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Today the BBC's Director General, Lord Hall, spoke of him

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Our Arts Correspondent, David Sillito reports.

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Please welcome our knight of the realm, Sir Terry Wogan!

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Welcome to the beginning of what I hope will be a long

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How anyone can get such applause and still stay as nice as me,

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If being famous was there on offer, great!

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Terry Wogan, warm, witty, never lost for a word.

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There was a natural warmth. He warm, generous person and Goode

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express that in his voice. He just was himself. He was natural.

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But he had the right temperament to be a radio broadcaster. He was a

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charming, warm, generous, witty man. You knew him as soon as you heard

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him. And here is that boys 52 years ago.

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Commentating for or TE on President Kennedy's visit to Ireland.

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A number of expensive and smart restaurants with continental

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cuisine. But his ambitions lay with another

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broadcaster. I suppose I was a bit of a West

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Brit. I suppose in a way I had more in

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common with British radio and television than I had with Iris.

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He was one of the original line-up of radio one. But his real home was

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Radio 2. Have a pencil and paper handy. All great radio is the friend

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behind the microphone. And nobody was a better friend than Terry

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Wogan. That is why people feel upset and genuinely shocked. They feel as

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though they have lost a friend. The final total of this very night

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for a Children in Need... Children in Need showed his mastery of coping

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with anything. He was also enormously proud of what it

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achieved. We have helped literally millions and millions of

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disadvantaged children right across the UK. And I think that is the

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legacy that he would like to leave as much as the fantastic impact he

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made on broadcasting. His 1980s chat show was on three times a week. You

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said you find this horrific. Proving he could cope even when the guests

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did not want to chat. Is a major macro Probably.

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Is mischievous good-natured blossomed on blanketed line. I could

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have been a brain surgeon or anything. I could have been a disc

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jockey! Or gently mocking the Eurovision Song contest. Four

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knitting brides of Frankenstein and a loony with a close line. His love

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of golf even provided a bit of TV magic.

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But he was at his best in the place where he had most freedom. It was

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certainly the hardest to say goodbye to. So, I'm going to miss you. Until

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we are together again in February. Have a happy Christmas. And thank

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you. Thank you for being my friend.

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Sir Terry was famous for his close relationship with his audience -

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particularly his ardent Radio 2 fans, known as TOGs -

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When he retired from Radio 2 he paid tribute to them -

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and said how important they'd been to his life.

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Our Special correspondent Lucy Manning reports.

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He had the most loyal fans, the TOGs, always listening and riding

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in. The TOGs our Terry's old geezers and girls. They have a life of their

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own. I go to conventions. How do you qualify at? Well, you are asleep

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where others worry they would be dead. You're proud of your lawn

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mower. The end of your tide does not come anywhere near the top of your

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pants! Terry even got some of his TOGs together. Without TOGs we would

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not have met. Terry takes the credit. We had to wait a little

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while to make sure we were going to stay together and he was quite happy

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after that, he took the credit. It felt like it was part of a big

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family. He always made you feel that you were the one he was talking to.

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Just a single person, almost. He included everybody. In that way I

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think everybody felt they were part of the programme. They revelled in

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the jokes, the silly names, his Janet and John. You look like Louis

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XV. Thank you, said Charles. I had a lovely time. You did not have to be

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an old girl birdies to wake up to Wogan. I went on a first date with

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my now husband and in the course of the evening I said to him, I need to

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confess something, I wake up with Wogan in the morning. He said,

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that's OK, so do I. We really laughed about it. Young lovers of

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Wogan. We walked of -- out of our wedding reception to the floral

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dance. And for the group Blake, the backing

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of such an influential broadcaster mattered as they listened to their

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time on his show. There is the voice. It is Blake. All right,

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Blake? We still have a quote from Sir Terry on our tour posters. It

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says a trio of surpassing musical brilliance, Terry Wogan. It was

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quite sweet. A charming thing to say. I'm sure sold some tickets! The

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friend the microphone, that voice, that John mother was Terry Wogan.

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David Sillito our Arts correspondent is live outside BBC

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We heard some of it in the report. He was a man who inspired not just

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admiration but immense affection? Absolutely. The British and Irish

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Lions Prime Minister, the President of Ireland and somebody famous names

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paying tribute. One that struck me was Paul O'Grady. He said there was

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no falsehood about him. That is something echoed by many people.

