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The American Secretary of State arrives in Belfast, as politicians

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and police call for calm, after days of angry sectarian

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demonstrations. A judge considers what treatment a

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seven-year-old boy should receive for a tumour, after his mother said

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she didn't want her son to have radiotherapy.

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Celebrations in Gaza, as the exiled leader of the ruling Hamas party

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visits the territory for the first time.

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University challenge. How applications from independent

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school students are more likely to outshine those from state schools.

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A dismissal best forgotten. England's record-breaking captain,

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Alastair Cook, is run out, but his Later on BBC London. Building

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experts say the capital is a first- class city, with third-class

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housing. And, the state-of-the-art CCTV system in west London, with

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the BBC News at One.

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The US Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, is in Northern Ireland

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today, against a background of sectarian tensions. There have been

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several days of disturbances involving loyalists since it was

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announced that the Union flag should only be flown over Belfast

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City Hall on designated days. Police have said dissident

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republicans were behind a viable home-made bomb, which was found

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last night in Londonderry. Mark Simpson is in Stormont.

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The message to the people of Northern Ireland from Hillary

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Clinton was very clear, violence is not the answer. She came here not

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to talk about the trouble, but to praise Northern Ireland's

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politicians. I like in Belfast, and back to hear

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about the state of the peace process. Hillary Clinton has always

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known it wasn't perfect but she came here to tell politicians to

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keep working together and not allow violence to drive them apart.

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will always be disagreements in democratic societies, we are

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experts in the United States. But violence is never an acceptable

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response. Hillary Clinton first came to Northern Ireland in 1995.

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It was before the Good Friday Agreement and the peace process was

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just starting. She has been back seven times since and has got to

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know the politicians well. level of support from the White

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House, Capitol Hill, for the peace process over 15 years has been

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tremendous. The Clintons have been at the heart of all about, from the

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beginning. The security situation is causing concern. Last night, a

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bomb was found in a car in Londonderry, discovered by police

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investigating dissident republicans. In County Down a letter bomb was

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intercepted. In Ballymena, more protest by loyalists complaining

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about the decision of Belfast City Council to stop flying the Union

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flag every day. The cross-community Alliance Party supported the

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decision. One of their officers has since been destroyed by loyalists.

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There East Belfast MP has received death threats and has been advised

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by police to leave her home. People have strong feelings but you must

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not use violence as a means of expressing those strong feelings.

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The only path forward is a peaceful, democratic one. Across Northern

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Ireland, the police are on high alert. We just want our flag!

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There is no sign of an end to the protest. Politicians have appealed

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to those involved to be peaceful. How serious is the security

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situation right now? It is a bad situation, it has been a bad week.

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Things could get worse before they get better. Today has reminded us

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of some key things, Northern Ireland still has friends in high

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places. It is a peace process here, a process has to keep going, like a

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bicycle, it wobbles and it could fall. What we are seeing at the

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moment, there is a wobble, there are key issues which need to be

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sorted around security, sectarianism and symbols like the

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Union flag. There is still a lot of hard work to be done here.

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The mother of a seven-year-old boy with a brain tumour is at the High

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Court today, to challenge the treatment doctors want her son to

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receive. According to police, she does not want him to have any

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radiotherapy. She and the boy disappeared from Devon at the

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weekend, and were found in Sussex overnight, after a national search.

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Daniel Boettcher has been in court. She is concerned about the

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potential side effects, what has been said in court? We are just

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starting to hear of her evidence. The seven-year-old boy had surgery

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for a brain tumour in October, doctors believe he needs

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chemotherapy and radiotherapy to recover. His chances of survival

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would be significantly reduced without it. But his mother Sally

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Roberts does not want him to have radiotherapy and is concerned about

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the possible side effects. She was meant to be in court at the start

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of the week, but she did not appear. The judge took the unusual decision

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they could be identified. After publicity, they were found safe and

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well yesterday morning. Sally Roberts is now in court. She was

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asked why she had not been in court this week as she should have been.

