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weather. We'll hear tributes to the front man

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of Motorhead Lemmy, who's died days after being diagnosed with cancer.

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Very warm welcome to you. US military officials say American-led

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air strikes in Syria and Iraq have killed ten leaders of the so-called

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Islamic State group, including two with links to last month's terror

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attacks in Paris. One of those killed was a Frenchman. He's thought

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to have been in close contact with the ring leader of the Paris

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attacks. A us Army Colonel announced the news from Baghdad. Last but not

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least, this is your headline, Al-moudahane was a south-eastern

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based member, with a direct link to the Paris attack cell leader. We

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killed him on December 24 in Syria. He was actively planning additional

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attacks against the West. My point is this: We will continue to hunt

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Isil leaders who are working to recruit, plan and inspire attacks

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against the United States of America and our allies. Zblt BBC's Laura

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Bicker in Washington has more details. Yes, he's said that in the

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last month, ten Islamic State leaders had been killed in air

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strikes. Two of which seemed to be significant. Now one of the names

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that he wanted headlined was Al Mouadan. He has direct links to the

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leader of the Paris attacks. He's a 27-year-old Frenchman, supposed to

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be a close acquaintance of the man at the centre of the Paris attacks.

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There are reports that his name was mentioned in connections with the

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Bataclan Concert Hall shootings. So that's something that investigators

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are working on to see whether or not he has been linked to that. Another

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Another name was Abdul Hakim. He was said to have been one of the

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operations specialists, external operations specialists. He's an

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expert at forgery and he too had links to the Paris terrorist

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attackers. One other significant name amongst the ten that he gave us

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was a man who was Bangladeshi, educated in the UK. He was a

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computer systems analyst, an expert in engineering in that regard. He

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worked on their anti-surveillance equipment and weapons equipment. Why

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are we given all these names? They're trying to show they're

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targeting and hunting out the leaders of the Islamic State.

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Staying with the fight against Islamic State group, and Iraq's

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Prime Minister has visited Ramadi a day after the Iraqi army announced

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it had driven the militants out of there. Much of the city's been

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damaged. Many of the thousands who fled will return to find nothing but

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rib. -- rubble.

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Safe at last. These are the first pictures of the families who were

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trapped on the frontline in Ramadi. Among the civilians many women and

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children and elderly people. They were handed food and water, as Ricky

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soldiers took -- Iraqi soldiers took them to safety in a nearby town.

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TRANSLATION: There's still fighting in Ramadi. Isis fighters are using

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our homes as shields. They didn't want to let us go. Residents got

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together and tried to get closer to where the army is. We screamed for

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help. When they heard us, they rushed towards us. Isis wanted to

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take us along with them to another area. But some families shut their

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doors and refused to go anywhere. Isis started to treat them like the

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enemy and they shot at them. Iraqi authorities are keen to show a

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triumphant face. The prime minister went to some of the city's areas to

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cheer the men who fought a week-long battle. But theifyinging has

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inflicted -- the fighting has inflicted monumental damage to the

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city. Humanitarian relief will be needed once Ramadi is secured, but

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it will take time to rebuild. For now, there is urgency to clear

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streets and buildings of booby traps. Here, Shia militia are going

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house to house. They were kept from the frontline to avoid sectarian

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clashes with the mostly Sunni residents. This campaign has brought

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momentum here, a victory in Ramadi will restore some trust in Iraqi

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forces. Support from coalition forces has been crucial and finally

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paid off. But the recapture of the city has shown that in the fight

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against Islamic State, military plans must combine ground and air

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action rather than one or the other. Now the United Nations Refugee

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Agency says the total number of migrants and other refugees crossing

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by sea to Europe in 2015 has now reached over one million. The UNHCR

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says more than 80% of these have arrived in Greece from nearby Turkey

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with most others crossing the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy.

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It's Europe's worst migration crisis since the Second World War.

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Two British teenagers, accused of stealing artefacts from Auschwitz

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during a school trip, will be put on trial. Now the pair were allegedly

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found with buttons and fragments of a spoon taken from an area where new

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arrivals to the camp were stripped of their belongings. The

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17-year-olds initially admitted responsibility and were find. Then

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later withdrew their admission of guilt.

