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main headlines... Thailand's military chief moves to strengthen

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his grip on power one day after staging a coup. The former Prime

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Minister has answered a summons to appear at an army base.

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The International Criminal Court sends a former Congolese militia

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leader to prison for war crimes. A second person dies in Turkey after

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clashes between produced and protesters angry at last week's

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mining disaster. Hello. 24 hours after staging a

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military coup in Thailand, the country has -- the military has

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moved quickly to strengthen its grip on power. The military leader has

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declared himself Prime Minister. He has already summoned the former

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Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to an army base. Our reporter has

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more. On this, the second day of the coup, Thailand's political leaders

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were summoned to a military building in the centre of Bangkok. Amongst

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them, the former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. The Army

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ordered them to attend a meeting here or face arrest, and said they

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cannot leave the country. The worrying thing from the point of

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view as the Army is that they want to prevent the establishment of any

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form of opposition overseas, or any form of exile government or

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opposition internally, so they are going to crackdown on political

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actors. In another key step to exert their control, troops this morning

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took down the protest camps of the pro and anti-government groups who

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have been demonstrating on the streets of Bangkok for months,

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causing political deadlock. The military seems determined to prevent

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any opposition to the coup developing, even though its takeover

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has been condemned by some of Thailand's most important allies.

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The Secretary of State has said there is no he has called for the

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immediate restoration of civilian authority. I might add, Secretary

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Kelly has called for a review of all US assistance and engagement with

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Thailand, especially with the Thai military. These initial days of the

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coup have remained peaceful so far, with live seeming to go on quite

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normally. Although schools are closed and both national and

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international broadcasters have been taken off the air here.

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TRANSLATION: At first I was surprised and I thought it would

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affect my life in many ways. But after several we thinks, I realised

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military protection makes me safe. I do not feel anything that affected

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if to happen anyway, it was just a matter of when. The army generals

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who seized power incest their goal is to stabilise the country and

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implements the form. But it is a very high risk strategy which could

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easily backfire. -- insist. Certainly, the streets of Bangkok

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have been mostly calm, but just half an hour ago, our correspondent Jonah

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Fisher found a small demonstration calling for the Army to stand down.

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I am in the centre of Bangkok at the moment. Up until now, the military

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government has managed pretty much to stop there being any public shows

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of resistance against the military takeover of power here. But in the

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last 10- then 15 minutes, there is a sitting down protest through there.

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And then, if you look around this way, more demonstrators. And up

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here, this is the sky train. Those of you who have been to Bangkok will

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know that this runs right through the centre. Just a short while ago,

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we had soldiers around here, because this demonstration is now illegal

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and the rules which have been brought in by the coup authorities

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have made it so. There was a bit of a stand-off, they attempted to

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negotiate with the demonstrators, and it was quite remarkable, what we

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saw, the demonstrators pushed back against the soldiers, the soldiers

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were outnumbered, and they shouted out, elections, elections, give us

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back our power! If we come back through here, the official protest

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camps have really been disbanded now, and this is a different group

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of people, in many ways, expressing their frustration. What will be

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interesting to see is how long the military will allow this. It is also

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interesting looking at the pictures which you are sending us that there

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are no red shirts or yellow shirts, no colours to signify who these

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people are, might they be from both sides of the political divide? No, I

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do not think they are from both sides. They are certainly not from

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what we would broadly call the yellow shirt movement. Most of the

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people here are actually wearing black, they have got candles being

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used in that little memorial down there, I think this is more of a

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wake for democracy than anything else. Very brave in many ways for

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these people to have come out like this, because all gatherings of more

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than five people are now in legal in Thailand, and the military could

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very well decide it does not want to tolerate this. Because of the media

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censorship in the country, how much of this will get around the country,

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do you think? Through the main television stations, next to

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nothing, they have been taken over by the military. Some of it will be

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aborted in the newspapers. But it is through social media, nothing

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effective has yet been done to shut down social media, so pictures of

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this will no doubt be circulating on Facebook and Twitter. It has to be

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said, not a big demonstration but a show of defiance against the

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military leadership, and who knows, possibly something which other

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people will see and want to replicate for themselves. Some other

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stories - reports from Syria say rebels have shelled supporters of

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President Assad at an election gathering, killing at least 20

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people, many of them civilians. Syrian state media says the

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president was not at the gathering. The US Coastguard has announced it

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will be suspending the search for four British sailors if nothing is

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found by Friday night. The crew of the Cheeki Rafiki were sailing back

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to the UK from Antigua when it went missing last week.

