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Welcome to Outside Source. We will go straight to Brussels. Police

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continue to hunt for two gunmen that police believe are connected to last

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you's Paris attacks. Latest reports say another suspect has been killed.

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The day after it was announced, Russia has started its military

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pull-out from Syria. We will analyse the past changing situation. The BBC

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will report from the Democratic Republic of Congo on elephant

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poaching. We will also talk about the head of the Bangladesh Central

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bank who has resigned. There has been a $100 million hack of a

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government account and the money doesn't look like it is coming back.

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And we have a big day of US politics to talk about. And you can get in

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touch with us on Twitter. The situation in Brussels continues

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to evolve. A manhunt is still underway and police say they are now

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hunting for two men after an anti-terror raid earlier in the day.

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These are some live pictures coming to the BBC. A major police presence

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in this part of the city. The raid took place at around 2pm GMT. If I

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bring up the map, we can highlight one southern suburb of Brussels

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called Forest and it is in this part of the city most of the police

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activity has been. Let's bring in some information.

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The police are consistently saying this is linked to the Paris attacks.

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Other important information includes the fact that four officers have

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been wounded, one seriously. The mayor of this suburb has been

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speaking. TRANSLATION: The situation is very calm. Police have been

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deployed and residents were told to stay indoors. There is a school and

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nursery and the building is perfectly secure. The parents have

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been told and they are waiting at my office. They are very impatient to

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see their children, of course, but the children are being taken care of

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by teaching staff who have also been reassured. I have been in contact by

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phone and everything is OK with them. Let's go live to the suburb of

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Forest. Bring us up-to-date on what is happening in the city at the

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moment. It is a very fluid situation. We are

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right behind the police lines and you can see a significant police

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presence, heavily armed officers all over the streets. All of the access

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roads are blocked. You can see a fire engine and police vans. The

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raid took place behind those fans. Some residents are being allowed

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through. A helicopter is still overhead. We have heard in the last

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couple of minutes from the Belgian prosecutors office saying that the

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person who was killed in those attacks is not one of the main

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suspects in the Paris attacks, so he remains in Europe's most wanted man.

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After lunchtime it is said they were pursuing two suspects of a rift

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tops. It is not clear how many people remain at large but there is

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still an operation underway. It has quietened down a lot since we

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arrived. A lot of the media has moved on. Something is happening

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here but we don't exactly know what. As the mayor was saying, the

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situation feels relatively calm. If anything changes please come back

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to us. That is one story we have been following closely today. This

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is another. Yesterday, Vladimir Putin 's surprise stars by saying

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Russian forces would be leaving Syria. Today that started. There has

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been a positive response. Let's be clear, this is not a total

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withdrawal. The Russian deputy defence minister has spoken today

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saying that some strikes will continue and he went on to say it is

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too early to talk about victory over terrorism. There is no suggestion

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that Russia's main military bases in Syria, they will continue to operate

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as normal. Steve Rosenberg has been to those bases and here is his

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report on the beginning of the Russian withdrawal.

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At the Russian air base in Syria, it's the final checks.

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In the cockpit of a Sukhoi 34 bomber, preparations for take-off.

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And then for Russia's air force, the long flight home.

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Led by a command plane, the bombers head to Russia.

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President Putin has ordered the majority of Russian forces

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He says they have completed their task.

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A few hours later the planes and pilots are back on Russian soil.

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It follows five months of Russian air strikes. Western leaders accused

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the Russians of bombing anyone who opposed President Assad. Russia

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denies that and says it is only targeting terrorists. When we

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visited the airbase earlier this month there were signs that her

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campaign was being scaled down. Russian soldiers were trying to

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convince Syrian opposition figures to back the peace process. But this

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is not the end of Russia's military operation in Syria. Moscow is not

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pulling out all its troops and vows to continue carrying out air strikes

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against what it calls terrorists. Russians are going to keep a

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military presence in Syria which begs the question what exactly does

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the withdrawal mean in practice? I have spoken to two of my colleagues.

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Vladimir Putin says the objectives have been achieved and that is it.

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You must ask yourself what the objectives were. If it was to keep

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President Assad in power and make sure his opposition to him is

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depleted, then the objectives have been achieved. If it was peace and

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fighting against Islamic State then that is not complete. It is also to

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show that Vladimir Putin is strong, and makes him different to the West.

