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The Prime Minister is challenged to decide if he is man or mouse on the

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issue of a third runway at Heathrow Airport.

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A senior Conservative MP urges David Cameron to act, saying the

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expansion is needed to boost the economy and the environmental

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objections are disappearing. Young people who smoke cannabis run

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the risk of a "significant and irreversible" reduction in their IQ

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according to a major study. The search resumes for the body of

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a father who's thought to have drowned in a canoeing accident in

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which his two sons and another child died.

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Bearing down on New Orleans - millions prepare for the arrival of

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tropical storm Isaac due to hit land later today.

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And on the eve of the Paralympics, we'll be at Stoke Mandeville

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Hospital where it all began more than 60 years ago. On BBC London on

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the day before the Paralympics, passenger groups call for a

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transport legacy for disabled users, and a new scheme to stop London's

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young people going straight from Good afternoon, and welcome to the

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BBC News at 1.00pm. David Cameron came under pressure today to change

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his mind and back a third runway at Heathrow Airport. A senior

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Conservative and former Environment Minister Tim Yeo challenged the

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Prime Minister to decide whether he was a "man or a mouse" over the

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expansion. So far, though, the Government shows no sign of budging.

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Our political correspondent Iain Watson reports. The Prime Minister

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has been buffeted by a period of political turbulence. The economy

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is back in recession. He's behind in the polls, and sop of his

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backbenchers are drawing restless trying to force him to change

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course. Before the election David Cameron said no if's, no, but's, no

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third runway at Heathrow Airport but now a Conservative backbencher

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and environmental campaigner is urging him to leave this commitment

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behind. Writing in a Conservative publication, the Conservative MP

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I think there is a terrific turnt now for him to show strong

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leadership on the front and to set out clearly what his vision of

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Britain is going to be in 2020. I think we'd like some clarity on

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that. The Transport Secretary was

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extolling the -- she opposes the third runway and says the Prime

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Minister won't backtrack either. It's clear cut we have a coalition

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agreement not to have a third runway we're planning to stick to.

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There is cross-party consensus. Even the Labour Party have accepted

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their push for a third runway was wrong. All of this isn't just a

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debate about transport policy. Here at Westminster Conservative

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backbenchers have been pushing the Government to do more to boost

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economic growth. Some see the runway as a powerful symbol of the

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Government's ability to not show Britain is open to business.

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This MP says the Government shouldn't back a third runway in

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this Parliament but should say what they'd do instead. For the sake of

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the country and the economy, we need a long-term answer to our

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chronic shortage of airport capacity. Let's hope they come up

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with a good answer soon. David Cameron is likely to reshuffle his

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team soon despite the speculation his Chancellor's job is safe. Some

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Conservatives say it's not a change of personnel that's needed but

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change of policy, firmer plans to boost the economy they say will

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also boost the party's political fortunes.

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Let's speak to our political correspondent Robin Brant who has

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been with the Transport Secretary in Boxley in Kent on this Heathrow

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issue. Firstly, on the Heathrow issue, there is a coalition

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agreement which rules out any expansion before the next election.

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Could the economic and environmental arguments start to

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tip the balance? From her point of view, no. Justine

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Greening came here to kept today to talk about high-speed rail, be it

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is planes, not trains, that are dominating. What's interesting in

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her defence of her position, which is no third runway, she's chosen to

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make it about an issue of trust for this Government and specifically

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personally for the Prime Minister when in that interview she said he

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has made a decision, a pledge on no third runway. He articulated that

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in the campaign, and he'll stick to it, so for her it's not just about

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the broader issue of a third runway. It's about trust in politicians,

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trust in David Cameron, but in the last hour, we see fresh evidence of

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the pressure the Government is under. The Institute of Directors

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say the Government must stop delaying, so there is pressure from

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outside on very senior members of the Government to change tact, but

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a U-turn on Heathrow would be very, very significant. Also, there is

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pressure on the Government to allow this company FirstGroup ownership

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of Britain's biggest railway. I mean, I think what's clear this

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morning is there is going to be no delay despite pressure from Virgin,

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Richard Branson on Parliament to at least have some scrutiny over the

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deal it's huge deal - 13 years. It could mean �1 billion a year

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possibly for the Government in revenue. There has been pressure

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from Virgin, who have lost out on the deal, for Parliament to at

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least juteinise it. Justine Greening saying no deal. They'll

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push ahead. They believe the process has been transparent. They

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believe it has been a good deal for passengers but from what I fruns

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Virgin, they'll head to the courts and seek some sort of review.

