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and anti-government protestors turn central Kiev into a battle ground

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once more. Violence erupts on the streets as police fire on

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protestors. Reports say at least 21 activists have been killed. This is

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the scene live in Independence Square in central Kiev. Urgent

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international talks get underway as the violence spreads across the

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country. We'll be getting the latest from our correspondent on the ground

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- and assessing the hopes for peace talks.

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Also this lunchtime: At the phone-hacking trial, Rebekah Brooks

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is acquitted of a charge that she authorised a reporter to pay for a

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picture of Prince William in a bikini. She still faces four other

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charges. The shocking number of under-18s

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with mental health problems in England who are being treated on

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adult psychiatric wards. WhatsApp at Facebook, as it spends

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more than ?11 billion on its biggest acquisition to date. Britain have

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won the bronze medal! And into the record books - Team GB

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equals its biggest-ever medal haul at the Winter Olympics with a bronze

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for the women's curlers. Words can't really describe it. I don't think

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it's sunk in. Fantastic. Later on BBC London:

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London's mayor is accused of failing to secure sponsorship money for the

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extension of his so-called Boris Bike scheme.

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And the Mafia boss who lived a double life in a west London suburb

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faces extradition. Good afternoon and welcome to the

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BBC News At One. There are ports of at least 21 activists being shot

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dead in the Ukrainian capital Kiev this morning, after a truce between

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the government and protesters unravelled. Video footage has

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emerged which apparently shows snipers firing on demonstrators who

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have been trying to retake their protest camp in Independence Square.

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Duncan Crawford is in Kiev for us this lunchtime.

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This situation is somewhat calmer here but still extremely tense. The

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Parliament and Cabinet buildings were evacuated earlier because of

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the violence. The Mayor of Kiev has resigned and there are reports of

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defections of a number of MPs from the ruling party so it appears as if

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President Yankovic may be losing some support. All this after the

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clashes broke out this morning. This is what a truce looks like in

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Ukraine. Independence Square, the centre of

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Kiev, once again a battle zone. Anti-government demonstrators tried

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to take cover and hide behind shields as shots come in. With

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running street battles breaking out with the riot police, even though

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President Yankovic last night declared an end to the violence. --

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Viktor Yanukovych pitch. This sound of gunfire rang out across the city

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and both sides accused each other of using live ammunition. Medics trying

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to treat protesters as bodies lay on the ground. TRANSLATION: They've

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announced a truce but now they threw grenades at us. This is what they

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mean by a truce. We don't trust them. There had been a stand-off in

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the square until this morning, when riot police moved back and protest

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as we claimed much of the territory they had lost. The government blames

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the violence on radicals. Hardline protest insist they will keep

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fighting until the president stands down. Demonstrators appeared to

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capture some riot police. TRANSLATION: It's very hard to

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control the situation now we can see that real combat has started. We

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don't want it. The main thing is to stop the bloodshed and minimise the

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victims. The number of fatalities has increased and doctors have

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struggled to help the injured. This hotel lobby has been turned into a

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makeshift hospital. Injured protesters have been brought here.

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Some of them have died. The situation is tense. People are angry

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and fearful, and it's difficult to see at the moment how the

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authorities are going to be able to DS can it the situation. --

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deescalate the situation. It's horrible. It's hard to understand

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how in the 21st century, people can just be shot directly and someone

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told them to shock people. Events are spiralling out of control and

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it's feared the country could be torn apart. Today had already been

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declared as a day of mourning for the dead but the number of those who

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lost loved ones continues to grow. Demonstrations have spread to other

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parts of the country, particularly in the West, which is traditionally

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more pro-EU, but also in the Russian speaking east, which has

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traditionally been a stronghold for the president. Reports of

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anti-government demonstrations there and reports that opposition

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headquarters have been ransacked by pro-government demonstrators. So the

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situation is tense across the country. In Independence Square,

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protesters are once again building up their barricades and preparing

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for more violence. With me now is our diplomatic correspondent Bridget

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Kendall. There are talks in Ukraine and at the EU but what hopes of a

