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The first visit by a British Foreign

Secretary to Russia in five years

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ends with accusations of lying.

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A handshake between Boris Johnson

and the Russian foreign minister

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aims to repair relations,

but it's followed by

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public disagreement.

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You should recognise

that Russian attempts

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to interfere in our elections

and our referendums,

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whatever they may have been,

have not been successful.

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I think you've made all this up

in your Western community,

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and you're hostage to this subject.

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It's very difficult for you to climb

down from the fence now.

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Today's meeting was designed to open

up channels of communication between

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the two countries - has it work?

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A shop worker and mother of a young

daughter is stabbed to death

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in front of customers

at the supermarket where she worked.

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Celebrations as regional elections

in Catalonia in Spain

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result in a slim majority

for pro-independence parties.

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From EU burgundy to British blue -

UK passports will revert back

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to blue once we leave the EU.

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My name is Eva Sloss.

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Would you like to ask me some

questions about my life?

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And how a holocaust survivor

is answering the questions yet to be

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asked by generations to come.

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And coming up in Sportsday later

in the hour on BBC News:

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We'll look ahead to all

the festive fixtures -

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that starts tonight

with Arsenal against Liverpool

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at the Emirates Stadium.

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Good evening and welcome

to the BBC News At Six.

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The first visit by a British Foreign

Minister to Moscow for five years

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has ended in public disagreement

with Russia accusing

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the UK of fabricating

allegations against it.

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Boris Johnson's visit was intended

to try to repair what both sides

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acknowledge is a low point

in relations between

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the two countries.

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Mr Johnson accused Russia

of meddling in the UK election

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and Brexit referendum -

the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei

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Lavrov said Mr Johnson was making

that up and criticised the UK

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for making what he called a series

of aggressive and insulting public

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statements about Russia.

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Our diplomatic correspondent

James Robbins reports from Moscow.

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Handshakes can be deceptive.

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True, this Foreign Secretary has

broken a five-year British boycott

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of visits to Moscow.

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But when Russia's Sergei

Lavrov says he wants

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a return to business as usual,

Boris Johnson says that impossible.

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As you rightly say,

Sergei, things are

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not easy between us at the moment.

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The talks aired

the grievances on both

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sides and examined space

for a

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limited cooperation,

by supporting the Iran

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nuclear deal together,

and opposing the nuclear

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threat from North Korea.

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But deep disagreements remain.

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At their joint news

conference, that was stark.

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For all the attempts

at banter, there was a

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seriousness when Sergei Lavrov

tried to brush off

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British allegations of Russian

meddling in foreign elections.

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TRANSLATION:

My neighbour, Boris

Johnson, recently stated he had no

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evidence that Russia medal

in the referendum on the withdrawal

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of Britain from the European Union.

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Not successfully.

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Not successfully,

I think is the word.

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Not successfully is the word

that I think you need to

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introduce.

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TRANSLATION:

You see?

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He is scared if he doesn't

disagree with me, his

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reputation will be ruined

in the media at home.

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I...

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Sergei, it's your reputation

I'm worried about.

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But this was dark, serious humour.

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When Boris Johnson was asked if he

trusted Russia's foreign minister,

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he tried to make light of that.

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You know, it's a measure of my trust

that as soon as I got into this

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excellent Foreign Ministry,

I immediately handed my coat, my

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hat, my gloves and indeed everything

that was in my pockets,

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secret or otherwise,

to Sergei Lavrov.

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TRANSLATION:

I can say there

was nothing in the pockets of Boris'

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coat.

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So how did relations

go from bad to worse?

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Russia's use of radioactive

poison to murder

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Alexander Litvinenko in the middle

of London started the slide.

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Three years ago,

Russia's annexation of

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Crimea and interference in Ukraine,

provoked tough EU sanctions strongly

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backed by Britain.

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Then last month, Theresa May

accused Russia of cyber

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espionage and meddling

in the elections.

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Britain says it has cyber weaponry

to retaliate if attacks get

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worse.

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So, striding across Red Square,

the Foreign Secretary was no

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mere tourist.

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He was nodding to Russia's

historic greatness, while

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pressing for a radical

change of direction.

