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Welcome to Outside Source, an hour of international news. Let's begin

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in Los Angeles. All public schools have been closed. This is over a

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suspected security threat. There's now a suggestion it could be a hoax.

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We're live in LA shortly. Tim Peake and his crew mates have arrived at

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the International Space Station. The first Republican debate after Donald

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Trump's suggestion that Muslims should be temporarily banned from

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coming into the UK. We will talk to our correspondent in Washington. And

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the latest report all about allegations that China is exploiting

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natural resources in the South China Sea.

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We're live here on BBC World News television, BBC News channel in the

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UK and on the BBC News app. We're also online. If you use the hashtag,

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BBC OS I will pick up your messages. Straight to Los Angeles. A thousand

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schools there have been ordered to close. It's all due to an

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unspecified e-mail threat. This is a graphic of the school district. It's

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huge. The second biggest in the US. Around 700,000 pupils have been

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affected by this. They've been told to stay at home. School buses have

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been returned to depots. Now in the last half an hour, we've had what

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could be an important development. Because this is from the AP news

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agency. One house Intelligence Committee member says this threat is

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now believed to be a hoax. More on that element of the story shortly.

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First of all, let me play you some of a press conference held earlier

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The e-mail was very specific to LA county schools. The implied threat

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was explosive devices. The specific threat was attack with assault

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rifles and machine pistols. I think the circumstances in the

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neighbouring San Berne Deano, I think what has happened in the

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nation, I think what happened internationally, I as Superintendent

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are not going to take the chance with the life of a student. This is

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what's happening in Los Angeles. I showed you that line that it could

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be a hoax. That's interesting because on the other side of the US,

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on the East Coast in New York, officials there are saying they got

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the same threat and they did deem it to be a hoax. Back to the West

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Coast. Peter Bowes joins us live. First of all, before we speak to

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Peter, more from New York. We do not see that as a credible

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terrorist threat. We are investigating it as a hoax. We

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believe that the e-mail originated overseas. The language in the e-mail

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would lead us to believe that this is not a jihadist initiative, for

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example, that Allah was not spelled with a capital A. That would be

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incredible to think that any jihadist would not spell Allah with

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a capital A. Let's bring in Peter now. He's live in Los Angeles.

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That's not him. Our viewers can see you. Are you now hearing from people

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in LA, they think it's a hoax too? Well, yes. That's what the people

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think. It's just been confirmed, or at least the suspicions have been

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confirmed by a member of the House Select Committee on intelligence

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saying that this person believes it is a hoax and on the ground, that's

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generally what people here think. That's not what they thought six

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hours ago. People didn't know what to think when they were getting

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messages from the school, seeing breakfast television telling parents

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not to send their children to school. There was chaos for a while.

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The sentiment then was that people wanted to go along with the hunch of

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the local officials that this was the right thing to do, to close down

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these more than a thousand public schools affecting almost three

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quarters of a million children. That it was better to be safe than sorry.

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People remember just two weeks ago since San Bernardino and people

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remember Paris. The mood is that people are concerned. They're

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nervous that something could happen again and they just want it to be

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very, very cautious in this case. I'm sure viewers can understand that

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caution, I saw some reports that they're going to search every single

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school in this district. Is that still going to go ahead? It sounds

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like a huge amount of effort? It sounds like a huge effort. It is a

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huge effort. It is as far as I understand, continuing right now.

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Now to what extent every single school and every single room, every

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gym, every laboratory, every classroom, every playground will

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actually be searched, it's difficult to tell. They were determined at the

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beginning of the day to go through every school, all these premises to

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make sure absolutely that they were safe for children to return. Now the

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level of security that they can bring in, in terms of expertise to

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look through these buildings, it's difficult to assess. That was what

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they were saying a few hours ago Children won't be let back into the

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schools until they are absolutely certain they are safe. If it is

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determined categorically that this was a hoax, clearly that will put a

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different complexion on this. The mood will be different in terms of

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allowing children eventually back into those classrooms. Peter, thank

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you. Keep us posted if there's any more

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developments from LA. Let's talk about this story, the astronaut, Tim

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Peake, along with an American and Russian cosmonaut have entered the

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International Space Station. Here are some of the most recent pictures

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we have, from a couple of hours ago. Everyone looking relieved and well

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they might. Tim Peake is the first official UK astronaut. Now shortly

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after these pictures were taken the astronauts gave a news conference.

