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68 people - including three Britons - are now known to have died in the

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Kenyan shopping centre siege. Tonight, a stand off between the

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army and Islamist militants continues. They're thought to be

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surrounded on one floor. New footage emerges of the moment the gunmen

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attacked a supermarket, where it's reported they could still be holding

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a number of hostages. It is a sickening and despicable attack of

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appalling brutality. What we know is that three British national have

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been killed. Because the situation is ongoing we should prepare

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ourselves for further bad news. With some reports tonight that the army

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maybe trying to bring the seige to an end, we'll have the very latest.

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Also on the programme... Angela Merkel looks set to return as

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Germany's chancellor as exit polls suggest her party has made big gains

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in the country's elections. As the Labour Party conference gets

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underway, Ed Miliband's forced to defend new policies on immigrant

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workers. And a mauling for United as City run

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rampant in the Manchester derby. -- Sunderland sack Paolo Di Canio, the

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first Premier League manager casualty of the season.

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Good evening. 68 people, including three Britons, are now known to have

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died in the attack on a shopping centre in Nairobi by Somali

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militants. Tonight a stand off between Kenyan security forces and

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the attackers, who claim to be from the Islamist group Al Shabab, is

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ongoing, with an unknown number of hostages still being held. David

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Cameron condemned the attack as despicable and sickening and has

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offered British assistance. Our East Africa correspondent

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Gabriel Gatehouse is at the scene. Gabriel.

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This evening, Kenya's disaster operation centre tweeted, this will

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end tonight and our forces will prevail. Standing where I am, just

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yards from the shopping centre, things are calm but people are

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twitchy. About half an hour before we came on air, suddenly they got

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the wind up them. They were running away from the shopping centre,

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soldiers and armed policemen cocking their guns and crouching for cover

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behind vehicles. At the moment we cannot see or hear anything that

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looks like a final push going on inside there and so, the stand-off

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continues. It is in this supermarket that at least some of the attackers

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are believed to be holed up. Tonight, new 30 J emerged of the

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moment the attack began. -- news footage. In the panic that followed,

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hundreds ran for their lives as gunmen threw grenades and spread the

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complex with machine gun fire. -- sprayed the complex. Kenyan forces

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entered the building, trying to flush out the militants as they

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secured different areas. Others were able to escape. Still, it is not

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over. A number of foreign countries, including Britain, have

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been assisting the Kenyans in this most delicate of situations - a

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hostage crisis. It is an absolutely sickening and despicable attack of

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appalling brutality. What we know is that three British nationals have

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been killed. Because the situation is ongoing, we should prepare

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ourselves for further bad news. Outside the shopping centre, anxious

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relatives have gathered in the hope of news, any news, of loved ones

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still trapped inside. This British man says his wife and young daughter

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were inside when the attack took place and he has had no word from

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them since. We did not want to give his name. The emotion, I just keep

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them since. We did not want to give breaking up. All I am hoping is that

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they are safe, they are hiding, and breaking up. All I am hoping is that

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they are just waiting for time to come out. As they wait for a

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resolution, many Kenyans have been giving blood to help the wounded and

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perhaps in anticipation of worse still to come. They shall not get

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away with their despicable and beastly acts. Like the cowardly

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perpetrators now cornered in the building, we will punish the

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mastermind is swiftly and painfully. As the security forces continue

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their operations inside, Kenya's soldiers are on the ground in

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their operations inside, Kenya's Somalia battling Al-Shabab, the

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Al-Qaeda linked group that says it carried out this attack. Now, the

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militants are bringing the fight to the heart of the Kenyan capital.

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Despite the cam here tonight, there is a sense that this stand-off, now

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entering its third day, cannot last a lot longer. The army says it is

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looking to bring it to a speedy conclusion but also says its

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overriding concern is to bring the remaining hostages out alive.

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The group claiming responsibility for the attack, Al-Shabab, is based

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in neighbouring Somalia. A militant Islamist group, they used to control

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large parts of the country before African Union forces, with United

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Nations support, pushed them back. They still remain a threat however,

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as Mark Doyle found out when he accompanied African Union soldiers

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on patrol in the city of Kismayo - a former Al-Shabab stronghold.

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Heading into Kismayo with African union troops. A year ago, it was

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held by Al-Shabab, with an estimated 5000 fighters still controlling most

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of the countryside. The Islamists still mount hit and run attacks.

