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Pressure on the White House - with calls for an investigation

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into the Trump administration's links with Russia.

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After his National Security Adviser quits, Donald Trump is urged

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to think again his policy on President Putin.

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I think eventually, the Trump administration is going to have to

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adapt its approach to Russia as a result.

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As President Trump meets Israel's Prime Minister,

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we'll be getting the latest from Washington, and Jerusalem.

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in connection with the death of North Korean leader

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Another fall in unemployment - and figures reveal a fall of 19,000

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in the number of workers from the EU.

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A bitter row in the Church of England, as leaders debate

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Landing himself in trouble - Harrison Ford flies his plane

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onto the wrong runway, narrowly missing

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The science which suggests heading a football may be linked

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Coming up in the sport on BBC News as both Barcelona's manager, Luis

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Enrique, describes their 4-0 Champions League thrashing as a

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disastrous night, with PSG heading to the quarterfinals.

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the BBC News at One.

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This time yesterday, it looked like a bit of a hiccup

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Today, the events surrounding the resignation of his

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National Security Adviser are looking more like a real

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political crisis, with questions about what the President himself

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There are calls for a formal investigation after claims

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that the Trump team were in contact with Russian intelligence officers

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President Trump has hit back tweeting THIS in the last half hour,

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effectively accusing the intelligence

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All this as he welcomes the Israeli Prime Minister,

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Benjamin Netanyahu, to Washington, with one White House official saying

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a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians may NOT come

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If Donald Trump thought that by accepting the

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If Donald Trump thought that by accepting the resignation

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he might have neatly wrapped up the first big crisis

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of his presidency, he'll be frustrated to hear the growing

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clamour from leading Democrats and some Republicans for a much

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wider investigation into the former national security

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Several experienced and respected figures in Washington have expressed

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concern that someone who was so close to the president

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had several detailed discussions with senior Russian officials

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about sensitive areas of American policy even before

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Given what has happened to General Flynn,

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there are probably going to be further investigations that

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will undoubtedly include Russia's role in the 2016 campaign.

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I think eventually the Trump administration is going to have

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to adapt its approach to Russia as a result.

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Mr Trump and his senior officials insist that Mr Flynn's resignation

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was due to a breakdown of trust between him and the president,

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rather than anything illegal or an indication

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that the administration had badly mishandled the affair.

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Indeed in his customary tweets, the president bemoaned

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what he called the fake media's conspiracy theories and went

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so far as to accuse the intelligence services

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The press is going to continue write about it and people

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to leak them just about every morsel of information they can find.

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The Trump administration is leaking like a sinking ship.

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But those tricky foreign policy issues come thick and fast.

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After what could only be diplomatically described

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as the difficult relationship between Israeli leaders

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and Barack Obama, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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is meeting Mr Trump in Washington today, and Israeli leaders

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are expecting great things from the new administration.

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Reports attributed to a White House official said a two-state solution,

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separate Israeli and Palestinian states existing side-by-side,

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may not be the only option to achieve Middle East peace.

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Pursuing such a line would be a dramatic departure

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from existing US policy, delighting right-wing ministers

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in Israel who advocate settlement expansion.

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But Palestinian leaders would see any such move

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and will be closely watching Mr Trump's every word and tweet.

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In a moment, we'll talk to Jonny Dymond in Jerusalem.

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But first, over to Gary O'Donoghue, in Washington.

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This flurry of tweets in the last hour, suggesting the president is

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rather angry? Yes. Not entirely coherent, some of it, as well. But

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he has really whipped out this morning at the FBI and the

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intelligence community, accusing them of interfering in politics, of

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a legally leaking, really reigniting that war with the intelligence

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community that he had during the campaign. It's an extraordinary

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attack from a sitting president on his own agencies, that are charged

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with the security of the state. But he's clearly furious about this,

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particularly because these agencies do seem to be leaking quite a lot.