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Here's some of it. Hi, this is the Director-General of ESA. Tim Peake,

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I have just one question. You selected the window seat, what did

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you see? It was a beautiful launch. We got on with the work but that

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first sun rise was spectacular. We also got the benefit of a moon rise

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on the third orbit as well, which is beautiful to see. Hello Tim, it's

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mum. Hi mum. I think you would - hello Tim. I think you would call

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today a spectacular day in the office. I think we had a great time

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in the office, that's for sure. That's going to be some of the

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headlines tomorrow, "Hi mum, Tim Peake up in space speaking to his

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mum on earth. This morning our attention was on the practicalities

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of the journey. Now everyone's turning to the practicalities of

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living up there. Here's our science editor looking at life on ISS.

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It will be a strange existence on the International Space Station. It

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will take some getting used to. It's the largest stuckure ever assembled

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in space. It's about the size of a football pitch. Where is it? It's

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about 250 mile above us. That might not sound much but it's beyond the

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atmosphere, definitely in the hostile environment of space. This

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outpost of humanity is travelling around earth at 17,500mph, an

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extraordinary speed. Because each orbit takes roughly 90 minutes, the

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crew can see at least 15 sun rises and sun sets every single day. Now

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the Space Station was built section by section over the last 15 years.

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One module is European. This is called Columbus. It's a what lore

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triwhere Tim Peake will spend much of his time. Let's imagine that we

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could be right inside it. It's pretty cramped, filled with

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experiments that make use of those weightless conditions of space. One

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project looks at metal aRoys to help work out how they can be improved

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for the electronic devices we use. Another is testing if bacteria can

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survive in space, to see if they could be living on Mars. There's a

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study into how fluid behaves inside the brain. That could help with

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faster diagnosis of medical problems.

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There is extensive coverage of Tim Peake being on the ISS through the

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BBC News app and BBC News website. We will take a few minutes to turn

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to the work of one of our correspondents who's been following

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the transformation of the South China Sea. This is an ocean between

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China, Vietnam. There are tiny islands and reefs known as the

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Spratleys. There are various countries claiming them because of

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the important waters around them. This is an airstrip built by the

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Philippines, by dropping stone, Sanders cement into the seabed.

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China has taken this approach even further. This is mischief reef three

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years ago. That's the impath from three years ago. This is what it

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looks like today. You can see the evidence of the development. That's

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three years ago, this is today. There's another example as well. In

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total seven reefs have been treated. This is another. That's three years

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ago. This is today. The difference is even more marked than the last

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example, which can you clearly see. The US says potentially China is

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threatening international law by doing it. Here's a bit of the

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exclusive and extraordinary report filed on this issue.

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This is mischief reef. Until a year ago, there was nothing here, just a

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submerged. Now look at it. Then as we close to 12 naught cull miles

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this: We're a civilian aircraft flying

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over international waters. Yet we're being repeatedly threatened.

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As we fly on the full extent of the construction is revealed. The lagoon

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is teeming with ships. A cement plant is visible on the land. And

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then for the first time, a clear view of the new runway China is

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building here. A Chinese fighter taking off from

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here could reach the Philippine coast in nine minutes. You can get

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the full version of that report now online. Rupert has been speaking to

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Outside Source radio about the practicalities of making that

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report. The warnings began at about 20

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nautical miles. Our pilots wouldn't go any further. We landed again and

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we had hours more negotiations and discussions before they agreed to

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make a second attempt at mischief reef. What I had to sit down and

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persuade them was China was not going to shoot us down, we are in

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international airspace. We are not doing anything illegal. We need to

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tell the people on the ground to tell them that we're a civilian

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aircraft to engage with them and actually that process worked. When

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the pilots started to talk to the Chinese navy, I think it allowed

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them to feel like they were in control of the situation. It became

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very apparent that whoever was on the ground, on the island, sending

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us these warnings was reading a script. This was not someone

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engaging in a warning and saying, "If you don't go now, we will step

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up a notch." Once the pilots worked that out they calmed down and

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realised this is a bit of a game. This report focuses on geostrategic

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concerns. It's not just those concerns driving the expansion. The

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South China Sea say rich supply of natural resources, has been for

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centuries. The Philippines is accusing China of allowing poachers

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to plunder their reefs without doing anything about it.

