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Michael Schumacher is fighting for life after undergoing brain surgery.

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The former motor racing champion suffered head injuries in a skiing

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accident in the French Alps. Doctors say he is lucky to be alive.

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TRANSLATION: The helmet did help. Without it, he would not be here

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now. Also this lunchtime - 14 dead in the

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second suicide bomb attack in Russia in two days. President Putin orders

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a security clamp-down. 90 Conservative MPs urge the Prime

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Minister not to lift border controls on Bulgarian and Romanian migrants

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on first January. The final stumbling blocks - crucial

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talks on the political future of Northern Ireland go down to the

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wire. And police are to change the way

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they record crime to give the public a clearer idea of why some crimes go

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unsolved. The seven-times Formula One world

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champion Michael Schumacher is said to be "fighting for his life" after

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a skiing accident in the French Alps. Doctors say he has suffered

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severe brain trauma and remains in a critical condition. The German is

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currently in a medically-induced coma at the University Hospital in

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Grenoble. Our sports correspondent Katie Gornall has more. Inside this

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hospital, Michael Schumacher is facing the toughest battle of his

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life. This morning, the doctors treating him spoke of just how

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serious his condition has become. TRANSLATION: He is in a critical

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situation, and we can say that he is fighting for his life. We cannot

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tell you what the outcome can be yet. We are working permanently, our

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buy our, but it is too early to say what is going to happen. Schumacher

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was skiing off piste with his son yesterday in Meribel when the

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accident happened just after 11 o'clock local time. He was taken by

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helicopter to hospital in Moutiers, before being moved to the larger

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University Hospital in Grenoble. It was here that he underwent immediate

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surgery to relieve pressure on his brain. The 44-year-old is a keen

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skier and was wearing a helmet at the time of his accident, then he

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fell and hit his head on a rock. Without it, doctors say he would not

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have survived. With any brain injury, the critical thing is speed

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of evacuation. If you are in the middle of nowhere, as was the case

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with him, it has an effect. It appears that he was evacuated very

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quickly, however, and sent on to a large hospital, where neurosurgery

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was available in very good time. Schumacher's career was defined by

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speed. The seven times world champion was unrivalled in terms of

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success. He was the fastest and most talented racing driver of all time.

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Undoubtedly he has been the most successful. If anyone knows how to

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fight, to muster up inner strength and determination, then there is

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absolutely no doubt in my mind that he is the best person to do that.

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COMMENTATOR: And Schumacher has brilliantly worked his way up... !

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Now, Schumacher must summon up that same fight for his life. Yet with

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each passing hour, concern for his recovery grows. Imogen Foulkes is in

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Grenoble for us. Imagen, clearly, this is a critical time for Michael

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Schumacher, but the hospital does have expertise on these types of

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injuries? Yes, it does. This is the University Hospital of Grenoble, and

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they have a specialist team for treating head injuries, and for

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treating skiing injuries. All morning we have seen helicopters

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coming in and out. I fear that some of them may also have been skiers

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who have injured themselves. But for Michael Schumacher, I am afraid to

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say, the doctors did not look or sound especially positive. They said

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this morning that he remained in a very serious condition, they said he

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was fighting for his life. The one thing they did say was, at least he

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was wearing a helmet, and that if he had not been, he would not have

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survived that collision Security is being stepped up across Russia after

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two suicide bomb attacks within 24 hours in the southern city of

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Volgograd. This morning, a bomb exploded on a

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bus, killing 14 people. Yesterday, at least 17 people died in an

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explosion at the city's main railway station. Our Moscow correspondent,

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Daniel Sandford, reports. The burnt, twisted, bomb shattered

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remains of a rush-hour us in Volgograd. Many of the passengers

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died almost instantly when a suicide bomber blew himself up as the people

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around him headed to work. Or for a bit of last-minute shopping before

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the New Year celebrations. A state of emergency has been declared in

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the city after the second bombing within 24 hours. Yesterday, at least

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one other suicide bomber attacked the city's main railway station,

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killing 17 people. The widespread assumption is that the explosions

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are linked to the Islamist insurgency against Russian rule in

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the nearby Caucasus republics, and that the attacks are timed to

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coincide with the build-up to February's Winter Olympics. Two

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suicide bombers in two days means the Kremlin has a problem. President

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Putin is going to have to move fast to reassure the Russian public that

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he can keep them safe and to reassure the international community

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that he can secure the socially Winter Olympics, which begin in less

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than six weeks time. -- the Sochi Winter Olympics. President Putin has

