30/10/2011 BBC Weekend News


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The bitter dispute that ground at Qantas - now the airline is told to

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get flying again. Relief for tens of thousands of

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stranded passengers after an Australian court intervenes.

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A warning to the west from the President of Syria - interfere and

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you will create another Afghanistan. Would you support an eviction? It

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is a direct question, give a direct answer.

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The Bishop of London faces anti- capitalist protesters.

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Victory for Sebastian Vettel in India's first ever Grand Prix.

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Good evening. A court has intervened in the bitter industrial

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dispute that has seen the Australian airline Qantas ground

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its entire fleet of planes, affecting tens of thousands of

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passengers worldwide. This afternoon a special tribunal

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ordered Qantas and the unions to call of the action. The airline

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says it hopes to start flying again tomorrow. Duncan Kennedy has the

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latest. All day, all around the world,

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Qantas jets turned airports into parking lots. There was not a

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single flight as every single one of the aircraft in the fleet

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remained grounded. That meant confusion and frustration for

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thousands. I travel with them on a regular basis. I will probably go

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to Virgin. I want to get home. have been planning it for months

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and then this happens. You just have to make the best. If we have

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to sit in an airport, that is what we have to do. It is ridiculous

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because I have checked in this morning and there has been no news.

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I have had no message from Qantas. It was the middle of the night in

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Melbourne when the decision by three judges came through, ordering

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an end to the industrial action. Their ruling cleared the way for

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Qantas to put its jets back in my ear.

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A our priority today -- back in We will work with the company to

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make sure that the Australian travelling public is not

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inconvenienced for one minute longer than necessary.

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The move was welcomed by the government, who put pressure on

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both sides to settle the dispute. We are conscious that there are

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tens of thousands of travellers who have been stranded in Australia and

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the rest of the world. We are conscious there are people who

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cannot get to work or can it get back to their families. - mock

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cannot get back -- cannot get back. If we believe that this industrial

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action needed to come to a halt. A Qantas say it will be lunchtime

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tomorrow UK time before it can begin flights again. At dispute by

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plans -- over plans to move some of its operations in Asia has cost at

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least �20 billion. This action lasted around 36 hours. Repairing

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Quantas' reputation will take longer. In the end, the company got

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what it wanted, but it has been a public relations disaster.

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The Foreign Office has confirmed that two British civilians were

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among those killed in yesterday's car-bomb attack in the Afghan

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capital Kabul. 13 people died when a Taliban suicide bomber drove into

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the side of a bus. It was one of the biggest attacks in the ten-year

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war. Our correspondent is in Kabul. What more do we know about the two

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Britons who died? They were can tractors, electricians, working for

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the international mission in Afghanistan. That attack was so

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enormous, and the ferocity of the inferno which engulfed it was so

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great, it has taken a very long time to identify the people inside.

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We heard from the British embassy here in Kabul that earlier reports

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that it was only Americans, Canadians and Afghans affected by

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the attack proved to be inaccurate. A ceremony is taking place for one

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of the Britons. Thank you very much.

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The Bishop of London has told anti- capitalist demonstrators camped

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outside St Paul's Cathedral that he does not want to see their protest

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ended violence. -- end in violence. Our correspondent is there.

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Richard Charters made a protesters camped out here and offer today. He

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said, pack up your tents ball and a rally and I will make sure that

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your voice is heard in debates -- Bolland Farrelly and I will make

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sure that your voice is heard in debates inside the cathedral. That

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prompted an impassioned debate. The encounter was close-up and more

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personal than ever. The senior clerics trying to end the

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occupation went out to plead their case. Would you support an

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eviction? Would you please... a direct question. I am not in a

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position to give a direct answer. As the Bishop... Who knows what is

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going to happen? The one thing I am very concerned about is that this

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should not lead to violence. Direct answers have become

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increasingly difficult for a church which is using the law to evict

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protesters while insisting it shares their concerns. Some

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Anglicans fear that, at a time of social and economic change, the

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Church could miss a rare opportunity to make Christian

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ethics part of the outcome. One bishop said the compromise of four

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per by the clerics might not be -- the compromise offered by the

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clerics might not be acceptable. These people feel that they are not

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being taken seriously, when their concerns are actually core gospel

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concerns. Others were concerned about what

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the protesters describe as the inevitability as violence.

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I could be dragged out of them my tent in the middle of the night,

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batons could be used against me. It is about real people.

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The people camped outside St Paul's Cathedral tonight are yet to be

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convinced that the cathedral is not at least partly influenced by its

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neighbours in the City of London. A new generation is is a -- is

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questioning the established order and is yet to be satisfied by the

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answer this is getting. -- it is getting. Nick Herbert up-to-date

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told the BBC that the Government thought it was right for people to

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express their views, but they did not have the right to disrupt the

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life of the community. I think it is fair to say that, even with the

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Government on board, it would still be awkward for the Church of

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violence had to be used to move this camp. -- if violence.

