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

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Air strikes have destroyed several hospitals and schools.

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A medical charity says one of its hospitals was deliberately

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targeted, leaving 40,000 people without medical aid.

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It's a big week for negotiations between Britain and the EU before

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a referendum over Britain's membership.

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This was the warning from the president of the European

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The risk of break-up is very real because the process is fragile.

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Handle with care. More details of Pope John Paul II's relationship

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with a married woman. Lots of interest in a plane having

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to turn back to Heathrow after a laser pen was

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shone into the cockpit. And Twitter has found itself

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at the centre of two stories - one involves Kanye West,

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the other Stephen Fry. This is a tweet posted

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by the charity Medicin Sans MSF says it was

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targeted deliberately. It says it was hit by four rockets

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and at least eight staff are missing. It's shared this picture of

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the aftermath of that attack. And it wasn't the only hospital

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that was hit in Syria. Two others were hit

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by airstrikes today. These are in Azaz, very close

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to the Turkish border, One pressing question

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here is whether these It is always difficult to answer

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that question but we know... Was targeted at least three times which

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indicates something and for the two others, I have no information. We

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did not give the GPS code of this hospital to the Russians and Syrians

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but those hospitals are well known. They are easy to locate. One of

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those three hospitals was identified. So everyone is asking,

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who did this? There are after all a number

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of countries operating Here's Mark Lowen

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in Istanbul on this. MSF has blamed the Assad regime for

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the strike on that hospital in north western Syria. Turkey has blamed

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Russia for the strike that hit the hospital in as as. The Turkish Prime

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Minister has said Moscow is acting like a terrorist organisation. It

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follows a pattern of systematic attacks on health care facilities

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since the start of the Syrian war. It is said that over 330 medical

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facilities have been attacked in Syria since the start of the war

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five years ago. There has been talk of a possible ceasefire in Syria.

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Monday any ceasefire did not

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mean each side had to stop using weapons, and nobody

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was capable of securing the conditions for one

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Sebastian Usher, Middle East Editor, BBC World Service.

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I think that means his main ally Russia should continue doing what it

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is doing at the moment, which Russia has said it will. They said they

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will continue to attack rebel positions even if there is a

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ceasefire. There has of course been a huge amount of debate over what

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the targets have been with the Russians and today, there is a

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continuation of that with these hospitals and schools being hit. All

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reports we have had from the ground and activists and from other

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international players, has been accusing the Russians of carrying

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out those attacks. I think that is essentially what President Assad is

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saying, that the rebels have to stop but the Russians and Syrians don't

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have to if they feel they are terrorists who will take advantage

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of what is going on. As things stand, that position is both what

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President Assad and the Russian dogmatist holding two. We cannot

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know who attack these hospitals today but hospitals have been

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attacked on previous occasions. What would be the motivation of anyone,

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group or country to do that? The motivation in the past, when the

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Syrian government was indiscriminately attacking areas,

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was to clear the areas and make no difference between civilian in those

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areas and fighters. And that lead to total destruction of those areas,

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and to some extent, it did achieve what they wanted, by driving the

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rebels out of those areas. I think there is a sense that since the

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Russians entered the conflict fully in the past few months, with their

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air strikes, have followed a similar type of method. Using much more

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sophisticated weapons and it is more targeted. The Russians have denied

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they are doing this, attacking any civilian targets, that there is a

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supposition still but it does play into the Syrian government's hands

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to clear areas of the people living there. A quick word about the UN

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being in Damascus, where does that fit into the diplomatic activity we

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have seen in Europe? He is the special envoy trying to get together

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some kind of... The peace talks he set out a week or two ago, they

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collapsed, but the process has not finished and last Friday, the talk

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in Munich was of a ceasefire of some kind coming into force this week.

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Everything we are seeing at the moment seems to go against that but

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he is there to talk about that and also, to talk about the other key

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thing which is part of what the ceasefire aims to do which is how to

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get aid into the worst hit areas. There is of course complete opposing

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positions about where that should happen and how it should happen and

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who will benefit from it. He is trying to square that circle but it

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is a very difficult thing. Remember watching on BBC News channel,

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outside of the UK, you can see Sebastian regularly through BBC

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World Service radio which you can stream at the website. If that is

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one of the main story today, this is certainly another.

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The BBC has learned details of a close, long-term friendship

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between Pope John Paul II and a married female philosopher.

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And his relationship with this woman, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka,

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began in 1973, when he was a Cardinal.

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"You are a gift from God. If I did not have this conviction.

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Here are some photos which BBC has been given access to.

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The two went on camping trips and skiing holidays.

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There is, I should say no suggestion the Pope broke his vow of celibacy

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and we know that they continued to see each other after

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David Willey has covered the Vatican for many years.

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I was curious to hear his take on this.