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you. Young people who smoke cannabis

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regularly are risking permanent damage to their intelligence and

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memory. That's the conclusion of a study of more than a thousand

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people which found persistent cannabis users before the age of 18

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suffered an eight-point drop in their IQ, on average, by the time

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they were adults. Our health correspondent Dominic Hughes

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reports. For some years heavy cannabis use

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has been linked to an increase to developing mental illnesses like

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schizophrenia but now an international team of researchers

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found that young people who smoke it regularly, more than four times

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a week, risk a reduction in IQ, the way intelligence is measured. For

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this significant study into cannabis and IQ, researchers

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followed the lives of a thousand people from Dunedin in New Zealand

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over 20 years. They assessed them as children then reinterviewed them

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repeatedly up to the age of 38. Those who persistently used

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cannabis, up to 5% of those involved in the study, suffered a

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decline in their IQ. Of those we studied, 75% of them used cannabis

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at some point, and most of those people had no difficulty with their

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cognitive abilities. It was only the smaller group, about 5% of the

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population, who started using cannabis regularly - most days a

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week when they were teenagers, who showed that cognitive decline.

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Around ten, two, million people in the UK are thought to smoke

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cannabis. Half of all 16 to 29- year-olds have tried it at least

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once. One former heavy user says young people need to be aware of

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the risks that go along with heavy cannabis use. I think it's just

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really another danger sign for any young person that's thinking of

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taking cannabis that not only is it illegal, not only is it bad for

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your health and can cause psychosis, but it can also affect your IQ as

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well, so the more messages we can get out there just warning people

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of the dangers of it, then hopefully the happier lives people

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will lead. It is the most widely used illegal drug in the United

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Kingdom, but this study shows those who smoke large quantities while

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they're still adolescents are putting their, qui, at risk, and

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there is nothing to say that that IQ can be restored.

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Police are continuing to search the shoreline of Loch Gairloch for a

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man who's presumed to have drowned alongside his two young sons in a

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canoeing accident. Ewen Beaton is missing, presumed dead. The bodies

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of his sons, Ewen and Jamie, were found after their canoe overturned.

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A little girl aged five, Gracie Mackay, died yesterday in hospital.

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James Cook reports. The pictures are now all the more

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precious - eight-year-old Callie Mackay survived Sunday's accident

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but her little sister Gracie Mackay, who was five, did not. She was

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pulled from the water face down and unconscious and died in hospital

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yesterday. Ewen Beaton, who was five, and his little brother Jamie,

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who was two, also died when the Canadian canoe capsised in a flat

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calm. Their father, also Ewen, is still missing. On the windy shores

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of Gairloch, they're still searching for Ewen Beaton, V, but

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any sense of urgency has faded. They're combing the coastline

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looking for the body which may have been washed north by the strong

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currents. It's devastating for the families involved, and no words can

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describe what they'll be experiencing right now. The Beatons

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are well known in Beauly to the west of Inverness where the young

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boy's grandfather is the local postman. The tragedy has shaken

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this little town. Unbelievable that a tragedy like this could happen.

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It's a beautiful beach. It's a safe beach normally - been there on many

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occasions. Police are giving few details about exactly what happened

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in these waters, but it seems clear the life jackets the children were

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wearing did not do enough to keep their heads above water when the

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canoe capsised. A full inquiry will of course follow, but it can bring

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no solace to the families. The mother of an American activist

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who was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza has

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said she's "deeply saddened" and troubled to have lost a

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compensation claim. A court rejected the family's claim

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that Israel was to blame for Rachel Corrie's death nine years ago

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during a demonstration. Jon Donnision reports from the court in

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Haifa. Rachel Corrie on the day she died - a human shield trying to

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stop the Israeli Army from demolishing Palestinian property in

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Gaza. The tactics seen here being used by other pro-Palestinian

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activists was clearly risky. For Rachel Corrie, it cost her her life,

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crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer. Nine years later, her

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parents, Cindy and Craig, arrived in court today looking for what

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they could call justice - seeking to sue the Israeli Ministry of

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Justice -- Defence for damages. They were to be disappointed. The

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judge ruled the 23-year-old's death was an accident, that the bulldozer

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driver hadn't seen her and that she'd taken a risk going into what

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was in effect a war zone. The judge said the activists were protecting

