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Turkey shoots down a Russian warplane on the Syrian border.

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The Turkish military says two fighter jets brought down the bomber

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after it violated Turkish airspace - something the Russians deny.

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The Russian pilots were seen parachuting from the plane -

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reports say one is dead, the other is missing.

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The president says it was not in Turkey's airspace.

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Here, the foreign office has called the

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incident very serious and says it's urgently seeking further details.

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Almost ?4bn extra for NHS England's frontline services next year

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Alton Towers says the roller-coaster crash was caused by human error.

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Easyjet cancel all flights to Egypt's Sharm El-Sheikh

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until January after the bombing of a Russian holiday jet.

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Shining the light on one of the world's poorest countries -

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how electricity is changing children's lives in Malawi.

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On BBC London, another teenager is killed in North London. The 14th to

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be fatally stabbed at this year. And an inquest hears the pilot of the

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crashed helicopter was not looking forward to the flight because of the

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weather. Good afternoon

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and welcome to the BBC News at One. A Russian fighter jet has been shot

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down by Turkish forces Istanbul is insisting the plane

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had entered its airspace and had Both aircrew ejected

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before the plane crashed near Latakia - one is thought to have

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died, the other is still missing. In the last few minutes, Vladimir

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Putin called the incident a stab in the back and insisted the jet was

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inside Syrian airspace. Nato has called an emergency meeting about

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the incident this afternoon. Shot down in flames, a Russian air

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fighter plummets to close to the Syrian border. Turkey said its own

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warplanes shot it down after it violated airspace. They warned it

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ten times to steer clear. Russia said the plane never once steered

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out of Syria and it can prove it. We have not yet heard from the Defence

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Ministry about the causes of downing our plane. We know for certain it

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was in Syrian airspace. Turkey disputes this, issuing this military

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map showing what it says was the route taken by the Russian air

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fighter, marked with arrows. Both pilots rejected from the fighter.

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They were seen descending towards the hills. Search and rescue

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helicopters have been combing the area. It is populated by rebels who

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have been bombed by both the Syrian and Russian air forces. Video

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appears to show the body of one pilot while the other is thought to

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be on the run. The incident has provoked a diplomatic emergency. The

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Russians are angry, there are reasons to fear a rise in tensions.

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On the other hand, both sides will be quite keen to contain the

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incident. The Russians are keen to build up their links with the West

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and attacks have plenty of other problems on their plate with

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refugees and Kurds. Ever since Russia entered the crowded skies

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over Syria two months ago to defend President aside it was feared

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backlash like this could happen -- to defend President Assad. Recently,

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Vladimir Putin has been closer to the West. Now this incident

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threatens to undermine that cooperation amid fears of how Russia

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will react. Our Moscow correspondent is in Moscow. We have had the

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reaction and very strong language from President Putin. Russia has

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reacted with anger. President Putin has said the shooting down of the

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jet was a stab in the back by accomplices of terrorism. He

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contrasted that with the heroism of Russian troops fighting terrorism.

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He said the Russian jet had been hit in Syrian territory. Turkey said it

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had violated Turkish airspace. Moscow denied that. He said the

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aircraft had not pose the threat to Turkish territory and the incident

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would have serious consequences for relations between Russia and Turkey.

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He said they would carefully analyse what had happened. These are very

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strong words and how Russia reacts next will depend on one man,

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President Putin. There had been concerned something like this could

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happen since Russia started their bombing campaign. Absolutely. Last

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month, Turkey complained that Russian jets were violating Turkish

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airspace. Russia admitted one incident and said one of the planes

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had strayed into Turkish airspace because of bad weather. Nato had

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criticised Russia for violating Turkish airspace. Perhaps not a

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surprise. But certainly, very strong language coming out of the Kremlin

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today. We will need to wait and see how Russia reacts next. Much more on

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the background to this story online. The NHS in England is to get an

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extra ?3.8 billion next year. The money is to pay partly for a full

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seven day a week health service. News of the extra money comes ahead

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of the Chancellor's Autumn Statement. He is expected to

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announce cuts. The NHS is in crisis,

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missing vital targets and growings sign the system is

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struggling to keep up with demand. including ambulance response times,

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wait in A and cancer treatment. All signs the system is struggling

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to cope with growing demand. After weeks of haggling,

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ministers and Health Service leaders are back in step over NHS spending

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plans for the next five years. They'd already agreed on the need

