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

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Part of Donald Trump's travel ban will come into force.

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The Supreme Court has ruled that a 90-day ban on people travelling

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from six muslim majority countries can apply in some circumstances.

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Iraqi forces are closing in on so called Islamic State

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in the heart of Mosul - one commander has said the battle

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The fight here is that extremely close quarters. This is the most

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forward position the Iraqi troops have. They tell us the nearest IS

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emplacement is just 50 metres away. Two and a half weeks

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after the UK general election, Theresa May finally has a deal that

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will allow her to get Her Conservative Party will be

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supported by Northern Ireland's The Nobel peace laureate,

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Liu Xiaobo, has been released from prison

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by the Chinese authorities. But that's only after

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he was diagnosed with We will also update you on what

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North Korea has been saying in response to a South Korean

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invitation to co-host the 2018 Winter Olympics.

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We have covered the story many times in the last three years.

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Back in 2014 the Islamic State group seized the whole city.

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In October Iraqi forces mounted an offensive to retake it.

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These are the maps we have been collecting along the way. You can

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see how the territory marked in red controlled by IS has got smaller and

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smaller and smaller as the months have gone by. Now we have this map,

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provided by the Iraqi military I should say, this area is still

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controlled by IS, we estimate it to be 2.5 square kilometres in the

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centre of Mosul. The BBC's team of Orla Guerin,

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Nico Hameon, Bader Catty and Rich Stacey, have exclusive

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access to the battle area. GUNFIRE

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Heading to the front line in Mosul. You have to run. And beware of

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snipers, troops from Iraq's emergency response division are

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advancing every day. The target here, the hospital complex. We move

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deeper into the battle, getting a chance to see how the fight is being

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taken to the so-called Islamic State. Urban warfare at its most

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intimate. Near enough to throw a hand grenade. Then this.

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Well, the fight here is that extremely close quarters. This is

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the most forward position the Iraqi troops have. They tell us the

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nearest IS position is just 15 metres away and when they are firing

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here at the distance is so small that sometimes they can see the

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faces of the IS militants. The troops here, mostly young,

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determined to end a reign of terror. Daesh came and killed civilians,

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says Harley. They destroyed life in the city. Our duty is to bring Mosul

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back to life -- Ali. Here is the hospital building where commanders

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say about 200 foreign militants are holed up, including some Britons.

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"That's what our intelligence tells us," says the kernel. "We also heard

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them speaking on the radio, we can tell their nationality from that."

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Iraqi drones monitor their movements if they dare to move at all. Here

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militants run from building to building in the vast medical complex

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looking for a cover. Commanders tell us there are French, Russians and

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Chechens here as well as the British. They say there are three

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senior IS leaders along with them trapped below ground. Now that the

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caliphate is turning to ash their positions, being pounded from above,

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with a series of air strikes. We counted three in an hour. It's the

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final push against an enemy that once controlled the third of Iraq.

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Orla Guerin, BBC News, Mosul. Often when the Islamic State group

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is under pressure it launches counterattacks. That's also been

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seen in Mosul in recent days. For more on this I spoke

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with Rasha Qandeel from BBC Arabic. She has been taking me through the

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latest counteroffensive is that we have seen.

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This tactic has been used before, the counterattacks by the what is

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called Islamic State, it has been used before, the highest scale in

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2016. The tactic is as follows. When they feel really surrounded and

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targeted and they don't know where to go they go underground, use

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tunnels and appear somewhere else. This has been used before. The only

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problem about this with Islamic State is they have lots of foreign

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fighters amongst them and these people cannot mingle with civilians

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because they will look different. So most of those are trying to escape

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through those tunnels to go to Syria, and probably this is the

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point where they will have to do this. If they do that, the number

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remaining of the fighters will be very limited and then they can be

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targeted more easily. Are there are civilians in the area

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still controlled by IS? A lot of them and this number,

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whether it's the 800 metres or one kilometre to 1.5 kilometres, have

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tens of thousands of Syrians according to the UN in Iraq, and

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this will mean that if the same weapons have been used by the

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coalition, which is basically heavy weapons, air force coverage, this is

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non-selective weapons so basically they will target everyone, destroy

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the whole area and this will have a huge risk on the civilians there in

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the region. What is the Iraqi government saying

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about its tactics, bearing in mind all of these people that are in the

