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A new salvo from Britain towards

Russia, the Foreign Secretary says

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Russia has been making and

stockpiling nerve agents.

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Two weeks after the Salisbury

poisoning - the government believes

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Russia's interest in the deadly

substances was for the purpose

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of assassination.

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From Moscow Vladimir Putin has

dismissed the allegations -

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as the presidential election

gives him another

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six years in office.

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With international chemical weapons

experts due to arrive in the UK -

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we'll have the latest.

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Also tonight.

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A breakthrough in the treatment

of Multiple Sclerosis

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after a medical trial involving

stem cell transplants.

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A Sunday whiteout as driving snow,

biting winds and ice

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much of the country.

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And the million dollar teacher from

London who has scooped up a global

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award.

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Good evening.

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The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

has accused Russia of making

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and stockpiling the nerve agents

known as Novichok,

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used in the Salisbury

poisoning two weeks ago.

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Sergei Skripal and his daughter

remain critically ill,

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but today President Putin said

it was nonsense to say that

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Russia was responsible.

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We'll hear from our

Moscow correspondent

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Steve Rosenberg in a moment -

but first our Diplomatic

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Correspondent James Robbins.

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Whatever their whether the

decontamination work in Salisbury

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goes on. Two weeks after the

chemical attack on circus ago and

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his daughter Yulia it is clear that

one focus of the inquiry is in BMW

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with suggestions that the agent

might have been placed there to

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ensure that the occupants were

poisoned. A team of international

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chemical weapons experts from the

global body which polices their

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prohibition arrives in Salisbury

tomorrow. They will begin a further

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independent investigation. Today the

Foreign Secretary went further than

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ever, blaming Russia and lifting the

veil a little on secret

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intelligence. Boris Johnson says it

shows Russia has been making nerve

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agent within the past decade.

We had

evidence within the last ten years

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that Russia has not only been

investigating the delivery of nerve

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agents for the purposes of

assassination but has also been

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creating and stockpiling Novichok.

The Foreign Secretary also dismissed

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and derided a suggestion from one of

Russia's most senior diplomats that

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the nerve agent used in Salisbury

could have come from Britain's own

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military research facility at Porton

down.

Porton down as we know or know

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is the largest military facility in

the alighted kingdom that has been

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dealing with chemicals weapons

research. And it's only eight miles

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from Salisbury.

You are not

suggesting that Porton down is

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responsible for business agent?

I

don't know.

But Theresa May's

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government got solid support from

the Labour Shadow Chancellor after

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criticism of Jeremy Corbyn is more

questioning approach.

Putin has

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questions to answer because this is

likely it could be a state

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execution. But in this country we

don't leap to conclusions about the

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evidence.

As the investigation goes

on in the next days the government

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will focus on broadening

international backing from Britain's

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stance. On Tuesday ministers on the

international Security Council would

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discuss whether to launch a second

round of measures against Moscow at

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the risk of an endless tit-for-tat.

Whatever precisely happened in

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Salisbury,

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one consequence is that Russia's

international reputation,

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international reputation,

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already very fragile,

does seem to have been

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weakened still further.

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Britain is having little trouble

gathering in strong messages

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of support from overseas,

although action against Russia

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is harder to mobilise.

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But Vladimir Putin shows no sign

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of changing course.

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James, thank you.

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This evening President Putin said

claims that his country was behind

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the Skripal poisoning

were 'nonsense' but that Russia will

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work with the UK.

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He was speaking after winning

another term in office

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in the presidential election.

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Steve Rosenberg has

the latest from Moscow.

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He has been centrestage in Russia

for the last 18 years. Tonight by

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the Kremlin Vladimir Putin thanked

his people for re-electing him their

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president. We are destined to

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president. We are destined to

succeed, he said. Russia, Russia,

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they chanted. But imputing's fourth

term are Russia and the West

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destined for a cold war. Later the

president dismissed accusations that

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he was behind the nerve agent attack

in Salisbury.

It is rubbish, drivel,

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nonsense to think Russia would do

something like that head of a

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presidential election and the World

Cup.

Is pitched to voters had been,

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stick with me and Russia will be

strong. And many Russians believe

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that.

He's a genius commissioners.

