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President Obama condemns as repulsive and barbaric

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the beheading of a second American journalist by Islamic State.

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Steven Sotloff, who was 31, was kidnapped

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President Obama promised that justice would be done.

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We will not be intimidated, their horrific acts only unite us

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as a country and stiffen our resolve against these terrorists.

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The Prime Minister chairs an emergency meeting to discuss

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Islamic militants' threat to kill a British hostage.

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Let me be very clear, this country will never give in to terrorism.

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Our opposition to Isil will continue at home and abroad.

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We'll be asking what this means for western strategy in the region.

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The parents of five year old Ashya King freed from prison

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and now heading to his hospital, desperate to see him.

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William Pooley, the British nurse who caught the

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deadly Ebola virus in West Africa, is discharged from hospital.

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Filthy and unsafe - a damning inspection of

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And warnings of a teacher crisis in the captain - we face

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

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President Obama has condemned as repulsive and barbaric the beheading

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of the American journalist Steven Sotloff by Islamic State militants.

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He said justice would be served and that America's aim was to

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Mr Sotloff is the second US journalist in two weeks to be

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murdered - a video of his death was again released online.

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With concern now growing over the fate of a British hostage seen

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in the video David Cameron says the only way to defeat Islamic State

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He said Britain would never give in to terrorism.

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Our first report is by our Security Correspondent Frank Gardner.

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A thoughtful US journalist with a passion for the Middle East and a

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taste for adventure, Steven Sotloff had lived in Yemen and spoke Arabic.

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But last night Jihadist posted a video of them beheading him. For

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President Obama, this is a direct channel by the -- challenge by the

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extremist group. Whatever these murderers think they will achieve by

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killing innocent Americans like Stephen, they have already failed.

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They have failed because like people around the world, Americans are

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repulsed by their barbarism and we will not be intimidated. The

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mililants have bought or captures numerous western hostages. Several

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Europeans have been released, reportedly for ran ransoms. We have

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been asked not to name a British hostage. Last night the Government

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held a meeting of emergency committee chaired by the Prime

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Minister. The whole country will condemn the sickening and brutal

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murder of another American hostage and share our shock and anger that

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it appears to have been carried out by a British citizen. Our thought

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are with the hostage and his family. Islamic state fighters have cut a

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swathe across the Middle East. Seizing control of much of Syria and

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Iraq, killing hundreds of captives in cold blood. But US air strikes

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have allowed Iraqi and Kurdish forces to halt their advance. Those

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air strikes are hurting them. Yet one expert believes Islamic state

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wants to drag in western ground troops. They're aching for a fight

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with the west. They want to turn this into the west against Islam.

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They're considering themselves to be the Islamic caliphate and want to

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fight a superpower. Caught up in this was Stephen Sotloff, described

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by friends as cautious. He kept his finger on the pulse of where he was

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going. He didn't just wander into a place. He lived in Libya for a while

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and he was aware of what he was doing. He was very professional. He

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came to report on a conflict that is tearing a region apart. It was a

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decision that cost him his life. With a British hostage now in

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immediate danger, David Cameron is coming under increasing pressure to

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come up with an effective strategy Here's our political

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correspondent Ben Wright. Another brutal murder by Islamic

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state and another emergency meeting. What is your response to the latest

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behead something the Defence Secretary joined the Cobra meeting,

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chaired by the Prime Minister, who said the beheading was despicable. A

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serve MP on the intelligence committee said there should be no

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quick military response. We have got to be patient. It won't be turned

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around in a matter of weeks or months. Just go for air strikes or

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arming people isn't going to be the answer to this. It needs patient

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work as well. In the commons, the two sides I yoo nighted in

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condemnation. A country like ours will not be cowed by these killers.