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It is not altogether surprising. The late Pope John Paul was a man who I

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think, enjoy intense relationships. We knew of his relationships for

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example with a school friend who lived tier in Rome, who for years,

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went to visit him at the Vatican. We didn't really know that this

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extended to women friends who he had known in the days before he was

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elected Pope in Poland. Clearly, this is something of a surprise

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because the rather passionate details of their correspondence has

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come out and these letters have been sold in fact, when this lady died,

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to the national archive in Warsaw. Inexplicably, they have allowed

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publication. I think, reading between the lines, the Vatican did

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everything it could to stop anything leaking out but this was something

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that the BBC managed to do with people who run the national library

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and it was the subject of a financial transaction when this lady

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died a couple of years ago in the united states. When you look at

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these letters, you can see evidence of great pleasure that John Paul II

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is taking from the relationship. Is there also evidence he was

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struggling to maintain that vow of celibacy? I don't think he was

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struggling but he was very interested in human love. It was one

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of the subjects which engaged him as a philosopher and as this lady was

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also engaged in philosophy, they wrote a book together before he came

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Pope and clearly, they had a sort of professional and rather deep

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relationship. Don't forget, Pope John Paul wrote poetry about love

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and he even wrote a book about sexual relations between men and

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women. It was a subject in which he was deeply interested, although of

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course, as a priest who had taken vows of celibacy, he wasn't able to

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have any of these relations himself. But he was passionate, interested in

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love relationships. This story comes from the BBC

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panorama programme and if watching in the UK, you can see a 30 minute

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programme of those letters of John Paul II. Every day this week, we are

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certain to be covering the ongoing negotiations between David Cameron

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and his government and the European Union. David Cameron is seeking to

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reshape our relationship with the European Union ahead of a referendum

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on whether Britain should remain within the EU. Let me play you this

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from the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, with a stark

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warning of what might happen if Britain were to leave.

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This is a critical moment. It is high time we started listening to

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each other's arguments more, than to our own.

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It is natural in negotiations that positions harden as we get closer

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to crunch time, but the risk of a break-up is real,

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because this process is indeed very fragile.

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And interesting tweet from BBC politics, it definitely worth

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following if you want to keep up-to-date with the story. It

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highlights the fact David Cameron is in Paris for talks with Francois

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Hollande on these reforms on the UK's relationship with the European

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Union. Ben Wright explained why that

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meeting is so important. Negotiations have been going on for

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months among officials and ambassadors and the occasional

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meeting with David Cameron and other EU leaders. This ultimately is about

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nailing the deal with the new's heads of government so on Friday,

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David Cameron, Angela Merkel. Today, he is seeing Francois Hollande. We

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don't think this was in the diary until this morning. Lily, there is a

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wrinkle that need ironing out. -- clearly. We suspect it is around

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this whole issue of the future relationship between countries that

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have the Europa and those like Britain that do not. That is a clear

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part of this negotiation. The UK might be looking for some sort of

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competitive advantage, maybe worried the Eurozone will try to rig the

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rules in some way that affects the UK. Cameron's arrival in Paris this

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evening shows there is still a lot of work to do on nailing down the

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details. Every day on outside source, we will be connecting you to

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journalists covering this story. In a few minutes time, I will play you

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this report in full from John Donaldson about a haul of

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methamphetamine that has been picked up by the police, with over 700

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million US dollars. Most psychiatric patients are being

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failed by the NHS in England according to a report by an

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independent task force which uncovered poor provision and long

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waiting times in A departments. David Cameron has promised an extra

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billion pounds a year to mental health services either year 2021. We

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have not done enough to end the stigma of mental health. We have

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focused a lot on physical health and not as a country focused enough on

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mental health. That is changing, for the first time we had waiting times

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for mental health treatments. Parity of esteem for mental and physical

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health. Since I became Prime Minister, we have done much more on

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the cognitive behavioural therapies, something like three quarters of a

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million more people have access to those therapies. If you are saying

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more needs to be done, I would absolutely agree with that.

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We live in the BBC newsroom. Our lead story as it has been for the

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past few hours, air strikes have destroyed many hospitals in Syria.

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MSF says one of its hospitals was deliberately targeted.

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The former head of Russia's anti-doping agency has died.

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Two months ago Nikita Kamaev resigned as allegations

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of state-sponsored cheating in athletics mounted.

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The agency says he is thought to have suffered a heart attack.

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trucks from crossing its territory en route to the European Union.

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Latest development in an extended trade war.

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These are the latest pictures of a big fire which broke out

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A number of Bollywood actors had to be evacuated from the stage.

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Fortunately no-one was injured. BBC News app for more on that.

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The bosses of some of Europe's biggest steel-makers

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have been in Brussels - they want urgent help

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The price of steel has fallen dramatically in the past five years.