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Far out in the middle of the South China Sea, this tiny speck of land

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we're about to land on is a Philippine military outpost. But the

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Philippine military's power barely extends beyond the island's reef.

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Less than a mile away, anchored on another reef, these boats we can see

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here, are Chinese poachers. We've come here to investigate reports

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that under the protection of the Chinese navy, poachers are

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plundering the reefs out here. Along with China's takeover of the South

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China Sea has come what the local Filipino fishermen here call

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environmental looters, people like these behind me here, who've moved

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in and are stripping the reef of its coral and of its precious giant

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clams. The poachers anchor their boats to the reef and then rev their

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engines. I ask this man what they're doing. What are you looking for, I

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ask. We're looking for sea clams, he says. From up here, it's unclear

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exactly what they're doing. It's time to get in the water.

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As soon as we, do the extent of the devastation is revealed. Just a

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couple of years ago, before the poachers moved in, this was a

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thriving reef system. Now it is being torn to shreds by the

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poachers. The scene underneath there is just unbelievable. They are

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literally destroying the reef wholesale, with these boats. It's

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just like a desert. It's been turned to a desert underneath here.

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Now the poachers are in the water too retrieving their prize.

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This is it, a huge, giant clam, perhaps 100 years old. They gather

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them in a pile on the sea floor ready to be hoisted onto their

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boats. On the international market shells

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like these can sell for between $1,000 and $2,000 a pair. The

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Chinese characters on the stern of their mother ships show they come

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from Tanmen. The crew shows no fear of us filming. They know no-one's

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going to stop them. As we leave, we get another glimpse of the reef from

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above. The long yellow plumes show fresh destruction. Beyond them what

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should be an aquamarine reef now turned to barren sand.

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That report gives you pause for thought. See both of those reports

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on the BBC News website now. Now it will be time for the

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business, we will look at regulations in the US coming in on

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the use of drones. They're one of the most popular Christmas presents

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in the US this year. The UK's inflation rate turned

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positive in November for the first time in four months, according to

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new figures. The Office for National Statistics said transport costs,

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alcohol and tobacco prices were the main contributors to the rise.

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Our economics correspondent can give us more detail.

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What happened was fuel prices started falling November last year.

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So whereas in October you're comparing with before fuel prices

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fell, in November you're comparing with after they started falling

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already. If you compare that year with year, it's a slightly smaller

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drop than it was in the previous month. That's happened not just with

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fuel, but also with things like second-hand cars and food prices

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too. Taking some of the downward pressure off the inflation number.

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Within that, you've got an interesting break down. Goods prices

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have been falling for most of the last year in most goods, not just

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food and fuel. Services prices have been rising. That's taking inflation

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above zero. Welcome back. Our lead story at the

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moment is that more than a thousand schools in Los Angeles have been

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shut because of an unspecified threat. New York officials say they

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received the same threat and considered it a hoax. Now we're

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hearing reports from lost arching less that it may be the same person

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-- os anding less saying -- rose anding less saying it may -- Los

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Angeles saying it may be the same person.

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Marine Le Pen leads the Front National and this case dates back to

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comments she made about Muslim street prayers in 2010.

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A letter written about by the Chinese Communist leader has sold at

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auction for $900,000. It was written to a leading British politician. BBC

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Chinese has that story. This is footage of a man losing his

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cool over a row over a hotel bill in Oklahoma. That's one way to make

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your point. He may have a lot of time to think about that. He's been

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arrested. No-one was hurt. Thank goodness. The video is on the BBC

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News app. Now, let's look at some elated Star

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Wars fans. Some of them had camped out for days before the premiere in

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LA. I've been out here since December

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5th. So it's been a long, long, well, it hasn't been that long, but

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yeah, it's been a long struggle to get here. Now we're here. The mother

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ship has landed, baby. I'm very excited about Star Wars again. Now

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we have the original cast back, Mark Hamill, harasson Ford, it's like the

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Star Wars we grew up with is now back. People are very excited about

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that. To be here and get here right at the

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right moment to get the lucky ticket, like, I feel like Willie

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Wonka's tour began. I got scared going into it. I had high

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expectations. They met the expectations. We talked about that.