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for an extra ?8 billion a year by 2020, the big question was how

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quickly this would be phased in. This year's NHS budget is just

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over ?100 billion, and ministers have agreed an extra ?3.8 billion

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next year on top of inflation. The annual increases will continue

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to reach nearly ?8.5 billion The Government says it all adds up

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to an extra ?10 billion when you factor in extra money that

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went in this year. We are giving the money upfront so

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the NHS can implement its own plan There'll have to be savings

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elsewhere in Government spending to pay for this, but it just goes to

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show you can only have a strong NHS NHS leaders are relieved

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the extra money is coming in sooner rather than later, but they warn

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there's still a long way to go. We made the case for front loaded

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investment in the National Health The reason it's so important is that

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we've got to do two things; we've got to relieve the pressure

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on frontline nurses and doctors services that we know the

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Health Service will need over and hospital services right now,

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and we've got to invest in the new NHS Trusts say it will still feel

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like a tough spending settlement. Great to get an extra ?10 billion,

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particularly when other departments are having significant reductions,

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but this will still be the longest, deepest financial squeeze in NHS

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history between 2010 and 2020. Concerns remain about funding

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for programmes to prevent poor health and social care

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which fall outside NHS budgets. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

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will receive a proportionate increase in line with extra health

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spending in England, but details of Let's speak to our health editor.

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NHS leaders have welcomed the boost in funding but there are still

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concerns about funding for other parts of the NHS. That's right,

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particularly the public health prevention work done by local

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authorities. You heard it referred to their by Adam in his piece. As I

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revealed last week there are set to be cut in those budgets, things like

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sexual health, smoking cessation clinics, things that are considered

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to be pretty important. We will only know the scale of that tomorrow. The

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money for health education England, the training of nurses and doctors

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and so on, it seems very likely it will be announced that nurses will

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need to start paying tuition fees and borrow money for that in line

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with doctors and obviously other students. We will get all of that

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tomorrow. As you suggested, this deal today, giving ?3.8 billion

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above inflation, is very much what the NHS wanted. I detected quite a

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lot of relief talking to NHS leaders today that they got that money. The

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front loading you heard referred to. The ?8 billion that has been spoken

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about is ?8.4 billion. One thing that has emerged today which is

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important is that the cost of rolling out more services at

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weekends in hospitals and GP surgeries has to be accounted for by

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these numbers. Initially, NHS leaders wanted extra money for that

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and they are now not going to get it. I'm told that will come towards

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the end of the parliament in a few years. It is a big challenge

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delivering that and I think it will remain a big challenge, preparing

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for the efficiency savings which will very much be needed by that

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point. We need to know where they are going to come from. Alton Towers

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says human error was to blame for the roller-coaster crash this year

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which left five people seriously injured. A report by the theme park

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said the right's safety control systems had been manually

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overridden. Two young woman who were trapped for hours had to have

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amputations as a result of the accident. I joined by our

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correspondent. Explain what more we know. We've had some more

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confirmation from the theme park which explains what went wrong with

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that manual override. A new statement has said a member of staff

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had misunderstood, that is the word Alton Towers uses, a shutdown

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message and chose to manually override the system, which sent the

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carriage, carrying 16 visitors, into the back of a stationary carriage.

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This happened on June the 2nd. You mentioned those two young woman who

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had legs amputated. Also in the front row of the carriage that

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crashed into the back of the empty one were to men as well -- two men

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as well. One suffered severe knee injuries and another suffered a

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punctured lung and broke his leg. Merlin entertainments has said they

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suffered a loss in earnings as a result of the accident. They have

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had fewer visitor numbers at parks. Brussels is still in lockdown -

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because of fears Meanwhile in Paris,

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police are examining what's thought to be a suicide belt,

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dumped on a Paris street. It's said to be similar to

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the ones used by the attackers, and was found near to a spot where

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a mobile phone used by a key suspect, Salah Abdeslam, was traced

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on the night of the killings. British airways and easyJet are

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cancelling all their flights to and from Sharm El-Sheikh until January.

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It follows a bombing of a Russian airliner. Our business correspondent

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reports. The wreckage of the Metro Jet flight lies scattered across the

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desert. 224 people were aboard, mainly Russian holiday-makers

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heading home. We now know the accident was caused by a bomb,

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Robert Lee placed aboard here at the airport of Sharm El-Sheikh. --

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probably placed. After the accident, flights were suspended. There was

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chaos as travel companies scrambled to get their customers home.

