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independence debate. Both David Cameron and his Cabinet and Alex

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Salmond and his, hold meetings a few miles apart in Aberdeen. We are

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top-10 economy and can afford the investment, the long-term structure

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necessary to make sure we can recover as much from the North Sea

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as possible and that's good for everybody. There's no point David

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Cameron saying to us, a country like Scotland couldn't handle oil and gas

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when we see the example of Norway, which has handled it much better

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than Westminster. Also this lunchtime. An arrest warrant is

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issued for Ukraine's ousted president, Victor Yanukovich, who

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went on the run last Friday. The disc jockey Dave Lee Travis is to

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face a retrial on two charges of sexual assault where the jury was

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unable to reach a verdict. And the not so special relationship. CNN

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axes Piers Morgan's chat show. Was he too British for American tastes?

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And coming up in the sport on BBC News, after Team GB matched its best

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performance at a Winter Olympics, UK Sport says it expects to increase

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their funding to prepare for the next Winter Games.

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News At One. Aberdeen finds

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itself at the heart of the Scottish independence debate this lunchtime

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with David Cameron and the British Cabinet meeting in the granite city

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for the first time. And just five miles away, Alex Salmond has

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gathered his team of ministers together as well. It's the future of

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the oil and gas industry that's at the heart of discussions. Both men

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say it is their plans that are best for the Scottish economy. Let's

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cross to Aberdeen and our Scotland Correspondent, James Cook. Aberdeen,

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Britain's oil capital, booming city at the heart of a heated debate

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about Scotland's future. It's here that the UK Cabinet will gather this

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afternoon, only the second time they've met in Scotland in 90 years.

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Just five miles down the road in Portlethan, Scotland's first

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Minister has been chairing his own cabinet meeting. Alex Salmond

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insists an independent Scottish Government would be the best

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custodian of the black gold. The problem is that Scotland has nabbed

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the real benefits. I can't think of any country in the world who've

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discovered oil and gas, but many people in the population have got

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relatively poorer, but that has been Scotland's fate under Westminster

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control. I think it could be very different and much better for

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Scottish people. With independence and control of our own resources.

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David Cameron meanwhile had flown out to the North Sea to inspect this

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BP platform. It was part of the blizzard of visits announcements and

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press releases by both governments. The Prime Minister insisted energy

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policy was safer in British hands. I think it makes a very strong

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argument about the United Kingdom and how the broad shoulders of one

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of the top ten economies in the world has really got behind this

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industry. We will continue to stay behind this industry so we get

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maximum benefit out of it. The maximum benefit for all of the

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United Kingdom, including Scotland. Because we are top-10 economy, we

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can afford the tax allowances, the investment, the long-term structure,

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necessary to make sure we recover as much of the North Sea as possible

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and that's good for everybody. And there is a huge prize at stake.

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Estimates vary but oil firms hope to extract between 12-24,000,000,000

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barrels of North Sea oil worth between one - ?2 trillion over the

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next 30 or 40 years. And there is now a new plan to squeeze out every

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last drop. It's been published today by one of the industry 's most

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respected figures and the UK and Scottish Government is competing to

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implement his recommendations. The island gas industry is a massive

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wealth producer for the UK and frankly, I think needs little bit

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more government attention than it had and I hope we get that. So the

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glory days of the North Sea may be behind us, but there is still a

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fight over the treasure beneath the waves. Well let's get more from

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James who's in Portlethan. And from our chief political correspondent,

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Norman Smith who is in Aberdeen. James, is Alex Salmond in anyway

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discomfited by the arrival of the British Cabinet or is he relishing

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the fight? Very much the latter, very much for Alex Salmond, who is

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in this church behind me taking questions from the public at the

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moment. He's not only could you pleased to see UK Cabinet here, but

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he would like to see them a lot more, close-up, particular the Prime

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Minister, David Cameron, in a head-to-head debate. Every time Mr

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Cameron comes up there, having said that the debate is one of the Scots,