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diplomat excision? Diplomacy is going to be very difficult. There's

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enormous alarm. The foreign office in London called in the Ukrainian

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Ambassador today to express their dismay at the violence in Kiev. But

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although there are three EU Foreign Minister is currently in Kiev

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meeting with the opposition and the president, and there will be this

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emergency meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels later, that

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may be relevant to the big question, which is there anything now which

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can stop the violence on the ground in Ukraine getting worse? It isn't

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just Kiev. That's the focus, but there are towns in the West where

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opposition forces seem to be in control. In the Crimea, which is a

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majority Russian speaking region, the head of the Parliament has gone

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to Moscow to say that if this goes on getting worse, they'll wonder if

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they want to stay in Ukraine. So there's an enormous amount at stake

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on both sides and the question is, does the President have those loyal

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to him, including the super purity services, who can impose some

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order? -- security services. Can they do it without bloodshed? That

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seems impossible at the moment. If not, can there be a way to stop this

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situation escalating? People have been worrying about using the phrase

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Civil War but that is a scenario people are beginning to wonder if

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it's moving towards. You can follow all the developers on

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the BBC News channel across the afternoon. -- developments.

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At the phone-hacking trial, the former chief executive of News

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International Rebekah Brooks has been cleared of one of the counts

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against her. She was acquitted of a charge that she authorised a Sun

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reporter to pay for a picture of Prince William in a bikini. Ms

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Brooks has begun giving evidence in her defence. She denies all the

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other charges. This mammoth trial has entered a new

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phase today. The prosecution handing the floor to the defence, and the

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defence of Rebekah Brooks started with detailed questions about her

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rise and rise to the top of the British newspaper industry. But

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first, there was that important development - the news that she has

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been acquitted of one of the charges that she faces. Rebekah Brooks has

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spent most of this trial's 62 days in court sitting in the dock,

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watched by the jury. But in all that time, they haven't heard a single

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word from her. Today, the moment came, as her barrister put it, for

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them to begin to listen to her so they can eventually work out if

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there's any truth in the allegations she faces. Rebekah Brooks had been

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accused of authorising a journalist to pay for a picture of Prince

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William in a bikini whilst studying at Sandhurst. After legal arguments,

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the judge said there wasn't enough evidence of that and the jury was

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ordered to acquit. Then, wearing a blue dress and a white cardigan,

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Rebekah Brooks took her seat in the witness box - is seat she is

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expected to occupy four days. The questioning began with her early

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years in the news business. Her first newsroom was at the

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Warrington Guardian, where she had typical apprenticeship. That

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enthusiasm led to a deputy editor's job at 27 and, eventually, the role

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of Chief Executive of News International, giving her the ear of

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the Royal family and prime ministers, including a close

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relationship, we heard yesterday, with Tony Blair. But her barrister,

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Jonathan Laidlaw QC, said she was facing charges because she was a

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tabloid editor, because you worked for Rupert Murdoch because of any

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political views. He told the jury...

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Before the lunch break, there was more detail about those early years.

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The big biopsy that the paper used to do, spending ?80,000, for

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example, on a story about Paul Gascoigne. Her early relationship

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with Rupert Murdoch, who used to call up every week to find out what

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was in the paper she was working for. The prosecution case has

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largely centred on the later years, when she was in charge of the News

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of the World and News International. The prosecution made the case that

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she must have known about phone hacking and illegal payments.

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These, and that she must have been masterminding the cover-up. She

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denies all four charges she still faces.

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The BBC has learned that hundreds of young people with mental-health

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problems are being treated in adult psychiatric wards in England -

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despite a promise six years ago that they would all be seen by specialist

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adolescent units. Our social affairs correspondent Michael Buchanan

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reports. One in ten young people suffer a

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mental health problem but too many of the sickest children in England

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are being let down by the NHS. She understands what's happening. This

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woman's 12-year-old daughter, who we are not identifying, was sent to a

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hospital 130 miles from home. Visiting her was a regular and

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emotional. One time she got upset because she didn't want me to go and

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they had to prise her off me. They put her in a room and as I was

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leaving, she was shouting out of the window, "mummy, mummy, please don't

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leave me" . So, very distressing. Freedom of Information requests to

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mental health trusts show that children are travelling up to 275

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miles for a psychiatric bed. 350 young people have been treated on

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adult ward so far this year, some as young as 12. That's an increase of

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more than a third on last year. This is what every severely ill young

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person was promised by the NHS six years ago, a bed in an adolescent

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unit. It simply hasn't happened. This psychiatrist says his team have

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to make up to 100 calls each week to find a bed for a distressed child.

