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It's emerged that a doctor recommended that the German pilot

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who crashed an airliner into the Alps last year should be

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treated in a psychiatric hospital - two weeks before the disaster.

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Andreas Lubitz, who had a history of severe depression,

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deliberately brought down the Germanwings plane,

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Details have come in a final report by French investigators.

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Here's our Paris correspondent, Lucy Williamson.

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Andreas Lubitz had waged a long battle with depression. On 24th

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March last year he locked his pilot out of the cockpit and aimed the

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Germanwings plane he was flying directly into a remote part of the

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French Alps, killing all 50 people on board.

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Against the memories of everything that can't be changed,

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investigators today focused on what can.

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Our first recommendation is a balance between medical secrets,

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confidentiality and public sift. We want clear rules to require

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healthcare providers to inform the authorities when a specific

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patient's health is very likely to impact public safety.

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Balancing patient confidentiality and public safety was difficult,

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they said, but Andreas Lubitz had been seen by several psychiatric

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doctors in the weeks before the crash, one of whom had

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directed him to a psychiatric hospital, information that was not

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Earlier this week the families of those who died were shown a copy

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Their hope, that it would answer the biggest question of all: how

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Almost everybody completely unsatisfied with the answers that

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Most of the people who were present didn't understand the reasons given

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A year ago one young co-pilot spread pain across Europe.

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And whatever changes are made as a result,

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the question of who could have stopped him will haunt people

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There have already been changes made in the European aviation industry

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since the Germanwings crash. New recommendations that there should be

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two people in the cockpit at all times. For example. But the question

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of how to secure the cockpit from threats both inside it and outside

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it still hasn't been resolved. As this report shows there are no easy

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answers there. Lucy, thank you. The Chancellor, George Osborne,

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has warned there will be more public He said the situation around

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the world was more uncertain than at any time since

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the financial crisis of 2008. Mr Osborne said he needed

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to save the equivalent of 50p in every ?100 spent

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by the Government, describing that Here's our political

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correspondent, Adam Fleming. The Chancellor said the world

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economy is looking increasingly unstable, which means more cuts to

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Government spending at home. The Treasury says that's an extra ?4

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billion of cuts a year by the end of the decade. The world is a more

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uncertain place than at any time since the financial crisis and we

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need to act now so we don't pay later. That's why I need to find

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additional savings equivalent to 50p in every ?100 the Government spends

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by the end of the decade, because we've got live within our means to

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stay secure and that's the way we make Britain fit for the future.

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George Osborne defended cutting benefits for more than half a people

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with disabilities at the same time as offering tax cuts to others. We

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have a very clear manifesto commitment, a promise we made to the

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British people, that that we would raise the personal allowance to

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?12,500. To raise the high rate threshold to ?50,000 so that people

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on middle income tax weren't caught in the higher bands of tax. We'll

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deliver on the manifesto but in each judgment you make at a budget, what

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money you've got available and what you can afford to do. His Labour

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opposite number quoted targets set for investment by international

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experts to claim the Government is getting it wrong. The OECD is saying

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just to stand still we should be spending just oh 3% of GDP. What

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George Osborne is doing is reducing that to about 1.4. That's

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unacceptable. What I want to do is make sure we invest in the long

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term, and then we can withstand the global headwinds. That's why we've

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seen such difficulty this week. When it comes to the referendum on the

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UK's membership of the EU campaigners for a Leave vote, like

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the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, accused the Government of using fear

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tactics to sway voters, but the Chancellor said the dangers were

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genuine. This is not some political game. This is the biggest decision

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facing this country for 50 years and the people who are going to be

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affected by that decision are not you and me. We'll be long gone from

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the political stage. It will be the car worker in Sunderland, the hill

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farmer in Wales, the bank call centre worker in Bournemouth. Their

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future depends on an open and engaged Britain, a Britain engaged

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with the European Union. It is about their future, not about ours. It

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will be more immediate financial concerns that will be at the

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forefront of politics when the Chancellor reveals the contents of

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his red box on Wednesday. Surrey Police have accepted mistakes

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were made in the way they dealt with the mother of a 14-year-old

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boy, who was murdered by a man The force has apologised

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to Breck Bednar's parents and made a payment to the family,

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who had been seeking damages. The teenager's mother had warned

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police several weeks before his death that

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he was being groomed. A British man jailed in America

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for providing support to the Taliban through the internet has expressed

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regret for his involvement, and urged young Muslims not to fall

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into the hands of extremists. Babar Ahmad, who was freed last

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year, has spoken to the BBC's Babar Ahmad at home in south London

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with nephews and nieces He was locked up for more than 12

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years for supporting terrorism. In the first interview

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since his release last year, Babar Ahmad has this warning for any

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young people tempted to join groups like the so-called

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Islamic State. Don't allow yourself to be

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used by other people. Don't let anyone bully

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you that the only way to paradise is by bringing misery upon innocent

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people who have done nothing to you. Back in the 1990s Babar Ahmad fought

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alongside fellow Muslims An experience which led

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to him founding a website. He used it to encourage Muslims

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to send money and equipment Following the 9/11 attacks America

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tried to extradite him. He challenged that move for eight

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years but was eventually sentenced Looking back he now describes his

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support for the Taliban as naive. The initial motives were I did

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it in good faith but, in hindsight, I regret doing that

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and it was naive of me to do that because it was a

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complicated situation. His ordeal lasted 12 years

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but he is back home as the US judge concluded he was not

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an al-Qaeda terrorist. You can watch the full

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interview with Babar Ahmad on Victoria Derbyshire on BBC Two

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and the BBC News Channel Germans are going to the polls

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in regional elections that are being seen as a test of support

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for Chancellor Merkel's More than a million people applied

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for asylum there last year, but in recent months there's been

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concern, and anger from some, about the decision to welcome

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people fleeing Syria. Here's our Berlin correspondent,

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Jenny Hill. In the quiet of the regional polling

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booth elections which could have profound consequences for Germany's

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political landscape. Even Angela Merkel,

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here on the campaign trail yesterday, says she's

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crossing her fingers because this is the first time voters

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will deliver their verdict One in five voters in Saxony Anhalt,

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is expected to vote AFD is populist, anti-migrant

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and controversial. Its leader recently

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suggested that border guards TRANSLATION: She was always

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bad for this society. I am not against diversity

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but there must be limits. She doesn't have to live

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with these people. This party speaks

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to people's hearts. They take people's

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concerns seriously. These are just regional

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elections in just three year's general election

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and that's why here, in Berlin, Angela Merkel and her

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party will be watching closely. The next news on BBC

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One is at 6.30pm.

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