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Hurricane Sandy hits Cuba, with winds of up to 183km/h. Two British

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service personnel are killed while on patrol in Afghanistan. Official

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figures show the UK economy has grown at its fastest pace in five

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years. Welcome to BBC World News. Also coming up - the winding road

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to Colombian treasured - hundreds head to the hills after workmen

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digging up a vein of shining emeralds. Could new lobster farm

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has made a fortune for fishermen? - Hurricane Sandy has passed through

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Cuba, with winds gusting up to 183km/h, and waves up to nine

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metres high. Forecasters have downgraded it slightly to category

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one, but they still expect it to cause significant problems when it

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tracks over the Bahamas later. Earlier, it swept over Jamaica,

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killing one person. Another person died in Haiti. Mike Wooldridge

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reports. Cuba, experiencing the first effects of the arrival of

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Hurricane Sandy. While residents of the capital sought cover, it was in

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the south-eastern part of the island that the storm had had its

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most effect. The maximum sustained winds were around 183km/h.

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TRANSLATION: The most dangerous phenomenon is not the wind, but the

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brain, because of the intensity. It will be crossing over mountainous

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territory. Cubans made hasty preparations in the hours preceding

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the arrival of the hurricane. Extensive flooding has already been

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reported. Before Hurricane Sandy hit Cuba, it had battered Jamaica,

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causing flash floods and deluges. Many were forced to take emergency

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shelter. An elderly man is reported to have been killed when a boulder

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crashed into his house. Yesterday, we went into full emergency mode.

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We got together and we had a plan of action, including Shelter

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management, curfews across the island. Yesterday, we deployed big

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emergency equipment. We still have some concerns lingering for persons

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who are trapped. These fishermen, who were told to evacuate before

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and refused to do so, are now trapped. They called for help, but

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by that time it was too late. Jamaica begins clearing up,

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Hurricane Sandy is forecast to pass over the Bahamas, and potentially

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bring tropical storm conditions to Florida. In Florida, the National

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Hurricane Center has been tracking the progress of the storm. I spoke

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to Dave Roberts. It took us all by surprise. It was harrowing for many

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Jamaicans, who live in low-lying areas, because this storm was

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almost stationary, it was moving very, very slowly. And there was a

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lot of rain on Jamaica. People do not think of rain as being damaging,

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but when you have it for hours on end, it causes flooding. They have

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said that people who live in low- lying areas are at risk. So, I

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think we have had one day, which happened about a mile from here,

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but there is going to be a lot of displaced people in Jamaica. Those

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low-lying areas which have been hit hardest - I suppose you will not

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know the fullest extent of how bad it is until the sun comes up, but

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what sort of things have been done for those people in the low-lying

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areas, those displaced people, that you talk about? Obviously, this

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storm was predicted pretty well in advance? Yes, it was predicted in

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advance, and so the government had prepared shelters. On Tuesday

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morning, children were let out of school early. A lot of business

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places let their employees go home early so that people could prepare.

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What picture do we have of the power cuts across the island? Have

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we got people still without power? Yes, we had a figure of 70% of

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people affected, that was the number when I went to bed last

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night. I still do not have power over here. In a few hours, when the

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charge runs out on the telephone, I will be out of communication. But

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part of that I think was a precautionary measure. The power

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company probably turned off electricity. But I think also,

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there have been a lot of trees and lines come down. Because even

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though this storm did not pack a lot of wind, as I said, it rained

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for hours on end. So, roots and so on have become loose, and a lot of

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trees have fallen. I think one of the major problems we are

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experiencing is blocked roads, and getting to people who need help

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will be a problem. That was a blogger from Kingston, Jamaica. I

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am joined in the studio by the BBC's weather presenter Sarah

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Keith-Lucas. Tell us about the storm. This storm passed across

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Jamaica yesterday, then it hit Cuba this morning. It did weaken a bit

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as it hit land, but it is now pushing in a northerly direction,

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heading up towards the Bahamas. This is the satellite image of the

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storm, the huge swirler of cloud. A lot of cloud also affecting parts

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of Haiti for instance as well. It is a very powerful, Category A two

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hurricane, currently. It will be weakening over the next couple of

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hours, but once it hits the warm waters of the Western Atlantic, it

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is going to strengthen once again. Seeing it on the graphics, you

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Seeing it on the graphics, you realise how huge this thing is. It

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is not just the winds and the rain, but also the storm surge, the huge

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waves... That's absolutely right. We have this huge area of low

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pressure, combined with high tides and strong winds, which combines to

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create a storm surge, as you say, which gives extensive coastal

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flooding. We are seeing the water about 8ft above where it should be

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for this time of the year. For people in low-lying areas, it is

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very, very serious indeed. Is part of the world is no stranger to

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hurricanes, but this is the end of the season - what sort of season

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has it been? This is the 18th Our main story - we have had this year.