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The latest instalments suggest that they believe there were contacts

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between the Trump campaign and intelligence officers from Russia

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during last year. That's all denied all round, of course. But we do know

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that the intelligence community has said publicly that they believe

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Russia did interfere in the election on Mr Trump's behalf, or to get him

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elected, at any rate. There is a real stand-off going on right now,

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and I would not want to be in the shoes of James Kelly, the FBI

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director, this morning. Let's go to Jonny Dymond now in Jerusalem. This

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apparent change of heart about a two-state solution, how is that

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going down there? I think it will be greeted with great joy amongst some

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in Israel, great consternation amongst many in Israel and in

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Palestine and in the wider Arab world. The two-state solution, the

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idea that there would be a Palestinian state next to the state

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of Israel at the end of negotiations, has been the bedrock

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of negotiations for the last couple of decades, and the idea that it

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could be swept away will cause deep concern amongst centrist Israelis,

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Palestinians, the wider Arab world and the international community. The

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nationalist and religious right here in Israel will be delighted, because

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the West Bank, where that eventual Palestinian state would be, they see

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as part of greater Israel. The big question is, if it is not a

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two-state solution at the end of negotiations, what is it to be? It

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is worth acknowledging, the two-state solution has been the end

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point of a priest process which has gone pretty much nowhere over the

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last two decades, it might be that the Trump ministration has a grand

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idea to try to shake things up. But if you're not going to have a

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two-state solution at the end, what will it be? And if that is not the

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end point, are Palestinians going to turn up to negotiations at all?

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A woman has been arrested in connection with the assassination

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of the half-brother of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un.

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The authorities say they're hunting five other suspects.

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South Korea says it believes North Korea is behind the killing,

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and says the poisoning shows the "brutal inhumane nature"

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The assassination of Kim Jong-nam took place at Kuala Lumpur

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airport, in Malaysia, from where Karishma

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Is this one of the female assassins who carried out an audacious

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Malaysian police say that a Vietnamese woman has been detained

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as part of the investigation into the alleged assassination

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of this man, Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half-brother

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of North Korea's reclusive leader Kim Jong-un.

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At one point Mr Jung-nam being groomed to succeed his father

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as the next leader of North Korea but he fell out of favour and has

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How he may have died in KL airport, though, is still unclear.

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The fact in this case are murky, to say the least.

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There are a number of varying, multiple accounts of what happened.

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Between the hours of nine and 10am on Monday morning,

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a man believed to be Kim Jong-nan was attacked in this

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Police say that he was accosted by at least one woman,

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who covered his face with a cloth filled with some sort of burning

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After that he is thought to have walked over to that

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information counter over there to ask for help.

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And then he was taken to a medical clinic at the airport

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But how could an attack of this nature take place in broad daylight

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I asked a number of people who work here, but no-one

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Where you should go for information right now is the police,

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because they are the only ones that can give any updates.

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South Korea, though, insist the man who died was Kim Jong-nan,

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brutally murdered on the orders of the North Korean regime.

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TRANSLATION: The government is certainly judging the person

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Since this case is still being investigated, we should wait

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for details until the Malaysian government makes an announcement.

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The focus of the investigation will now move to KL hospital,

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where the body of the man believed to be Kim Jong-nan

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Malaysia says it can't confirm his identity

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until the postmortem is released - which may not happen

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A record number of people in the UK are now in work.

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Official figures show nearly 32 million adults are in a job -

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Unemployment also fell in the three months to December.

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And there's been a fall of 19,000 in the number

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of workers from the EU, as our economics correspondent

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This Worcestershire -based manufacturer of machine tools for

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the car industry has a problem. It wants to expand to meet demand for

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its precision parts, but it can't grow without the staff to do the

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work. It has been able to draw on a supply of skilled workers from the

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rest of the European Union, who make up a quarter of its workforce. But

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now, that supply is drying up. We are working with several recruiting

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agencies at the moment, who have been trying to find me people for

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several months now. And the calibre of people that we require are just

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not out there, and that is both indigenous population and overseas.

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The number of workers in the UK from the rest of the European Union has

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been growing by hundreds of thousands per year. But to the right

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of this chart, you can see how it has stopped growing as quickly. In

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the last few months of 2016, the number dropped slightly. Workers

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from Poland, for instance, who work in the UK, can buy less goods for

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what they earn here in their countries of origin. So, you only

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get, say, 90% of a washing machine for the same money for which you

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could I an entire washing machine. That clearly creates a disincentive

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to come to work or stay in the UK. The official figures also break down

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where people joining or leaving the workforce were born. The number of

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workers born in the UK dropped by 120,000. But the number of workers

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who weren't born in the UK increased A4 hundred and 30 1000. Many people

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would argue that we can't carry on with the immigration numbers that

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we've had, so the effect of that must be that we get better at

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re-training our own workers, Remax killing them and bringing into the

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employment market routes that were previously not unemployed, but in

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active. Over the last decade, the Connolly has grown used to large

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inflows of migrant labour, which has created jobs and allowed companies

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to find skilled workers when otherwise they would struggle. But

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for many businesses who have become dependent for their growth on

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migrant workers, a big adjustment is under way.