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If they think we will weaken they're wrong. This is a pattern of

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murderous behaviour by Isil of the innocent. Christians, Yazidis,

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Muslims, anyone who does not agree with their vile ideology. I agree

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with the Pic, this must strengthen our resolve and he can be assured of

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our support. Over this is the memory of protests against plans to bomb

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Assad's regime last year and its defeat in Parliament. Labour opposed

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action then, but now some MPs want air strikes in Syria. Isn't the

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truth that Isil won't be beaten without air strikes in Syria as

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well? And if that means engaging with the Assad regime and Iran and

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the Saudies. It is a crisis with no easy answers. Some MPs want the UK

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Government to toughen its response, Islamic state fighters claim

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American air strikes justify the beheading and now a British hostage

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is threatened. Revulsion is clear, but less certain is what can be done

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to stop them. Let's talk to Norman Smith in Westminster. There were

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strong words from David Cameron, but is it clear what he can do? Well,

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despite the deliberately defiant language from Mr Cameron, those in

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Government have been clear there won't be an immediate strike for the

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beheading and the seizure of a British hostage. To do so it is

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argued would creed the initiative to the terrorists and the Prime

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Minister's view is we are involved in a long struggle and can't respond

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to every atrocity. But there is a sense we are moving closer to the

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option of joining in air strikes. The Foreign Secretary was asked

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about this today and he said that he was considering them. Neither Nick

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Clegg nor Ed Milliband has ruled them out and in the Commons the

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Prime Minister seemed to indicate if other countries in the region were

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to sign up to air strikes and the Baghdad Government and the Kurdish

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authorities were to request them, we would look to do more. Although the

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atrocity that was carried out last night, the seizure of a British

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hostage has not of itself prompted British military action, my sense is

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we are moving closer in that direction. Thank you.

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The parents of five-year-old Ashya King, who's seriously ill with

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a brain tumour in a hospital in Spain, have spoken of their relief

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They were detained at the weekend on a European arrest warrant

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for taking their son from a hospital in Southampton.

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The Crown Prosecution Service has now said they will face

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In an exclusive BBC interview Ashya's father, Brett,

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said he was desperate to see his son and to help with his care.

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Well, our correspondent Tom Burridge is at the hospital in Malaga.

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Brett and Naghemeh King are expected to arrive at the hospital any moment

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now. For that moment they have been waiting for - to be renewted with

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their son, Ashya. They spent several days in custody in a case which has

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caused outrage at home and sympathy from the Prime Minister and the

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police force which launched the search which led to their arrest in

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Spain. After a dramatic turn around they were released from prison last

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night and today they sat down with my colleague for an exclusive

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interview:. How are you? I'm very tired. I was with about yashgs I

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have been in hospital in Southampton for six weeks. I was with him 234

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hours a day, changing his nappies, doing everything. Staying awake for

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treatment. That is my responsibility as a mother and I was happy to do

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it. But when we left the hospital and we were arrested, I couldn't do

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that. I have been missing him for over three days and I want to get

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back with him. Brett, how are you after the ordeal? I'm still shaking,

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because it is not just going to prison, that is just me suffering,

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but while I was away, it was the the thought my son, because they didn't

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allow anybody into the room, so no one was moving his legs or helping

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him in any way to improve. Soifs worrying about that all the time and

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my heart was aching. The doctors said my heart is beating too fast

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when they examined me. I said I can't relax, my son, it is hurting

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my heart to think he is by himself. But we are feeling better now. What

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do you make of the fact that this happened, you took him from the

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hospital, you were then pursued to Spain, arrested, put in prison,

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separated from him and then told actually you can go. You're free.

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What do you make of the situation? It is not real to be honest with

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you. Because we just thought, you see in the hospital, they knew that

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we were going to get Proton therapy. I told them the doctor himself that

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I'm going to go for Proton therapy and I'm paying for it myself. But I

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need to sell my house. I said to him, I'm going, that you're not

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going to pay, the NHS is not going to pay, I have got to sort this out.

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Did you tell them that you were going to take him away last

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Thursday. Did they know you were elevening - leaving then? I couldn't

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tell the day. They had threatened me. When I asked the cancer bgs is

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there any alternty, they said if I ask any more questions, the right

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for me to make a decision would be taken from me and they would get a

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court paper to say they have right over my child. From that moment I

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had so much fear to mention anything to them. Because they could have

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stopped my son getting any treatment and just forcing this strong

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treatment on him. From that moment on, I had to keep everything quiet.