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She said she apologised, she had panicked, she had wanted the best

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for her son. She was asked what she meant. She said she wanted him to

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have the best quality of life and via the radio therapy could damage

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his future. She was asked whether she had a working knowledge of the

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medical issues, and she said she did. She has been giving evidence

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for 15 minutes. The court is expected to hear from a child

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expert, child oncologist, later. The exiled political leader of the

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militant group Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, has visited Gaza for the

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first time. It marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of

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Hamas, which controls the territory. Meshaal, who left the West Bank as

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a child, said he hoped to become "a martyr" in the Palestinian

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territory. Our Gaza correspondent Yolande Knell reports.

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A long awaited arrival, Khaled Meshaal is the leader of Hamas

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which governs the Gaza Strip, but he has never been here. He

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described this as a moment of rebirth. TRANSLATION: This moment,

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I consider it as my "third birth". And I pray to God that our "fourth

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birth" will be the liberation of the whole Palestine. Khaled Meshaal

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has spent most of his life outside the Palestinian territories partly

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for his own safety. Israel has killed other Hamas officials. Like

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most Western countries, it sees them as terrorists. Hamas does not

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recognise the right of Israel to exist. This visit follows the

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conflict between Israel and militants in Gaza last month.

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Israel says depleted stock piles of missiles, but Hamas insists it has

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won the victory. Of this is a model of the rockets

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Hamas has used to target Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in recent violence.

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Later, Khaled Meshaal will address a mass rally, part of the 25th

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anniversary celebrations of Hamas. Preparations for the party are

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still under way. Across Gaza city, the streets are decorated and

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security is tight. The message is Hamas remains a force to be

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recognised, and Gaza remains its stronghold. The publicist Max

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Clifford has said it was extremely distressing to be arrested by

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police investigating allegations of sexual abuse. Mr Clifford was

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questioned yesterday, about accusations of sexual assault

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dating back to 1977. He called the claims damaging and untrue. He told

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reporters of his experience in the police station yesterday.

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I have been there about 12 hours, sitting in a police cell, being

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asked questions for hours and hours. It wasn't exactly a bundle of joy.

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But I still came out and faced the cameras and spoke to everybody

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because I have absolutely nothing to hide. I understand you have a

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job to do, it is a horrible thing to happen to anybody, but I will

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face it and sorted out which is what I have got to do. It's emerged

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this lunchtime that David Cameron looks set to support same-sex

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weddings in religious buildings. He will say religious groups should be

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allowed to host same-sex civil weddings in churches, synagogues

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and other religious buildings if they choose. Our political

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correspondent Gary O'Donoghue is in Westminster.

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I thought the original consultation said it would not be possible for a

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same-sex couple to get married in church? It did say that, it said

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that in order to protect organisations from being forced to

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conduct same-sex marriages, the government would not allow that.

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The point is ministers say now that the legal advice suggests to them

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in order to protect those organisations, like the Church of

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England, who do not want to marry same-sex couples, they have to

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allow those who do, to do it, in order not to infringe their rights.

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When the garment announces its plans, it will say there will be a

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process for organisations, like the Quakers, like the Liberal Jewish

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wing of that religion, and Unitarians, who have expressed an

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interest, to allow them to do that. This will get some of the people in

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the back benches hot under the collar.

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A Personal statements written by prospective graduates in their

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university applications could be putting state school pupils at a

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disadvantage. That's according to research commissioned by the

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education charity The Sutton Trust. It found students at private

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schools appeared to get more help from parents and teachers, while

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statements written by state school pupils were more likely to have

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grammatical errors and spelling mistakes. Our education

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correspondent, Reeta Chakrabarti. - - reports.

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Applying to university is a stressful business. As these sixth-

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formers at Trafford College near Manchester know all too well. They

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need the right grades for their course, but also personal

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statements which are up to scratch. Writing why you should win a place

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can be a challenge. I want them to see I am an enthusiastic student.

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It's your one chance to show whoever is reading it, why they

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should pick you, and why you are so different. Today's report looked at

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the personal statements of over 300 applicants to one department in a

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top university. All got identical A-level grades. Those from sixth

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form colleges were three times more likely to include clear writing

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errors, than those from independent schools. Accounts of work-related

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activity varied widely. One private school applicant said they were

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offered a work experience placement to shadow an ambassador to the

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United Nations. That's contrasted with a state school applicant's

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statement: I have a part-time job in a local pub as a waitress and

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bar maid. Personal statements are designed to give those applying to

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university to show their wider skills, but the claim is they could

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be making the system less fair for those from state schools. They will

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be looking at A-Level results, references from teachers. Some of

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them carried out tests, interviews. Two-thirds of the privately

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educated abacus in the study ended up being accepted by top

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universities, while but was true of half of those from other colleges.

