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More on those stories at the top of the hour.

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Now on BBC News, it's time for Reporters.

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I'm David Eades and, from here in the world's newsroom,

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we send out correspondents to bring you the best stories

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As the violence spirals out of control, Justin Rowlatt asks

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if there is any hope for peace in the troubled territory.

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The problem for India is that it's running out of options

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It's ruled out independence, it says it won't talk to hard-line

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separatists and has already devolved considerable powers to the region.

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Tom Burridge reports from the border as tensions between Russia

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and Ukraine over the territory spill onto the beach.

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The idea of Russian military action here,

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just across the water from Crimea, is, on paper at least, unlikely.

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The increase in tension and rhetoric from Moscow is probably part

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Is this man the new political guru of Downing Street?

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Lewis Goodall assesses the influence of Joseph Chamberlain

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He promised better housing, he promised old-age pensions,

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he promised the minimum wage, he promised a crackdown

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He promised many things that Theresa May

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As the great survivor marks another decade,

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Will Grant looks back at some of the influences on the Cuban

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TRANSLATION: Soon, I'll be like all the others.

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The time must come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban

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As the Games reach their climax, Chris Mitchell asks what will be

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This place is just a few hundred metres from the Olympic Park in Rio.

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And yet this is where you might find Olympic champions of the future.

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India marked the 65th anniversary of its independence

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But the celebrations came as its troubled region of Kashmir

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has been consumed by some of its worst violence for years.

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Around 60 people have been killed, more than 5,000 injured

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in Indian-administered Kashmir this month, as the police are pitted

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against stonethrowing protesters who want independence

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Justin Rowlatt filed this report from the troubled region.

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Kashmir is at a standstill during the day.

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Tear gas and smoke can't protect the soldiers from the stones that

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We don't know where the stones are coming from.

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The problem for India is it is running out of options

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It's ruled out independence, it says it won't talk to hardline

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separatists and has already devolved considerable powers to the region.

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So it has little option but to pour in more forces and hope

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But it shows few signs of doing that.

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This spate of violence in this Muslim majority region,

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the worst in years, began more than a month ago when a young

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militant, Burhan Wani, was killed by security forces.

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Tens of thousands turned out for his funeral.

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This is the first time Burhan Wani's father has spoken on television.

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TRANSLATION: His death has triggered a revolution,

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India is determined that won't be the case and, last week,

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the Indian Prime Minister tried to calm Kashmir.

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The independence every Indian has, every Kashmiri

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But there is a danger the Indian strategy will just entrench

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In the hospitals, the sunglasses hide horrific eye injuries,

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the result of the shotguns used to control the crowds.

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You say this is the bullet that

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Today it is my son, tomorrow it will be somebody else's, he says.

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They wear firearms, and they're not using them.

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There are claims that those weapons have been used on protesters,

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Yes, very rare, but it has happened only in those

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cases where the troops, isolated troops, are almost lynched.

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But India's approach doesn't look restrained and Kashmir

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India and Pakistan, both nuclear powers, claim the region.

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Until a long-term solution can be found here, Kashmir will remain

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a potential flash point for a much wider and much

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For the parents of the missing Nigerian children of Chibok,

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it may be the first proof that their girls are still alive

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since they were seized more than two years ago.

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The Islamist group Boko Haram released a chilling video

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which it said showed some of the kidnapped schoolgirls.

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But the video only showed around 50 of the 276 who were abducted

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In this report from Martin Patience, we have obscured

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the images of the girls to protect their identity.

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Masked and menacing, this militant is very

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Behind him, the kidnapped schoolgirls who, two years on,

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In this propaganda video, the militant forces

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She says many of the girls have been severely injured in military air

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strikes and she calls on the government to release

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Boko Haram prisoners to secure their release.

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We woke up to a video on the state of our girls.

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We are left with mixed feelings of grief, strength and hope.

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But this mother couldn't be consoled, as the families came

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One father said he was shocked by his daughter's appearance,

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When I saw her, I'm really very happy because she's still alive.

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The students were kidnapped from their school here in Chibok

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Driven into the forest, their abduction sparked

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international outrage and shone a spotlight on the brutal

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But, this May, renewed hope for the families after one

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Forced to marry a fighter, Amina had a four-month-old baby.

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The government is under intense pressure to free the girls.

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It says it is in talks with the militants, but it

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needs to be doubly sure that it is speaking

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As for the girls' families, their agony and their anger goes on.

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Thousands have been killed by the Boko Haram insurgency,

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and more than 2 million displaced by the fighting.

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This is a conflict far bigger than just Chibok.

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The festering tensions between Ukraine and Russia took

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a sudden turn for the worse this week over Crimea.

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The two neighbouring nations have been in bitter dispute over

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the peninsula since Russia took control of the two years ago.

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It's fuelled a conflict between Russian-backed separatists

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and Ukrainian forces that has killed nearly 10,000 people.

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Now, Moscow has accused Kiev of armed attacks on Crimea.