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The Prime Minister, Theresa May is visiting Cumbria,

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ahead of next week's by-election in the seat of Copeland, which is at

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Let's speak our political correspondent Tom Bateman.

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Theresa May has been visiting a school here in this constituency in

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Cumbria. We are expecting the prime ministerial car to appear at any

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moment as she leaves. It is this visit which I think is a sign of the

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confidence with which the Conservatives are approaching this

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by-election. This seat has been held by Labour since as long as anyone

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can remember, since the 1930s, in fact. It is not since the 1980s that

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a sitting government has managed to gain a seat from a opposition party.

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So this is a significant electoral test for Jeremy Corbyn's leadership

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of Labour. It will tell us much about the appeal of those two

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parties. This is a traditionally Labour supporting part of the world,

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in which many jobs are traditionally dependent on the nuclear industry at

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Sellafield and on the planned plant at Moorside, over which there is now

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some uncertainty. The Conservatives have tried to attack Jeremy Corbyn

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on that front, saying that historically he has opposed the

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nuclear and therefore cannot be trusted. The local candidate is

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saying that she supports that industry. As for Labour, they say

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the NHS is the real history here, and they point to Conservative

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policies which they say have put a local hospital services in doubt.

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So, this will be a real test I think for both parties, and it is turning

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into a race which potentially could tell us something really significant

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about the two. We will have a result a week on Friday.

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You can see a full list of the Copeland by-election

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Hollywood actor Harrison Ford has been involved in a near-miss

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while flying his plane in California.

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He mistakenly landed on a taxiway where an American Airlines jet

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US authorities say an investigation is underway.

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There is some flash photography coming up.

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It's not the Hollywood star's first flying mishap.

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Two years ago, the 74-year-old was seriously injured

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when his World War II plane crashed on a Los Angeles golf

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course, when it lost power shortly after take-off.

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In the latest incident, Harrison Ford, who collects vintage

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planes, was just coming in to land at John Wayne airport,

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Without naming him, the Federal Aviation Administration

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confirmed that a pilot of a single-engined

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to land and he had been correctly read back the clearance.

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But it appears the actor got a bit confused, and instead of landed

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on the designated runway, he touched down

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Just before landing, Ford is reported to have asked

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air-traffic controllers, "Was that airliner meant

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The Boeing 737 that WAS meant to be there had 110 passengers

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on board and took off safely a few minutes later.

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An FAA investigation is now underway, and it

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could result in the suspension of Ford's pilot licence.

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There are calls for an investigation into the Trump administration's

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As the president is urged to rethink his odyssey on President Putin.

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It was at this point the vehicle battery gave out.

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More than 30 years after the launch

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of the Clive Sinclair's C5, can his nephew succeed

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Arsenal face familiar foe Bayern Munich in the last 16

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Arsene Wenger's side have been knocked out at this stage,

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President Trump's defence secretary James Mattis,

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is meeting NATO defence ministers in Brussels today.

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Mr Trump has criticised the Alliance in the past -

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and ministers will want to hear General Mattis make it clear that

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Nato remains central to Washington's world view.

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Well, our defence correspondent Jonathan Beale reports now

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from Nato's most northerly border - between Norway and Russia -

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Winter in the Arctic Circle and the days are at last getting

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longer, but the climate is still unforgiving.

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The Norwegian border guard have to go out in all kinds of weather,

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keeping an eye on their neighbour, Russia.

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This is the Nato alliance's most northerly border.

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And at times it is a pretty inhospitable place.

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But every day, all year round, the Norwegian army

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Russia's flexing its military muscle in the high north,

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staking its claim on a region that is thought to have more oil

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But the new US Defence Secretary has called Russia's moves

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It's not reached the levels of the old Cold War

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Further south, US Marines are now being trained by the British,

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learning how to survive and fight in the Arctic.

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For many it's their first time on skis.

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What I'm going to go through now is another method

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This training is serious and has now become a regular rotation.

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A persistent presence of US forces in Norway, a key Nato ally.

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It's always important to have a military presence

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and a cooperative agreement with our Nato allies.

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And then when Russia says this is unhelpful

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and causing tension, what do you say?

