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The World Health Organisation holds an emergency meeting on the Ebola

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outbreak in West Africa - as new cases are confirmed in Nigeria.

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As residents of Gaza try to rebuild their lives, Israelis

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and Palestinians are holding indirect peace talks in Cairo.

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The European space probe, Rosetta, has begun to orbit a comet - the

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How commuters in Australia helped free a man trapped between

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In west Africa, in the past hour, Nigeria has confirmed five new

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cases of Ebola in Lagos, as well as a second death from the virus.

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Nearly 900 people have died across four west African countries since

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The World Health Organisation is holding an emergency meeting to

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It's considering whether to declare a global health emergency.

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Let?s get details from the BBC's Tomi Oladipo in Lagos.

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What are the latest details? These five cases add to the existing two

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that were recorded, and one of them was the first person, a Liberian

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man, and the other people are believed to have come in contact

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with him. So far, it comes to a total of seven. I'll be in complete

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isolation, do we know how they are being cheated? Eight people had been

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placed in isolation. The work being tested. That is were the other

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results would have come from. It is people in total had believed to have

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been showing some symptoms. It has been said that Liberia, some

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countries, the demand may be too much on the health care systems, the

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infrastructure, do you think Nigeria will be able to handle it?

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Nigeria's government has been saying that it has been sipping up its

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operations. -- stepping up. Doctors have been on strike. That will be a

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major challenge to find the personnel to treat people, so they

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will be pleading with the doctors to come back and deal with this

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epidemic. The government has not said how it would deal with this

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particular situation. Thank you. It's been an epic mission, racing

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through billions of kilometres of space, but after a journey

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lasting more than a decade, the comet-chasing spacecraft Rosetta has

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finally reached its destination. In an historic first,

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Rosetta is now orbiting around the comet in a triangular

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pattern - there's so little gravity Rosetta's instruments will

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investigate the structure of the comet, what it's made of,

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how much water there is, and Mission control... A real sense of

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excitement here, the news was announced about 55 minutes ago

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Rosetta announced about 55 minutes

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spacecraft had made a historic milestone. It had finally got into

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orbit. This has taken ten years for the spacecraft to get there. It has

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travelled 6.4 billion come met us. It has been and it picked journey.

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-- It has been an epic journey. But they had to slow it down, to bring

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about 100, Robert Oswald week, and that means that Rosetta is now

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orbiting around the comment. I am there with the former mission

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manager of Rosetta. He has been involved with the project since its

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inception in the 1980s. This has been a long-time coming? A long-time

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coming, it is like mission accomplished. This is the dream that

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we had in the 1980s, a long time ago and we have been working hard and

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overcoming obstacles. Now we can start the science, that we thought

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only one time ago, and we have done a lot of work to create this and it

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is great that we have arrived. It has already thrown out the juice of

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prizes, we have been taking some pictures, and you have got a printed

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murder? It is totally unexpected. We were surprised that it looks like

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this. We could not have chosen a much better target. This is based on

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information that we had weeks ago. It shows that we are now basically

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orbiting around this. Much better pictures in the last few days but we

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do not work so fast, it is just fascinating and promises even more

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of insights into how, to work. -- how comets work. It is fascinating

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and it promises it promises in what of the science. Thank you. As you

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can see, this is going to be very difficult, just to get around, it is

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very strange looking, it has been described as a sort of ruber duck.

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The challenge is going to be landing on it. Over the next few weeks,

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scientists will be searching for a site. They will need some where they

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can drop the ladder. That is going to be a nerve-wracking that of the

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mission. It is going to go down onto the surface and be bombarded with

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gas and dust. That is not happening until November, so for the next few

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weeks it is going to be a case of studying the comment. -- comet.

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Thank you. We will keep you date with Rosetta.

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Three civilians have been killed in the eastern Ukrainian city

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of Donetsk after overnight fighting between government forces

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Ukrainian troops have been making gains in recent days as they battle

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Brazil's Supreme Court has granted bail to the British man who's been

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held in a Rio prison on charges of illegally selling World Cup tickets.

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Ray Whelan is director of Match Hospitality which sold VIP

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He denies charges of ticket touting and money laundering.

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The losing candidate of Indonesia's presidential election has launched a

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Prabowo Subianto is alleging widespread fraud in the vote which

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A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas that ended almost a month

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Both sides are meeting in Cairo to try to work out a longer term deal.

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This is the view over the Gaza-Israel boundary right now.

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These are live pictures of Gaza City.

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Thousands of displaced Palestinians have been returning to

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The US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged both parties to move

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People leaving the UN shelters. Representatives of Hamas are also in

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Cairo. The Israeli-Palestinian talks are being mediated by Egypt - Sally

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Nabil is in Cairo. Is any information coming out of the

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meetings? It is very secretive, we have been trying to speak to some

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members of the Palestinian delegation in Cairo and they said

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they cannot meet any statements. No signs of an agreement so far.

