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The most powerful non-nuclear bomb ever used by the United States,

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targets so-called Islamic State in Afghanistan.

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The US says it was the right weapon against the right target.

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36 militants are thought to have been killed.

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We have Afghan and US forces on the site and see no evidence

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of civilian casualties, nor have there been any

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Schools in England facing their worst funding cuts in 20 years -

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a warning from teaching union conferences.

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The mission to re-take Mosul from so-called IS.

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Security improved at the online accommodation booking site Airbnb,

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after a BBC investigation finds scammers burgling homes.

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The Afghan government says 36 so-called Islamic State militants

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were killed when the United States dropped one of its biggest

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non-nuclear bombs in the eastern province of Nangarhar on Thursday.

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The commander of US forces in Afghanistan,

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General John Nicholson, said the attack had been coordinated

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with the government in Kabul, and that no civilians were harmed.

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Our South Asia editor Jill McGivering reports.

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This is American hard power in action. The moment the US dropped,

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for the first time, the biggest non-nuclear weapon it has. It was a

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MOAB, nicknamed the mother of all bombs and it targeted underground

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bases in eastern Afghanistan, a stronghold of the so-called is Alex

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Tate group. The US military insists Afghan leaders gave full approval.

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This was the right weapon against the right target. -- so-called

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Islamic State group. We will continue to work shoulder to

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shoulder with our comrades to eliminate the threat to the people

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of Nanga Haar, the entire region and indeed the world. Local people

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confirm this remote and harsh terrain was used by the Islamic

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State. TRANSLATION: The bomb was dropped last night on IS position.

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And caves. It was really powerful and has been used to destroy all the

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tunnels and caves. TRANSLATION: There were Daesh places over there.

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Last night's bomb was really huge. When it dropped, everywhere was

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shaking. Afghan leaders say the attack was justified and there are

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no civilian casualties. But former Afghan President Hamid Karzai took

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to social media to condemn it. Back in the United States, President

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Trump applauded the action and tried to score political points at his

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predecessor's expense. If you look at what's happened over the last

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eight weeks and compare that to what's happened over the last eight

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years, you will see there's a tremendous. Tremendous difference.

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We have incredible leaders in the middle Terry and we have incredible

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military. We are very proud of them and this was another very successful

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mission. -- in the military. Today the news still dominates US

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headlines as the world digests this latest insight into this new

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president. Jill McGivering, BBC News.

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With me is our Security correspondent Frank Garner.

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Frank, is this more style over substance?

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I think there is in a tactical military sense, this was a deep

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system of tunnels and caves where Islamic state were reportedly

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building improvised traps, installing weapons and training

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fighters and it would cost a lot of people's lives to go in and destroy

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it on the ground. In that sense, yes, they can justify it. But there

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is a certain amount of style in this as well as substance, which will be

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controversial. General McMaster, the security advisor to President Trump,

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said sometimes military action isn't just about suppressing the enemy,

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it's about communicating with them. What we are doing here, in Syria, in

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North Korea and in Afghanistan is sending a message that trompe means

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business. Whether he can follow through on that is debatable.

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Because all of these problem areas, that President Obama chose to deal

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with incrementally and with the minimum amount of foresee could get

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away with, President Trump is saying, I will go in guns blazing,

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but following it up will be very difficult. All three areas, North

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Korea, Syria and Afghanistan require a lot of focus and commitment. These

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long wars, all of them. Unions representing half a million

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teachers say schools in England are facing the worst funding cuts,

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in real terms, for 20 years. Gathering for their annual

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conferences, they're also highlighting a growing shortage

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of teachers for subjects such The government says ?40

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billion is being spent on schools this year -

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in cash terms, the Our Education Correspondent

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Gillian Hargreaves reports. St Martin's School in

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Essex is a good school. But even here, it has become

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increasingly difficult to recruit staff, particularly

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in specialist subjects. At one stage, they had a science

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teacher vacancy for more But there are also shortages

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in maths and modern languages. I look at the pool of people that

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are teaching in those areas and the number of people that

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are due to retire over the next ten years, and also the number of people

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that are coming in that aren't actually a specialist in the subject

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area that they're teaching, and I think that this is really

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the thin end of the wedge. Teachers are gathering

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for their conferences at a time There have been widespread protests

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from parents and schools who say, without more money, class sizes

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will go up and teaching posts The Government points out ?40

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billion is being spent on schools this year, the highest

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cash figure ever. But teachers say that hasn't taken

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into account rising costs, like pay, pensions,

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and the running costs of schools. The funding pressure is also

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beginning to hit parents, something of a concern

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to the unions. Half of parents are saying they're

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making at least one financial contribution to the school's funds,

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in order to "enhance resources", whatever that means,

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at school level. And many parents are finding that

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even the cost of school uniform is something which they

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can no longer afford. There is also much disquiet

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about Government plans to introduce Teachers argue money set aside

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for them would be better spent However, the Government says this

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new wave of grammars would benefit