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I say that we continue to support the Nato strategic alliance

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and will allow the politicians to work through what they

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Tensions and competition between east and west are nothing

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new for the people of Norway but like the rest of Europe they're

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getting mixed messages from the new US administration.

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A Defence Secretary, James Mattis, who is talking tough on Russia,

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but a president who appears to want closer ties.

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When you look at Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, which of those

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How could you possibly pick just one?

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I'm actually more worried about Trump than Putin.

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Because Putin is like a control maniac.

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For Norway's border guards it's still business as usual,

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but these are also increasingly uncertain times when no one knows

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Jonathan Beale, BBC News, in the Arctic Circle.

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There's more division in The Church of England today -

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with claims that it has 'betrayed' Gay and Lesbian Christians

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As its ruling body debates the issue - members of the General Synod

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will vote on a Bishops' report which says only a man and a woman

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can marry in church - and services should not be held

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to bless the relationships of same-sex couples.

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Our religious affairs correspondent Martin Bashir

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Had a motion marking the 500th anniversary of the Reformation this

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coming October, we've even had a debate about thousands married and

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whether they should continue to be said in church, and they will be.

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Today is the big event of this weeks General Synod, a debate on the

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Bishops' report on same-sex marriage. We know that members have

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already been exercising their voices in preparation for what is likely to

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be a contentious debate. Amazing Grace, sung by protesters

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this morning and almost certainly required this afternoon

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as General Synod prepares to debate the Bishop's report

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on same-sex marriage. A report that says marriage

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in church should remain the lifelong union

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between a man and a woman. After engaging in three years

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of shared conversations, many lesbian and gay Christians

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are angered that church doctrine is not falling into line

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with the law of the land which legalised same-sex

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marriage in 2014. We're talking here about the

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national church being massively out of step with people,

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and this isn't just about saying that we have to follow what society

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is doing and what society is saying. This is about saying, actually,

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where people perceive love in relationships between one

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another, can the Church of England simply not recognise that God

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is present in those things? Bishops preparing for this

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afternoon's debate acknowledge their own struggles with church

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doctrine on the subject I'd be misleading you if I did not

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confess to being conflicted But in that I think I'm far

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from alone among the Bishops And our own history in dealing

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with these matters also explains why people on all sides of the debate

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rarely find themselves satisfied. Today's debate will conclude

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at seven this evening with a vote. Members of Synod will be

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invited to affirm or reject If they choose the latter,

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then questions about the unity of the Church of England and indeed

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the global Anglican Communion And in that regard we've just seen a

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tweet by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, I'll quote

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it "I'm praying for Synod today for Grace, generosity and wisdom in

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debating painful and complex matters." The debate starts at

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4:45pm. Martin Bashir, thank you. The disgraced entertainer

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Rolf Harris will face a retrial on three sex offence charges -

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and one new count. A jury at Southwark Crown Court

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was discharged last week - the new trial will take

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place in May. The Crown Prosecution Service says

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it's decided to seek a retrial India has created history

:23:35.:23:36.

by launching a record The Indian Prime Minister

:23:37.:23:43.

tweeted his congratulations, calling it a proud moment

:23:44.:23:47.

for the scientific India's space programme is seen

:23:48.:23:49.

as a reliable and low-cost alternative in the growing

:23:50.:23:53.

commercial market for satellite launches, with all but three

:23:54.:23:57.

of the satellites from foreign countries - and 96

:23:58.:24:02.

from the United States. Tens of thousands of people -

:24:03.:24:04.

evacuated because of fears that America's tallest dam could fail -

:24:05.:24:07.

have been told it's Authorities have managed

:24:08.:24:09.

to lower the water level in the Orovile Dam in California -

:24:10.:24:12.

but have warned residents Their homes were in danger of being

:24:13.:24:15.

engulfed by water after the 230 metre high spillways of the dam

:24:16.:24:20.

were found to be damaged. A major new study suggests

:24:21.:24:27.

there is a link between head injuries and long-term brain damage

:24:28.:24:29.

in former footballers. In the first study of its kind,

:24:30.:24:32.

researchers studied the brains of six deceased players known

:24:33.:24:36.

for their skill at heading the ball. They all developed

:24:37.:24:39.

dementia in later life. The Football Association has

:24:40.:24:41.

welcomed the research - as our health correspondent

:24:42.:24:43.

