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Hello. This is BBC World News. Reports of multiple attacks on

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security forces in Egypt after a night of bloody violence in Cairo.

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John Kerry defends the capture of an Al-Qaeda leader in Libya. He is a

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legal and appropriate target for the US military under the organisation

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of the use of military force in September 2001.

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And we will be live in Manchester as the Philadelphia 76erss meets

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Oklahoma on British soil. Egyptian security forces are

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reported to have been targeted in a wave of attacks across the country.

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Gunmen have killed five Egyptian soldiers at a checkpoint north of

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the Suez Canal city of issue -- Ismailyial. Let's catch up with what

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all of this means. Who is going to be responsible for this? The

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authorities have been struggling to answer that question for weeks now,

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if not months. They are searching in different parts of the country. The

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Muslim Brotherhood are not the sole group that the authorities might be

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in confrontation with right now. We are talking about attacks stretching

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from the western borders to the Suez Canal area, and even in Cairo we had

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attacks yesterday. This sends the message that the critical time for

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Egypt's security is not over yet. The Muslim Brotherhood is now at the

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centre of the current authorities pressures. But many are feeling that

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actually they are not the ones that could only resort to violence. There

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are other groups who are more capable of going underground and of

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launching attacks like the ones we have seen yesterday and in the past

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few weeks. These groups can have grudges against the authorities,

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either for deposing the first Islamist president in the country or

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for simply trying to spread chaos at a critical time for Egypt. The

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infiltration of other groups, this a critical time for Egypt. The

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is exactly what we have seen elsewhere in the Middle East. It is

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extraordinary to see it in Egypt. People will know these places. Any

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attack that can happen in the Sinai peninsula can have a major effect on

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the truism industry. It has been suffering already -- truism

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industry. -- tourism. We have to leave it there, thank you.

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The American Secretary of State has defended the capture of an alleged

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Al-Qaeda leader, calling him a legal and appropriate target. He was

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wanted in connection of the bombing of US embassies in Africa 15 years

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ago. He is reportedly being held on a US naval ship after being seized

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by special forces in Libya on Saturday. The authorities have

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demand an investigation. John Kerry has defended the raid. He is a key

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Al-Qaeda figure. He is illegal and an appropriate target for the US

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military under the authorisation of the use of military force passed in

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September 2001. Of course, we regularly consult with our friends

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in the region, with the Libyan government on a range of security

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issues, but we do not get into the specifics of our communications with

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foreign governments on any kind of operation of this kind. That raid in

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Libya was not the only one carried out in Africa against Islamist

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militants by the US special forces. They also landed in Somalia, in a

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town controlled by the Al-Shabab group claimed to be behind the

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attack in Kenya. That did not result in any senior militants being

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captured. Was the Somali operation a mistake if they did not get anybody?

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That is what will be asked after this because the Americans were very

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sure that they were about to capture the leader of Al-Shabab. They failed

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to capture him. They did not get any high-profile targets. Those are the

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questions about what went wrong. Was it an operational mess? The

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Americans are bound to answer this in the coming days. Who went in from

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the American special forces? SEALs. The same guys that took out Osama

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Bin Laden. They had a lot of intelligence about the movement of

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Al-Shabab leaders. About four years ago is, they took out a senior

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Al-Qaeda operative here. But looking at how this operation is conducted,

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there are questions about was the intelligence correct about who was

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there, and if the leader of Al-Shabab was there, did he escape

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or did somebody tipped him off? Intelligence is crucial but it does,

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as the Americans say, show that the US is determined to try to control

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what is going on in this area of Africa and to show they will not

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stomach what we saw in Kenya a few weeks ago. America has got a lot of

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intelligence shared with the Kenyan authorities. They have been hunting

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down Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Shabab for a long time. They are also

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flying drones across this region. They are monitoring activities of

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these groups and trying to work with Kenyan authorities to try to end the

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operations by Al-Shabab in this region. But this operation is new.

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The tactics were a bit different from over the years. In the long

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The tactics were a bit different term, that does not mean they are

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getting out of the region. They will still be involved and whether they

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finally managed to tackle Al-Shabab leaders is something we will have to

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see in the long-term. Thank you. John Kerry has of course been pretty

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busy during his trip to the APEC two India. He praised the Syrian

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government for complying with the chemical weapons deal. The US is now

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calling for a UN peace conference to be held on Syria next month.