Putin wants Russia to prosper and

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Russians to live in happiness. It is

thanks to Putin, she says, that

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Russia still exists. But critics of

the Kremlin say the election was

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fixed, that only those candidates

who stood no chance of unseating

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Putin were allowed to run.

The

problem is there's no such things

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Russian politics. Politics. Politics

has been eliminated in a show

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together. There's only one political

institution in Russia, the physical

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body of Vladimir Putin.

Which was

white Vladimir Putin was always

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going to win this fight. This

election wasn't about choosing a new

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president, it was about reappointing

the old one. And although many

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Russians to support Putin crucially

it is the political system that he

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has built in Russia that guarantees

him a landslide win. But these

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images are embarrassing, caught on

CCTV woman stuffs a ballot box near

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Moscow. Suddenly two of them are at

it and giving the vote count in

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Siberia balloons are moved to cover

the camera. Election officials say

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they will investigate but the

results will not change. Neither

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will the name of Russia's president.

Steve Rosenberg BBC News Moscow.

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As the government here blames

Russia for stockpiling

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Novichok nerve agents,

a group of international chemical

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weapons experts is due

to arrive in the UK tomorrow

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Our Security Correspondent Gordon

Corera is at the Foreign Office now.

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Gordon - what was behind

that assessment from

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the Foreign Secretary today.

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Today Boris Johnson deliberately

revealed a piece of sensitive

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intelligence, the claim that Russia

has been stockpiling, creating

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Novichok and looking at using it for

assassinations. Why did he do that?

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Because there's a battle going on

over information and the

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credibility. British officials

believe that the Kremlin 's plan

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will be to muddy the waters and

create confusion, pointing to

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including comments from the Russian

ambassador to the EU today,

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suggesting that perhaps Porton down

had created the Novichok and for

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some reason relisted in its own

backyard. The British government is

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trying to put the Russians on the

back foot by asserting that they are

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in contravention of the chemical

weapons Convention by having this

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secret chemical warfare chemical

assassination programme at some

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point in the last ten years. We will

get that independent inspection

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coming from the OPC W but it's

likely to be the next battle ground

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over credibility. They will look at

samples, perhaps blood samples from

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the victims, and whatever their

conclusions, they may be clear, they

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may be disputed, questions may be

asked about whether the results were

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tampered with, that will be the next

battle ground of the credibility.

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Gordon, at the Foreign Office, thank

you.

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Scientists say they've achieved

a breakthrough in the treatment

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of Multiple Sclerosis,

after the results of

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an international trial involving

stem cell transplants.

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Doctors in Sheffield

were part of the study,

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which showed an improvement

in symptoms and the progress of

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the neurological condition halted.

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Around 100,000 people

in the UK are affected by MS,

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as our medical correspondent

Fergus Walsh explains.

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So nice to finally get out. It feels

like my diagnosis was just a bad

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dream.

Before the transplant, Louise

Willetts from Rotherham had severe

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relapses, attacks of multiple

sclerosis. At one point she was in a

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wheelchair. It also affected her

mind. She struggled to read and

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follow conversations. Now she's

completely well and has a newborn

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daughter as well.

It does feel like

a miracle, I must have to pinch

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myself and ask if it is real, has it

gone will it ever come back. I don't

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live in fear any more. I live every

day the wake I want to rather than

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around my MS.

MS is caused by a

faulty immune system attacking the

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brain and spinal-cord. Symptoms

include balance and muscle problems,

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fatigue and loss of vision. Panorama

followed Louise 's treatment.

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Originally developed for cancer

patients. A high dose of

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chemotherapy was given to knock out

her immune system. Then these

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healthy stem cells taken from

Louise's blood and bone marrow were

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infused. Not affected by MS, the

stem cells rebuild her immune

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system. Now more than two years on,

she is back at Sheffield 's Royal

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Hallamshire Hospital for a checkup.

Hi Louise, thank you for coming.

The

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M R I shows there is no active

disease in her brain.

I'm delighted

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that this has been so successful,

this is really good news.

It is, I'm

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delighted as well.

Results from a

trial of over 100 MS patients show

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that in the half given the stem cell

transplant there was only one

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relapse after one year, compared to

39 among those given standard drug

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treatment. Transplant patients were

ten times less likely to see their

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treatment fail after three years and

their level of disability reduced.