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But I told them over and again I wrote to them and sent e-mails,

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which he never responded to, to say I'm taking my son to get better

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treatment. But I couldn't tell me when, otherwise they would have

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stopped me. I was in fear. When you realised you were being chased, that

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you were arrested, what did you think? We just wanted to go down to

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where our holiday home is and spend some time there, sell our apartment

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and then go on our way to the Czech Republic. When I saw the police

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outside, we panicked and didn't know what to do and we went to Malaga, my

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wife said there is a good hospital there, let's stop there and work out

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what to do. That is what we did. But I never thought they would been

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serious. My children were at the swimming pool and we were trying to

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enjoy ourselves. Somebody said to us that someone's called the police. I

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said OK, we are not going to run. How angry are you? I wouldn't say

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angry, I'm just missing my son so much. My heart is aching for my son.

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Anger can't come in, because I have feelings that I have got to see my

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son. I wash his mouth, because he can't drink through his mouth. I

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want to turn him every 15 to 20 minutes. I want to do the things I

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was doing in Southampton. As a mother, who spent so much time in

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hospital with him in Southampton, to be separated from him by hundreds of

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miles and put behind bars, can you explain what that has been like?

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Well all I was doing all the time, just crying and praying so I could

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be reunited. We have learned Ashya could have a matter of months to

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live. He is with a nurse here 24 hours a day and his parents seemed

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very calm last night. But there is the question how did a British

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couple end up in a Spanish prison separated from their very ill young

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son? Thank you. Well the hospital where Ashya was

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a patient has been defending Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy

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is at Southampton General. What do the hospital have to say?

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Well this is the first time we have heard from the hospital. And they

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have contradicted everything the King family have been saying. In

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particular, they deny that Ashya was blocked from going to Prague to

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receive that therapy. In fact they say discussions were still going on

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with the family when he was taken last Thursday. I think can I

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understand that they were upset, yes. I don't think it is ever in a

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child's best interest to be taken from a place of safety, when the

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risks of being taken out were known. And without any one knowing they

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were leave from within the medical profession. The hospital speak of

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the family being irresponsible. But what happens to Ashya? She needs two

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rounds of of chemotherapy before he can go to Prague. The question is

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where does he get it. Relations between the family and the doctor

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are so bad President Obama condemns

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as repulsive and barbaric the beheading of a

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second journalist by Islamic State. David Cameron chairs

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an emergency meeting discuss Why plans protect wildflower to

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meadows may had have Later, the capital could get to

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cycling routes would some names separated by traffic. And the movie

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based on the true story of a tragedy, seemed to appear at the BFI

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film Festival. William Pooley,

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the British nurse who contracted the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone,

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has left hospital this morning, saying he feels "wonderfully lucky"

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to have survived. Mr Pooley, who's 29, was flown back

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to the UK last month for treatment in a special isolation unit at

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the Royal Free Hospital in London. He thanked staff at the hospital for

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the "world-class care" he received. Here's our health correspondent

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Branwen Jeffreys. The basic in hospital in

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Sierra Leone where Will Pooley saw first-hand the horrors

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of Ebola. He may never know how he

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too became infected. Today, clear of the virus,

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he describes the moment It is a bit disturbing to get that

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diagnosis, but I suppose I was half expecting

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it, because I'd been feeling sick. I was worried I was going to die,

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I was worried about my family. To reach the plane home,

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Will travelled to 160 miles When I was brought onto

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the runway and saw the plane waiting for me and a big

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team of Brits, it was just amazing. In the isolation unit in London he

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was nursed day and night Will avoided the worst symptoms,

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unlike friends he's The contrast... On the one hand,

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I've only got praise for the level Just amazing, the level of skill,

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professionalism and compassion Of course,