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middle of it? What they said before in East Mosul

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that was much easier to fight than in West Mosul, they say they will

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differentiate between civilians and fighters and open safe passages for

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civilians but if you look at it it's very difficult to do that, given

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that everywhere else is basically like it's under siege. Even if

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civilians managed to try and get out of the passages there is no

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guarantee there will not be fighters amongst them, there is no guarantee

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they will not be used by any side of the fighting. What the Iraqi

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government is saying is wishful thinking but on the ground it is

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difficult to achieve. Some of the civilians caught up in

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the fighting in Iraq. We know that the fighting in Iraq and

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neighbouring Syria has led to millions of people fleeing into

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neighbouring countries like Lebanon. We are going to look at the

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experience of one family which has had to do that and look at the issue

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of medical care. The UN says covering all of the costs of medical

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care that refugees need is proving incredibly hard.

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The BBC's Lina Sinjab spoke with one family

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of Syrian refugees, whose son is being treated for cancer.

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It is playtime for Ammash Ammash, but his playground

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At four years old, he has been receiving chemotherapy for most

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The doctor tries to cheer him up, while doing a regular checkup.

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Ammash and his family come from Minbij, in war-torn Aleppo.

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His father works as a handyman and hardly makes enough

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He tells me that the UN doesn't cover cancer treatment and he has

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been seeking NGOs' help for the last two weeks.

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Making only $500 a month, he says that having to pay $330 each

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week for his son's chemo just isn't possible.

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Ammash's treatment so far has been provided by a small

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Relying on donations from individuals, they are often

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faced with tough financial decisions, like having

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Dr Layal Issa is one of the volunteers who established Karma.

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Actually, we are their only hope for having the chance to live,

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to survive their battle with this cancer.

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You have lost children you have treated?

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Yes, the last one was a little girl, Farah, she was two years old.

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She had neuroblastoma, we covered her treatment,

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but she relapsed and, at some point, we ran out

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of funds for her so we had to stop her treatment,

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so she had to get back to Syria to get treatment

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there but unfortunately, she passed away.

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Going back to Syria would be the last resort for Ammash,

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There are almost no cancer medication left in the country.

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Ammash, although born in Syria, has no memory of his own country

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and has never seen the war that has torn it apart.

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If money can be found, if he survives cancer,

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he will still face the uncertain future of every Syrian -

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waiting for the day they can return home.

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Lina Sinjab, BBC News, Beirut. Background information on the

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conflicts in Syria and Iraq available whenever you want to

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access it on the BBC News website. Earlier in the programme we spoke to

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Anthony in our Washington newsroom and we will go back to him shortly

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because we have breaking news. The Congressional Budget Office is

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estimating that 22 million Americans will be uninsured in 2026 under the

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health care bill that is being proposed by the Republicans,

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considered by the Senate as a replacement for ObamaCare. Let's

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bringing Anthony who is digesting all of this in Washington.

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This is similar to be estimates we saw with the last version of the

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health care rebels, isn't it? Exactly, the bill in the House of

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Representatives you mentioned, the estimate on that bill said there

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would be 23 million additional uninsured as of 2026, difference of

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only 1 million Americans, and if you remember Donald Trump in a meeting

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with Republicans reportedly called that house Bill too mean, and here

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we have a Senate bill that will result in an equal number, or a

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close to equal number of uninsured. It does have greater financial

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savings than the house Bill. The estimate says 202 billion more than

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the house bill estimated in net savings, the total savings over the

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next nine years in the Senate bill would be $321 billion, primarily

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from significant cuts in Medicaid, the health insurance programme for

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the poor. There is a 26% reduction according to the CBO in medicated

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spending, a fairly significant decrease when you consider the fact

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that the American population is growing and health care costs are

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rising. Does this change the arithmetic in

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the Senate as we go towards a vote? It's going to make it very difficult

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for some of the senators who have a large number of residents of their

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estates on the Medicaid rolls to support this bill, people like Susan

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Collins of Maine, Alaska, Nevada, those are all considered if the

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votes, and I don't think this will help them at all. The CBO estimates

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said they would be 50 million additional Americans in 2018 who

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don't have health insurance but lots of those Americans will not be

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forced to buy Americans stomach insurance. Obama force all Americans

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to have health care, have health insurance. The Senate is already

