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A suspect package triggers a massive security

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alert at Old Trafford, on the final day of

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Manchester United's stadium is completely evacuated,

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with the match against Bournemouth abandoned.

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I didn't think it was real at first. And then they came back over saying

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- red alert. We thought that wasn't right.

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Bomb disposal experts carry out a controlled explosion,

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but say though lifelike, the device wasn't viable.

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We'll have the latest on the police response.

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Boris Johnson is sharply criticised for comparing

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There's anger in Russia, following Ukraine's victory in last

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And a British charity gets the go ahead to de-mine the site

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where it's believed Christ was baptised.

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The last day of the Premier League football season was thrown

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into chaos, when the match between Manchester United

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and Bournemouth was abandoned, because of a suspect package.

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Tens of thousands of fans were evacuated from Old Trafford

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and bomb disposal experts carried out a controlled explosion.

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But officers later said the device, though lifelike, "wasn't viable."

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Our Sports Correspondent, Andy Swiss, is at Old

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Clive, as you say, on the pitch this was potentially a pivotal day for

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Manchester u niented shortly before kick-off -- Manchester United. And

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shortly before kick-off thousands of fans had already taken their seats.

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But suddenly everything changed. Instead of watching a football

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match, they were being evacuated from the stadium and the game

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dramatically called off. Just 0 minutes before kick-off -- 20

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minutes before kick-off with the players warning up, a first

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announcement. Supporters in two stands told to

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evacuate the stadium because a suspect package had been discovered.

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Kick-off was initially delayed as sniffer dogs were brought in but

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just after 3.00pm, the fans still inside were given dramatic news Due

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to a discovery of a suspect package on the north-west section of the

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ground, the match has been abandoned for today. Suddenly the game's live

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TV coverage took a very different turn.

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REPORTER: We are outside here in the television compound. We are about

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100 yards or so behind the Stretford end. Reports that the bomb squad

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have been arriving. Here we are, there is confirmation that there is

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a bomb disposal unit arriving here. As the players, including United's

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Michael Carrick digested developments, the remaining

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thousands of fans inside the stadium, began making their way out.

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Most appeared to remain calm. But there was understandable concern

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When you are leaving the ground and you ask the security guard what is

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going on and they are like - we don't know, wait outside, it is kind

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of, you know, causes panic. To start with everyone was quite relaxed

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no-one thought anything of it. I didn't think it was real. No-one

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moved. And then they came back over saying "red alert", we thought,

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that's not right. In a statement, Greater Manchester Police later

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said: But by then, with fans leaving, and

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emergency services arriving, it had already caused vast disruption. In

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footballing terms, this was one of the biggest days of the season, with

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United hoping to win Champions' League qualification. But instead,

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the sport has been overshadowed by a security scare at one of the game's

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most famous venues. Well, within the last few minutes,

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Greater Manchester Police have just released another statement. They say

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that "Following today's controlled explosion we have since found out

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that the item was a training device which had been accidentally left by

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a private company, following a training exercise involving

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explosive search dogs." Now, as far as the Premier League are concerned,

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this has caused a huge headache for them. Remember, this was supposed to

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be the last day of the Premier League season and within the last

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hour, they have announced this match will now be played here at Old

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Trafford on Tuesday night. In the meantime, the authorities will be

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trying to get to the bottom of what has been a major security alert. OK.

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Andy, many thanks. Daniel Sandford is with me now. A

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training device, how on earth can that have been left This came in. It

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seems on the face of it to be a horrendous own goal by Man United's

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security people. They have been using this device to do tests for

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searches in the stadium. It has been left in place, so when the match was

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just about to start, this device has been found and somebody has believed

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it to be a real device. Well the risk of it being a real device. It

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was described to me as essentially a fake bomb. It looked like a bomb but

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had no mroeksive power. The reason why the -- explosive power. The

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reason why the police acted so forcibly is because of the security

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environment. It is worth remembering that the Paris attacks in November

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began with an attempted suicide attack at Stade de France, at a if

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the ball match. That's the -- at a football match. That's the climate

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that Football Clubs are operating on. Greater Manchester Police have

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done a recent training exercise. We are also not talking about

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terrorism, related to supporters of so-called Islamic State. The threat

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level for Irish republican terrorism was also raised in Britain this

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week. So there is multiple security concerns going on at the moment and

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then someone leaves a training device in a stadium, before a game,

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then this is what is going to happen. Thank you for that.

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The prominent Vote Leave campaigner in June's EU referendum,

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Boris Johnson, has been heavily criticised for comparing Hitler's

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desire to unify Europe, to claims about the intentions

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In an interview for a Sunday newspaper, he said both the Nazi

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leader and the European Union, shared similar goals

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but today's politicians were using different methods.

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Our Political Correspondent Ben Wright reports.