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to be held amongst the people who will vote in this referendum, it

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does give Alex Salmond an obvious opportunity to say, if you're going

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to come up here and lecture us, why won't you come up here and debate

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which to mark of course, Mr Cameron doesn't see it like that and says he

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has a duty to be involved in this industry, but Alex Salmond has

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another reason why his happy. It enables him to contrast of

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experience in the North Sea with the Prime Minister's. And perhaps this

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is unfair on Mr Cameron, but Alex Salmond said today, when he was an

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oil economist in the 1980s, David Cameron was mucking about on the

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playing fields of Eton. That's the kind of line the first Minister of

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Scotland relishes. Then there was also the polls. Are these

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interventions making a difference for the campaign against

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independence by UK Government ministers? The answer so far seems

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to be no. We had George Osborne intervening on currencies adjusting

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their comes be a formal currency union between the rest of the United

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Kingdom and an independent Scotland. And the polls seem to suggest that

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it probably didn't make any difference. It might have caused a

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slight balance for the campaign in favour of independence, so for all

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these reasons, Alex Salmond and his cabinet are relishing this challenge

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would have been thrown their way by the Prime Minister and his Cabinet.

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Let's turn to Norman. Norman, a 2-part question. Are we going to see

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a lot more David Cameron doing this kind of thing in Scotland? Are there

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are risks involved him? The answer I think is yes to both, because it

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seems to me, if you know your cricket, what we're seeing here is

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what the line politics, an attempt by the UK Government to polls very

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hard, fast answers straight at Alex Salmond, bouncy number one came a

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couple of weeks ago with George Osborne raising questions about an

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independent Scotland keeping the pound, and number two came with the

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questions about whether an independent Scotland could stay in

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the European Union and here comes number three, what on earth is going

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to happen to North Sea oil in Scotland goes it alone? The answer

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from team Cameron, it's going to be a lot worse off because you don't

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have a broad base of the UK taxpayer to invest and encourage the North

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Sea oil industry. And that plays to a broader strategy from team

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Cameron, which seems to me to try to play to the purse strings of

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Scottish voters, rather than the heartstrings, to say thing about

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this because it may actually be a lot worse off. There is a risk, and

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the rest is, by pulling the Cabinet appear, the first time the UK

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Cabinet has been to the north-east since 1921, and dear old Lloyd

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George, David Cameron, the danger is, he could be saying to the Scots,

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warning them about going alone and they could struggle. Because they

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are so close, the two cabinets, just five miles apart, it surely sealed

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Alex Salmond's demands for a debate for some why can't they debate when

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they are so close? That's the one thing we won't hear from David

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Cameron because that's the one thing he thinks could be a game changer to

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Alex Salmond's advantage. Norman, James, thank you very much indeed.

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And you can get more analysis on Scottish independence and the future

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of the North Sea oil and gas industry on the BBC news website. A

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warrant has been issued for the arrest of the Ukrainian president,

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Viktor Yanukovych who's accused of mass murder over the clashes in Kiev

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last week in which 88 people died. There are unconfirmed reports that

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the former President was spotted this morning leaving the port city

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on the Black Sea, Sevastopol. Meanwhile, there's a flurry of

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diplomatic activity today because of international concerns that Ukraine

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could split in two, with one part forging closer ties with Russia, and

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the other with the European Union. Let's cross to our correspondent in

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Kiev, Duncan Crawford. There have been lots of rumours about the

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whereabouts of ousted president Viktor Yanukovych and this

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lunchtime, the hunt is very much on. The acting interior Minister has

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said that, apparently, Viktor Yanukovych fled Kiev on Friday to

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the eastern city, and then went on to his home region of Donetsk, where

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he tried and failed to leave the country. He then went down to the

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South, to Crimea, where we are told a number of his bodyguards abandoned

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him before his last sighting was this morning, we are told, in the

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Crimean town of balaclava, where he was -- was seen driving off in a

