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

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A man in Paris who was armed with a knife has been shot dead

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on the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.

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He was reportedly carrying an Islamic State emblem.

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A huge truck bomb killed nearly 50 people at a police training centre.

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It's not clear who did it, but we do know that

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so-called Islamic State is getting stronger in the country.

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In football, high video technology could work.

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And we will have more of your questions, # BBC OS is how you can

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get in touch. The United Nations says the Syrian

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government has agreed to allow humanitarian aid into a besieged

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town called Madaya. It's in southwest Syria,

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near the Lebanese border. There have been unconfirmed reports

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of people starving to death there. Some people are said to be eating

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grass and cats to survive. And we know the last food aid

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to get in was in October. Since then, it's been under siege

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by government forces One resident in Madaya has described

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what has happened. Madaya has been under siege for 200

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days, two people have died of starvation, some people eating earth

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because nothing is left to eat. Many unconscious people in the hospitals.

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The lack of help is terrifying, no medicine, beds, ambulances,

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absolutely nothing. Our correspondent James Reynolds has

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sent this report from Istanbul. You may find some of the pictures

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it contains distressing. And opposition activists sent this

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video from Madaya. The boys answerable to questions, but it's

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their hollow cheekbones and their eyes that catch your attention.

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Medical activists have posted these pictures of this seven-year-old. He

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says he has not eaten for one week. We can't verify his words. These

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pictures from Madaya were filmed yesterday. 40,000 people live here.

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Amid cold and hunger. Pro-government forces surrounding the town stop

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anyone from leaving. They've stopped supplies from getting in. In Syria's

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war, both governments and rebels use the siege ends as deliberate tactic.

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The situation inside Madaya is indeed dire and something we have

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seen when we were there in October 2015, where we saw desperation in

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the eyes of the people, hunger in their eyes, women who were not able

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to lactate their babies because they were not well-known nicht enough to

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have milk. We called an activist in Madaya. He

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spoke amid gunfire. Can you get any food?

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GUNFIRE. Actually, there is no food. There is food in Madaya, but you

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have to pay extortionate amounts to smugglers or government soldiers to

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get it. This unidentified man says he paid four point ?5,000 -- he paid

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?4500 to get food. This woman we don't know her name, she says her

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children have not had any bread for four months. The United Nations

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hopes to take supplies into her besieged town in the coming days.

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For more information on Madaya and broadly about the conflict in Syria,

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find it through the BBC News application and website.

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And time for Outside Source sport. We will start with a story which had

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some inevitability about it. Michel Platini is withdrawing

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from the election He's banned from any

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football-related activities for eight years - all relating

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to payment he received from Fifa. he adamantly denies

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doing anything wrong. The issue of video technology

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in football never really goes away. of the International

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Football Association. Not an organisation I was familiar

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with, but I'm told it's football's independent body responsible

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for debating and amending laws. Some of the most talked about

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bombings in football -- talked about Mormons in football are often the

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most controversial, such as this one in 1986. And another in this World

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Cup final. And even mistaken identity. Taking the fall for

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something one player did not do. Decisions that would have changed if

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the use of video technology was allowed in football. All that could

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be about to change as the sport's rule-makers discuss whether to

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approve trials of video replays to assist referees who find it harder

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to keep up with the faster modern game. Referees have never been

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fitter but players are getting quicker and difficult decisions at

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high speed are ones we think, the English Football Association,

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technology could help and we just need to test that. Football League

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be the world's Richard used video technology for years.

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Beautifully demonstrated by this wonderful moment of sportsmanship

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from the USA's Jack Sock, who told them of officials got a decision

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wrong. Much to the delight of his opponent and the crowd. We will look

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back on 15-20 years' time about why we never had it. That is not shared

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by everybody, just a personal point of view, but the game is changing,

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getting quicker, the stakes are getting higher. It is hard for a

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police to keep up. They have never been fitter, never been better

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trained. -- hard for referees to keep up. Whether further trials are

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given the go-ahead at this meeting on the next, there seems to be an

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inevitability that football will eventually use of the tools at their

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disposal to get decisions right and, when that does happen, supporters

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around the world will need something else to talk about.

