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A senior American Journal is investigated over inappropriate e-

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mails to a woman involved in the scandal surrounding the former head

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of the CIA. The radical Muslim cleric added

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Kabbala has been released from jail after winning the latest round of

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his battle against deportation. -- Abu Qatada.

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Doctors tell a breakthrough after helping a man chapter in a bit of

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State -- trapped into a bit of State to communicate.

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Welcome to BBC World News. Also, shaped like a pyramid and holding

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more than 50,000 books - the Dutch library wing praise for his design.

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The Pentagon says it is investigating the most senior

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commander in Afghanistan over alleged in a prepared

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communications with a woman linked to the scandal surrounding the

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former CIA director David Petraeus. The investigation centres on

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General John Allen's links with Jill Kelley. She said she received

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threatening e-mails from the woman with whom the former director of

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the C I A, David Petraeus, admitted having an affair. A short time ago,

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I spoke to our correspondent who tubby more about the new

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investigation. This is a very tangled web.

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Essentially, what seems to have happened is that Paula Broadwell,

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the woman who had an affair with General Petraeus, she seems to have

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been sending e-mails to Jill Kelley, critically Mills, E Mills that

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appear to be addressing in nature. That is how it got into the grips

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of the FBI. Now, as part of that investigation, this link between

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General Alan and Jill Kelley has been revealed. We don't know the

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nature of the link, whether this is a romantic affair. We don't know

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what is happening. This is a scandal that has cost the Americans

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one of the most prominent military figures of his generation, and it

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is now causing great questions over General Alan as well.

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Leon Panetta has put out a statement saying he will remain --

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remain the general. Clearly, he is a canny man in

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military terms. He has been successful in Afghanistan. He has

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been nominated to have NATO's top military commander in Europe. His

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confirmation hearings were due to be held. That whole process has

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been suspended for the time being. There will be lots of questions

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asked about this. Some will be about the FBI's role and timing in

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the whole thing. How much did they know? There will be questions about

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the moral dimension as well. Is it necessarily right, in this day and

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age, that senior figures like this step aside for an affair? Some

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people will say yes, this is a matter of honour. Others will

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presumably say that America has lost one of its most talented

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military commanders. Clearly, this scandal threatens to undo the

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career of another prominent and capable military man.

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Within the past hour, the radical cleric Abu Qatada has been released

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from a top-security prison in the UK. Yesterday, he won the later

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stage in a battle to avoid being deported to Jordan, where he faces

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trial on terrorism charges. Those pictures are Justine. The BBC's

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Legal correspondent has this report. He has been described as a tree

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dangers individual, a threat to national security. -- truly

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dangerous. Attempts to be deport him have been blocked by the

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European Court of Human Rights, and yesterday, British judges backed

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Europe. In the Commons, Theresa May said the government would be

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appealing. He has a long-standing association

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found he provides a religious to do the Katia for acts of terror.

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The government wanted to put Abu Qatada on a plane to Jordan.

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Theresa May had gone there to help to cut a deal. The government said

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it had received a series's that evidence obtained through torture

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would not be part of the case against him. -- assurances.

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Yesterday's judge says there's a risk of such events being used. In

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the spring he was removed from the cows - what a house where he had

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The forced exit strategy that the government had planned has been

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derailed by yesterday puzzling ruling. Today, Abu Qatada is due to

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return to his family, although he will be subject to a 16 hour curfew

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All the business news now. A controversial departure for

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Microsoft? Absolutely. This shocking news,

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surprising. These are the words in Madrid used by those following the

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technology used -- world. We are talking about Steven Sinofsky, who

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is, or was, important for this company. He was behind the whole

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Windows eight launch, a month ago. He was seen as the future. The

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baffling question is why warp -- is Egon? Microsoft is not saying why.

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President Obama said it is about It has the technology industry not

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up in arms, but certainly surprised. We are seeing some amazing changes

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in the industry. Only last month, two executives left Approach. --

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Apple. I spoke to our technology correspondent, who had this to say.

