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

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We'll start in Brussels, where two people are still on the run

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after Tuesday's raid on an apartment.

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There have also been arrests in France of suspected

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The big story in the UK is the Chancellor's Budget.

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All the main points from that coming up in a few minutes.

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On the new Supreme Court Justice, President Obama has

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Today I am nominating Chief Judge Merrick giallo and -- Merrick

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Garland to join the Supreme Court. That's a hugely political decision -

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all tied in with the Primaries. The Republicans are intending to

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oppose the decision. Katty Kay will talk us through big

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wins for Donald Trump and Hillary And Arsenal need a big win

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against Barcelona to stay Not just a big win, a miracle,

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frankly. They are 2-0 down from the first leg. The game is under way,

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any goals, I will tell you about them.

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Before we turn to Brussels, a quick mention because lots of you have

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been messaging me asking about what time we are on our. Because we

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broadcast on different parts of the world and different part of the

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world change their times at different parts in the calendar, for

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some of you we are an hour ahead of where we usually are, we are on in

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the UK at 8pm rather than 9pm, this is the first week of that happening,

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it will be the same the next week, then we will go back to the time

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where we are throughout the year. Let's turn back to Brussels

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because the search for two armed We can highlight the area in the

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south of Russell Square this played out. That map in the south of

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Brussels, where this. The men fled a flat after a police

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raid that was connected Another suspect was shot dead

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hours after the raid. On the man who died, he says

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he was in the country illegally. One suspect was neutralised by a

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sniper of the special forces when he tried to open fire from the window

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of the flat where he was hiding. His body was found in the flat. Next to

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the body was a Kalashnikov, as well as a book on solecism. Also a flag

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of Isis, Daesh, was found in the flat. There were innumerable shell

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casings. My colleague Imelda flattery has been sharing an image

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of one police gun struck by a bullet fired by the people the police were

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trying to apprehend, the bullet struck the trigger, the police are

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telling us. The police search is still going on.

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Anna Holligan is where the initial raid took place - she's

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talked and walked me through what happened.

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We are right outside the house where the raid took place, and average

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suburban street in southern Brussels, and here there is evidence

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of the atrocity and intensity of the firefight. The Windows on the first

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and second floor are blown out. In terms of the surge, a quick 180 spin

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around, behind here in these houses, police have conducted house-to-house

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inquiries, plainclothed officers carrying clip wards. Around here,

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just past this red building we just went past, is a school that was put

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under lockdown while the firefight was ongoing. These kids have come to

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see what all the first is about, why so many television crews are camped

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out on their street. Behind them, the local mayor is there, he has

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been trying to reassure people through the media that there is

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nothing to worry about. You might have seen some pictures

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from some of the news agencies, up there is where some of the snipers

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were positioned, targeting those apartment building. I want to tell

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you more about the suspect killed during this anti-terror aid. He has

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been named by authorities. He is a 35-year-old Algerian international

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who the authorities say was in Belgium illegally. He came to their

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attention once before in the past in connection with a robbery. You can

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possibly hear another police I run there. We will take you to the back

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of this apartment where it gets really interesting. Round here, we

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could not go through here earlier because the authorities had blocked

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it, but we can now, I wanted to show you the back of this building. Look

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appear, this is the kitchen window of the apartment, smashed. The two

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suspects who escaped have not been identified, the speculation is they

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jumped through the back windows and run across the rooftops, and they

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are still at large. What I think is most remarkable is that if you did

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not know what had happened here yesterday, you would have no idea

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that there are two potentially armed men at large. There is a manhunt is

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under way, the authorities say, but there is far less police presence

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than last night and this morning, and just to update you, in the last

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half-hour we have heard from the authorities that the two people

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questioned in connection with this raid, including a man who went to

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hospital with a broken leg last night, has been released without

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charge. Thanks to Anna Holligan for talking

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us through that. An update on what is happening in France from BBC

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World Service. French anti-terrorism police

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arrested four Islamist radicals on Wednesday on suspicion

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they were planning an imminent attack in central Paris,

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TF1 television said. They say it is as part of a wider

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investigation into a possible plot against French targets. The interior

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minister in France said they had received in formation that one of

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those arrested might commit violent acts, but the story is evil thing.