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Coming here to Red Square,

Boris Johnson insists he

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likes Russia.

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He points to his name,

the fact he has Russian ancestry.

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What he doesn't love

is the present Russian government.

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So, paying his tribute

at the tomb of Russia's

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unknown soldier had

a particular symbolism.

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Britain and Russia fought together

against Hitler as allies.

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Restoring that closeness now

seems a long way off.

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James, it was pretty tense at the

press conference today between Boris

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Johnson and Sergei Lavrov. The whole

point was to improve relations - do

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you think it has?

There seems to be

no breakthrough, but this was a very

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important meeting. These are two big

players in different ways. Russia is

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by far the largest in the wild by

land area. Britain is relatively

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tiny but has a far larger economy --

in the world. Together, they make up

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two of only five veto powers at the

UN. They have to get along better if

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they are to improve global security.

There were real tensions in the

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meeting and at the press conference.

There are huge differences, Russia

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talking about the construct of

Western lies designed to do Russia

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down. Boris Johnson saying he is no

cold warrior but coming here

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determined to stand up for some

socially liberal values. He very

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deliberately championed the rights

of the LGBT community while he was

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here, for instance. He mentioned it

in Sergei Lavrov's presents, and he

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laid flowers at the spot where an

opposition leader was assassinated

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to make years ago. Some strong

messages from both sides, but no

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breakthrough, I think.

James

Robbins, thank you.

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A 44-year-old man is being

questioned on suspicion of murder,

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after a woman was stabbed to death

while at work in a supermarket

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in Skipton in North Yorkshire.

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30-year-old Jodie Willsher - who's

married with a young daughter -

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was attacked in the Aldi store

in front of shoppers

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yesterday afternoon.

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Judith Moritz is in

Skipton for us tonight.

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Fewer than 15,000 people live in

Skipton, and a good proportion of

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them would have known would

recognise at least Jodie Willsher,

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because she grew up here, she went

to school and college locally, she

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worked at this supermarket, and she

married and was bringing up her

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young daughter in the area she knew.

So, many people in this community

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have been affected by her murder.

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Jodie Willsher was looking forward

to a family Christmas.

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Married with a young daughter,

she was wearing her festive jumper,

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serving supermarket shoppers getting

ready for the holidays.

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Jodie had worked at the Skipton Aldi

since it first opened to make years

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ago.

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-- two years ago.

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The store was full

when she was stabbed.

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Trolleys were abandoned as some

shoppers ran away in terror.

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Other customers and staff pins down

the attacker and try to save Jodie,

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but she died later in hospital.

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She liked to be around her friends,

around her family.

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It's just such a tragedy,

really, what's happened.

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She such a beautiful girl, I can't

believe it's happened to her.

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She's so young.

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She had all her life ahead of her.

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The supermarket

became a crime scene.

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Forensic staff and police

officers removing items

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including what is thought

to be a potential weapon.

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Today, the shop has remained

closed, with customers

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coming instead to leave tributes

for the popular member of staff.

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Whenever I've shopped

in Aldi, she's always

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been friendly, pleasant,

you

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know, a lovely girl,

really, and it's just...

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What a shock.

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What an absolute shock, really.

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It's just absolutely awful.

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With Christmas, and her little

girl being the same

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age as mine.

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Things like this don't happen

in this little town, and it's

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absolutely heartbreaking.

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The community here

is small and tight

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knit.

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Jodie Willsher worked at its heart,

well-known and well liked.

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Specialist police officers are

comforting her husband and her young

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daughter.

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Judith Moritz, BBC News, Skipton.

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Ten members of a moped gang

from London have been jailed

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for between seven and 18 years

for a series of smash and grab raids

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on mobile phone shops.

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The judge at Blackfriars Crown Court

said the robberies had been

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meticulously planned -

and that nothing and no one was

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allowed to stand in the gang's way.

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The fourth election in as many years

in the Spanish region of Catalonia

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has demonstrated just how divided

the region remains.

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The party that won the most

votes doesn't support

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independence for Catalonia -

but put together the separatist

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parties are able to

form a slim majority.

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It follows the controversial

referendum in favour

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of independence in October.

