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Now on BBC News it's time for Reporters.

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Welcome to Reporters.

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I'm Philippa Thomas.

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From here in the world's newsroom, we send out correspondents to bring

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you the best stories from across the globe.

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In this week's programme...

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CHANTING: Justice for Michael Brown!

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The New Black Panthers - as racial tensions rise

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in the United States, Gabriel Gatehouse meets

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the African-Americans arming themselves with guns to protect

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themselves from the police.

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But down that road leads to war, surely?

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We are at war.

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Yeah, we are already at war.

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Ten years after Israel's war with Hezbollah, Katy Watson joins

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Israeli forces guarding the Lebanese border against attacks by the group.

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WHISPERING: We've got to the stakeout.

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We had to scramble down the hillside in complete darkness,

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and we can't talk beyond a whisper.

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We are 500 metres away from Lebanon.

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India's fat tax - Sameer Hashmi asks whether one state's idea for making

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fast food more expensive is the way to stop obesity.

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And a history of the Wimbledon tennis ball.

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Graham Satchel takes a trip down memory lane to hear from the former

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factory workers who made them for decades.

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If it bounces like that, it's no good.

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If it bounces like that, it's fine.

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You have to go back decades to find a time when race relations

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in the United States were as fraught as they are now.

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But if you do go back to the 60s and 70s, you might remember

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the Black Panther movement, a party of armed political radicals

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challenging police brutality.

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Well, now there's a new Black Panther party,

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and there is a new move among black Americans to carry guns,

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in what's being seen by some as a kind of arms race

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with the police.

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Gabriel Gatehouse has been in Dallas meeting some of them.

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GUNFIRE Keep going, back-up, back-up!

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My biggest threat is the police department.

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They're the biggest gang in our country.

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CHANTING What is happening?

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What is happening to our country?

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We are already at war.

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We already have casualties of war.

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And we're just sitting there, and all of a sudden

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we hear tat-tat-tat-tat...

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They're shooting now, and there is an officer down...

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And people are running...

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It began as a peaceful protest against the killing

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of black men by police, and it ended with Micah Johnson,

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a black man, shooting five police officers dead.

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I felt hurt, but I also felt hurt because we had to march for those

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four brothers that had been killed by the police.

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He said we saw Alton Sterling being assassinated...

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Olinka Green was one of the organisers of the protest,

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which marched under the banner Black Lives Matter.

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The killer told police he was not affiliated with any organisation,

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but he had shown an interest on social media in various black

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power groups in Dallas.

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I don't know the guy, I don't know the shooter,

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but I can tell you if you opress a people for so long,

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the revolt is inevitable.

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Can I just be clear - you are not advocating

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shooting police officers?

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Just to be clear.

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Not at all.

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We're not advocating shooting police officers at all.

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We are advocating survival, survival of our people.

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Here in Dallas, people really are coming together around

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the police force, and it is worth just taking a look at the numbers.

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26 police officers have been shot dead in the line of duty

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across America so far this year.

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The number of people killed, shot dead, by police officers,

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so far this year, is over 500.

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Just under half of those were white, and around a quarter

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were black, but when you dig into the demographics,

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you find a stark truth.

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And that is if you are black in America, you are 2.5 times more

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likely to be shot dead by the police than if you're white.

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CHANTING: Justice for Michael Brown!

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Justice for Michael Brown!

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Justice for Eric Garner!

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Justice for Eric Garner!

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A group called the Huey P Newton Gun Club is calling on black people

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to legally arm themselves.

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Huey P Newton was one of the founders of the Black

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Panthers.

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The Gun Club is affiliated with the New Black Panther Party,

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which has chapters across the United States.

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They hold occasional demonstrations in the Dallas area,

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where they parade, in public, guns on display,

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which is legal in Texas.

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This man is affiliated with the gun club.

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Then I keep my .40 on me.

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This has no safety on it.

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It is fully loaded - there is one in the chamber

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at all times, so that means that if I need to I just aim and squeeze.

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We talked a lot about the police.

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Are they the only threat around?

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I mean, who is your biggest threat?

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My biggest threat is the police department.

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There's the biggest gang in our country.

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Like the killing of Philando Castile, one of the deaths that

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sparked the demonstration in Dallas on Thursday, many fatal

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shootings by police begin as a simple traffic stop,

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for something as innocuous as a broken tail-light.