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It is not too dissimilar to average. But the season continues right to

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the end of November. -- This is the 18th main storm we have had this

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year. The warm waters of the Caribbean are like a fuel for the

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storm. It reinvigorate the storm. When it gets over the warm waters,

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that is when we see an increase in that is when we see an increase in

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Two British service personnel have been killed while on patrol in

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Helmand province, in southern Afghanistan. One was a female medic,

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the other was a marine. Their families have been told. It is not

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yet known if the incident was an in cyber-attack. More details are

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expected from the Ministry of Defence later. Speaking from Kabul,

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Caroline Wyatt told me the inquiry is still going on, with several

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conflicting reports coming in. -- was an insider attack. We know from

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the Ministry of Defence in London that one of those killed was a

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Royal Marine from 40 Commando, the other was a medic from 3 Medical

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Regiment. We believe that she is a female soldier from Northern

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Ireland, which would make it the third British woman soldier to be

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killed in this conflict here in Afghanistan. The MoD statement is

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brief, saying they died of wounds sustained while on patrol in the

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Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province. This is a place where

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there have been quite a few British deaths over the past weeks and

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months, not least the insider attack in September, which killed

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two British soldiers, who died at the hands of a man dressed in

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Afghan police uniform. In this case, there are conflicting accounts of

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what happened within the firefight. One of the dead is an Afghan

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policeman, but it is not clear whether it could be a green on blow

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attack, although that is one of the lines of inquiry. -- green on blue.

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British detectives investigating sexual abuse claims relating to

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Jimmy Savile so the number of victims is almost 300. No arrests

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have been made so far, but police say they are investigating other

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figures of high standing. Demands are growing for a full, independent

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inquiry into how Mr Southwell was given easy access to his victims at

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children's homes, hospitals, as well as at the BBC. -- Mr Savile.

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The BBC has officially come out of recession. GDP was boosted by the

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Olympics and by a strong performance in the services

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industry. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has been

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talking about what the figures tell us about the underlying rate of

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growth. In Britain, we are dealing with some deep-seated problems, as

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I say. We are recovering from the banking crisis, we're dealing with

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very big debts built up in the good years, and we are also in a global

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race, facing enormous competition from around the world, which is an

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even bigger challenge for Britain, in some ways. I think the

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Government is addressing those things, dealing with the debts,

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creating jobs, making the economy more competitive. So, we're

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addressing those problems. And I think our public finance policy,

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dealing with the debts, enables the Bank of England to run a very loose

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monetary policy, enabling interest rates to stay very low, which is

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pretty important at a time like this. Ford is to close its Transit

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van factory in Southampton, as well as a plant in Essex, ending more

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than a century of vehicle production in Britain. It will lead

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to the loss of 1,500 jobs, and leave only engine production and

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production also other parts at its remaining plants in this country.

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We are joined now for the business news by Aaron. Everybody is waiting

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with bated breath for the big launch of Microsoft's Windows 8. It

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is a big turnaround for a company which has traditionally a software

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company, which is getting into the hardware, launching this tablet,

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and highlighting how big the tablet and smart phone market is. It is a

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new operating system which we will be sealed. We are talking about a

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company which was one of the most valuable technology companies in

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the world, although Apple is now worth more than twice as much as

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Microsoft, and Google is fast catching it up. But the one person

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that can explain this and talk about it is our very own Rory

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Cellan-Jones, who filed this report from Microsoft's headquarters in

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Seattle. Microsoft's founder, bill Gates, and his successor, joined

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staff to celebrate 30 years of charitable giving. But for the man

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who is currently in charge, the next few days are crucial. We have

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re-imagined Windows in Windows 8. The new system is supposed to take

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Microsoft, rather late, into the brave new world of touch-screen,

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mobile computing. They know what is at stake. It is really an epic

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thing for Microsoft. It is right up with the top two or three big

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moments, including Windows 95, and the launch of the IBM PC. It really

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starts us on this new era of computing. Microsoft remains a

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giant, employ more than 40,000 people in the Seattle area alone,

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and still generating big profits from Windows and Office. But what

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the clever people here have not done over the last 10 years is to

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produce anything which has changed the world. Unlike Apple, which this

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week launched another i-Pad, and has outpaced its old rival in

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delivering smart, new products. But Microsoft believes this new tablet

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computer, powered by Windows 8, will show that it can be even

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smarter. In a computer industry which is changing rapidly, this

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firm needs to move fast to stay in touch.