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We can talk about the four arrests as having happened. -- the story is

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evolving. Earlier they were talking about an imminent attack, but now

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the language is changing. Let's talk about George Osborne, the Budget is

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the biggest story in the UK. Britain's Chancellor

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of the Exchequer has unveiled For those outside the UK, Finance

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Minister might explain his job. He's revised down Britain's growth

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forecast and warned that a vote to leave the European Union

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in June's referendum would put Those campaigning to leave with

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dispute that. We have a definite figures for 2014

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and 2015. The light figures are what we were told today, the dark green

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figures are from the autumn. Sorry, the other way round. Growth has been

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revised down. Growth this year had

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been forecast at 2.4%, but is now predicting

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a rate of 2.0%. And that's led to cuts

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in public spending. James Landale can explain.

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The Government likes to talk of fixing the roof when the sun is

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shining, in Westminster and elsewhere that is a long-term

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economic plan taking longer than expect. For George Osborne's Budget

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box contained worse economic news than he hoped, and, therefore,

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bigger cuts than he wanted, courtesy has to make to get is Budget in

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surplus by 2019. REPORTER: Playing it safe, Chancellor?

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Stars boy knew that as well as the bad news he needed some better news

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ahead of a referendum where he needs the support of voters and Tory MPs

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if Britain is to stay in the UU -- EQ. So his statement to MPs was

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deliberately cautious, no massive radical reforms, instead some tax

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cuts to soften the worsening economic news.

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Financial markets are turbulence, productivity growth across the West

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is time the blow, the outlook for the global economy is weak. It makes

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for a dangerous cocktail of risks. With the economy and productivity

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growing slower than expected, he admitted he had missed its target of

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cutting debt as a share of national income and would have to cut

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spending by another ?3.5 billion a year from 2019. He cheered Tory

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peers with a flurry of tax cuts, raising the tax-free personal

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allowance to ?11,500 from next April, raising the threshold for the

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higher rate of income tax to ?45,000, and there will be a new ISA

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to encourage saving, which the Government pays into. He said fuel

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duty would be frozen, corporation tax cuts to 17% by 2020 and small

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firms would get is this rates cut permanently. Good news for groups

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who often oppose the EU. A typical corner stop in Barnstaple will pay

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no business rates, a typical Leeds hairdresser, atypical Limited

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newsagent will pay no business rates. A ?7 billion tax cut for our

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nation of shopkeepers. But how will he pay for this? By imposing a

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massive tax rise on big firms, scrapping schemes they have used to

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avoid paying business tax. There will be a ?12 billion crackdown on

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tax avoidance and evasion and public sector employers will have to pay

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more pension contributions. Is Budget gets the investors investing,

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savers saving, businesses doing business so that we build for

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working people a low tax enterprise Britain, secure at home, strong in

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the world. I commend to the Haas a Budget that puts the next-generation

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first. For a Chancellor with one eye on

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becoming the next Tory leader, those were the cheers he wanted to hear.

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But for all the talk of a brighter economic future, Labour came out

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fighting, saying it was a recovery built on sand. Failed on the Budget

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deficit, on debt, investment, productivity, on trade deficit, on

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the welfare cap, failed to tackle inequality in this country.

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Inequality, he said, epitomised by the Chancellor's welfare cuts for

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the disabled. Half a million people with disabilities are losing over ?1

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billion in personal independence payments, Corporation Tax has been

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cut and billions handed out in tax cuts to the very wealthy. So the

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storm clouds Mr Osborne said gathering, but the economy is fit

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for the future. We will only know if he is right once the referendum is

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over and he has cut all that spending will

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. In a moment we will have more on the tax on sugary drinks. We will

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get into that in about ten minutes. We will switch from Westminster to

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Washington. President Obama has nominated this

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man, Merrick Garland, to be the next US

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Supreme Court Justice. This whole process was triggered

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by the death of this Justice, Here's some of Mr

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Obama's statement. I have selected a nominee who is

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widely recognised not only as one of America's sharpest legal minds, that

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somebody who brings to his work a spirit of decency, modesty,

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integrity, evenhandedness and excellence. These qualities, and his

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long commitment to public servers, have earned him the respect and

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admiration of leaders from both sides. He will ultimately bring that

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same character to bear on the Supreme Court.

