22

the extreme poverty line,

tens of millions more will be left

0:28:220:28:25

languishing just above it.

0:28:250:28:29

But while there are many challenges,

no one can doubt the sheer scale

0:28:290:28:32

of China's ambition.

0:28:320:28:34

John Sudworth, BBC News,

Sichuan Province.

0:28:340:28:44

This time last year he was working

as an electrician, but last night

0:28:440:28:47

Rob Cross caused a sensation

in the world of darts

0:28:470:28:49

when he was crowned world champion.

0:28:490:28:51

The 27-year-old beat the 16-time

winner Phil Taylor to the title

0:28:510:28:53

at Alexandra Palace,

as well as pocketing

0:28:530:28:55

£400,000 in prize money.

0:28:550:29:03

Rob Cross - the first

debutant to become world

0:29:030:29:05

champion in 10 years -

says he still can't quite

0:29:050:29:08

take in what's happened.

0:29:080:29:09

Natalie Pirks reports.

0:29:090:29:10

This time last year,

he was watching the final on TV.

0:29:100:29:13

COMMENTATOR:

Rob Cross!

0:29:130:29:14

When Rob Cross sealed victory,

it was clear this wouldn't

0:29:140:29:17

sink in for a while.

0:29:170:29:20

He'd not only become £400,000

richer, he'd beaten the greatest

0:29:200:29:23

darts player of all time to be

crowned world champion.

0:29:230:29:26

Even today, he was struggling

with the magnitude of his win.

0:29:260:29:29

It all feels very surreal.

0:29:290:29:30

It's like I need to pinch

myself or something,

0:29:300:29:34

because I couldn't have

wrote my year any better, really.

0:29:340:29:38

It's been a bit like a fairy tale.

0:29:380:29:41

You might not associate the game

of darts with fairy tales,

0:29:410:29:44

yet Cross was an unknown electrician

until the start of 2017.

0:29:440:29:49

Last year, his winnings included £7

picked up in a pub tournament.

0:29:490:29:53

The rise from anonymity

to acclaim has been dizzying.

0:29:530:29:58

I would say that anyone

what believes they can play the game

0:29:580:30:00

and sort of aspires to it,

then go and have a go

0:30:000:30:06

because you never know

what's going to happen.

0:30:060:30:08

If you thought darts

was just a pub game,

0:30:080:30:10

you might be shocked to hear

what the future holds

0:30:100:30:13

for a world champion.

0:30:130:30:14

It's difficult to put

a number on it.

0:30:140:30:19

I would think the value of winning

the World Championships in today's

0:30:190:30:23

market would be a minimum

of £5 million and possibly

0:30:230:30:25

£10 million or possibly more.

0:30:250:30:28

No one can take away that he's won

the World Darts Championships,

0:30:280:30:32

and that has ramifications

financially which will

0:30:320:30:34

safeguard him and his family

for the rest of their life.

0:30:340:30:37

And he has potentially

decades left in the sport,

0:30:370:30:39

unlike his opponent.

0:30:390:30:42

Phil Taylor won his first of 16

world titles in 1990,

0:30:420:30:46

the year Cross was born.

0:30:460:30:48

Nicknamed 'The Power',

last night was his last

0:30:480:30:50

ever professional match.

0:30:500:30:53

He will go down as the best

the game has ever seen.

0:30:530:30:55

You're never going to see

another Phil Taylor in any

0:30:550:30:58

sport, I don't believe.

0:30:580:30:59

I don't think someone can

dominate their sport

0:30:590:31:01

for that amount of time.

0:31:010:31:04

So it's probably the coming of me

but, at the same time,

0:31:040:31:07

we were saying farewell to a legend.

0:31:070:31:09

To shout in his face

at the end and do all that,

0:31:090:31:12

I wasn't willing to do that.

0:31:120:31:13

I've got too much respect

for him in that way.

0:31:130:31:23

Cross now has set his sights

on becoming world number one.

0:31:230:31:25

When your year starts as well as

this, anything is possible.

0:31:250:31:28

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