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Rebel forces in Libya pile the pressure Colonel Gaddafi's regime.

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Opposition fighters are just a few miles from the capital, Tripoli. We

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report from the front line. Very, very fire coming over the top of

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our head tos. Having had an easy ride early on, now the rebels seem

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to have met some proper resistance. As rebels vow to continue their

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advance on the capital, the Libyan government says it will fight to

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defend Tripoli. We know that people commit even scared in their houses

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at this very moment, they do not want us to give up, because giving

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up means that such gangs will control the country.

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All RAF Hawk aircraft are grounded as tributes are paid to the Red

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Arrows pilot killed in yesterday's crash in Dorset.

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And England need seven more wickets to secure a series white-wash

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Good evening. The Libyan government has vowed to fight until the end as

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it tries to halt a rebel advance on Tripoli. Gun battles have erupted

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in several parts of the capital over the past 24 hours. Today,

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rebels are closing in on Tripoli From the east, after taking control

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of Zlitan. And from the west, after taking Zawiya. This morning the

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main rebel forces got within 17 miles of Tripoli and clashed with

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pro-Gaddafi forces. They were then forced back a few miles, where the

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front line is now. Our correspondent has been on the front

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line and reports from Zawiya. There is no doubt where these

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rebels think they are going. To Tripoli. On the road ahead,

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discarded uniforms from Gaddafi soldiers who had fled minutes

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before. Hundreds of rebels are now on the march towards the capital

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and they believe the end is now close. Six months ago, these were

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students and electricians, even dentists. Now they are united by

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one thing. Today, Tripoli! How do you feel? Every happy, my friend.

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Because we are going to take his BEEP out of his... Wherever he is...

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In this small town we meet incoming sniper fire. But the rebels keep

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moving forward. As they advance, the flags are changed. Now just 30

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kilometres from Tripoli, we enter another small town. The rebels are

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welcomed as liberators. Libya! Libya! Libby yet!

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kilometre exactly from his place! We are going there! We will be

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there in 20 minutes! OK! Freedom! Yeah! But the optimism is misplaced.

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Suddenly everyone is running for cover, bullets flying overhead.

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GUNFIRE. We have just come down the road a bit further towards Tripoli.

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You can hear above me, the incoming sniper fire, very heavy, over the

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top of our heads. Having had a relatively easy ride early on, the

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rebels now seem to have met some proper resistants.

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GUNFIRE. The rebels are taking casualties

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and it is time for us to leave. Panic turns to chaos.

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Go, go! Drive! Go, go!

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The rebels are now in full retreat. As they fall back, the prospect of

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making it to Tripoli by night or evaporate. The fight for the

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capital will be harder than they thought.

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The Libyan government has remained defiant in the face of the rebel

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advances. A spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, has called for an

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immediate ceasefire, warning of bloodshed on the streets if the

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rebels continued. This report from Tripoli.

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The rebels called in zero hour. The dawn of Libya, they chanted, as

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they moved off, taking the fight to Colonel Gaddafi's forces. We cannot

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verify this footage but we know that in places across the Libyan

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capital, there has been fierce fighting between both sides.

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Colonel Gaddafi spoke on state television as the fighting

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continued. He told them the rats, his term for the rebels, had been

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eliminated. I know you are happy, he told his supporters.

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On state television, the presenter said she would shoot any rebels who

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tried to take over the station. But at a press conference with the

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Government Information Minister, the tone was less defined. --

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defiant. We are here to, sincerely, as always, appealed for an

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immediate ceasefire... An immediate halt of NATO's aggression against

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our mission. The last time we saw Colonel Gaddafi was months ago. The

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pressure is increasing on him. Today the Foreign Office said NATO

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jets had played as significant role in the last 24 hours. Its mandate

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is to protect civilians but it is clear, without NATO's help, the

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rebels would not be as strong as they are on now. The fighting in

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Tripoli has been going on throughout the day. There has just

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been another sustained burst of gunfire and a large explosion. A

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senior government source has told me there of 65,000 professional

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soldiers ready to defend the city and he also told me the tribes are

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beginning to defend their own in Tripoli itself. He predicted all-

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out tribal warfare, and massacred even, if the rebels arrive. Around

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this city, the rebels have been marching towards Tripoli. There are

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reports they have managed to take over a major military base to the

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west of here, home to one of the best trained units in Libya. The

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government is losing its grip on power but what comes next may not

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be this mood regime changed the West would like to see. -- this

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move regime change. Let's go live to our correspondent

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in his rata. The rebels do seem to have the upper hand, can we say? --

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in his Misrata. On the eastern front, we have not

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seen advances today. We went back to the town of Zlitan, the rebels