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You have already been talking about the good news, the UK, searching

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out of recession for the last three months, with growth of 1% in that

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third quarter. This was better than expected. We have heard from the

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politicians, who are obviously quite pleased about this. But one

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of the outstanding contributing factors to this growth has been the

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Olympic Games. We sat down with Hugh Pym, and I asked him to

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explain more about the Olympic effect. The only problem is, the

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official statisticians will not give us a precise estimate for what

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they think the Olympics contributed, but there are quite a few people

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who thought maybe 0.2% or 0.3% might have come from the Olympic

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effect. What the effect is is the cost of tickets, even though paid

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for them -- even the people pay for them last year, and there is also a

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boost to transport and hotels and so on, although online retailing

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did not do quite so well. But taking all of that out, you have

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still got growth. The second quarter look very negative, down

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0.7%, then it was revised up a bit, with problems concerning bank

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holidays and so on, and now we have got a figure which looks very

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positive. But over the two quarters, it looks like there was some growth,

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Credit Suisse says they have dropped nearly $200 million. It

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said the steep decline is down to an accounting charge on the bank's

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own debt and also intends to cut another $1 billion in costs in 2014

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and 2015. Staying with the banks, the Eurozone's biggest, Santander,

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says profits slumped by 866 % as it wrote off 5 billion euros in bad

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loans -- by 66%. But more encouraging figures from Unilever

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or which delivered better-than- expected sales despite the slowdown.

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Revenue grew by nearly 6%, driven by emerging markets and also demand

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for laundry and household cleaning products. We may be in recession,

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some of us, but we like to keep clean. Also some good news at last

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for the crisis hit airline in India, Kingfisher, as employees have

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agreed to return to work. They had not been paid for around seven

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months which prompted the three- week walkout. Kingfisher management

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have to persuade the aviation regulators that the airline's fit

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to fly again. Kingfisher has severe financial problems and a debt of

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around $1.5 billion. It has never made a product -- profit since it

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launched in 2005. Former Goldman Sachs director has been sent to two

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years in prison and a 5 million dollar fine. Mr Dr was a former for

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Matt -- a four-month board member of Proctor and Gamble. He was

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accused of passing secrets to a hedge fund member, who was

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currently serving 11 years in prison for his position at the

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centre of the insider trading ring. A warning that the world's biggest

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advertising group WPP, seen as eight economic global barometer,

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has cut its sales forecasts for the second time this year. The company

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expects sales growth of around 3%. The chief executive said his

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company had seen a sharp slowdown in September. That sick with the

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business news. -- that's it. You're watching BBC World News. Still to

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Back to Africa as an entire family of gorillas is leaving the English

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An unofficial ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas appears to

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be holding after it came into effect at midnight local time. The

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truce was negotiated with the help of Egypt and comes after a flare up

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in violence on both sides. Jon Donnison, who is in Gaza City, told

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me just how serious the escalation in tensions had been. Two or three

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days of violence, least six militants killed by Israeli air

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strikes and 70 rockets fired into Israel. There will be damage to

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homes on the Israeli side. I have spoken to an Israeli military

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spokesperson and they say it remains quiet and nothing has been

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fired in either direction since midnight local time, and I think

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that will be considerable relief on both sides. Schools in Israel go

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back today, and people are holiday as they are preparing for the

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Muslim festival of eat, so relief on both sides. What was the role of

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the Egyptians in this? In the past, and on this occasion, Egypt has

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helped negotiate this deal. Israel and Hamas both say they will not

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talk directly to each other. Messages are relayed through

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Egyptian intelligence officers. That has happened in the past and

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happen on this occasion. I should say that these escalations happen

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every few months and they have a depressingly predictable and to

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some extent choreograph feel to them. Both sides would say that the

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other has reasons for a limited escalation. I think in Gaza, Hamas

