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

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Hello, welcome to Reporters, I'm Christian Frazier.

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From here, in the BBC's Newsroom, we send out correspondents to bring

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you the best stories from across the globe.

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As the United States enters a new political era,

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John Sudworth has been finding out how China is reacting

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Before his election, China could simply dismiss

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Donald Trump's rhetoric as the over-inflated bluster

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Jeremy Bowen reports from the ruins of eastern Aleppo and assesses

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Foreign intervention has transformed this war

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and the way it's looking, right now, foreigners, not Syrians,

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Is Britain coming together over Brexit?

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After the Prime Minister clarifies her Brexit strategy,

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Jeremy Cook finds out whether people on both sides of the debate

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Crisis at Stormont, as Northern Ireland's power-sharing

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Executive collapses, forcing new elections.

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Gavin Hewitt reports on fears of a return

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What does all this mean - uncertainty for Northern Ireland,

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without an Executive, key areas of Government

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Rupert Wingfield-Hayes finds out why the world's largest seafood market

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is moving and why some are not happy about it.

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These are the fish that are 200-250 kilos and these are the ones that

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The current record for one fish here, $1.7 million.

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Well, there's no doubt what was the biggest

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international event of this week, it's been trailed for months,

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but now Donald Trump has finally been sworn in as the 45th President

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One nation who will be watching the new American

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Mr Trump broke with decades of precedent last month by taking

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a telephone call from a telephone call the Taiwanese President,

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a move that has angered Beijing which regards Taiwan

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State media said China would "take off the gloves" if such

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As John Sudworth reports, in China, Mr Trump has gone from a figure

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of fun to someone who's provoking a loft anger.

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Not everyone in China is taking Donald Trump too seriously.

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His inauguration this week comes just ahead

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of the Chinese New Year of the Rooster.

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And this factory is making, well, giant Trump lookalike

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"The orders are flowing in, we can barely cope", the boss tells me.

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But increasingly, Mr Trump is becoming a target of anger,

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Mock-ups of Taiwanese ships provide shooting practice at this

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Chinese military museum, just across the Taiwan Strait.

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While US presidents have long avoided challenging Beijing's

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claim to sovereignty, the so-called one China policy,

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"China's military, especially our Navy,

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"We don't fear US provocation", this man tells me.

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"We want peace, but if they cross our red line we have to take

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Last week, in a move seen by some as intended to make that very point,

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China sent its aircraft carrier through the Taiwan Strait.

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And China's Communist Party-run newspapers have issued a stark

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warning, telling Mr Trump that if he changes US policy,

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Beijing will have no choice but to take off the gloves,

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and that China will mercilessly combat those who advocate

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These Chinese workers make luxury marble products for the US market.

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For them, the biggest fear is not rising military

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Their American boss believes Mr Trump's threatened tariffs

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will do nothing to change the basic market reality.

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Hiring one worker in the states, i could hire five to six in China.

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So moving our business to the states would impinge into our margins

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which would then reflect on consumer pricing, And it would be

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very difficult to run a business that way.

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The world's about to find out whether one of the most vital

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and complex bilateral relationships is to undergo a profound change.

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Before his election, China could simply dismiss

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Donald Trump's rhetoric as the overinflated bluster

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And China is making it increasingly clear that

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while it has a lot to lose, so, too, does America

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To Syria now, where the United Nations says 40,000 people have

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returned to their homes in the east of Aleppo, the city devastated

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Most are living on aid, in very difficult conditions.

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Syria's largest city became a major battleground in the summer of 2012,

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but after four years of bloody conflict, government forces cut off

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the rebels' supply lines and they were able to take full

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Jeremy Bowen has been back to eastern Aleppo and found a city

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The final battle for Aleppo swept through the city

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All sides in this war were prepared to destroy Aleppo to possess it.

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In the end, the firepower of the regime and its Russian

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and Iranian allies was too much for the fractious rebel coalition

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This city is the key to northern Syria.

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Right across the country, rebels who are still fighting,

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The battle for Aleppo lasted four years.

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More than 200,000 civilians were trapped in the heat of the fight.

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Attacks on civilians by any side in the war are crimes if it can be

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Zakaria Mohammed Juma lost his leg in East Aleppo three months ago.

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At a clinic run by the International Committee of the Red Cross, he's

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When you can't walk, supporting a family is even harder.

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It will take years and billions to rebuild.

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The east side of Aleppo and much of the old city is in ruins.

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With a photo of his clothes shop, Salah stood in front

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I've seen this much damage elsewhere in Syria, but never

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Abu Mahmoud is one of the first to return to his neighbourhood.

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"If only they'd take away the rubble", he said,

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"all the neighbours would come back."

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This corpse was still lying on the road a month

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after the battle, more are certain to be buried in collapsed buildings.