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terrorists, Palestinian militants, operating in the area. For Rachel

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Corrie's family, tough to accept. think it's outrageous. I think we

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brought a lot of material to court, a lot of evidence, and of course,

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we demanded that the Israeli Government bring evidence to court,

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and some of that they simply did not bring, that you can go out on

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television and to a cinema-tech and find information that the Israeli

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Government said did not exist. family have already spent hundreds

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of thousands of dollars fighting the case, but their struggle is not

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over. They've already said they'll appeal today's ruling to Israel's

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Supreme Court. New Orleans is bracing itself for

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another hurricane exactly seven years after Hurricane Katrina

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brought devastation to the city. Tropical Storm Isaac is gathering

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strength as it heads across the Gulf of Mexico, and authorities say

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they expect it to become a hurricane by the time it hits land

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later today or tomorrow. Already, President Obama has declared a

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state of emergency in Louisiana. Alastair Leithead reports from New

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They know how to prepare for storms here in New Orleans. It was seven

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years to the day that people were doing a similar thing, as Hurricane

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Katrina was approaching across the Gulf of Mexico. The city was

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woefully unprepared back then. The levies, which were built to protect

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the people, failed. Much of the city flooded. More than 1,800 died

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here and along the Gulf coast. Since then, the levies very

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strengthened. The storm is not expected to be as powerful, but

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they were still putting the finishing touches to the city's

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defence as Isaac approached. Isaac is to00 miles across and heading at

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10mph strengthening over the warm Gulf of Mexico waters. It's

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expected to strike land somewhere along the coast as a category 2

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hurricane with winds two-thirds the strength of Hurricane Katrina.

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We're staged. We're battle ready. We're in battle rhythm, and we'll

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be prepared to handle what comes our way. In Mississippi, the calm

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was deceptive. The winds will soon pick up as the squalls reach the

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coast but a surge in the tide could also cause wide-spread flooding,

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and in Alabama, people were stocking up and preparing to batten

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down for the storm. Some were leaving, but many have decided to

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sit this one out and hope for the best.

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The widow of Tony Nicklinson, who died last week days after he lost a

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legal battle to change the laws on euthanasia, says she hopes his

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campaign will continue. Jane Nicklinson said it was a shame her

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husband, who had locked-in syndrome after a devastating stroke, had not

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been able to die the way he had He had described his life as a

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living nightmare. The devastation felt by Tony nick

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Lyn son when he lost the battle to allow a doctor to end his life was

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clear. After fighting for years, this was

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the point his wife Jane believes he gave up. Within a week, he died of

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pneumonia after refusing to eat. He was just absolutely devastated.

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I hadn't realised he was that devastated quite honestly, and it

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was the day after that he said to me that the fight had just gone. He

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said he couldn't take it any more. Before his stroke, he was the

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husband and father who had lived life to the full. Once ill, Jane

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supported Tony's legal case to allow a doctor to help him to die.

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That currently constitutes murder. Although they failed, she believes

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their work wasn't in vain. Even though we didn't win, you know,

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all the hard work for the case has been done and I hope that at some

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point someone will come forward and carry on with what Tony started.

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The campaign may not be over, but it's also not without opponents.

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Many are against the role a doctor would have played in helping Tony

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to die. One of the last things he said to me was, I am already dead,

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don't mourn for me. It's true, we did. I think it was in some

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respects seven years ago was harder, than this because we did lose the

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old Tony. Although Tony wasn't legally

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allowed to end his life on his own terms, his case has reignited the

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debate over assisted suicide. Our top story: The Prime Minister

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is challenged to decide if he is man or mouse, on the issue of a

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third runway at Heathrow Airport. Coming up: Escaping a country of

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conflict for a world of harmony. We meet Iraq's National Youth

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Orchestra. Later on BBC London: A major search

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takes place for a man from Romford who's gone missing after going to

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look for help during a camping trip in South Wales. And how amputee

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footballers in Hackney are trying to get their sport recognised at

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The most detailed photos of Mars ever taken have been released by

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NASA. They were shot by the Curiosity Rover and show a 3-mile

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high mountain where scientists plan to search for evidence that the

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planet once supported life. Our science correspondent Pallab Ghosh

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reports. These are the most detailed

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pictures of Mars ever seen. Coming It's six miles away, but using its

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advanced high definition camera, NASA engineers are able to zoom in

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and pick out areas which they think will be of greatest scientific

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interest. But there's plenty of science to do in the meantime.