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needs to be seen to be asserting its Resistance credentials and in

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Israel they need to be seen to tackling militants in Gaza with

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elections coming up in January. The underlying fact is that I don't

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think either side wants another war in Gaza or an escalation. There is

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more concerned at consolidating power and looking after the economy

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and getting that to improve. In Israel they have bigger concerns,

:20:49.:20:59.
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notably Iran. You can always get in touch with us by Twitter. And

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plenty that we are working on on This is BBC World News. The

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headlines: Hurricane Sandy slammed into south-east Cuba with winds of

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up to 180 kilometres per hour. Two British service personnel, one male

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and one female, have been killed on patrol in southern Afghanistan. The

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Syrian government is expected to announce if it will accept a

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proposed four day ceasefire. The UN's special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi

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has already said that both the government and most rebel groups

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had agreed to the brief truce from Friday, during the Eid festival.

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Our correspondent James Reynolds is on the Turkey-Syria border. I asked

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him whether he thinks the ceasefire will be observed. It seems pretty

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difficult to imagine that all the fighting will stop at midnight. I

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have been reading reports from one journalist in Aleppo and he says

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Artillery continues, and it's difficult for the Syrian war planes

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to fly at the moment because of the rainy see behind me. He says it

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would be a miracle that there has to be a ceasefire and to imagine

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that opinion will be shared by many in the country. I suppose one party

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will say they will stop only if the other does. That could be a

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difficult thing to bring in in the first place. That is exactly why

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previous attempts at ceasefires have fallen. Previous ceasefires

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have had so many conditions attached, meaning effectively that

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even if there is an agreement it may break down within a few hours.

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No one is really expecting an end to the violence, and even if there

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were a ceasefire or a truce for four days, it is not tied to a

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peace process and it is not monitored. There is no particular

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piece plant either. So at most the people of Syria may expect a slight

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decrease in violence but not a formal ceasefire or a formal peace

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process. He is it possible to give an overview of where the fighting

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is worst in Syria at the moment? are getting reports from different

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places. Earlier today there were reports of a Syrian armed forces

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attack in a suburb north-east of Damascus. That was reported by

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opposition activists. They suggested five people were killed

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in shelling and we have been following reports of continuous

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shelling in Aleppo itself, which is in northern Syria. 11 gorillas - at

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a wild animal park here in the UK - are to be the first captive family

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group released into the wild. A conservation charity will release

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the Western Lowland gorillas in Africa early next year. They'll be

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moved into areas where gorillas have in the past been hunted almost

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This is a wild boar and western lowland gorilla. He was found tied

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to a post in an African village 20 years ago. Now he will leave his

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family back home to the gap on. This is not new to us. But this

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element is because of the size of the family group, this applies of

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medication, and we will be helping settle them in -- this applies of

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modification -- medication. We will take care of them, not desert them.

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More than 50 animals have been released by the Aspen or foundation,

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mostly young ones who are walked back into the bush. But this is

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different, and established, cohesive group. The foundation

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believes that conservation must be fundamental to the existence of any

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collection of captive animals in the 20th century -- 21st century.

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Damian Aspinall forged such a strong bond with the guerrillas

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that he allowed his daughter to play with them. Back in June,

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Prince William led his support to the foundation with the release of

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three black rhinos to the wild in Tanzania. The foundation is also

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trying to breed endangered species like Madagascar and the leaner and

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Barbary lions. Working in conjunction with the Congolese and

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Gabonese government they will go back to the protected areas. The

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eight-month-old will be the young distally. It is hoped the whole

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family will move in January. -- youngest to leave. An emerald-rush

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is under way in Colombia after a gang of workers stumbled across a

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hidden seam of the precious stones while repairing a carriageway. This

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is the road they were working on, in a remote area, known as the

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Devil's Nose, with a 500-metre sheer drop to the side. The team

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found a rich vein of emeralds while digging with pneumatic drills. They

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say they recognised the precious stones right away. News of the

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discovery spread quickly, and police have now cordoned off the

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area - but not before dozens of the gems, worth thousands of dollars,

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were scooped up by local people. An entirely new work by Beethoven is

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being premiered today, almost two hundred years after it was written.

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The music has been pieced together from a series of basic chords.

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Professor Barry Cooper discovered the chords when he was looking

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through one of the composer's old notebooks. He's completed the piece

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by adding words and setting it to organ. The whole thing will be

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