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A British health worker who's contracted the Ebola virus in

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Africa is on his way back to the UK.

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The man, who has not been named, was working in Sierra Leone, treating

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victims of the outbreak which has claimed more than 1400 lives across

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West Africa. He will be treated at a specialist isolation unit in London.

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Health officials say that he is not seriously ill. The risk of Ebola

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virus infection to the population of this country remains very low and it

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is not changed by this decision. In northern Iraq there's growing

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concern for thousands of people in one town, cut off by Islamic State

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militants. Police have interviewed Sir Cliff Richard about an alleged

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sex offence dating back to the 1980s. He denies any wrongdoing.

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COMMENTATOR: It is tough to go round the outside, he has tried... STUDIO:

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Lewis Hamilton accuses his own team-mate of a deliberate collision

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in the Belgian Grand Prix. -- accuses his team-mate, Nico Rosberg,

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of a deliberate collision. Good evening.

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A British man who's contracted the Ebola virus while working

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in Sierra Leone, is on his way back to the UK for specialist treatment.

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He is a health worker who'd volunteered to treat victims of

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the outbreak, which has killed more than 1,400 people in west Africa.

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Health officials say the man is "not seriously unwell"

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at the moment; the infection was diagnosed at an early stage.

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He was working at Kenema in Sierra Leone and

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is now on his way back to the UK in a Royal Airforce plane bound

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for RAF Northolt. From there,

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he will be taken to a specialist unit in North London.

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(ANI) Our The aeroplane carrying this man is

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due to arrive in the UK in the next few hours, when it touches down, a

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special ambulance will bring him here to this hospital, the isolation

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unit is the only one of its kind in Europe. The man became ill with a

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bowl in the past few days after working in one of the countries in

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West Africa that has been particularly badly affected. Fear

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has dominated this outbreak of the deadly volar virus. It has kept

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patients away from clinics, there have been more than two and a half

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thousand cases in West Africa. -- deadly Ebola virus. Now a British

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man working at a treatment centre in one of the worst affected parts of

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Sierra Leone is being flown home after falling ill. It would be in

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the best interests of the patient, and the health of the patient, for

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the patient to be brought back to the country. I would like to

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emphasise that the risk of Ebola virus infection to the population of

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this country remains very low, and has not changed by this decision.

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This is where he will be treated. It is the isolation unit, it has a

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special plastic tent, allowing the patient to receive food and

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treatment without the virus being passed on. Intimidating environment,

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but a necessary precaution, as one of the doctors told us: " it is a

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little bit restrictive, because you cannot really move around, but for

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the patient, it is probably intimidating. Ebola only spreads

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through direct contact with bodily fluids, the general public is not at

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risk. Medical experts warned that you cannot take chances with this

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virus. Once it infects a human, the mortality is very high. More than

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50%. It is one of the most lethal infections. Quite why this is we do

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not know, but it leads to the failure of many organs in the body,

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and bleeding. To aid workers had to be flown back to America after

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contracting Ebola in Liberia. -- two. They have both made a good

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recovery and were allowed home from hospital last week. They were given

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an experimental drug. Nobody can tell whether it helped their

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recovery. Supplies of the treatment have now run out. So far, the

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British patient is not seriously unwell. Doctors will be watching him

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closely in the coming days. Bringing the British patient to this

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hospital is part of a very careful, well rehearsed national plan, it is

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designed to protect the UK from infectious diseases. The current

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outbreak of Ebola has proved devastating in parts of West Africa.

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Here, the risk to the public remains very low. Thank you very much, Jane.

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There have been new appeals for help from civilians in a town in northern

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Iraq which is under siege by militants from the extremist group

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Islamic state. 18,000 people are trapped in the

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town of Amerli and are running short of food and water.

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Our correspondent Jim Muir has been to the front line nearby,

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and has sent us this report. Kurdish Peshmerga fighters on the

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front line, close to besieged family town, this position has been

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attacked several times by the Islamist 's, but the Kurdish have

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held the line. -- close to the besieged town of early town. --

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Amerli. You can see their black flag on the building a few hundred meters

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from here, this is the problem the outside world faces, and this is

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what the town faces, nothing can get in, nobody can get out, they are

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surrounded by militants. This man managed to escape just as the attack

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was starting, but his family is still trapped in the town. They tell

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him by telephone that conditions are desperate, with little food and

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water and electricity. I asked him what would happen if the Islamic

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statement and is moved in? TRANSLATION: They will start a war,

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the people have no way out. The district mayor in the nearby town

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appealed for the outside world to intervene, to avert a massacre in

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Amerli. We want military help, as has happened in other places.

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Humanitarian aid, but also, support by the Americans, air support. We

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wanted as soon as possible, to save the people of Amerli. The Americans

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have been carrying out air strikes in support of Kurdish will seize

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inside Iraqi Kurdistan. But Amerli is outside. The local Kurdish

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commander says that his orders are to stay on the defensive. For the

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moment, the besieged minority under threat at Amerli is on its own.

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The search continues to identify a British member of Islamic state who

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is suspected of killing the American journalist James Foley. The UK's

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ambassador in Washington says the authorities believe they're now

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"close" to establishing who he is. We are not yet in a position to say

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exactly who this is but there is sophisticated voice identification

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technology and other measures that we have got which should allow us to

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be very clear about who this person is before very long. Just how close

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are we to finding out who the killer of James Foley is? Identification of

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the British jihadists, the British accented jihadists, could be close.

