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Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.

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We can access all the latest information coming through the BBC

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newsroom and we have an hour of international news for you.

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President Obama has been talking about increasing gun controls and

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victims of gun violence. Every time I think about those kids, it gets me

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mad. And by the way, it happens on the streets of Chicago every day.

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More from Cologne, more than 100 attacks on women. The man on the

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latest Islamic State video is thought to be this man from East

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London, a relative of one of those killed in the video has been

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speaking to the BBC. We will report from India. I don't know if you have

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heard about this schoolboy who has scored over 1000 runs in one innings

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at a local cricket match. And also on Outside Source, if you have

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questions we are covering you can reach us. We have lots on the

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escalating row between Iran and Saudi Arabia. We have sent those two

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our correspondent and here are the answers he sent back. We will show

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you that later. Barack Obama has announced plans to

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increase background checks The President is doing this

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despite opposition from Congress. Here's what he said

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in the measures a few hours ago. We don't need to be talking past one

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another, but we do have to feel In Doctor King's words,

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we need to feel the fierce And the constant excuses

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for inaction no longer do. That's why we're here today,

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not to debate the last mass shooting, but to do something

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to try to prevent the next one. As Ronald Reagan once said,

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if mandatory background checks could save more lives,

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it would be well worth making it The Bill before Congress three

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years ago met that test. But unfortunately too many

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senators failed theirs. Every time I think about those

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kids, it gets me mad. And by the way, it happens

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on the streets of Chicago every day. So, all of us need to demand

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a Congress brave enough to stand up to the gun lobby's lies,

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all of us need to stand up and protect its citizens,

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all of us need to demand governors and legislators and businesses

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do their part, to make some of what the president said

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earlier. Clearly a very frustrating subject

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for President Obama. He alluded to the number of children

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dying because of gun violence in the United States.

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This is a list from a website called the gun violence archive.

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I will not read out individual cases, but you can see as I go

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through the long list posted online, 129 children died in gun violence in

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the last two years. You get an idea of the scale of the problem. The

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question is will what President Obama is suggesting do anything to

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protect these lost lives? Jane joins us. Aside from these background

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checks, can you run us through the other measures President Obama is

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suggesting? The background checks are the big one but he is also

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proposing extra money to treat people with mental health disorders,

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because of the 30,000 deaths by shootings every single day in

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America. 20,000 of those are suicides, so clearly mental health

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is an enormous issue here. He wants more funding, to treat that. But

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getting back to the main issue, background checks. What he wants is

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for all people who sell guns to perform background checks on all

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people who buy them. At the moment if you are a licensed gun dealer you

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have to perform a background check, but the Internet is pretty much

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unregulated and if you go to a gun show and buy a gun off a private

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dealer you do not need to go through a background check most of the time.

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He's just saying, I want everybody who sells guns or is in the business

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of selling guns, to make sure that they know who they are selling to.

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Please don't go anywhere. You are telling us about the proposals from

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the president. Next let's talk about the politics. Even as that speech

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was going on his critics were taking to Twitter to push back at his

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ideas. The National Rifle Association saying these executive

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orders will do nothing to improve public safety. Let me show you a

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couple of others. Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House of Representatives

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said: And Republican Presidential

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hopeful Marco Rubio said on his first day in the Oval Office

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those orders are gone. clearly the Republicans are not

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happy, but is there anything they can do about these proposals?

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Yes, there is, because the proposals are being enacted under an executive

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order, which means President Obama is taking unilateral action,

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bypassing Congress and saying as long as he is president, this is

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what should happen. That is the problem, because this year America

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elected new president and depending on who gets in his executive order

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could be upheld or overturned. Without action from Congress, this

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does not become law. So it's all very tenuous at the moment. The

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White House says they are acting well within the existing law and

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what they are actually doing is clarifying what is already on the

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statute books. The Republicans say that is not actually the case and I

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think we can expect a lot of legal challenges in the months ahead.

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Thank you. Don't go anywhere, we will come back to you in a moment.

