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Head-to-head - Donald Trump is to meet US intelligence chiefs

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in the row over their claims of Russian hacking.

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They insist they've evidence the Kremlin interfered

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with the presidential election - claims Mr Trump has challenged.

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His use of social media to engage in the row have

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prompted the outgoing Vice President Joe Biden to tell

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Also this lunchtime: Hundreds of people attend the funeral

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in Huddersfield of the man shot dead by West Yorkshire Police on Monday.

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Russia says it's starting to withdraw its forces from Syria

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An iceberg a quarter of the size of Wales is close to breaking away

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And the sounds of Stonehenge - scientists reveal another

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And coming up in the sport on BBC News: The Manchester City boss

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is hoping for a "special first experience" of the FA Cup third

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round, when they visit West Ham this evening.

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

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Donald Trump will meet with the heads of the US

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intelligence services later today, over claims that Russia

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interfered in the American presidential election.

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The heads of the CIA, FBI and National Intelligence

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all insist the Kremlin ordered a cyber attack to help

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But the President-elect has made his doubts very public,

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in a series of comments on social media.

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Last night, the outgoing Vice-President, Joe Biden,

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told the President-elect to "grow up", saying it was "absolutely

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mindless" not to have faith in intelligence agencies.

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US intelligence is convinced Russia tried to influence the American

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election by hacking Democratic party e-mails.

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President-elect Donald Trump has not only dismissed that, but

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set himself on a collision course with the intelligence agencies.

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Their determination to show that they're

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right was made clear at a congressional committee hearing.

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The hacking was only one part of it and

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it also entailed classical propaganda, disinformation, fake

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The claim is that a hack designed to help Donald Trump win

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was authorised at the very highest level in Russia.

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Something he has rubbished from the start.

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Once they hack, if you don't catch them in the act, you are

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not going to catch them, they have no idea if it is Russia,

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It could be somebody sitting in a bed someplace.

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Earlier this week, he appeared to support

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comments made by Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks,

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who has denied Russia was involved in any hack.

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Later he wrote on his Twitter feed, the media lies to make it look like

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I am against intelligence, when in fact, I am a big fan.

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But then in another tweet, he has again

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So how and why are they so sure about

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hacking, he wrote, if they never even

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requested an examination of the

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Today, some of the most senior figures in US intelligence will

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I am hoping he is going to be respectful

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Respectful of the agency as well as the rest of the

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intelligence community and looking forward to a rather robust, if not

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And there has been blunt criticism of Mr

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Trump's approach from his political foes.

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For a president not to have confidence in, not to be prepared to

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listen to the myriad of intelligence agencies,

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from defence intelligence, the CIA etc, is absolutely mindless.

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An unclassified version of the intelligence findings is to be

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Whatever the American public makes of that information,

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the relationship between the President-elect

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and the intelligence community is already strained.

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In a moment we will speak to our security correspondent, Llera,

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Gordon Corera, but first, Aleem Maqbool in Washington. These are

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very strong words from Joe Biden. Yes, we heard about a collision

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course with the intelligence services in America but also a

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collision course between Donald Trump and members of his own party,

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who want something done about this, but strong words from Joe Biden, who

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also said the way Donald Trump was behaving was almost like saying that

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he knew more about physics than his professor, even though he hadn't

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read the book, he just knew that he knew more. There is a sense of that

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from a lot of frustrated people within the intelligence services.

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We've now got this situation today, where we have the national director

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of intelligence, the head of the CIA, and the head of the FBI, who

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will sit down with him and explained that they now know some of the

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motivation behind the Russian hack, where it was directed from. We also

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hear that they know who then passed on intelligence to WikiLeaks, which

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is where we all got to know about something of what was hacked. But

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there are those within Donald Trump's party who say, if this is

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all true and they believe that it is true, then there have to be

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sanctions against Russia, there have to be ways in which Russia pays and

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so far, Donald Trump has not only shown that he is casting doubt on

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the intelligence which has already been made public, but he's also

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shown that he is a huge admirer of Donald Trump, so lots of collisions

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and arguments set to be surrounding this particular issue in the coming

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weeks. Let's pick up, lots of questions raised there but looking

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at this relationship between a soon-to-be president and his

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intelligence services, this appears to be unprecedented. There have been

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fallings out between the intelligence community of presidents

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in the past, but I think we've never seen it on Twitter, we've never seen

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this kind of public disparaging of intelligence by a President-elect.