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We know that there has been close cooperation between Britain and the

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US authorities. The hope of course is that the sophisticated voice

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recognition techniques, that the ambassador was talking about, will

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have been particularly helpful in narrowing down the possibilities. At

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the same time, authorities have been pointing out that there is 500

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British jihadists who have gone to Syria and Iraq. Within the past

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hour, the Al Jazeera News Channel has reported that an American

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journalist who had been held hostage for nearly two years has been freed

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and handed over to a United Nations representative. He has been named as

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Peter Theo Curtis. He was kidnapped as he was found entering Syria from

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Turkey. The channel says it was unclear which group abducted him. If

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that is some good news, in the bleak picture of this past week, in which

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we learned of the beheading of James Foley, then there are, it must be

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remembered, other hostages still being held. Thank you very much.

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Sir Cliff Richard has been interviewed by police, investigating

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an allegation of sexual assault. The claim which Sir Cliff denies,

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involves a boy under the age of 16 and dates back to the 1980s.

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The interview took place in South Yorkshire.

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Here's Leanne Brown. speak with offices about their

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investigation, knee was questioned about a claim of an alleged sexual

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assault on a boy below the age of 16 in the 1980s. It comes after police

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obtained a warrant, to search the apartment of the singer, on a gated

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state near Sunningdale in Berkshire ten days ago, as part of the

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investigation, officers removed a number of items from the property.

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Cliff Richard was in Portugal at the time. Welcome tonight, Cliff

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Richard! The assault is alleged to have taken place at a Christian

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rally in Sheffield in 1985, organised by an American Evangelist,

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Billy Graham. Cliff Richard was a regular guest at his rallies. In a

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statement, a spokesman has said that Cliff Richard cooperated fully with

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offices and answered questions put to him. Full. Paul.

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Cliff Richard has been staying at his villa in Portugal over the

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summer, and since the allegation, has cancelled a number of high

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profile public appearances, and charity events.

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The governor of California has declared a state of emergency after

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an earthquake struck the north of the state. Police say that more than

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80 people have been treated in hospital, three of them for serious

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injuries, and thousands of homes have been left without electricity.

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The epicentre was in the Napa Valley, north of San Francisco.

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Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have marched dozens of

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captured government troops through the city of Donetsk. It happened

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today as Ukranians celebrated Independence Day, with President

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Petro Poroshenko pledging to spend around three-billion dollars

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re-equipping the military in the next three years. Here's Steve

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Rosenberg. It looked like the kind of parade

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that you would see on Moscow's red Square, but this was Kiev, today. A

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display of defiance and military might, to mark Ukraine's

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Independence Day. President Petro Poroshenko said that his country was

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fighting a war against foreign aggression. He was confident Ukraine

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would win. But in eastern Ukraine, this was the response from the

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pro-Russia separatists: In violation of the Geneva

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Convention, they paraded captured Ukrainian soldiers, their prisoners

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of war, through the centre of the nets, and they vowed to continue

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their fight against clear. -- Donetsk. Ten miles from the front

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line, this town, the name of which means "happiness". But the local

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hospital, I met and 89 your old. And if you days ago, an artillery shell

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destroyed her home. She does not know who fired it. Was it the army

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or the militants? -- I met and 89-year-old woman. She says that she

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managed to survive World War II, she cannot understand why there is

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another war now. According to United Nations, more than 2000 people have

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been killed in eastern Ukraine since the violence began. Hundreds of

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thousands have fled their homes. Victims of a war that shows no sign

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of ending. Across town, this Ukrainian battalion showed us around

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their base. They are armed volunteers, they call themselves the

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Cinderella squad. They keep their prisoners down here in the cellar.

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Everybody into the corner, says the commander, so that the camera cannot

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see your faces. The soldiers say that they are unimpressed by the

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military show in Kiev. TRANSLATION: We need those tanks here, not Kiev,

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it was like dancing on the graves of Comrade. But they say that they will

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be able to defeat them, and reunite the country. The Formula One driver

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Lewis Hamilton has claimed that his Miss Adie 's team-mate Nico Rosberg

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admitted deliberately crashing into him during today's Belgian Grand

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Prix. Hamilton's world title hopes took a big blow after the early

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collision with Rosberg, which forced him to retire. The German went on to

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finish second behind Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo, extending his lead

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over Hamilton in the driver's championship to 29 points. Nick

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Parrot reports. For the third time this year, Lewis

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Hamilton's race ended in bitter disappointment. It would seem no

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matter how hard he tries, his team-mate and championship rival

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Nico Rosberg comes off better. At first, victory looked likely for the

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Britain, as he roared off the line at spa, beating the German to the

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first corner, but hopes evaporated on just the second lap. A puncture

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so Lewis Hamilton limp into the pits, and other damage to his car

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eventually forced him out with five laps remaining. The front wing of

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Nico Rosberg had to be changed, handing the lead to Daniel Riccardo

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of Red Bull Racing. Despite the self-inflicted damage, the German

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battled back from 15 up to second place, but the gap to Daniel

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Riccardo was too great, once again, the Australian benefited from

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Mercedes problems to claim his third win of the season. That sees Nico

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Rosberg extend his championship lead to 29 points. But he received

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bullying on the podium, the crowd was as angry as Hamilton and the

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Mercedes boss, who described the crash as "absolutely unacceptable".

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-- booing.

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