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Tom Burridge has travelled to the Ukrainian seaside

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This is how a summer holiday here starts or ends.

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This is not an international border for much of the world.

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Their homes, hotels or family on the other side in

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After Russian claims of a Ukrainian inspired plot there,

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relations between the two countries have hit a new low.

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Russia's security agency, the FSB, claims hidden explosives

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in its video here were intended for targets in Crimea.

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Ukraine says the whole story is a fake.

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This FSB video shows one of the accused, Yevgeny Panov.

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It's too official language, too official.

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His brother believes that he is talking under

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duress and shows signs of torture in another FSB film

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in which he makes an apparent confession.

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Yes, face is very swollen.

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Mr Panov did serve until last August in Ukraine's war

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But until he went missing a few days ago, he was a minibus

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His brother thinks he was abducted and says the idea that he was in

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a special forces team, sneaking into Crimea,

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He has a knee injury and hard breath.

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He is a victim of big political action.

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Truth or fake, Ukraine has put its military on high alert

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But in the Ukrainian region next to Crimea, few fret.

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Possibly only about less space to sunbathe here, because many

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Ukrainians won't holiday now in Russian-held Crimea.

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The atmosphere here in southern Ukraine is relaxed.

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Because the idea of Russian military action here, just across

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the water from Crimea, is, on paper at least, unlikely.

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The increase in tension and rhetoric from Moscow is probably part

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Russia has moved surface-to-air missiles on to Crimea.

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The S-400 can shoot down a plane 400 kilometres away.

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At the end of last week, the Russian Navy held drills to deal

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And more Russian war games began today in the eastern Mediterranean.

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Recent tension could be aimed at influencing the failed peace

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talks over Ukraine's war against Russian-backed

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Crimea's administrative border disrupts Ukrainian lives.

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Ratcheting up the tension here destabilises the country.

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But after Russia's annexation of Crimea more than two years ago,

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Ukraine, and its allies like Britain, have learned

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Moscow's strategy is rarely crystal clear.

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Theresa May has been Prime Minister for over a month now

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but it still doesn't feel like people really know quite

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But maybe we do have a clue as to her thinking in the fact that

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on the steps of Downing Street, she name-checked Joseph Chamberlain,

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a politician who helped to define modern conservatism.

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Well, he wasn't really a conservative at all,

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he was a radical and a liberal who established his career

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by building a powerhouse in the English Midlands.

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Lewis Goodall reports on Joseph Chamberlain's legacy

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In 30 years, Birmingham grew into a dirty,

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The transformation that was to come was more astonishing.

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Elegant thoroughfares, sewers, clean water,

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beautiful civic buildings - like the law courts,

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One man is responsible for this - Theresa May's new lodestar.

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You could say that Joseph Chamberlain was Britain's first

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A reformer, a political organiser, someone who was truly

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He turned Birmingham from being just a quiet,

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provincial backwater into one of the most advanced and progressive

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Joseph Chamberlain became Mayor of the city in 1873.

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This Victorian chameleon was a radical liberal,

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a guardian of the working class and a godfather

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The political hero of one Nick Timothy, Theresa May's chief

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of staff and most trusted adviser, is none other than Chamberlain.

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And who should be mentioned in her first policy speech

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From Robert Peel to Lady Thatcher, from Joseph Chamberlain

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to Winston Churchill, throughout history, it has been

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the Conservative Party's role to rise to the occasion and take

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Listen to the kind of language that she uses.

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We don't just believe in individualism but in society.

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We value the role that only the state can play.

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Chamberlain took the waterworks and gas supply into city

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This was local nationalisation and the profits were used

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This was the civic gospel, that famous Victorian morality.

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The civic gospel was kind of born of a religious idea.

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Chamberlain was a unitarian and nonconformist.

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His approach terrified the middle classes of the day,

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who saw him as a "gas and water socialist".

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We have not the slightest intention of making profit, he said.

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We shall get our profit in the comfort and health

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I think it was Chamberlain's business sense to take that risk,

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to see that there is a potential that they could gain profit and that

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profit could fund other ventures such as the building of the museum

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and art gallery which we're standing in today.

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The University is one of Chamberlain's most abiding legacies.

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It represents the power of civic pride that made Birmingham the first

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In the shadow of the Old Joe Clock Tower, Malcolm Dick explains

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Chamberlain's primary contribution to Conservative history - the appeal

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We can see him emphasising a social reform strand, at least insofar

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as linking working-class aspirations, social and economic

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And a tradition of strong local authorities,

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Chamberlain began life as a liberal but split over home-rule,

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Then he took them into the Conservative Party.

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He believed in the union and in policies that appealed

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But Chamberlain was also an avowed imperialist.

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He was Colonial Secretary and progenitor of the Boer War.

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He wanted the empire to be a single trade bloc.

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He designed Corporation Street, a Parisian-style boulevard running

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through Birmingham to sell its wares.