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Ever come before. I think in that briefing room, what's colliding two

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things, really. The credibility of US intelligence, which has been

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called into question by Donald Trump, and the legitimacy of Donald

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Trump's own election, which has been called into question by the

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intelligence community saying Moscow and the Kremlin supported him. Those

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ideas are going to collide in that briefing room for the first time

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Donald Trump is going to have to engage with the facts as they are

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presented. Does he believe them, does he not? How does he talk about

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them on Twitter afterwards? Everyone below -- everyone will be watching

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that closely. The risk is for both of them that they both come out

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damaged, the intelligence community and Donald Trump, by this struggle

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and to this clash which is going on at the moment Corera, thank you.

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Hundreds of people have attended the funeral in Huddersfield

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of the man shot dead by West Yorkshire Police on Monday.

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The inquest into the death of Yassar Yaqub was opened

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Let's go live to our correspondent, Danny Savage,

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It's been a very busy morning in connection with the incidents here

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on Monday night, when Yassar Yaqub was shot dead by police officers as

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he came in his car down a slip road off the M62. His funeral has taken

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place at this mosque a few hours ago. People are now gathering for

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Friday prayers, but we've also had a man in court in connection with case

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and the inquest has been opened into the death of the man who was killed.

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Hundreds of people came to Yassar Yaqub's funeral at a mosque

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Many didn't know him personally, but were here to support his family.

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His father, mother and sisters were deeply distressed.

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The consistent thought from those present, is that they want answers

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as to why he was shot by police on Monday night.

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The parents have lost their son, those sisters

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His friends, family, they all need answers and I think

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We are hoping that within this week we should have a proper

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Do you think that may calm tensions if you get the facts?

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Definitely, we have a proper investigation and a justifiable

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One key question about the shooting was answered today.

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The police have already said a gun was found in the white

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We know he was the front seat passenger in the car.

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At the inquest into his death this morning, it was revealed the gun

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was found in the front passenger foot well of the vehicle,

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The inquest was told Yassar Yaqub was shot by a police officer

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He was listed in court as being a 28-year-old office clerk,

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but many people in Huddersfield believed he was a

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He was, in 2010, accused and cleared of trying to murder two people

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His family stress he was never convicted of anything.

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Meanwhile, a 30-year-old man arrested at the time,

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appeared before magistrates in Leeds.

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Moshin Amin is charged with firearms offences,

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including possessing a pistol and silencer.

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The court case involving him will go forward with further hearings in the

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future. The inquest was adjourned until the end of March. The coroner

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has asked for the Independent police plays commission, who are overseeing

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this investigation, to keep him up to date with what is going on, so

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more information will come out and bits and pieces of information are

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coming out over the exact events here on Monday evening. A clearer

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picture is becoming apparent. Nicola Sturgeon has suggested

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a so-called "soft Brexit" could postpone another vote

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on Scottish independence. Scotland's First Minister

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was speaking on the BBC's She said she believed Scotland's

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"direction of travel" was still towards independence,

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but that could be "put Let's speak to our Scotland

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correspondent, Glenn Campbell. What should we read

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into this exactly? Nicola Sturgeon is opposed to

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Brexit, but the position that she's developed is that she's prepared to

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compromise. In other words, that she is prepared to accept Brexit in

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certain circumstances, in December she set out what compromise she

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would be prepared to accept, effectively if the UK as a whole was

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to stay in the European single market, or to argue for a special

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arrangement that would allow Scotland to stay in, then she would

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be prepared to take off the table the possibility of a second vote on

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Scottish independence for the period of the Brexit negotiations.

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England and Wales voted to leave, Northern Ireland voted to stay.

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And even in Scotland, which voted overwhelmingly

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to remain in the EU, a million people voted to leave.

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What I am trying to do is to see whether, with compromise and a focus

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on building consensus, there is a proposition the maximum

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She has put together a paper exploring these options. That's been

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sent to the UK Government and Ms Sturgeon is effectively saying that

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the ball is now in Theresa May's court. If she doesn't want there to

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be a call from the Scottish Government for a second vote on

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independence, she wants Theresa May to move on this agenda, otherwise

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she says that she will push for the question of Scottish independence to

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be revisited. Some of her opponents think siege is -- she is making

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demands that she knows will be rejected to strengthen her argument

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for independence. Nicola Sturgeon insists she is genuinely trying to

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achieve consensus around a compromise.

