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A multiple car crash in Birmingham

leaves six people dead and one man

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fighting for his life in hospital.

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It happened in the early hours

of the morning in an underpass.

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Witnesses described

the scene as "horrific."

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I got out of bed, looked out

the window and saw loads of people

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running to where the crash was.

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And then the police officers telling

everyone to get back, get back.

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Tonight, one of the dead has been

named locally as Imtiaz Mohammed,

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who was 33, and a father of six.

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Ambulance crews say so many

vehicles were involved it's

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"astonishing" the number

of fatalities wasn't higher.

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Also tonight:

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A British embassy worker in Lebanon

has been found dead.

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Police say Rebecca Dykes

had been strangled.

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The Government wants 18 year olds

to be automatically enrolled

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into workplace pensions,

to help prepare for retirement.

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And Sir Mo Farah, wins BBC

Sports Personality of the Year.

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Good evening.

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Investigators are trying

to establish what caused a multiple

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pile up in an underpass

in Birmingham this morning,

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which killed six people and injured

several others, some seriously.

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Firefighters who helped remove

bodies from the wreckage,

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described the scene as "horrific".

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From Birmingham our correspondent

Phil Mackie reports.

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The immediate aftermath of the crash

- debris strewn across four lanes.

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Medics were desperately trying

to save lives, but five

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people were already dead

and a sixth was dying.

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The rest of the footage

is too graphic to show.

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Tonight one of those killed

has been named locally.

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Imtiaz Mohammed was a father

of six and a taxi driver.

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In daylight, the scale

of what happened

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became clearer.

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Two passengers in Mr

Mohammed's taxi also died.

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Astonishingly, the man and the woman

in the small car crushed between it

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and the wall walked away

with minor injuries.

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The sound of the crash woke

many of those who lived nearby.

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I got out of bed, looked out

the window and just saw

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loads of people running

towards where the crash was

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and then the police

officers telling everyone

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to "get back, get back,"

so I

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guess people were

trying to help people.

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They pulled two people

out of the taxi.

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Didn't realise it was a taxi

until later, but they pulled

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two people out of taxi,

resuscitated them straightaway

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for about 20 minutes 25 minutes.

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They took one in an ambulance.

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I didn't see them take the second

one away so I don't know

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if they didn't make it.

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But yeah, it was...

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havoc.

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The crash happened

on a section of the

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Bellgrave Middleway -

a busy road in

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the heart of Birmingham.

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The vehicles collided at

the entrance to to an underpass at

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the Bristol Road.

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The road had to be closed

to allow the emergency

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services to safely

examine the scene.

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Investigators have been working

all day to try to find out

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what happened.

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The road was gritted,

but eight hours before the crash at

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1 o'clock in the morning.

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Now, there's no

central barriers down

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there, so did one of the vehicles

cross a carriageway?

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Residents say that,

especially late at night when

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it's quiet, motorists often come

down this road extremely fast.

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It will take some time to unpick

the scene and just understand

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exactly what's happened and it

will be unfair

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for me to speculate at this time.

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What I can say is that we are

looking to all sorts of conditions,

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the road conditions,

we are aware the road

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was gritted 5pm last night,

but obviously that's just one factor

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of many that we need to consider.

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40 firefighters helped

free the survivors,

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five ambulance crews

and

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three more paramedics

treated the injured,

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at what was described

as a

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complex scene.

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It quickly became apparent

there couldn't be a lot

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done to save the life of some

of those patients unfortunately.

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Again, very difficult

circumstances, as you

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have already alluded to,

very close to Christmas.

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So our thoughts are with the family

and friends of those

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patients that are involved.

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Police describe the crash

scene as harrowing.

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Investigators worked through the day

before the first stage of a

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sensitive and difficult operation

could come to an end.

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In fact tonight another of the

victims of crash has been named as.

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Torqia Hussein. The road's

re-opened, police are expected to

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reveal more details about those who

died in the coming days. They say

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the investigation could take some

time have a appealed for anyone who

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filmed anything last night not to

share it on social media, but to

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send the footage to them. Thank you.