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And we should have a system that at least tries to be a level playing

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field. It should be more about what you

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can offer for a degree course rather than what you have done.

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Some say admissions tutors are capable of reading between the

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lines. But the proportion of state school pupils in top universities

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remains too low and wild that persists, so will this debate.

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Egypt's opposition figures have rejected calls for talks with

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President Morsi, to try to end the current crisis in the country.

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Mohamed Morsi's decision to expand his powers have led to another day

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of demonstrations, and security forces are braced for possible

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confrontation. He insists he'll retain those powers until after a

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constitutional referendum in mid- December. Jon Leyne reports from

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This was a furious response to the President's speech on state

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television. Despite his call for dialogue, violence quickly broke

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out again in Egypt. There was trouble in his home town in the

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Nile Delta. An angry mob also attacked the headquarters of the

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Muslim Brotherhood, only recently opened, and set it on fire. Maybe

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it was predictable after a speech in which the President accused the

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opposition of being in the pay of former regime loyalists and offered

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little by way of compromise. TRANSLATION: My responsibility as I

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define it is to look after the sovereign matters that protect the

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state institutions so that it will not be harmed or devoid of meaning.

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I will carry on his duty irrespective of the pressures upon

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Opposition leaders have been increasingly united in their fight

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against President Morsi and his recent actions. After a meeting

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today, they announced they would not take up his invitation to talks.

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They have always insisted the President must withdraw his

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sweeping new powers as a More protesters have been gathering

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in the centre of Cairo, hoarding new demonstrations in Tahrir Square

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and marches on the presidential palace. -- holding. So we are back

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in Tahrir Square with another demonstration going to the

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presidential palace. All that has happened is the situation has been

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inflamed even further by the President's speech. Outside the

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are being put in place as President Morsi digs in for what is looking

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Our main story this lunchtime: The American Secretary of State arrives

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in Belfast as politicians and police call for calm after days of

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angry sectarian demonstrations. I have just tried and failed to

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post on Twitter a picture of the people I met earlier. Like Facebook,

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it is blocked here, so instead I have put it on Tencent Weibo.

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Without foreign competition, the Chinese Social media companies are

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causing a revolution in the way that people connect, but there is a

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limit to the amount of self- expression that is allowed.

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Later on BBC London, the new website which shows the location of

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every bomb dropped on London during the Second World War. And we meet

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some of the world famous chefs showing off their Yuletide skills

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at this year's Taste Of Christmas Here in the West, it is all about

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Twitter, BBM and Facebook messaging. In China, those websites are often

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blocked by the government, leaving many Chinese to develop their own

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social media sites. With some success, hundreds of millions of

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followers are signing up, creating a mini revolution in the way the

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Chinese communicate with each other, as Rory Cellan-Jones has been

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discovering. China, home to the world's largest

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internet population, and what is just about everyone doing online?

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Using social networking, of course. On a coffee break in Beijing, some

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medical students showed me how they kept in touch with friends and news

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through social networks. But the sites they use may sound unfamiliar.

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I use QQ. QQ... Weibo. That is all. I use QQ, too. Weibo. For Weibo,

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read Twitter. China is building its own social media superpowers. Meet

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Tencent, which does everything Facebook, Twitter and YouTube do,

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and more. This is their growing video operation, or broadcast over

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the internet. They are proud of their American election programme

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which featured social media discussions of issues like sex and

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immigration, and they believe they are offering their online audience

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a new freedom to debate. Do you see social media and Social

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Video as a force for change? TRANSLATION: I agree. People can

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discuss and share more of their opinions and comments, and that

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Wall of China become more open. have just tried and failed to post

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this on Twitter. Like Facebook, it is blocked here, so I have used

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Tencent Weibo. Without foreign competition, the Chinese companies

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are causing a revolution in the way people connect here, but there is a

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limit to the amount of self- expression that is allowed. This

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man, a former investigative journalist, says social media has

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transformed his campaign to help migrant workers with health

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problems. So that is nearly 7 million people

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following new across three different websites.

