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Hello, this is BBC World News, our top stories: The South African

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athlete Oscar Pistorius is formally charged with the premeditated

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murder of his girlfriend as his bail hearing continues.

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Mourners attend the funeral of Reeva Steenkamp in her home city of

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Port Elizabeth. We have to keep Reeva in our hearts

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forever, and by her passing away, make a change in our lives of many

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people. A computer security company says a

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Chinese military unit based in Shanghai is behind a series are of

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cyber hacking attacks. Armed robbers in Belgium smash-and-

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grab that the international airport, they get away with diamonds worth

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Hello. Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius has been warned that he

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faces the harshest possible restrictions it is given bail while

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he awaits trial for murdering his girlfriend. He is charged with

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premeditated murder. He has been in court this morning in Pretoria.

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Reports from within the courtroom suggest he stopped during much of

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the hearing, which is about whether he will remain in custody until he

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stands trial. Prosecutors told the court that he fired several shots

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through a bathroom door in his own, killing Reeva Steenkamp. His

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defence team say he thought she was an intruder. The family of the

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victim have held a private funeral this morning in Port Elizabeth. Ben

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Ando as more. This is a bail hearing, lawyers for

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Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, known as the Blade

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Runner, believe he should be allowed to remain at home until he

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goes on trial accused of murdering his girlfriend, the model Reeva

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Steenkamp. The athlete's sister was in court to support him. In his

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last appearance in court in Pretoria, he broke down in tears as

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he was accused of murdering his girlfriend on Valentine's Day. In

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court, at the prosecutors said that Pistorius, a double amputee, got up,

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put on his cross-species and walked seven metres and fired his gun

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through the bathroom door. He fired four shots, three hit Miss

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Steenkamp. The athlete's defence suggest he had mistaken her for a

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burglar. Some believe his celebrity status means he should be allowed

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bail. Everybody knows who he is, it is not as if he can hide or get a

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passport and run away overseas without anybody noticing. In my

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mind, I would suggest that the fact that he is a well-known person

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might count in his favour in this instance. The court appearance

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comes on the same day as Reeva Steenkamp's funeral in Port

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As her private funeral got under way, her alleged killer, Oscar

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Pistorius, waited to hear whether Just picking up from those pictures,

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after the funeral, Reeva Steenkamp's brother made a brief

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statement outside the chapel. Everyone is sad, understandably. At

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certain points, we were smiling, remembering Reeva. Because we only

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have good memories of her, and I think that is what we were all

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thinking. Now, a US-based computer security

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company says it believes the Chinese military is behind a series

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of high-level cyber hacking attacks. The company, Mandiant, says that

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his 12 storey tower block in Shanghai is actually the

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headquarters of a global hacking operation. Mandiant says it has

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pinpointed a secretive unit of the Chinese People's Liberation Army as

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the most likely source of the attacks, which have lifted data

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from a whole range of industries, mostly in the United States. The

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Chinese foreign ministry says the accusations are groundless and

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based on rudimentary data. Well, with me now is the BBC security

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correspondent Gordon Corera. You have the report here. Rudimentary

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data, is it? Fascinating report, one of the most detailed I have

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ever seen in terms of attributing where these attacks have come from.

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We have known for years that significant attacks have been

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launched and have been tried to steal data, everything from

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intellectual property, the designs of things, to negotiating

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strategies, government secrets. It has always been suspected that

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China was in some way behind this. The Chinese, as you said, have

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denied it. What is so interesting about this report is that they have

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gone right down into the detail and looked at one particular unit of

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the Chinese military, Unit 61398. They have looked at its location

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and the location where these cyber attacks have come from, and they

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have said it is the same place, that tower-block, these are the

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locations where you can see the links. They have even tracked some

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of the people they think Ah'm not, you can see some of their names,

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Ugly Gorilla, one of the pen names. -- they think are involved. So they

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are pretty confident that they know where they are heading. What sort

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of effect the thing these attacks are having? What sort of

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information are they getting? it is very interesting, a mixture

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of old-fashioned commercial information, the secrets to

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designing something, whether it is the secret recipe of Coca-Cola or

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the design of a new jet fighter. Then there is negotiating positions

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that might be used, government information that they are after.

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There was a famous attack by this group where they got hold of the

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security keys which cut the government and others used to

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secure their data. It was a means of getting that kind of information.

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So it is a real spectrum of information over a long period.

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What is fascinating, in his report, it talks about the hackers being

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inside one network for four years and 10 months, four years and 10

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months working their way around a computer network, being able to

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steal information. A massive amount of time. I suppose, in a way, what

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is the upshot of this? What is the sanction? What can be done next?