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Glenn, thank you. We've often reported on the problems

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of bed blocking in hospitals - But new research indicates the issue

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is even worse in mental The research found that in trusts

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that specialise in mental health and learning disabilities,

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the rise in the number of delayed discharges is double

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that of acute hospitals. Our social affairs correspondent,

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Michael Buchanan, has the details. Oliver Lang helps his father run

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a small post office in Norfolk. In 2014, the 27-year-old

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was detained under He spent several weeks

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in a psychiatric unit, but even when he was well enough

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to leave, he couldn't. Delays in arranging support

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in the community meant he spent a further two months

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unnecessarily in hospital. I felt like I was in danger

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in there, because a lot There, I felt like if

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someone attacks me, I'd But if I did defend myself, and hurt

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someone, they'd say he is a danger, so that'd keep me locked

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up for longer. I was trying to be

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whiter than white. More than 200,000 bed days were lost

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by the NHS in England last October. Physical health trusts saw a 30%

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rise in the previous 12 months. But for mental health and learning

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disability trusts, the increase was 56%. This former care Minister says

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the figures show once more the crisis in mental health care.

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It means there's a shortage of community psychiatric nurses,

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a shortage of support services, like detox facilities,

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and a shortage in social care, which I think has hit people

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with mental ill health disproportionately hard.

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The pressure on mental health services is intense and growing.

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Last year in London for instance, four mental health trusts said their

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bed occupancy levels were 100%, that means that every single bed they had

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was full every single day of the year. Problems in the mental health

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centre damar created throughout. If people can't leave it's hard to

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admit other people so we have people in crisis who need a bed and we have

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people scouring the country sometimes to find a bed we can admit

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them to. Ministers say they are aware of the problems and will spend

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?400 million in this Parliament ensuring psychiatric patients can be

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treated at home. Michael Buchanan, BBC News.

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Russia says it is reducing its military presence in Syria. Ahead of

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Russia's Armed Forces said the defeat of rebel forces in Aleppo in

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the current ceasefire meant its mission had been fulfilled. Let's

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speak to our correspondent in Beirut, Alex Forsyth. What is the

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significance of the announcement? Russian military forces have played

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a key role in the Syrian war since 2015, providing support to the

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Syrian regime with heavy air strikes in rebel held areas. So much so

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Moscow is credited with helping turn the tide with its ally Bashar

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al-Assad. But at the end of December, Vladimir Putin announced a

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partial pull-out of its forces in light of the ceasefire Russia helped

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to broker, and which despite some violations and ongoing violence, is

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largely holding. Today the Russian Foreign Ministry said its aircraft

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carrier and smaller warships which are based in the Mediterranean would

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be the first to leave. Russia will retain a significant military

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presence in Syria, but for some they think this is Russia seeing it

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entering into a different phase with the retaking of Aleppo and peace

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talks later this month. But this isn't the first time Russia has

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announced a withdrawal from Syria. It did so in March last year, only

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to ramp up its presence when the fighting continued. Alex, thank you.

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Donald Trump prepares to meet intelligence chiefs over

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claims Russia interfered in the presidential election.

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British Number One Johanna Konta's hopes of starting the year

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with a title were ended with a shock defeat.

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She was beaten by World Number 52 Katerina Siniakova

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An iceberg a quarter of the size of Wales is close to breaking away

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If and when it happens, it would be one of the 10

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Scientists have been monitoring the break-up for months.

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And even though the crack in the ice shelf has got

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significantly worse in December, they're not blaming it

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on climate change, but calling it a "natural event".

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Here's our cnvironment correspondent, Matt McGrath.

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Stretching for around 100 miles, the rift in the ice shelf has grown rich

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rapidly in weeks. 12 miles of frozen material is keeping this iceberg

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from drifting into the sea. Collapsing ice shelves are not

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uncommon in Antarctica, as these pictures show these fragmentation is

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can affect the landscape, creating icebergs of all shapes and sizes.

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British researchers who have been monitoring the crack, have

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discovered the dramatic expansion in the rift that has taken place in

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just two weeks in December. What we have found, the rift that has been

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in this ice shelf for a number of years has broken through another 18

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kilometres and is now at risk of giving birth to an iceberg the

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quarter of the size of Wales. It is a very large iceberg that will go

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out into the open ocean but the remaining ice shelf, we believe,

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will be less stable. When large icebergs break off the edge of an

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ice shelf like the one in 2002, it can have a dramatic affect on the

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stability of the structure. Most of the remaining shelf disintegrated in

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less than a month. Experts at the British Antarctic survey are worried

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any new iceberg formation could have long-term consequences. When the ice

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shelf loses this ice, it might start to collapse. If that were to occur,

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then the glaciers that feed the ice shelf could flow faster and

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contribute more to sea-level rise over the next few decades. The new

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icebergs will be one of the biggest recorded, around 50 times the size

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of Manhattan Island. But despite the concerns of global warming,

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researchers said they have no evidence that climate change is

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playing any significant role in the new iceberg's formation.