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A huge audience reads what he says. He is outspoken, and he told me

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there was a red line he could not cross.

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And what is that redline? TRANSLATION: It is intangible, but

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being educated under the Chinese Communist Party, I normally know

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where the red line is, so I cannot publish comments critical of the

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party, but I can do satire and sarcasm. Back at Tencent, we found

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out more about the limits of self- expression. Listen for the

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translator's response to my question.

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Are you saying that anybody could come on and say anything they like?

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They could say things against the Communist Party? That is something

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New social media businesses like Tencent are transforming debate

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here, but one thing has not changed in China. You do not question the

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Thousands of people along the Japanese North East goes fled their

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homes this morning after a tsunami came ashore. There have been no

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reports are serious damage. The tsunami was caused by a 7.3

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magnitude undersea earthquake which hit the same area which was

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devastated last year. Buildings also shook in the capital, Tokyo,

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but they have been no reports of deaths or injuries.

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Dutch police have arrested a 4th teenager in connection at the

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beating to death of a football linesman. 41-year-old Richard

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Nieuwenhuizen was attacked on Sunday after a match between two

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youth teams. Three other boys were remanded in custody yesterday by a

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court in Amsterdam. The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-

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Moon, is visiting a refugee camp in Turkey where thousands of Syrians

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are living after fleeing the conflict. His visit comes as

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governments continue to warned Damascus not to use chemical

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weapons, an act that he said would be an an ageist -- outrageous crime.

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We can speak to James Reynolds, who Yes, Ban Ki-Moon came here about an

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hour or so ago, and he said that he was shocked, humbled and deeply

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moved by a lot of the stories he heard from Syrian refugees. A lot

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of them live inside this particular camp under blue and grey awnings,

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and the Turkish winter is now coming in, and that makes

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conditions pretty grim. One refugee said they had had no electricity in

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the camp, so things are getting very cold here. That will increase

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their own desire to get back home to their own country.

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Well, indeed, and the humanitarian is one big issue, but the political

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thing is quite another. It is, because of course the war in

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Syria does not stop in Syria, it has drifted across the border here

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into Turkey. A number of mortars and shells have landed on Turkish

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territory, killed and injured Turkish civilians. Turkey has

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ordered Patriot missiles from NATO in order to defend itself against a

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possible missile strike from Syria. Ban Ki-Moon, in his press

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conference, said he had warned President Assad that they would be

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serious consequences if he chose to use chemical weapons. I asked him

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if he had begun to arrange safe passage out of Syria for President

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Assad and his family, he said no, those discussions have not yet

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started. More than 40 years after NASA first

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put a man on the Moon, a commercial company is offering members of the

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public the chance to wallow in Neil Armstrong's footsteps. The first

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flights are expected by 2020. Just one catch, you would need �1

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Apollo 17 is launched into Florida's night sky. For a moment,

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a night turned today. Your argot for orbit. This was the last time

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that astronauts were to be sent to the moon for the foreseeable future.

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Oh, Hay, there he is! The astronaut spent a lot of time carrying out

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scientific research. Harrison Schmitt was the first and only

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qualified geologist to be sent to the lunar surface. I can see it

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from here, it is orange! But it was not all scientific research.

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The Apollo programme was scrapped because by this time the US had

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demonstrated its superiority over the Soviet Union. We are on our way,

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Houston! That was the end of the Apollo programme. No-one has been

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back since. NASA says it wants to return, and even go on to Mars, but

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it simply does not have the money, at least for the foreseeable future.