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It is undoubtedly getting worse. It's a consistent problem now with

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all child and adolescent mental health services, that they have

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young people misplaced in adult wards, getting inappropriate care.

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Nicola knows what poor care feels like. When she was 14, she was sent

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to a unit miles from home. Visitors were rare. It was very uncomfortable

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and unsettling because not being able to see a familiar face was

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really strange and I was in a strange place. It was just a scary.

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NHS England admit the system is quitting with a lack of beds and are

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working to resolve the problems. -- the system is creaking. For sick

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children forced to travel the country seeking help, the need for a

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solution is urgent. British Gas has reported a dip in

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profits, blaming warmer weather and higher wholesale energy costs. Its

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operating profit for 2013 was down 6% on the year before. Customer

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numbers were down too, falling 2% on the previous year.

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We all use energy and, as prices rose last year, it became ever

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harder to pay for it. But today, the UK's biggest supplier said it had

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had a tough year, as well, posting profits of ?571 million, down 6%. We

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really understand the difficulty that many households have, which is

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why we were the first company to actually reduce our prices. We

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reduced our prices on the 1st of January by ?53. We are one of the

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cheapest suppliers. British Gas announced in October that it would

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increase prices by more than 9%. But that subsequently became a 6% rise

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after the government agreed to cut back the green levies on our bills.

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That hasn't stopped the company from shedding customers - it's lost more

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than 350,000 of them over the past year. Neil Denison, a married father

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of three from Yorkshire, was one of them. It British Gas customer for 15

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years, he came to the conclusion his loyalty wasn't valued. It gradually

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became that they were taking advantage of existing customers and

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the prices were going up at higher rates than other companies. I

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decided that I had to stop being a moat and look at switching and see

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whether there was a way to bring the bills down. Energy soared up the

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political agenda last year when Ed Miliband announced plans to freeze

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prices. Today British Gas's parent company Centrica said that that had

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triggered a 20% fall in its shares. The company also dismissed the

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energy secretary's suggestion it has too much market power, but there are

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now calls for a full inquiry into the sector. There is still a

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suspicion that the very big suppliers, like Centrica British

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Gas, are selling themselves gas and electricity at a high price that is

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hitting consumers very hard, that this isn't a competitive market that

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works in the interest of consumers. Centrica says it has to make profits

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to secure the energy Britain needs but if that competition probe is

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confirmed, it could be the biggest loser. Now, how's this for making

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friends on Facebook? The company has just spent ?11.5 billion on the

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messaging service, WhatsApp. It's Facebook's biggest ever acquisition

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- and will give it access to 450 million people who use WhatsApp

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every month. Rory Cellan Jones reports.

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He is not yet 30 but Mark Zaika Burke has already built a global

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business with more than 1 billion users. Now his company Facebook is

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spending a huge sum to buy WhatsApp, a business that has grown even more

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regularly. It allows you to send messages or photos without paying a

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penny. I normally use WhatsApp to send pictures to my friends, because

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it costs through text message. It is less hassle than Facebook on a

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quicker and easier, we can get a group going and I generally have a

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read. Nobody uses text message any more, they all use WhatsApp. -- I

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generally prefer it. Mark Zuckerberg hopes WhatsApp will help his

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business to grow further. The founder of WhatsApp says one thing

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will not change. WhatsApp does have a huge global and youthful audience.