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less-well-off families. Labour has accused the government

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of "rewarding failure", in response to new figures

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which suggest the government will have to pay millions of pounds

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more than planned to ATOS and Capita, two private companies

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which assess people claiming Our political correspondent

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Chris Mason is with me now. This is an extraordinary

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jump in the numbers. The Department for Work and Pensions

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uses an awful lot of taxpayer money paying benefits and pensions. This

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is about the personal independence payment, first introduced four years

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ago, the idea it would help working age people with the additional costs

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associated with disability. At the heart of the project was assessing

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potential recipients to try to work out what day, if anything, should be

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paid. The department made an estimation in 2013 that the overall

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costs would be ?500 million. Now analysis by the press Association

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news agency suggests by the end of the contract for Atos and Capita, by

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the end of the year, that figure will be ?700 million stop well

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they say the reason there is this additional cost. Far more people

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came forward for assessment than initially anticipated. A small

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amount of extra cost is people appealing against the assessment

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results and having the whole thing done again. Labour say the system is

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in disarray. The department say they need effective assessments and that

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is vital for the potential recipients. For the occupier of the

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department's big chair, former Secretary of State Stephen Crabb,

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says the department hasn't been very good at getting its forecast right.

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Political correspondent Chris Mason, thank you very much.

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Buses have begun evacuating hundreds of villagers and fighters from four

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rebel held villages in Syria - two of them close to

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It follows a deal struck between President Assad's

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But the opposition says it amounts to deliberate displacement

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of the President's opponents further from the capital.

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A clean-up is underway in New Zealand after a powerful

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Cyclone Cook brought down power lines, and caused

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A state of emergency was declared in some parts of the North Island

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with hundreds evacuated from their homes and

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Heavy rain is still affecting South Island.

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The world famous Las Vegas Strip had to be closed last night

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after a fire broke out at one of the city's biggest casinos.

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Huge flames were spotted near the roof of the Bellagio hotel

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which is at the centre of Las Vegas Boulevard.

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Emergency teams say they were able to bring it under control,

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but the location made the operation difficult.

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The Iraqi government has told people living in Mosul to stay

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inside as security forces prepare for an assault aimed at dislodging

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Thousands of civilians are still trapped in the city,

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which has been held by IS since 2014.

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Our Defence Correspondent Jonathan Beale is embedded with troops.

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The old city of Mosul and its most famous

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landmark, the leaning minaret of the al-Nuri mosque.

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This is where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi first appeared

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as caliph of the so-called Islamic State.

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They still control it and most of what you can see.

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TRANSLATION: The mosque is now very near and soon

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We know the enemy is week and on its last legs.

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A visit to the front line, though, tells a different story.

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For the past few weeks, the Iraqi advance

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These federal police are surrounded on two sides by IS

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and they are firing on their positions from here.

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Snipers, IS snipers, just about 100 metres from

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And you can see the rounds, the IS rounds, coming in

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Tens of thousands of civilians are still

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Much of Mosul has already been turned to rubble.

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Even in these deserted streets, recently secured,

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Here, discarded IS military uniforms, and nearby, one of their

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But the enemy is not just hiding in the city.

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We joined an Iraqi intelligence unit hunting down IS infiltrators and

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collaborators who have already escaped.

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Now seeking shelter and avoiding capture in camps, living

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alongside the innocents of this war, who fled the fighting.

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You are finding Isis fighters in these camps?

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In the camp or some in his house, in Mosul.

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The extremists may be losing their grip on Mosul but even

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if they are defeated, IS won't have gone away.

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Former world champion Jenson Button says he's delighted to be making

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He's agreed to race for McLaren at next month's Monaco Grand Prix.

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He's been granted permission to compete in the Indy 500.

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The online accommodation booking company Airbnb says it

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will improve its security, after a BBC investigation found that

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people's homes have been burgled by scammers using stolen accounts.

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They hijacked profiles with verified badges and changed some personal

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The company says it will now warn members if their profile

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Like millions of people, Christian had let out his home

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on Airbnb while he was out of town, as a convenient way

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He had done so for years without a problem.

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But on his birthday, his home was burgled.

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horrible text message saying someone is in the flat,

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and it is not me, because my account had been compromised.

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Christian thought he had let out his home to a verified profile,

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somebody who had verified government identification, and had positive

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The attacker changed the name, photograph and contact

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details on the profile, but kept Airbnb's "verified" badge.

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The BBC has spoken to two other people who were robbed this way,

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and three others who had their accounts stolen,

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and Airbnb's Facebook page has dozens of comments from people

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There are many ways attackers could have been hijacking Airbnb accounts.

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They might be able to trick people into handing over their passwords.

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But there are ways Airbnb could have defended against this.

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We put our security concerns to Airbnb.

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Those changes include two-step verification when somebody logs

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in from a new device, and text message alerts if somebody

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But, for Christian, the changes come too late.

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He says the whole experience has left him with a bad feeling,

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That's all from the newsroom this lunchtime.

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