Smitha Mundasad reports. It's an integral part of the game,

:24:44.:24:55.

but could doing this over and over again lead to long-term brain

:24:56.:25:02.

damage? That's a question the family of former England player Jeff asked

:25:03.:25:04.

has been campaigning to have answered. He died in 2002. He'd

:25:05.:25:11.

suffered from degenerative brain disease linked to repeatedly heading

:25:12.:25:16.

old, heavy footballs. If we can highlight it and push and push and

:25:17.:25:20.

push to get it recognise, not just the dad. It started about dad but

:25:21.:25:24.

it's about all these other families now, all these families are relying

:25:25.:25:29.

on us. We'll never stop, we'll never stop fighting for them. Now, in the

:25:30.:25:34.

first study of its kind, scientists looked at the brains of six lifelong

:25:35.:25:40.

footballers who developed dementia. When we examined their brains at

:25:41.:25:44.

autopsy we saw the thought of changes that are seen in text boxes,

:25:45.:25:51.

which are known as CDE, chronic traumatic and Kraftwerk. In the

:25:52.:25:56.

first time a series of players have shown there is evidence that head

:25:57.:26:01.

injury has occurred earlier in their life which presumably has some

:26:02.:26:06.

impact on dementia. The football Association says one question that

:26:07.:26:10.

needs to be answered is whether degenerative brain diseases are more

:26:11.:26:14.

common in professional football is, and the FA says that's research it's

:26:15.:26:19.

determined to support. At some ex-footballers say action from the

:26:20.:26:23.

FA could not come soon enough. With three of the surviving members of

:26:24.:26:27.

England's 1966 World Cup winning team suffering from dementia, some

:26:28.:26:32.

say this work is now more urgent than ever. So what does this mean

:26:33.:26:37.

for people who like to kick a ball around a few times a week? We

:26:38.:26:42.

shouldn't forget that exercise and football is included in that,

:26:43.:26:47.

actually has a lot of benefits, it reduces your risk of cardiovascular

:26:48.:26:50.

disease, obesity, diabetes and indeed the mention in later life. So

:26:51.:26:55.

that needs to be balanced against any risk that can come from doing

:26:56.:27:00.

that exercise. And the researchers are clear, the study did not analyse

:27:01.:27:05.

the risks to children. But with US soccer already recommending that

:27:06.:27:08.

children under 11 should not head footballers, and rugby already

:27:09.:27:13.

taking action on brain health, the question is whether it is now

:27:14.:27:16.

football's turn to do more about the long-term consequences of playing

:27:17.:27:18.

the game. Smitha Mundasad, BBC News. British cycling's golden couple -

:27:19.:27:26.

Jason and Laura Kenny - The pair - who have 10 Olympic gold

:27:27.:27:28.

medals between them - announced the news by posting

:27:29.:27:32.

a photo of two adult bikes That was followed by a photo of two

:27:33.:27:35.

baby-sized trainers. The couple's agent said

:27:36.:27:39.

they are "absolutely thrilled 30 years ago it was supposed

:27:40.:27:41.

to herald a revolution in personal transport -

:27:42.:27:49.

but the "Sinclair C5" quickly became Part tricycle and part electric car,

:27:50.:27:51.

it was the brainchild of the computer designer,

:27:52.:27:54.

Sir Clive Sinclair. Now his nephew has designed his own

:27:55.:27:56.

version which he believes Our Transport Correspondent Richard

:27:57.:27:59.

Westcott went along to take a look. This is how they did glitzy

:28:00.:28:12.

launches in the mid-1980s. After revolutionising home

:28:13.:28:18.

computers, people couldn't wait for the next invention

:28:19.:28:22.

from the genius Sir Clive Sinclair. But the C5 never

:28:23.:28:27.

lived up to the hype. Who better to road test the Sinclair

:28:28.:28:30.

trike than former racing Sales were as slow as

:28:31.:28:32.

Stirling Moss going uphill. Along with safety fears there

:28:33.:28:37.

was another fundamental problem. It was at this point

:28:38.:28:40.

going up the hill that Ask anyone under 30,

:28:41.:28:43.

they've no idea what the C5 is but to people of a certain age,

:28:44.:28:50.

ie my age, it was the Clearly testing this

:28:51.:28:54.

vehicle planted a seed As a youngster, Grant Sinclair

:28:55.:28:58.

helped his uncle trial the C5, Three decades on he's designed his

:28:59.:29:10.

own electric trike, the Iris. The principle is the same,

:29:11.:29:19.

it combines pedals You can drive it without

:29:20.:29:21.

a license from 14 years old. This one is weatherproof,

:29:22.:29:24.

streamlined and made from the same You can see for starters

:29:25.:29:27.

it's about three times quicker than the C5,

:29:28.:29:32.