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In an interview last year with the BBC, President Obama told us his

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failure to pass effective gun laws was his biggest regret. We made a

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report on how he has come back to this issue again and again in his

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presidency. People were scrambling left and

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right. My children got out first. With my wife. Even as we learn how

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this happened and who is responsible, we may never understand

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what leads anybody to terrorise their fellow human beings like this.

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As a country we have been through this too many times and we will have

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to come together and take meaningful action, to prevent more tragedies

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like this, regardless of the politics. We have two people coming

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out. Why did you do it? At some point we

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as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass

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violence doesn't happen in other advanced countries.

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There are some steps we could take not to eliminate every one of these

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mass shootings, but to improve the odds that they don't happen as

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frequently. We just had a tweet from one viewer asking what he can

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achieve with a relatively short period of time left in the White

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House. We can go back to Jane in Washington, DC. Clearly the

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president is concerned about his legacy. He wants is issued out with

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before he leaves the White House, but time is ticking.

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It is indeed, and this is a deeply personal issue for the president. We

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saw how emotional he was in his speech today, saying how the deaths

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of 20 schoolchildren in 2012 in Connecticut changed his life, and he

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hoped the country would have changed as a result of that. He was wrong.

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Congress failed to enact any legislation to tighten gun controls

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that is why out of sheer frustration he is taking the action he has

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today. It was partly also buoyed by yet another shooting last year in

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Oregon. Ten people were killed at a community college. At point you

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proud about to make this a political issue. I think what his long-term

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hope is is that this is now firmly back on the political agenda. It's

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going to be part of the presidential campaign. We've already seen

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candidates weighing in on both parties. He is hoping that this will

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now come back into the public conversation, and that future laws

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will be an acted to stop thank you very much for your help in telling

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this story. We can switch from the US to a very disturbing story, a

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strange story from Germany. At least 90 complaints where made

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to police in Cologne about sexual assaults and thefts

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by male gangs on New Year's Eve. The attacks happened

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during celebrations around the city's Central Station and

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Cathedral. You can see on the satellite image

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the square, that is where a lot of the celebrations were taking place.

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Damian McGuinness has more on this from Berlin.

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It was a chaotic scene, with thousands of people in front of the

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cathedral in Cologne. Normally New Year's Eve is chaotic anyway, with

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fireworks being set off in all directions, but this New Year's Eve

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was particularly disturbing with the sexual assaults. What has got

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Germany talking is the comment by police officers that the men

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appeared to be the attackers, they appear to be of north African or

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Arab appearance. There is no evidence that the perpetrators were

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actually migrants or refugees or asylum seekers themselves, but

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anti-migrant far right groups have been saying that this proves that

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Germany has been taking into many migrants and refugees. More than a

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million refugees and asylum seekers and migrants came to Germany in 2015

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alone. This event has sparked outrage, the assaults on women, but

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also a lot of discussion among people in Cologne. The problem is,

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where did 1000 people suddenly come from? They say there were 1000 North

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Africans and they were not asylum seekers, but where did they come

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from all of a sudden, in such a large amount? You do ask yourself

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that. TRANSLATION: I think you should just be prepared, you should

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be careful and always wait for the help of the police. I would advise

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young people not to get so drunk that you don't know what's going on

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and to perhaps not be alone, and to call for help as quickly as

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possible. And especially at large events, there are always enough

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people around who hopefully are not drunk. It is worst in areas where

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there is nobody and where you cannot get

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The next challenge Germany will face is the Carnival season at the

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beginning of February, particularly in Cologne, where the city closes

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down the street parties and parades. Officials have to find out what

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happened on New Year's Eve and make sure it doesn't happen again. More

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information on that story in the next few days. In a few minutes time

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I will play you a report from Dave Lee, who has his hands on a bendy

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screen which is being released by LG in a big con pension in Las Vegas.

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David Cameron will allow government ministers to campaign on both sides

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of the upcoming referendum on Britain's membership of the European

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Union. Here is the Prime Minister speaking in the House of Commons.

