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establishments. Here are the headlines: This is BBC World News.

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Our top stories: Turkey's Prime Minister fires three high-ranking

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police officers as he fights back against a massive anti-corruption

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enquiry. The King of Spain's youngest daughter is formally named

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as a suspect in a tax fraud and money-laundering investigation.

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Negotiators from the South Sudanese government and the rebel faction of

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the Army have begun to discuss a cease-fire.

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Turkey's Prime Minister has fired three of his most senior police

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chiefs following an anti-corruption enquiry which he claims is

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politically motivated. During the investigation, several people close

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to him were detained, including the sons of Cabinet ministers. Now the

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heads of the units for crime and smuggling have all been sacked by

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government decree along with hundreds of other police officers. I

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asked the BBC Turkish services are possibly correspondent how

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wide-ranging the decree is. It was passed at midnight. It is quite wide

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ranging. More than 350 officers have been dismissed overnight. That seems

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extraordinary. It is. It seems that the cleansing operation. The last

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week of December, hundreds of other police officers, more than 200, were

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sacked as well. It looks like a cleansing operation against what the

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Prime Minister claims to be a dirty plot to overthrow the government.

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One can imagine that he is thinking, I need to re-establish my power base

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from within. The impact of this internationally is getting worse by

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the day. The strength of the era has lost a lot of value. -- the

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currency. It doesn't look good internationally. It looks as if the

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Turkish government is trying to intervene in judiciary, which is not

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something that should happen in a democratic country. Are Turkish

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people remotely surprised at the government, that it does interfere

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still with the police? They are surprised to the extent of what is

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happening at the moment. This is quite extraordinary, as you

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mentioned in our conversation to start with. It is known that the

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separation of powers doesn't necessarily work to the highest

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standards in Turkey. Still, this is quite extraordinary, what is

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happening at the moment. It looks like the Prime Minister and the

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government will not stop the operations against the judiciary and

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the police force until they are satisfied that the coup plotters

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that they say are cleansed from the forces. I know this is a difficult

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question to answer, given this has been going on for a while, but does

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a move like this strengthen Erdogan's hand? It could go both

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ways. Apparently, the Prime Minister thinks he needs to do this to

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prevent what he calls a state within the state operating against him.

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Internationally, as you have said, it doesn't look good on Turkey being

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a democratic state. The dollar is gaining value. Turkey needs money,

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real money, from foreign investors. If the trust to Turkey is lost,

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Turkey will lose. The youngest daughter of the King of Spain has

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been formally named as a suspect in a tax fraud and money-laundering

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investigation. Princess Christina has been summoned to appear in court

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in March, alongside her husband that he has been under investigation

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since 2010. Tom Burridge is following the investigation for us.

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It sounds like a bombshell for Royal Family member to be called up on

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this. Is it unexpected? It is not completely unexpected. This scandal

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has been running for three years or so. Every twist or turn has been

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covered in the Spanish media. She is the youngest daughter of the King

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and was summoned to court last year. That was dropped. She has been

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summoned again. She could and could appear in March in the Joker for a

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closed session of questioning. -- in Majorca. It is in relation to

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questions about her husband. He and his business partner accused of

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misusing 5.8 million euros of public money when they ran a so-called

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not-for-profit company organising sporting events on behalf of cut --

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public regional events. The Royal Family has distanced him from them

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in terms of an official role. What on earth do they do win the King's

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own daughter is tied up in it? You hit the nail on the head.

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Essentially, they have been trying to distance the King to put some

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kind of water be seen him that matter between him and them. -- some

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kind of water between him and them. King Carlos is ageing. He struggled

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to give a speech yesterday. There was a poll yesterday with figures

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that were difficult reading for the Spanish Royal Family. 70% or so of

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young people would like to abdicate. This is the latest phase. It is for

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the Royal Family to make a distinction between them and this

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scandal it really throws into question the future of the Royal

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Family. -- this scandal. It really throws into question the future of

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the Royal Family. How about this for a? If you do not weirdly right" you

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can be dead in ten minutes. -- if you do not wear the right clothes.