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Russia has accused the West of triggering the Ukraine crisis, one

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day after 14 Ukraine soldiers were killed. A top general said Moscow

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would respond to what he described as increased NATO activity near its

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border. The International Criminal Court has

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sentenced the four Congolese military leader Germain Katanga to

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12 years in prison for war crimes. He is responsible for the massacre

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of hundreds of civilians in an attack in 2003, and has been found

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guilty of war crimes. He is only the second person to be convicted by the

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ICC since it was set up in 2002. It took the judges one hour to reach

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the sentencing pointed. He has been sentenced to 12 years for war crimes

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and crimes against humanity. The judges pointed out he has already

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spent 6.5 years in custody, and that time will be deducted. During the

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sentencing, they referred to some of the attacks, and it was one attack

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on a village in the early hours of the morning, when many villagers

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were still asleep, when these militia attacked with their machetes

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and guns, and the judge said the attackers literally carved up their

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victims limb by limb. At the end they talked about the mitigating

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circumstances, the fact that Germain Katanga was so young at the time, 24

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years old, and the fact that he has a young family, six children. Those

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are some of the things they discussed before reaching this

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second sentence in the history of the ICC. This was in 2003 - did the

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court discuss at all whether he may have any supporters back at home,

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and do we know what their potential reaction might be? The situation

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back in the village is of course important. This village was wiped

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out. The judge said their intention was to wipe the village off the map.

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They spoke about how many of the villagers did not want to return,

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all of the homes were burned down and looted, the militia stole the

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rules of the houses, the animals in the yard. So there are not people

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there now who will remember this happening. They say Germain Katanga

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has still got the potential to reform, and that is why they have

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given him what many will see is a relatively small sentence. Although

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we have heard from one victims group which has said that this will act as

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a warning that these crimes cannot go unpunished. A court in China has

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sentenced to death a former mining tycoon who was charged with running

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a Mafia style gang. He is one of China's richest men, who is thought

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to have right to a former security chief who is under house arrest. He

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and his brother were found guilty of running a criminal gang which

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controlled gaming machines. Before the football World Cup gets under

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way in Brazil, there is still the small matter of the final of the

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Champions League. It takes place in Lisbon on Saturday evening. If you

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like to bet, bet on the fact that Madrid will win! It is the first

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time in footballing history that two teams from the same city meet in the

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final of a major European competition. Real Madrid and

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Atletico Madrid face-off in the final of this season's Champions

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League. With their home ground here in the south of the city, Atletico

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Madrid won the Spanish league title last weekend for the first time in

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nearly two decades. The club have never won European foot will's top

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prize. Just four miles away, in the north of Madrid, at the burn about

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stadium, Real Madrid fans are hoping to win this trophy for the 10th

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time. Two clubs, two sets of fans, and generally speaking, it is not

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just a north-south divide. Real Madrid fans are generally known to

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be a bit more posh. Atletico is more associated with Madrid's working

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class. Like this fruit and veg shop owner. Atletico Madrid, they are a

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little brother, they are never winning anything. We were even

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feeling bad for them. That was something they did not like, they

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hated it. TRANSLATION: Real Madrid is all about money, they buy players

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worth 100 million euros, Gareth Bale, Cristiano Ronaldo. They their

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team. We have a team which is made, that is what makes us proud. For

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some in this city, football is a love hate relationship. Like this

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couple. TRANSLATION: Real Madrid fans are a

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bit pompous, they go to the games, sit down quietly, eat snacks, they

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do this a bit. They do not cheer very much. They are boring.

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TRANSLATION: Real Madrid has always been a club with a great history.