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Here's Barbara Plett-Usher to explain.

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The Supreme Court is very important in America because it shapes

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American law and life, it takes decisions and very consequential

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issues often divided upon partisan lines like abortion, same-sex

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marriage, immigration, environmental issues, campaign financing. The

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court is evenly divided between liberals and conservatives, so Obama

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aims to fill a vacancy which would tip the ideological balance towards

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the Liberals, which would be politically contentious in any time,

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but it is inflammatory in the election season. Don't go anyway,

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Barbara. -- don't go anywhere. The Republicans in the Senate have said

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they will block any vote on a Supreme Court nominee from this

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president. They want his successor to make the choice, and there is no

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possibility of Mr Obama taking that lying down. Here is a new Twitter

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account that he has set up. He has been pushing out various tweets,

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making his point. Fact, the last time a president's Supreme Court

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nominee was denied a God, 1875. Then he shares this image with the

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words, a friendly reminder. Over a third of all previous US presidents

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have had a nominee confirmed to the Supreme Court in an election year.

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He says he wants to keep that friendly, but it is unlikely to last

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long? No, it has not been very friendly already. President Obama

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and the Democrats have made clear they will go on the offensive. His

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tweets argue that there is precedent for a president in his final year to

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nominate a candidate. They say that the Republicans are going against

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their constitutional responsibilities in the Senate if

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they do not even consider the candidate, which is what they had

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said they will do. Obama has made it difficult for them in some ways I

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presenting a candidate that should be the perfect consensus candidate.

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Justice Garland does not break any race or gender barriers, he is a

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63-year-old white man with an Ivy League degree, he is more a centrist

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than a down the line liberal, someone who Republicans and

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Democrats have previously praised. I think the Democrats will paint the

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Republicans as obstruction is set for political reasons because they

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are rejecting such an obviously centrist candidate. The Republicans

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have said they will not change their decision, that Obama is politicising

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the nomination by making it and it should be left to his successor who

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wins the presidential election. Given this is a white hot issue in

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Washington, with all the primaries and the drama around Hillary Clinton

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and Donald Trump, is this issue capturing the public imagination as

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we might imagine? I think that it will, I think it will become

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essential part of the election campaign, all the presidential

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candidates have come out very clearly saying that President Obama

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should not take this step and he will probably pick it even more in

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the campaign. The Democrats argue that polls show that two thirds of

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the public does not like this position by the Republicans and

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thinks they should at least give the candidate is a fair hearing. It will

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be a major political battle which will probably overshadow the

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presidential campaign and there will be public interest. Thanks, Barbara.

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I promised any updates on the Barcelona/ Arsenal game, the gunners

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1-0 down, 3-0 aggregate. The Thais looks to be done and dusted, you can

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follow it through BBC News. In a few minutes, we will talk about the

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migrant crisis again, we have been focusing on Greece and Macedonia but

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we will focus in the Mediterranean between Libya and Italy, there has

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been a sharp increase in the number of people trying to come across.

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This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom.

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Two people are still on the run after Tuesday's raid

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Four suspected Islamist militants have also been arrested in France.

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That is a separate story. Let's check in with some of the main

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stories from BBC World Service. BBC Urdu reports has bomb on a bus

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in north-western Pakistan has killed The victims were

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government employees. Pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine's

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breakaway province of Donetsk have begun issuing passports in an effort

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to show their independence Divers in Oman say they have

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discovered the remains of a ship which was part of a Portuguese

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fleet 500 years ago. If you want to see these pictures,

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you can find them in the most watched list on the BBC news app. I

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mentioned a couple of minutes ago, one of George Osborne's most

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attention grabbing announcements was the implementation of the sugar tax.

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As soon as I heard this story, I thought that Jamie Oliver would be

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very pleased. He has been very vocal in support. He treated...