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took that on Friday. They have not managed to push much beyond it

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because they are still facing resistance and even at the edge of

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town, there were exchanges of fire taking place and the rebels were

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still catching Gaddafi loyalists there. They showed us a carload of

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prisoners who they said were mercenaries from Chad who had just

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been taken and one of the men was pleading not to be beaten. The

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rebels reassuring him that nobody would hurt him. The fight as we

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spoke to said they were very anxious to get to Tripoli -- the

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fighters. If that they wanted to support their brothers in arms, as

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they called them, and they said they had given them a tremendous

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morale-booster and rebel officials are telling us the orders have been

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given, that the men have been told to go forward, but they also say

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that progress will depend on resistance and there is a fair

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amount of territory to recover, almost 100 miles between Zlitan and

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Tripoli, but the rebels are saying there is no shortage of fighters

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and they are leaving putting together a new unit of volunteers

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from Zlitan who want to go to the capital and if they they have

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received fresh ammunition in the last few days. There was also a

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claim today that the rebels have managed to send a boatload of

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people from Misrata and they managed to reach Tripoli but so far,

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that is the claim we have not been able to confirm. The message from

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the Eastern Front is that they want to advance, the orders have been

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given, they are ready to do so but they do expect resistance along the

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way and I don't think the progress on this side will be anything like

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as swift as the progress we have seen in and around Zawiya.

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Thank you. The RAF has grounded the Hawk

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aircraft flown by the Red Arrows, while an investigation is carried

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out into the death of one of its pilots during a display. Flight

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Lieutenant Jon Egging crashed at the Bournemouth Air Show yesterday.

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RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire it is the home of the Red Arrows.

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Danny Savage is there. This is the place the Red Arrows call home.

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Their formal name, the Royal Air Force aerobatic team, is top of the

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list of units based here and it is not unusual for people to stand

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around the perimeter fence and watch the Red Arrows practising

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their fast flying at various times during the display season, but

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today people have been coming instead to pay their respects after

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yesterday's crash in Dorset. At the scene of the Red Arrows

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crash near Bournemouth, investigators are now trying to

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work out what went wrong. Why did an elite RAF pilot died? One

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experienced fast jet pilot suggests several possibilities for.

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Everything from aircraft mechanical failure, fuel starvation, piloting

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incapacitation, distraction. There is a lift, anything you can think

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of, is what they will be looking at. The Hawk jets and those used by the

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rest of the RAF have now been grounded as part of the inquiry. In

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their 40s 60 history, the Red Arrows have performed more than

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4,000 displays in over 50 countries -- 46 year history. For the last 20

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years, they have used the Hawk T1. The team have only ever had one of

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fatal accident with this aircraft. But last year, the fleet was

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grounded over problems with the ejector seat. At the Bournemouth

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Air Show today, one minute's silence. Many wore red clothes as a

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tribute. The error -- aerobatic team were supposed to fly again

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came to lay flowers. There was a strong affection for the team which

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practices here most days of the week. One local MP says the Red

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Arrows must commit in time, take to the skies again. I know they have

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taken a casualty but they will not be defeated by the inevitable

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sorrow. They will get on with it a. But for now, the thoughts of the

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community of with the wife and family of Flight Lieutenant Jon

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Egging. One person here wrote "you get so much pleasure to so many,

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one of the few". The Ministry of Defence say the Red

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Arrows are very unlikely to be flying any of their displays for

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the next week or so. In the last 20 minutes, some of their pilots

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returned here and came out to look at some of the tributes. They ask

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specifically not to be filled. Some of them were visibly upset but they

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also seemed to be gaining some comfort from the outpouring of

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public support that this world- famous group of players have been

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getting over the last 24 hours. Protests have continued for a

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second day outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo. Demonstrators are

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angry over the deaths of five Egyptian policemen, who were killed

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as Israeli forces targeted Palestinian militants on Thursday.

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There have been several rocket exchanges around the Gaza strip

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over the past few days, after eight Israelis were killed in a series of

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attacks. The femme de seven people killed in

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Norway last month have been remembered in Oslo -- 77 people.

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Families of the victims attended the service, along with Norway's

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Royal Family and leading politicians. This marks and end of

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This was nowhere's answer to Anders Breivik's terror. -- Norway's. The

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song of remembrance. In the audience, it hear where the Nobel

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Peace Prize is awarded, with a family members of his victims. And

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those Norwegians who had survived the attacks. King Harald V of

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Norway declared that freedom was stronger than fear. Norwegians, he

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said would continue to live freely and openly. Earlier, politicians

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and foreign dignitaries had laid flowers outside Oslo Cathedral.