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Everyone has known about this problem for years, but governments

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are very cautious about pointing the finger at China, partly because

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there is this problem of proving it definitively. In the cyber world,

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you can try to mask the real art, and it is very difficult to be

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absolutely sure. And they are worried about economic links. There

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is an issue for governments, and on the whole they have been reluctant

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to say explicitly that they think it is China, and China, of course,

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denies it. It says hacking is illegal, and they say, we get

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hacked, which is no doubt true as well, their corporations and

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government debt hack as well. But we are seeing a move towards people

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being more open, and this report is very interesting, because even

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though it is private sector, not the US government, a private sector

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organisations saying, here is the detail, that will start a debate

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about, well, if the detail is there, what do we do about it? For all

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they can say, we have not done this, if they are all at it, that is not

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much of an excuse either. No, and so do governments say, we will do

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it back you? You end up in a war in cyberspace. There is a real debate

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about how you put rules in place, how you agree norms which stop

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people being willing to act in certain ways. Very challenging.

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The world's largest food maker, ness Lake, has withdrawn two types

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of ready meal from sale in France and Italy after tests uncovered

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traces of horsemeat. -- mislays. It says that the lasagne and spaghetti

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meals contained meat supplied by German firms.

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It is a scandal that has engulfed Europe and refuses to go away. One

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week after the world's biggest food maker said that its products were

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clear, confirmation that some of its exports also contained traces

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of horsemeat. Ministers meeting in Paris had some good news for the

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company. It had been accused of labelling horsemeat as beef.

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Representatives from Spanghero, the company at the heart of the

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controversy, were told some operations could restart after all

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work was suspended. While Spanghero denies all accusations, the French

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government stands by its claims, but with most of the company's

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stock now tested and cleared, it conceded hundreds of unwitting

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workers should not be penalised. TRANSLATION: We have two objectives,

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to guarantee consumer security and to allow workers to resume their

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activities. They are not responsible for the fraud. In the

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Netherlands, authorities have raided more than 100 businesses,

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trying to establish whether fraudulent labelling had taken

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place. German officials have banned to tighten controls on meat

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products and enforce stronger penalties for companies that

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violate the rules. TRANSLATION: We do expect more cases to be

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uncovered, and that is why these controls are being put in place, to

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get everything on the table, and in particular to resolve this. With

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the extent of the scandal still widening, it is clear Europe's

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complex relationship between meat suppliers, producers and

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distributors has failed its consumers. What is less clear now

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is how to ensure that what is inside Europe's meat products

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Now, armed robbers in Belgium have crashed through the perimeter fence

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of the international airport in Brussels and made away with

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diamonds worth around $50 million. Belgian officials say that they

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were maxed gunmen. -- mast. They snatched the Jules as they were

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being loaded onto a plane. They did find one of the vans bent out quite

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close to the airport. There you are, there is the proof. Audacious is

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the work. Duncan Crawford joins me from Brussels, talk us through this,

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quite a coup. Yes, certainly an audacious crime. It took a matter

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of minutes, officials say, where these robbers cut a hole in the

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perimeter security fence at the airport and drove two vehicles,

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believed to be a van and a car on to the tarmac where a Swiss

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passenger plane was getting ready to depart. A security van was

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loading it up with diamonds in the loading area, and these robbers got

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out of their vehicles, wearing masks, armoured, carrying guns, and

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they took those diamonds and loaded them up on to their vehicles. They

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did not fire any shots, no-one was injured, and they escaped the way

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they had come from, through the hole in the security fence. As you

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say, police later found a burnt-out van which is believed to have been

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used by the robbers. They are conducting tests on that as we

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speak, trying to find clues. One of the things is so extraordinary is

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that this is a country where the diamond trade is very deep rooted.

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People would have very standard security procedures, you would

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imagine, every time they go through this sort of routine. Yes, very

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heavy security would be expected. Of course, this is an international

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airport as well that hundreds of flights going in and out every day

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as well, so questions inevitably will be asked how they manage to

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get through the perimeter fence, how the robbers managed to be there

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for what was perhaps only around 10 minutes, but escaped with no

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security at the airport trying to intervene, no police trying to

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intervene. They do have CCTV footage, they will be going over

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that. They have the burnt-out van which they will be analysing. But

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police at the moment not really saying that much, still looking for

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clues as to how this could happen. Duncan, thanks very much.

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And thank you for watching here on BBC World News. Coming up later in

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a programme, getting drunk, breaching curfews, misusing

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prescription drugs even, this is the damning report into the

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behaviour of the Australian swimming team at the London

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Now, you may not have noticed, but the universe is moving faster than

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expected. Scientists are struggling to explain why the galaxies are

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rotating at speed and planets are flying apart more quickly than they

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should. Well, a team from America is going to use the Hubble

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telescope to investigate what is called dark energy, and the results

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could lead to a rewriting of the theories of physics that we have

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depended on for the past century. Pallab Ghosh reports.