I can't actually keep up with Grant. This sold 17,000 units,

:29:33.:29:40.

which I was surprised at when I found out,

:29:41.:29:42.

but it didn't get the kind of mass sales, the millions that

:29:43.:29:45.

were hoped for at the time. Why do you think this

:29:46.:29:47.

is going to work this time? My product is a different

:29:48.:29:50.

concept altogether. I think it was a very clever

:29:51.:29:56.

idea, the original item. I always liked the idea

:29:57.:30:02.

of a really fast e-bike, So this product is like being

:30:03.:30:09.

in a large crash helmet, really. So, 30 years after it disappeared,

:30:10.:30:13.

the Sinclair name is returning Looks a bit springlike. It does look

:30:14.:30:27.

more springlike. Touch of sunshine first. This picture actually taken

:30:28.:30:32.

in Aberdeenshire where at the start of the week at this very same

:30:33.:30:36.

location it was great, cold and gloomy. So, big changes. We've seen

:30:37.:30:41.

changes just today. This morning in Newquay in Cornwall after a great

:30:42.:30:45.

start, got the sunshine out. But those on the map and in between

:30:46.:30:50.

there is a large area of clouds. Producing outbreaks of rain moving

:30:51.:30:54.

slowly northwards and eastwards. We should see some more sunshine after

:30:55.:30:58.

the rain across the South West of England and Wales, maybe one or two

:30:59.:31:02.

showers. Some lovely blue skies through the Channel Islands. Not

:31:03.:31:06.

quite so lucky in the Midlands and South East England, grey skies, rain

:31:07.:31:11.

from time to time. Heavy bursts possible. Wet weather extending

:31:12.:31:13.

north through England. A warm feeling day-to-day. Temperatures in

:31:14.:31:19.

double figures widely. After some sunshine, sharp showers in Northern

:31:20.:31:23.

Ireland. Best of the sunshine still across northern Scotland. More cloud

:31:24.:31:27.

further south, maybe some rain. Most ranges on that weather front which

:31:28.:31:30.

will push away into the North Sea this evening. An area of low

:31:31.:31:36.

pressure close to Scotland. He and perhaps Northern Ireland having rain

:31:37.:31:39.

overnight. Further south things much, and karma. Across southern

:31:40.:31:45.

counties of England there could be fog forming by morning. Slow start

:31:46.:31:48.

here. It should brighten up nicely tomorrow. Sunshine across England

:31:49.:31:53.

and Wales. One or two showers. Cloud and stronger when further north,

:31:54.:31:57.

outbreaks of rain especially early on in Scotland and later across

:31:58.:32:01.

Northern Ireland. He sent temperatures once again. Looking at

:32:02.:32:05.

those temperatures in double figures and present in sunshine. More fog

:32:06.:32:11.

early on Friday for southern and eastern parts of the UK. But it

:32:12.:32:14.

should brighten up and we should see some sunshine. Out to the West more

:32:15.:32:19.

clouds and the chance of some rain and temperatures ten or 11 degrees.

:32:20.:32:25.

At this time of year the average maximum temperatures, about eight

:32:26.:32:29.

Celsius. So quite mild and staying that way over the weekend. Perhaps

:32:30.:32:32.

on Monday we could see temperatures into the mid-teens if we get some

:32:33.:32:37.

sunshine. This weekend staying mild. Don't expect a lot of sunshine but

:32:38.:32:41.

lots of clouds and it will produce some rain at times in the north. No

:32:42.:32:45.

great amounts. The greater risk of rain in the North probably on

:32:46.:32:48.

Saturday and then much later on Sunday, some places may well stay

:32:49.:32:53.

dry. Likely to be dry further south, but sunshine in short supply. Still

:32:54.:32:57.

some decent temperatures for the time of year. Thank you.

:32:58.:33:01.

A reminder of our main story this lunchtime.

:33:02.:33:03.

There are calls for an investigation into the Trump administration's

:33:04.:33:05.

After his National Security Adviser quits - the President is urged

:33:06.:33:09.

to rethink his policy on President Putin.

:33:10.:33:13.

And a woman is arrested in Malaysia in connection with the death of the

:33:14.:33:22.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's brother.

:33:23.:33:25.

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