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Security warnings have been to stay away from the airport. EasyJet has

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decided to cancel all flights to the region until the 6th of January, in

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order to provide certainty for passengers. They have promised

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refunds but some would-be holiday-makers are not impressed. My

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wife is quite disappointed. It is the first day of my son's school

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holidays. We were meant to be going away. We are not going away now. It

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will be a rainy Christmas in London instead of a sunny one in Egypt.

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British Airways has also cancelled services until the 14th of January.

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Under normal circumstances, Egypt is a popular destination. For package

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operators, the Christmas holiday is a peak period. For the moment, they

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still hope to operate. Thomas Cook and others have suspended flights

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until the middle of December. They will be keen to get back to normal

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as soon as possible. Further cancellations look inevitable. The

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top story: A Russian fighter jet has been shot down by Turkish forces

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along the border with Syria. President Putin called it a stab in

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the back. Coming up, concerns about the extent of performance enhancing

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drugs among Welsh Rugby League players. Later on BBC London,

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exhibitions looking at technology come together for an opening.

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And, a return to the ring for Bermondsey boxer David Haye,

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more than three years after he retired from the sport.

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We were reporting on yesterday's programme about how countries

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like Morocco are using solar power to help meet their energy needs.

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Today, we're looking at Malawi, one of the world's poorest countries,

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where the vast majority of people have no access to electricity.

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Our Environment Correspondent, Roger Harrabin, visited the country to see

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what the problems are and how small scale projects are providing

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90% of people in Malawi have no electricity.

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He sells the charcoal almost all people here use for cooking.

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He gets up at 2am, then makes a 60-mile round trip for less than ?2.

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She grubs in the dirt for fragments of charcoal to sell.

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Malawi's emissions from coal and gas are tiny compared with rich nations.

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But the charcoal trade itself is fuelling climate change.

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Malawi has one of the worst deforestation records in the world.

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Bear hills heat the climate and wood felling has another side effect.

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Soil flushing off deforested hills is choking Malawi's rivers.

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And that's reducing the amount of electricity made

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by the country's main energy source, clean, hydropower.

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So the people up stream are so desperate for power that they

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are cutting wood which is loosening soil, clogging up the dam

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Malawi has promised that despite its poverty,

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it will reduce deforestation and cut projected greenhouse gas emissions

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It's also warned environmentalists that it needs some coal power too.

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We still need a lot of energy to drive our equipment.

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The Malawi government said we still need to go

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These women on a project funded by British aid are using mud to

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And bolted on to a cook stove here is this thermo-electric generator

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It makes electricity through heat to charge your phone or your radio.

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And in the darkness, there's a little light.

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This six-year-old's school grades have improved since her

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But here is a reality check, most people here can't afford

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the ?2.50 Lamps and whatever happens in climate

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negotiation, countless families will still face a mighty challenge over

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You can see more on that on Newsnight tonight at 10. 45.

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Seven out of eight children who are abused don't tell anyone, according

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to research by the Children's Commissioner for England.

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A report found that 50,000 children had been abused between 2012

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and 2014 but it estimates the true figure could be as high as 450,000.

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Here's our social affairs correspondent, Alison Holt.

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Wrung of Maurice Robinson's earliest memories is of his father sexually

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abusing him. He describes what happened from them on as relentless.

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Today's report says the majority of child sexual abuse happens within

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family networks. Like a significant number of abuse survivors, Maurice

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did tell his mother but that didn't stop the abuse.

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I tried to explain as a three or four-year-old child would do. He got

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me again and said, you told your mum again, you mustn't tell anybody

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else. He said, I'm only teaching you and that was the way perpetrators

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work, they want to win all the time. The report by the Children's

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Commissioner for England draws on data from police, councils and abuse

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survivors. It estimates over two years up to 50,000 children were

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sexually abused, but only one in eight were known to the authorities.

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It also says 66% of child sexual abuse happens at the hands of family

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members or their close friends. Most children tell us they don't

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know how to tell. Most won't come to the attention of the services

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because of that. We need to recognise that and change it. The

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report team also found most children who managed to tell someone were 12

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or older, but for many, the abuse had started years before.