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First, to sample the martial air. We are looking forward to getting

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our first sniff of Mars atmosphere and learning more about the history

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of Mars, what the atmosphere is telling us with regard to its

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composition. What is of huge interest are these layers. The

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lower down they go the further back in time they are. These darker

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areas go back billions of years. By analysing this rock they'll be able

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to recreate what Mars was like in They play the first ever voice

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spoken on Mars. This is the administrator speaking to you...

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NASA hopes children will be inspired by these images and one

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day take the next giant leap for mankind.

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As we continue the mission we hope the words of the administrator will

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be an inspiration to someone alive today who will become the first to

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stand upon the surface of Mars. Like the great Neil Armstrong,

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they'll be able to speak allowed in first person at that point of the

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next giant leap in human exploration. Economic reality

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suggests that the likelihood of a person setting foot on Mars is

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highly unlikely. But many at NASA have been inspired again by Neil

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Armstrong's achievement and his message to the world that all

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things are possible. The opening ceremony of the London

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2012 Paralympics takes place tomorrow. Tonight, the torch relay

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will set off from Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the Games' spiritual home

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and the place where they first began more than 60 years ago. From

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the most humble of beginnings the Games have grown into one of the

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largest sporting spectacles and, in terms of athlete numbers, it's

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second only to the Olympics. John Maguire reports.

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1948, and the eyes or in fact the ears of the world are on the

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Olympic opening ceremony in London. But 40 miles away in a

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Buckinghamshire village, 16 military veterans in wheelchairs

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compete in what's described as a hospital sports day. The

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paralympics is born. Its birthplace, the Stoke

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Mandeville spinal unit and its father, Professor Sir Ludwig

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Guttmann who came to the UK to escape the Nazi regime. I haven't

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much hope. Now, look here, cut that out... His bedside manner may fall

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short of modern expectations, but he believed in the power of sport

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to rehabilitate, not just physically, but emotionally and

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socially. To put it quite clearly, to transform helpless individuals,

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severely disabled. The Games grew and grew with competitors from

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overseas travelling there every year. Then, in Rome, 1960, for the

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first time they followed the Olympics, the parallel games, the

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paralympics as we know them today were up and running. At the

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hospital physiotherapy and sport remain vital parts of patient

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treatment. When I got here I was flat on a bed, I hadn't been out of

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bed in four months. Now I am starting playing sport. Starting to

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live my life again basically. elite sport provides extra

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inspiration. This place is amazing. I can't describe how amazing this

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place is. Maybe I would like to be in the paralympics one time and

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shoot, I would like to try shooting. As the paralympics, both Stoke

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Mandeville and the Games it created prepare for another chapter.

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work we do is to try and change the way people think and feel about

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disability. So in some ways we are looking for transformation but

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through the medium of sport. We feel that we are in a very

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privileged position with such a talented team and such inspiring

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images that British population will be seeing over the next two to

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three weeks, that we really feel that we can start to make inroads

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on that ambition. It is ambition, vision,

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determination that's driven the transformation from a small

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hospital sports day, to one of the More than 4,000 Paralympic athletes

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have been arriving in London ahead of Wednesday's opening ceremony.

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Among them are many who've been injured in conflicts around the

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world, including British troops, and there's one athlete from

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Afghanistan - a country where thousands of civilians are hurt in

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attacks and land mines each year. Aleem Maqbool reports from Kabul.

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Fahim Rahimi has made it to the Olympics but shouldered his burdens

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on his own. This weightlifter has no coach, no financial support and

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can only use the gym in Kabul because they don't charge him.

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He had his leg blown off by a mine in Afghanistan's civil war. There

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are no sophisticated prosthetics here, just the plastic limb he was

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given by the Red Cross. TRANSLATION:

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Every young person hopes they'll do something for their country. I want

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to fly the Afghan flag all over the world. It's a big thing for to us

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go to the Olympics. But he is the only athlete who

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represents Afghanistan and is one success story in a country where

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there are so many sad tales. This is how amputees can end up

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here, as beggars on the streets and thanks to war, their numbers are

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being added to all the time. The Red Cross factory is producing

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a staggering 15,000 artificial limbs a year. It has become a

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lifeline for so many. In Afghanistan now there are thought

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to be tens of thousands of people who have been made disabled by many

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years of conflict. These people are just learning to use their new

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prosthetic limbs, but of course they're going to need care in some

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form or another for the rest of their lives.

