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Twickenham in the Rugby World Cup vinyl. The scorers currently 3-3.

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Now on BBC News it is time the Reporters.

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Hello and welcome to Reporters. We send out correspondents to bring you

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the best stories from across the globe. 23 years in jail for a murder

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that another man was convicted of. A report on what could be one of

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America's worst miscarriages of justice in decades. Can you feel

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confident Robert Jones played no part in the murder of Julie Stott?

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Oh, yes. These war games are designed not

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just to test the battle readiness of the troop is. It is also testing how

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well different nationalities are able to communicate and coordinate.

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We slept here. Sarah Ransome to meet the Syrian refugee family who have

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been stuck at a Moscow Airport for six weeks. The real James Bond, the

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latest 007 film premiers in London and Frank Gardner talks exclusively

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to MI6 spies about leading a double life. You have a secret, something

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you can't tell anyone. And Jane O'Brien reports from women's

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voices, a festival in Washington trying to bridge the gender gap in

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American theatre. If we keep seeing the same play from the same point of

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view, we are going to die. It has been called one of America's

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worst racially inspired miscarriages of justice in decades. An

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African-American man has been in prison for 23 years for the rape and

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murder of Julie Stott in New Orleans in 1992. The courts later found her

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guilty -- another man guilty, but Robert Jones is still behind bars.

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Julie Stott was shot in the head and died when walking with fiance.

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Police brought in Robert Jones, a night senior roles. The murder of

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Julie Stott was part of a crime spree that was happening here in the

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city's French Quarter at the time. Robberies, rape and killing, and in

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each case, there were similar descriptions of the car that was

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used and the attacker, but an early indication was that the crime spree

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continued. This man, Lester Jones, no relation to Robert, was arrested

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and the crime spree ended. Lester Jones was later convicted of Julie

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Stott's murder, but Robert Jones was never released. The murdered tech

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tiff from the time was shot years later to find two men were serving

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time for the same killing. We always felt as though there was only one

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person involved in a murder, and that was Lester, because everything

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tied to him. Can you feel confident that Robert Jones played no part in

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the murder of Julie Stott? I believe that to this day.

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In a trial that lasted less than ten hours, crucial evidence was

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withheld, and Robert was convicted of several of the crimes in the

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spree, including rape for which he got a life sentence, and the killing

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someone else had already gone to prison for. He has been behind bars

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ever since. Do you remember the moment the verdict was announced? I

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felt like I died in that moment. I thought, it can't be true. At this

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time, the state seems to be trying to get young black men jailed. The

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way we used to look at it, if he didn't do it this time, he has got

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away with doing something else. And therefore his punishment is not

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justified for this particular act, but for other things he did and got

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away with. The district attorney, who has the power to dismiss the

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case of Robert Jones today, says he is trying to correct the wrongs of

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the past. The reputation of this office traditionally has been

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stained. There is no question about that. There is no question that

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there have been cases. This is not the only case, there have been other

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cases where prosecutors either intentionally or negligently

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withheld evidence. So I don't think there is a question about that. The

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best I can do is let's move forward. So long after the murder of Julie

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Stott, Robert Jones is still waiting for news she can walk free. Many now

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feel every new day he is denied his freedom is a tragedy.

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13 years after it was first conceived, Africa is about to get

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its own army. It will be able to respond to crises on the continent

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from civil war and genocide to humanitarian disasters. The African

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union force which will begin operations in January is seen as a

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significant step in being able to look after some of its own security

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problems. Karen Allen has been given special access to the training

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exercises in the Northern Cape region. The new landscape of the

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African battlefield. As early as next year, these troops could be

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scrambled to crises rather than rely on foreign boots on the ground. The

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African stand-by force has been put through its final paces in this

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major exercise. Many languages, one drill. Part of a multinational

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force. Capable of being deployed, but just a fortnight's notice. These

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war games are designed not just to test the battle readiness of these

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troops, many of them have combat experience, but it is also testing

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how well the different nationalities are able to communicate. The clear

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message, this is an African solution to an African problem. But Africa's

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problems are fast becoming the world's. Thousands of miles from

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here refugee is a surging into Europe. Conflicts no longer respect

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borders, they are transnational. Conflict today could be in your

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backyard and today it is in mine. We are all in this together. Which is

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ride a rich world is lobbying to get on board. It is expected to cost $1

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billion to make this stand-by force operational. We want to have the

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African military and police and civilians to create this peaceful

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environment in which you can get development, economic development,

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social development. Once you have got back on the sure there is not

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such great desire to want to move to another country. The troops may be

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trained, but it is the politicians who need to be primed to support a

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force favourable of intervening early to stop conflict spiralling

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into all-out wars. Throughout Europe's migrant crisis,

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we have seen refugees stranded at Port in Europe. Not so often at an

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airport, and not in Russia. One Syrian family has been stuck in

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Moscow over six weeks. They applied for asylum in Russia but their

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request was turned down. Sarah Raynsford has been to meet them.