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changing their bill to create an incentive for Americans to buy

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health insurance, if they cannot get back onto the health insurance

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market for six months if they let it lapse. These changes might affect

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these numbers somewhat. It is a moving target, you'll hear from

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Republicans that they are not done and they will take into

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consideration the plan and hopefully get the moderate Senators back on

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board. Anthony, on the face of it, making

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the case for millions of Americans losing health care is not an easy

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case to make that the Republicans will believe this is the best thing

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for Americans and America so what is the argument? The argument

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Republicans are making is that there is a famous of waste in the Medicaid

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programme for the poor and they would rather take the money and give

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it to states and do with it as they see fit and not have it be a federal

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government programme that is setup, the guidelines by the federal

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government, where it could not be suited for individual populations.

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The reason why there is such a steep decrease in Medicaid funding over

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the next ten years in the Republican plan is because they want to hand

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off this obligation to the states to manage, they say that is a much

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better way to go about it and they want to decrease taxes which they

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say will help the economy and get Americans back to work. They have a

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different perspective from the Democrats and certainly a different

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perspective from the Democrats who instituted ObamaCare who were

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looking at driving up the total number of Americans who had health

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insurance. I don't think we will get you back in the next hour but you

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never know. Thank you for joining us. Just to reiterate what Anthony

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was talking about, the breaking news that the Congressional Budget Office

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has estimated that 22 million Americans would be uninsured for

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health care by 2026 under the Senate health bill being considered. It

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would replace ObamaCare where it to be voted through. It hasn't been

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voted through yet, as Anthony explained, and the numbers are tight

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but this estimate from the Congressional Budget Office says 22

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million Americans by 2026 without insurance because of these reforms

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being brought in. In a few minutes on Outside Source we will talk to

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you about a story from China, Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, has

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been released from a Chinese prison, but only after he was diagnosed with

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terminal cancer. The former MP who called for an

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inquiry after a fire in his constituency in 1999 has said

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authorities in England didn't take his recommendations into

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consideration. Brian Donohoe represented an area in Ayrshire

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where a man was killed in a high-rise fire.

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The fire in this 14 story high-rise in Irving in 1999 left one man dead

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and five others injured. The blaze started on the fourth floor of the

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cladding caught fire. The local MP called for a Parliamentary inquiry.

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I had surgeries that woeful afterwards by people who wanted to

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get out of these flats as soon as was possible. It was understood

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there were a number of properties of a similar nature in other parts of

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Scotland, I will not name them, but they were changed as well, the

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cladding taken away that was causing the problem. After the fire in 1999

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the inquiry was held by the environment committee at Westminster

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and reported in the year 2000. The building Scotland Act received Royal

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assent in 2003 and regulations published in 2004 and came into

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force the next year. In 1999 when there was a very tragic fire in

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Ferri it led to a revisiting of regulations that meant that all

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cladding in high-rise dwellings had to be noncombustible. It became

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mandatory that every building must be designed and constructed in such

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a way that the spread of fire on the external walls of the building is

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inhibited. The Scottish Government has said no local authority or

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housing association high-rise flats in Scotland used the cladding

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installed on Grenfell Tower. Brian Donohoe believes that English

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authorities failed the people who lived there. It really does stick in

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my cruel, having done the inquiry, there was one in 1995 that was

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exactly the same situation and there has been others since, and yet

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government, I think, were remiss in their responsibilities and duties to

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the people that were there in these properties. We're not going to have

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a situation where there is any blame put on my shoulders, I have a clear

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conscience but there must be people going to bed at night without that,

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I have to say that. There will be further investigations into the

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safety of all aspects of Scottish high-rises and a Holyrood committee

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will take evidence in September after the Parliamentary recess.