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We can't even see past tomorrow, because tomorrow is not

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promised for me.

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I can leave here right now and be pulled over for a traffic stop,

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like that young man did, Philando Castile, and end up dead

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and not make it home to my family.

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Against this backdrop, Dallas waited for a visit

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from America's first black president.

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Among the congregation at the Friendship West Baptist Church,

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many have mixed feelings about Obama's record

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on standing up for their court.

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Don't put all this on police - we put this on America.

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Can we hurt for the families of the slain police officers,

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and the families of Alton, and the families of Philando?

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APPLAUSE.

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All I'm trying to say, Mr President, if you're

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going to come to Dallas, you need to go to Baton Rouge,

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you need to go to Minnesota, you need to go to Staten Island...

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You need to go to every place where there has been an unnecessary

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slaying of a black life - that's what's up.

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APPLAUSE.

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This was a mixed audience, including representatives

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from mothers' groups, members of the Nation

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of Islam, and supporters of the Huey P Newton Gun Club.

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There's a lot of talk here about local democracy,

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about making the law work for the black community,

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about building bridges with other communities,

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but there are also some people here who are re-examining

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the founding principles of American democracy.

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There are some - not all - but some in this room who see

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the second Amendment, the right to bear arms,

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that was written into the constitution so that Americans

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could defend themselves from an oppressive Government that

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didn't represent them, and here, in the 21st

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century, they are taking inspiration from that.

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The liberal idea that the solution to America's gun violence

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is gun-control does not find favour here.

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Guns don't kill people.

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Police with guns kill people - we see this every day

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in our country.

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And they kill people and they go home without any consequence.

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But don't police with guns kill people because they're worried

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that they've got guns, and isn't that the vicious cycle?

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That's the rhetoric that they use, that's the propaganda that they use,

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but they've been killing us even before guns.

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They don't even have to have guns to kill us -

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the killed Eric Garner by choking him to death.

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Guns are the only sanctuary we have to keeping the police off of us.

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But the implication of what you are saying is very

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scary, because if you are saying that only defence you have

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from your own weapon, then down that road

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leads to war, surely?

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We are at war.

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Yeah, we are already at war.

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We already have casualties of war.

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When the Civil War was fought, did the North go to war

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without guns to face the South?

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Doesn't the battlefield need to be even?

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Because, if not, what happens?

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We lose it.

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What else do we have?

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We've tried prayer, we've tried everything else.

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We tried dialogue - do you know what I'm saying?

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I don't want to see it go to war but, hey, what do we have left?

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I not advocating this, but what is happening?

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What is happening?

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What is happening to our country, where you turn on your TV

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and within two days, two black men, who ain't did nothing

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to nobody are slaughtered...

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There are plenty of people who feel deeply uneasy about the idea

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that their best protection against their own police force

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is to carry a gun, but advocates of arming the black community

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are not confined to Dallas, and the killing of five officers

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here last week seems certain to deepen America's already

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deadly racial divide.

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Gabriel Gatehouse reporting from Dallas.

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The family of Marie Colvin, the veteran Sunday Times

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correspondent killed in Syria, are suing the regime

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of President Assad, accusing it of a policy

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of deliberately killing journalists.

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Lawyers for the family see documents smuggled out of Syria show

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that the regime tracked Marie Colvin before directing the

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artillery strike that killed her four years ago.

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A lawsuit has been filed in Washington.

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A warning - Paul Wood's report contains material some

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of you may find distressing.

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In February of 2012, the Syrian regime was

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shelling the rebels of Baba Amr into submission.

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The area was cut off, the only way it was through an underground

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tunnel two miles long.

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Among the few foreign journalists to reach

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Baba Amr was Marie Colvin.

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Driven, gifted, celebrated by her peers, this was

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to be her last story.

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I watched a little baby die today.

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Absolutely horrific, just a two-year-old being hit.

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They stripped it and found the shrapnel had gone

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into the left chest.

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And the doctor just said, "I can't do anything,"

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and his little tummy was just heaving until he died.

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That is happening over and over and over.

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The Colvin family believe that broadcast was traced by Syrian

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intelligence and used to locate the Baba Amr media centre.

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The attack on the journalists was ordered that night, the family say.

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Marie Colvin and a French journalist, Remi

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Ochlik, were killed.