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And the taxes on those goods would be used for

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Imperialism was probably his fatal mistake.

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But a politically understandable one.

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He promised a crackdown on immigration.

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He promised many things that Theresa May promised the other day.

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It's the only industrial city where the Conservative Party has

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A strong presence in the council chamber today is part of his legacy.

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Their local leader relishes a Tory shift to Chamberlainism.

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I think we'll see a focus on having an industrial strategy

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for the country and Theresa May talked about the importance

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of making sure that key industries aren't taken out of the country.

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And then I think we'll see some big changes on devolution.

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We will see a real speeding up of the devolving of powers

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and cutting the strings to allow cities to really make

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Theresa May has been in politics for 30 years and Home

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Yet we know surprisingly little about her political beliefs.

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Chamberlain may well be her lodestar.

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And if he is, then Conservatives are into a bit of a shock,

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because he represents a strand of conservatism and conservative

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thought that would mark the biggest departure for the party since 1979.

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Churchill said of Chamberlain that he was a politician

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If Theresa May is serious in reawakening this strand

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of thinking, she may well yet manage the same.

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He led Cuba's revolution for decades, survived many

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presidents of his archenemy, the United States, and also numerous

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Well, Fidel Castro made it to 90 last week and even though he's

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retired, he's still revered by many Cubans.

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Will Grant looks back at Castro's early influences and the enduring

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impact of the man who said he wasn't born political.

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I wasn't born political, Fidel Castro once wrote,

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but from very young, I observed things that helped me

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understand the realities of the world.

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He first observed them here, amid the rural poverty

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His former home is now a museum, painstakingly preserved for tourists

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and left-wing pilgrims keen to see Castro's roots.

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His father, Angel, was a Galician immigrant and wealthy landowner.

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And it's said it was seeing the exploitation of Haitian sugar

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cane workers that first influenced the young Fidel's

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His half-brother, Martin Castro, still lives in the town.

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He would go over to the Haitians' homes, he remembers,

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and give them vouchers for credit he had taken

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That rebellious streak eventually saw him expelled from school

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in Biran and he was sent to study under the Jesuits.

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First in Santiago, and then here in Havana.

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TRANSLATION: The Jesuit priests were very concerned with teachings

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They tried to instil a hard work ethic and

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Of course, the Havana of Castro's youth was very

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Gambling, prostitution and vice characterised the Cuban capital

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in the 1940s and 1950s, something Castro himself

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Cuban academics consider that it was here, at

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Havana's university that Fidel Castro finally came

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In a speech he made in late 1947, he railed against what he called

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the "country's wealth in foreign hands".

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And he urged fellow students to militancy, saying,

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"A young nation can never say we surrender."

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That young student is now the great survivor.

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One of the world's last Cold War leaders.

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Recently, to applause and tears, the elder statesman of Cuban

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politics appeared to bid the National Assembly goodbye.

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TRANSLATION: Soon, I will be like all the others.

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The time must come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban

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Every year, Cuba celebrates Castro's audacious 1953 attack

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on the Moncada Barracks, the start of the Cuban revolution.

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Fidel remains the watchword for socialist hardliners opposed

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They find solace in the words of the man who has shaped modern

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Before we go, let's not forget the Olympics.

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The Rio Games reach their climax, of course, and for the past two

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weeks, all that focus on the competition and champions

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Will these Rio Games have any long-term impact?

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Chris Mitchell has been to see a new project in the very shadows

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of the Olympic Stadium, which is hoping to develop Brazil's

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This place is just a few hundred metres from the Olympic Park in Rio

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and yet this is where you might find Olympic champions of the future.

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That's because thousands of dollars have been invested

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here to provide sporting facilities for underprivileged locals

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in the hope that it might inspire them to become active.

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The Olympic villages are the heartbeat of their communities.

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They own this, the community owns this.

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And, with the five-year commitment, what we're making very sure

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of is that we are working together with the city and the community

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Ultimately, we want to help transform the community and impact

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the lives of these kids so that they grew up loving sport

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We believe in that unlimited potential of the kids.

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And if you want to inspire a new generation, then why not get

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I'm going to show you how to be a world record sprinter.

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Carl Lewis won ten medals at the Olympics for the USA,

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Getting kids involved in sports young, you can teach

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all kinds of lessons, physical activity and

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engagement that you can't get a few start older.

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And, for me, it's personal because I have a youth programme,

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an athletic programme in the United States,

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and I started at eight years old in a youth programme

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So, this is really personal to me and I think it is wonderful.

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I'm just happy they can bring it into these neighbourhoods

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and utilise spaces like this which, in many cases, would not

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The fact that the money for this regeneration is coming

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from a sponsor and not the state tells its own story.

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Rio is putting on a good show for now but the real test will be

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whether it has the vision to make the Olympics pay for years to come.

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And that's all from Reporters for this week.

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It has been a very, very windy day across most parts of the UK. Our

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Weather Watchers in south Wales captured this image of a huge wave

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