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He has been talking to the BBC about why he called it a profound move. He

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has given them enough time to reformulate and has done it in

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bands. On the upside for parents and kids of Britain, this is over ?500

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million going into primary schools across Britain, sports will be

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invested in, hallelujah, reckless clubs, hallelujah, supporting

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teachers, brilliant. -- breakfast clubs. Sweet and sugary drinks have

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hidden behind sports, the Olympics, energy in and energy out for way too

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long. The world has changed and it is way more profound than you can

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imagine. The US Federal Reserve,

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the central bank, has ended a two day meeting on the state

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of the world's biggest economy. A big meeting, a big subject. Quite

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a cautious decision came out of it, Michelle Fleury is live in New York.

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I feel like we have talked quite a few times about interest rates not

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moving, normally news is about something happening but this is

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significant that they had stayed put? That's right, lots of it has to

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do with the accompanying words, steak and, press conferences at

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something called the dot plots, this is a charter, if you like,

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essentially prediction from the voting members, the members in

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America's Central bank, who say wave -- where they think interest rates

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will go. We have gone from an expectation of two rate hikes this

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year, in December they predicted as many as four. That is why you have

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seen such a positive reaction on the stock market, both main indexes here

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jumping much higher after Janet Yellen's press conference. If we

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were measuring the decisions with the most impact on the US economy,

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where would we rank interest rates? It has shaped what is happening on

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the financial market, it has had a huge impact in terms of people's

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personal finances. If you have a bank account and you are saving, if

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you are trying to get a mortgage, if you have any kind of credit card

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debt, the interest rate you pay, all of these things are tied to it. On a

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global scale, obviously, it has a huge impact on the rest of the world

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through the financial markets. Michelle, thank you.

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The Italian coastguard says nearly 2,500 migrants have been rescued

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from boats in the Mediterranean in the last two days.

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The numbers are going up, primarily because of improved weather

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conditions. Gavin Lee has been an European boats involved in the

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operations. The daily routine in the battle

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against migrant smugglers. This is an Italian aircraft carrier

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commanding a fleet of five EU warships in international waters off

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the Libyan coast. Everyday, to search the skies, reporting signs of

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suspicious activity. The ships have a mandate to seize and destroy

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anti-migrant boats. But the presence of these patrols has turned the

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operation into a huge search and rescue mission. We received

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information that there are three migrant boats. Within minutes of the

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boats being spotted we joined emergency response team searching

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for them. The smuggling business has become routine now, a clear sky and

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can see being the perfect conditions for this perilous journey.

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We are 40 nautical miles from the Libyan coast and this is the daily

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relative for the patrol teams in the sea. Down below, there is a migrant

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boat with around 100 on board that has just been rescued by HMS

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Enterprise, a British ship. People are being processed on the ship.

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They are climbing the ladder as they are being rescued, I am told there

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is still another four migrant boats waiting to be rescued.

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We flew a few miles from a British ship and spotted this. A vote full

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of people desperate for help, with no life jackets, children crouched

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up front, floating in this vast sea. Within an hour, rescue teams from

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HMS Enterprise managed to get to the stranded boat. Eight migrant boats

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were picked up today, 900 people were rescued, the highest in a

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single day so far this year. But there is growing criticism that

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these EU ships have become a magnet, smugglers directing migrants

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straight towards them. We have to think about what if we were not

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here, patrolling, creating deterrence and able to support those

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in danger. I am afraid that a good percentage of the migrants we are

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saving maybe would not be alive any more if we wouldn't be there to

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rescue them. Senior military commanders say more

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than 100,000 migrants are in Libyan safe houses waiting to cross as the

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weather improves. Navy officials here claimed the recent closure of

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the migrant route from Greece to Macedonia will lead to more people

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choosing this far more dangerous route by C in the days to come. --

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dangerous route by sea. All of the BBC reports we play you,

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you can also find online if you want to watch them again all share them.

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Straight after the break at half-past, Donald Trump and Hillary

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Clinton are strengthening their grip on the presidential nominations.

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Katty Kay will be live. If you have any questions for her, use our

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