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The world around us is made of atoms. They link up to form the

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buildings we see, the water that flows, and all life on the planet.

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But scientists have discovered that up in space there is something else

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out there that makes up most of the universe, a force that was present

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at the beginning of time. After the big bang, the current theory of

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physics suggests that these expansion of the others would slow

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down and then contract and there the force of gravity. -- the

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expansion of the universe. Instead, galaxies seemed to be flying apart

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faster than ever before. Scientists believe that this force is called

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dark energy and accounts for nearly two-thirds of the universe. This

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acceleration defies all the current theories of physics. Scientists

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want to know where the seemingly endless energy that is driving the

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universe apart is coming from. They are now using the Hubble space

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telescope to find out. It will be measuring precisely how fast

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galaxies are accelerating away from us. One of the researchers involved

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in the project told me that the results may show that the universe

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would continue to accelerate apart forever. The bigger it gets, the

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faster it will go, and that will be a universe that just expands and

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expands forever. The piece of the universe that we get to see will

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have fewer and fewer galaxies in it. It will be a dark, lonely, cold

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place 100 billion years from now. The mystery of dark energy is

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arguably the most important puzzle of our time. The solution will

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rewrite the theories of modern physics and change our own notion

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It's believed the military plane was on a training flight when it

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came down in the the al-Qadissiya district of Sanaa, not far from the

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central market place. Reports say the plane crashed into two houses,

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injuring dozens of people. Rescuers are still searching the rubble for

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survivors. This is BBC World News. The latest headlines: the South

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African athlete, Oscar Pistorius is formally charged with the pre-

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meditated murder of his girlfriend. Mourners at turns the funeral of

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Reeva Steenkamp in Port Elizabeth. A report into the poor performance

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of Australia's swimmers at the London Olympics has described the

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team culture as toxic. The review, commissioned by Swimming Australia

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said bad behaviour by team members, including getting drunk, breaching

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curfews and misusing prescription drugs, went unchecked.

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Here's what the team's head coach, Leigh Nugent, had to say in

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response to the report. It is a pretty emotive word, toxic.

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I'm not sure what that means. The overall issues were not over the

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obvious, what eyesore. We will be addressing all those issues now.

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BBC Sport's Karthi Gnanasegarum followed one of the Australian

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Olympic swimmers, Emily Seebohm, in the run up to the Olympics. Emily

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was one of Australia's high hopes for several gold medals in the 2012

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Games, and broke down in tears of disappointment when she won Silver

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in the 100m backstroke. It is interesting knowing she got a

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gold medal and two silver medals. She was very disappointed. It is

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one of the best performance of any of the Australian swimmers. It is

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the one gold medal in swimming they got. When she got to her individual

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part of the tournament, she got a silver medal in the backstroke and

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was very disappointed. In the first interview when you come out of the

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pool, she was incredibly disappointed and cried at that

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point. Speaking to her during the Olympics, several times, there was

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a sense of discipline and, despite a what someone would describe as

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being a very good individual results. It did you get any idea

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about the broader cam? One of the swimmers describe it as a lonely

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Olympics. Some of them felt cut adrift. My dealings with the

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Swimming Association of Australia changed. When they did not get the

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medals they expected at the start, it got more difficult to do with

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the press office. None of the swimmers were allowed to leave and

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do any interviews until everybody had finished. They were not allowed

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to leave the village and do any interviews with the BBC until

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everybody had finished their events. Swimming is at the beginning of the

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Olympics, and it you don't get that momentum at the beginning,

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Australia did not get the gold medals they were expecting. There

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is a lot of pressure. Everybody is outside playing sport and swimming,

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because that is what the environment is like over there.

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They do have a lot of pressure to compete. It is something the nation

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expects, especially at the Sydney 2000, when they were so successful,

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it comes as a real shock 12 years later. They are having a big Downer

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at the moment, Down Under. The conflict in Syria is becoming

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increasingly violent, militarised and sectarian, according to a

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United Nations report. It's accusing both pro and anti-

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government forces of committing war crimes and it's calling for tighter

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controls on the supply of weapons. The European Union has extended its

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arms embargo against Syria for a further three months, but it's

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promising more aid to protect civilians. The BBC's Tom Donkin

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reports. This greater is on verified in

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footage as a Scud missile attack in a leopard. This conflict has been

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played out in videos uploaded to social Media website since it began.