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it's not the same in West Africa. Will Pooley has made a complete

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physical recovery thanks to the But to get over the trauma

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of what he saw in West Africa and then of being infected himself

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with the Ebola virus could take Ukraine's Prime Minister has branded

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Russia a terrorist state that is solely to blame for the conflict

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in the east of his country. Arseny Yatseniuk said Moscow

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would bear responsibility Speaking on the eve of a NATO

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summit, he re-affirmed his countrys Speaking on the eve of a NATO

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summit, he re-affirmed his country's Our correspondent Chris

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Morris sent this report. President Obama has come to a

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NATO member state that was once ruled from Moscow as part

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of the Soviet Union. The message

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and the symbolism is clear - you are Russian aggression

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in Ukraine has made the three Baltic As the President began

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his official business, conflicting reports of a cease-fire

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in eastern Ukraine came and went, but one demand is constant - Russia

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has to change course and assistance We have consistently supported

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the effort of the President to achieve a meaningful cease-fire that

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can lead to a political settlement. And there is a concern here

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about what President Putin may be Two hours to be East,

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this is Nova, and the river forms the border between Russia over

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there and Estonia over here. In fact, we are closer to St

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Petersburg than we are to Tallinn. 90% of this town's population

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are ethnic Russian. and in particular

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on what is happening in Ukraine. You do think about that, because you

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cannot not think about that when you But I don't think we worry much yet.

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There is nothing to worry about. But, you know, it's a good time

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for Obama to come here. I don't know how the rest

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of the world is seeing as, but we've In eastern Ukraine,

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pro-Russian separatists have made NATO is certain that would not have

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happened without direct Russian That's why President Obama said it

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was important to impose costs on Russia as long as Moscow continues

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to violate international law. The relationship, he said, between

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NATO and Russia has clearly changed. President Obama is using this

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occasion to send a strong message to Russia, isn't he? Yes, we have heard

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this message before. They want to have a good relationship with

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Russia. He said, our hope is for a strong, productive Russia, but what

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we've seen recently is aggression and appeals to nationalism, which is

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a cause for concern. I think at the NATO summit we will certainly see

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the ranks closing, support for Ukraine and so forth. But over here,

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the issue is this - they would like to see the permanent basing of NATO

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troops in the Baltic states. According to NATO, that would

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violate previous treaty commitments between NATO and Russia, but the

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argument here is that Russia has already by late of those commitments

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and that the circumstances have changed and NATO has to change to

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take account of that. Obama says, yes, the relationship is clearly

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changing, but I'm not sure within NATO there is a unanimous view that

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basing people here permanently and upping the anti-with Russia is in

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anyone's interest at the moment. There have been calls

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for the entire membership of Rotherham Council to resign

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after a heated public meeting. Local people expressed anger

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after a report published last week revealed that 1,400 children had

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been abused over a 16-year period. During the meeting it emerged that

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several members of the council are under investigation

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- as Danny Savage reports. Attention today turned to Rotherham

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town hall. It looked calm on the outside ahead of a local council

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meeting to focus on the disgraceful events in the town. But that can't

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did not last long, once the public were invited to ask questions.

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People should be allowed to express their opinion. We are very angry and

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we don't know why all of you have not resigned. Our children were

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being raped and abused and you are telling me as a counsellor you can

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sit there and barefaced tell me that you wouldn't say anything? But the

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councillors were going anywhere. In a formal statement, the authority

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partly blamed for this scandal gave its own apology. It is with a deep

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sense of regret we are here today to discuss the past as a council. We're

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badly let down people and families we were supposed to protect. But

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that was is not enough is in a public gallery who eventually walked

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out. They are too scared to say it is Pakistani men who were doing it.

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I don't think anything will happen. There wasn't a huge turnout from the

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public, about 40 people in all. But they asked plenty of relevant

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questions and showed how angry they were, repeatedly calling for the

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whole council to resign. Some have gone already, others are being

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suspended and investigated. The sexual abuse of 1400 children in one

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town will have many consequences for this council yet.