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Katrina Renton, BBC News. This is Outside Source live

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from the BBC newsroom. Donald Trump is hailing the US

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Supreme Court's decision to implement parts of his travel ban

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as a victory for national security. New Zealand have won

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this America's Cup. They beat the reigning

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champions Oracle Team USA - I am not Mystic Meg but I thought I

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worked this one out, team Oracle looked far too strong. Going back

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for years they were not too strong, at the time the same teams went up

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against each other and it was 8- wanted Emirates team New Zealand and

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they lost 9-8, in 2013, Jimmy spit Hill who was the captain of team

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Oracle USA, he became the youngest ever skipper of an America's Cup

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team. Vizier Pieter Bulling, 26 years of age, he has won an Olympic

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gold medal as well. There he is on the left. -- Pieter Bulling. The

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most interesting thing to come out of this, instead of using grinders

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as initially stomach normally in sailing, they have cyclers,

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something brand-new that came into the sport with Emirates team New

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Zealand. It is remarkable when you look at what happened. The man who

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came in, Simon Van Pelt Hoven who won an Olympic medal in 2012 in

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London, all of a sudden becomes a track cyclist medallist and all of a

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sudden he has won the America's Cup. This is the oldest event in sporting

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history going back to 1857 and the trophy is ever so slightly bigger

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than the NHL Stanley cup, so what a trophy to lift. Interesting to hear

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you mention the fact cyclists are getting involved because there was

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discussion before this about whether the system would work. You would

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suspect that that will cross over to being the norm. YouGov act in 1983

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when Australia won it with the winged keel, something quite

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remarkable. That was taken on board by teams further on. It is

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transitional when you look at what is happening in sailing and you

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would expect people will look at this in the future because clearly

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it has worked. They have won it ever so easily. Thank you for joining us.

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I will speak to you during the week. John McEnroe has claimed

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Serena Williams would be ranked 700 in the world if she played

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on the men's circuit. McEnroe had said Serena

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was the best women's player ever but when asked why he felt the need

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to say best "female player ever" - If she played the men's circuit she

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would be like 700 in the world. That doesn't mean I think I don't think

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Serena Williams is an incredible player, I do, but the reality of

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what happened on a given day as Serena Williams competes, I believe,

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because she is so incredibly strong mentally. If she had to just play

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the men's circuit that would be an entirely different story. Maybe at

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some point a women's tennis player can be better than anybody. I just

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haven't seen it in any other sport and I haven't seen it in tennis. I'm

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not sure what point he is trying to make but there you go, I will let

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you make your own mind up. North Korea has refused

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an offer from South Korea, Here's the head of the

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North's Olympic Committee. TRANSLATION: People keep asking

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about co-hosting the PyeongChang Winter Olympics as we have the ski

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resort, however, as an expert of the Olympic Games I think it is a little

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bit too late. That's easier said than done. The practical problems

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are not that simple. Let's talk about the Nobel Peace Laureate Liu

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Xiaobo. In 2009 he was sentenced to 11 years

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in prison for organising a petition calling for an end to one-party

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rule in China. Today he was released

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from a prison hospital - only after being diagnosed

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with terminal liver cancer. The release from jail of China's

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winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is absolutely huge news for this

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country, not that most people here will hear about it, though, because

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discussion about this world-famous activist is blocked in the state-run

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media. Liu Xiaobo has been allowed to leave prison following a

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diagnosis of late stage terminal liver cancer. In fact, he's been in

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a hospital in the north-east of the country for five weeks now. Liu

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Xiaobo has been a constant thorn in the side of the Chinese Communist

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party since his involvement in the student movement in 1989 in and

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around Tiananmen Square. But when he and others got together and put

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together a manifesto called Charter 08, with a specific plan to overhaul

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the government this was too much for the authorities here and they put

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him behind bars for attempting to subvert state power.

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TRANSLATION: As an honest intellectual with self-respect it

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was inevitable that I would write something which is

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antiestablishment. Following the Tiananmen Square crackdown Liu

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Xiaobo was offered asylum inside the Australian embassy, but when he got

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to the front gate he didn't go in. Deciding instead to stay in his

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country and try and change it from within. For this he's paid a

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terrible price. That's just about it for this edition of Outside Source.

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We've been covering the new deal between the Conservative Party and

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Democratic Unionist Party in the UK. This is an arrangement which means

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the DUP will support Theresa May and her government on key pieces of

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legislation like the budget and on multiple bills relating to Brexit.

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We have also had some breaking news in the last few minutes, a

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significant announcement in the US from the Congressional Budget Office

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saying if the proposed Republican health-care reform comes in, we

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could be looking at 22 million Americans becoming uninsured by

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2026. That will intensify the debate around the health care reform before

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some of the key hills. Thank you for watching and I will see you tomorrow

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at the same time. Bye bye. Hello. This time last week we were

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talking about record-breaking temperatures possibly across the UK,

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and in fact

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