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That Jack Sock moment is great, find that very easily on you Tube and

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plenty of other places. Three major figures in athletics

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have been given life bans. The sport's governing body,

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the IAAF, has found the three men breached

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anti-doping rules. You can read the full 170 page

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report on the IAAF's website. That is if you are feeling

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particularly committed. I can save you some of that time.

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The nub of it is that they are accused of acting "dishonestly

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and corruptly and doing unprecedented damage to the sport'.

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and corruptly and doing unprecedented damage to the sport".

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Please give us more on what they're said to have done.

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The basic accident is Asians -- accusations are one of bribery and

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cover-ups. One goes back to 2010, and the winner of arrays being

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blackmailed, -- the winner of one race being blackmailed, concealing

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for more than three years anti-doping violations by one

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athlete and all three compiler did the vice of what was done by

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conspiring to extort what were rapes from the winner. -- what were

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bribes. And here are the three. One is a senior coach from the Russian

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athletics Federation. This may not be the end of it as a second report

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into allegations of systematic doping and corruption in athletics

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will be released next week on January 14, stand by for more.

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Thank you very much. I'm sure this will be a story

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we'll be returning to, as our Sports Editor Dan Roan has

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pointed out in a tweet. And of course you will get extensive

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coverage from BBC Sport. In a moment, what happened in Cologne on

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New Year's Eve, hundreds of women reporting sexual assault but it is

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not clear whether the police responded in an adequate way.

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The chief executive of Marks Spencer Marc Bolland is to step down

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in April. The announcement comes as the high street giant posted a poor

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performance in its clothing and general merchandise division over

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Christmas. And sales plunging by almost 6% despite a strong

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performance in the third part of the business.

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There was glitz and glamour in the run-up to Christmas.

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But it's now the exit for the boss of M after their worst Christmas

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People will look back and say that Marc had the courage to do some

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of the difficult things to really put in place the infrastructure

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He's modernised the business, revamped the website,

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food fixed, but women's fashion struggling.

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They are not seeing sizes and styles in regional stores and customers

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have found that frustrating. They had a great Christmas in food,

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clothing bed badly with sales falling for the fifth year in a row.

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It is this part of the business that is crucial to the success and what

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the new boss will have to focus on. He started as a Saturday boy. At the

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age of 15. He will need more than just a bestseller. They need to

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decide on market position, review all of their brands and decide we

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are the gaps are in their coverage. And the need to improve the quality

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in the classic sort of stable lines. And continue to make progress on

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fashion that they have been making. Trading has been tough for many

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retailers this Christmas, but today marks another new law for Britain's

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biggest clothing retailer. -- new low.

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A man who was shot dead in Paris while trying to attack a police

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station was apparently carrying an Islamic State emblem.

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It's a year on from the attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical

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World News America is next around the world.

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They're looking at the news from the besieged town

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The Syrian government says food will be allowed in

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for the first time since October. People there are starving to death.

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The News at Ten in the UK looks at why the Chancellor George Osborne

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is warning that there is a difficult year ahead for the British economy.

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Back once again to the events of New Year s Eve in Cologne.

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If you've not been following this, close to 100 women made criminal

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complaints about sexual assault and or robbery.

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Today, police says they have identified more suspects,

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and many are of North African descent.

