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

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The Syrian government says it has retaken Aleppo and 35,000 people

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left in the last week. That was achieved with Russia's help. Today,

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the commander to Russia says they are doing a live trine exercise.

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This is not the conduct of a nation that wants to be a superpower.

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The fingerprints of the man suspected of the Berlin attack have

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been found inside the truck that was used.

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Donald Trump has sent tweets saying the US must strengthen its nuclear

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weapons. If you want to get in touch you can use our hashtag on the

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screen and my social media contacts as well.

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In the last few hours in the BBC newsroom, this claim came through

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from the Syrian government, that it had retaken Aleppo entirely, as the

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last group of rebel fighters had been evacuated. We understand this

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group who were not just the fighters but their families as well, had been

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holed up in a small enclave in Aleppo but they were finally

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evacuated on Thursday. That was negotiated under a deal which gives

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the army and its allies full control of the city after almost four years

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of fighting. We can bring in the BBC correspondent in Beirut James

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Longman. I guess Aleppo fell a few weeks back so this is more about the

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symbolism of the moment? That is absolutely right. The huge moment

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for the Syrian regime and they have been making the most of it. There

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has been celebratory gunfire heard on the west side of Aleppo. The army

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are making their way into eastern Aleppo to physically claim it back

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because this is definitely a war about territory claimed and lost. We

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know on state television they have put banners up calling this a

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momentous victory and there has been a statement put out by the army

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where they said this was a deadly blow to the terrorist project and

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its supporters. This is the biggest win for the government, resident

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Bashar al-Assad, in almost six years of war. Aleppo has been contested

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for four years. The rebels have had control of the East for that amount

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of time. They were hoping to launch attacks on the rest of Syria are

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least claim of them urgent centres -- other major centres. Now they

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have the north-western area of Idlib. The rebels and families of

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rebels are going up there as evacuees, as refugees in their own

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country, but also to regroup. Rebel groups will regroup. This war in

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Syria which has been rolling for nearly six years may be over in

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Aleppo, but it is certainly not in Syria at large. You mentioned Idlib,

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how strong are the rebels in that part of Syria and is the Syrian

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government indicating it will turn its military power towards Idlib

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instead of Aleppo? They certainly are. The Rebel Alliance in Idlib is

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mostly dominated by some of the more extreme elements of the Rebel

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community in Syria. One group is linked to Al-Qaeda which is one of

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the main groups and another one which is a huge fighting force in

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Syria which is not designated a terrorist organisation but extreme

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nonetheless. It is fair to say the colour of the Syrian opposition has

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over time shifted somewhat, as the government has made a concerted

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effort to hit the most moderate rebels first, in order to make this

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claim that it is only terrorists in Syria they are fighting. Today in a

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statement the rebels say they want to continue to reclaim every span of

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the homeland so that would suggest that is exactly what they intend to

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do. This war will continue into the north-west, into the province of

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Idlib. It does depend on what the Russians decide to do. It is only

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because of Russian support that the Army was able to reclaim eastern

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Aleppo but it is likely they will support the president in this

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endeavour because they have been watching as strikes in Idlib

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province over the last six to eight months. I think largely the fight

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for Idlib will begin in earnest in the New Year. James, thank you. And

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if you want updates on the situation in Syria, you can get it from James

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on Twitter as he goes about his work. Before the Syrian army made

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this announcement today, we heard from President Assad. He was already

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anticipating complete victory in Aleppo. He said the liberation of

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Aleppo from terrorism is not only a victory for Syria but for all

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countries fighting terrorism, especially Iran and Russia. The

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BBC's Jonathan Beale has been discussing Syria with the head of

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the Army in Europe. What we see is Syria is weapons capabilities. They

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are using weapons in certain situations which are not necessarily

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required for that tactical situation, but they are

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demonstrating that they have these capabilities, practising if you

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will, a live fire opportunity to experiment and train with all their

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weapons systems. That is not helpful. And of course, the

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disregard for Syrian casualties that we see in places like Aleppo, again,

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that is not the conduct of a nation which wants to be a superpower and

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be treated like a superpower. We work hard every day to protect

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our systems. Our systems are under attack from all sorts of different

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sources. Russian? All sorts of different sources. We have

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responsibility for training, awareness and procedures to protect

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our networks. You are worried about definitely. Let's bring you

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up-to-date on the latest in the Berlin attack.

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The fingerprints of the main suspect in the Berlin attack have been found

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TRANSLATION: We have had additional indications today that indeed the

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strong suspect is by all likelihood the offender. We found in the

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driver's cab fingerprints and we also have other indications pointing

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towards that likelihood. Pressure must be growing on the

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German authorities, not only because that man was known to them before

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the attack but it is now three days since the attack and they have not

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found him. Damian Grammaticus has been talking to me.