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convoy of vehicles. He's a man on the run, and people in Kiev want him

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to be found. Mourning their heroes, in Kiev, the city centre fell

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largely silent on this morning, just the sound of crying and shuffling of

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feet, as people quietly paid their respects to the dead. Independence

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Square, a protest camp, then a battle zone, and is now a shrine to

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those who lost their lives. People here blame ousted president Viktor

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Yanukovych. A warrant has been issued for his arrest. He is now

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Ukraine's most wanted man. He should be captured as soon as possible and

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he should be put on trial. I think he should be brought here so people

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can look into his eyes to ask what they think about him. I think it

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should be arrested, although a lot of people have views which are much

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more radical. They think that perhaps capital punishment should be

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lamented in Ukraine again. The big question is, where is ousted

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President Yanukovych? Is certainly not here at the presidential palace,

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guarded by these protesters. They believe he's gone into hiding,

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possibly in the Russian speaking south or east of the country.

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Perhaps he is here in Crimea. There are still supports the man they

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insist is their democratically elected leader. People are

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demonstrating against what they view as a coup. They want to maintain

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close ties with Russia, which this region was part of, until 1954. A

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new interim president has been installed. He is pro-Western and

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pro-EU. But says he also wants to have good relations with Russia.

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Some are worried the tensions within this country could see it split

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between East and West. Our priority is to return to the European

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integration course. The fight began. We have to do return to the family

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of European countries and to understand the importance of

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relations with a Russian Federation. Reconciling Ukraine's past with its

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future, will be difficult. In Kiev, a woman blocks a man from defacing a

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money meant to the KGB. The Soviet Russian security service. Stability

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is far from certain. As is the unity of the country. It is calm here in

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Independence Square. There are thousands of people behind me once

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again just standing around listening to a service. Despite all the

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political upheavals of the last few days, you do get a sense that people

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are trying to return to their normal routines, but with the EU, the USA

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and Russia, all trying to influence events on the ground, the political

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situation in this country remains uncertain. OK, Duncan, thank you

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bring much indeed. There are reports of former president has been seen in

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the Crimean city of Sevastopol. Daniel Sandford is there for us.

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What more do we know about his whereabouts? It's all a bit of a

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mystery, but I'm standing at the spot where the trail runs cold. The

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acting interior Minister, said this is where this small suburb of

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Sevastopol, the famous historical Bay of balaclava, this is where

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President Yanukovych's bodyguards finally abandoned him. From here, he

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went on in a three-car convoy with a couple of bodyguards and one close

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aide of the rest of his official bodyguard team left him here,

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returned to Sevastopol and hand in their weapons and reported back to

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the Interior Ministry that this is where they left President

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Yanukovych. And, from here, the trail runs cold. He's been on the

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run for three days and left Kiev on Friday by helicopter, travelled

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through eastern Ukraine, down through Donetsk, and tried to get to

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the airport near Sevastopol. He feared a chap was waiting for him

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yet, so came here to balaclava, said goodbye to a security detail, and

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disappeared into the night, about midnight local time last night. The

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focus of our coverage has been on the unrest in Kiev or what level of

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support does Viktor Yanukovych enjoy another part of the country

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repeatedly in places like where you are now? I think if I'm honest about

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it, very little now. I think President Yanukovych was the man who

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stood up for Russian speaking Ukraine, for eastern industrial

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Ukraine, they saw him as their man, but as I have watched the country

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slowly deteriorate into chaos over the last three months, his support

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has seriously ebbed away and I find it difficult in eastern Ukraine to

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find many people who have much good to say about him, but that does not

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mean that people here have any love for the new government in Kiev.