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Atletico has always been a club which is fighting, with little

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money. Once the game is over, one half of

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Madrid will celebrate. That is the City Hall. It is here where Real

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Madrid fans will hope to be party income the final whistle. But just

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500 metres south down this famous avenue, this is the place where

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Atletico Madrid fans hope they will be celebrating late into the night.

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Stay with us - still to come... He has been rubbing shoulders with

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Hollywood royalty at the Cannes Film Festival for more than 14 years. We

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will hear some of the secrets, hopefully!

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machines like this one to film sweeping aerial shots, but

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scientists are developing the next generation of robots. They are

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drawing inspiration from nature. They may be used for anything from

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military surveillance to search and rescue.

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They may not look like birds but these robots are behaving in a very

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birdlike way. Researchers have designed each of these drones with

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an on-board computer which can work out its position relative to the

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others. This means they can make collective decisions about where to

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go. The drones are flocking. It is one example of bio inspired

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robotics, which is taking technology of drones to the next level. This

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does not look like anything I have ever seen in nature, but when it

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comes to taking robots from something like this to something we

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can use in our everyday lives, nature has a huge role to play in

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inspiring design. The sensors on this quad copter, for example, are

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based on insect dies. They help the robot to see and avoid obstacles.

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This one's arms are based on a bird of prey's halons. They can grasp

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objects mid flight. They will enable drones to navigate urban

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environments or deliver goods. There are a lot of tasks you can do.

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Aerial photography is one of the are a lot of tasks you can do.

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simplest ones but also observing pollution in forests and wildlife.

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There is a huge field of applications. Scientists are now

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working closely with regulators to make sure these multitasking robots

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can be operated safely in our airspace.

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You are watching BBC World News. An update on the headlines. Thailand's

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army chief moves to tighten his grip on power after Thursday's army coup.

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He is expected to meet the King later today. The international

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criminal court has sentenced the former Congolese militia leader

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Germain Katanga to 12 years in prison for war crimes.

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The consulate in the city of Herat in Afghanistan has been

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The consulate in the city of Herat gunmen. Insurgents stormed nearby

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houses to fire on the compound. India's Foreign Ministry says all of

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its staff are safe. Residents woke up to the sound of

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gunfire. Heavily armed suicide attackers launched a predawn attack

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using this house to attack the nearby Indian Consul. Guards from

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the Indian mission engaged the attackers until security forces are

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right. For several hours, both sides engaged heavy fire. Police say all

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the insurgents were killed. This man's house was broken into.

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TRANSLATION: One of my family members said people were moving in

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our building. When I went to the kitchen I sobbed three people in

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civilian clothes in our backyard. They were wearing suicide vests and

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were all armed. Today's attack is the latest in a string of attacks

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against Indian targets in Afghanistan in recent years. India

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is one of Afghanistan's key allies, investing hundreds of millions of

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dollars in health, education and security sectors.

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United Nations Security Council has approved sanctions the Nigerian

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militia group Boko Haram, five weeks after it kidnapped 200 schoolgirls.

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The sanctions include travel bans, an asset freeze and an arms embargo.

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The EU ambassador said it was an important step to defeat Boko Haram.

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A short while ago, a BBC editor in the Nigerian capital Abuja told us

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how the move was being seen in Nigeria.

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I think for the Nigerian government, it is a very important step because

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by declaring Boko Haram a terrorist group that is linked to Al-Qaeda, I

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think the Nigerian government can argue to the international community

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that they have the responsibility to come in and help Nigeria in the

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fight against Boko Haram. But on the other hand, I think for Boko Haram

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there is little significance on what it can actually do to the group

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because one, the finances of this group are not through official

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channels. They are not even known. What is known as they do Raid banks

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and steal money from local banks. They do use cash. The official

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financial routes for their finances. The second thing is, the

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way they get their arms. This is not officially known by the government.