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When you met him in private he was almost exactly the man you heard on

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the radio. He was mischievous, he had a delight in irony and also he

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enjoyed being spontaneous. He hated to plan. And of course, being Irish

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helped. That accent is classless in Britain. He could speak one to one

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to people in a sense of, there is a personal joke between us. One person

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who put it best was his friend and a person who had also appeared on his

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radio show for many years. Father Brian D'Arcy. He said the reason

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people loved him so much was that he was one of the few broadcasters who

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thought the audience, he presumed the audience was as clever as he

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was. David Sillito.

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Police in Tanzania say they have arrested three men after a British

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helicopter pilot was killed while tracking

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The pilot, Roger Gower, died on Friday when he was shot down

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His brother has told the BBC

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that he knew that chasing poachers was taking a risk.

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Roger Gower was doing the job he loved when he was killed. That does

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not make it any easier for his family. At his home in west London,

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Max Gower said his brother knew the risks involved in tracking poachers

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but he was not aware just how close he had got to them. He would not

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have gone anywhere near those poachers if he had known that they

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were armed. As I understand it, he knew there were around but he came

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across them by accident and did not really have enough time to evaluate

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the situation before they could fire on him. Roger Gower built a

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successful business flying tourist safaris in Tanzania. But he had also

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become increasingly passionate about conservation, flying regular patrols

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to track poaching activity. He was doing just that when his helicopter

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was brought down, fired on by poachers who had killed three

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elephants. Mr Gower was badly wounded. His guide managed to jump

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clear and hide in the bush. The British pilot died of his injuries.

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The authorities say three men have now been arrested. Poaching has

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become an industry worth millions in Tanzania at huge cost to the

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elephant population. Since 2009, elephant numbers here have fallen by

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60%. 30,000 are killed by poachers every year. Bush pilots are a key

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part of the battle to save Africa's elephants. Roger Gower is not the

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first person to be killed by poachers, but his loss is a blow to

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Tanzania and conservation as well as to the family he leaves behind.

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Richard Lister, BBC News. At least 50 people have been killed

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and more than a hundred injured in a series of bombings,

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close to the Syrian capital, The so-called Islamic State says it

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carried out the attacks which targeted one of

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Shia Islam's holiest shrines. Doctors in Switzerland say they have

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separated eight-day-old conjoined sisters, believed to be the youngest

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babies to be successfully parted. Swiss media say doctors had

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originally planned to separate them when they were several months

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old but brought the operation forward when they each suffered

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a life-threatening condition. The operation reportedly carried

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a 1% chance of success. The Business Secretary, Sajid Javid,

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says the controversial settlement between Google and the tax

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authorities "wasn't Under the deal, the internet giant

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has agreed to pay 130-million pounds in additional back taxes

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covering the past decade. The Chancellor, George Osborne had

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called the agreement David Cameron is meeting

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the European Council president Donald Tusk at Downing

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Street this evening - part of his bid to reform

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Britain's EU membership. He's pushing for a proposed

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"emergency brake" to deny benefit payments to working EU migrants

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to be triggered immediately The meeting is getting underway now

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and our Political correspondent Carole Walker joins us

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from Downing Street.Carole how important to the process

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is this meeting? Well, this really is a critical

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meeting. I do not think it will be a relaxing dinner they will be having.

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Donald Tusk is hoping tomorrow to circulate a letter setting out the

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draft outline of a deal on a new relationship between Britain and the

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rest of the EU. David Cameron has made it very clear that he is simply

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not happy with what is being offered. He originally wanted a four

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year delay before EU workers could claim benefits. That ran into a huge

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amount of opposition. So this idea of an emergency brake was floated.

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That was with a long and cumbersome process and they need the approval

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of other EU nations. What David Cameron will say tonight is that he

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wants Britain to apply that emergency brake on the payment of

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benefits to EU workers -- migrant workers and keep it in place as long

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as it's needed, and that should just be a stopgap to a more permanent

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arrangement. There is a lot to thrash out. David Cameron is making

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it clear that every does not get the right deal, he is prepared to walk

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away from that UN summit without a deal, and to just carry on

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negotiating. Carole Walker, thank you.

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This month alone, more than 50 thousand migrants have made

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the perilous sea crossing from Turkey to Greece -

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a 35-fold increase from this time last year.

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In the same period, 250 people have drowned attempting the journey.