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Conservationists and local residents are furious that

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European plans to protect endangered wildflower meadows like these may

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According to a report for the nature watchdog

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Natural England, it's led the rate of meadow-loss to actually increase,

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as farmers rushed to plough meadows up before the additional

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Our environment analyst Roger Harrabin has more.

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Here is an increasingly rare sight - a meadow like the ones

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Still a delight for the next generation.

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Orchids are common, too, alongside a flower that makes

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Like you used to have when you were a baby

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Rattle. It's a yellow rattle.

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Around 90% of meadows like this have been dug up

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as farmers came under pressure to increase food production.

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And the speed of loss of meadows has recently intensified.

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We're seeing between 20 and 30% loss of the sites since 2005.

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It's a massive issue for us and we are very concerned.

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A battle is currently underway over this meadow near Coventry.

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Locals loved it, but the farmer said it wasn't good

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for wildlife, and the authorities gave him permission to spray it with

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Locals say the meadow was rich in wildlife, and are trying to prove

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Before the farmer sprayed weedkiller, it was green and lush.

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I feel a real sort of relationship to the field,

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We just can't really believe it has happened.

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Whatever the rights or wrongs of this issue, it is clear policy to

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Ministers warned farmers there may be new rules safeguarding meadows.

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Some farmers responded by ploughing up their meadows as quickly

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The number of Meadows destroyed has actually increased.

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The Coventry farmer was later filmed by locals as he ploughed the meadow.

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He didn't want to talk to us, but wildlife groups say

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the episode proves nature protection isn't tight enough.

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We've made promoting wildlife diversity a major priority

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in the way we implement the new farming rules.

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We are looking to increase habitats for rare species to help farm

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and bird populations recover, so this is very much at the top

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of our agenda when it comes to implementing these new rules.

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Our children's children will inherit places like this,

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But its nature watchdog Natural England warns that, unless

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its policies are changed, wildlife will continue to disappear.

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Hello. The weather remains and nine, this is the satellite picture. You

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can see a lot of cloud around at the start of the day, but that have been

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some good breaks, allowing sunshine. Through this afternoon, most places

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will at least be dry, with variable amounts of cloud and glimmers of

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sunshine from time to time. That's all thanks to this area of high

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pressure driving our weather pattern. There is an much motion to

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the atmosphere, which is why we're seeing so much cloud. For the

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afternoon, you conceive variable amounts appearing, with the odd

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sunny spell. I think the sunshine will be limited across Scotland and

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could be big enough for the odd spot of rain in the Western and Northern

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Isles. Temperatures in Northern Ireland are around 18 or 19

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Celsius. Any sunshine in England and Wales could nudge temperatures up to

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22 Celsius, so feeling quite warmer in the sunshine. This evening and

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overnight, we start to see that cloud rolling back in. Most places

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will be pretty cloudy, with the best of any breaks across the south-west

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corner, towards Wales and western Scotland. Here, it could be quite

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cool with mist and fog around and temperatures in the mid-single

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figures. Into those day, very little change. High pressure continues to

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dominate but we start to see this weather front across the North West

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slowly encroaching towards western Scotland and Northern Ireland

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through the day. Elsewhere, another dry day with variable amounts of

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cloud and glimmers of sunshine. Pleasantly warm in that sunshine, up

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to 22 or 23 Celsius. A bit cooler in the north and why we have the cloud.

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On Friday, that weather front continues its journey south, so

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outbreaks of rain in Scotland and Northern Ireland. England and Wales

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are dry, again feeling warm and the sunshine. Subtle changes for the

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weekend. Again, for many it is variable amounts of cloud and

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sunshine. A bit of rain will continue to move south but will

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fizzle out as it reaches southern areas. Behind it, turning cooler.

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Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime.

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President Obama condemns as barbaric the beheading

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of a second American journalist by Islamic State - David Cameron chairs

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an emergency meeting to discuss the threat to a British hostage.

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That's all from us - now on BBC One, it's time

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