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Good evening and welcome to BBC London.

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A post mortem examination on a seven`year`old boy who died

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during floods in Surrey have revealed he was killed

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Zane Gbangbola, from Chertsey, died in hospital in February.

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Surrey Police are now conducting tests on a petrol`driven pump that

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was seized from inside the home at the time of his death.

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It's very calm and Serena here this evening but back in February, it was

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a very different story. The river behind me had a fierce current

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running through it. Where I'm standing was completely underwater.

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These floods caused devastation for thousands across the region. They

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also took a life, a seven`year`old boy. Today we came a step closer to

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understanding how that tragedy happened.

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little Zane Gbangbola's death has remained a mystery.

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On Monday, his father spoke about the family's devastating loss.

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An initial postmortem examination proved inconclusive.

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Now a pathologist says Zane's death was caused

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A petrol`driven pump hired by the family was seized by police.

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They're now looking at whether the hire company is liable.

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All this is contrary to what the family thought was the cause.

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A former landfill site backs onto their house.

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They believed contaminated water flooded their basement and poisonous

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and awoke in intensive care to discover his son had died.

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The family didn't want to do an interview today but said they'll

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wait for the conclusion of the full investigation.

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Until then, they'll explore every avenue and say

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The inquest into Zane's death will now be held by the Surrey coroner to

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try to establish beyond doubt what happened to him.

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That inquest is unlikely to be straightforward. The family still

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believe some kind of contamination may have played a part. A few things

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are not helping this. Surrey county council originally moral Leicester

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night the existence of this former landfill site and then the

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postmortem examination originally came back inconclusive. On Monday we

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were told these extra tests would take a while and now a few days

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later we have them. That adding to the scepticism in the area.

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What are the authorities saying? Well, police are busy examining this

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petrol driven pump which they believe caused the carbon monoxide

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leak. Surrey county council refused to comment today, apart from saying

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their thoughts remain with the family. I think we are bit closer to

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understanding how Zane died but until we have this inquest and all

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the evidence is laid out before it, we're unlikely to find anything

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really conclusive. A friend of one of Fusilier Lee

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Rigby's murderers, who appeared in an interview with the BBC's

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Newsnight shortly after his death, has been sentenced to three years

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in prison for terror offences. 28`year`old Ibrahim Hassan

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and 31`year`old Shah Hussai, Can you tell the difference

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between talking to a human This weekend in London, scores

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of scientists are testing a theory devised by the man known as the

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father of computing ` Alan Turing. It will show if computers have

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finally managed to mimic a conversation `

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and can fool a human. Inside this building

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an experiment with computers is under way, which could give us

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a real insight into the future. This experiment works by the judges

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here having a conversation ` two conversations at a time `

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and they have to decide, are they talking to a computer or are they

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talking to the humans down here? It's called the Turing Test, named

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after the scientist Alan Turing, who imagined that one day a computer

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might be able to imitate humans. They're separate conversations

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with two different entities. They want to decide which one

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of these people is the computer For each conversation,

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there are five judges and watching, developers who hope their programme

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will be the first to pass. I'm hoping it will be mine,

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Cleverbot. I'm rooting for my chatbot

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which is called Ultra Hal. So let's try this with

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just one question. Now,

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I think this one here is the human. I think they're bluffing because

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the answer doesn't make any sense. It can be hard to tell,

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as one of the judges, actor Robert Llewellyn, better known as Crichton

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in the series red dwarf, confirmed. One of the computers did some smiley

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faces and then did some typos and I Well,

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I guessed Crichton would love it. All these little human

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beings are delightful. But are they really human

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or rather a machines? And if the computer does pass this

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test, what could that mean The ultimate, really, is the full

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Turing test, in terms of a robot. They may be rather different to

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those dreamt up in science`fiction but one day

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a robot could be your friend. The result of the test at the

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Royal Society will be announced That's it from me. I'll leave you

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with the weekend weather from Peter Gibbs.

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It could be disturbed night for some across the region. We've got rain

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across the way. It's coming with big, heavy thunderstorms so it could

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be quite a noisy time. The storms aren't quite here but they are

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massing on the other side of the channel and through the second half

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of the night, we are likely to see them pushing up from the south, some

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heavy downpours and places. Later on in the night, we'll see the big

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thunderstorms begin to move in. Quite muddy in places with

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temperatures not falling below 15 or 16 in many places. Temperatures

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could go up as the night wears on in some places. Tomorrow a cloudy

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start, our bricks of rain almost anywhere, particularly through the

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morning. Some places could see as much as an inch of rain within an

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hour but others missing it altogether. One common thing is that

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through the afternoon, we should see the rain beginning to move away and

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temperatures picking up in the late sunshine to the low 20s. Through to

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Sunday, things should begin to improve to some extent. The showers

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move away and a fresh appeal to move away and a fresh appeal to

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things. Good evening. The good news is,

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there will be some decent dry on a sunny moment to come through the

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weekend. But over the next 24 hours, the threat of thunderstorms

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looms large. The ingredients have been coming together today - warm

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air pushing northwards out of Iberia, cooler air from the Atlantic

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trying to pushed away. In between the cloud has been building with a

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lot of energy in the atmosphere sparking off some nasty

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thunderstorms across parts of northern Spain and south-west

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France. They will produce most of the rainfall tomorrow. Ahead of it,

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the cloud is starting to produce thunderstorms itself. We've seen in

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Cornwall. A few sporadic thunderstorms across central and

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southern areas and towards Northern Ireland through the night. Foremost,

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