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It's a time for hard hats. Boris Johnson rarely does subtle but his

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latest intervention in the referendum campaign has sent sparks

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flying. A leading Leave campaigner, Mr

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Johnson said the last 2,000 years of European history had seen doomed

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attempts to recreate the Roman Empire by trying to unify t

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Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried it out and ends tragically.

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The EU is trying to do this by different methods, he said.

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Any mention of Hitler in the EU debate was always going to be prompt

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controversy but fellow Leave campaigners say Mr Johnston's

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reading of history was right Boris was making a carefully calibrated

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comparison. All these figures, were all flying to create a United States

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of Europe, though admittedly they wanted to do it by force whilst the

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EU is doing it by stealth. But supporters of the Remain campaign

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were incredulous at the comparison, including the former head of the

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British Army, a veteran of the D-Day landings. I saw can exactly what

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Hitler was up to and it had absolutely no bearing on setting up

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the European Union, which was to set up a bloc of European nations who

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would think in a like manner and would, therefore, avoid any

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necessaritive a war amongst themselves. Europe's history and

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Britain's place in it has become a battleground in this referendum.

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Glouring over Parliament is Churchill, whose own views on Europe

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are being pressed into service by both sides and the past is being

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invoked to stir our emotions, our gut feeling and that's why Boris

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Johnson mentioned Churchill's wartime enemy but this referendum is

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really about the future, the political and economic repercussions

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of staying in or leaving the EU

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The Remain campaign says Boris Johnson is wrong to suggestion the

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EU is hurtling towards a superstate T points out that Britain is not in

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the euro and has guaranteed it won't be dragged into an ever-closer

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union. But Boris Johnson has whipped up a coninterest ofcy this weekend,

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raising memories of Europe's past, to warn voters about the EU's

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future. Ukraine's victory in last night's

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Eurovision Song Contest The winning entry, entitled "1944",

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is about the deportation of the Tatar people

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from the Crimean Peninsula under Moscow annexed Crimea back

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from Ukraine two years ago. The final votes and the dramatic

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moment that Ukraine Ukraine had betten its big rival,

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Russia, into third place. Jamala sings about the year 1944,

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when Joseph Stalin ordered the deportation of

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all Crimean Tatars. Many people interpret the song

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as a comment on Crimea today, after Russia's annexation and Russia

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has reacted angrily After the contest, live on Russian

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TV, there were accusations of a fix. Russia had won the popular vote

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but not the support of the juries. Studio guests claimed that singer,

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Sergey Lazarev, was the victim In Moscow today, there has been

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a chorus of disapproval Politicians have been

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dismissing the contest as a political battlefield,

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claiming that Russia's defeat is part of a Western

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campaign against Moscow. One senator here even suggested that

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Russia should boycott next year's Russian MP Yelena Drapeko

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believes the West is waging an information war on Russia,

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that's now spread to Eurovision. The juries were influenced

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by an information campaign against Russia, that claims

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everything That all sportsmen take doping

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and that Russians are aggressive. Russia went all-out to win

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this year's Eurovision. If it does take part next

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year and if relations with Kiev remain tense,

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Ukraine could prove In Iraq at least 14 people have been

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killed and more than 20 wounded in a suicide bomb attack

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by so-called Islamic It happened at a gas installation

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north of the capital, Baghdad. A military spokesman said the car

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bomb exploded at the entrance Six attackers then went

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in and exchanged fire with the security forces,

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before detonating suicide vests. David Cameron is planning

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what he calls "deeper and more intensive action" to help children

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in care in England. He's also promising a new covenant

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for those leaving care, which will set out the support

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they should receive The Government will outline

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the measures in the Queen's Aid agencies say they're

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increasingly concerned about female refugees and migrants

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trying to reach Europe. Women and children now make up

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the majority of those arriving on the continent's shores and tens

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of thousands are stuck in Greece while their asylum

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claims are processed. The UN says they're vulnerable

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to sexual assault and face Our correspondent, Caroline Hawley,

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has been to the Greek island of Lesbos, to hear some

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of their stories. Alone with four small children

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and stranded in a strange country. Satina's husband was crushed

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to death on an overcrowded dinghy the smugglers had forced

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the family to board. "Daddy", says her

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one-and-a-half-year-old daughter. Amina

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was on the same boat. She now volunteers at this peace

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stand to stop herself She'd set off from Aleppo with her

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disabled husband, Mohammed. Many of the women here were already

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widows when they left. Others want to join husbands

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and brothers who made Coratepi camp is one of the safest

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and best-managed in Greece but aid agencies say that women

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on their own Some here have formed

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their own support networks. Fatia and Saham met in a Turkish

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detention centre, forging a firm friendship and are now sharing

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this makeshift home. Saham's husband and two sons

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disappeared in northern Syria. When her home was then hit

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by a shell, there was nothing Her friend, Fatia, and her three

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children left their home in Damascus to try to join her husband and other

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son and daughter in Germany. They hope to live next door

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to each other in Germany but with Europe's borders now closed

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they are in limbo. Like everyone else here, they have