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Victims of an Al-Shabab suicide car bombing in a dilapidated Kismayo

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General Hospital. This doctor runs a place as best he can. It is hard

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being a hospital in Somalia. You have so many patients. We are

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doctors who begin with the most difficult cases. If you begin with

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someone, others might take the runway and might kill you or injure

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you. Nearby, we found people living in a rubbish tip. Like hundreds of

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you. Nearby, we found people living thousands of others they have fled

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the fighting across the region. These soldiers are Kenyan. They

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moved into southern Somalia after Al-Shabab attacked towns and

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villages inside Kenya. Now, they fight under the banner of the

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African Union, backed by the United Nations. It is a difficult war to

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win. It is slow, but we cannot give up and say that because it is a

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difficult war we will stop. We must continue fighting this war. Somalia

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difficult war we will stop. We must needs outside help because it's own

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government forces are a jumbled collection of armed men loyal to

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different warlords. It is all very well the international forces being

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here, but the solution will have to come at the hands of men like

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these, the local forces. I am not quite sure what the shooting is but

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perhaps we should take some cover. The course of the shooting turned

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out to be an argument at a checkpoint. Arguments escalate

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out to be an argument at a quickly in Somalia. At night, every

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night since I have been in Kismayo, the real thing. Al-Shabab try to add

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France... -- advance... The African Union forces tried to push them

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back, for now. Angela Merkel appears to have won

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another four years as Chancellor in Germany. The official results of the

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general election won't be declared for several hours, but exit polls

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suggest that her Christian Democrats will be the biggest party, with a

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commanding lead over the Social Democrats. This report does contain

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some flash photography. Angela Merkel's party headquarters,

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as exit polls were announced. Europe's most powerful politician

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had scored a stunning personal victory and a third term as

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Chancellor. TRANSLATION: Dear friends, as the jubilation shows, we

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can be happy about this super results. The result was interpreted

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as a tribute to her steady leadership during the eurozone

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crisis. It is a landslide victory. Everybody is enthusiastic about it.

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It is perhaps the biggest victory of a Democratic party in Germany for

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the last 20 years. Although Angela Merkel's supporters are delighted

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with the way the party polls, there is some disappointment. The party

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they were in coalition with may not have passed the threshold in order

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to have any seats in the next Parliament. Supporters of that

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party, the Liberal Free Democrats, watched in stunned silence at their

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defeat. It may be that Angela Merkel's conservatives can win an

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absolute majority on their own. But she might yet be forced into a grand

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coalition with the opposition, leading to weeks of haggling. It is

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important Germany has a strong government, for Germany and Europe.

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That is what we will work on. Despite Angela Merkel's triumph, it

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was not difficult to find voices critical of her policy of rescuing

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weaker and eurozone countries. TRANSLATION: She sends so much money

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to these other countries but when it comes to our own people, it is

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Germany, I am sorry, I cannot support these politics. A new

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Euro-sceptic Parliament has come very close to winning seats in

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parliament at the first attempt. Even after Angela Merkel's great

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success, she is still likely, over Europe, to act cautiously.

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Ed Miliband has come under fire from business figures for his new policy

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of making larger employers take on an apprentice for every skilled

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foreign worker they employ from outside the European Union. It's

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among a raft of polices that Mr Miliband is announcing that he says

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among a raft of polices that Mr will tackle a cost of living

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"crisis" in the UK. Our deputy political editor James Landale

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reports from Brighton. He is waiting in the wings of

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British politics, hoping to lead his party into government. With his poll

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ratings down and the economy up, Ed Miliband acknowledged he had a tough

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fight ahead. Yellow mag we have listened, learned and are ready to

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lead. Today, he promised Labour would try to get immigration down,

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with medium to large company is forced to hire an apprentice for

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every skilled worker they employ from outside the EU. In our first

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year in office we will legislate for an Immigration Bill which secures

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the borders, and cracks down on exploitation, and says to big

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companies that they can bring people from outside the EU, but they have

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got to train the next generation. Unusually, one Tory minister been

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doing and denounced the policy as unworkable. Others said it was an

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apprentice tax. Most business people would have been very surprised to

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see a policy that creates red tape and costs for them, rather than

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address fundamental issues around growth. Like the buses, Labour

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policies are queueing up. All-day childcare, a -- an end to housing

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benefit cuts, and the hope to increase the minimum wage with

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bigger fines for firms who do not pay it. The question is whether

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policies like this taken together will give voters a sense of what

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Labour would do in Guzman. The risk is that by focusing on how Labour

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would help people with the cost of living, the party says less about

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what it would do with the economy. Tonight, Mr Miliband and his team

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announced they had asked the Office for Budget Responsibility to tag all

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their -- check all of their tax and spending promises. They need to be

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able to trust their leader and many delegates came hearing that a new

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poll suggests only 17% of voters think Mr Miliband is up to the job

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of Prime Minister. They also heard on the conference floor some weighty

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criticism. Be assured, the collective voices of millions of

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criticism. Be assured, the working people and their families,

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and 100 years of shared history, will not be washed away or sold for

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an electoral gimmick. Ed Miliband will not be washed away or sold for

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begins his conference facing the unions, the polls and his critics.