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The World Health Organisation has officially declared the West African

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state of Guinea free of Ebola nearly two years after the virus was first

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detected there. More than 2,000 people died during the epidemic.

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With the new year around the corner, beginians have been -- Guineans have

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been given a new start, their country now free of Ebola

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transmission and they can officially get back to their everyday lives.

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There is still a warning - Guinea is not Ebola free. We have to be very

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clear that although today is an important milestone, it's only a

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milestone. It is not the end of the Ebola response in west Africa.

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Because what we've learned is while we've stopped the original chains of

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transmission, we're also seeing small flares, one, two, three cases

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occurring. In total 2,000 Guineans died of Ebola. More than 6,000

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children are now orphans having lost one or both parents to the disease.

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Those who have survived are still living in fear of the stigma and

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long-term side effects associated with the virus. The fight against

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Ebola has been particularly difficult in Guinea. Some

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communities didn't believe that the disease was real. A university

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teacher, whom I met in January at the height of the emergency, blamed

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Ebola on Western countries and the Guinean government. They want people

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to buy their - I don't know how to put it - their medicine. The medical

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charities says it will focus their activity on the 1300 survivors and

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their families as well as the frontline health staff who lost 115

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of their colleagues in the fight against the virus. For now, the

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country will celebrate. Some of the biggest names of African and Guinea

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music will perform at a huge concert on Wednesday in the capital to say

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bye-bye Ebola. Ghanaians can only Guineians can only hope they don't

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face such an epidemic again. More bad news for people in the

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North West of England. Already affected by flooding, they've been

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warned that they could now face a very bad situation with the arrival

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of a another storm tonight. The extreme weather could also affect

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people in southern and central Scotland as well as Wales and

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Northern Ireland. During the day, the people of York have been out and

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about assessing the damage caused to their city over the past week.

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Tonight, after days of resisting the torrent, the bridge over the river

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in Tadcaster finally, dramatically succumbed, collapsing into the water

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below. The impact of these floods will be felt by this community for

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months to come. It's all a reminder that this is not over yet. Despite

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today's sunshine, communities along the river Ooze are fighting to hold

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back the water. The ancient city of York, struggling to emerge from the

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worst floods in years. Flying over all of this water, in this kind of

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weather, looks dramatic and spectacular, and even quite

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beautiful, but what you realise of course is that it's down there on

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the ground, down in places like Huntington Road that things are very

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ugly. The flood has left its mark here. That's the house that got to.

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On Boxing Day. Jason and Jack among those returning home

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time. Their bee keeping business lost to the rising waters. It keeps

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going through your head. I haven't been able to sleep. It's terrible.

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You've got to keep smiling, you know. Around the corner, it's all

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hands to the pumps for the Fell family. Calculating what's been lost

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and of course, the insurance. We may not claim on it, we need to look

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into what's the best thing to do. If it's better not to claim and clean

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it up. York is coming out of this disaster,

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look at the difference 24 hours has made. But as the waters retreat, the

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questions for ministers keep coming. We have spent an incredible amount

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of money on flood defences over the last ten years. We will again over

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the next six. If more needs to happen, more needs to happen. The

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focus here now is all about cleaning up and moving on, throwing out was

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been destroyed and facing the future. Worst of it is being

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homeless. I can't tell you how many offers we've had of homes and

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everything, but you just want your own. Would it be rotten of me to say

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happy new year? No. I'm hoping that once this is over, next year's my

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new start. For a few, a very few, there is actually fun to be had

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here. For most, though, it's a matter of holding on, waiting for

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the great flood of history.

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Stay with us here on BBC News. Still to come: We're on patrol with the

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Nigerian Army as they take on militants from Boko Haram.

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Storm Frank is expected to cause yet more problems overnight as it hits

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areas of Northern Ireland, northern England and central and western

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Scotland. Doug Wilson is from the Environment Agency. What we're

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expecting over the course of this evening and into tomorrow is another

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weather front coming in, which will bring some rain with it. We're

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expecting the heaviest rain to be in Lancashire and also Cumbria, but

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we're looking there up to 40 millimetres in Lancashire and 60

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millimetres in Cumbria. Nowhere near the levels that we're expecting to

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see previously. We have issued or still have four severe flood

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warnings out. That means there is a risk to life. We also have seven

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other warnings as well. In the past hour, an 86-year-old man's been

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charged with the murder of another pensioner at a care home in Essex.

