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top stories: Despite controversial new settlements planned by Israel,

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the US Secretary of State says Middle East peace talks will go

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ahead. Two men are sentenced to death after

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violent clashes in north west China. I was forced to take these bags in

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my luggage. Two British women arrested on

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suspicion of drug trafficking in Peru say they did not know they were

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carrying cocaine. And it was one of the biggest art

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heists in modern history - were these pictures burned to destroy the

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of State John Kerry has said the latest round of Middle East peace

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talks should not be derailed by Israel's decision on Sunday, to

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approve well over a thousand new settler homes. Palestinian

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negotiators have accused Israel of trying sabotage the talks, which are

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due to begin later this week. But speaking in Colombia, Mr Kerry

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stressed the need for both sides to return to the negotiating table and

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focus on peace talks. I think what this underscores actually is the

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importance of getting to the table, getting to the table quickly and

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resolving the questions with respect to settlements, which are best

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resolved by solving the problem of security and borders. Once you have

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security and borders solved, you have resolved the question of

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settlements. The BBC's Yolande Knell in Jerusalem

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says the situation between both sides remains extremely tense.

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What I think we have here is a lot of tension building up ahead of

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these talks due to take place in Jerusalem tomorrow and on Wednesday

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between the Israelis and Palestinians, sitting down together

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at negotiating table. As well as the settlement announcement that came

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through on Sunday of 1200 new settlement homes to be built in East

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Jerusalem and the West Bank, land that the Palestinians claim as part

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of their state, after that we had a committee getting together to

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approve a list of 26 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails that are

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to be released as part of the deal that was struck to get these peace

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talks restarted. There has been a lot of resistance to that within the

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Israeli government and wider Israeli society. That prisoner release is

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expected to take place very late tonight, just 26 prisoners. They

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will be part of a group of 104 scheduled to be released. Most have

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been in prison for some 20 years since the 1993 Oslo accords and a

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roundabout blend so this is a big deal for the Palestinians. It is a

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sensitive issue for the Israelis and at the moment there is this delicate

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balancing act going on. John Kerry, in his words, and sending the envoys

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tomorrow, really trying to smooth things over and keep things on

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track. He paid six visits to this region trying to get talks to

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restart after they stalled last time. Is their optimism the talks

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will happen? There is scepticism on both sides, but we have a real

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determination from the officials who are involved, and the negotiators,

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that they will sit down and they will start off talking about issues

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like Borders and security and put off the more difficult core issues

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like Jerusalem until later. They are being very secretive about the

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content of the talks and when I have spoken to people involved in the

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negotiations previously, particularly those in the run-up to

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the Oslo accords, they say this is very important at the moment, that

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there should be secrecy, they should be keeping quiet, and trying to push

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ahead with these talks despite the controversy surrounding them and the

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tension that exists. And as those tensions continue across the region,

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Israel says it's shot down a rocket that was targeting the southern port

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city of Eilat. The Iron Dome defence system intercepted the rocket which

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Israeli authorities say was fired from Egypt early on Tuesday. It

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comes just days after the city's airport was closed because of a

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security threat. Crime in the US is at a 40-year low

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but it still has one of the biggest prison populations in the world.

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Sweeping changes are being planned, which could dramatically reduce

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America's bulging prison population. The Obama administration wants to

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scrap mandatory prison sentences for drugs offences unless they involve

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violence or organised crime. The move could save the US billions of

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dollars a year. America's prisons are overflowing. Here in California,

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gymnasiums are turned into dormitories as the prison system

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struggles to cope. The numbers are striking, almost 1% of the adult

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population in the US is in prison, and close to half of all inmates are

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serving time for drug-related offences. In 2010 it cost the

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taxpayer $80 billion. It is a legacy of the war on drugs which enforced

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mandatory minimum sentences for even low-level drug crimes. The Attorney

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General wants to change that. a vicious cycle of poverty,

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criminality and incarceration traps to many Americans and weakens to

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many communities. Many aspects of our criminal justice system may

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exacerbate these problems rather than alleviate them. The prison

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population is disproportionately black and Hispanic. He wants to give

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judges greater discretion over sentencing to divert non-violent

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drug offenders into treatment programmes rather than prisons. Many

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states are already shifting funding away from prison building towards

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rehabilitation centres, and some are red states such as Texas. Critics

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say these measures are futile, that they will not significantly reduce

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overcrowding, but the administration has clearly signalled the start of

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the process, as well as an end to that of medicine in Iraq that

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characterised the war on drugs. A court in China has sentenced two men

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to death, following the outbreak of ethnic violence in the Western

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province of Xinjiang earlier this year.