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Actually, a couple of points that may complicate things. They are

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indirect talks, but Cairo is having a tough task, because the demands

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presented by both sides, they are quite distant from each other. It

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will take a lot of effort to reach a compromise. As real as insisting on

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the demilitarisation, at once Hamas to put its weapons down. That has

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been rejected by the Palestinian movement, saying that they cannot

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put down weapons, because they consider themselves the resistance

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movement. Hamas, they are demanding the release of some of the

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Palestinian prisoners held in Israel. As well as lifting the

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blockade, these demands have not been a keen to by Israel. It will be

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difficult for the mediators to try to get off of the sides to agree to

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compromise. Because of the relationship between the government

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in Cairo and Hamas, they are saying that Cairo may not be the place to

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have these discussions, but it is a better option than not having any

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discussions whatsoever? The relations between Hamas and the

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government here is quite tense. If you months ago, a ruling to police,

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because the government sees Hamas as an offshoot of the Muslim

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Brotherhood. This may complicate the mediation. So far, no other country

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has submitted a cease-fire initiative than here in Cairo. No

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initiative. So far, the initiative here is the only one which has

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international recognition. Thank you. Stay with us on BBC World News,

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still to come: The biggest case of hacking. And a man freed from an

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Australian train. French police have had to break up

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fights between African migrants, As many as 300 people from Sudan

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and Eritrea attacked each other using stones and knives

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at a food distribution centre. Calais is seen

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as the gateway to Britain for many of the migrants, who have made the

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journey across the Mediterranean Sea, via Lampedusa, to the Italian

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mainland, and into France. Our correspondent Emma

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Jane Kirby is in Calais. 18 months ago when I last came to

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Calais there were about 300 migrants Now, some 1,500 of them,

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and makeshift camps Police say they want to bulldoze

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these camps, as they have done The problem is,

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where do these people go? They'd just come back and make

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other camps somewhere else. All of these migrants are

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hoping to get to England. That is where they think they'll be

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able to find work But police here say they can no

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longer cope with such numbers, In the last few days, fights have

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broken up between Sudanese Police say it's time to close these

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camps and stop people coming here. But, with the wars in Syria and

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East Africa, it's pretty likely that the migrants in Calais are simply

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set to get bigger. Could the humble painkiller,

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aspirin, reduce the risk British researchers

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seem to think it can. They've found that taking

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a daily dose of aspirin can reduce the chance of developing or dying

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from bowel and stomach cancer. The study found that the life-saving

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benefits of aspirin outweighed a small number of deaths, which were

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caused by strokes or stomach bleeds. It recommends people in their 50s

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and early 60s talk to their doctor The European space probe, Rosetta,

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is flying alongside a comet The first time this

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has been achieved. A second death and more cases

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of Ebola are confirmed in Nigeria, as the World Health Organisation

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considers emergency measures to try A US firm specialising

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in discovering internet hacking says it's found the largest data

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breach known to date. Hold Security says a ring of Russian

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criminals has hacked a massive 1.2 billion usernames

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and passwords as well as more than The company says

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the stolen information was collected from more than 420,000 websites

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inside Russia as well as major With me now is Professor Ian Brown

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from the Oxford Internet Institute. The thing that strikes me about this

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is it all happened so many months ago and it took seven months to get

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all of this data and understand what it was that it had revealed. It

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could be too late, mightn't it? It's not too late for people to think

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they are affected. Not too late to change passwords and put different

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passwords on different websites. That's the big thing to come out of

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these data breaches. If you're using the same password on a number of

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different sites, especially your bank, it only takes one breach for

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all your accounts to be compromised. We don't know X Factor which

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websites are being hacked so why don't they give out information?

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That's the most important thing to us. What they have done is offered

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to reveal information about the breach providing security

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consulting. I can understand the company needs to find ways to fund

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the extensive research which has gone into this, but a lot of people

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think it would be better for them to notify the affected websites and to

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look to provide consulting on the back of that. Do you do to Internet

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banking? Would you recommend people use it? Is it simple to do it the

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old-fashioned way? I personally do use Internet banking. A piece of

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software which is useful in helping people to use passwords is password

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manager software. It is built into some web browsers like Firefox and

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Macintosh. If there is one thing people should take away from this is

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to make use of that software to avoid being affected by these kinds

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of breaches in future. What were these Russian criminal gangs be

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doing with the information? Were they tried to access our details and

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bank accounts themselves or sell it on? They are mainly using it to send

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spam through compromised account which can in the money, but there

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are efficient underground market now where criminals can send information

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and get money on the back of it. They don't even have to take

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advantage of the information themselves. How secure is the

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Internet? It could be a lot more secure. We hear every time there is

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one of these data breach stories, way up to 1.2 billion, where next?

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The software that is running the Internet and running peoples PCs

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smartphones needs to move up a notch of security to stop this going on.

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We appreciate this. It affects everybody who uses the Internet.

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The authorities in China say almost 600 people are now known to have

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died in the earthquake that hit the south western province of Yunnan

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All of the casualties reported so far are in the town of Jhao-tong,

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Volunteers have been asked to stay away from the affected area,

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as they were causing traffic jams and hampering the work

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It's been an absolute nightmare for rescue crews working in this area.