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Rita King was killed at the home yesterday.

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This is BBC World News. The latest headlines: The US military says

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coalition air strikes in Syria have killed a senior member of so-called

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Islamic State. He's stowed have had direct links to the ring leader of

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the Paris attacks. The Iraqi prime minister has visited

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Ramadi a day after federal forces announced the liberation of the city

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from the Islamic State group. Islamist extremists in Nigeria have

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killed dozen ever people days after the country's president said the war

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against Boko Haram had technically been won. The group's been

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responsible for thousands of deaths. Our correspondent Martin Patience

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has been granted exclusive access to the Nigerian Army, operating in the

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north-east of the country from where he sends this report.

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We're heading out of the city to some of the most dangerous territory

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on earth. Travelling in a military convoy, the Nigerian Army are taking

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us to the heart of the Boko Haram insurgency. All along the road,

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abandoned homes, herdsmen Football League the fighting with their

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cattle and military fire power. Half an hour later, we reach this once

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busy market town and now just a handful of people remain. The

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silence is eerie. Life seeped out of this town. This van was laden with

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explosives. It was a Boko Haram suicide attack, which fortunately

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failed, but the group brings death and destruction to towns and

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villages in this part of Nigeria. Take a look at this, you can see

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shop after shop has been burnt and looted by destroying people's

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livelihoods lobing harm, in effect -- Boko Haram, in effect, kills the

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town. At the military base, soldiers tooled up for a fight. Once low on

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morale, spirits are now high. Despite being hollowed out by

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corruption, the army insists victory is within sight. We're on the last

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lap right now. Because we have moved into a position where they are being

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caged. What is remaining is one last offensive and we're there. But the

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nature of this conflict is changing. Boko Haram are a resilient enemy.

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They've retreated to the bush, after being pushed from towns they once

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controlled. Before they had tanked looted from the Army. Announce they

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use suicide bombers. They're still holding thousands of kidnapped women

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and children, including the Chibok schoolgirls. Back with the army,

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we're taken to a fishing community close to the base. The villagers

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here live in the shadow of the insurgency. Bringing in the latest

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catch, these fishermen try to get on with life as best they can.

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TRANSLATION: We live in constant fear of being attacked. You can't

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guarantee safety, but we've got used to it. There's nothing else we can

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do. The army has made progress, though. A hewning amount of

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rebuilding -- huge amount of rebuilding needs to be done. Boko

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Haram are not finished as a force. They're just beyond the horizon.

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Let's cross to the BBC's sports centre now for the latest. ?

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Leicester could return to the top of the Premier League tonight with a

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win over Manchester City at the King Power Stadium. It's currently 0-0 at

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the moment, though. City would overtake Leicester to go second if

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they win. There's 15 minutes left in that match.

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Everton forward Steven Naismith is set to join Premier League rivals

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Norwich in an ?8 million deal next month. The 29-year-old Scotland

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international has started just four league matches this season but

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scored a hat-trick after coming on against Chelsea in September.

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Tributes are being paid today to the former Newcastle United and Czech

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Republic goalkeeper, Pavel Srnicek, who's died at the age of 47. He was

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in an induced coma since having a cardiac arrest last week. His agent

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confirmed that a decision was take ton switch off his life support

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machine earlier today. Former Newcastle striker Allan Shearer

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wrote on Twitter that he's so very sad to lose my friend and former

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team-mate. Fellow keeper peter Schmeichel described him as a

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gentleman and great sportsman. England's cricketers head into the

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final day of the first Test against South Africa needing six wickets to

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take victory. England were all out for 326 in their second innings just

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after lunch in Durban. Jonny Bairstow made 50 from 50 balls and

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top scored with 79. South Africa are the top ranked Test team in the

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world. They were set the highest ever total to win the match. Still

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280 runs behind England. They have high quality players to come. People

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with Test hundreds. We don't look at it that way. We look at every single

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wicket. We want all ten. Obviously de Villiers would be a big one to

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get. He's such a great player. But we come back tomorrow with six

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wickets to get. I don't care who we get out, as long as it's six wickets

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and for less runs than what we've got, I'll be happy. Australia have

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won the second Test against the West Indies by 177 runs and with it the

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series. They had declared before play began setting a target of 460.

