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mis-selling of payment protection insurance to some customers. Now it

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is time for cabby mac Reporters. -- time for Reporters. A decade of

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progress is in danger. Orla Guerin finds that Afghan women are worried

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about the withdrawal of Western forces. Under fire from the Taliban,

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Quentin Somerville reports from a NATO outpost in eastern Afghanistan

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that was attacked by militants. Christian Fraser meets the exiled

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in Paris, fighting to topple Syria's regime. A graffiti artist

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in New York creating memorials with a very personal connection. Women's

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rights activists in Afghanistan say the international community is

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preparing to abandon them in their rush to withdraw troops from the

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country. Women's rights has been one of the reasons given for

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toppling the Taliban, but they fear that advances could be reversed if

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a peace deal is done with the Taliban. They believe women and

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their concerns could be side land at the conference on the future of

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Afghanistan. Our correspondent reports. Fashioning a new future

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for themselves and their country. Every stitch is testament to a

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fragile freedom. Under the Taliban Afghan women were trapped at home,

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uneducated and unemployed. Scroll forward ten years and they make up

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half the workforce at this design company where they work alongside

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men. This woman says she is proud to be the breadwinner for her two

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younger brothers. The company's founder worries about the outlook

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if there is reconciliation with the insurgents. None of the Taliban

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have said they are moderate. We are fooling ourselves if we believe

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that the Taliban has changed their tune or philosophy on mandate. They

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have not claimed that they have changed. There are big plans for

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this business. They hope to begin exporting to the US and Europe and

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to create a few hundred jobs. All of that might be possible in the

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future if that future is not shaped by the Taliban. In areas under

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Taliban control women are still voiceless and helpless. This 25-

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year-old woman's final moments are captured in this January footage.

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For the crime of adultery the Taliban's turned her and then shot

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her dead. This is another of their targets, a prominent Member of

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Parliament who survived a Taliban ambush on her car last year. This

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outspoken activist refuses to be silence, but she fears that Afghan

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women could soon be abandoned by the international community which

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promised them so much. They seemed to turn their face to the wall on

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the issues and just leave us. That could put us even more at risk

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because we have been outspoken about what we want. Her eldest

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daughter is studying hard to be an aerospace engineer. But she and her

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younger sister are afraid for themselves and their mother. They

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want a future outside Afghanistan. BBC News, Kabul. Tensions between

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native forces and Pakistan have he took a low point since the alliance

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killed 24 Pakistani troops in a cross-border air strike. The

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government in Islamabad has reacted very angrily. Militants are

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crossing regularly from Pakistan to attack US and Afghan forces.

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Quendon Somerville was with troops when the outpost was attacked by

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insurgents firing across the Pakistan border. In the skies above

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Afghanistan's most eastern edge, a delivery to a remote American base.

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The airdrop landed right on target just 5km from the Pakistan border.

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As Afghan and US soldiers go to retrieve the supplies, insurgents

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in the hills nearby are watching. Suddenly the bases under red-tagged.

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You have just heard another explosion near the base. That is

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the third we have heard. That landed just outside the perimeter

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walls. Some of the shelling watch coming from insurgents across the

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border inside Pakistan. Charlie Company were quick to respond. The

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company's sergeant to explain the origin of the attacks. It seems

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like they are coming from the east. They are. And that he is the way we

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would expect them to fire. It is the quickest way out of the area.

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With each shelling, the insurgents were narrowing their aim and

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getting closer to their target. As the shells continued to fall, a 16

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fighters were called in. Heavy artillery hit positions a few

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hundred metres inside Pakistan, bringing the attack to an end. No-

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one on the base was injured. This is a border under strain like never

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before. Insurgents move freely across it and it hardly seems to

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exist. BBC News, southern Afghanistan. The Arab League and

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now be looking more united on Syria, but it is a different story at the

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UN where there are deep divisions within the Security Council. The US

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and other Western powers want decisive action on the bloodshed in

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Syria, but Russia is sticking to its view that political dialogue is

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needed. A key question is what kind of government would replace the

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Assad regime? The most prominent opposition groupies the Syrian

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National Council. Its exiled leadership is based in Paris and

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Christian Fraser has been meeting some of its key figures. It is the

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kind of VIP security commonly reserved for high-ranking diplomats

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and politicians. Hurtling to meetings under 24-hour police

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protection is neither of those, not yet. But as part of the new Syrian

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opposition, she and her co- conspirators are higher than the

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targets as they attempt to bring down the Assad regime. We have

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different working habits and come from different professional

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horizons. We are physically not always able to meet. Skype is our

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strategic tool to connect with each other. Setting the mechanisms for

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working is quite a challenge. world leaders are beginning to pay

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attention. Recently the SNC travel to Russia, Britain, China and

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Turkey. In its bid to win international approval, the

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fledgling opposition is moving quickly to give the appearance of a

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transitional government in waiting. There are lessons to be learned

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from other countries which form part of the Arab Spring, but some

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intellectuals believe that Western powers are putting too much onus on

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the SNC and at the same time playing into the hands of the Assad

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regime. We are asking it to prove that it is viable, United, coherent,

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a valid alternative to the regime. And of course it is not because no

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regime survives for that long by allowing an alternative to survive.

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The French Foreign Minister has now met twice with the SNC leader and

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there is a complication. The involvement of a free Syrian army,

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the defectors turning their guns on the regime. The normal reaction

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would provoke civil war inside Syria and could be the worse

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situation for the country. As the threat of civil war men's, so the

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shuttle diplomacy gathers phase. Next month the SNC leader well over

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see the election of an assembly with permanent staff in Paris and

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Cairo. They hope to bring together as many factions as they can and

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the greater its success the more isolated President Assad will

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In Libya is more than one month since the country was declared

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liberated but there are still stockpiles of weapons around. The

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West has expressed concern that they could find their way into the

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hands of foreign another -- militants.