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Four people have been charged with hate crimes in connection

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with the assault on a teenager with special needs,

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The two men and two women are due to appear in court

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These are the faces of the suspects charged over the kidnap and torture

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Over a 48-hour period, there was a prolonged

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attack on the victim, who has mental health challenges.

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And it was broadcast live on the social media site, Facebook.

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The four suspects have been charged with aggravated kidnapping

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We have the statements of the four, they admit they were beating him,

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kicking him, they made him drink toilet water.

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And then obviously, the video where they are cutting

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The victim finally escaped from a flat in Chicago and his

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The victim finally escaped from a flat in Chicago when his

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His brother-in-law said his family was just pleased he will say.

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We are so grateful for all the prayers and efforts that led

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We are fully aware of the charges being brought against the offenders.

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At this time, we asked for continued prayers for all those involved,

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for our family's privacy as we cope and heal.

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In the video, the attackers could be heard making racist comments.

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President Obama said it highlighted problems that have

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Part of what technology allows us to see now is the terrible toll that

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racism and discrimination and hate takes on families and communities.

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The outgoing president went on to say the attack in Chicago

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But he remained optimistic about the long-term state of race

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The winter months often see an increase in cases

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of anxiety and depression, with the short days and financial

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One solution is an internet-based therapy that involves

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chatting to someone and getting advice online.

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Graham Satchell has been to meet one man who's benefited from it.

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Not a time of year that I enjoy at all.

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When I'm expected to be happy, I'm supposed to be,

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Christmas and New Year are difficult times for Nick.

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He's lived with anxiety and depression for many years.

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Have been since I found out it was happening.

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My natural instinct is to worry about everything.

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I'm constantly thinking and analysing everything

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I struggle to make decisions, some of them really simple decisions.

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What I'm going to have for supper, for example.

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I can spend an awful long time in the supermarket just trying

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She offered him a series of online therapy sessions.

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It's a typed conversation with a trained therapist

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You write something, how you're feeling,

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what you're thinking, and there's a pause while the other

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person, your therapist, is waiting to respond.

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And just writing something down, which I'd never done before

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and I was scared to do it, I found it was a safe

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It had quite a profound effect actually for me personally.

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Online therapy on the NHS is normally delivered

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by private companies, like Ieso Digital Health.

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Critics say it's just a cheap way of providing a service that

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But the therapists who do it say the success rate is the same,

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When you put a computer between an experienced

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therapist and patient, all sorts of things can happen.

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Usually, in my experience, those problem statements,

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the first thing they say to their therapists,

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But here we see it occurring right there in the first session.

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And that's really important, because once you know

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what the problem is, you can start the treatment.

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Talking to a therapist online won't work for everyone,

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I was really struggling to cope with what I was thinking,

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Nick Martin speaking to our correspondent Graham Satchell.

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Now, it's famous throughout the world for using the sun to mark

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But now it seems Stonehenge may also have had its own, distinct, sound.

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Scientists at the site have used virtual reality technology

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to recreate what the henge would have looked like,

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thousands of years ago, when it was complete.

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And they've used ancient musical instruments to recreate

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Our correspondent, David Sillito, went along for a listen.

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People have been coming here for at least 4000-5000

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years, so we're walking in the feet of history.

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When the wind blows, some people say they hear a strange hum.

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Thomas Hardy wrote about it in Tess Of The d'Urbervilles,

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and Dr Rupert Till is convinced the sound of Stonehenge

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You hear between each beat, a little echo.

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As the sound leaves you, hits the stone and comes

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The problem is this is just a fragment of the sound people

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I met the site's historian, Susan Greening.

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So, this is the front door of Stonehenge we're

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That's right, yes, and we are coming into the central space now.

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It does change a bit as you walk through, doesn't it?

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It does, you have the feeling of being enclosed within a space.

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And that's with many of the stones having gone?

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What we're looking at today is the ruin of Stonehenge.