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The sacked pro-independence Catalan

leader, Carles Puigdemont,

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who's in self-imposed exile

in Belgium, has called

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on the Spanish Prime Minister

to negotiate a political solution

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to the crisis in Catalonia.

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Here's James Reynolds.

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Catalonia's pro-independence voters

enjoyed their victory. And now they

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want their power back. Starting with

the return from exile of their

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deposed leader, Carles Puigdemont.

But he can't just fly back from

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Belgium. He faces arrest in Spain on

the charge of rebellion. So, from

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Brussels this afternoon, Mr

Puigdemont had a message for Spain:

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Lets talk.

We want to be an

independent state. This is the wish

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of the Catalan people. The next step

is to talk with President Mariano

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Rajoy. We need to find new ways, the

political solution to our crisis

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between the Spanish state and

Catalonia.

That offer doesn't

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interest Spain's leader. This

afternoon, Mariano Rajoy made it

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clear, if Carles Puigdemont isn't

here, he can't talk to him.

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TRANSLATION:

I will have to talk

with the person who actually Opera

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pies that office of president of the

Catalan regional Government. For

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this to happen, they need to take up

their seat and be in a position to

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talk with me. -- who actually

occupies that office.

There followed

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months of argument, protest, debate,

emergency measures, and then the

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vote. Now, Catalans find that they

are right back to where they were

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when the crisis began. Nobody has

really changed sides. For now, the

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local Government headquarters here

awaits its permanent occupant. The

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man who won this election can't come

to take up his old job. The law says

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that all sides now have until April

to decide what to do next. James

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Reynolds, BBC News, Barcelona.

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Annual consumer spending

has risen by its lowest

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rate for five years -

just one per cent.

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The Office for National Statistics

says that evidence suggests people

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are dipping into their savings

to fund their spending.

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Our economics editor

Kamal Ahmed is here -

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what's your assessment of these

new figures today?

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This is the last economic data of

the year, so it's time to take a

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health check on 2017. If we go back

a year, the forecast for this year

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was pretty gloomy. Growth this year

has been lower than last, but not as

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bad as some people believed. We are

in a period of strong global growth.

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Britain has had weaker sterling,

which has meant that exports have

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been good and business investment

has been higher, and consumers have

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kept spending. But as you said,

there are worrying signals. We are

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borrowing more than we are saving

over the last year, and that is the

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first time that has happened since

1987, when records first began.

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Looking forward to next year, the

Bank of England thinks that the rate

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of inflation will start to ease, so

prices will go up less quickly.

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Wages might start rising as well, so

the income squeeze might start

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easing, but of course, the Brexit

process is still live, and whilst it

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is, on the economy, most people will

be pretty cautious.

Thank you.

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Our top story this evening...

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The first visit by a British Foreign

Secretary to Russia in five years,

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ends with accusations of lying.

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Still to come...

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I'm at the highways Angling control

centre to see how bad the traffic

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has been on the day they are calling

Frantic Friday.

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And coming up in Sportsday

later in the hour on BBC News,

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we'll look ahead to all the festive

fixtures, starting tonight

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with Arsenal against Liverpool

at the Emirates stadium.

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It's a growing problem in countries

like the Philippines -

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children put to work in front

of webcams, forced to perform sex

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shows for paedophiles watching

on the other side of the world.

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In 2013, a Dutch organisation tried

to find out how big the problem was,

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by using the fake online profile

of a ten-year-old Filipina girl -

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they called her Sweetie.

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More than a thousand

men offered her money

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to perform for them.

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Now the team behind Sweetie

are launching a new project,

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this time targeting individual

predators themselves.

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And the software's being offered

to police forces across the world.

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From Holland, Angus

Crawford reports.

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Online, undercover,

searching chat rooms,

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looking for predators.

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Sweetie is back.

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Always it's about sex.

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And always it's about adults

who want to talk about sex.

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Look, he's British, like many

others, and remember

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they are talking to what they think

is an 11-year-old girl.

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Remember this?

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I'm not real.

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The computer-generated...

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Back then, Sweetie needed human

operators to type her chats online.

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The new version is different.

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The popping up.

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Fully automated, she can

now handle hundreds

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of conversations at the same time.

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So you could be getting

the information on thousands of men?

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There is no end.