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Russia's intervention changed this conflict. Their intervention

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surprised everybody. Since getting involved and they have caught

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everybody by surprise. Today is very enigmatic. After three weeks of a

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partial ceasefire, Russia partially withdraws after partially achieving

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objectives. I think what you said is right that one objective was to prop

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up President Assad and save him because his heartland was under

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threat before they intervened. The other thing is to bring the

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opposition to the Geneva talks on President Assad's and Russia's

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terms. The issue of President Assad being out of power is almost off the

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table. The other thing is Russia being back on the world stage as a

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major power. Carrying on from what you said, what Russian journalists

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and officials are asking is what about sanctions? Although they are

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not connected to Syria, Russian officials and journalists, the first

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questions they ask is whether the Syrian campaign will help Russia get

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the sanctions lifted. If you see how the Russian pilots have been met in

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Russia, as victorious, but the impression in Syria was revenge, but

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it was all treated as a big military parade. There is a ceasefire of

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sorts, holding better than many people expected. More talks are

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planned and we seem to be in a better situation than for some time

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and Russia played a part. There are reasons to be optimistic but also to

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the cosh is. Up till now, the position of the government of

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President Assad and the position of the rebels are completely different.

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President Assad wants to get into a process where talks about frameworks

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and preparations, and the opposition wants to go straight to the

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substance. Assad is open to a new constitution, elections he would be

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able to participate in, and the opposition say he has to go. We

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can't see how these very different positions can be reconciled. What is

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happening on the ground is helping but in the Middle East there is

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always a lot of reason to be pessimistic.

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We have been... In a few minutes' time we will get the help of another

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colleague to talk about an extraordinary story from Bangladesh

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were a cyber heist has cost the country's central-bank in the region

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of $100 million. The Department for Education is to

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set out proposals to radically reformed how schools are run in

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Britain. It has been the long-term aim for changing schools to be

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outside local government control. Since 1902 this is a big thing. An

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awful lot of skills have not converted. 40% of secondary schools,

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around 1300, and one in seven primary schools have converted, so

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14,004 have to change. It is big in that way. Academies are not bound so

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what happens to the national curriculum? Also nationally agreed

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he skills for teachers, academies can make their own bargains with

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teachers. A lot of ramifications. Our lead story is that there has

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been a shoot out at a house in Belgium jeering a police operation

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linked to the Paris attacks. One person has been killed and four

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police officers injured. Let's have a look at some of the main stories

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from BBC world service. The parliament in the Armagh as elected

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-- Myanmar has elected a new president. An explosive device under

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a car in Berlin killed the driver, believed to be linked to organised

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crime, not terrorism. A 16th century hall in Manchester has been badly

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damaged by fire. Police say the circumstances are suspicious.

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Anders brave it -- Anders Breivik killed 77 people in Norway. We

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signed today for the first time since he was sentenced in 2012. This

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video was released by the Norwegian authorities. The reason he is back

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in court is that he is suing the government for unacceptable

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treatment in prison, with relation to living in solitary confinement.

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He is having his handcuffs taken off there. He has shaken hands with his

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lawyer. The whole video makes for uncomfortable viewing. He seems

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distracted and uncomfortable at various points and then after a

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brief exchange with this police officer he does that directly in

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front of him. This was set up in a prison gymnasium especially set up

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court to hear his concerns. It is the number one story in Norway. The

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niece of a law professor there survived. It is not a happy day but

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this is something we have to go through. People like Anders Breivik

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have human rights. They are not only for people who aren't nice but

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people who are not nice as well. The question before the court is all the

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conditions under which he is doing his prison term to restrictive? Is

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the isolation going too far? That is a question of Norwegian and

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international human rights law. It is a good thing that it person like

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him gets this opportunity in the legal system to challenge every

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aspect of his detention. Let's begin Outside Source business by talking

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about this man losing his job, the head of the Central bank in

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Bangladesh, he resigned. Hackers managed to steal over $100 million

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from the foreign currency reserves, taken from an account held with the

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Federal Reserve bank of New York. You could call this a lucky escape

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because the hackers put in transparent requests for $1 billion.

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That could have been very downfall. They put in such a high number of

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transfer requests it caused suspicion, and they made a big

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error. One request was to this foundation but there spelling was

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not up to scratch. So the transfer was stopped. I wanted to understand

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how this scam worked. The computer system was hacked and

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they sent 35 money transfer request to the US Federal Reserve bank but

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only five were executed. This meant about 100 million US dollars

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siphoned from the account but the original request was for $1 billion,

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so 80 million went to a commercial bank in the Philippines in different

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accounts and that money was laundered in three casinos in the

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Philippines and ended up in accounts in Hong Kong. 20 million went to Sri

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Lanka but the bank staff were suspicious because the name of the

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foundation was incorrectly spelt so that was stopped, and that saved 20

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million dollars worth being siphoned. It is a complicated trail.