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Establishment -- establishing the veracity of the videos is not

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always straightforward, but it is clear this is intensifying. More

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amateur footage, said to be of an air strike in a suburb in Damascus.

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The power imbalance between the two sides has led to calls from Britain,

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for the fighting President, a she'll to step down. Sanctions have

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been extended again Syria for another three months and amended

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the arms embargo to allow greater, non-lethal support and technical

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assistance to the opposition and Britain welcome that as a step in

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the right direction. This is an important change. It shows we can

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change the arms embargo. The worse the situation becomes, the more we

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can change it. It will be reviewed again in three months. It

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establishes an important precedent. As Syria was that subject of a

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meeting in Geneva. A report says the civil war is becoming

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increasingly sectarian and violent. Crimes continuing to be committed

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in Syria. The number of victims are increasing. Justice must be done.

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The plight of those caught up in the conflict is also deteriorating.

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At the border with Jordan, Jordanian soldiers tap refugees

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fleeing the bloodshed. For these people, and many more like them,

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the latest international efforts to tackle the crisis in Syria are too

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little, too late. We are getting reports from Syria

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that eight people have died in a rock'n'roll -- rocket attack in

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Aleppo. Those reports coming from Syrian opposition activists. They

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say another 25 people are missing. It has seen some of the fiercest

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fighting during the uprising. There's been a surge in violence in

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Thailand following the deaths last week of 16 Islamist militants.

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They were killed as they attacked a Thai military base on Wednesday. It

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was the largest loss of life the separatist movement has suffered

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since it re-started its campaign for an independent Islamic state

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nine years ago. I must warn you there are some disturbing images in

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Jonathan Head's report. This is a land of fear, not smiles.

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60,000 Tyne and soldiers trapped in a decade-long war of attrition with

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insurgents who lived all around them, but are rarely seen. Last

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week, the masks slip. The failed attack on a Thailand Marine base

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left 60 militants dead. Their bodies strewn. No movement, no

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longer faceless. Three of them live next door to each other, just a

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short drive away from the base. A procession of friends and relatives

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arrived the following day to console the families. Martin has

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been left with three young daughters to look after. She knew

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her husband was a wanted man. He stayed away and the army often

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searched her home. Her feelings are mixed. She misses him, she says.

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This man told me he was proud his son had died fighting for his

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beliefs. So, would he let any of his six surviving sons join him and

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joined the insurgents? I tried to stop them, he said. But they don't

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always listen to me. The dead men were buried as martyrs to the cause

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of an independent Islamic state. There was no emotion. Neighbours

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seemed to accept that their deaths as a fitting end. The commander of

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the raid was this man, a 30-year- old man with multiple arrest

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warrants and the price on his head. But admired in his own community.

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His widow grieves that her young son will never know his father. She

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is adamant his death was worth it, his cause was a noble one. How many

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others in this troubled region of time and feel the same? People do

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not speak openly, but sympathy for the insurgents is certainly strong.

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This failed attack may look like a victory for the authorities, but

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they cannot break the powerful hold the insurgency has on so many young

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Muslim men in this region, north or all of the defensive measures they

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are taking, can they protect those the insurgency targets. This is,

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believe it or not, a primary school. Government schools are seen as

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legitimate targets by the insurgents. Last month, they killed

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a teacher here in front of the children. Running this school takes

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particular courage and dedication. Four of its teachers have already

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asked to be transferred. TRANSLATION: We're all afraid. We

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are afraid as soon as we leave the house. We do not know what we will

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face on the road. We have the soldiers here to protect us and we

:25:17.:25:21.

feel a bit safer. The soldiers keep doing what they had done for the

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past 10 years, patrolling and hunting for an enemy which is every

:25:27.:25:37.
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were and there were. -- everywhere and nowhere.

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Italians will vote in a general election this coming Sunday and

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Monday, and there's a lot at stake. The third-largest economy in the

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Eurozone is deep in recession. Voters will have to choose between

:25:47.:25:50.

more of the same, or Silvio Berlusconi's promise to relax

:25:50.:25:58.

austerity policies. The former Italian Prime Minister says whoever

:25:58.:26:05.

wins this election must tackle bureaucracy and corruption. The

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election is due on Sunday and Monday. It is two weeks since the

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last polls were out which suggested it could be difficult for anyone to

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win a clear majority in the course of the elections.

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Let me bring you up-to-date on the main story: it revolves around

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Oscar Pistorius. He is in court again, at the magistrates' court,

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where there is a bail application being heard. He is charged with

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murder, premeditated murder to use the correct phrase, of his

:26:39.:26:44.

girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, who died on Thursday. Her funeral has

:26:44.:26:49.

been taking place at precisely the same time in Port Elizabeth.

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