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Police in Lebanon are

investigating the death

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of a British embassy worker.

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The BBC has been told the body

of Rebecca Dykes was found

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on the side of a motorway yesterday.

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A spokesman for the family said

they were devastated and doing

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all they could to understand

what had happened.

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Our correspondent Martin

Patience is in Beirut.

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What more are you hearing from the

authorities in relation to this?

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Well we understand that Rebecca

Dykes on Friday evening was at a

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going away party for a colleague in

a restaurant area of the city. She

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left that bar around midnight and

some time after that it was believed

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she was abducted. Her body was found

dumped on the side of a motorway on

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Saturday morning and police have

told us that they believe Rebecca

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was strangled. She had been in the

country for almost a year and was

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working for the international, for

the department of international

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development. We have been hearing

from the Embassy and the British

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ambassador that the Embassy was

shocked by the news and they were

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working with the Lebanese

authorities who are conducting the

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investigation.

Thank you.

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The new leader of South Africa

should be known within the next few

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hours as thousands of ANC delegates

take part in the election.

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The vote is expected to be close

between the two candidates vying

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to replace President Jacob Zuma.

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His time in office has been marked

by deep divisions within the ANC.

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Our Africa Editor, Fergal Keane,

is in Johannesburg.

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Some confusion as to when the vote

would take place. Is it going to be

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on time and will we know in the

morning who will be the new leader?

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Nothing about this process has been

on time. A chaotic evening here. I'm

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at the conference centre. We were

told two hours ago voting wasn't

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going to take place and would happen

in the morning and then a message

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came it has started. We have been

speaking to Del gates coming out and

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they saying it is going province by

province. We expect and this is very

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qualified, because it can pause

again. We expect a result, we should

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know the next president of the ANC

some time at around 10 o'clock

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tomorrow morning here. It is a very

big deal politically. Not just for

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the African National Congress, but

for South Africa. This country has

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been badly hit by the allegation of

corruption by the allegations of

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misrule that have swirled around the

Government of Jacob Zuma. People in

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the country are looking for

something new. We will wait until

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the morning. Whether we see that

will be Cyril Ramaphosa, the man who

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said he will sweep acorruption or

the wife of Jacob Zuma, or his

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ex-wife.

Thank you.

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A suicide bomb attack

on a packed Methodist church

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in south western Pakistan,

has killed at least 9 people

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and wounded more than 50 others.

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CCTV images caught the moment one

of two bombers tried

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to enter the building,

in the city of Quetta.

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One man was shot dead by police,

the other detonated his device.

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So-called Islamic State have

claimed responsibility.

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Russia has said that its security

services stopped a terror attack

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in St Petersburg with the help

of information provided

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by America's intelligence

agency, the CIA.

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President Putin has

thanked President Trump,

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and said his country

would reciprocate if it

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knew of a threat to

the United States or its citizens.

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The Justice Secretary has called

for a ban on the sale of tiny mobile

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phones which can't be detected

by prison security scanners.

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Officials say the phones -

no bigger than a cigarette lighter -

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are freely available

on the internet, and are being

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smuggled into prisons to help

facilitate more crime.

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Mobile phones have emerged

as a major security

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challenge for prisons.

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The Government is considering

extending automatic enrolment

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into a workplace pension,

to 18 year olds, from 2020.

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Currently the starting age is 22,

for anyone earning more

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than 10,000 pounds.

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Workers can opt out,

but the change could affect around

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900,000 people.

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Joe Lynam reports.

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Ollie and Nate are both 21.

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Ollie, on the left, has

not yet started saving

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for his retirement.

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It it's not really

crossed my mind yet.

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I've moved jobs quite

frequently, I tend

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not to stay in one place

too long, so pensions

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have always been sort

of

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low down the list of things I have

been sort of conscious of.

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Nate though has been saving

for his retirement since he was 16.

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I grew up with a family

on welfare, so I

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was aware of the effects of being

reliant on government money can have

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and how insecure I can be sometimes.

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If the work and Pensions Secretary

David Gauke has his way, young

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people like Ollie

and Nate could soon be

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automatically enrolled

for a

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pension at their employers.