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It is difficult to underestimate how important Steven Sinofsky was

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in the Microsoft world. After the chief-executive, he was the most

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well-known face in the company. He would be on stage for the big

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presentations. He was more exuberant even than his boss. He

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was widely seen as a successor to him. The press release announcing

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this as a bland headline. It says he is going, but says nothing about

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why. Very interesting. It appears his e-mail to staff says, listen,

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no conspiracy theories. This is very normal. I wanted to go off and

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do something different. This seemed like a good time to do it. Let's

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move on. The British energy secretary will

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make a statement later today House of Commons over claims that the

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wholesale gas price has been manipulated. The Financial Services

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Authority, the regulator, is investigating some unusual price

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movements in the most active gas market in Europe. It is important

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to stress that all of the UK's Big Six energy suppliers have denied

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any involvement. David Hunter is an analyst. He joins us now. David,

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let's start with this. Can you explain in layman's terms how, on a

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day-to-day basis, how the wholesale gas market works.

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Gas producers sell gas into the UK. That could be from the Middle East,

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by tanker. That is then traded on the markets. Most of the trades

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that are done our court over the counter trades. They are between

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two parties trying to buy and sell. What we are looking at today is how

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the prices are assessed. It is not on an exchange like the FTSE 100.

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They are less transparent. They rely on AGC to come up with the

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price. Because it is a market, it is open

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for manipulation. If you were to manipulate the prices... How would

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you do that? Clearly today we are looking at an

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investigation. Nobody has confirmed anything being done wrong.

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Hypothetically we are looking at how you might manipulate the market,

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and if trades are reported that are, for example, in this case, it has

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been suggested that trades were reported lower than the prevailing

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market rate, if those are reported to the reporting agency, they may

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take those into account and publish a closing price that was lower than

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might actually otherwise have been the case.

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What is going on in this whole energy markets across the world? We

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have seen other allegations and cases in the United States

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involving, for example, the Californian electricity market. Now

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this. His is a sign that we are seeing regulators getting more

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aggressive? International regulators had been

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looking at the regulation of the markets and how trading works.

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Clearly it is important, as all of us are consumers, that we have

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trust in the markets. Anything to shake that faith is not welcome. We

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need to seek the regulators looking at this robustly. We hope to rule

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out any market manipulation. But if there's anything wrong, we have to

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fix it. If there are issues, there will be a big call for greater

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transparency, possibly moving towards an exchange trade system,

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where the trades are more David, thank you.

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Let's touch on some of the other business news. The Greek government

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has managed to sell just over $5 billion of short-term bonds, short-

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term debt. The funds are needed, though, to cover a payment that is

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due this Friday. Greece needs the money because it has not yet

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received the next chunk of bailout money. Eurozone ministers agreed

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earlier in the week to give Greece two more years. They have got a

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deadline of 2016 to meet all of those deficit reduction targets.

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Vodafone has seen a huge decline in the value of its businesses in

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Spain and Italy. To cover that it has taken a near $9.5 billion

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charge, meaning it made a loss of $3 billion in the first half of the

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year. The TV executive said he did not expect any improvement in the

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near future. -- the chief executive. All these big corporations with

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businesses operating down there are suffering.

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Other news, and Palestinian workers have begun the process leading to

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the exhumation of a body of their late leader, Yasser Arafat. Reports

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said that stones are being removed. This follows claims in a TV

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documentary earlier this year that Yasser Arafat may have been

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poisoned. He died in a French military hospital in 2004. Our

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correspondent said the exhumation has not started yet.

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It is a pretty Grant's tomb in the presidential compound. Overnight,

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it has been sealed off. They have put a lot of blue tarpaulin around

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the tomb so you can't actually see in. A lot of the roads surrounding

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be compelled have been sealed off. The exhumation has not begun but

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they expect it to happen in the next few weeks.

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Just remind us exactly what the allegations are?