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Divers have recovered 83 bodies from a boat carrying refugees. More than

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300 African refugees are feared to have died. The ship is lying in such

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deep water that the divers could only spend minutes there before

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having to return to the surface. Still the bodies come. The death

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toll has been rising for days. Many bodies are believed to have been

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trapped in the wreck. It is not easy to operate at that depth. The time

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you can stay under water is about to operate at that depth. The time

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six or seven minutes and then you must come up. Once the bodies are

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recovered, the grim process of identification begins.

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TRANSLATION: We are now conducting the first examinations of the

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corpses, taking pictures of them. Then we take samples of DNA for

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possible identification. When the boat sank off Lampedusa on

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Thursday, it had almost made it to the coast. Hundreds of migrants were

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on board, most of them from Eritrea and Somalia. Every year tens of

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thousands of migrants make the crossing from North Africa to

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Italian islands. Accidents like this are common, just not on this scale.

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The tiny island is struggling with what has happened.

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TRANSLATION: The islanders feel very distressed. All you hear people

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talking about is death. It is an endless tragedy. There are over 150

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survivors. They have come to the island's already overcrowded

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immigration centre. TRANSLATION: There are 950 migrants

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at the centre. It is clearly a difficult situation, especially with

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winter arriving. Some of them have slept outdoors in the past days. The

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survivors will be investigated for clandestine immigration, an offence

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that carries a hefty fine. Italy has said it will amend its controversial

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that carries a hefty fine. Italy has asylum laws, and has also called for

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more assistance from Europe to cope with the influx of migrants risking

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their lives to reach its shores. Typhoon has slammed into China

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forcing the authorities to move hundreds of thousands of people to

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safety, with wind speeds of more than 150 kilometres an hour. The

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storm brought heavy rains and caused widespread power cuts. What is the

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state of play? It has made landfall in eastern China and is weakening.

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It needs the heat from the sea to maintain strength. We watched it

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form out in the Pacific as a little tropical weather system. It

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strengthened from a tropical storm to a typhoon and began to drift

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further west. At one stage there was a distinct eye. I don't know where

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our pictures have gone! We are hoping to see some satellite

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pictures if we can bring those. I am painting a picture in terms of its

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star erections! It was big enough to affect two provinces -- in terms of

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its directions. It had a lot of rain that caused starting and a storm

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surge as well. Rather big waves but also a tidal bore, that is the wave

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that forms at the leading edge of the type that comes in and because

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it was high tide, that was more dramatic and bigger than usual and

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lots of people turned out. Those waves are massive. That was why it

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was such a big spectacle and white a lot of people were anticipating

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that. Just quickly, how does this fit into the general season. It is

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the fifth typhoon of the season this year in the Pacific. Last year we

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had 12. The season has not been as severe but there have been 23

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tropical storms and that is fairly close to the forecast of the

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average, but this peaked from May to October. We have another typhoon

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that is now affecting the islands to the south of Japan, so southern

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Japan and South Korea need to watch out for this storm. It is already

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Japan and South Korea need to watch more powerful than this one but it

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is now expected to weaken a little bit in the coming days. So if you

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are in that every year, keep across our weather forecasts.

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Stay with us. Still to come: We will investigate the crumbling buildings

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of Mumbai where families risk their lives to call them home.

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Now, earlier we touched on the meeting between John Kerry and his

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Russian counterpart on the outskirts of the APEC meeting in Indonesia.

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The ongoing uncertainty caused by the US government shutdown is set to

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dominate events there, especially given that President Obama decided

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not to attend given those events in Washington.

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One by one they arrive. The Chinese leader, one of the first. Platini

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Putin is still to come but one thing that will not be landing here is a

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false one -- Vladimir Putin. The host, Indonesian president, told me

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that President Obama would be missed. The work must carry on.