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So the big question is whether anyone will ever set foot on the

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moon again. Harrison Schmitt believes that they will. It will be

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an entrepreneurial effort by private investors, obviously

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regulated and sanctioned by government, but nevertheless

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managed by the private sector. I think government is too inefficient

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to make those costs come down to the point where it would be

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economic of. His comments come as a US company, Golden Spike, says it

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hopes to have commercial flights to the moon by 2020. Our vision is to

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create a reliable and affordable US-based commercial human lunar

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transportation system that enables the exploration of the Moon by

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humans for -- from virtually any nation. The splashdown of the

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Apollo capsule marked the end of an heroic era of space exploration,

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but many hope that a return to the lunar surface might bring back the

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optimism that NASA's epic space programme once brought to a

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Cricket, and England are in control of the third Test against India in

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Bob Katter, finishing the day on 509-6. -- Kolkata. England's

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record-breaking captain, Alastair Cook, was finally out for 180, in a

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way he will not want to remember. Joe Wilson reports.

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In again, Alastair Cook greeted the third day, and India could not say

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goodbye. Ishant Sharma did not seem sure what had happened. He just

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spilled one of the simplest catchers of his career to a man on

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156. England calmly took the lead, Jonathan Trott discovering his

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touch as England progressed beyond lunch without losing a wicket.

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Alastair Cook seemed to be able to bat for as long as he wanted. In

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total, 338, the sky was the limit, but India suddenly took a wicket.

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Jonathan Trott was gone for 87, a smart catch by Pragyan Ojha. What

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happened next might never happen again. Kevin Pietersen was in to

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bat, England thought about a run, Virat Kohli threw at the stumps.

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That was Alastair Cook at that end. The throw came in, he was just

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about to place his bat and make his ground when he reacted to the ball.

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He left a gap and was run out. Extraordinary. After making 190,

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his lapse might just be forgivable. The match was now made for Kevin

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Pietersen's acceleration, there was a record to catch, Alastair Cook

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had made his 23rd century, could Pietersen joined him? No, out lbw

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for 54. England was six down at the close but past 500, nearly 200 dead,

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and how long left? Two days. -- 200 ahead.

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Ben Rich is here with the weather, I'm just trying to interpret your

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Mystery! Let me tell you what we have got in store, a quiet

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afternoon after a lively week of wintry weather, some showers this

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afternoon, some sunny spells in most places, but a very cold wind

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making it feel raw and there. This is the radar picture, and it shows

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where rain has already fallen, pushing its way through the south-

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east, and this has contained a little bit of sleet and snow in

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places earlier today. Across the south-east, we are going to be slow

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to clear that rain, a few showers across Wales and the West Midlands,

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and also across the east coast. But for most, drier and brighter.

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Certainly for Scotland and Northern Ireland compared to yesterday.

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Feeling cold and the wind, four degrees at best. Showers for Wales

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and the West Midlands, showers down the east coast as well, most

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falling as rain. Quite cloudy and damp across the far south-east, but

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westwards into Wales and the south- west, a lot of brightness,

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temperatures really struggling. The breeze is going to ease down to

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some extent through tonight. Most of the showers will fade away, the

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cloud will break, the skies were clear, at temperatures will drop

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close to freezing in towns and cities, colder in the countryside,

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so a widespread frost and ice problems potentially for tomorrow

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morning. Tomorrow dawns bright across the south, early fog

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clearing quickly, then these and sunny spells. Further north, a

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weather system working in, a bit of wintriness on the very leading edge

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of this wet weather, but really milder air coming in, so most of

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this will be rain. Temperatures across north-west Scotland, nine

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degrees, much milder for a time with light of winds. As we head

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into the second half of a weekend, high pressure tries to hold on

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across the south, this area of low pressure diving down from the north

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brings a weather front across the country, bringing damp weather,

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pushing southwards through the day. Across the south of the country, a

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mild day, 10 degrees, but behind the weather front cold air in the

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north again. And that is a sign of things to come, because the room

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next week it looks like it is going to stay cold, turning even colder,

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and there is the chance for some snow, initially in eastern parts,

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an easterly breeze bringing showers to the east coast, and certainly

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cold enough for those to the wintry. Further west, dry and bright for

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Wales and the south-west, but even here temperatures really plunging.

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Winter is going to bite back again next week, but before that a

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A reminder of our main story, and the American Secretary of State has

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arrived in Belfast as politicians and police call for calm after days

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of angry sectarian demonstrations. And in the past few minutes, police

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have said that the bomb found in Londonderry last night was a home-

:30:48.:30:51.

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