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Marie's photographer, Paul Conroy, was injured.

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What I will say to this day, there is no room for doubt

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that it was a professional attack, and the location -

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it was not an accidental strike on that building.

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Once they found it they kept hitting it, which was also unusual.

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They tended to just move on, in Baba Amr.

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So I have no doubt, from the evidence then,

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that it was a deliberate attack.

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This was an assassination, the Colvin family say,

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ordered by the highest levels of the Syrian regime.

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The lawsuit says there was a policy to kill journalists, decided

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by President Assad's war cabinet.

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The conspirators are said to include the president's brother,

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Maher al-Assad.

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And the President's trusted intelligence chief, Ali Mamlouk.

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The deputy defence minister Assef Shawkat is said to have

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declared, "We could destroy Baba Amr in ten minutes,

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if there were no cameras."

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One of those who organised the attack was given a reward

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by the Assad family, it is claimed - a black

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luxury saloon car.

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I am really proud to be able to bring the lawsuit.

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We know who Marie's killers are now.

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I want them to be brought to justice, I want them

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to be held accountable.

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I'm very sensitive to the suffering of the Syrian people,

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so I know I'm not the only one who has lost a sister.

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My mum is not only one who is mourning the loss of her daughter.

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It is quite possible that the Syrian government simply tries

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to ignore this lawsuit.

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If so, the court won't get the chance to examine its claims,

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but the murder of journalists is just one more crime among many

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the Syrian regime stands accused of.

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The Colvin family hope the lawsuit will be a reminder of that,

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as some in the international community seek to rehabilitate

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President Assad.

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Paul Wood, BBC News, Washington.

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It's been ten years since Israel fought a war against Hezbollah

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in southern Lebanon.

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Some Israelis still refer to the conflict with the Lebanese Shia

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militant group as a national trauma.

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Civilians in the north of the country came under attack,

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and Israel hit back - hard.

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But many feel the army could have been better prepared and now,

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a decade later, Israel is thought to be readying itself

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for a new war with Hezbollah.

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Katy Watson was given exclusive access to a night-time stakeout

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with the Israeli defence forces along the Lebanese border.

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We are with soldiers preparing for a surveillance mission.

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Packing up their kit for three days, hiding out in the bush.

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The military says it has learned lessons -

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it has had to raise its game and treat Hezbollah as stronger more

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professional fighting force.

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WHISPERING: We've got to the stakeout.

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We had to scramble down the hillside in complete darkness,

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and we can't talk beyond a whisper.

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Now over in the distance we are 500 metres away from Lebanon.

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They are keeping an eye on the movements of

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Hezbollah operatives.

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The soldiers tell me they can see weapons being stored in areas

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where civilians live.

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EXPLOSION.

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The war ten years ago is seen by some Israelis

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is a national trauma.

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It was a conflict that many feel Israel wasn't prepared for.

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Civilians came under attack, and Israel hit back hard.

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Major Levy fought in it.

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He said security has been reinforced since then, and the border's

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quiet - for now.

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TRANSLATION: The next war is only a matter of time.

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The idea is that next time, if it happens, we will hit Hezbollah

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so hard that the war after that will be decades from now.

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Eddie lives in a village on the border.

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He points out the newly built Hezbollah watchtowers.

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He is worried they may try and kidnap people

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here in the next war.

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TRANSLATION: It is not a secret that Hezbollah wants to do

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something very audacious.

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I don't think they want to take soldiers - I think they want to take

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civilians so it hits the headlines.

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For security experts, the build-up of Hezbollah's

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strength is worrying.

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Now they have more than 120,000 rockets and missiles,

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a huge number, that you don't find in any country

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in Europe, for example.

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You see all this airforce and you ask yourself one question

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- what for?

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But Hezbollah also know is that there will be no holding

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back if Israel defends itself.

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That perhaps is why there has been relative calm in recent years.

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The feeling is that both sides are deterred from war for now.

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But this is a volatile region where nothing is certain.

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But nobody is in any doubt that if there was to be another war,

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the scale of it could be far greater.

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Katy Watson, BBC News, on the Israeli-Lebanese border.

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Malnutrition is still a major problem in India, so it is perhaps

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surprising that many Indians are overweight.

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In fact, obesity has become such a major concern that one state has

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now proposed a so-called fat tax on fast-food restaurants

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to try to make people more health but as Sameer Hashmi reports

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from Kochi in Kerala state, some wonder if this is the best approach.