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The results of this trial are simply

stunning. It should mean that many

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more MS patients are offered a stem

cell transplant with the hope of

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stopping their disease in its

tracks. This is a game changer. It

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can fundamentally alter the course

of patients with MS who have got

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resistant disabling disease. The

stem cell transplant involves a

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one-off cost of £30,000. No more

expensive than the yearly fee for

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some drugs. It is not suitable for

all MS patients but the life

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changing results with Louise and

others are plain to see.

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Ferguson is here, extraordinary

salt, has much people with MS

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benefit from this?

It will take time

to scale as up and train the teams,

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three trusts, Sheffield, kings and

Imperial offering this. 150 MS

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patients in the UK have had it, more

than any other country in the above

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except for Sweden and Italy but is

only scratching the surface. Many

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neurologists have been sceptical and

they've been waiting over a decade

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for the results of this trial we are

reporting tonight. The results are

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convincing but the beauty of the

treatment is, it is the patient

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healing themselves. Their stem

cells, no need for a donor. And

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those cells are resetting the

patient's immune system to the point

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before they had amassed. It is a

gruelling procedure involving

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chemotherapy and not suitable for

patients with advanced disease that

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it is delivering life changing

results.

Fergus Walsh, thank you.

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Much of the UK has been in the midst

of a second significant

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snowfall of the winter.

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For many areas it's been combined

with bitterly cold winds,

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bringing misery to those who've been

travelling this weekend.

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Sarah Ransome reports.

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Snowstorms and snowdrifts, has seen

many people woke up to this morning.

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Strong winds causing blizzard

conditions, making driving

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treacherous. In the north-west, snow

gates on the a 66 remained closed

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between County Durham and Cumbria,

and just getting outside the front

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door in Newcastle was no mean feat.

I've been here for quarter of an

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hour, I've done a quarter of road so

I'm making headway.

Delays at

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Newbury as trains were stopped,

railway stations across the country

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have also seen delays and

cancellations. In Gloucester

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sporting fixtures like the Anglo

Welsh cup final were called off

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because snow stopped play. And as

the heaviest snowfall hit the

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south-west Bristol Airport stopped

flights of Exeter Airport cancelling

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flights for most of the day. The

snow showed no sign of giving up in

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Devon and know neither did those

keeping traffic moving. While

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snowploughs and bridges cleared

major roads some drivers got stuck

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and there were problems on the M5

and A roads, motorists seemingly

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ignoring repeated appeals not to go

out to unless it is essential.

When

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people ignore those warnings it does

get frustrating because the already

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stretched resources we have become

even more stretched to rescue and

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recover people who have no reason to

be out in this weather.

It was not

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all doom and gloom as the so-called

mini beast from the East swept

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through. Another snow day play date

beckoned. But there's an amber

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warning in place across the

south-west until the early hours of

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tomorrow morning with ice a major

risk.

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The amber warning is still in place,

it is still snowing and the prospect

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of more snow and ice overnight.

Emergency services say, please heed

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advice, check your travel

arrangements to check where you need

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to go safely if in fact you need to

get there at all and if you have

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children of school age you might

want to check that their school is

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open, hundreds of schools across

Devon and parts of Wales have

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already said they are not opening

tomorrow so for some it is another

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snow day. Sarah Ransom, thank you.

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In Syria President Assad has visited

eastern Ghouta a former rebel held

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area near Damascus, state TV showed

him surrounded by soldiers and

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civilians after a month-long

government bombardment. Syrian

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forces are thought to control some

80% of Eastern Ghouta with thousands

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more civilians fleeing the area

today.

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Facebook has announced an

investigation into whether the

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personal details of 50 million of

its users have been compromised. It

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has already suspended data from

Cambridge Ghouta known for its work

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on the Trump election campaign after

reports it inappropriately obtained

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user data. Both companies deny

wrongdoing. Let's join our media

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editor in New York.

