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This is BBC World News today with me, Zeinab Badawi. Afghanistan

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enters a new era on the eve of elections for a new President.

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Hundreds of thousands of security forces across the country amidst

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fears of violence at the polls. In a sign of the tensions and dangers,

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two foreign journalists have been shot in eastern Afghanistan. One is

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dead, the other injured. We are shattered at the loss of her, one of

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the great photographers of the world. She covered combat from

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Bosnia to Afghanistan. The search for the missing Malaysian

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Airlines goes underwater. High-tech listening devices are helping to try

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to locate the flight recorders. Also coming up: Formula One star Michael

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Schumacher show signs of consciousness after months spent in

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a coma following a skiing accident. The world's most expensive Easter

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egg - before it goes on public display, we will hear the remarkable

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story of how the man who bought it for thousands and then sold it for

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more than $30 million. Hello and welcome. Nearly 400,000

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military personnel are out in force across Afghanistan in the run up to

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tomorrow's elections because of course security is a major issue.

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Earlier today Anja Niedringhaus, a German photojournalist working for

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the Associated Press news agency was killed in the eastern city of Khost.

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She had been travelling with a convoy carrying election workers

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when an Afghan policeman opened fire on her vehicle. Another journalist

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travelling with her was seriously wounded. Kathy Gannon is said to be

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in a stable condition and then use was received in New York earlier

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today. We are shattered at the news of the

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death of Anja needing house, one of the greatest photographers in the

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world. She covered combat from Bosnia to Afghanistan. A wonderful

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human being. Much has been said about her joyful laugh which is what

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most of us from member about her. She was a great cook, a good friend.

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A big heart but they both kooky. -- tough cookie. They were the two

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journalists in the world who spend more time than anyone else in the

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world covering Afghanistan. For years they have been telling the

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story of the people. It is with bitter irony that we learn they were

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attacked today. Our chief international

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correspondent Lyse Doucet is also in Afghanistan for the election. It is

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a pivotal moment for Afghanistan because the elections will be

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followed by the final phasing out of western combat troops. Lyse sent

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this report from the strategic area of Parwan, not far from Kabul.

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This is not the first time that foreign forces have left

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Afghanistan. The Soviet Union used this major road to bring the troops

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home in 1989. The highway runs very close to the base used by

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international forces. We will be returning to the Valley throughout

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the year. The snow has not yet melted on the mountains but there

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are all the signs that spring has arrived in this valley. This year,

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the greatest change is political. Election posters still plastered

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walls here. In rural areas like this, many Afghans have always had

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their own gardens. Some carry them with him. I have come to see this

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man again and some neighbours have dropped by. These politicians have

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spent millions of dollars on these elections, this man complains. They

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do not know how we are. In the last two months since we met, you have

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been -- you have become more pessimistic? The whole nation is

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enthusiastic about these elections because people are tired of war and

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poverty. We want change but we are not expecting change in our own

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lives. Our readers will build palaces and we will suffer. -- our

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leaders. On the other side of the valley, this lady has other matters

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on her mind. Military aircraft roared overhead but she takes no

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notice. This mother of six is involved in the local elections. It

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is a family affair. She proudly wears the colours of the Afghan flag

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and she spent the last two months meeting people in her community and

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has left full of hope. I learned that people 's awareness is much

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higher than it was five years ago. Women, young boys and girls and even

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older people. I did not expect men to receive me so warmly. I even had

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calls from farmers who wanted to know about the elections. It made me

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feel so proud. This family also worries about security. Gunfire rang

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out just before we arrived. There was a shooting the day before. In

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the quiet of the day, she finds solace in Afghan poetry. Here, like

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much of Afghanistan, most of them worried people harbour hope that

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these elections can at last to bring peace and prosperity to this land.

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Search teams have begun using underwater locators to hunt for the

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black box of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. It is a race against

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time as the batteries which send out a signal are due to run out any day.

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The plane which disappeared on March eight is believed to have crashed in

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the southern Indian Ocean with 239 people on board.

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After a fruitless month looking for the missing airliner, searchers have

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begun listening for it as well. Beneath the waves. Two ships are

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using special kit to try to hear distress signals from the plane's

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back -- black boxes. They have their work cut out. The sea bed there is

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like 4.5 kilometres deep. This is the kind of terrain that hides many

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secrets. This is what investigators are after, the black box that should

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solve this puzzle. It will tell us what the crew were saying on board.

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This piece of American kit shaped like a stingray is called a towed

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pinger locators but it is like an underwater microphone, chained to

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hear signals from the black box locator. A Royal Navy submarine is

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also common in the area, listening for the same things. They might get

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lucky but it is a long shot. The battery runs out in a feuding and

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they will be listening across an area the size of Britain. There is

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other high-tech kit on stand-by. This vehicle swims up and down

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mapping the sea bed. They will not stop -- they will not start using it

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until they find a piece of the plane. They have the best tools

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available but that does not mean it will work. They had the same

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state-of-the-art technology five years ago to find the black boxes

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from a French airliner that crashed into the Atlantic. For a month,

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patrolled the area, listening for signals, about realising that even

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went over the wreckage yet they heard nothing. The company that

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helped find that plane told me why. In hindsight, it was revealed that

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both fingers had failed. It is very similar to the situation we face now

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with flight MH370. We have no information and it is an area 20

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times the size of the previous flight. The search enters a new

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phase but the reality is, if they don't find a clue soon, they may

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never find the aircraft. Belgian police have used water

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cannon to disperse protesters in Brussels. Protesters hurled oranges

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at the police as they marched through the centre of Brussels

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protesting against austerity policies backed by the European

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Union. Many roads were closed causing traffic disruption. The US

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Embassy went into a security lockdown.