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Sweetie's Avatar has been retired

and replaced by two new ones,

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sometimes being shown

to predators via webcam.

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But we can't show you or they'd

be no use any more.

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They invite them into their house,

which is the cybersex den...

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So, why is this new campaign?

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Here's why.

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In the Philippines more and more

children are being forced to sell

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sex to foreigners via webcam.

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Five people were arrested

and there were more than 600 foreign

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customers in the network.

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He has turned on his camera...

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Sweetie first showed us

the scale of the problem.

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Now the team is going on the

offensive against men like this.

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He's naked and he thinks

he knows you're just 12.

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Exactly.

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And he wants you...

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To be naked...

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To turn on your camera...

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Be naked, as well.

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I think he will...

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Take off his trousers.

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Their details could be

passed to the police.

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And they'll get a nasty shock.

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An automatic message sent

straight to their inbox.

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That will have a major

impact on their behaviour.

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We know who you are,

we know where you are,

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we know what you want, stop this.

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Sweetie's job was to raise

awareness, not catch criminals.

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This man, Australian Scott Hanson,

was one of the few to be prosecuted.

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But in many countries this kind

of evidence doesn't count.

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Some police forces support

the project, others don't.

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But the Sweetie team go on,

scarring chat rooms,

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turning the same technology used

to exploit children back against

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the predators who seek them out.

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Angus Crawford, BBC News.

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Drivers are being told to expect

delays as people hit

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the roads before Christmas.

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Train services have been affected

by maintenance works,

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while airports have been busier

than usual - there were delays

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for thousands of passengers

at Bristol Airport after an aircraft

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came off the runway as it

taxied to the terminal.

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Here's our transport

correspondent, Richard Westcott.

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Such a frustrating start to your

Christmas holidays. The departure

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board lit up in red rather than the

tree. Flights were suspended at

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Bristol airport after a plane came

off the runway. Nobody was hurt by

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thousands of passengers faced delays

and cancellations.

I was going to

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meet friends I hadn't seen for 20

years. Sad really.

What are you

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going to do? It's Christmas. Get on

with it.

It is the busiest day of

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the holidays by Britain's other

Brits were fine today. Heathrow is

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handling 130,000 passengers.

Highways England are temporarily

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lifting 400 miles of road works to

ease any jams. Another Christmas

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holiday tradition is engineering

works on the railways, with a

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multi-million pound upgrade

programme starting tomorrow. Some

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services will be cut. Sun London

stations will be shut. Including

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London Bridge, where they are

putting the finishing touches to a

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£1 billion rebuild. If you have used

London Bridge station over the past

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few years, you know how stressful it

has been as they try to redevelop it

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whilst keeping it open as best they

can. There will be lots of work

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going on here over Christmas, so

that these five platforms can open

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on January the 2nd. It's more

frustration for holiday travellers.

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So why do it at Christmas?

We do it

at this time of the year because the

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railways" mistake and Boxing Day.

But also, about 50% fewer people

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travel by train. In terms of the

overall level of impact on

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passengers, this is the best time of

the year.

A lorry fire shut the F44

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a bit. The Highways England control

centre you can see they managed to

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get one lane open again. Despite

warnings of a frantic Friday, with

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millions of extra car journeys, the

morning and evening peaks have not

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been too busy.

I am at that control centre now. You

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can see the bank of screens behind

me is great. You can basically go to

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any camera on any major road in

England and see what the traffic is

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like. We have seen the traffic has

been OK, despite some of those dire

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warnings. I suspect people

stretching their journeys across the

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day rather than going at the same

time. You saw Bristol airport in the

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film. That will reopen tonight at

9pm. Still a lot of Christmas plans

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ruined from flights delayed and

cancelled. Rela engineering works

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start tomorrow. That affects roots

going into London. Check before you

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travel. You can get good information

on the BBC website and on BBC local

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radio.

Richard Westcott, thank you.

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British passport covers

are to revert to classic

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blue once Britain leaves

the European Union in 2019.

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The current burgundy

passports will continue

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to be issued until then,

but without the EU insignia.

0:21:020:21:05

The Home Office says the new blue

passport will be more high-tech

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and secure, to prevent

fraud and forgery.