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They raid military barracks and police stations. That is somehow

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where they get most of their arms. There is little significance on what

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it can actually do to the group itself, Boko Haram. Very briefly,

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what is the latest on the search for the missing schoolgirls? At the

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moment, the government is saying they have sent in troops to search

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for these girls but there is little information that is coming out on

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how far the government has gone. We know that the United States says it

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has deployed 18 military men in Chad itself to in order to help with this

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surveillance and using aeroplanes. The United Kingdom also have sent in

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a plane which is based in Ghana. A second person has died from

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injuries in Turkey after being hit by a grenade during clashes between

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police and protesters in Istanbul. The protests are now

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police and protesters in Istanbul. second day. The other victims, 30

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odd man was shot in the head. Security has been tightened in

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China's Northwest region after an attack on Thursday which left 31

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people dead. Two off-road vehicles drove straight into a crowd of

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shoppers which was followed by several explosions. The region has

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seen a number of similar incidents which have been blamed on Muslim

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extremists. Scientists in the United States say

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they are step closer to developing an effective malaria vaccine. They

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have developed a vaccine which works on mice. They have developed it by

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testing it on children from Tanzania who are naturally immune to the

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disease. More tests are needed before they can begin trials on

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humans. At the moment, we are beginning nonhuman primate trials.

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If those are successful, the next step would be clinical trials. It

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began in 2002 with the work of Patrick Duffy and there were ten

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children who were monitored to see how many malaria parasites they had

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in their bodies. Using that information, we were able to

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identify very resistant children and very susceptible children. We did

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some what we call DNA gymnastics. They use parasite genes which are

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only recognised by antibodies in the resistant children but not the

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susceptible children. That is how we discovered this new vaccine

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candidate. Only about 6% of children in our cohort had this antibody and

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wear resistant to severe malaria. They develop it naturally through

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being exposed to parasites over the course of their lifetime. Some of

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the children are able to develop this protective antibody response

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and the trick was finding out what was the target of this antibody

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response. That was Doctor Jake Curtis.

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People have been injured in Russia after a hot water pipeline exploded

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under a passenger bus. A section of the road in a Siberian city caved in

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under the passing vehicle. You can see the passengers rushing to get

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off the bus. That was because of smoke and water pouring out of the

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vehicle. Some people suffered heavy skin burns. They were treated in a

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local hospital. We can go to Istanbul and speak to

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our correspondent James Reynolds about the second death in Istanbul.

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Do we know who threw a grenade? We do not. The second person died as a

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result of injuries from hand grenade or fragmentation grenade. That is a

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fairly unusual in tree -- injury that we have seen in these protests.

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The first protester died yesterday. In fact, I should correct myself

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there, he was attending a funeral. He was a bystander. He was shot and

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died at the scene. Is there anyway for the Prime Minister's government

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to deal with anti-government protests? It seems to be

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confrontation from the government in terms of how it deals with the

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people on the streets. It is difficult to generalise. We need to

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describe or looking to the circumstances of what happened

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yesterday. There was a funeral of this working class neighbourhood in

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Istanbul. We understand after the funeral there was a protest. We are

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not sure how linked it was to the funeral. A number of people started

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confronting the police. The police moved in and this 30-year-old man

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was shot. The government has promised an enquiry that I think

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people who oppose the government here will be extremely worried by

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the sudden escalation of violence and by police tactics which appear

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to have a pattern of using tear gas and water cannon very quickly

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against protesters. The casualty was shot by a bullet. We will have to

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see from the postmortem if that was true. Does it make it more important

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for the government to get to the bottom of what happened at the same

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mine as bottom of what happened at the same

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mine quickly as possible? That is all part of it. -- the Soma mine.

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More than 300 people were killed last week. They were also shouting

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in memory of a protester who was killed in last year's protest in May

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and June. There are plenty of sparks of

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and June. There are plenty of sparks anger among protesters.

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Thank you. You are watching BBC World News. A brief reminder of our

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top story. It comes from Thailand. Following Thursday's military coup,

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top story. It comes from Thailand. Following Thursday's military more

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than 100 military leaders have been summoned to a summit. There has been

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one small protest which our correspondent Jonah

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summoned to a summit. There has been one small protest Fisher was

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reporting on I are going. -- Jonah Fisher. You're watching BBC World

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