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State media says the two men were found guilty of murder and

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terrorism. Three others were given nine years in jail. 21 people were

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killed in fighting between police and residents in what the

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authorities there describe as a terrorist attack. Earlier I spoke to

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Zhuang Chen of the BBC's China Service. He explained what's

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believed to have happened in April. 15 of the community workers and the

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policemen have found suspicious movement in the house, and official

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media say they were surrounded by local people and they were chased,

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they were killed by knives and some of the policemen were herded in a

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room and the room was burned down. 15 of them died and another six of

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the local people were killed during the chase. What happened in the

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aftermath? The government arrested those involved in the incident and

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yesterday sentenced two of them to the death sentence, which is a

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severe sentence and a long-term jail imprisonment for the rest. Xinjiang

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is one of the flash point in terms of China's ethnic regions and the

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series of incidents that happened in the past, for instance the biggest

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one happened in 2009 when nearly 100 people were killed. That is the

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issue which is very difficult for the Chinese government to deal with

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because the ethnic minorities were all there. Describe the area, where

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does it border? Pakistan, Afghanistan, and obviously the

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Congress said they are not terrorists, it is only because of

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the oppression of the Chinese government that leads to those

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instances. Obviously the state media and local groups have different

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versions on what is happening on the ground. She has grown up in the

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spotlight, the white heat of the White House - Chelsea Clinton has

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worked in Wall Street but is now focused on her father's charity, the

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Clinton Foundation. Touring Rwanda and Tanzania amongst a number of

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countries in Africa, she talked to my colleague Komla Dumor about what

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drives her right now and whether she will one day follow in her parents'

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footsteps. As the foundation expands its footprint and influence in

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Africa, another Clinton is taking up a bigger role. Chelsea Clinton sits

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on the foundation's board, and this project demonstrates how simple

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interventions can provide clean water in poor communities. I think

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success in your life really matters and as much as I loved solving a

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problem on Wall Street and seeing I was right, and investment idea, I

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didn't ultimately want to dominate the number of my life in dollars but

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in how many people I can say is, the number of people I can help in power

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to lead their own lives. You come from the very influential political

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dynasty, why not make that choice as opposed to pursuing this? Right now,

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I feel called to participate in the nonprofit sector. I am also grateful

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to live in a city under state and a country where I really believe in my

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elected representatives. If ever one of those changed and I thought I

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could make more of a distance -- difference, or I no longer believed

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in the ethics and the competences of my political leaders, then I would

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have two ask myself honestly whether that would be a better path.

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young British women accused of attempting to smuggle more than two

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million dollars worth of cocaine from Peru to Spain have said they

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were not aware that they were carrying drugs. Michaella Connolly,

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from Belfast, and Melissa Reid from Scotland, were stopped in Lima last

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Tuesday. Officials say almost 12 kilos of cocaine was found inside

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food packages in their luggage. In footage which has emerged of their

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police interview, Melissa Reid said she didn't know what was inside the

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bags. I was forced to take these bags in my luggage. You know it

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contained drugs? I did not know that. Melissa Reid, 19 years old,

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and her co-accused Michaella McCollum Connolly is 20 from

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Belfast. Still to come: And mass jailbreak in Brazil, nearly 40

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inmates are still on the loose after a riot in Sao Paulo.