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This stemmed from a television documentary that came out earlier

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this year, which alleged that Yasser Arafat was poisoned using a

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radioactive element. The channel had carried out some tests or some

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of his clothing that had been passed to them by his widow, who is

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based in France. The scientists doing the test were from a Swiss

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laboratory. They are due here in a few weeks. In France, after the

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widow puzzler request, there is a formal murder request. -- the

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You're watching BBC World News. Still to come: Images show evidence

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of new tests at a North Korean Today, millions of Hindus in India

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and the rest of the world are celebrating Diwali. The five-day

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festival of lights is one of the most important events in the Hindu

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calendar. One of the people who'll be celebrating is the Bollywood

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actor, Dharmendra, who's in Britain for a film shoot. The BBC's Shabnam

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Mahmood has been speaking to him about his latest project, and

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started by asking what Diwali means to him.

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We just wish each other are, let us care for each other, let us love

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each other, a feeling of brotherhood. Meade, I am working,

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to me, work is worship now. If I am not working, I feel I am not

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anything. You were here shooting a new film, Yamla Pagla Deewana.

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get up early, at 7am, and finish quite late. The rain and cloud, as

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you always say, the UK weather is unpredictable. We are enjoying it.

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You are in Leicester and Birmingham when many film-makers would choose

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for London. Why did you decide on the Midlands? This is the

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requirement of our story. One of the characters belongs to that area.

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Birmingham and Leicester. So that is why we are there. We are getting

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very beautiful locations, the University of Leicester, they are

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very co-operative, we are grateful to them. We are celebrating 100

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years of Hollywood. You have been in the industry for five decades.

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How do you think the industry has changed to appeal to a global

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audience? Nowadays, stories are predictable. Still people would go

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to see it. Now, it is more towards reality. People have started loving

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fast food, they love fast pictures! They don't have time much. They get

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bored. In our day, it was slow, nice and, deep. Now, this

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This is BBC World News. The headlines: The top American

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commander in Afghanistan, General John Allen, is to be investigated

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over emails to a woman at the heart of the Petraeus scandal.

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The radical Muslim cleric, Abu Qatada, has been released on bail

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in Britain after avoiding A Canadian man, who was believed to

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be in a vegetative state for more than a decade, has been able to

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communicate to scientists that he is not in any pain. Scott Routley,

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who suffered a serious head injury when he was involved in a car

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accident, was asked questions while having his brain activity scanned.

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It's the first time that a non- responsive severely brain damaged

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patient has been able to respond regarding their care. Our health

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correspondent Fergus Walsh has more. Scott Routley is about to show he

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can communicate with his mind, rather than his body. Doctors

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thought he was vegetative, unaware of himself, or the outside world.

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want you to imagine you are playing tennis. Imagine him playing tennis

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produces a distinct pattern of brain activity which shows up on

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the screen as read. Inside the scanner, he starts to respond,

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revealing he has a conscious, thinking mind. Tell us whether you

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are in any pain. A crucial question for the well-being of patients. His

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stance suggests he clearly answers no. This is the first time that we

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have asked a patient a question in the scanner which is actually

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relevant to their clinical situation. This technique has

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already been validated in leading journals. The results have

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delighted his family. They thought he could sometimes respond with his

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thumb or his eyes. They say their observations were dismissed as

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wishful thinking. Scientists say the scans could be used to improve

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its patients' quality of life, by checking if they are happy with the

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times they are fed or washed, or with the entertainment they are

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shown. Newly released satellite images

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appear to show that North Korea has been conducting tests at a rocket

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launch site. These pictures show a facility, where US academics

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believe, rocket engines to have been tested. Analysis of the Sohae

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launch site suggests that North Korea has conducted at least two

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tests of large rocket motors since its failed rocket launch in April.

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The US-Korea Institute said it remains unclear whether the North

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is preparing another launch, but predicted it may embark on new

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rocket and nuclear tests in 2013. Our correspondent Lucy Williamson

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has this assessment from Seoul. Analysts say the satellite photo

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shows evidence of two rocket motor tests, one of which seems to be for

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a rocket much larger than North Korea has tried in the past. They

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say the photos show evidence of construction, again to try to house

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a large a missile. Those findings will cause a lot of worry in Seoul

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and Washington because of fears that North Korea is trying to

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develop a long-range missile which could one day be used to carry

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nuclear weapons. There have so far been no responses from South Korea

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as candidates for the upcoming presidential election continue to

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set out their plans for how to improve relations with the north.