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But sport is starting to be seen as a factor that could really make a

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difference for Afghanistan's disabled. They were not convinced

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to be able to do anything, rather than just dragging around, moving

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around. Now they have seen, they understood they can be players,

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they can be champions. They can be heroes in a way. Fahim says he will

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only be happy with a medal in London. But he is already an

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inspiration to so many in Afghanistan.

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And, in another country fractured by conflict, there is harmony in

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the form of a National Youth Orchestra - conceived in Iraq four

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years ago by a teenager who wanted an escape from the world of car

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bombs and chaos on the country's streets. Most of its members taught

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themselves to play, using the internet as a guide. Now they're in

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Britain for their first concerts, performing alongside the world

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famous cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. Our arts correspondent David

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Sillito went to meet them. My name is Tuqa, I am a cellist.

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Teenagers can get up to all sorts of forbidden things in secret. Tuqa

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learned the cello. A girl playing a western instrument and growing up

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in Baghdad, she lived in fear. I first started it was very hard

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for a girl to play music. My house was very far from my school and the

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cello case is very big so people would always notice what I was

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carrying. Zuhal also grew newspaper Baghdad. When Britain and America

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invaded, that was the end of music lessons. But Zuhal persevered.

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just downloaded music, sheet music, and I practised and played.

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teacher? No teacher. And now, nine years on, Zuhal has formed an

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orchestra. Auditions are sent in on Because learning an instrument is

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difficult enough, but learning an instrument in Iraq over the last

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ten years, you can only begin to understand the problems.

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Some of them discovered their instruments by watching something

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on the television and falling in love with it. They had to ask their

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friends, what's the name of that instrument? Then they somehow got

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hold of one, usually a pretty poor instrument, and they downloaded the

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fingering and taught themselves thousand play -- how to play.

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a flute player. How long have you been playing? Five years. Have you

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ever had a teacher? No. I am a double bass player. Again, no

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lessons. He just watched videos on... YouTube. At home.

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And then during a ten-minute break in rehearsals it's suddenly party

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time. Too many here grew up hidden indoors, fearful, so this is a

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chance for friends, a little fun, and to do what they love. They

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It's time to take to you the weather now with Chris. We are

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going to start with an update on tropical storm Isaac.

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We are, Kate. Yes Isaac has been leaving a trail of destruction as

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it's moved across the Caribbean. Now it's situated in the Gulf of

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Mexico and I have seen an eye develop in that storm which tells

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me it's undergoing weak strengthening so it's probably

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going to reach hurricane status this afternoon. The track of that

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storm then moves north and west and the centre of the storm will

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probably come on shore just to the west of New Orleans but that

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doesn't mean it's out of the firing line because it's the eastern side

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of storms or hurricanes we get significant storm surges driven

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onshore by powerful winds. For today, after the drenching many

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of us endured during Monday, today it couldn't be more different. For

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most of us we are looking at a fine day with prolonged spells of

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sunshine. I say most, there are one or two showers today and the

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showers have merged together to give hrepgier -- lengthier

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downpours across Scotland, particularly around the Highlands.

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Elsewhere in Scotland, it should stay mainly dry. A few fleeting

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showers are possible for Northern Ireland, for western parts of of

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England and Wales. You will be unlucky if you do see one of them.

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Overnight strengthening winds will blow the next system in off the

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Atlantic with a band of rain crossing Northern Ireland and

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pushing into Scotland and western parts of England and Wales

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overnight. That leaves the south- east of England dry with prolonged

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clear spells. For Wednesday morning not a bad start to the day across

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eastern areas. Make the most of the sunshine because we are going to

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see bands of rain pushing eastwards during the day and we see rain

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arriving across the south-east during the afternoon. Behind the

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rain we are looking at showers moving in to most other parts of

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the British Isles. The showers will be heavy, thundery and slow-moving

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across the likes of Northern Ireland, parts of northern England

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and Wales and the south-west of Scotland, too. The rain does clear

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from the south-east of England during Wednesday evening so we are

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hopeful that for the opening ceremony of the Paralympics the

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weather should be dry, just a low chance of a shower brought on by

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those winds. There will be showers around for Thursday. Mainly

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affecting the eastern side. Further north, across Scotland and Northern

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Ireland, we are looking at largely dry conditions with a fair amount

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of sunshine. Not particularly warm, thanks to the north-west breeze.

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Towards the end of the week we see rain at times while these weather

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