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Tens of thousands of people have been left homeless after the worst

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typhoon this year in the Philippines. Two people have been

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confirmed dead and several others are still missing, following the

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trail of destruction left by Typhoon Utor. Typhoon Utor, tearing homes

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apart. Worst hit the neighbouring coastal towns north-east of the

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capital, Manila. Trees were uprooted, power lines tangled,

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houses flattened. This villager says she saw her house shaking like it

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was being lifted up. Her family hurried to take shelter in a bigger

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house. Not everyone was so lucky, many people are still missing. This

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woman struggles against the raging waters. She is OK for now, but her

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fate is unknown. Manila escaped the path of the storm. The flooding was

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not too extensive here. Schools were still closed bow, precautionary

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measures have become standard after the high death tolls of storms in

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recent years. About 20 typhoons hit the Philippines every year and

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people are resigned to them, but this is the largest yet, and the

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clean-up will be a challenge. This Typhoon Utor is being described as

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the most powerful storm to have formed globally this year. The winds

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are 175 kilometres per hour, it is now moving on and the worst for the

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Philippines is over, but the typhoon has accelerated as it moves into the

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South China Sea. It is forecast to make landfall in China on Wednesday

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so the immediate danger has passed but huge destruction has taken

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place. The people here are now left to count the cost and repair the

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damage. A group of 20 condors, one of the

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largest flying birds in the world, has been found poisoned in the

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Chilean Andes. Rescuers near the town of Los Andes found two dead

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condors, while 18 others were foaming from the beak or too frail

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to fly. It's thought they may have eaten poisoned carcasses, or drunk

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water contaminted with insecticide. The latest headlines: US Secretary

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of State says Middle East peace talks will go ahead, despite

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controversial new settlements planned by Israel.

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A court in China has sentenced two men to death following clashes in

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the Western province of Xinjiang by Picasso, Matisse and Monet stolen

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from a museum in Rotterdam October last year? The trial of three men

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accused of stealing the patience has been opened and adjourned in a

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mania, but suspicion is growing that the paintings may never be seen

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again. Dr Bendor Grosvenor is an art dealer

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and art historian and is here in the studio. Obviously there is a trial

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going on so we must be careful about what we say, but give us the

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background? We have had a theft in the Kunsthal Gallery in Rotterdam,

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seven important pictures missing by Picasso, Monet, Matisse, big names.

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The ringleader was arrested, but apparently his mother has said that

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she burned the pictures, so that is the great mystery, whether we will

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ever see them again. Why were these pictures targeted? It is the big

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names of art, they are worth a lot of money. Famous images that the

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viewers might recognise, one of them was Monet's scene of Charing Cross

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bridge. How big a loss would that be if they had been burned? Monet

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painted that seen a few times, we're not talking about the Mona Lisa, but

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it is always sad when a great painting is lost. I have just been

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to his house and see many of his great paintings. What could be done

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with these pictures if they were not burned is a big question, you can't

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just hide one in your bedroom? is a great myth that Lott of these

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pictures are stolen by collectors who just want to have them, that

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does not really happen. There is also a myth that they are stolen as

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collateral in drug dealings by underworld criminals, but does not

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really happen either. Most of them are basically taken hostage, ransom

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money. The pictures are buried or hidden for a number of years, the

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heat dies down and then five, ten or 20 years down the line, the thieves

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say, hey, I have got your picture, give me a fee for information,

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basically a ransom, the picture is returned. That makes the suspicious,

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I don't think, despite some of the evidence coming out of Romania, that

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the pictures have been burned. I would be willing to bet that they

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will somehow turn up out of the woodwork in a few years. It is a

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good way to get the heat off you and stop people looking for the pictures

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if you say they are burned, the police might give up and look at

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something else. What about security? I often take my kids around

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galleries and I am often terrified that they will fall into a picture

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of great worth and bankrupt me, but security is often quite lax? It is

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pretty good in many places. There were some flaws in this particular

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museum. It is alleged that once the alarm was triggered, the Lochs went

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off as part of the fire safety precaution, so they could go

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wherever they wanted. These thieves only need a few minutes, in this

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case they were in and out in less than two minutes. Are these things

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becoming more common or we just hearing about all? We need to stop

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paying these ransoms. In every case it is very tempting because museum

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owners and private owners want the pictures back, but it makes things

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worse in the long run. China is targeting dozens of foreign

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and domestic drugs companies in a crackdown on corruption in its vast

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health care system. It follows a bribery scandal there involving the

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British drugs giant, GlaxoSmithKline. Now, five drugs

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salesmen working for other foreign pharmaceutical companies in China

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have told the BBC that they routinely pay bribes to Chinese

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doctors to get their drugs prescribed. Our Beijing

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correspondent, Martin Patience has China is counting the cost of its

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health care. This bus conductor spends her entire salary on her

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husband's medication. He is suffering from a brain tumour and

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government health insurance only covers part of the cost. The family

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survives with hand-outs from relatives.