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Holder top scored with 68. Having fought hard Windies lost their final

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four wickets for 32 in ten overs. That allowed Steven Smith's team the

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victory in Melbourne inside four days. They lead 2-0. The third and

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final Test starts in Sydney on Sunday.

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That's all the sport for now. Let's bring you other news this

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hour. A suspected suicide bomber on a motorbike has killed at least 22

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people in North West Pakistan. At least 30 others were injured in the

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attack, which happened as people queued at a government office. It's

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one of the deadliest attacks in a year, which has seen a decline in

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militant violence overall. The former Israeli Prime Minister

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has been ordered to serve 18 months in jail, by the country's Supreme

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Court. He will become the country's first head of government to spend

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time in prison. Mr Olmert was originally convicted lafrt year over

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taking bribes. Today's verdict partially overturns that conviction

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for which he had been given six years.

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Now he was known as Lemmy, the frontman and one of the founding

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members of the British rock band Motorhead. He's died at the age of

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70. The BBC's LizoMzimba looks back at his career.

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Fast, raucous, loud, no one sounded or looked quite

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like Motorhead or their bassist and singer Lemmy, every inch

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Grinding out hit after deafeningly-loud hit.

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All very different to one of his first bands, '60s

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A few years later he joined rock band Hawkwind, supplying the vocals

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They tried everyone else singing it except me.

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They had to ask me to try it because nobody else could do it.

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No-one else could reach the high notes.

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After being ejected from Hawkwind he formed Motorhead.

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# The ace of spades... #

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After a faltering start they recorded their breakthrough album.

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The title track became their anthem and they never looked back.

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The line-ups may have changed over the years but 40 years

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after he created the group, Motorhead and Lemmy were playing

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to thousands as recently as the summer's Glastonbury.

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For decades he embraced all aspects of rock style excess.

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I've been on the road, man and boy, for almost three years.

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Many more will miss one of rock's great characters.

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Don Lawson is a music journalist. I spoke to him about Lemmy's legacy.

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You can tell from the kind of depth sheer number of people that are

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tweeting and putting messages online about Lemmy is that what he did and

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what he represented completely transcended the niche area of music

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that he was involved in, you know, that motor head's music and Lemmy as

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a man touched people way beyond that. I think it's testament to how

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unique he was. They're often referred to as one of the loudest

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rock bands in history. I saw them perform this summer at Glastonbury.

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I can attest to that. He had amazing test presence even up until this

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summer. Absolutely, yeah. He was one of those people, you know, that they

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don't seem to make any more. He was a force of nature. People loved him.

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Partly because of the music he made, which was consistently extraordinary

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for a very long time. But also, because of what he represented in

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terms of the rock-and-roll spirit. A lot of people pretend to embody that

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and try a bit too hard. He just was rock-and-roll from the top of his

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head to the end of his toes. Talking of the rock-and-roll spirit, almost

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as well known for his music as he was for his lifestyle off the stage.

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He made no secret of his addiction to drink and to alcohol. Then he

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became involved in calling for legislation of heroin to remove the

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drug dealer from society. Do you think the image of a hard living

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rock-and-roll star was sometimes a bit misplaced? A little. He

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certainly was that. I mean, his prodigious amphetamine intake is the

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stuff of legend. But he also lived to be 70. He wasn't one of those

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people who ended up at casualty or in and out of rehab. This is a man

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who continued his habits until the bitter end pretty much. He was also

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ferociously intelligent. He was an eloquent leer sift. He studied

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history and was fascinated with the world and had a lot of intelligent

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things to say. Dom Lawson. Much more on the life of Lemmy available on

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the BBC website as there is on all of the stories this hour. For now,

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from me and the team, thanks for watching. Don't go away.

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Good evening. It's not any old storm heading our way but a weather bomb.

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