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After a week of hard work by ministers, this is the moment when

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the top leaders are supposed to move in and sign off on all sorts of

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deals to promote economic operation, including something that

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America has been hot on the trail off. If free-trade zone that would

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circle the Pacific rim but leave out China, challenging their dominance

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in the region. John Kerry will do his best to keep things moving but

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these things are mostly about turning up. It seems like there is

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nothing like actual togetherness to bring about harmony. In other news,

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a bomb in north-west Pakistan has killed at least two people near a

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hospital marking the start of a new anti-polio campaign. The attack

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happened near the provincial capital Peshawar. The lie in Mexico, at

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least six people have been killed and dozens injured after a modified

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pick-up truck went out of control and crashed into spectators. The

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driver has been arrested and charged with manslaughter. Much more on all

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of our new stories on the BBC News website.

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I am Geeta Guru-Murthy with the latest headlines. Reports of

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multiple attacks on security forces in Egypt, that is coming after a

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night of more violence in Cairo. US Secretary of State John Kerry has

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defended the US siege of a suspected Al-Qaeda leader in Libya who he said

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was a legal and appropriate target. When cities expand rapidly, they

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face huge pressure to create enough accommodation for all the people who

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want to live there, and that is particularly apparent in man by, and

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it is no coincidence that there has been as many as seven buildings

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collapsing in the last six months. been as many as seven buildings

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Many more buildings are known to be unsafe, but people are still living

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in them. This is central Mumbai. It has been

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condemned as dangerous to live in, yet more than 11 families call it

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home. This man has Leitir Mor than 20 years, and he says there is no

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way he can leave. TRANSLATION: I cannot afford to buy a new house, so

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despite the cracks we have no option but to live here. When I go out to

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work, I keep calling home, because I am worried about what might happen.

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It is not just this building. Even the one next door has been

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identified as dangerous by the civic administration, and there are nearly

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1000 more such buildings in Mumbai. People continue to live in many of

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them, and lives have been lost when some have come crashing down. This

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amateur video shows house with glee it happens. Windows begin to

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shatter. Seconds later, the walls disintegrate. The authorities say

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they have been trying to get people to vacate unsafe structures.

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TRANSLATION: We do provide temporary accommodation for people while their

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buildings are being prepared or reconstructed, but often these

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houses are located in places where people find it inconvenient to get

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to their jobs or school, so they don't want to move there. In many

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cases, though, poor quality construction has been blamed. In

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April, this is building came crashing down, killing more than 70

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people. It was found to be made of substandard material. The city has

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never provided housing for its poor, the section which cannot

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afford to buy at market prices. This kind of semi-illegal construction

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takes place, and lots of people who come from outside the city, who are

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in need of jobs, they get lured to buy them at cheaper rates. And

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developers do take this very dangerous risk. It is often alleged

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in Mumbai that illegal construction practices are simply ignored by

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those in power. Mistrust of developers or residence runs so deep

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that agreement on repairs can take years. But the city's government is

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under pressure to act before another building turns to rubble.

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One year ago this week, schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai was shot by the

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Calabar near her home in Pakistan. Her only crime was to have spoken

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out for girls' education. -- the Taleban. She now goes to school in

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Birmingham and has become internationally known as a

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campaigner on education. She has been nominated for the Nobel ease

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prize. The Pakistani High Commissioner to the United Kingdom

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prize. The Pakistani High spoke to me and I asked whether he

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thought she deserved the prize. Well, I think she deserves it, and

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she should get it, and the amount of work she has done, including the

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sacrifice she has rendered by being shot by the Taleban, which was

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definitely a challenge to them, that she can still stand up to them, like

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many women in Pakistan who are fighting for the rights of education

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for women, which is a fundamental right guaranteed by the state. But

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why is the state still unable to guarantee it? Why is your government

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still unable to deliver what this schoolgirl is campaigning for so

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heroically? The government is doing its best to deliver, you know, it is

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an enormous task. We have had a war for the last ten years with these

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Taleban and these terrorists, and we spend so much on fighting them, $70

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billion so far... But one half of your government might very well be

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fighting the Pakistan Taleban, but the other half is sponsoring the

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Afghan Taliban, as many observers will say, and what goes around comes

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around. I'm afraid this misperception. We are equally

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treating them, you know, as enemies of the Afghan people and enemies of