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My intention is the conclusion of the renegotiation, the government

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should reach a clear recommendation and then the referendum will be

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held, but it's in the nature of a referendum that people, not the

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politicians, who decide. As I indicated before Christmas, there

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will be a clear government position, but it will be open to individual

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ministers to take a different personal position, while remaining

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part of the government. Ultimately it will be for the British people to

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decide this country's future, by voting in or out of a reformed

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European Union. In the referendum, that only we promised and only a

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Conservative majority government was able to deliver, and I commend this

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statement to the house. This is Outside Source live

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from the BBC newsroom. A tearful President Obama announced

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plans to tighten controls on firearms. He said the gun lobby

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could no longer hold America hostage. Some of the main stories

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from the BBC World Service: a journalist who was working in Turkey

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spent four months in prison. A journalist who was working

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for Vice News has been released on bail after spending more than 4

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months in a Turkish prison. He was arrested on charges

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of assisting a terrorist organisation while covering

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the conflict in Kurdish A new giant statue of

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the Chairman Mao, the Chinese community party's founding father,

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has been unveiled. It was built by farmers

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and business people. Some hold Chairman Mao responsible

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for millions of deaths, but many This is what a hoverboard did

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to a family home in Australia. You can hear a first hand account

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of what happened on the BBC We've had a lot of comments

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and questions come into us about MAP the escalating row between

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Saudi Arabia and Iran. We covered it in detail yesterday.

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It has progressed further today. Kuwait announced it is

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recalling its ambassador to Iran. This follows Bahrain and Sudan also

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cutting off their diplomatic ties Before we play you Jim Muir

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answering some of your questions, here are the basics

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of what's happening. What Iran distrust about Saudi

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Arabia is the belief that Saudi Arabia being a Sunni state is also

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supporting Sunni groups, especially Isis. The distrust is mainly about

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the role Iran is playing in the region. Saudi Arabia and other Gulf

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countries have been quite concerned about what Iran is playing in

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different Contra conflicts like the Yemeni conflict. Iran and Saudi

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Arabia. Traditional Saudi Arabia has viewed Iran as the regional power,

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viewed Iran as a country that tries to expand its influence in the

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Middle East. The geopolitical, political and economic elements

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definitely create a role here. It is not really about religion. It's not

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just about this. It's not a clash of religious narratives. There seems to

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be this competition between the two countries.

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War is quite a big word here. The cutting off of diplomatic relations

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might escalate into a fully fledged military confrontation. However that

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has been a concern about a war by accident. It is very unlikely, but

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it might mean that the continuation of military strikes. Is one of the

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parties, their proxies or their supporters on the ground make a very

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small mistake, that will lead in deepening and rising tension even

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more. In a sensor has been a cold war going on between the two. What

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many countries call a war by proxy, they are in effect fighting each

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other through groups that they are supporting in Syria and Yemen in

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particular. And just a reminder that this

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whole thing was started the Shia Muslim cleric

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Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr - The Saudi embassy in Tehran

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was then ransacked and set alight - and then Saudi Arabia

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cut off ties with Iran. Lots of you have sent us questions

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about this story. We picked some of them out on Zelem to our

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correspondent in Beirut. These are the answers that Jim sent back.

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There are fears this crisis could impact heavily on the effort

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to get at Isis, both in Iraq and in Syria.

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In Iraq it could aggravate, and has already aggravated sectarian

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That will make it more difficult, probably, for the Shia dominated

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government in Baghdad to work with Sunni militias,

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tribal militias and other Sunnis who may want to turn

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against IS in the areas, their areas, Sunni areas,

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where Isis, the militants have dug in.

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In Syria, conversely, there are peace talks coming up,

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hopefully around the 25th of January or so.

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With Saudi Arabia and Iran at loggerheads, if the crisis hasn't

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eased by then, it could make it much more difficult to get

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I think the important thing really is to contain this crisis and stop

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If it gets worse, then obviously it's going to complicate things

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throughout the region, aggravating the kind of sectarian

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fault line between Sunnis and Shia and relations between the main Sunni

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So the main thing is to contain it, and then to try and ease tensions.

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That may take some time, but it doesn't mean to say that it

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will remain at the current level of crisis.