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Angela Merkel went to visit the security services. She thanked

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Germans for their patience and calmness after the event. I think

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there are questions to be raised for the police, the security services,

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for their handling of the case of Anis Amri before these attacks, but

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there is also I think quite a good deal of patience while police hunt

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for him. Tell us what is behind you? I can see some festivities but also

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some concrete barriers. Yes, this is the market. We are right in the

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middle of Berlin. This is just close to where the attack happened. The

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lorry came through not just this part of the market but 100 metres

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through the market stalls. Here, they have reopened this. We were

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here when they were putting the concrete barriers in place along the

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road to block the market stalls off from access to the site. The

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stallholders are back. Trade is not as brisk as you would imagine, but

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many people are coming here to this point where they have been putting

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candles and flowers and there are other points as well. This is a sign

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of the lunar is trying to get back to normal to say we are open. --

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people of Berlin. We spoke to a stallholder who said the importance

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is not to be afraid, not to let the people who carried out the attack

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win but to get back to business and show they were back to normal.

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There are various reports in German media of his his links

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This is a news website - it says he'd been seen

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in the company of a man who was arrested with

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Spiegel magazine reports he offered himself as a suicide attacker.

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The BBC can't confirm either of those stories.

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Also The New York Times says he was on a US no-fly list -

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and that he'd researched explosives and communicated with

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the Islamic State group via a messenger service.

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We've also been getting information from his family in Tunisia -

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they live in a place called Kairouan.

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This is what his brothers told journalists.

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This is the home that Anis Amri grew up in. He was barely 16 when he left

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his hometown. There have been outbursts of anger from his siblings

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who have gathered here, since we arrived. His sister came out at some

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point. She was crying. She was shouted at some of the journalists

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saying everyone was trying to vilify her brother and the entire family.

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She does not believe that her brother had anything to do with the

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Berlin attacks. His brother also came out at some point and talked to

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us saying that his brother had told him he might come back to Tunisia as

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early as January. TRANSLATION: We were waiting for our brother to come

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back with a new work permit. We did not expect to hear the news that we

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heard. I last spoke to him ten days before the attack. IS operatives

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have been recruited from this country for over two years now. Some

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come from big cities like the T miss, others from sleepy towns. They

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have also come from different backgrounds. Some have been from

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from wealthy families, had a higher education. Others have been average

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Tunisian is just trying to get by in life. And some like the suspect and

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his family come from abject poverty. Friends and family say he grew up

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like any other youngster here. He loved spending time with his

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friends, he listened to music and he drank alcohol. We'll so know he had

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a criminal history. He was sentenced in absentia to five years in jail

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and he was also imprisoned in Palermo in Sicily for four years

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before he moved on to Germany. It is not believed that he ever had any

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Islamist links here before he left the country, so if he did get

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radicalised, it happened during his stay in Europe.

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And you can find all the BBC coverage of the attack collated in

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one place on the BBC News website. Let's look at what could be a major

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breakthrough in the treatment It's concerns a drug called

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Ocrelizumab and that appears to be able to slow damage to the brain

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in two forms of MS. The findings of a the trial

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were published in the James Gallagher has been telling me

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how the drug works. If you think about what MS is, it is

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an immune system is starting to attack the brain and wants it

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attacks the brain it disrupts chemical and electrical signals

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throughout the brain and that is how you lose control of your body. If

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the immune system is attacking the brain, let's attack the immune

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system. So what Ocrelizumab does is it selectively destroys part of the

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immune system to ease the assault on the brain. This trial was of 2000

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patients. Is that a significant number? Can we draw some big

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conclusions? And has the latest trial and it is the most important

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one. Trials go from a couple of people where you test it for safety

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and then bigger numbers where you say, does it work for patients? This

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is a really significant trial and it shows it does work in patients who

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have relapsing remitting MS. That is the kind that gets worse, then it

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gets better and then gets worse again over time. For people with the

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type which just gets worse there is no hope. We have the details of this

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trial published online. What now happens? It has to move from a trial

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to real life. The first stage is getting an official license to be

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prescribed by doctors. It will go to the US Food and Drug Administration

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to get the license. It is expecting to get that by the end of next year

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and then it is the case of who wants to pay for it? Expensive? They are

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always expensive, Ross, you know that. This is a really innovative

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piece of medicine. How you pay for it is almost as big question is

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developing the drugs in the first place.

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Not for the first time at week from Donald Trump has raised a lot of

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questions. We will have more on that and be with Barbara Plett-Usher get

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reaction. Around 70 to 80 prisoners have taken

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control of a wing at HMP swell side in Kent. The category B training

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prison houses prisoners on life sentences. This is the fourth

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disturbance at an English jail in less than two months following

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disturbances at Bedford, Birmingham and lowest -- HMP swell side.