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450 million of them around the world. And it is growing very

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rapidly with 1 million new people joining every day. There are just

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around 50 staff, each of whom will be very wealthy indeed in the coming

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years. But do the sums really add up? Facebook has paid a lot for a

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business that earns very little. History shows that can work out two

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ways. Google's acquisition of YouTube looks good and cheap.

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Microsoft's acquisition of Skype, we can't answer about that yet.

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Facebook will wish to keep making money from WhatsApp. Around the

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world, people are using their phones to communicate in new ways and

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Facebook will pay any price to be the one that connects them all up.

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Our top story this lunchtime: In Ukraine, reports that at least 21

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protesters have been killed in renewed clashes with police in

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central Kiev after a truce agreed yesterday broke down.

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And still to come - the bumblebee under threat. With populations

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already suffering steep declines, now they're at risk from two new

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diseases. Later on BBC London:

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Coming on leaps and bounds - a new purpose built centre brings free

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running indoors. And branded "down and dirty" but

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does this paint a true picture of Europe's biggest estate? Residents

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hit back with a film of their own. To Sochi now and it was as tense as

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you can imagine, and down to the last stone, but Britain's women

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curlers have taken Britain into the record books - their bronze medal

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this morning means Team GB has already equalled its biggest-ever

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medal haul at the Winter Olympics. It brings the medal tally to three -

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the highest since 1936 - with a further medal guaranteed in the

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men's curling final tomorrow. Our sports correspondent, Andy Swiss, is

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in Sochi. What a Games this is turning out to be for Britain's

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curlers, the men are going for gold tomorrow, the women going for bronze

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today. After yesterday's defeat, this time there was a victory. The

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gold might have gone but a medal still late and rising the close. For

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Eve Muirhead's team, the challenge was to put yesterday's

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disappointment behind them and try to bring home the bronze. In

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Switzerland, they were up against the team who beat them early in the

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competition and Britain were soon trailing again, as the Swiss took an

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early lead. But Britain's Captain steadied the ship. Eve Muirhead's

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pinpoint precision ensured that by the halfway point it was all levels.

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The teams were locked at 5-5 going down the final end, but Eve Muirhead

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had the final stone. This, for an Olympic medal. An agonising, nerve

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shredding weight, but it was worth it. There is no chance to celebrate

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yet but the stone is going to get there and the brushes go in the air,

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and Britain have won the bronze medal. After yesterday 's heartache,

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this time the tears were of joy. It has been a difficult tournament but

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at last, they had their reward. Words can't really describe it, but

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fantastic. It was a great game, it could have gone either way. You

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would like to say we were chasing in the first half but when we stepped

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up, we had two and the girls were fantastic, and I could not have been

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happier. Outside, four very proud mums, their daughters are now

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Olympic medallists. Absolutely delighted for them all, they have

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worked so hard through the whole year so it could not be better.

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Another emotional day for British curling. With the men going for gold

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tomorrow, the celebrations could be only just beginning.

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With that men's final tomorrow, Britain is guaranteed at least four

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medals at these Games. Their best performance at a Winter Olympics

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since their very first one in 1924. The Chancellor, George Osborne, has

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acknowledged that the economic recovery remains "unbalanced".

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Speaking in Hong Kong, he said Britain was not importing or

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exporting enough. Meanwhile, house building slowed in England at the

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tail end of last year, although the picture across the whole year was

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better, as our chief economics correspondent, Hugh Pym, reports.

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Rising house prices in most areas have focus the debate on supply. Are

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enough new homes being built to keep up with demand? Today's figures for

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England showed an increased last year. Ministers say the help to buy

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scheme played a part but the industry says there is still a way

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to go. We are building about 120,000 homes a year in total. Academic

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experts tell us we probably need to be building about 240,000. We are

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half what we should be, just to meet the growth on households. Last year

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the number of houses started in England was up ready 3%. Though in

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the last three months there was a fall of 1% on the previous quarter,

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and the number completed in the year was down. The latest news suggesting

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a rather mixed picture in the house-building industry comes at a

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time when the economy is growing. But there is a debate about how

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balanced the recovery maybe. Across different sectors of business and

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industry. In a speech in Hong Kong this morning, the Chancellor warned

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that the economic job was not done. The recovery is not yet secure and

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our economy is still too unbalanced. We cannot rely on chimeras alone for

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our economic growth, as we did in previous decades. Labour claimed the

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Chancellor was acknowledging his previous mistakes. He is finally

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recognising that the recovery is still unbalanced and unsustainable,

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even though he choked it off in 2010. Now we need the Chancellor to

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recognise there is a major cost of living set of pressures facing

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people in work. The stage is being set for the budget next month, with

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the debate focusing on how the UK should cement the recovery.