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insisted that the Winter Olympics will be safe, and today, the

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International Olympic Committee said it had no doubt that the Russian

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authorities would be up to the task. It is most likely that the bombs are

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the work of Islamists from the nearby Caucasus republics of

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Chechnya and Dagestan. The Olympics are the perfect platform for them to

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use violence to undermine the Russian government and President

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Putin. 90 senior Conservative activists are

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urging David Cameron not to lift border controls on Romanian and

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Bulgarian migrants on first January. They have written to the Prime

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Minister, saying the restrictions are needed to prevent a

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destabilising wave of mass immigration. Our political

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correspondent, Iain Watson, is in Downing Street for us. They have

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left it awfully late - what are they expecting the Prime Minister to do

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at this stage? With just two days to go until these restrictions on

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Bulgarian and Romanian migrants are lifted on New Year's Day, David

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Cameron is under pressure to take a tougher stance. What those activists

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want to see is David Cameron firstly recalling Parliament this week to

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impose new immigration restrictions on those people, and secondly, to

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follow the example of Spain by putting temporary limits on the

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number of migrants that can come here. But the European can say is

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that all countries in the EU, including Spain, have to lift every

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restriction by the 1st of January just so, I suppose, given that the

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Conservatives will be disappointed by that kind of reaction, what is

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the significance of this letter from the activists? You could say that it

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shows a deep unease within the Conservative Party, that UKIP seem

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to be making the running on immigration. They have imposed the

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maximum restrictions that they possibly can under European law, say

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the government. Labour says it is a sign of panic. But quite frankly,

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David Cameron could suffer more political damage from critics on his

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own side. The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has

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urged the people of Scotland to reject independence when they vote

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in the referendum next September. In his New Year message, Mr Miliband

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also pledged that his party would continue to focus on people's

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concerns about the cost of living. The way police forces in England and

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Wales record offences is being changed, to give a clearer idea

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about why some crimes are not solved. Currently, cases that don't

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result in a charge or caution are recorded as undetected, but that

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will be replaced by several new categories such as "prosecution

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prevented", if for example a suspect is too ill to stand trial.

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Currently, 70% of cases are recorded as undetected. Here is our home

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affairs correspondent, Tom Symonds. At North Point Shopping Centre in

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Hull, the problem is shoplifting, but the 98% of those caught are

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first-time offenders, or low level offenders. The manager of the

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shopping centre has started banning people, rather than pushing for

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charges. We are actually going to stop them offending again, which

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will decrease time locally. -- decrease crime locally. But for the

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police, that means no crime has been recorded as detected, which does not

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look good on the crime figures. The new framework is designed to change

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that. The lease will still recorded somebody is charged or cautioned. --

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police will still record if somebody is charged or cautioned. But there

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will be more than a dozen new categories, including community

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resolution, where the crime is resolved without charge, for

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example, by banning shoplifters. Others include investigation

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complete, when the case is closed unless more evidence comes to

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light. Crime is definitely falling on all measures we have. But clearly

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there have been some problems with measurement, so we need to restore

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public confidence. Even more importantly, the police need to have

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information from the crime figures which enables them to cut crime. The

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Government says changing the recording of crime gives the police

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a wider range of outcomes and more discretion. But some police forces

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say the system could be more bureaucratic.

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The political parties in Northern Ireland are meeting in a final

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attempt to reach agreement on issues left outstanding from the peace

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process. The three contentious areas are parades, flags and the past.

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From Belfast, Andy Martin reports. The last-gasp, after six months of

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negotiation. Dr Richard Haass has extended his deadline before, but he

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is adamant that today is the day he intends to bring these protract it

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talks to a close. And this is what he is trying to draw a line under.

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The writing on the streets, often caused by disagreements between

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loyalists and Republicans, like what flags can fly where and when, what

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parades can take place in what areas. How to deal with thousands of

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unsolved murders, from 30 years of conflict. Now is the time to deal

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with it. We have created an opportunity, with Richard Haass and

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his team. Let's hope we can do it today. I am fairly confident that we

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should be able to do that. Dr Haass is proposing that new commissions

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should be created, one to reinvestigate murders, another only

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to establish the truth of what happened. Contributors to the

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commissions would have immunity from having any information they give

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used against them in court. There are still sticking points,

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particularly for unionists, over how parades will be managed, but this is

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make or break time. Deal or no Deal, Dr Haass will be on a plane back to

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America in the morning. You can see more on all of today's stories on

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