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Swaleside is a very difficult place to work at the moment. There is a

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shortage of staff. It is a tough prison. Prisoners are there for a

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long period of time. They are big, powerful guys. There are a lot of

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drugs in prisons at this period in time. It is a particularly tough

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place to work and if you short staffed, staffed, it makes it even

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harder. Hello, I am Ross Atkins with Outside

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Source. The Syrian army says it has taken

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control of Aleppo. BBC Chinese reports that Japan has

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increased its defence budget That's seen as a response

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to tensions in the South China Sea - The draft budget takes spending

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next year to a record BBC Swahili reports that Opposition

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MPs in Kenya have stormed out of parliament alleging

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they had been assaulted. This all happened during a debate

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on changing the electoral laws for The initial debate on Tuesday also

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saw MPs exchange punches. Separatists in the east

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of Ukraine have held the self-proclaimed republic's

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most patriotic cat. Owners were encouraged

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to dress their pet in the colours About an hour ago, Donald Trump

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tweeted this tweet, "The United States must greatly

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strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time

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as the world comes to its senses As is often the case with Mr Trump,

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he tweets but does not offer a great deal of detail on top of that. That

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can sense the media running and to work out what is going on. Let's

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bring in Barbara Plett Usher in Washington, DC. I see we have been

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offered a little help from one of Mr Trump's press advisers? Yes, Mr

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Trump is Mac transition team have been left with the task of

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translating that remarkable tweet. They say what he meant to say was it

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is important to prevent nuclear proliferation, especially regarding

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terrorist organisations and rogue states. The transition team also

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pointed out that Mr Trump has been emphasising the need to modernise

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America's deterrent capability. That is the note on his website. If that

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is what he is saying with this tweet then it seems as if he would be

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supporting President Obama's current policy which is to modernise

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America's ageing arsenal, but if that is what he was trying to say,

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he did so in a way that caused quite a lot of surprise and alarm. There

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is a difference between modernising and expanding and it is the word X

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band which drew a lot of attention? That is right. -- the word expand.

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President Obama has been all about reducing stockpiles. Some have

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criticised this because of creating a new cruise missile and updating a

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nuclear bomb. There are some changes which people say could increase an

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arms race but it is not within President Obama's policy to expand

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nuclear weapons in the world. He entered office talking about a

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planet without nuclear weapons. So when Mr Trump tweets he wants to

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strengthen and expand they question it. And if he tweets without any

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policy discussion or policy details or even a position he -- a position

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to make policies because he is not president yet, then this is what the

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Clinton campaign were saying, that he is too erratic and this will feed

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those concerns. We are new territory with Mr Trump in many ways. I don't

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think America has had a president before who tweets and then has

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colleagues to translate for press and country.

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We will carry on talking about the President elect because he continues

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to expand his team. This is a billionaire investor who will advise

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the government on regulatory reform or to put it another way, reduce

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regulation. He says it is time to break free of excessive regulation

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and let entrepreneurs do what they do best. Let's try and understand

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what that means. Samir is in New York. What is this describing in

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practical terms? When you are talking about Carl Icahn, he is an

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activist investor. He is someone we have talked about before. He is very

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well made people on Wall Street. He will take on the role of advising

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Donald Trump on regulations. What he argues is that any rules which

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confine business in any sort of way actually reduces how much businesses

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can put out in the world and say what he wants to do is to say, look,

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if we get rid of a lot of the rules which are tying down businesses then

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that will allow us to flourish. That is a Republican held belief. Donald

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Trump, by appointing him into his team of advisers, is really

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signalling that he wants to get rid of a lot of these regulations. We

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have talked about this before with a lot of the banking regulations which

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force banks to keep more Capital One hand or keep more liquidity on hand

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to try and protect itself from any sort of big moves within the market.

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This is another one of these moves in which Donald Trump wants to try

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and get rid of some of the rules to allow businesses to flourish. You

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mentioned the banks and this looks like a reverse. If we go back to the

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months of 2008, the lack of regulation was the thing that people

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highlighted as one of the primary causes, wasn't it? And macro that is

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absolutely right. What many will argue is we have gone too much in

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the opposite direction and we have too many regulations now which are

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really hampering banks. This is why you are always hearing the words

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Dodd Frank. Those are the regulations put into place after the

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financial crisis. Mr Trump says he wants to rule back -- rollback of

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some of those regulations to free the bank to do what they do best.

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Thank you, Samira. We have had reports from Lebanon and

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now we are turning our attention to China. Ali Barber is done in -- much

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of the business of Ali Barber is done in China. America has put it on

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a blacklist due to the counterfeit sales online. The company was

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accused of selling high levels of fake goods. Alibaba rejects those

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allegations and says it polices the marketplace much better than in the

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past, and it also says that today's political climate in America at have

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something to do with the fact it is back on the blacklist.

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President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly accused China of stealing

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intellectual property and has appointed an outspoken critic as

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head of the trade body. But Donald Trump has not taken office yet so

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the authorities would probably disagree with Alibaba's speculation

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that it is back on the blacklist. Just before we finish this half of

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Outside Source, let me remind you of some very significant news. This is

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the HP quoting the Syrian army says it has retaken Aleppo entirely, as

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the last group of rebel fighters were evacuated. Militarily, the

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battle for Aleppo ended a couple of weeks back but nonetheless, this is

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a city which has been fought over for nearly four years. For the first

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time in that period the Syrian government is backing control. Speak

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to you in a minute. -- back in

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