0:21:080:21:09

Tom Symonds reports.

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The great British passport - shortly

to be available not in European

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burgundy because, it turns

out, Brexit means blue.

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The government admits

it is largely symbolic,

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restoring our national identity.

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Outside the Passport Office,

what is the reaction?

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It's blue, isn't it?

Back to England.

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I just think it's a crying shame.

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We have this fantastic ability

to travel around the best

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of the world, and we are looked

upon favourably with our immigration

0:21:410:21:44

policy and everything else, but now

it's just a bit embarrassing, to

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be honest.

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I think the decision was a huge

aspect of the country

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moving forward.

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And I think in order to move

forward, there needs to be changes.

0:21:520:21:55

And if that needs to be

distinguished by a simple

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colour, why not?

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What is the difference?

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It's a different colour.

That's it!

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I just preferred it

when we were in Europe.

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Just everything.

0:22:030:22:05

The last true British

passport was hard back,

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much bigger and a very,

very dark blue.

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The European one, which replaced it

in 1988, was smaller,

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floppy and much easier

to put in your pocket.

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The new one - and this

is just a mock up - will be

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roughly the same design,

but it will keep all of the security

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features which make it so hard

to copy, and it will add some.

0:22:260:22:30

This is the passport of the future.

And it's in circulation from today.

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When the red EU passport

was introduced 30 years

0:22:330:22:36

ago, Britain agreed

to a common standard.

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It didn't have to accept the colour.

Croatia's passport remains blue.

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Even so, the burgundy

one was never loved.

0:22:450:22:48

I think it is one of

the most revolting,

0:22:480:22:50

insignificant, tiny minded,

small pieces of paper I've ever had

0:22:500:22:53

the misfortune to witness.

0:22:530:22:55

It's not really a British

passport, is it?

0:22:550:22:58

These days passports are redesigned

regularly to cut fraud, so the blue

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ones should not cost more.

They will start appearing in 2019.

0:23:020:23:07

People who already have

a passport have no need

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to do anything at the moment.

0:23:090:23:11

Even at that point,

if people have still

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got time left on their passport,

we not be asking them to change at

0:23:140:23:17

that point.

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But obviously people can renew

at whatever point they want,

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should they wish to move

to the new passport.

0:23:200:23:22

Brexit is tough.

0:23:220:23:24

Changing the passport

colour is relatively easy.

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But like Brexit, it's dividing

the nation between those who say

0:23:250:23:28

"At last", and those who say,

"Why bother?"

0:23:280:23:30

Tom Symonds, BBC News.

0:23:300:23:35

The official Christmas number one

has been announced -

0:23:350:23:37

and it's the perfect present

for this year's winner.

0:23:370:23:47

# You're so beautiful, I don't

deserve this.

0:23:520:23:54

Ed Sheeran's single,

Perfect, featuring Beyonce,

0:23:540:23:55

wins the accolade -

with 85,000 combined

0:23:550:23:57

sales this week, split

between downloads and streams.

0:23:570:23:59

After a career defining year,

the singer-songwriter said becoming

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Christmas Number one

is a "dream come true".

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How do you keep the memories

of the Holocaust alive to answer

0:24:060:24:09

the questions of future generations?

0:24:090:24:13

Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss -

the step-sister of Anne Frank -

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has been taking part in a

groundbreaking interactive project

0:24:160:24:19

that will allow people

to ask her hundreds of questions

0:24:190:24:23

about her life, and will preserve

her testimony long into the future.

0:24:230:24:26

Reeta Chakrabarti

has been to meet her.

0:24:260:24:29

Three, two, one, go ahead.

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Meet Eva Schloss.

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She is 88 and survived

the horrors of Auschwitz.

0:24:340:24:37

She has spent days being filmed

recounting her past, so

0:24:370:24:40

that people now and in the future

can question her virtual self about

0:24:400:24:43

what happened.

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My name is Eva Schloss.

0:24:450:24:47

Would you like to ask me some

questions about my life?

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Survivors are worrying what will

happen when we are not around any

0:24:530:24:57

more, who is going to

continue telling the story?

0:24:570:24:59

Because they think

it is very important.