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Today, our correspondent James Reynolds has been aboard

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It is an hour before dawn. 25 Iraqi migrants wave from their broken

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boats. They do not believe Europe is full. Rescuers go to get them. A

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private company supports the Greek coastguard. Winter has not stopped

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migrants from coming. But it has made their journey much more

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dangerous. A child can survive in these Waters for only 15 minutes.

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The migrants, their children coming aboard now. Those who have been at

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sea for such a long time, this moment of rescue must surely be one

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of the great moments of their lives. They were happy to see you? They

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were happy. They were happy. Inside the ship, an Italian medical team

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treats a man who has the ship, an Italian medical team

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inhaling fumes. Others recover more quickly. And are ready to stop being

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smothered. S thank you very much. Thank you and thank you. This man

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and his family have escaped Islamic State in Iraq. At dawn the rescue

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boat heads to Greece. Towing with it the useless vessel of the migrants.

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Their first steps in Europe are a little uncertain. Greece will give

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them shelter. But finding a home is up to them.

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With all the sport, here's Karthi Gnanasegaram.

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Good evening. Andy Murray admitted it has been a tough tournament after

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being beaten in the Australian Open final by world number one Novak

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Djokovic. The Serb won in straight sets to claim a record a drink six

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title. Murray said he was keen to get home and at found it hard to

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play tennis while his wife was about to have their first child and his

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father-in-law had collapsed during the tournament.

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Jon Donnison report. Andy Murray must have had a sense of deja vu. As

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he attempted to win the trophy that has eluded him for so long. This was

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his fifth Australian Open final. The fourth against his memo -- nemesis,

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Novak Djokovic. The first set was a disaster. The Scot did not get a

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look in. He went down 6-1. His brother, Jamie, who told him off for

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staying up late last night to watch him win the doubles, may have had a

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point. In the second though, Murray broke serve. But the Serb came good

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when it mattered to go two sets up. In the third Murray refused to lie

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down, forcing a tie-break. But the world number one knows

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down, forcing a tie-break. But the things quickly. He took the match

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with an ace. And with it a trophy that he has made his own. So once

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again it is the Serbs were celebrating here in Melbourne. Novak

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Djokovic is six time winner of the Australian Open. Andy Murray five

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times runner-up. He will have something to distract him from his

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disappointment. He is due on the first flight home. His wife, Kim,

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due to give birth any day. Jon Donnison, BBC News, Melbourne.

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The FA Cup fifth round draw was made a few minutes ago. Chelsea will face

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Manchester city after the London club thrashed MK Dons 5-1.

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Shrewsbury Town's reward for wheat in the fifth round is a home tie

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against Manchester United. Earlier Everton beat Carlisle. After that

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match both managers expressed their disappointment that the referee had

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received a complaint from a player about racist chanting during the

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game. This was Brunton Park just a month

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ago. Like so many others, Carlisle United were homeless. There are

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recent return has brought the city together. But camaraderie alone

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would not stop Everton. Two minutes gone and they were already in front.

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Everton, whilst not entirely comfortable, took charge. When Ross

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Barkley drilled in their third goal, any chance of an upset was over.

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Carlisle's Ron may have ended but the recovery continues. For MK Dons,

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the visit of Chelsea was another milestone in their history. After

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falling behind, Darren potter Paton -- took a chance and it paid off. A

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few months ago Chelsea could have folded but confidence has been

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renewed under Guus Hiddink. A hat-trick from Oscar turned the game

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into a training ground routine. Premier League attack against

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Championship defence. The rest was a formality. Oscar leaves with the

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match ball. Chelsea with further signs of progress. Katie Gornall,

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BBC News. All of the fifth round fixtures in

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the FA Cup hour on the BBC's board website.

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The Scottish League Cup Allders, Celtic, have been knocked out of the

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convocation by Ross County. Celtic scored within the first minute of

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the semifinal but had a player sent off. Ross County took advantage and

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booked their place in the league cup final for the very first time with a

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3-1 victory. They will face Hibernian in the final in March.

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That is all for now. Our main news again -

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tributes are being paid to one of Britain's best known and best

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loved broadcasters - Sir Terry Wogan - who's

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died at the age of 77. There'll be a special edition

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of the One Show tomorrow night looking back on his life -

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that's at 7pm on Monday In a moment - the news

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where you are - but we'll leave you with Sir Terry's own words

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about being on the air I just loved the nature of it. The

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show is my creation and so I impose my own timing of it, my own sense of

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humour. I

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