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TRANSLATION: When my husband felt sick, he was a young man. We didn't

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have a lot of savings. It is a huge burden for us. As Beijing expands

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provisions for health care, government spending is soaring. It

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has made clear that reform is required to rein in costs. It is

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investigating possible price-fixing in up to 60 pharmaceutical

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companies. Last month a detained executive from the British firm

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GlaxoSmithKline confessed on state television that his company paid

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bribes to doctors so they would prescribe its drugs. He said the

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bribes were then absorbed into the cost of the drugs, pushing up prices

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by a third. GlaxoSmithKline has said it appears some of its local staff

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acted outside the company 's processes. Five employees working

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for other foreign drugs firms have confirmed to us that they have with

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this corruption, including this salesman, who did not want to be

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identified for fear of losing his job.

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TRANSLATION: At one hospital our product was no longer on sale, so we

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paid about $1000 to a senior doctor to get it back on the shelves. My

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manager approved it. In a system overwhelmed by patient

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is, corruption is not limited to drug sales. Using hidden cameras, we

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filmed touts illegally selling appointments outside a Beijing

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hospital. They are so well-established they even have

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business cards. This touts told is that if we paid $50 he could get is

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an appointment that afternoon. -- this man told us that if we paid

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$50. I tackling corruption, the authorities are hoping to make

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health care cheaper. -- by tackling corruption. The

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government wants people to spend their money in other ways in order

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to drive domestic growth. But for this woman, any thoughts of holidays

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or new furniture remain a distant dream. Until the drugs get cheaper,

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the best they can hope for is to just scrape by.

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Dozens of prisoners have escaped from a youth detention facility in

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Brazil following a riot. The inmates set fire to mattresses and held some

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of the prison's staff hostage. Police in Sao Paulo say at least

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thirty inmates are still on the run. Serena Chaudhry reports.

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A daring climb-down, and then a leap to freedom. These are just two

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prisoners who escaped from a youth detention facility in Sao Paulo. 54

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inmates fled in total. The prisoners made their escape after a riot broke

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out at the Fundacao Casa facility, which houses more than 100 detail

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needs. Dozens of the underage offenders set fire to the

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mattresses, sparking a blaze in the prison's central yard. Nearly 30

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staff members were held hostage during the riots and the facilities

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director was taken to hospital with cuts to his head and bruised ribs.

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Police are still searching for the escapades.

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It's Proms season here in the UK, the summer classical music festival

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at London's Royal Albert Hall. This year the world famous violinist

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Nigel Kennedy has returned to Vivaldi's Four Seasons, and he's

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accompanied by a youth orchestra from the Palestinian territories.

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Wissam Sayegh of BBC Arabic met the musicians and Nigel Kennedy himself

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This classical masterpiece, Vivaldi's four seasons, is known to

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millions around the world. But here it has been given a very different

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tone. It has been transformed into a

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musical dialogue between East and West.

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They are bringing such a fresh perspective on Western classical

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music, at the same time are still having contact with the route 's

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fall of the music from their forefathers, which is so wonderful,

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to hear people play Arabic music. I am giving space for some of the kids

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to play their own music as well as the classical format to show what a

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beautiful soul they have, it is phenomenal. 17 music students have

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spent four days in London with this world-famous violinist preparing for

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the opportunity of a lifetime, to perform in the BBC Proms, the most

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respected classical music festival in the world. Nigel Kennedy is one

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of the most acclaimed musicians in Britain, but his aim is to give a

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platform to these young and promising musicians from the

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Palestinian territories. This is the first time the

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Palestinian trip -- the Palestinian Strings Orchestra will perform to an

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audience of this size, not to mention the millions watching at

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home. Allah it is an amazing experience and gives Palestine a

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boost. We are showing people that we are not what they think we are.

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is an opportunity for us to perform before people. It is a real

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connection between us. It helps them to see what is happening in

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Palestine and the music we play. This orchestra was formed two years

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ago and has been praised for its celebration of Palestinian culture.

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We are bringing something very positive vote from Palestine, this

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is Palestine, these are young Palestinians, we have something to

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show people -- we are bringing something positive forward from

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Palestine. Nigel Kennedy's unique ambition is opening doors for this

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