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The revelation that tens of millions

of Facebook users have had their

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personal data harvested like this

has caused dismay on both sides of

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the Atlantic and may have profound

implications. But Facebook and

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Cambridge Ghouta deny wrongdoing and

said they haven't broken the law. It

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could be just that that causes alarm

because there are at least three

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layers to the story. First fully

what and when, the Cambridge

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Analytica whistle-blower Chris Wylie

has given an account that has

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blatant inconsistencies with the

account given by Cambridge Ghouta

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and Facebook. The second issue is

public safety, we live in a time

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when a few firms have become wealthy

by amassing troops of personal data

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and consumers need to realise that

every time they go online David and

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digital footprint and individuals,

companies and governments can use

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that data to do things they might

not like. The third layer is the

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politics. We have to regulators in

Britain looking at whether Cambridge

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Analytica was involved in the Brexit

referendum. In America the questions

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about their role in the Trump

election. If it is proven as

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Cambridge Analytica claim that they

use psychological profiling to

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influence voters, if that is to

perhaps the fragility of Western

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democracy owes as much to our online

habits as our offline once. Thank

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you.

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Now time for the sports news. The

semifinals of the FA Cup will see

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Manchester United play Spurs and

Chelsea face Southampton, both games

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at Wembley. The draw for the final

four was made after Chelsea beat

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Leicester City 2-1 while Southampton

knocked League 1 side Wigan athletic

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out of the competition. Holly

Hamilton reports. For Antonio Conte

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the FA Cup hasn't always been a

priority but out of Europe and

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outside the Premier League top four

silverware would be a silver lining.

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Chelsea took the lead just before

half-time, Morata claiming his first

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goal of 2018. After the break

Leicester searched for an equaliser,

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four tries in three seconds, Jamie

Vardy eventually scoring. Into extra

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time and as the mercury dropped,

temperatures rose. A questionable

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decision by Kasper Schmeichel gifted

Pedro and empty net and Chelsea a

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place in the semifinals. In Wigan

the first test for new Southampton

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manager Mark Hughes. While the

League 1 side dominated the first

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half the visitors capitalised on

their chances. With the clock

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ticking and the Saints set to march

on to Wembley they made sure,

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doubling their lead and ceiling

Southampton's first FA Cup semifinal

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in 15 years. Great Britain has won

its first and only God medal of the

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Winter Paralympics on the last day

of the games, Menna Fitzpatrick and

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her guide Jen Kehoe got the visually

impaired slalom gold so the British

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team has met its target. Kate Gray

reports from Pyeongchang. It was the

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golden moment they had been waiting

for. Menna Fitzpatrick and her guide

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Jen Kehoe saved their best for last

to take gold in the slalom on the

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final day of the games. They were in

silver medal position going into

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their second run and displayed a

perfect performance, the time it was

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unbeatable. COMMENTATOR: She's in

front. Their fourth medal in

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Pyeongchang to become Britain's most

successful Winter Paralympians.

It

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has been absolutely astonishing, the

way this week has gone from quite

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low to extremely high.

Further

success as merely knight and her

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guide bred wild took the bronze in

the same race which meant

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ParalympicsGB have reached their

target of seven medals. Or dependent

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however on one sport, one

classification and a small number of

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athletes. So the games due to a

fitting close with Britain's golden

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girls carrying the flag. And the

International Paralympic Committee

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could also celebrate with more

nations taking part than ever and a

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record number of tickets sold. They

now call these games the greatest

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Winter Paralympics to date. Kate

Gray BBC News Pyeongchang. In the

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last few minutes Rory McIlroy has

won we Arnold Palmer Invitational.

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His first title victory since 2016.

He won the tournament in Florida by

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three strokes by the final round of

64, the Masters was the only major

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he hasn't won will be less than two

weeks ago -- the Masters, the only

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major tournament he hasn't one is in

less than three weeks. More

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information on the BBC sport

website. Thank you. An art teacher

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from London has won a million-dollar

prize recognising an outstanding

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contribution to the teaching

profession. She works in a school

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with a high proportion of individual

pupils. We watched the ceremony in

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Dubai. The big secret, who is the

best teacher.

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Ghouta! An art teacher from Brent in

London Ghouta was centre stage as

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winner of the global teacher price.

Good morning girls.

Working in a

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deprived inner-city community she

was praised the going the extra mile

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to build links between school and

parents and structuring activities

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around students's individual needs.

To all the students all over the

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world I say whatever your

circumstances, whatever your

0:22:290:22:32

troubles, please know that you have

the potential to succeed in whatever

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your dreams maybe. And that is a

right that nobody should take from

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you.

Ghouta ending that report in

Dubai. That's it from

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