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Many stones have been taken away from the site,

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many have fallen down, lots have been eroded,

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It would've been a completely different atmosphere

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What this new technology offers is a possibility, a chance to, well,

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return back and see and also hear what this place used

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We have constructed it by rebuilding Stonehenge digitally and used

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software to reconstruct the acoustics of the space

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as it would have been when all of the stones were here.

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So, how different is the old sound to the sound we have today?

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Well, if I tap it strong now, you will hear a little bit of an echo.

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Well, if I tap this drum now, you will hear

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When all of the stones are put in place, there is a much more

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powerful sense of enclosure, a slight reverberation,

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more echo, and it changes more as you walk around.

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So today it's just a ruin beside a city road.

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This, a chance to say goodbye to the 21st century and experience

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Finally, wanted to be the best friend. Also, must be an elephant.

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This is the only elephant to be kept in Scottish safari park but she lost

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her companion last year. So the safari park near Stirling has put

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out a lonely hearts ad to the zoos of Europe. Lorna Gordon is there.

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Yes, it has been a lonely existence. She is an animal with a very big

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heart, but she has been on her own since her companion of almost 20

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years died last year. With me is the elephant keeper, how has she been

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coping? When at first her companion died, she was upset. She had been

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with her for 20 years. But we're lucky, she has a strong character,

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she is independent and confident and active. It has been easy to keep her

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busy. And a lot of interaction with the keepers? Yes, we have upped her

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training sessions to give her more interaction and we have done more

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enrichment, keeping it varied and different every day. What are you

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looking for now? Looking for a friend, an African elephant, going

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to need to be female and about the same age. She is 45 years old now.

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Also will have to take her character into account, she is quite dominant

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so we need someone who will fit in with her quite well. Are there any

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other elephants who fit this in UK? No, we're having to look further

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afield but we are confident we will find someone. We want to take our

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time so it is done properly and will be the best the long-term.

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Eventually you would like her to be joined by more than just one? Yes,

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we have a very good facility, we are set up to be a retirement home for

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elderly elephant. Thank you for that, she does seem in fine Vettel,

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on her own for the last nine months, but hopefully not for much longer.

:30:13.:30:15.

We are bringing in changes as we head into the weekend. Goodbye to

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the frost. We have had frosty scenes in eastern parts of the country.

:30:29.:30:32.

Hertfordshire is down below freezing but there is some sunshine as well.

:30:33.:30:36.

We're waving goodbye to the frost but also the sunshine. This was in

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southern Scotland this morning. Temperatures above freezing. But

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sets us up for the weekend. It will be less chilly but more cloud

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around. The cloud has been spreading in from the West on the satellite

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picture. But tied in with this lump of cloud, we have some mild air.

:30:54.:31:02.

That is giving us a misty and murky conditions. 11 degrees in Belfast,

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eight or nine in Glasgow and brighter glances across northern

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Scotland, but since that -- southern Scotland into northern England, rain

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especially of a. As the rain initially arrives across the

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Midlands, only four Celsius in Birmingham. Maybe the odd glimmer of

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brightness for a time across the south-east. This evening and

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tonight, the rain will work its way southwards and eastwards and all

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others will see some rain. Behind it we have cloud, missed and murk, but

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look at these temperatures. These are the overnight lows. Frost free.

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Scotland will see the brightest of the weather tomorrow particularly

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towards the north and the East. Elsewhere, a lot of cloud, missed

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and murk, spots of light rain and drizzle out west. But it is less

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chilly, vertically down to the south, ten or 11 degrees. If you are

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out and about on Saturday night, a lot of cloud, missed and murk. It is

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because of high pressure and what this high-pressure is, it means

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light winds. It is stagnant air, so nothing much that will break the

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cloud up during Sunday. The grey day for the most part. The best of the

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brightness across north-eastern Scotland. Patchy rain in the West.

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The mildest weather in the West as well. Chilly further east, but not

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as chilly as it has been and certainly not as chilly as it will

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be across Eastern Europe. -25 in Moscow on Sunday afternoon. The cold

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air has spread all the way southwards across the eastern side

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of Europe. The cold weather causing one or two problems. Back home, and

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the change next week. Wet weather sinking southwards, windy weather in

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the north and that leads us into what will be a much more changeable

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week as we go to next week. So some changes on the way, certainly for

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the weekend. We say goodbye to the frost and say hello to a lot of

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cloud. A reminder of our main

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story this lunchtime: Donald Trump is preparing to meet

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intelligence chiefs over claims Russia interfered

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in the presidential election. So it's goodbye from me

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