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It doesn't necessarily mean that the Saudis

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will send their Ambassador or restore relations.

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With countries like the Russians and the Americans, also even Turkey,

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which has been calling for restraint, it's kind of caught

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All of those countries are pressing Riyadh and Tehran to kind of cool

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it, trying to persuade them it's not in either of their interests

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So I think containment is the key thing, and there are a lot

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of voices calling for that, but pressure isn't quite the word,

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it's more the pressure of persuasion.

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Jim Muir answering those questions. And those of you who sent the men,

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thank you. Your questions always welcome.

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Outside Source Business, and let's go back to our top story.

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President Obama calling for increased gun controls in the US.

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This is interesting. Noting shares in Smith and Western are up-tempo

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sent today. Go back to January when President Obama was inaugurated for

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the first time and it shares were ?2.50. Gun sales often go like this.

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Take a look at this very interesting map. This shows how many background

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checks were done over the last nine years. That informs us how many

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Americans are buying guns. What's interesting is you will note spikes

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on the number of checks that are related to the occurrence of mass

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shootings. When a mass shooting happened it seems Americans buy more

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guns. Michelle flurry joins us. I remember right back at the beginning

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of President Obama's presidency, we also saw a spike in gun sales.

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That led to comments that perhaps President Obama is the best gun

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salesman the industry has had. If you look at what has happened today,

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the share prices, it is not just Smith and Western who have seen its

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share price jump. Some of the other gunmakers have increased share

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prices. All of them seeing a lift to their share price. This is in part

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because investors see the announcement today from the White

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House is having maybe a effect on gun sales, or if anything, bringing

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forward gun sales as people try to make their purchases before the

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rules come into effect. It is a pattern we have seen before. If you

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look back in December, the FBI came out with the latest figures for

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firearms transactions. They say they saw a 37 cents jump.

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Very interesting. Thank you for explaining that. Las Vegas next. CES

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is a vast technology convention. It starts on Wednesday but we have a

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ready seen some of the best kit, including a fully flexible screen

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from LG. Dave Lee has got his hands on it. At

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CES it is a rush to make the finished screen as quick as

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possible. This one from LG, the first fully flexible LED screen. You

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can roll it up just like a piece of paper and the picture stays in

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high-definition, in fantastic quality. This screen is 18 inches.

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Eventually they say could be 50 inches bigger than that. Rather than

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having a TV in the corner of your room taking up space, you can finish

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watching TV, roll it up and put in the cupboard. This screen is very

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much a work in progress will stop you can only roll it up in one

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direction and if I am too rough, some of the individual pixels become

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dead quite quickly. Meaning there are tiny missing pieces in the

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overall picture. Why would somebody need a flexible screen like the one

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you have been working on? Today you are looking at an 18 inch

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prototype, but imagine you have a larger size, may be larger than 55

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inches, then you can roll up your TV when you don't need it and you can

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still look at your beautiful interior or wallpaper. This is just

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a concept at the moment and there is no idea how much it will cost but it

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is an interesting sign of what could be the future of TV.

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Impressive. Venezuela next. In Caracas members of Parliament have

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been sworn in, the first time the opposition will be the majority for

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17 years. This graffiti says this is their

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territory, just in front of the assembly in Venezuela. The

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Parliament from today will be controlled by the opposition for the

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first time in the last and teen years. The graffiti shows how

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difficult the day is going to be for the opposition, but also how

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difficult the next years are going to be for the opposition that faces

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a very powerful government that controls most of the institutions

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and the country and does not seem to want dialogue.

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Just the fact I'm filming here in the National Assembly of Venezuela

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is news because for the last years only government journalists were

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able to comment, because this was their territory. But now

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international and opposition and even me are able to get in. Some

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fear the majority of the opposition parliament, the Parliament the Army,

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could be mere symbolism, in the sense that the power of the National

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Assembly can be controlled by many of the institutions the government

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still influences, and that is the question that will be resolved in

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the next days and years here in Venezuela.

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I will speak to you again in a few minutes time.

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Hello, good evening. It is not only the UK that has been experiencing

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wet weather

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