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I have been told we have to come up here to find them to the departures

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area. And follow the corridor right to the end where there is an old

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what used to be smoking area. Family have now been living here for more

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than a month. Hello. What is your name?

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TRANSLATION: We arrived here on September ten, but we didn't expect

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to end up living here. In an airport, people are usually arriving

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or departing, but not us. We now have to live here. How can people

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just watched this happen? How can they be so heartless when people are

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fleeing war. I just don't understand.

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This is transit for coming here for one or two hours coming but ours is

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40 days. We don't know. Where do you sleep? We sleep in this. But we

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can't sleep all stop the mattress Roque? It is a tube but for one

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person. We can't sleep much. Sometimes we are called, it is very

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cold. The radiator didn't work. Because of that,.

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TRANSLATION: Here they say to us, go to Europe. There is nothing for you

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here. It is not humane. Russia is helping Syria by dropping bombs. It

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costs millions. But what about helping us?

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Bond was back this week with his latest spy thriller Spectre starring

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Daniel Craig. But is it anything like the life of a real MI6 spy? BBC

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managed to secure a rare interview with serving British intelligence

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officers. The agents identities have been concealed, but they have been

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telling Craig Gardner what it is like to spend your career leading a

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double life. The threat are numerous and

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complex. Stealing the secrets of countries and organisations that

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could threaten Britain is the job of the secret intelligence service,

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better known as MI6. It is famous for being the home of James Bond.

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You have a secret, something you can't tell anyone.

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Disappointingly to many, it is not what her Majesty is Secret Service

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actually does. So how do we separate fact from fiction. We have managed

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to secure an interview. In order to persuade them to come out of the

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shadows, we have had to agree to disguise both their faces and their

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voices. We all come from a riot if

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backgrounds. What was the job of a modern MI6 officer entail? The first

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is establishing what needs doing, to make sure the UK remains safe. Then

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the job is to target the people with access to the secret intelligence,

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to approach them securely and that I obtained secrets for the benefit of

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the UK. One thing I have constantly seen throughout my career is that

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people recognise that the UK as a force for good in the world. Mostly,

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not always. The thing that underpins all of this is that these

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individuals will only enter into a relationship, passing intelligence

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to the United Kingdom, and their reasons for doing so I down to their

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circumstances. Presumably you can't be expected to

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keep it completely to yourself if you work for MI6, who can you tell

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and how much can you tell Our parents and them? Our partners. How

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much can you tell them? Where we work, but any of our operational

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detail, we would refrain from telling anyone. There are some

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people who think that MI6 operates outside the law. It is almost like a

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rogue agency. What reassurance can you give people that it operates

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within the law? Everything that we do, must adhere to UK law.

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MI6 has given just a glimpse of the secrets contained within its walls.

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It is now likely to withdraw once more into the shadows.

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The thaw in relations between the US and Cuba led to a record year for

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tourism for the Caribbean nation. People aren't just flocking to

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Havana for the boom as patients seek treatment from

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inn five-star reports. As Will Grant reports, it is creating a two-tier

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health system. One for tourists and one for Cubans. It looks like

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pool-side aerobics, but this is a resort with a difference. The guests

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aren't just tourists, they're patients!

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These visitors and their families have come not in search of the

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island's famous beaches, but it's healthcare system.

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For a price, foreign patients can receive treatments that are either

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unavailable or too extensive in their home countries. But

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controversially the five-star resort is not open to ordinary Cubans.

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This is one of the finest healthcare facilities in Cuba and can count

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some superstars among its patients, but it has its critics who say this

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degree of attention is only afforded to foreigners in Cuba, not to Cubans

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themselves. As he shows me around, the centre's

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director says Cuba is right to commerciallise its unique conditions

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for health holidays. Top doctors at low prices in a tropical setting.