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With less than 20 months to the election, he cannot afford to blink

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first. Well our political editor Nick

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Robinson is in Brighton. It appears every time Labour makes a policy

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announcement there's concern about whether the figures add up?

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They know here at Labour there is tension between, on the one hand,

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saying anything, any promises that allow the Conservatives to say, told

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you so, Labour want to spend more, tax more and borrow more, and a

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danger on the other hand that people say, are you going to do anything

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different from the coalition at all? What do you really stand for as a

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party? What is interesting is that it is clear in the words of one

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senior Labour figure that the party has decided to take, a gamble. In

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other words, to spell out the list of policy changes, which will allow

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the Tories to say, where is the money coming from? Labour says it

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has got the answer to that and the Office for Budget Responsibility

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could, if they chose to, guarantee Office for Budget Responsibility

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those figures. The Tory Treasury team say it would be dragging an

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independent body into politics. It is an argument about the nature of

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what Labour can and can't afford that will run for a long time.

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In Pakistan, more than 70 seventy people have been killed in a suicide

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bombing at a church in the north western city of Peshawar. Two

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bombers detonated devices as hundreds of Christians were leaving

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a service. It is the day Pakistan's Christians

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had long been dreading - they had just been at church at a packed

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Sunday mass, when two suicide bombers got amongst the congregation

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and blew themselves up. Dozens of men, women and children were killed,

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scores more were injured. Now, there is security outside the church, but

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there are complaints the authorities did not take the threat seriously

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enough before. Others here treat us like foreigners just because we are

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Christian, says this pastor from the neighbouring church, but we are

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Pakistanis, too. The scene is close by where the bodies were taken by

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nothing less than heartbreaking. -- are nothing less. More bodies have

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been identified. There is grief and sorrow, but also a lot of anger

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among the Christians here. While there have been problems, nobody

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expected an attack like this, the worst on Pakistan's Christian

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community in the history of the country. This man lost his 11 new

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role daughter in the bombing but somehow, he talks of forgiveness. --

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11 new role daughter. Other Christians wonder if they have a

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future in their own country. One of China's most powerful and

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popular politicians has been jailed for life. Bo Xilai was convicted of

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bribery, corruption and abuse of power. The court found he was guilty

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of all charges - including an attempt to cover up the murder of

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the British businessmen Neil Heywood in 2011. -- British businessman.

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With all the sport, here's Lizzie Greenwood Hughes at the BBC Sport

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Centre. Good evening. Paolo Di Canio has been sacked as

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manager of Sunder land. There are bottom of the Premier League without

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a win this season. Yesterday, he apologised to the fans after the

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team were beaten 3-0 by West Bromwich Albion.

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In today's Premier League action, there were four games. Match Of The

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Day 2 follows this programme so if you don't want to know the scores,

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this is your chance to leave the room. David Moyes insists his team

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"will get better" after a nightmare first Manchester derby for the

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United manager. They were beaten 4-1 by City at the Etihad. Sergio

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Aguerro scored twice. Wayne Rooney netted a late consolation goal.

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Arsenal are now top of the table - they beat Stoke 3-1 at the Emirates

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with record signing Mezut Ozil setting-up all three goals.

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Tottenham are level with them on points after an injury-time winner

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against Cardiff. And Crystal Palace lost to Swansea.

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In the Scottish Premiership, Motherwell drew 2-2 at Dundee

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United. Scotland's women beat the Faroe Islands 7-2 in their opening

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World Cup qualifying match. Sir Bradley Wiggins was back winning

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in London today, claiming the Tour of Britain title, his first race

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victory since the Olympics. Mark Cavendish won the stage with a

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sprint finish. Our Correspondent James Pearce was watching the

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action. When he won so memorably on the

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streets of London last summer, he was just plain Bradley Wiggins. Life

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has changed since, but his cycling form has dipped. This has been a

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good week. The tour of Britain has seen him return to winning ways and

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giving the supporters who so warmed to him last summer to demonstrate

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cycling's return to popularity. There is a combination of the

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Olympic effect and the presence of Wiggins and Cavendish to bring large

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crowds to the streets of London. Cavendish began in the lead. He just

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needed to prevent anybody breaking away. He was happy to see a bunch

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finish. Mark Cavendish claimed his third stage win of the comeback

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tour. Further back, a very happy Olympic champion who had been

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victorious once again on British soil. It is nice to be performing

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again at a high level. It has not been an easier and to win the tour

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of Britain, it does not get much better. Sir Bradley Wiggins on a

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winner's podium is a familiar sight and he is hoping there will be a

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repeat later this week, when he competes in Florence at the World

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Championships. Sebastien Vettel closed in on a

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fourth successive Formula One world title today, winning the Singapore

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Grand Prix for Red Bull.

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