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That is how it is in the US as they experience the coldest weather for

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more than 20 years. The big freeze has come straight from the Arctic.

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Chicago has seen a record low of -25 Celsius. Doesn't look much more rosy

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further south and east, either. These other scenes from New York

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just this morning. Washington is expecting similarly low temperatures

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to plunge even further. ABC's Mary Bruce spoke to me a while ago from

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the street of Washington to say how it feels to stand in the cold. It is

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absolutely frigid! Good morning. This city, like so many others

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across the country, is now bracing for this record-breaking cold. This

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is part of this Arctic blast, this so-called polar vortex sweeping

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across the country. Keep this in mind: Every state except Hawaii is

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set to experience freezing temperatures today. That is a record

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in many states. In Washington, what we are feeling right now is about 25

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degrees below zero. That would be considered warm compared to what

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many other Americans are waking up to this morning. What is the reality

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for Washington, indeed for New York? Is it going to get worse, do

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you think, or is it as low as it will go? I think it will get worse

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before it gets better. We are expected to hover around this for

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the best of today. This weather is expected to stay through the end of

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the Wii. It is not over yet. Temperatures are not expected to get

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above freezing until Friday, when the cold snap finally moves back

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north. And mum Mary, looking back, it is one thing to have cold

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weather. It is inconvenient. In some parts we have got as saying this is

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dangerous, go outside and you risk your life. Is it really so bad?

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Absolutely. There is cold and then there is what we are experiencing

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here. This is life, dangerous cold. Officials across the country are

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warning residents to stay inside, use common sense, don't go out into

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the storm unless you absolutely have to. A lot of schools are closing,

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trying to keep thousands of students across the country from going out on

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this. This is something people should take seriously. Encouraging

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news from Ethiopian. It is day two of peace talks between South

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Sudan's government and rebel forces loyal to its former vice president.

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The chief negotiator has called for a political solution. He says he

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believes for reconciliation can be achieved. Within South Sudan,

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though, heavy fighting has just gone on around the towns. We can remind

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ourselves of how the convict came together. -- the conflict.

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That is the state of affairs in South Sudan. China is the biggest

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investor in the country's or industry and it has called for an

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immediate cease-fire. The Chinese Foreign Minister has held talks

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following the evacuation of oil workers and news that production has

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been reduced by about a fifth. To discuss China's involvement, I'm

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joined by a correspondent from the BBC's Chinese servers. The level of

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involvement is considerable. Yes, because as the Chinese Foreign

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Minister pointed out, China is one of the five permanent members of the

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UN Security Council. So China cares about the peace and stability of the

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area. Also, there is huge Chinese whale investment, as you mentioned.

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The official figure is not disclosed. But experts estimate that

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it is about 20 beers -- billion US dollars. Nonetheless, we don't often

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get this kind of public comment about a particular conflict beyond

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China's own region of influence. I suppose, does that show how

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important this is to China? Yes, exactly. As one of the UN permanent

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members of the Security Council, China also sends out a peacekeeping

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force to the country. It has helped to evacuate some of the stranded

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Chinese oil workers over there. For the huge Chinese oil investment,

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which is already there, there are also pieces of equipment. There are

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around 2300 Chinese citizens in South Sudan before the conflict. So

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there's a lot stake. Can the Chinese do without this oil? Do they need is

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to maintain their own situation? This is one of the key points of

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development for the Chinese oil policymakers. They decided many

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years ago, when there was a war in Iraq, and there was crisis in the

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oil supply. China is becoming not only the biggest oil consumer but

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one of the major refined oil exporters. Thank you. Do stay with

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us. Still to come: The challenges facing divorced and widowed women in

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Baghdad looking for work in a dangerous city.