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Three people have died in floods that continue to worsen across

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northern Italy. The trio were killed when their car plunged off a

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collapsed bridge near the town of Grosseto. Emergency teams in

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Tuscany have been helping rescue hundreds of people. The Tuscan

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regional president is reported to have asked the army to deploy

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troops to help cope with the emergency.

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The Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has urged China to

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investigate the causes of a series of self-immolations by Tibetans. He

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was speaking during a visit to Japan. At least eight self-

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immolations have been reported in the last week in China's Tibetan

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region. Tibetan activists say the self-immolations are protests to

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highlight Tibetan unhappiness with Chinese rule.

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China's Communist Party will choose the country's next leaders this

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week. But what direction will they take once in power? One suggestion

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is to try to emulate Singapore. It's said the soon-to-be Chinese

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President Xi Jinping may look to the country as a model for

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potential reform in China. So what makes Singapore so attractive to

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the Chinese? Sharanjit Leyl has more from the city state.

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Peter Chang Leah's a comfortable life in Singapore with his family.

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The lives of his teenage children couldn't be more different to the

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one he enjoyed as a child, growing up in a rural village, during

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China's Cultural Revolution. Life was hard. Determination and a bit

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of luck paid off, he says, and led him to where he is now. Singapore

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may be home, but China is where he makes most of his money in a

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successful property venture, and he still takes an interest in how

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things around her. I think the past generation of the leaders, they

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didn't do enough to reform the system. Therefore, there is this

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corruption, this still happens. So, I am hopeful that this new

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generation of leaders can tackle that problem. Whether the Singapore

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system is unrealistic or not, I think by and large it is a good

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model to follow, but it has to be adapted into the Chinese system.

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China's new leaders may agree, they have made subtle signals towards

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reform, and one way to achieve it say insiders is to emulate

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Singapore. The island has made a success of its open market economy,

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and is ranked consistently as one of the least corrupt in the world.

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Singapore has been dominated by one party since its independence, and

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this tight grip on controlled say academics is one reason why it is

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so attractive to China's next leaders. The characteristics China

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is interested in is maintaining political control within a one-

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party state. At the same time, how to enjoy a economic vibrancy.

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are common trait between the two, more than some to the centre of the

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Singapore population are descended from southern China, a shared

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language and cultural identity has made China's rulers look towards

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this tiny island. This is the Singapore River. 100 years ago,

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immigrants from China landed and worked alongside its banks. They

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flocked here for it better life, something they continue to do today.

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Singapore is still a lure for immigrant Chinese, one reason why

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China is taking a closer look. It may be too soon for Peter to return

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to his Chinese home town. He and his family are living the Singapore

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dream. A new library in the Netherlands is

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winning praise from architects for its striking design. The building,

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which is shaped like a pyramid, holds more than 50,000 books. Anna

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Holligan went to Rotterdam to take a look.

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The architects believe this could be the single biggest bookcase in

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the world. Around 50,000 books in here, everything from classic HG

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Wells, to the contemporary Steig Larsson. It is designed to maximise

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the amount of space for books. whole idea was to actually

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celebrate the book. That's the whole reason why we actually

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flipped the way of a library. Very enclosed, archiving valuable books.

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Flipping it inside out. To make this pyramid structure where you

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could wander around and have the sense of infinity basically. What

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makes this library so special is that it's built on the principles

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of sustainability. All the bookshelves are made from recycled

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plastic bags. We make one or two modules. One for shelves. One for

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the standing parts. It still has a sense of real material, it looks a

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bit like wood, it feels warm. It has a texture like wood would have

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if you cut it. It has this comfortable and nice feel to it,

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while it is a recycled product. There will always be ordering your

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