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Here, there's a particular historical anomaly for the death was

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part of Russia, all the way back to the year of the Crimean War by the

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British were fighting on the hills around the Bay of balaclava, this is

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a Russian part of the world. In the 1950s, it was moved from Russia to

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being part of Ukrainian Republic in the former soggy at union and then

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when Ukraine gained independence, Crimea went with Ukraine. Many

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people here still feel Russian, their strongest allegiance is to

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Russia. The Black Sea fleet is in the harbour of Sevastopol at the

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moment and these people here are feeling very, very bitter about

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events in Kiev and the demonstrations are happening every

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day, violence every day, and this is a part of the world which is going

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to become a very big question, as negotiations continue about

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Ukraine's future in the last few months. Daniel, thank you bring much

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indeed for that. Let's talk more about those meetings with our

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diplomatic correspondent, James Robbins. We have heard warnings

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about Russia getting involved from the US. We have heard sounds, I

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think, of anger in the sense of betrayal and bruising, frankly, from

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Moscow. They feel that they were betrayed by the opposition, now the

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emerging power in Ukraine. They felt they had signed a deal which would

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keep Yanukovych in power. There is feeling that this was an armed

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mutiny, and the dream ever death has said that Russia does not recognise

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the legitimacy of the emerging powers in Ukraine. -- Dmitry

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Medvedev. What is going on in Washington and London particularly

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is an attempt to soothe Russian feelings. As we speak, William Hague

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is beginning to his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, to try

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to put across the message that William Hague has already hinted at,

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that this does not need to be a one side wins and the other losers, that

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in fact a new Ukraine should be encouraged through trade equally

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with Europe, Western Europe through the European Union, and with Russia.

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But that is not a message that Moscow seems very inclined to listen

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to, because it thinks the United States is acting in bad faith and

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suggesting, making accusations that the Russians might deploy troops to

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Ukraine. Is it the policy of all sides that they want the integrity

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of the Ukraine to remain, so that it does not split in two with all the

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consequences that might flow from that? I do not think Moscow has been

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as explicit as bad, but no-one has an appetite for a divided Ukraine,

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so the argument now will be, how is Ukraine accommodated in such a way

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that Russia does not feel it wants to take retaliatory action.

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The former Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis is to face a new trial of

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allegations of indecent and sexual assault. Earlier this month, the

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68-year-old was found not guilty of 12 charges of indecent assault, but

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juror as were unable to reach verdict on two further charges. He

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will face a retrial on the outstanding counts. Our home affairs

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correspondent, June Kelly, has this report.

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For the past week and a half, Dave Lee Travis has been in legal limbo,

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acquitted on 12 charges, he came to court this morning to be told he

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will face a second trial on the two counts on which the jury could not

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reach verdicts. With his wife at his side, he was clearly upset. The

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nightmare is now going to go on. All I can say is that this whole thing

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started when I was 67, and I just hope it is going to end by the time

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I am 80. Thank you for your time. A couple of weeks ago, another famous

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name was in court facing historical sexual allegations. Coronation

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Street's William Roache was cleared of all charges. Speaking to the BBC

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about the whole this you, but before this morning's decision, the

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director of public prosecutions said that it was all about listening to

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complaints. I think since we have looked at recent cases and since we

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have looked at policy, people have been far more confident that they

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can come forward, and that is really good, and we don't want to knock

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that confidence. Now another jury will have to consider Dave Lee

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Travis's case. One of the council is facing goes back to the early 1990s

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when he was a big BBC name. The other allegation is from six years

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ago. Nearly 18 months after he was first arrested, the criminal

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proceedings against Dave Lee Travis continue. He will be back in court

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at the end of next month for a first hearing ahead of his new trial.

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June Kelly, BBC News, at Southwark Crown Court.

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The time is 20 past one. Our top story this lunchtime, the future of

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Scotland's oil and gas industry takes centre stage in the debate

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over independence. And still to come, the woman whose

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music saved her life in the concentration camp. The oldest known

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survivor of the Holocaust has died at the age of 110.

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Later on BBC London, the battle for the skies, wildlife campaigners

:20:35.:20:36.

speak out against the Boris Island airport proposal. And taking refuge

:20:37.:20:42.

in London, the story behind tens of thousands of Belgians who made the

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capital their home during World War I.