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An American woman who called herself jihadist Jane has been sentenced to

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ten years in prison after pleading guilty to helping suspected

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terrorists overseas. She admitted plotting online with supporters of

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Al-Qaeda. They wanted to kill a Swedish artist who produced a

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cartoon of the profit Mohammed which caused offence to Muslims. -- the

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profit. As a middle-aged woman with blonde

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hair and green eyes, her periods was nondescript. In her suburban town in

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Pennsylvania, she was just another neighbour. She looks like an

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everyday housewife. We did laundry and passed each other in the laundry

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room. But online, she was jihad Jane. She told the judge she had

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been in a trance and thought about jihad from morning to night. But her

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obsession became reality. In 2008, she plotted to come to Europe to

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kill this man. She was instructed over e-mail to shoot him six times

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in the chest for depicting Muhammad as a dog. But she left Europe

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without coming face-to-face with him. Despite the threat, he said she

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should be released. I think they should let loose and different from

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-- give her some therapy. I think she is in a bad state. This is a

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psychological case. Colleen LaRose has been described by

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prosecutors as lonely and isolated. She came from a broken home and was

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raped by her father before turning to drugs and prostitution. Rossi

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tutors say that she was looking online for a personal

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transformation. Seven others were indicted in the plot to kill Lars

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Vilks. -- prosecutors say. The FBI has investigated hundreds of cases

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similar to that of Colleen LaRose. The engine and has become an easy

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place for extremists to recruit vulnerable individuals. And it

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shattered American perceptions of what a terrorist looks like.

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Interesting to hear your views on that story and any of the others in

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our bulletin. I am in Twitter, --: You're watching BBC World News.

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Here are the headlines: 30's Prime Minister has fired three of his most

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senior police chiefs following an enquiry into government corruption.

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The youngest daughter of King when Carlos of Spain has been formally

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named as a suspect in a tax fraud and money-laundering investigation.

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-- one Carlos. Islamist militants who've taken over the Iraqi city of

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Fallujah have urged Sunni tribes in the area to back them in their fight

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against Iraq's Shia-led government. The insurgents also urged families

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who have fled the city to return to their homes. The US says it's

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speeding up the supply of military equipment to the Iraqi government to

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deal with the al-Qaeda linked rebels. Yesterday, Iran signalled

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that it is willing to follow suit, offering military equipment and

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advisers should Baghdad ask for it. Across the border in Syria, the same

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Islamist group, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant is also finding

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itself under pressure. The group want to form an Islamic state in the

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Sunni heartlands of Iraq and Syria. However, a moderate alliance of

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Syrian Islamic rebels, seen here in unverified footage from Aleppo, have

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taken ground from the extremists in many parts of northern Syria. The

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alliance accuses the fighters, who are mainly foreign jihadists, of

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hijacking the uprising against President Bashar Al-Assad. James

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Reynolds is in Hatay in Turkey, close to the Syrian border where

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that inter-factional fighting is going on. And he gave me his

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assessment of the latest developments.

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We have got a lot of reports over the last 24 hours of some pretty

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heavy fighting between these rebels, and rebels belonging to the

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Islamic front, a collection of Islamist groups who are for the

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moment of putting -- opposing eyesore. ISOL. We understand that

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other Islamists are planning to take over that time, to get it that into

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their hands. We're trying to evaluate the nature of this

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struggle. Essentially, between Islamist groups and even between

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Al-Qaeda linked groups. It may be that some parts of the Syrian

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opposition want to crush them all together. It may be that other

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groups simply wants to co-opt them into the fight and make it more

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cooperative, to carry on the fight. It is overly complex when the United

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States and Iran both seem to be wanting to back the same side.

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The United States and Iran actually shared interests here. They want to

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defeat the United Al-Qaeda groups. Remember, this builds up to a peace

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conference which we expect to take place in Geneva in a couple of

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weeks, which is meant to sort out a road map for the future of the

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Syrian conflict. The opposition is meant to be represented at this

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conference but remember, at the moment, the rebel factions fighting

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among themselves so much that it is difficult to have any sense of a

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corky reserve -- cohesive opposition taking part in those talks. And is

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there anything to suggest who is winning this particular battle? It

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is obviously going to and fro, but does one side have the upper hand? I

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think it is very difficult to tell. At the moment, the bigger point is

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this. There are several different wars going on in Syria at the

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moment. There is the war between President Assad's forces and

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opposition forces but increasingly, we find ourselves talking about an

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internal war between jihadists and Islamist fighting among themselves.