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Police leaders and others say we have to do much better. I think this

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now has to be a watershed moment for all partners and agencies involved

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in child protection matters. We now have to fundamentally rethink how we

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go about stopping abuse happening on he horrific scale that the

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Commission identified. Like Maurice, many only tell their stories as

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adults. More training is needed to spot signs of abuse as part of a

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drive to protect children who don't have the words to explain what is

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happening. Alison is here with me now. Alarming

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figures, potentially up to 450,000 children abused in a two-year

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period. How do they arrive at the figures? Well, they are an estimate,

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because in the end we'll never know for certain exactly how many chink

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are facing this sort of abuse and trauma. But, it's got comprehensive

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research behind it so the figures are robust. What they've done is,

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gathered data from police and local authorities, they've reviewed all

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existing research and, in addition to that, they have surveyed more

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than 750 adult survivors of abuse, so the most comprehensive survey of

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that particular type. They have combined it using a model used by

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Government to estimate the scale of problems and have come up with this

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figure of between 400,000 and 450,000 children being abused. I

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think it's fair to say the data is robust, it raises serious questions

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about how we deal with this and provides valuable detail about what

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was going on in children's lives. The trial of three men accused

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of taking part in the Hatton Gardens heist has heard how

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the first attempt to break The jury's been hearing how

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the gang had to buy more drilling equipment to get into the room

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housing the safety deposit boxes. Let's cross to Woolwich Crown Court

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and our correspondent, It's been a day in which the

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prosecution said two of the burglars pulled out after the unsuccessful

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first night. They say one of the men on trial here actually walked away

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at the scene of the crime just as his accomplices were about to pull

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off England's biggest burglary. The jury heard yesterday how the

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Hatton Garden burglars drove off in their van the first night empty

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handed. They had drilled through the vault

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wall but hadn't managed to get past the backs of the safe deposit

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cabinets inside the vault. But, the prosecution say, two days later, the

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men visited Machine Mart in Twickenham and bought a new pump and

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hose to push over the cabinets. That night, the men arrived again at

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Hatton Garden. But at that moment, according to the prosecution, Carl

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Wood, one of the men on trial today, walked away from England's biggest

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burglary. Terry Perkins, one of the ring

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leaders, recalled the moment six weeks later, recorded on a police

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bug in his car. And they did get in. They forced the

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cabinets over, crawled into the vault and got open 73 safe deposit

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boxes and ransacked them. On Easter Sunday morning, the

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prosecution say they made off with ?14 million worth of gold, diamonds,

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watches and jewellery, all stashed in their bags and two wheelie bins,

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only around a third of the stolen property has been recovered.

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In the last hour, the jury heard how six weeks after the burglary, the

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police were on to the gang and installed recording dwietions in two

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of their cars. They were listening in as the men discussed moving their

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loot. Eventually, as several bags of stolen property were being moved,

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detectives pounced and arrested most of the gang, but one of the men,

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known only as Basil, has never been identified.

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A number of Labour MPs are expected to back replacing Britain's Trident

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nuclear deterrent despite opposition from its leadership.

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The debate has been called by the SNP, which wants the nuclear

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Let's speak to our political correspondent, Carole Walker.

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The SNP have opened this debate, the party's defence spokesman Brendan

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O'Hara said there was political consensus across the parties and the

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people in Scotland, that they wanted to be rid of what he called "weapons

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of mass destruction", but what this debate and this vote later this

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afternoon does do is, it shines a very harsh light on the difficulties

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that there are within the Labour Party on this issue.

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The Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn, a life long campaigner against nuclear

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weapons wants to be rid of them. Most of his party, his MPs here at

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Westminster want to retain and renew the Trident nuclear weapons system.

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Now, the Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, has said, that is a

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shambles, Labour have been told to abstain when it comes to the vote

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later this afternoon, but it looks as though around 20 Labour MPs could

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in fact vote with the Government, thus underlining how difficulties

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for Labour to resolve its differences, particularly when it

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comes to security and defence. There are concerns that the use of

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performance enhancing drugs by rugby Figures show that a third

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of all the athletes banned in the UK are league or union players from

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Wales, as our Wales correspondent, It's a game where the pressure is on

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to be bigger, faster and stronger than the opposition. But despite

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testing for banned substances at every level of rugby, some are

:26:25.:26:28.

clearly prepared to run the risk of getting caught.

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Last week, two Welsh amateur level players became the latest to join

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the UK's banned list after being found to take performance enhancing

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drugs. They joined 15 other Rugby League and union players from Wales

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serving suspensions. The number of players who've been

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caught and banned is relatively small compared to the thousands who

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play rugby at grass roots level every week, but some argue they're

:26:54.:26:57.

only a symptom of a much bigger problem that the authorities failed

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to tackle. One former player spoke to the BBC anonymously about what

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he'd witnessed in Welsh rugby. His words are spoken by an actor.