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With today's ceremony here in Oslo, Norway brings to an end what has

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been a month of morning. The hope now is that that an Asian

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traumatised by acts of terror can start to move on -- a nation. In

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jail, Anders Breivik is to be kept in total isolation for another four

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weeks. He has confessed to the car bomb that killed eight people in

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Oslo. He admits shooting 69 people on the Utoeya island, but doesn't

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see it as a crime. This weekend, the boats to its Utopia was sailing

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again. Those who fled the island a month ago came back and tried to

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come to terms with what happened -- Utopia. Adrian Pracon was shot by

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Anders Breivik but survived. He was nervous about coming back but was

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glad he did. This will be an enormous help for me in the future,

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to know that I have been here again, I have returned, with a smile on my

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face and that here in my eye. But I do feel that this was very good for

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me and very good for many others -- 8 here in my life. This lady was on

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the island that day as well. When she heard gunshots, she hid beneath

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the bed. A we have cried so much, I have no tears left. And I don't

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want to cry anymore. Tomorrow, we have to start living our lives

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again and I think this will be a great pleasure for us. But at the

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end of the memorial service, there were tears, as the victims' names

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by read out. 77 people killed by one man. -- were read out. Norway

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will try to move on but what Anders Breivik did has left deep scars.

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A leading human rights lawyer is planning to challenge got an's

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university funding system. Phil Shiner says changing tuition fees -

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- charging tuition fees to English students is unlawful and breaches

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the Human Rights Act. The Scottish government has defended its policy

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and says it is acting lawfully. Raymond Buchanan is in Glasgow.

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What do we know about this? Well, keeping Scottish Universities

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free up tuition fees has been a key policy of the Scottish government.

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Alex Salmond has promised the rocks will melt with the sun before he

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charges students based in Scotland for going to university, but that

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guarantee doesn't extend to students from other parts of the

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United Kingdom. From next year, for instance, if you want to go to this

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university and off from England you could be charged up to �9,000 per

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year, whereas your Scottish counterparts would study for free.

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That system now looks likely to be tested in the courts. The Phil

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Shiner says there is discrimination in the way that different people

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are treated in parts of the UK, and it may well preach the Human Rights

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Act and equality laws. The Scottish government say they are positive

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that their policy is lawful and are not discriminating on whether you

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are English or whether you'd normally live in Scotland. If you

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are English and live here, you will study for free.

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There, with the sports news of the day, here is Oliver Foster.

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It promises to be exciting day in the Test series tomorrow. England

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bowled India out and fog -- forced them to follow on today. At the

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close, the tourists were 129-three, still 162 runs behind.

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England are preparing for a day of bowling in fitting fashion. The

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bowling in fitting fashion. The Indian batsmen have been built on

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sand this series. But at least they had their the Rock. Rahul Dravid

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has been the idea man close to being reliable. At the other end,

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the crumble went on. MS Dhoni Khan and India in another fine mess. But

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Rahul Dravid was playing the straight man, moving to another

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century while his team-mates have yet to get one between them. He

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inspired and it miche rhetoric -- take some initiative and the pair

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of them made things challenging for England. But once again, at they

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reacted and specifically Ian Bell. When you are playing well, these

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just stick. Stuart Broad accounting for another, India getting to 300

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but no further. Rahul Dravid remained unbeaten but got no time

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for a rest. England asked him and his team to follow on so out he

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came again. This time, his resistance was ended by Graeme

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Swann. Perhaps even the umpire couldn't believe it was true, as it

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needed a review to finally sent him on his way. India needed someone

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similarly stubborn. The Virender Sehwag was not it and neither was

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VVS Laxman. -- Virender Sehwag. Unless they find some grip from

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Unless they find some grip from somewhere, England will have the

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whitewash. Manchester City have made it two

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wins out of two and Bartok from the Premier -- top of the Premier

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League after winning at Bolton. Gareth Barry getting their pick of

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the goals. Ivan Klasnic pulled one back before a Edin Dzeko and scored

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the decisive goal. Kevin Davies the decisive goal. Kevin Davies

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pulled one back but City held on for the win. Elsewhere, Kenwyne

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Jones scored an injury-time equaliser for Stoke at Norwich. And

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it is two wins out of two for Wolverhampton Wanderers, as they go

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second in the table. Rangers are top of the Scottish

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Premier League for the first time this season after a win away at

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another one up. Gregg Wylde scoring his first for the club. -- at

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Motherwell. That saw Rangers' lead from Motherwell in the table.

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Celtic could have gone top of but lost to St Johnstone for the first

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time in 12 years. Dave Mackay's winner was also the first goal

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