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We were afraid that we were going to be disappointed. It was amazing.

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Yeah, good things and bad things. But nothing bad about the writing.

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It was all perfect. You will not be disappointed. It's amazing. It was

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amazing. It was a reledgeous experience. -- religious experience.

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It was amazing. You can rely on Star Wars fans to keep things in

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perspective. Let's bring you the business.

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In less than 24 hours we could have a big decision from the US Federal

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Reserve. It's all about whether it will raise interest rates in the US.

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To put this in context, that hasn't been done since 2006, but even if it

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happens, the process of getting to that point is pretty complicated.

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The decision to raise interest rates will be taken in Washington DC, it's

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the job of the markets desk inside this fortress-like building, the New

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York Federal Reserve, to make liftoff happen. How will the Fed

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raise rates? To understand that you have to think what a big commercial

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bank like JP Morgan Chase involves. One thing, it has to hold a certain

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amount of cash in reserve with the Fed. Banks loan that money to each

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other and charge a small amount of interest, the federal funds rate. It

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used to be that the Fed moved to rate up and down by trading assets

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such as government bonds with the banks. Now, though, after years and

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years of buying up assets, the folks at the markets desks believes

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selling them off isn't necessarily the most effective or stable way to

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influence the rate. Instead, they want to use another mechanism,

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essentially paying banks more money to hold their reserves, effectively

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paying them to hold cash, just some of the mechanisms involved in

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raising rates. That decision should come on Wednesday. Now the BBC's

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technology correspondent is always worth following online. Here's a

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tweet of his. He's written a blog post, "Will Europe ban under 16s

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from Facebook? It would be quite something if it did. We wanted to

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know what Rory's answer was to the question being asked. Here he is.

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This is all about a European debate on whether to bring in a new law,

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raising the digital age of consent, who knew there was such a thing -

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from 13 to 16. Which would mean that anybody under 16 would have to get

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express permission from their parents to be on any of those sites.

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The company would have to know that parental permission had been given.

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That would cause chaos for companies involved in those kind ever

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relationships with teenage users. At the moment, it's 13. Obviously it's

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not particularly widely observed, if anecdotal evidence from friends'

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children is to be believed. But it sets a bench mark for companies to

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know how to behave that they shouldn't be talking to kids under

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13 without permission of their parents. Now that could go up to 16.

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It's interesting because you sometimes see Twitter and Facebook

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described as advertising platforms. Is this about teenagers talking to

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each other as it is about companies talking to teenagers? This is

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actually in the context of a big European debate about data

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protection, a whole new, great big data protection law, data

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regulation. It's come in the context of all those revelations by Edward

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Snowden about surveillance and so on and European law makers concerned to

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tighten up data protection and look at what the big internet companies

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are doing with that data, not just that plonging to children. Let's

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talk about drones. 700,000 of them are expected to be sold in the US

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just this Christmas. Those figures might be behind a decision from the

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Federal Aviation Administration to make all drone owners register their

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machines in a national database. I guess this is all tying back to

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safety, is that the biggest issue? Yeah, and I don't know if you

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remember, but I immediately think about the incident on the White

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House grounds earlier in the year, when it triggered a lock down of the

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White House when a drone flew onto the lawn and there was a Secret

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Service investigation. You have incidents as extreme as that to just

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unmanned drones hitting aircraft. The FAA realise that come next year

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there's going to be more unmanned aircraft than aircraft in the skies.

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They've rushed to provide some kind of sense of relief for politicians

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and for others who worry about safety. So they've said that come

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December, if you buy a new drone that you need to provide your e-mail

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address, home address so that they can keep track of that. You'll have

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to put the registration number on your drone. At the end of the day,

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people say if someone wants to do something necessity fairious with a

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drone -- nefarious they're not going to register it. But it's an effort

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to put regulation in place. Thank you very much indoed. I guess

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it raises the issue of whether you can fly the thing safely or not.

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#12k34r any way, thank you very much for that update. More business news

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