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That I think will get

more people into the

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habit of saving, it will mean

younger people will be saving for

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those extra years, so that obviously

is significant when it comes to

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their retirement.

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The Government says that

since it introduced auto-enrolment,

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nine million additional

people have started saving for

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their retirement.

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But is it wise to force even younger

people into pension schemes?

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We're all in it.

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Well, young people

leaving school today

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are facing this perfect storm

of high housing costs, a squeeze on

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their living costs and also having

to contend with quite a limited wage

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and it makes it much more likely

they will want to opt out in the

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future if they don't

know what that pension

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is and what it's doing for them.

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At the moment, only those aged over

22 are automatically included

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in a pension scheme

by their employers.

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But the Government wants

that age lowered to 18.

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Soon 8% of our salaries

will be going into a

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pension pot - something that

employers are worried about.

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I think what the Government

needs to bear in

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mind however is how much

of the cost of that is

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going to be falling

on

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employers in the future.

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Because already the cost

for employers is on

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course to treble by 2019.

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Today's announcement

means the cost for

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employers is going to be

even higher than that.

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To 18 or even 21-year-olds,

retirement must seem a

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very long way off and especially

if they don't earn much.

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But if this plan proceeds,

it could help prevent

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younger people depending

on the state in decades to come.

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The leaders of Myanmar could face

charges of genocide over

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the persecution of the Rohingya

ethnic group, according the UN's

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High Commissioner for human rights.

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It's estimated that more

than 650,000 Rohingya muslims have

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fled from Myanmar to neighbouring

Bangladesh since August,

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when attacks on police posts

prompted a military crackdown.

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Our South Asia correspondent

Justin Rowlett reports.

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This boy is 11 years old.

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He draws pictures of

the horrors he's witnessed.

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TRANSLATION: Older women

were stamped on and then the

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military grabbed them by the hair

and slaughtered them.

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Because I saw that,

I'm drawing this.

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He is one of 650,000

Rohingya refugees who fled

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Myanmar after a military assault

that began in late August.

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"They're coming to kill

us," says the man,

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"they're coming to kill us."

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The widespread and

systematic nature of

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the violence has persuaded the UN's

human rights chief that the

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crimes committed in Myanmar could

amount to genocide - acts intended

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to destroy a group of people.

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Can anyone rule out that elements

of genocide may be present?

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He wants a criminal

investigation to identify

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the perpetrators and,

in an exclusive interview

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with the BBC, he doesn't

rule out the possibility that

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Aung San Suu Kyi or military leaders

could end up in the dock.

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Given the scale of the

military operation, I

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think clearly these would have to be

decisions taken at a high enough

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level and then there

is the crime of omission,

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that if you it came

to

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your knowledge that this

was being committed

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and you did nothing

to

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stop it, then you could

culpable as well for that.

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He says only a court can

judge that, but he is

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determined that justice

should be done.

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In the meantime this boy

and hundreds of thousands like him

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remain in limbo.

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We asked Aung San Suu Kyi

for a response, but she

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hasn't replied.

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And you can see more on that story

on Panorama tomorrow night

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at 7.30pm on BBC One.

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Prince Harry has interviewed

Barack Obama for BBC Radio

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4's Today programme.

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You start using long pauses between

answers, you won't get the face. Let

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me see the face!

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The interview is part of Harry's

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guest editorship of the programme

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and features the former US president

sharing his memories of the day

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he left office and his hopes

for his post-presidential life.

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With all the SPORT -

here's Lizzie Greenwood Hughes

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at the BBC Sport Centre.

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Thanks very much.

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Good evening.

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Sir Mo Farrah has been

crowned this year's BBC

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Sports Personality of the Year.

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Britain's most successful athlete

won a close public vote,

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ahead of World Superbikes Champion

Jonathan Rea and the

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double paralympic gold

medallist Johnnie Peacock.

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Our Correspondent Joe Wilson

was watching in Liverpool,

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and just to warn you -

his report contains

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some flash photography.

his report contains

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The world Superbike champion

arriving in Liverpool. Jonathan Rea

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had the best entrance. And the

questions were for Chris Froome.