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That is at the moment taking precedence. As to who is winning,

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one day there is a car bomb in a town and the checkpoints switch

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hands. One of the largest security

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operations in Olympic history has begun in Russia. This is ahead of

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the start of the Winter Games in the city of Sochi next month. There's

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concern about a terrorist attack, particularly after two suicide

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bombings in nearby Volgograd, which killed more than thirty people in

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total. Michael Payne is former head of commercial operations for the

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International Olympic Committee. First of all, I suppose it is no

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surprise that there is a massive security operation. Do you buy it

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when you hear the president of the IOC and every other senior figure in

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the IOC saying, we have absolute confidence in the security measures

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for the Games? Security has always been the number one issue for the

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Olympic organisers and the IOC, ever since the tragedy in Munich in 1972.

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And each games face new security challenges. I'm not sure that the

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security being put in place by Russia is any more than London had

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on the Thames, or when you think about Salt Lake ten years ago after

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9/11, the security situation was very fragile. And I suppose the

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challenges to reassure people, particularly after what has happened

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in Volgograd. The must be athletes going there are very anxious about

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what they might find. I think people were anxious when they went to Salt

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Lake City. But the organisers' ability to lock down the host city

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with a ring of steel, that is what the plan has been for years. The

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broader issue is what is happening outside of Sochi. Would you accept

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that this time around it is going to be tighter than ever before? We have

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already spoken about Waterstones being set out. It is an opportunity

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for minority campaigners to make their mark about what they think

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about Russia already. With every Olympic Games, the media profile

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attracts issues to be debated. But do not think that security year is

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going to be any more than we have seen in Salt Lake City, London or

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bridging. -- Beijing. More from Iraq now,

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where, for many women, life has been defined by violence and sectarian

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conflict. Thousands have been widowed, but in a Conservative

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society, it can be extremely difficult for them to find work to

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support their families. The BBC's Shaimaa Khalil has been finding out

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how tough it can be for women in Baghdad.

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Putting on the finishing touches. In this sawing workshop, a group of

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widows and divorcees are learning a new skill. In the hope of getting

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work and supporting their families. Finding a job is not easy in

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Baghdad. But when you are a woman on your own, it is most impossible.

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This woman has been a widow for over a decade and she struggles to make

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ends meet will stop --. TRANSLATION: I am in mother and father at the

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same time. I have no other income, just a pension. I try to manage but

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it is difficult. In another training room, it is the university graduates

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trying to get a head start in the job market. It is not just searching

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for work that they struggle with. TRANSLATION: Security is a big

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issue. There are no services and the works. -- no work. We have graduated

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but we are unemployed and the jobs go to those with connections. Like

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everyone, women in Iraq have to deal with a deteriorating security

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situation and limited prospects. But they also face a conservative

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society that allows them very little freedom. Life is difficult in Iraq

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as it is. But it is especially challenging for women. In cafes like

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this, it is unusual to see women out and about. I'm told that these women

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often come here behind their family's backs. What is it like to

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be a young woman in Baghdad? It is a big problem to be a woman in

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Baghdad. Why didn't come to this cafe when you know it is a problem?

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These people have to know that it is normal to be a woman here. -- and

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why do you come. Maybe more women will come and something will change,

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step by step. Do you see a future for yourself here? TRANSLATION: I

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know they future I'll want. I would like to live outside Iraq. I have

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many ambitions but they cannot come true here. Most women dream of a

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chance at a better life and a sense of safety and security in their own

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country. But there are many others who want to escape Iraq's

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unfulfilled dreams. And no to a story we have followed

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closely. A Chinese icebreaker which helped to rescue passengers trapped

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in ice in Antarctica last week and then got caught up itself, has

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managed to break free from the ice sheet. This is the official Chinese

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news agency reporting that the vessel has pulled free of the ice

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and navigated into the open waters. Just last week, the helicopter

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picked up 52 passengers in all, stranded on the Russian vessel for

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ten days. It moved them to the safety of an Australian vessel.

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A reminder of our top story. Turkey's Prime Minister has fired

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three of his most senior police chiefs, following an anti-corruption

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enquiry which he claims is politically motivated. The giver

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watching. -- thank you for watching.

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