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The Formula 1 boss, Bernie Ecclestone, has won a multi-million

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pound corruption case - even though the judge said he had bribed a

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German banker during the sale of shares in 2005. The High Court ruled

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that although the deal had been corrupt, there had been no financial

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loss to the German media group which had brought the case. Our chief

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sports correspondent, Dan Roan, is outside the Royal Courts of Justice

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in Central London. This will be a bittersweet victory for Bernie

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Ecclestone. His reputation called into question, his integrity called

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into question by a High Court judge. He was being sued by a German

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media company, because they said he had entered into a corrupt agreement

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coming bribed a German banker, Gerhard Gribkowsky, in order to stay

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in control of the sport when it was sold in 2005, and that they lost out

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financially as a result because he deliberately undervalued it. The

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judge agreed with them on the first point, you said that he found

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Ecclestone and unreliable witness and that he had paid a bribe. But on

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the second point, she disagreed, saying they had not lost out. It was

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on those grounds that Ecclestone effectively won -- he disagreed.

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That will be a relief for him given the criminal trial he must stand in

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April but the remarks question his leadership of the sport.

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Dozens of families torn apart and separated by the Korean War have

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been reunited after 60 years. The emotional reunions, which took place

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in North Korea, are the first time many have seen their relatives since

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the war ended in 1953 - resulting in the split between North and South.

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Some were so frail they needed wheelchairs and ambulances to make

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the visits possible. Lucy Williamson travelled with the families and has

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sent this report. They came any way they could. Supported by helpers in

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wheelchairs -- supported by helpers, in wheelchairs, even

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ambulances. They came to hold their brothers, sisters and children and

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meet their North Korean grandchildren for the first time. It

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was the moment they had waited 60 years for. Too much for some. This

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man, 91 years old, began to cry at the touch of his nieces. The

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families only get 11 hours together, and there are restrictions on

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talking politics, or bringing in presence which break UN sanctions on

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North Korea. Lee Duyong is due to meet his elder brother, Sun-Yong.

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They were children the last time they met. Since then, 64 birthdays

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have come and gone. The guest that Mr Lee is taking his brother now are

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those for an old man, thermal underwear and chocolate biscuits. Mr

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Lee remembers him as being softly spoken and very kind. At the family

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has been apart so long that Sun-Yong got his little brother's name wrong

:26:36.:26:42.

on the application form. It is hard for people to understand what it is

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like when you have been separated so long. But it is a true miracle. I am

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elated to be reunited. All that was missing in my life was my brother.

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Now that I can see him again, I have no regrets whatsoever if I were to

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die tomorrow. For 60 years, this border has been closed and fiercely

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guarded. This was the closest that many separated families could get to

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there additives on the other side. And the ribbons pinned to the border

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fence behind me carry messages left there for them. And even the lucky

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few taking part in these reunions will soon have to return home. After

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a brief taste of the relationships they never had, the curtain that

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divides them will swing shut again. Scientists are warning of a new

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threat to the already beleaguered bumblebee. Research - published in

:27:37.:27:39.

the journal Nature - has found that diseases carried by commercial

:27:40.:27:42.

honeybees are spilling over into wild populations. Beekeepers are

:27:43.:27:46.

being urged to keep their hives as free from infection as possible, to

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try to stop more damage to a wild bee population that's already

:27:50.:27:53.

suffering. Rebecca Morelle, reports. They are a vital part of the

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countryside but bumblebees are in decline. The destruction of their

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habitat has caused numbers to plummet and now they face a new

:28:01.:28:04.

threat. Diseases carried by their distant cousin, the honeybee, have

:28:05.:28:10.

spread. Bumblebees are already doing badly, but tests carried out here

:28:11.:28:15.

show they have been hit by two new diseases, a virus and a fungal

:28:16.:28:20.

parasites. These deadly pathogens have already caused widespread

:28:21.:28:24.

losses of honeybees, and now scientists are worried that these

:28:25.:28:28.

insects could suffer the same fate. Scientists here at Royal Holloway

:28:29.:28:31.