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the Pakistani people, and we believe that they have to be fought and

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eliminated totally in order to have peace in the region. The Afghanistan

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government is taking enormous steps, and they have succeeded quite

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a bit, and so are we. Do you deny that any part of the Pakistan

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government sponsors all supports any member of the Taleban in

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Afghanistan, or the region at all? I totally deny... That is not what

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Western military intelligence agencies have said. I totally deny

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that the Pakistani Taliban or Pakistani government sponsors all

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supports or in anyway assists the Afghan Taliban. Or any militants

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question any militants. It is against state policy and against the

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policy of the government. Do you think you are perhaps just unaware

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of it? I am the High Commissioner of Pakistan, I should know everything

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about Pakistan and what is happening in the region, and I know for

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certain that we do not support any of these groups that are creating

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trouble, either in Afghanistan or Pakistan. Are fighting them. The

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Pakistani High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Wajid Shamsul Hasan,

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speaking to me earlier. One year on from her attack, Malala Yousafzai

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has been speaking to Mishal Husain about what happened that day and her

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hopes for the future. You can watch the exclusive reports starting in

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about ten minutes' time, viewers in the exclusive reports starting in

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the UK can see them on the news and one.

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Something different, and the UK does not have much of a sporting heritage

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when it comes to basketball, but there will be nothing second-rate

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about the competition that is unfolding in Manchester in the North

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of England tomorrow, because two of the leading teams from the North

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American NBA are playing as part of their preseason global tour. Chris

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Mitchell can tell us more, I know that basketball players are helped

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if they are told, that is as much as I know!

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Yes, forget Manchester United, forget Manchester City, because this

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city at the moment is all about the NBA. They have arrived, they are

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just on the outskirts of the courtier in the heart of the city in

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the North of England. This is part of the NBA's plans to expand the

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game globally. They are already beginning in the night course, and

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right now they have got 12 teams in ten cities around the world playing

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preseason games. It is all part of David Stone's attempts to sell the

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game around the world. The Philadelphia team are on court

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practising right now, and they have brought everything with them, right

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down to the drinks, the towels and the big screens, of course, which

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they love in North American sport. It is interesting, though, why are

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they doing this right now? Why are they trying to expand around the

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world? It is because the American market is saturated. Right now, the

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market in China, where the Lakers market is saturated. Right now, the

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are playing, and in Brazil where the Chicago Bulls are playing a

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preseason friendly, it is ripe for the picking. I think we have just

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lost that line. Sorry about that, we have lost the line, there is a huge

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delay as well, and we're only going from London to Manchester. We can go

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around the world, but staying in England is rather tricky! Some news

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has come up in the last few minutes or so, and that is the Nobel Prize

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in medicine this year has been won by two Americans, James Rothman and

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Randy Shenkman, and a German born researcher for discoveries on how

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hormones, enzymes and other key substances are transported within

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cells, congratulations to them. Resilient security forces have

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occupied 12 shantytowns in Rio de Janeiro, part of the continuing

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occupied 12 shantytowns in Rio de effort by authorities to drive away

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drugs gangs from poor areas of the country's second largest city. --

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Brazilian. The tanks rolled in just before

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dawn, driving out the drug lords who have long ruled the streets. Around

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700 police and navy officers entered the favelas. Hidden in the bushes,

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they found bullets and stashes of drugs. In less than an hour, control

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of the 12 fellows had been placed into the hands of a special police

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unit. -- far bellows. It is part of a programme to make the city safer

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for the 2014 World Cup and the Olympics two years later. The

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programme's reputation has been tainted by allegations that police

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programme's reputation has been tortured and murdered a man after

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interrogating him in this favelas in June. TRANSLATION: The military

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police is learning from all these events, but this isolated case will

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not affect the pacification process in Rio de Janeiro. Last week police

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activity here resulted in the death of an officer and two drug

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traffickers. This needed to be a peaceful operation, and on the whole

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it was, no shots were fired, just one arrest made. The police are now

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in control, the drug lords gone. But one arrest made. The police are now

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they let this thread - we left, but we will be back.

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This is BBC World News, I am Geeta Guru-Murthy. I will see you

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tomorrow, bye-bye.

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