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Abu Mohammed, collecting firewood, showed where a mortar

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"Look", he said, "they took out my spleen, a kidney

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In every queue for emergency aid, there are tragedies.

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This child, who is 12, has seen more than anyone

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Her grandmother is using all the strength she has left to care

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TRANSLATION: My daughter's 15-year-old girl and her son,

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My son's three-year-old daughter lost a leg.

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Another grandson, aged seven, lost a hand.

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My family's houses were all destroyed.

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TRANSLATION: We don't know what's hidden in our future.

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I saw with my own eyes my other cousin, his intestines

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President Assad's resurgence in Aleppo means talk

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about forcing him out sounds more hollow than ever.

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He is the strongest he's been since the war started.

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The empty, ruined, silent streets on the former front

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No one has tried to move back here, it's haunted by violence and death.

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That is a home-made mortar, designed and built by

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the rebels and in itself, it's a fearsome weapon.

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But it is nothing compared to the power of the Russian air

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force and the military know-how of the Iranians and

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Foreign intervention has transformed this war and the way

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it's looking right now, foreigners, not Syrians,

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The sun sets in Aleppo on a dark, cold and broken place.

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It feels like a post-war city, but this is not a post-war country.

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For the first time, the President and his allies can smell victory,

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There were fears of a return to the tribal politics

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of the past in Northern Ireland after its power-sharing

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Executive collapsed, triggering new elections

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It's all over a controversial energy scheme which could cost

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the taxpayer ?500,000,000, but it's caused a deep riff

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between the two main partners in the Executive,

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Gavin Hewitt reports from Stormont on what it means for

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The 10 years, power has been shared in Northern Ireland.

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It was one of the foundation stones of peace.

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Today, that power-sharing government collapsed.

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I propose that a draft Order in Council be brought forward

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shortly to set an election date of Thursday, 2nd March.

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No-one should underestimate the challenge faced

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to the political institutions here in Northern Ireland

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The trigger for the breakdown was a row over a controversial green

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energy scheme drawn up by Unionist minister, Arlene Foster.

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But the bitter arguments over the scheme exposed growing

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tensions between Nationalist and Unionist politicians.

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I think it's both parties, personally, and I find

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it very disappointing and very, very sad.

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It's the tribal politics, you know, I feel like we're back in the 80s

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and I was really hopeful that for the future generations that they

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There's no appetite for a return to any sort of violence at any stage

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I think that possibly what will happen is we'll be led

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through another couple of years of political insecurity.

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At Stormont, the Northern Ireland Assembly depends on unionists

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Today, both main parties were asked to submit a name for one

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First up, the Democratic Unionist Party.

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And they backed their current leader.

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..nominate Arlene Foster to be the First Minister.

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There can be no return to the status quo.

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If something is broke, you stop and you fix it.

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But they refused to put forward a name, so ending

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What does all this mean - uncertainty for Northern Ireland.

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Without an Executive, key areas of government

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will be stalled and then, most importantly, there's Brexit.

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Where will be the Northern Ireland voice when crucial

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We are in a very grave situation going into this election

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and the timing of it, when Northern Ireland

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has no budget agreed, when we are facing into Brexit

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and when we're also coming to the end of the financial year

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is possibly the worst time that we could be entering

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Recent years have changed Northern Ireland, but the shadows of the past

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Some still say they're confused, but we did get some clarity this

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week on Britain's plans for Brexit as Theresa May announced her

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12-point plan, including a pledge to leave the single market.

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The Prime Minister insisted that people were coming together,

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but she also acknowledged just how divisive last year's

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We sent Jeremy Cook to see how those on different sides of the argument

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Boston, an ancient English town, a changing landscape.

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On the bus, plenty of support for the Prime Minister's speech,

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More than one in ten people here are EU migrants.

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Is it a price worth paying to come out of the single market in order

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You've got to control it in some way.

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At the Boston Body Hub, it's 60s dance work out.

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The project is largely EU-funded, but most here voted Brexit.

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Many worried about levels of immigration and the

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The worry is we might lose some trade with Europe

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What do you think about that trade off?

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The trade off, I think, will be worth it because I think

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Britain's big enough to take care of itself.

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It's Great Britain - it always has been,

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Outside Boston, the agricultural heartland.

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Many crops being prepared today will need migrant workers

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Within the industry we need labour and without it we will starve.

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What would you say to Theresa May then in terms of what you need

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I am hoping from this that she's going to allow skills and labour

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to be filled in the farming community, within packers,

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within processing, within the field labour, where's it's required.

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These workers are essential to you, aren't they?

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An hour's drive and we're on the banks of the Trent.

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In Rushcliffe, they voted 57% to remain in the EU.