University of London have discovered it affected bumblebees across

:28:32.:28:36.

England, Scotland and Wales. They found that the pathogens are cutting

:28:37.:28:44.

short the pollinator's lives. We are concerned about this, particularly

:28:45.:28:47.

because on bobbies are already in decline. We know they are being

:28:48.:28:52.

impacted by a number of different threats -- because bumblebees are in

:28:53.:28:55.

decline. It is worrying that there is a new threat and all of these

:28:56.:28:58.

things could be acting together to drive down wild bee populations. It

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is not just enough to bring back habitat, we need to think about

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these other threats. Researchers are calling on beekeepers to help. They

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say controlling diseases in hives could stop the thread, and

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conservationists say this is essential, with bumblebees playing a

:29:19.:29:23.

key roll in pollinating many crops and plants, any further losses could

:29:24.:29:25.

have a devastating impact. Time for a look at the weather. A

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boisterous spell of weather, feeling chilly in the wind, reasonable in

:29:38.:29:40.

the sunshine. The cloud which affected many eastern areas has been

:29:41.:29:44.

clearing away. More broken cloud following on, some hefty showers

:29:45.:29:50.

following on. It is turning wintry over higher ground, temperature is

:29:51.:29:53.

falling away despite some sunshine for many of us. Yes, some snow over

:29:54.:29:57.

the Highlands of Scotland. We have had a lot of snow here over the last

:29:58.:30:01.

few weeks. There will be sunshine to the east of the high ground. Some

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showers are probably getting across the Pennines, some are wintry over

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high ground. Much brighter than this morning across many parts of eastern

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England. Bright and breezy but the temperatures are sliding away, a bit

:30:16.:30:20.

of a nip in the air. A few showers across the south-west of England.

:30:21.:30:23.

Some hail and maybe a rumble of thunder. They will dash through

:30:24.:30:27.

quite quickly. There will be some sunshine following on, as there will

:30:28.:30:30.

be across parts of Wales. Seven or eight at best. Some sunshine for

:30:31.:30:37.

Northern Ireland, just six degrees, it will feel cold. Certainly a cold

:30:38.:30:41.

night this coming night compared to last night. A touch of frost where

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the skies remain clear. Most likely across central and eastern areas.

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Further showers buffeting the West. Significant snow for all --

:30:51.:30:57.

significant snowfall. That is a magical how cold it will feel first

:30:58.:31:00.

thing tomorrow morning. Some sunshine, the best across southern

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and eastern areas, further blustery showers rattling into the north and

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west and more snow over highly ground in northern Britain -- high

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ground. It will feel cold despite some sunshine, at best nine or 10

:31:14.:31:21.

degrees. When the showers, -- the showers will be heavy. It will be

:31:22.:31:25.

windy for all of us and we will see some wet weather heading into many

:31:26.:31:29.

western parts of the country. Perhaps a glancing blow from this

:31:30.:31:32.

frontal system but this is the main event as we start the weekend,

:31:33.:31:36.

dialling into the West. Make the most of early brightness, it won't

:31:37.:31:41.

last. Rain will eventually arrive, a reasonable day further south and

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east, bright and breezy after the chilly start, a touch of frost on

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Saturday night. Sunday is a different day. Cloudier and windy

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for all. Persistent rain arriving. Mild everywhere.

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Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime:

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In Ukraine, reports at least 21 protesters have been killed in

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renewed clashes with police in central Kiev - after a truce agreed

:32:05.:32:07.

yesterday broke down. That's all from us. Now on BBC One,

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