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It's no stranger to earthquakes but emergency workers are saying it's

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almost impossible to get to some of the most distant towns affected by

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the earthquake simply because there are very steep, narrow roads leading

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through the mountains where the earthquake's epicentre was

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located on a spin by difficult for rescue crews to navigate landslides,

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very torrential rain, and simply to move through these roads to get to

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The death toll has jumped up recently today by almost 200 people

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went from 400 to almost 600 people, and that's because

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rescue crews were finally able to reach some of those distant villages

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that were affected by the quake and when they got there unfortunately

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they found many more victims of the earthquake than they were expecting.

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Is there any chance of still possibly finding people

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It's happened in other earthquakes, possibly even after two weeks there

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Rescue crews are still looking, they are still digging through

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the rubble very carefully in many of these villagers

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One official Chinese official who was recently interviewed on Chinese

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state television said that they are still holding out hope that there

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will be more survivors found but, as time goes on, and simply as this

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rain continues in this area, I think prospects for finding more

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What is the nearest big city where people

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could be taken to if they need that kind of urgent medical treatment?

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We do have a city located just outside the mountainous area and

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of course there is the capital, but it does take a very long time.

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Rescue crews have been using helicopters to try to reach some

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of the distant villages and they have been trying to airlift

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people out of those villages using helicopters because the roads are

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As you mentioned before, very well-meaning volunteers are

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They've been trying to get into the quake zone to deliver aid

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This is a phenomenon we've seen in past earthquakes in China,

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so the government is also telling volunteers to stay out

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of the quake zone and let the aid workers get on with their work.

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Police in Kenya say they have arrested what

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they call a high-value al-Shabaab suspect in the capital Nairobi.

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A senior police officer said the suspect,

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thought to be Hassan Hanafi, crossed the border from Somalia into

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He is suspected of being behind the murder of journalists in Mogadishu.

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Somali security sources say Mr Hanafi claims his is a case

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The BBC's Dennis Okari in Nairobi says some details about the arrest

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So far, what the Kenya police are saying is he is a senior al-Shabaab

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operative. We are yet to confirm his rank in their hierarchy but he is

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known to have joined al-Shabaab in 2006 after working for their radio

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in Somalia. He is expected to be behind the killings of journalists,

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20 in the last three years, in Mogadishu. Do we know his

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nationality? Somali. The police are saying they have been tracking him

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down with an operation with the Somali intelligence and before

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handing over to the Kenyan police, they have been trailing and it

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appears he has been sneaking into the country to the point where he

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arrested him. How useful is it the authority to capture him in terms

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what we know from previous captures of al-Shabaab suspects? How much

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information do they give the authorities? The two countries

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appear to be cooperating trying to track down Somali operatives,

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especially in the east, known as the Little Mogadishu. There have been

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police operations in the past there. They are working together with the

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Somali government to make sure they arrest those who were running into

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Kenya. In this case, Hassan Hanafi was looking for medical treatment.

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The cooperation has happened between these two countries and it's likely

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you'll be handed over to the Somali government and be tried inside

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Somalia? How was the fight going in Somalia against al-Shabaab itself?

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Who holds the balance of power in that struggle at the moment, do you

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think? The fight in Somalia at the moment against al-Shabaab, there is

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a posh coming in the next few days, the President has actually said the

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African union troops are trying to push al-Shabaab further inside

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Somalia. They are calling it operation Indian Ocean. They are

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pushing al-Shabaab and the president has confidence saying they are

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winning the fight and the attacks have introduced especially in Kenya.

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We have not had any attacks on the last few months except for what

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happened in London and Kenya. Thank you.

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Now to some dramatic video from Australia, where a man became

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caught between a train and the platform during morning rush hour.

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The man slips down the gap as he tries to board the train in Perth.

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When he's unable to move his leg, passengers

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and bystanders line up beside the train to rock it back and forth.

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They manage to tilt it just enough so that the man can free his leg

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Paramedics were called to the station,

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but fortunately the man wasn't badly injured and caught a later train.

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Earlier, I spoke to David Hynes, spokesman for TransPerth.

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He says a combination of people power and quick thinking by station

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It is our people on the ground, our station attendants,

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who first of all, when they realised a man was stuck,

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alerted the train driver to keep the train stationary and not move.

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And then went to his assistance and spent probably five or six

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Weren't able to do that, and then one of them actually

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One of them went inside the train and asked

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the passengers who were still on board, and most of them were

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still on board that stage, to move to the other side of the carriage.

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If you like, like racing yachts do, to get everyone to go on one side

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and lean out to see if that would tilt the train just slightly to

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increase that five centimetre gap between the train and the platform.

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That didn't work, so they then got the people to

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It was a six car train so there was quite a few people.

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And lined them up and started to push.

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You can see when you watch the video,

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it sort of seemed to be a little bit disorganised to start with.

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And I think they were aware of the possibility that

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if they pushed and the train rocked back, it would further squash

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the guy's legs, so one of them clearly says "No, hang on

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They pushed and the bloke gets out and what you

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haven't seen from inside the train, as soon the gap opens up, he just

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It really was a very happy outcome for all concerned.

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In west Africa, in the past hour, Nigeria has confirmed five new

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cases of ebola in Lagos, as well as a second death from the virus.

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