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Grabbing your favourite pizza or biting into a burger

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is about to get more expensive in this part of India.

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Kerala plans to impose a 14.5% tax on fast-food sold

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by restaurant chains.

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It's a so-called fat tax, something already tried in places

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including Hungary and Denmark to try to put people off back eating

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so much junk food, but reaction here has been mixed.

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I think it is the right move because when people are not taking

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care of their health definitely the government should take some

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initiative so that people go back to the food that helps their diet

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and, you know, the diseases which are spreading due to the junk

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food or the improper diet.

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I don't think it will affect that much, I don't think so.

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Because those who are interested will still go after what they want.

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It doesn't matter.

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Kerala has the second highest levels of obesity in the country,

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and the state government is using that reason

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to justify its plan to put an extra tax on restaurants like McDonald's,

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Dominos and Pizza Hut.

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They say it is chains like these which are making young people

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fatter, and they hope higher prices will make them think twice.

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But popular local dishes like banana fry and urad dal that are high

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in calories will not come under the new tax rule.

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That means some are seeing this as an attack on multinational food

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chains rather than just on obesity or other illnesses like diabetes.

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The government has defended the plan but many food experts think

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that taxing food is not the right approach.

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I don't think it is the right move where health is concerned,

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because it is not going to have any impact on the health of people,

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especially in Kerala.

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It is to fill the coffers of the government.

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The emphasis should be on awareness.

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People should be made aware of the side-effects are the bad

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effects of eating high calorie food.

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Whether it is what they eat or a lifestyle that lacks exercise,

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one in five Indians is now overweight or obese.

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But with access to Western-style fast food still relatively new here,

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and many still seeing it as a status symbol,

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this is a new tax many will find hard to swallow.

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Sameer Hashmi, BBC News, Kerala.

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Now, I'm sure most of you know Andy Murray won Wimbledon this week,

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his second title in a row, but here's a fact I bet you didn't

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know - that nearly 55,000 balls were used throughout the tournament.

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The yellow balls were first used 30 years ago and have since been made

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at a factory in Barnsley, near my home town,

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in the north of England.

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Graham Satchell has been finding out about the history of the Wimbledon

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tennis ball and meeting some of the people who have been making

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them for decades.

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If it bounces like that, it's no good.

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If it bounces like that, it's fine.

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On one bench at Barnsley Tennis Club, almost a hundred years

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of experience at making the tennis balls for Wimbledon.

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Yeah, it is the hand tool we used.

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Yeah, you should know a lot about them, Ken.

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It wasn't an easy job.

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And you really had to push to get it together.

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Oh, your fingers ached.

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They started making tennis balls in Barnsley in 1945.

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The Wimbledon order always the most important.

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The actual tournament only lasted two weeks,

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but the Wimbledon Department in the Barnsley factory could last

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two months, making the balls, selecting the balls,

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actually choosing the balls that went down there -

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they had to be absolutely perfect.

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Wimbledon, 1958!

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That was the year I started.

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A 1958 Wimbledon ball.

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That is the ultimate in our profession, sort of thing.

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If you've got the Wimbledon contract, you'll always

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sell tennis balls.

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In nineteen...

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might have been 73, 74 - John McEnroe hit a ball and it

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split, and the main man of Slazenger's came into this

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department and wanted to know who had caused this problem.

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The ball came back from John McEnroe in this manager's hand,

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and he's putting it in front of my face.

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I thought, well, I don't know, I don't know.

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You know...

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It could have been a number of people who caused this.

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But it wasn't good for John McEnroe.

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We grew as a family, you see, in the factory.

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Everybody knew one another.

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It was, it definitely was.

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Somebody's son worked there, somebody's daughter worked there,

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and that is how it developed over the years.

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We all shared each other's emotions and happiness.

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Sadness, happiness - it was absolutely great.

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The factory in Barnsley closed in 2002.

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Production moved to the Philippines.

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The final batch of tennis balls made at Barnsley.

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Crikey.

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That was a sad day, wasn't it?

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"Made in Barnsley," and that, for me, is where they

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should still be made.

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But, like I say, unfortunately, living in the real world,

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that's not...

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Not to be.

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And that's all from Reporters this week.

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From me, Philippa Thomas, goodbye for now.

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