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Any idea who is behind it? Nobody knows. The government set up a

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3-member committee to investigate what happened, whether the IT

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structure was weak, whether the bank was vulnerable. When you lose this

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kind of money politically it will be very difficult. Bangladesh bank had

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kept the finance Ministry in total darkness and the finance minister

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was really angry because the government did not know anything and

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the whole thing came in the Philippine press and that's when the

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whole story came out in the open. Initially it was thought that the

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fault was when the Federal Reserve and that was said that the

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Bangladesh government would take legal action but then they found out

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the Bangladesh bank knew about it and they were taking steps to

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recover the money. Michael Jackson's estate has sold

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its interest in a huge music catalogue. Sony is buying it so it

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will get the rights to around 3 million songs, by the Beatles, Dylan

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and Taylor Swift among others. Some people might be surprised to know

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Michael Jackson owned all these songs in the first place. As well as

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being a talented singer he was also a shrewd businessman, certainly when

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it came to music copyright. He started buying up some of the rights

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to these songs back in 1985. Then in about 1995 he went into a joint

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venture with Sony and now his estate are selling the remaining share in

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this business to Sony. What is worth pointing out is Michael Jackson's on

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songs are not included. Sony wants to spend this money. Presumably you

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can still make money from music. I don't know if you stream music but

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increasingly people do not necessarily on a track, they're not

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going out to buy a CD record, but increasingly each time listen to a

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song on a streaming service, the chances are a streaming service is

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paying royalties back to the company which owns the copyright, so there

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is money to be made. Thank you. Let's talk about what the Duke of

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Cambridge has said today. He has unveiled plans to crack down on the

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trade in illegally killed wildlife and we are going to focus on

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elephants in a moment. Part of this is a declaration signed by 40

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companies, airlines, Portland customs officers, and he was some of

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what Prince William has said. We have faced up to the fact that if

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current trends continue the last wild African elephants and rhinos

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will be killed before my daughter reaches her 25th birthday. We have

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accepted that if we let some of our most iconic species go extinct on

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our watch, our collective confidence to tackle any conservation or

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environmental challenge will take a massive blow. And we have accepted

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that the poacher crisis is not just a tragedy because of the impact it

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has on animals but because of its effect on some of the most

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vulnerable people on our planet. Butchers and traffickers bring

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brutal violence into desperately poor parts of the world. We can pick

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up on that last point. Less than half a million elephants left in

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Africa. Poachers and Rangers are always in conflict. Our

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correspondent has set a report. It's tough terrain in

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Garamba National Park, where less than 100 rangers

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are trying to protect the last of the elephants across thousands

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of square miles of grassland. We joined one of their foot

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patrols to a place where The grass is so high,

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the only way to see a carcass is from the air and then

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to direct the rangers in. Well, this elephant was clearly

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killed by a poacher. Its ivory tusks were hacked off,

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it's been dead about three weeks. There are another four of these

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caucuses spread all around -- There are another four of these

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carcasses spread all around They arrived too late

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to catch the poachers, 30,000-40,000 elephants are being

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killed in Africa every year. And with only around 400,000 left,

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it's not going to be long, And with so few boots on the ground,

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those responsible often get away "We followed their footprints",

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one of the rangers told me. There are perhaps 1,300

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elephants left here. Garamba was one of Africa's first

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national parks and a World Heritage site, originally set up to protect

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the northern white rhino, but that has already been

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wiped out by poachers. Now, they're fighting

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to save the elephants that are left, in a place surrounded by civil war

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and heavily armed militia. And that's why African Parks,

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the group managing Garamba, But the weapons are old,

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few hit even a close target. Training rangers takes a lot of time

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and money and the men they're up This really does feel like you're

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fighting a war against poachers? I think Garamba is probably today

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at the forefront of conservation, I just don't think that many other

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places have so much contact and so many threats to one

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park as we have here. This local man was arrested after

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a tip-off, and ivory recovered. By the time it reaches the market

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in Asia, it goes for at least ?750. Then reports came

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in of another attack. And there are the carcasses,

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just down there by the river. Five of them, one of them a baby,

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and the sixth we've just spotted, a little bit further up

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the river from there. It's hard to make out from up here,

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but you could see that their faces They need hundreds more

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rangers to protect Garamba. On the front line of

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the poaching war, the elephants Alistair Leithead, BBC News,

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in the Democratic Republic of Congo. If you want to show other people

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that report, you can find it online at the BBC. Let's have a look at

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some stories we are going to cover. We have five significant primaries

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today in the US. We will also get into drone racing.

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