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no idea what the future holds. There will be more on the lives of

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refugees and migrants tomorrow, as part of the BBC's World on the Move

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Day. The film star and Special Envoy

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Angelina Jolie will be speaking on Radio 4, the BBC News Channel and

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the BBC website at 12.15pm tomorrow. With all the sport, here's

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Lizzie Greenwood Hughes We're starting with football

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and it was supposed to be the final day of the season for the top

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divisions in England and Scotland. Match of the Day and Sportscene

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are coming up, so if you don't want to know what happened,

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you know what to do. Aside from Manchester United

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and Bournemouth, every other Premier League team

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was in action today. Manchester City made

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sure of their place in the Champions League by finishing

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4th in the table with Southampton beat Crystal Palace 4-1

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to qualify for the Europa League with their highest ever Premier

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League points total. Elsewhere West Ham and Liverpool's

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chances of qualifying for Europe happening in the FA Cup and Europa

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League finals. Tottenham were heavily beaten by

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Newcastle. Scottish Champions Celtic gave their

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outgoing manager Ronnie Deila by thrashing Motherwell 7-0 in the

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final game of the season. Their last goal was scored by

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debutante Jack Aitchison, who at 16 years and 71 days is now

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Celtic's youngest player ever. Andy Murray has become

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the first Briton to win He beat Novak Djokovic

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in straight sets in Rome - his only victory over

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the world number one on clay. It continues Murray's near-perfect

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preparation for the French Open Our Correspondent

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Joe Wilson reports. Dela is what you make of it. In the

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right hands, a source of joy as Andy Murray is finally discovering. --

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clay. At 29 it maybe the best is ahead of

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him. He took the first set against Novak Djokovic in Rome 6-3. The

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world number one was fatigued and didn't like the wet surface and he

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was also being outplayed. Djokovic's frustration early in the second set

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was unmissable. The break of serve, Murray greeted

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with an apology. Well, the ball had kissed the net on its way. Now this

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performance raises expectations for the French Open on clay in a week,

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but beating Novak Djokovic is its own reward anywhere, any time.

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We have seen some magical matchpoints from Murray over the

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years. Take a look at this one. COMMENTATOR: Oh my goodness me. What

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can you do against that? Well, just meet at the net and say well done.

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Andy Murray has lost a coach, he has gained a prestigious trophy. They

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even remembered his birthday. Formula One history was made in

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Barcelona today when the Dutch teenager Max Verstappen became the

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youngest driver to win a Grand Prix. The 18-year-old took advantage of

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favourites Lewis Hamilton and retiring.

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colliding on the first lap It was Verstappen's debut race for

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Red Bull. Great Britain topped the medal table

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at the European Aquatics Championships in London

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after Tom Daley won The Olympic bronze medallist

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comfortably beat his Russian rival Alicia Blagg and Rebecca

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Gallantree also claimed I'm over the moon with the way this

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week has gone. It is always mazing being able to dive in front of a

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home crowd. It is so nice being able to compete in front of your friends

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and familiar lane having a sell out crowd come and cheer. It is the best

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fun ever. And finally, the British de-mining

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charity, the Halo Trust, has been given the go-ahead

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for a major project to clear explosives from seven

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churches in the West Bank. They're at the site where Christ

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is believed to have been baptised, and were heavily mined by Israeli

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troops nearly 50 years ago. No-one has set foot inside them

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since then, as our Religious Affairs Correspondent,

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Caroline Wyatt, reports A place where pilgrims

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fear to tread, among the churches irst built

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over a thousand years ago, at one of

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Chrisianity's sacred site. It became a battlefield,

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mind and booby-trapped by Israeli soldiers

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almost 50 years ago. fields that have remained

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empty ever since. But at last, the Halo Trust has won

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the backing of all the churches represented here to

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the mine and make this area safe for There is a silence here,

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nothing happening here, because human beings cannot do

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what human beings should do, which is to be here

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to worship in safety. The hope is for a rebirth for this

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troubled area in the occupied territory of the West Bank,

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where more than 300,000 pilgrims come each year, to immerse

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themselves in the waters of the This is wherethe Bible suggests

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Jesus's Ministry on earth began The minute we started coming

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into the complex, it got really emotional, because this

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is where it starts. This is one of the most significant

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sites in the Christian world and pilgrims come here from around

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the globe to see where Christ himself was said

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to be baptised. Many pilgrims come to visit the

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churches here, but they can't because of the

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minefields. A million square metres

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will need to be made safe. Thousands of deadly mines are known

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to be under this treacherous, The politics of the Holy Land meant

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complex negotiations between different strands of

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Christianity as well as the Israeli government

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and Palestinian authority. All have now agreed to the project -

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uniting Christians, in a place where religion all too

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often divides. I think this will be a contribution

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to not only peace The Halo Trust will start its work

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by Christmas but charities Some ?3 million to help make safe

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this place of pilgrimage

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