0:24:590:25:01

Now, at the Museum of

Jewish Heritage in New York, people

0:25:010:25:07

can directly interview Eva

about what it was like in Auschwitz,

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how she survived and how it

has affected her since.

0:25:120:25:15

One of the questions was,

what was your most terrible moment

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in the camp?

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One day my mother was

selected to be gassed.

0:25:200:25:22

We were separated.

And I thought I had lost her.

0:25:220:25:30

But through a miracle she was saved,

and about three months later,

0:25:300:25:34

we were reunited.

0:25:340:25:37

Over five days, Eva

answered more than a

0:25:370:25:41

thousand questions about her story.

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And while she was doing so,

a film-maker recorded the process.

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I think what's different about this

experience is it puts the viewer

0:25:460:25:50

in a really active role.

0:25:500:25:52

So instead of passively

watching a movie or reading

0:25:520:25:54

a book, you're forced to think

of your own question,

0:25:540:25:56

what you want to ask.

0:25:560:25:58

And this is more or less the only

picture I have with my

0:25:580:26:03

mother, my father and me,

because my father usually

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took all the pictures.

0:26:060:26:10

Eva Schloss lost her father

and brother in the Holocaust.

0:26:100:26:12

Remarkably, she says she has no

hatred or bitterness in her heart.

0:26:120:26:16

But she does want people

to listen and to learn.

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This is what we have

to teach our young people - to get

0:26:200:26:23

involved in what goes wrong,

and if they see things

0:26:230:26:26

going wrong, to speak out.

0:26:260:26:31

Technology is helping to prepare

for the time when the

0:26:310:26:35

survivors of this monstrous crime

are no longer alive.

0:26:350:26:37

It means Eva Schloss can

continue telling her story

0:26:370:26:39

for many decades to come.

0:26:390:26:40

Reeta Chakrabarti, BBC News.

0:26:400:26:45

Eva Schloss, a remarkable woman.

0:26:500:26:51

Time for a look at the weather.

0:26:510:26:53

Here's Sarah Keith-Lucas.

0:26:530:26:53

Here's Sarah Keith-Lucas.

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If you have been dreaming of a white

Christmas, you may want to rethink

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that idea. Things remain mild and

cloudy. We have had quite a bit of

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code out there today. Some brighter

spells. This was the sun setting in

0:27:060:27:12

Topsham in Devon. As we move into

this evening and overnight, the

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cloud will continue to thicken from

the West, bringing quite a lot of

0:27:160:27:21

hill fog, murky conditions

overnight. Further east we are

0:27:210:27:24

likely to see the odd past -- patch

of mist and fog. Things largely

0:27:240:27:30

frost free. Some rain for the

Northern Isles of Scotland. That

0:27:300:27:36

will be more of a player in the next

few days. Saturday shipping up to be

0:27:360:27:42

similar to today. Lots of cloud and

fog. More of a breeze developing. It

0:27:420:27:48

will break up that cloud. There

should be some brightness. Again,

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Murray -- very mild. More rain

working into the northern half of

0:27:530:27:58

Scotland later. As we move through

Saturday night and into Christmas

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Eve, Sunday morning, the rain will

push further south into parts of

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Northern Ireland, southern Scotland.

The rainfall totals will mount in

0:28:050:28:11

Western Scotland over the Christmas.

Mostly dry and still mild with some

0:28:110:28:16

hill fog and mist. This is Christmas

Eve. Rain pushing further south

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across Scotland and Northern

Ireland. Much of England and Wales

0:28:200:28:24

largely dry. The odd shower.

Temperatures around ten or 11

0:28:240:28:29

degrees. On Christmas Eve, that

theme continues for Christmas Day

0:28:290:28:33

itself. It looks like we will have

the rain across southern Scotland

0:28:330:28:36

and part of northern England,

perhaps words later. For most it is

0:28:360:28:40

looking quite breezy. Certainly

mild. Perhaps just the north of

0:28:400:28:44

Scotland

0:28:440:28:45

mild. Perhaps just the north of

Scotland seen the odd flurry snow.

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Thank you. A reminder of our main

story. The first visit by a British

0:28:480:28:54

foreign minister to Moscow in five

years has ended in public

0:28:540:28:57

disagreement, with Russia

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