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Libya is not yet completely at points -- peace. Although it has

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been an extraordinary few months live almost seems normal -- and

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life almost seems normal only a fraction of weapons have been

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returned. Ordinary people took up Ham's -- arms against the regime.

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Now, with the guns almost silent, we discover the weapons rooms of

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Colonel Gaddafi. They are almost empty. In the grounds of this

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nearby hotel are further signs of plunder. This massive trench

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concealed an arsenal of weapons. In included rocket propelled grenades

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and machine-guns. We even found fielders from a chemical respirator.

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-- filters. How much is still out there? We're heading east to find

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out. My guide gives assurances at the weapons are safe. He says the

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Web -- rebels will not sell them or smuggle them across the border. He

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tells -- shows us what they have secured. This is one of 13 Scud

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missiles salvaged from the desert. It is not these kind of war

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trophies that are worrying the world. It is these. Picture here is

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a rebel fighter with a shoulder launched a missile. Portable and

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easy to use it is also easy to hide. It is the weapon of choice for Al-

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Qaeda. Americans say they could be 20,000 of them. They worried they

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could end up in the wrong hands. have made an investigation for all

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those weapons. Despite extraordinary access to such bars

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of weapons we have seen no evidence of the portable missile so powerful

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they could bring a plane down. The old military assets of Libya

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lobbied used by a new army. Reports that some weapons across borders is

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shaking the confidence of neighbours.

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Iran has more than one million historical sites, many of them

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dating back thousands of years. They have been given or cockles

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status by UNESCO. There is concern about damage that has been downed

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by elements and modernisation. Trying to fix the damage to this

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monument, the world's oldest. It is under the threat of destruction.

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Iran has more than one million listed monuments. In recent years

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many been destroyed during danger of being damaged. The destruction

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comes in different forms. Some say this site is under threat because

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of new the discovered oil and gas sites nearby. TRANSLATION: Natural

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factors including wind and rain for her contributed to the damage to

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the site. Historical experts say that many sites are badly managed.

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People in charge of doing these things do not know the basics of

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what they're supposed to be doing. And, to be frank, they don't even

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bother to consult with specialists. Nature or mismanagement? The cracks

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are spreading over historical sites. The safety of this 16th century

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imperial palace is now the centre of attention for archaeologists.

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They blame it tourists and site Segers -- site Sears. Also at a

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nearby transport facility. Preservation efforts are now under

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way but some critics take more than two decades to complete.

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TRANSLATION: Diesel important places and we need to spend more

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time to keep them in shape -- these are all important. In the past year

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Iran registered more sites on the World Heritage List. Archaeologists

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say that much more must be done to preserve it even more.

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It is just over one year since the blow-out of the Deepwater Horizon

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at wreak. And now a new series of world is about the dark in even

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deeper water. It would take place in Cuban waters not far from the

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Florida coast. International oil companies are lining up to take

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part but the plans have angered environmentalists as well as the

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Cuban-American lobby. Cuba has some oil production

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although its small onshore sites do not provide -- only provide a magic

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-- minority of its oil needs. Offshore they believe there is much

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wills -- Wells starting from next year. The Cuban ageing leadership

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hopes that it will make Cuba more independent. It is a nightmare for

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anti-Cuba and lobbyists. The drilling will take place out at sea.

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Just 15 -- 50 miles away from a Florida. If there was an accident

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that is where the oil spill would washer saw -- washed ashore. Under

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the terms of the trade embargo and nobody could come to the assistance

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of Cuba. The Barack Obama administration is in a difficult

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position. An election is looming and the Cuban-American lobbying --

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lobby wants action to stop the drilling taking place.

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Environmentalists and the oil industry want the Americans to work

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with Cuba. We need to prepare them for the kind of things they need to

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know it to make sure we are protected in terms of a spill.

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US clean-up terms -- firms would be allowed to operate in Cuban waters

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if needed. In return American officials could inspect the Chinese

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wreak. If you drive through the streets of

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many major at cities you are bound to see walls covered in graffiti

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but for some artists in New York there are comes with a stronger

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message. A group designs memorials to those who have died in the South

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Bronx. Graffiti murals cannot -- grow out

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of the Bronx in the 1980s and 1990s. It was one of the birthplaces of

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the movement. This is one of the ponies. He is one of the artists in

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this group. Images and paintings like this

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belong in neighbourhoods like this because this is what will bring art

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and culture to a lot of kids in the neighbourhood. Over the years the

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group has grown from an outside -- outlaw groups to well-respected

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artists. They have never forgotten their roots. They have never

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forgotten gun violence. This is mad mark. In one if his gigs his

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stopped a guide from coming in and the guy came back and shot him.

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lot of things have changed but sadly a lot of things have not.

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sad Bronx is still one of -- South Bronx is still one of the poorest

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areas in the country. Since 2009 the murder rate is up by 29%.

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Notice, like that of a 24-year-old man. His mother and sister asked

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for a smaller, more personal memorial. I cried myself to sleep

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every night. Christine is not the anyone who has had to deal with

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this kind of pain. After her brother spent decades trying to

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bring attention to the issue of violence it hit him. He was killed

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by a stray bullet at a barbeque. He was only 24. You never know what's

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coming around the corner. There is no real guarantee for anyone. I'm

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still going to write his name and dedicate everything to him. It is

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