12/10/2013 BBC Weekend News


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More than 30 people are confirmed to have drowned, after a boat carrying

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migrants capsized off southern Italy. It's the latest in a series

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of accidents - Malta warns that the Mediterranean is becoming a

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graveyard for African migrants. A judge rules that two children must

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have the MMR vaccine - against their wishes.

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Newspapers have strongly criticised government proposals for independent

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self-regulation of the Press. And half a million people flee

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India's eastern coastline - as a huge cyclone closes in.

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Good afternoon. The Prime Minister of Malta has warned that the

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Mediterranean is becoming a cementary fo of migrants from

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Africa. That after a boat laden with people seeking to cross from North

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Africa. That after a boat laden with Africa capsized. It was said that

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southern European countries are feeling oned urging the EU to take

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action. Last week 300 migrants drowned.

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These are the grainy images of unimaginable horror. Of panic at

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sea. As people struggle after an hour in the water to stay alive.

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Many were rescued. Dozens did not make it.

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Many were rescued. Dozens did not Boats and helicopters took the

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injured to hospitals in Italy and to Malta. On board this vessel, mainly

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Syrians and Palestinians. They had phoned ahead to friends here in

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Syrians and Palestinians. They had Italy, to say that they were on

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their way. On the dockside in lamp duda, a few

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of the survivors arrived in the dead of the night. Among them a young

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couple clutching their baby. -- lamp duza.

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Brought here by an Italian boat, after suffering unbearable loss. We

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learned that they had had to choose which of their children to save.

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The father and the mother were able to save the daughter, the

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nine-month-old daughter but were unable to save their son. He was in

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front of them on the sea. They left him there. They were in the water

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for one hour before being rescued. Last week, another boat sank. More

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than 300 died. Among them were many children.

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The Prime Minister of Malta says something must be done.

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We are just building a cementary within our Mediterranean sea.

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We are seeing these people abandoned.

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We act as rescuers, as hospitals but we feel like we are on our own.

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Some argue that the solution is to start more legal means of migration

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to Europe. To open up channels officially to allow people to escape

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war and poverty safely, but that does not fit in with the political

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debate in European countries, where the instinct is to tighten the #i78

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congratulation law, not to loosen them. Whatever the policy response

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it is clear that the boats will continue to come. Some will never

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arrive. The newspaper industry is

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considering its response to proposals by the three main

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Westminster parties for self-regulation of the press. It

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follows the Leveson report on press standards. Politicians want the

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newspapers to adopt their amended cross-party royal charrer, but a

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number of journalists said it threatens the press freedom.

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We have this report. -- Royal Charter. The politicians

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and the press appearing as divided as ever over a system of newspaper

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regulation. There is now agreement among the three main parties at

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Westminster over a new Royal Charter, that the politicians say

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will safeguard the freedom of the press, but there are growing signs

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that few, if any newspapers, are ready to sign up to the deal. The

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new version will allow eders to to draw up a code of conduct. Thereby a

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redress to seek many claims and Parliament needs a two thirds

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majority to alter the charter, but the industry prefers its own

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charter, rejected by Parliamentarians and wants no

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political influence with Parliament unable to enforce changes in the

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future. They want a bigger role for the newspaper editors in overseeing

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the regulator. I don't believe that the

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publisheses' Royal Charter will be I don't believe that the

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backed by the press as it is from politicians. They should have no say

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what soever in the running of a free press that is not democracy.

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But many of those affected by the phone hacking scandal that sparked

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the episode, believe that the newspapers have foregone their right

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to have say over their own regulation.

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They have failed completely with self-regulation. They are now

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telling the paper that this is statutory regulation, this is

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control over what is in the paper but it is nothing like that.

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Today, the editor of the Daily Mail said rows between the polices in the

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press showed why Parliament should keep out of newspaper regulation.

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-- polices. Editors say that they are wholly

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unconvinced. A funeral service has been held for

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a mother and three children who died in a suspected arson attack in

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Leicester. Hundreds turned out in Dublin as the mother and her

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children were laid to rest. The mourning was led by her husband, Dr

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Taufiq. A High Court judge ruled that two

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sisters, aged 11 and 15, must have the MMR jab, against their wishes --

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wishes and those of their mother. The girls' parents decided not to

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have the girls vaccinated but then the father changed his mind after he

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and his wife divorced. He began the legal proceedings to ensure that

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they have the treatment. What is the background to this? The reason this

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case is interesting is because of the age of the girls. One is 11, but

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the older is 156789 in English law, the age of the girls. One is 11, but

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teenagers who are 16 are able to make their own decisions about

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medical treatments. So this older child is very much on the cusp of

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the decision-making age. The reason that the issue came to court is as

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you say, the father changed his mind about the vaccine. That is for two

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reasons: One because the claims about a link between MMR and autism

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have been universally and wholesaly discredited. The second, at the end

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of last year, there was an outbreak of measles in Swansea. He said

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seeing that, the distress that the children were in, that he decided he

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would like the girls immunised. The mother and the girls throughout have

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said that they did not want the vaccine. The judge at the High Court

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has had to make a complex decision. It is surrounded, the central issue,

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surrounding what was in the best interests of the children. In the

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case of the 11-year-old, that was straightforward. The judge said that

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having the MMR jab benefits far outweighed the risks, but as far as

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having the MMR jab benefits far the 15-year-old was concerned, the

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judge had to take seriously her views. So, using evidence, the judge

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took a look at whether or not the 15-year-old was competent to make a

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decision about her treatment. In this case, the judge decided that

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having seen the evidence, she felt that the 15-year-old was not able to

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weigh up the complexities of the risks and the benefits of the jab

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and as a result she has ordered that both girls have to have the MMR jab.

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Thank you. Now, over half a million people have

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been forced to evacuate their homes in India. A massive cyclone is

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threatening the country's coastline. Cyclone Phailin, larger than the

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size of France, is expected to hit the states of Orissa Andhra Pradesh

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and. Our correspondent, Sanjoy Majumder, is in Orissa.

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There is a sense of urgency on India's east coast, with Cyclone

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Phailin hours away. Villagers along the coast have emptied -- emptied

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out, the fishermen scramble to get their boats to shore. There are

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signs of what is in store with the strong winds bringing down the trees

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and heavy rain lashing the coast. Everyone's being told to get out of

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the way of Cyclone Phailin. It is said to be the fiercest in two

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decades. The weather officials warned that the Cyclone Phailin will

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lead to storm surges up to three metres high and floods along the

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entire coast. So the effort now is to save lives. The Navy and the air

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foersz are on standby, ready to swing into action. Emergency rations

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and supplies have been ready for the relief effort for the hundreds and

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the thousands that could be stranded or made homeless. And over the Bay

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of Bengal, the Cyclone Phailin is gathering pace.

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Sanjoy joins me live now. Sanjoy, what is the latest? You can see that

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the ity the wind behind Mijas gotten stronger in the past hour. It is

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pelting down with rain. Cyclone Phailin is about 15 miles

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away from us. It is over the coast about 15 miles from where I am

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standing now. It is here it is expected to make land fall sometimes

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in the next hour or maybe two hours. The authorities have done all that

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they can. The coastline has been evacuated. There are only a few

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people who have refused to leave. Everyone else has been moved to the

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storm shelters. The Emergency Services on standby, the armed

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forces, as you have heard, have been placed on alert. So everyone is just

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watching and waiting. This is an area of India used to the storms.

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They have had fierce ones before, but this time around, no-one is sure

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what to pekt. -- what to expect.

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Thank you. We are here with a full roundup of

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