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Syria's president has warned of an earthquake if the West intervenes

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in his country. In an interview with a Sunday newspaper he said

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that foreign involvement would risk Syria becoming another Afghanistan.

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At least 50 people are reported to have died in the latest anti-

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government clashes. Our correspondent has the latest from

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neighbouring Lebanon. This is Serbia's third biggest city,

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Homs, now one of the biggest battlegrounds between the security

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forces and their opponents. President al-Assad promised Ban Ki-

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Moon that he would pull back his security forces. That has clearly

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not happened. Internet footage like this is impossible to verify, but

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it would also be hard to fake. Mr Assad has also said that his forces

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are now fighting only armed terrorists. Here at a mosque north

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of Homs they are shown apparently attacking protesters who may be

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defiant but they do not seem to be armed. A man is wounded, others

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risk their lives to save them and carry him away. Activists say that

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scenes like this happen many times every day, leaving scores injured

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and many dead. If the relentless bloodshed is prompting growing

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pressure for some sort of outside intervention, especially now that

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Libya is done with. That is why President a sad chose this moment

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to tell the Sunday Telegraph what a dangerous step that would be. Syria

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is the hub in this region, in this region. It is the fault line. If

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you play with the ground you will cause an earthquake. Syria has

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extended its alliances into Lebanon, Iraq, Iran and beyond. In that

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sense, it could create a lot of havoc.

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Lebanon is just one of several neighbours where those ethnic fault

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lines mean that what happens in Syria will matter to them. Everyone

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is watching the conflict here very closely indeed. They do not know

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how it will lend up but they know it will affect them very greatly.

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The president still has hundreds of thousands of supporters who stage

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rallies like this every day. External intervention, as in Libya,

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could sealed President al-Assad's fate. And he knows it. -- could

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seal. The leader of the BNP has told

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members that the party is stronger than ever. Nick Griffin told his

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party's annual conference that people appreciated his members

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talking about issues that others avoided.

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British ship sailing off the coast of Somalia and other high risk

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areas will be allowed armed guards on board to deal with pirates. Mr

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Cameron said he wants to overturn the ban of the carrying of firearms

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on British vessels. The Dutch navy, storming a ship

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hijacked by Somali pile-up -- pirates last year. The problem

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remains of how to stop such vessels being taken in the first place.

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Britain is joining other countries in allowing its ships to carry

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armed guards to repel attacks. are going to say to British flag

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ships that they will be allowed to have armed guards on the ships. The

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evidence is that ships with armed guards do not get attacked, do not

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get taken for hostage or for ransom. It is the sheer scale of the piracy

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problem that has led to this decision. 246 hostages are

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currently being held. Ransoms have been growing, now averaging nearly

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�5 million. A lot of countries, including Britain, have sent their

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navies to patrol the region. They have to cover 3 million square

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miles, the size of western Europe. With resources stretched, allowing

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the 200 British flagged vessels to carry arms is seen as one way of

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dealing with pirates like these. In recent years there has been a huge

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rise in the number of private security companies offering

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protection, and the hope is that licensing them will minimise the

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risks. Some of them are cowboys, but some of them are very

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professional. Obviously, when you have men working on board ships,

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you want to make sure that they have the highest professional

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standards and that they understand proportionate force and know how to

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use it. As well as the danger of escalating

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violence, negotiating for weapons to be carried in other countries

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and their waters may be complicated. But the hope will be that the

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threat of force will act as a deterrent.

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Now the sport. We know that Sebastian Vettel is

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the Formula One world champion, but that did not make the very first

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Indian Grand Prix any less interesting. Another win for him

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but another controversial incident involving Lewis Hamilton and Felipe

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Massa. While many people had been looking

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forward to the first Indian Grand Prix, those involved at the sharp

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end felt a duty to look back. A minute's silence before the race to

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remember the recent loss of Dan Wheldon and Marco Simoncelli. The

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Buddh International Circuit might be a new venue but it was the same

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old story. Sebastian Vettel started from pole position and, as usual,

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raced off into the distance, leaving others to fight it out

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amongst themselves. Jenson Button started for after struggling in

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qualifying, but was soon up his second. Mark Webber fought hard to

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regain his place. Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa clashed for the

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sixth time this season. They never seemed to learn. But stewards

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decided that the Brazilian was to blame. We had the one minute's

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silence before the start of the race and Mian Felipe Massa were

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starting -- standing next to each other. He has not spoken to me in a

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long time. I put my arm around him and said good luck. I tried to come

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out when he tried to overtake but it did not look like he was going

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to give me any space and we collided. I am really sorry for my

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team. Sebastian Vettel steered clear of

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trouble and claimed the fastest lap on the way to his 11th when this

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There is only one game in the Premier League today - spas at home

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to Queen's Park Rangers. Gareth Bale scored two superb goals.

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The top of the Premier League table looks like this. Germaine Lindsay

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