I'm

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an asthmatic and I use a puffer to

help me manage my asthma. But I've

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never taken more puffs than I'm

allowed. So this really is quite a

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horrible situation.

This man was the

bookie's favourite to win. Anthony

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Joshua was on the red carpet among

other famous sports men and women.

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But this award is to acknowledge the

sports person who most captures the

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public imagination. Mo Farah was

trying to do an interview with his

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family. His son thought it was

family time. We knew Jonny peacock

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was second. Now the winner.

Mo

Farah.

Me? Really? Now with just his

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eldest daughter alongside him, Mo

Farah's reaction was wonderfully

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sweet, but sadly short. The line to

London was lost!

Oh no!

In 2017

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Farah was Britain's outstanding

individual athlete. But when

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technology allowed, he said he had

expected to miss out at sports

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personality again.

You compare

yourself with other athletes and you

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are I could finish in the top three,

I didn't imagine I would win this.

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Come so close in 2012 and then...

You know, but anything can happen.

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And anything can happen with the

story of the night.

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England's cricketers will walk out

at the WACA in a few hour's time

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knowing they need a herculean effort

to avoid losing the Ashes.

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Already 2-0 down, they've been

undone again by Australia

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in the crucial third test -

Mitchell Starc delivering what's

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being described as 'the ball of this

century' after it completely changed

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direction at 90 miles an hour -

taking the wicket of James Vince.

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England will resume in Perth

on 132-4 on a deteriorating pitch

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and most likely needing

to bat-out the final day

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or surrender the series.

to bat-out the final day

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Celtic's long unbeaten record

in Scottish football has been halted

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by Hearts who thrashed

the Premiership leaders 4-0 today.

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Teenage striker Harry Cochrane won

'man of the match' after he opened

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the scoring at Tyncastle -

marking the beginning of the end

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of Celtic's 585 day run.

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Holly Hamilton reports.

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It has been long time since anyone

got the better of Celtic in

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Scotland. They travelled to

Tynecastle unbeaten in 69 domestic

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games. But records are made to be

broken. After 26 minutes a schoolboy

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error led to schoolboy Harry

Cochrane firing Hearts into the

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lead. Then Gordon prevented the

hosts making it a double. But then

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Lafferty drove in this shot. After

the break, ma link vich made it 3-0

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and then he slotted home a late

penalty. That result means Celtic

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top the table by just two points.

Time for the champions to regroup

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and set the reset button.

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Jose Mourinho has vowed to "fight

until the last match"

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after his Manchester

United team moved back

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to within 11 points of their City

rivals at the top of

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the Premier League.

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Romelu Lukaku opened the scoring

against his old side as United beat

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West Brom by 2-1.

0:19:560:19:57

In the later kick-off, Liverpool

thumped Bournemouth 4-0 away.

0:19:570:19:59

Mo Salah amongst the scorers.

0:19:590:20:01

It's his 11th goal in as many games

and his 20th of the season.

0:20:010:20:04

Liverpool are back up

to 4th in the table.

0:20:040:20:08

Saracens' worst run for 14 years

continued as they lost again

0:20:080:20:11

in rugby union's European Champions

Cup.

0:20:110:20:15

Last year's winners

were beaten by Clermont

0:20:150:20:16

for the second time in a week.

0:20:160:20:20

Elsewhere, Wasps kept

alive their hopes of reaching

0:20:200:20:22

the quarter-finals with

victory over La Rochelle.

0:20:220:20:24

Ospreys

beat Northampton and

0:20:240:20:25

Leicester lost to Munster.

0:20:250:20:29

That's it from me,

but there's plenty more

0:20:290:20:30

on the BBC Sport website.

0:20:300:20:32

Including how British showjumper

Scott Brash just missed-out

0:20:320:20:34

on winning a second successive

World Cup at Olympia.

0:20:340:20:36

Back to you Clive.

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Just time to tell you that this week

the news at Six and Ten will be

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bringing a series of special reports

on the growing number

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of older people making up

the world's population.

0:20:520:20:54

As a third of babies

now born in the UK are

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