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At the Spoke and Coke cafe and bike shop, a different

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I voted remain, and I was quite surprised by the outcome

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of the vote, but Theresa May has outlined today is what the country

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And I think we need clear leadership to make sure that

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Not everyone here is quite as relaxed.

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I don't think we realise how bad it is yet.

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Do you think we're any clearer tonight, after Theresa May's speech,

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Essentially, her message was the same - Brexit means Brexit.

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But we still don't really know what it means!

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For the Prime Minister then, Brexit remains the greatest

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of political challenges, in this still divided nation.

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The Lancaster bomber became one of the most famous and effective

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aircraft to take part in World War II.

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It played a crucial role in securing victory for the allies,

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but only two of them are still able to fly.

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One family is hoping that will change thanks to a remarkable

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30-year restoration project which they hope will see another

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Wartime recordings of a Lancaster aircrew.

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Although this one hasn't flown for 40 years.

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It's the sight and sound, when you hear those engines revving,

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you know, there just isn't another sound like it.

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Just over 7,300 Lancasters were built.

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NEWS REEL: Special missions included the Dambusters raid...

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Almost half were lost in combat during World War II.

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But for Harold Panton and his family, the desire to fully

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It brings many memories back, I think.

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His brother, Christopher, a member of Bomber Command,

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died on a mission over Germany in 1944.

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Harold and his other brother, Fred, wanted to restore an aircraft

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We knew that it's either now or never because we'd never get

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Fred died four years ago, before the family dream of seeing

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this Lancaster back in the sky could be fulfilled.

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Fred's grandson, Andrew, is determined to make it happen.

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Lancaster parts are very hard to come by, so you snap up parts

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There are a few companies that did buy up old stock after the war,

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but then people brought random parts and have had it their house

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Yeah, it's very tight inside, added to by the fact that there's

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a lot of equipment and the main spars come through as well.

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So this is like the main backbone of the aircraft?

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These spars are, as you said, the backbone, it's where

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So it's very important for our restoration that we check

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They've got some X-ray later this month.

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I mean, it's going to be such a moment, isn't it,

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I mean, we'll be flying with minimal crew, if we manage

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to get her airworthy, so it's going to be quite

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Members of RAF Bomber Command faced dreadful odds when embarking

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on a mission, 44% of aircrew lost their lives during World War

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II, and on a Lancaster there was one place that was by far the most

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Here where the Rear Gunner or Tail End Charlie,

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as he was known, did his best to defend the plane.

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It's the part that was shot at first by any enemy action and life

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expectancy was about five trips or 40-hours.

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Only two other Lancasters are still airworthy,

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the fundraising and work continues to make this one the third.

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I'll be extremely emotional, as my grandad will...

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Tim Moffatt, BBC News, in East Kirkby, in Lincolnshire.

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Finally, if you like sushi, you're going to love this.

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We're going to take you now to the world's biggest fish

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market, the legendary Tsukiji Fish Centre in Japan.

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It supplies Tokyo's finest sushi restaurants as well as the general

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public, but it's being closed down and being moved to a bigger,

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more modern sight and, as Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports,

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many people are not too happy about it.

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It's 5.00am in the morning inside the world's biggest fish

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market and the tuna auctions are under way.

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This is the first auction of 2017 and the prices

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This is going to be the last new year auction held in Tsukiji

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perhaps ever because this market supposed to close and over here,

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if you come over here, you can see, you can see through here,

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These are the fish that are 200-250 kilos.

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These are the ones that might reach record prices.

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The current record for one fish here, $1.7 million.

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Tsukiji Market is like no other, vast and chaotic.

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On a good day, 60,000 people bustle through this maze of alleys shops,

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but soon all of this will be gone, the buildings demolished,

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This man's family have been trading tuna since the days of the Shogun.

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In Tsukiji, I'm the third generation and we are doing this business

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So what we feel is, we built this place.

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I mean, Tsukiji, it's not built by someone.

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Actually, we make the history in this place, but why

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The meat from this 200 kilo monster will go to the top sushi

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But fish like this are getting hard to find.

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In the Pacific and Atlantic stocks of bluefin tuna have

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The frozen one is just 1,000 or less each day

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and the fresh one is like 300, 200, sometimes 100 or less.

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So we don't have enough fish to sell, actually.

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Do you worry about the future of the industry?

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Maybe it's going to be like the whale, it could be.

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This new year the top bid went for this 210 kilo bluefin, $632,000.

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Critics say publicity stunts like this ignore the fact that these

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Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, BBC News, at the Tsukiji Market, in Tokyo.

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That's all from Reporters for this week.

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From me, Christian Frazier, goodbye for now.

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Good evening. The temperature is falling and for some of us, it

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barely got above freezing all day long. Take the UK as a

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