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A former Roman Catholic priest has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing

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children over more than two decades. Father Francis Cullen viewed seven

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children at churches in Derbyshire and Nottingham. He was arrested in

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1991 but went on the run before being arrested in Tenerife last

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year. Jon Brain, first of all, reminders about the background to

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this case. -- remind us.

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Although he appeared today as a frail 85-year-old who could barely

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stand in the dock, who have trouble hearing the proceedings, the court

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was told that Cullen was a serial abuser, five boys and two girls, a

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total of 21 counts he pleaded guilty to today in a very weak voice. The

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police believe there were many more victims who perhaps have not come

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forward. He was a parish priest both here in Derbyshire and in

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neighbouring Nottinghamshire. He used his position to carry out that

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abuse, many of which took place on Church promises. He fled the country

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more than 20 years ago, and police thought they had brought in to

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justice. He wants to Tenerife, where he made a new life for himself, but

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he was actually spotted going to regular Sunday Mass at the Catholic

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Church in Tenerife by a catholic safeguarding group. They told the

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police, and he was extradited in January to face these charges today.

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Take us through what happened in court this morning.

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In a very weak voice, he pleaded guilty to each of the charges as

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they were read out. As I say, he had difficulty hearing many of them. The

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sentencing has been adjourned until next month, but the judge told him

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he faces a very substantial prison sentence. His barrister said he is

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in poor health which has been deteriorating since he has been in

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custody in prison, so bearing in mind his age, the assumption is that

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he is likely to die in prison. Thank you very much indeed.

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Many of Jimmy Savile's victims were either ignored or laughed at when

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they tried to report his sexual abuse, the findings of an NSPCC

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interview with 26 people which found that many had blamed themselves for

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what had happened to them. What we heard from victims' testimony when

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they went to police in the past is the reluctance of the police to take

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on board what they had to say and to believe their allegations and to

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take the matter further. There was a more likelihood of their dismissal

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of their making allegations against adults who had celebrity status or

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had a significant role in the community. So that was very, very

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worrying. And today what we do know is that the police are more open to

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listening to victims, both on historical and current abuse, taking

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those matters more seriously and investigating them far more

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thoroughly. The Director of Public Prosecutions

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for England and Wales is to deploy specialist lawyers abroad to try to

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clamp down on criminals hiding their assets. They will be based in Spain

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and the United Arab Emirates, initially. It's hoped ?10 million

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can be recovered from convicted tax evaders, drug barons and corrupt

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businessmen. The talk show hosted by Piers Morgan

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on the cable network CNN has been axed because, as he put it, the

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audience had become tired of a British guy banging on about

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American issues. He'd taken over from Larry King three years ago, but

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he became a controversial host by wading into the debate on gun

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control in the US, as Nick Higham now explains.

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It was meant to be one of America off highest profile interview shows.

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You know you I have taken a strong stand on guns in America... That

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made some people very angry. 1776 will take place again if you try to

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take our firearms! We will not ruling which then, do you

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understand?! That is why you are going to fail, and the establishment

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knows, no matter how much propaganda, the Republic will rise

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again! It made for riveting television, but not riveting enough

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to attract viewers. It was not just opponents of gun control who did not

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warm to a man they saw as a patronising Brits who said he

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preferred cricket to baseball, soccer to American football. Piers

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Morgan himself told the New York Times, look, I am a British guy

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debating American cultural issues, including guns, which has been very

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polarising, and there is no doubt that there are many in the audience

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who are tired of me banging on about it. But the real problem was

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ratings. CNN faces fierce competition from rival news

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channels. The audience for his high-profile prime-time show sank

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from 2 million when he started to just over 250,000. If you are

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looking for definition, and Fox hazard, and MSNBC has it, Piers

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Morgan taking a stand on gun control might have done it for you. That

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will not be the reason they have canned him, it will fold the

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mentally be ratings. He still has plenty of work, like his programme

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for ITV. He says he would like to do something similar for CNN, but his

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failure to win over America is remarkable for a man, although he

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may be British, as a cast-iron self confidence and self belief that is

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very American. The oldest known survivor of the

:26:32.:26:34.

