29/12/2016 BBC News


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President Obama takes action against Russia for alleged

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interference in the US Presidential Election.

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There'll be sanctions against individuals and 35 Russian

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Russia says it's a very destructive move.

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Earlier in Moscow, President Putin declared a ceasefire deal in Syria,

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And the actress Debbie Reynolds has died at the age of 84,

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just a day after the death of her daughter, Carrie Fisher.

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President Obama has announced a series of measures against Russia,

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and said there was evidence of 'malicious cyberactivity' in

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He's authorised sanctions against individuals and he's also

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approved the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats from the US.

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Three weeks before Donald Trump is sworn in as President,

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promising to rebuild relations with Moscow, Mr Obama said:

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'All Americans should be alarmed by Russia's actions'.

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Tonight, Russia said it would order 'adequate reprisals',

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as our correspondent Laura Bicker reports.

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Russia stands accused of trying to help Donald Trump become President.

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Moscow had been warned, but now it's being punished

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America's top intelligence agencies believe a cyber attack

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on Hillary Clinton's closest aides was orchestrated by the highest

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But Mr Trump has always questioned the evidence.

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

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You have no idea if it's Russia, or China, or somebody...

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It could be somebody sitting in a bed someplace.

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But the CIA and the FBI can both agree - the hackers,

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And President Obama said all Americans should be alarmed.

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He's ordered that 35 officials are expelled.

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They're believed to have close links with Russian intelligence.

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They have just 72 hours to leave the country and he is closing

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two Russian compounds, one in New York and

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White House officials said Russia had to pay a price

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for what they described as 'an extraordinary attack on US

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President Obama warned that further action is to come,

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Russia described the closure of its compounds as the death throes

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of political corpses and warned it will hit back.

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Because the cost of expelling Russian diplomats is going to lead

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to a reduction, or expelling of US diplomats from Russia,

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it's not clear how this kind of cost is going to be one

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in which the United States has a clear advantage.

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President Obama has dealt his strongest response yet to

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Russian hacking on US soil, but he has only weeks left in office

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and many are now wondering - what will his successor do?

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Our North America editor, Jon Sopel, is outside the White House.

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Three weeks left in office for the President, what can you

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realistically achieve here? Well, I think he has a sliding scale of

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responses he can give to this. From the merit -- from the metaphorical

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slap on the wrist to something much further. This is much further and

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underlines the President's view that not only was it unacceptable for

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Russia to intervene in the US presidential election, he wants to

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send a warning out to other countries who might be thinking of

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doing likewise. That said, the Russians have said it is

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unjustified, without merit, it is wrong, and when have you ever heard

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an intelligence agency of a foreign country say, yes, we did it, we did

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wrong? Russia has promised retaliation, the nature of which we

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do not know. But the X Factor in all of this is what Donald Trump decides

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to do. He was scathing and dismissive of early reports saying

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the FIA -- the FBI and CIA were involved so he has a choice? Who

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does he believe, Vladimir Putin or his own intelligence services? And

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you would imagine there can only be one answer to that question.

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Thank you very much, at the White House.

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The latest attempt to stop the fighting in Syria came

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A ceasefire between the Syrian Government and main opposition

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groups has been brokered by Russia and Turkey, with a commitment

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The Americans, who played no part in the deal, welcomed the news

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Two previous ceasefires in Syria collapsed within weeks,

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as our Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg reports.

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For nearly six years, Syria has been torn apart by civil war.

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A conflict that has left more than 400,000 people dead.

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There have been peace initiatives before, which brought no peace.

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But today, Russia announced a breakthrough.

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In the Kremlin, Russia's Defence Minister handed Vladimir Putin

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a list of Syrian opposition groups which had signed up to a ceasefire

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60,000 rebels, he said, would stop fighting.

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This is the moment Russia has been waiting for and working for,

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He added that there was also an agreement to start peace talks.

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The Syrian Government was persuaded by Russia to sign today's agreement.

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Turkey's role was crucial in convincing them.

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Not part of the deal are so-called Islamic State,

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or the main Kurdish rebel group fighting them, the YPG.

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Excluded too, an armed faction known previously as al-Nusra,

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The US has welcomed the ceasefire, but it's been sidelined

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John Kerry's countless meetings with the Russians seemingly

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Moscow said it hoped America would join the new round of peace

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talks when Donald Trump moves into the White House.

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In the Kremlin today, Vladimir Putin portrayed

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himself as the deal-maker, the peacemaker in the Middle East.

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But after nearly six years of war, bringing peace

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A spokesman for the Free Syrian Army, an alliance of rebel factions,

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admitted they'd had no direct contact with the Syrian authorities,

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but he said Moscow had promised to keep Syrian Government

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Ahead of the ceasefire, a reminder of the hell Syria has become.

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The video purports to show the aftermath of an air strike today

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Schoolchildren running, screaming through the smoke and the chaos.

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This is a country desperate for peace.

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The head of the Royal College of General Practitioners has warned

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that patients in England could be forced to wait four weeks

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or longer to see their family doctor in months ahead.

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Helen Stokes-Lampard says surgeries are already over-stretched

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because of a shortage of GPs and years of under-investment.

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But the Government says it's investing an extra ?2.4 billion

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A review of the Youth Justice system in England and Wales has proposed

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that offenders who commit crimes before they're 18 years old should

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The review says naming child offenders such as Jon Venables

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and Robert Thompson, who murdered two-year-old

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James Bulger in Liverpool in 1993, undermines attempts

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Police in Cornwall are investigating what they say

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are the unexplained deaths of two men.

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The bodies were found yesterday evening at a block

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One man was in his early thirties, the other was in his twenties.

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The Hollywood actress Debbie Reynolds, who starred

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with Gene Kelly in the musical Singin' in the Rain, has died.

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Her death was announced a day after the death of her daughter,

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Her son said the news had been too much for her to bear,

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as our correspondent David Sillito reports.

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# I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain.

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Singin' In The Rain, Debbie Reynolds was just 19.

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She'd not really danced before this, but this

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I was supposed to be an innocent, virginal little

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I think it was a tough deal for poor Gene to be stuck

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It would have been far better for him to have a great dancer.

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But I worked so hard that I think, in the end, when I look

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at that performance of that little girl,

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# All I do is dream of you the whole night through.#

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64 years later, her death comes just a day after losing

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She'd been planning her funeral when she was taken ill.

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Her son Todd said the stress was simply too much.

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Among the tributes, Bette Midler, who said

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Dame Joan Collins said she was truly heartbroken.

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You could make an album, I could produce it.

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That mother-and-daughter relationship, Meryl Streep

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and Shirley MacLaine gave us a taste of the ups and downs in

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Indeed, Debbie Reynolds wanted to play the role, but

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was told she wasn't right for the part.

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You want me to do well, just not better than you.

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What she was right for was old-school Hollywood

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The show always went on, even when she was abandoned by

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her husband, Eddie Fisher, for Elizabeth Taylor.

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My personal life is always sort of like this.

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That little choo-choo train that says, "I think I can, I think

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Luckily for me, God was good and I have two wonderful children.

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And here she is, Carrie Fisher, six years old, watching her

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The photographer said she didn't move.

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54 years later, Debbie Reynolds' final words:

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But if you want to remember what made her

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The actress Debbie Reynolds, who has died at the age of 84.

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There's more throughout the night on the BBC News Channel.

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Now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.

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