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Remember this story is significant not just because of the appalling

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scale of the violence against women, but also because of the claim that

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Yesterday on Outside Source, we spoke to someone from the west

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German broadcasting Corporation. We can go back to them. Can you tell us

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more about the suspects? Today there were two police reports presented

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anonymously. We do not know who gave them out but bring the head of the

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police department and Minister of the internal affairs into trouble,

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because the reports say there was much more going on at New Year's

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Eve. And much more trouble than reported up until now. It states

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that the policemen were not able to help older women who were crying for

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help and also it gives evidence that most of the attackers were from

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northern African countries, or Arabic countries, because they say

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they checked some people, too sure who they are, and they gave out of

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official papers from the ministry, saying beware asylum seekers. And

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so, if some of the people carrying out

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these attacks are migrants who have recently arrived in Germany, this

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takes on a whole new dimensional, doesn't it? Yes, big discussions

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going on, Angela Merkel gave a statement today finding it

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disgusting what happened and that she cannot imagine how it feels not

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to feel safe on the street in Germany and she wants to check if it

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is possible to send migrants back to their home countries when they have

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been found criminals and also a big discussion going on in the society,

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mostly on the Internet and social media communities, some have been

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closed down already, and the writing populists use this story for their

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arguments against refugees. Can you put this in context for us? How big

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is Cologne and how many migrants and refugees have arrived in the last

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year or so? Cologne is the fourth biggest city in Germany with 1

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million inhabitants. We have a situation that. The migrants, or the

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refugees, arrived in the south of Germany and the need to be fit all

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over the country, so we have a train every day coming year with about

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1000 refugees, so that means we have 1000 refugees every day. We

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appreciate your help, I know you are very, very busy putting out special

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programmes on the story, thank you for making time for us.

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Ferguson, Baltimore and Chicago are three cities which became

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synonymous with racial tensions, all because of incidents

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in which police killed unarmed black men and women -

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And like many other America cities, these are very, very segregated.

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We talk to Rajini Vaidyanthan a lot on Outside Source.

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She's been making a documentary about this issue -

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Lets bring her end. And viewers in Europe may be surprised just how

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segregated cities can be in the US? That's right, legal segregation may

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have ended more than 50 years ago in the civil rights movement, but

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statistics and data show that many Americans of different races still

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don't mix. If you look at zero being the measure for perfect integration,

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100 being complete segregation, this new analysis of data from

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Washington, DC suggests the majority of big cities in America have

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segregation levels of around 50-70 on that scale, incredibly high.

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Before we carry on, I want to show viewers this chart you sent, first

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of all the areas cities. Green is the black population, and the white

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population, and this is Baltimore. This is seen Lewis, even more

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segregated, with a big black population in the centre. -- this is

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St Louis. And the last one was Kansas. And that was one you

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particularly focused on? Yes, I spent some time in Kansas City. The

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main debating lice is one avenue, white neighbourhoods on one side,

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some homes costing $1 million, and houses boarded up on the other side,

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containing black inhabitants. -- the mean dividing line. This is related

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to some policies from the 1930s, some mortgages not given to black

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families, so excluded from certain neighbourhoods. And another thing

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that might seem shocking is there where a perfectly legal contracts in

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the 1940s and 1950s which explicitly said that in the contract that black

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families could not buy those houses. Whilst those practices have been

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outlawed today it is still the case and government research shows there

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is that estate agents are more likely to show nice houses and

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neighbourhoods to white families than black families. I met one

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African American professional called Lewis

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Anderson in Atlanta who said there are still some issues at stake, some

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people don't want here is to be integrated. Atlanta. If we see a

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white family moving into a neighbourhood, we are fine with

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that. Unfortunately, for a lot of white America, they are not happy

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with that. And good access to schools and facilities, it can play

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into economic differences. What I find in this documentary, this

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4-part series, much of this is down to some of the problems, causing

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some of these racial problems, because of a difference in

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opportunity. Thank you very much indeed.

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You can listen to the first part of America in Black and White on BBC

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You can hear it live on BBC World Service.

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Search for America in Black and White.

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The four part series on air through January.

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It is playing out across the month of January. That is it for this week

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on Outside Source. Thank you for watching. Next on the BBC News

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Channel is the news at ten. Next on BBC news is -- next on BBC World

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News is World News America. Now for a look at some of

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