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I think it's totally off the scale. I think people are probably blind to

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it and if the truth came out, I think there would be probably a lot

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more players who were banned from playing. It's not just a problem for

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Welsh rugby. Former England under 16 player Daniel Spencer-Tonks was

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given a four-year ban after testing positive in a third tier Rugby

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League game. At my level, you knew the testers were coming around

:27:34.:27:38.

potentially once a year pre-season and then maybe towards the end of

:27:39.:27:41.

the year they might come around after a game, probably not. I

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believe that's why it's so massive because you can get away with it.

:27:48.:27:50.

Doping is under scrutiny in every sport. In athletics and cycling,

:27:51.:27:55.

some have been shown to cheat their way to the very top. The ability to

:27:56.:28:00.

take a drug which passes through the body quickly has made it easier to

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be one step ahead of the testing regime. The drugs will leave the

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system very quickly, they can be quite confident when they are going

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to testing that they won't be caught because the current testing will not

:28:12.:28:14.

be able to detect the drugs because they are no longer in the system.

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Both Rugby Union and Rugby League admit there is an issue which they

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say they are addressing. I wouldn't say it's not an issue in rugby,

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because the fact that one player getting banned is one too many, as

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far as I'm concerned, so the challenge for us not just in rugby

:28:32.:28:36.

but in sport generally I think is to get it out of the game. A challenge

:28:37.:28:41.

for rugby at every level is to keep confidence in the sport and ensure

:28:42.:28:46.

supporters and sponsors and everyone is playing within the rules.

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Time for a look at the weather now with Chris.

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Seeing some big swings in temperatures this week across the

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UK. This picture was sent in yesterday showing some fog on the

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grass, fog on the horizon in the cold Arctic air, with temperatures

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down at minus six in Oxfordshire. Since then, temperatures have

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surged, some 15 degrees up. Neonatal to start the day and this morning we

:29:14.:29:20.

have had a recent change. You can see a lot of cloud here in

:29:21.:29:27.

Kent with outbreaks of rain. You get a sense of the weather front

:29:28.:29:32.

becoming more organised an active. It's going to drag its heels. For

:29:33.:29:37.

some in Kent it might be still raining in a couple of hours, but

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eventually becoming dry. Clumps of showers in some areas. For Northern

:29:47.:29:50.

Ireland, cloud write with showers and Northern Ireland having a few

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showers. At least between the showers you are going to see some

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sunny spells but you are in the cold air. The Atlantic flexes its muscles

:29:58.:30:02.

tonight. A breeze will come in from the sea.

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Temperatures eight to ten in the west. Notice the clearer skies

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further north and east, that is where we'll have the lower

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temperatures and in parts of Scotland, pockets of frost in

:30:13.:30:16.

shelter, temperatures perhaps down to minus two. Looking at Wednesday's

:30:17.:30:23.

picture, an east-west split. A weak weather front brings splashes of

:30:24.:30:27.

rain. In the eastern side, some sunshine but it will feel cool,

:30:28.:30:30.

temperatures seven degrees in Norwich and Edinburgh as well.

:30:31.:30:35.

We are all in a cloudy boat on Thursday, dry weather but a bit of

:30:36.:30:40.

rain across the north-west of the UK, heaviest in Scotland. It will

:30:41.:30:44.

start to get a bit milder. We end the week with low pressure bringing

:30:45.:30:52.

another pulse of rain across the UK. The winds are coming in from a

:30:53.:30:56.

south-westerly mild direction so temperature-wise on Friday, highs to

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12. It will be the mildest day of this week.

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The stripe of rain is a cold front and, as that swings through, as we

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head through Friday night, we'll get into the colder air. That is what we

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are looking at this weekend, cold enough for some wintry showers, snow

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over the high ground of northern parts of the UK, whereas further

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south we areliking at blustery conditions this weekend with some

:31:18.:31:21.

pulses of rain. Quite a changeable picture and big swings in

:31:22.:31:22.

temperatures over the next few days. Now a reminder

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of our top story this lunchtime. A Russian fighter jet has been shot

:31:26.:31:28.

down by Turkish forces That's all from us,

:31:29.:31:31.

now on BBC One it's time

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