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The steel industry is dominated by China, accounting for almost half of

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global production. It produced nearly 900 million metric tonnes

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last year. But as growth in China's economy slows, it has been sending

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more steel abroad. It exports has surged 61% were as Japan and the EU,

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have seen marginal changes. The European steel association says more

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than 5000 jobs have been lost across Europe in recent months. The UK

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particularly affected. Companies like Tata Steel and red cards laying

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high electricity prices and cheap steel from China. With more jobs on

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the line, the took action in January and set provisional duties on

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Chinese imports between 9.2 and 13%. But many say these measures don't go

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far enough. The steel industry employs 328,000 people in Europe

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with thousands of these jobs at risk from cheap, Chinese imports. Thank

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you to Tanya for that. Bad news for the Japanese economy -

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it contracted in the final three This was worse than had been

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predicted. The reason this is getting a lot

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of attention is if you take these quarterly figures -

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and project them across a year - that would see the economy

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shrink by 1.4%. All of which leaves - Shinzo Abe,

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the Japanese Prime Minister His plan to revive the economy

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is so high profile it's got Here's Rupert

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Wingfield-Hayes in Toyko. We are three years into this

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so-called Abb-economics and we are basically back where we have

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started. What was the last three years for? What has gone wrong?

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There is the domestic component in Japan, what is going on with the

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domestic economy? Massive amounts of quantitative easing has pushed up

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the stock market, helping banks rebuild their balance sheets but it

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is not fed through to ordinary Japanese consumers and consumer

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demand has remained flat which is a big reason why we are seeing these

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GDP figures. The value of the Japanese yen was pushed down by

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about 25% over the last three years which has helped exporters a lot. We

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were seeing exports booming last year, companies like Toyota making

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record profits but in the last six months, that has dropped off

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dramatically, largely because of what is happening in China. The

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world economy is slowing down and in the last month, dramatic

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strengthening of the Japanese yen, it is not because of anything going

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on in Tokyo, it is because there is a lack of confidence around the

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world and when that happens, investors rushed to what they call

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safe havens. The yen is still considered a safe haven and because

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of that, it has gone up dramatically in value and now Japanese products

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cost more. Now to the BBC News

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series, CEO Secrets. We've got interviews

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with lots of business leaders - YouTube, Fifa and Metro

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Bank to name a few - giving the advice they wish they had

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when they started out. This time it's EasyJet boss

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Carolyn McCall's turn. The most important thing really is

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to have self-confidence. Really know yourself, know what you are good and

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not so good at. Think about when you can fill those gaps and play to your

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strengths. Get to know people, whether that is inside your own

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company or whether it is your customers. You learn so much, far

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more than you could ever find in a book or document, about what you can

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do to improve your business. Really find something you love doing

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because if you love doing it, people really enjoyed working with you and

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they want you to be on your team, they want to involve you in projects

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so actually, that enjoyment and love of what you do is critical. She will

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be paying close attention to this story.

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A Virgin Atlantic plane had to return to London

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because of a laser was shone into the cockpit.

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It was en route from London to New York.

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But TWITTER@flightradar as you can see from this tweet from flight

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radar, it turned around over Ireland.

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This is a recording of one of the crew speaking to air traffic

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We have a medical situation with the pilot. We will return to Heathrow.

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There were 250 people on board, this is one of them describing what

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happened. There was no drama, it was very calm, no panic. It went as

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smoothly as it could, I think. There was an ambulance right there when we

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landed. I noticed it as I had the window seat. The paramedics came on

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board. They just explained what happened, we were not that far into

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the flight and there were no disruptions to the plane or the

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service. The head steward, I forget what they call them, that they did

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an amazing job. Last year, over a thousand incidents involving laser

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pens being pointed at a craft just in England and Wales. This is why

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that is so dangerous. This is a clip of the British airline pilots

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association. It is distracting, it affects your vision and blunts the

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instrument panel. It is tempting to look into the light so discount

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intuitive, you have to look away from the light. It creates Flash

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line must which is not only distracting but it is also very

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worrying for the individual pilot. It is an offence to do this and it

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carries a maximum prison sentence of five years. The trouble is, the

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people who have done this could have come from anywhere in the

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surrounding area so what we have been calling for our lasers to be

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classified as an offensive weapon. Next, a report from John Donaldson

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in Australia. Police say they have made one of the biggest drug busts

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in the country's history. Seizing 700 million US dollars worth of

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methamphetamine. In one of the biggest drug

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raids in Australian history, Today, they released footage

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of the moment the suspects' And at a news conference,

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officers declared a major victory in Australia's

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so-called "War on ice". As a tool for drug smuggling,

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padded bras seem an unlikely device, but cleverly hidden inside the gel

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inserts were hundreds of millions of pounds worth of

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liquid methamphetamine. The joint Organised Crime Group

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operation began in December last year when the Australian Border

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Force examined a shipping container That shipping container was found

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to contain gel bra inserts and hidden inside those gel bra

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inserts was 190 litres This led police to raid

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warehouses in Sydney, where they found a further 500

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litres of the drug disguised as glue Australia has one of the highest

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rates of methamphetamine use in the world, much of it smuggled

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down through Asia from China. This is a devastating blow

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for the organised criminal gangs It shows you if you do target

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the Australian market, we have the powers and

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the resources to prosecute you. In this case, because of the large

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quantities of these drugs, the people involved could be

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imprisoned for life. Police say four men from Hong Kong

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have been arrested and charged It is always with me mentioning that

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any of the stories you see covered on here, you can also see covered

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online by the BBC, on our website and the BBC News app which you can

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download straight onto your phone. Parts of north America have just had

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some of

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