Holocaust has died at the age of 110. In 1943, Alice Herz-Sommer was

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sent to the Theresienstadt camp in what's now the Czech Republic. More

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than 30,000 Jews died there, but she survived because she was an

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accomplished pianist and, as she put it, the joy of music kept her alive.

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Daniel Boettcher has more. My world is music. I am not

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interested in anything else. For Alice Herz-Sommer, music was not

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just her world, it helped during her darkest days. She was born in Prague

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in 1903 during the German occupation of Joburg Slovakia. She was sent to

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a concentration camp in raising staff. It was used in Nazi

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propaganda. -- Theresienstadt. Some prisoners were encouraged to put on

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performances, Alice Herz-Sommer would play the piano and believed it

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helped save her life. Her experience of using a music as a means to

:27:32.:27:34.

survival in the concentration camps was shared by others. I can say

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without hesitation that the cello saved my life, because I knew what

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was going on in Auschwitz, so I became a member of the orchestra,

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which was life-saving. As long as they wanted music, they could not

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put us in the gas chamber. There is a certain amount of logic in the

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Germans. I knew that we would play, and I was thinking, when we can

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play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music! Music is in the

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first place of art. Her long life has been recorded in a documentary

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nominated for the Oscars, showing the journey of a woman described by

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her family as an inspiration, who survived the Holocaust but looked

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back at her life and loss without bitterness. Every day in life is

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beautiful. Every day. It is beautiful!

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Now, time for a look at the weather with Nick Miller.

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It is winter, but there is someone in the sunshine at the moment,

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temperatures have peaked in East Anglia and the south-east, 15 in

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London, the warmest day of the year so far. Not everybody sharing that

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story, we have a cloud and rain in Scotland and Balmoral is just five

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degrees at the moment, but an improving story through the

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afternoon as this area of cloud and rain begins to push away and

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brightens up a little bit. This narrow strip of cloud is going to

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erode some of the sunshine in the south-east as it continues to edge

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its way further east as the afternoon goes on, taking a narrow

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strip of rain with that. Better Together take a look at things at

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three o'clock this afternoon, cloud in Southampton, but in London

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starting to cloud over. -- let's take a look. In this narrow strip,

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some heavy bursts. Behind that, plenty of sunshine for the rest of

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the afternoon across the Midlands, some in northern England, but

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further Northmoor cloud, a little brighter, not clear blue sky but

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brighter and dryer. -- but further north, more cloud. It will not stay

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dry in Northern Ireland, rain coming in as the next Atlantic system shows

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its hand. Through Wales and south-west England, mainly dry. You

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will notice the breeze freshening again a head of the new system. Here

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we go, a band of rain moving through this afternoon, this evening and

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overnight, gales picking up in the Irish Sea. The good news is that

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area of rain is moving through quite quickly, so the rainfall totals do

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not start to pile up, we are not expecting the flooding to be made

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any worse by this. Temperatures stay up, a mild night. You may start with

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some rain first thing across eastern counties in the morning, then the

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system is gone, brightening up, and for many eastern parts we stay dry

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and bright apart from the odd shower. Showers do come into western

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parts on balance, heavy, accompanied by blustery winds, temperatures of

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around 8-12 degrees. -- on bands. A bright start continuing across much

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of England and Wales, a few showers across the northern part of the UK.

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Hiding behind me is another band of rain for Wednesday night, again

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moving through quite quickly. On Thursday, that clears to showers, a

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few still around on Friday, temperatures down towards the end of

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the week. Details on the website about weather warnings? Oh, there

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aren't any! A reminder of our top story this

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lunchtime: The future of the Scottish island gas industry has

:31:25.:31:27.

taken centre stage in the debate of

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