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TRANSLATION: This combination of tourism and healthcare we offer is

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also a form of generating funds and subsidies for our national health

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system, our ministry, our Government so that we can better attend to the

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Cuban people. All the men we met doing

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rehabilitation exercises were gunshot injury patients from

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Venezuela, victims of the country's spiralling crime. This man was left

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paralysed after he was shot in a robbery. He says the programme of

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intensive rehabilitation helped him regain some movement in his upper

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body and arms. He the centre offers speech therapy

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and deafness treatments. Specialists in Cuban health tourism

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say as the country's economy opens up, the sector will expand fast.

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Neurological therapy in Canada for a physiotherapist is $150 an hour.

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Whereas you come here for instance and you're getting treatment for the

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whole day, six or seven hours a day and it is a multidisciplinary

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approach that they take and say in a month's time you're noticing

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improvements that you would take you years to notice elsewhere.

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Cuba's health system is considered by its Government as the jewel in

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the crown of the revolution. Decades of the US economic embargo and

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uninvestment left their mark, but with travel from the United States

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due to get easier, this may become one of the most popular resorts in

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Havana. Australia's restaurants maybe

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getting smarter. Some are starting to use new technology to try to work

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out the tastes of its customers to help them cater better for them. One

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company has developed an app which creates detailed profiles of diners,

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but as Katie Beck reports from Sydney, some people think more

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privacy ought to be on the menu! What does your restaurant know about

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you? From when we dine to what we like to

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drink, each decision we make is a piece of data that can now be stored

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by restaurants for later use. Created in Sydney, this is an app

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which links bookings to tills, to reviews, to create and store

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detailed profiles of customers. We have had restaurants completely

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change the menu that they offer because they know that 20%, 30% of

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their customers are vegetarian or they can't have dairy. That's an

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example of how we use big data. Customer feedback in an automated

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way to help restaurants deliver a better experience for their

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customers. The idea, according to the company, is if restaurants

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better understand who they are serving they can improve experiences

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and increase sales as a result, but do diners mind restaurants keeping

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tabs on them? It is another service that's jumping on the bandwagon and

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it is the digital age. If I want something, I would ask for it. Not

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have it recorded on some file. I would rather someone humanly

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remembered my name, humanly remembered what I ordered and had

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that real connection rather than just checking data and trying to

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make sure that they upsolve me. Some people think this type of data

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collection oversteps the boundaries of reasonable privacy. If it is

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required that the restaurants actually reveal to people, have a

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sign saying, "Our staff are spying on you and we are keeping records on

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you, that's OK, isn't it?" You might find the benefits for the restaurant

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from having a good relationship with their customers are burned up by the

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lack of trust. Demi maintains that information is securely served and

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is not shared with third parties. Using detailed customer profiles is

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the norm for airlines and hotels, so it seems only a matter of time

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before more restaurants follow suit. Struggling artists are nothing new,

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but if you have written a play and you're a woman, the odds of getting

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it performed in the US are stacked against you. A festival in

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Washington is trying to address the gender gap. There will be 56 world

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premieres penned by women. Jane O'Brien has been to meet some of

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them. Listen. For Marsha Cole it was a

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story she had to tell. I wasn't too surprised that I was dismissed that

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is what a lot of female playwrights face. Maybe they think it is going

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to be girlie things, I don't know, but they don't take women as

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seriously as they might. Cole's play is one of 56 new works

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making their debut during the women's voices theatre festival, the

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first major event to raise the issue of gender disparity in American

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theatres. Barely one in five plays to hit the stage in the last few

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years was written by a woman. But why does that matter? We don't

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need women's plays. We don't need anybody's plays, but what we need is

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a diversity of voices. We keep seeing the same play from the same

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kind of person, from the same point of view with the same background and

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the same prejudice, we are going to die! As an artistic field. Sheila

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Callaghan is a screenwriter. Her play, Women Laughing Alone with

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Salad, look at the way advertisers use body image to manipulate women.

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We have got you, girl. The women's voices festival isn't trying to

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promote female subjects, so much as show case the diversity of women

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writers. At historic Ford's Theatre, the

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stage is being prepared for a very different play, the Guard by Jessica

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Dickie which exams our relationship with art over time. Why aren't more

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plays by women being produced? Most of the artistic directors are men

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and men tend to produce male playwrights, you produce what you

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know and who you know. They are simply, they don't think about

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producing women as often. We have to be more conscious about saying who

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are the playwrights we are producing within a season. 46 theatres have

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been taking part in the festival and other regions may follow suit. But

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many say the gender gap won't be narrowed until women are viewed

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differently both on and off the stage.

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And that's all from Reporters for this week. From me Tim Willcox and

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the team in London, bye-bye. Good evening.

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Well, two very mild Hallowe'ens in a row. Yes, this

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