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An update now on the condition of Michael Schumacher will stop

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according to his manager, he is showing some signs of

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consciousness. He has been in a medically induced coma since

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December when he had that skiing accident.

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As though waiting for his family turned from days to weeks to months,

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rumours about whether Formula one's most decorated driver would ever

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recovered continues to fly. Today, a small but encouraging sign will stop

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his manager said Michael is making progress on his way. He shows

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moments of consciousness. Four days after Christmas, Michael

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Schumacher skied off piste and hit a rock. He was taken to hospital in

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critical condition and since then have been working to bring him out

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of a medically induced coma. His friends are holding their breath.

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Maybe it is too early for us to start celebrating anything but let

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us hope he is in good hands and that he comes out of this medically

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induced coma and hopefully with the effect is that we will know as

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Michael Schumacher and let him live a positive life thereafter. Don't

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want him to come back and ride this in cars, we just want him around.

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Despite these encouraging signs, experts remain concerned about the

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length of time he has been in hospital. From experience of

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patients who have been in a medically induced coma for a long

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period of time, I am cautious because the duration of the

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medically induced coma is a good surrogate for the severity of the

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underlying condition. Michael Schumacher won seven world titles in

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total. Along the way, he claimed many Formula one records. Put

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simply, he is one of the greatest riders of all time.

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Medical teams dealing with the Ebola outbreak in West Africa are trying

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to confirm whether the disease has spread to a new country, Mali.

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Nearly 90 people have died in neighbouring Guinea and at least six

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in Liberia. There are more suspected cases in Sierra Leone and Gambia.

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With me is Dr Ben Newman, a virologist at Reading University. We

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know that this virus is spread through human contact but tell us

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what kind of contact is that? When you have the virus, you start to

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feel ill and the symptoms are a lot like the flu. There will be

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diarrhoea, muscle aches and vomiting. Cleaning up those bodily

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fluids, this is one of the best ways to get infected. Once a person has

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died, that person still remains very infectious and touching the corpse

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is a good way to spread the disease as well. What about people on

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crowded buses, can you pick it up like that? It is technically

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possible. Do you think we can talk about this being an epidemic almost

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because the outbreak has taken a deadly path? It has and it has

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travelled much farther than Ebola has travelled before. It has always

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been quite isolated in the past. How do you isolate somebody you know has

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been infected? When do you know that they are infected? This is the

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problem, it is such a slow virus. For I deadly killer, it takes two

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weeks for you to know you are infected and to see the symptoms.

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Bring that time, you could be spreading the virus to many people

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potentially. We can also talk to the head of the world health

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organisation's epidemic response team. This situation in Mali, can

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you confirm there are cases of Ebola there? No, they are suspected cases

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that have been reported and what we are doing right now is to ensure

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that samples can be shipped to Guinea for confirmation. There is no

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outbreak in Mali. Only suspected cases have been reported. Can I ask

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you, from the World Health Organisation's point of view, and

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you or the person leading that response team in West Africa, what

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is your plan of action to try to contain the path of the Ebola virus?

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What we are doing right now, we started first of all by trying to

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increase the capacity of West African countries to have

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laboratories to diagnose a bowler. -- diagnose Ebola. In terms of

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coordination, WHO has been in contact with 20 international

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experts from all over the world who are down there to provide the

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technical support and guidance to respond to this outbreak. There are

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experts in social mobilisation who are supporting national governments

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and informing them about the disease. As we speak there are lots

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of people going down there to ensure that the outbreak can be contained

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quickly. Carry on. I want to point out the fact that all the necessary

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prevention control measures are being put in place. We are trying to

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closely work with the community. We are also closely working with

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facilities to prevent transmission. With that type of actions, we are

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hoping that we should be able to contain the outbreak. I would like

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to ask you something. Medicins Sans Frontieres says the outbreak is

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unprecedented in terms of the spread of cases. Are you looking at an

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epidemic? Can the WHO say that is what this is? It is an epidemic of

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Ebola, which is happening in Guinea and Liberia. Usually, Ebola

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outbreaks in the past have been in remote areas. What the WHO are

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trying to do right now is really to respond with an international team

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of experts and provide mobile laboratories able to pick up cases

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quickly. Dr Benido Impouma, from the WHO, thank you for joining us from

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Congo-Brazzaville. Dr Ben Newman, the Ebola virus is deadly but

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needn't kill? It needn't kill and we can predict with some certainty

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whether it will kill or not. It is in your genetics. It is a lottery.

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And when could we get a vaccine? There are experimental vaccines but

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right now we do not know that any of them are safe to use in humans.

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Thank you. Some of the other news: In India,

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three men have been sentenced to death for the rape of able men in an

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abandoned textile mill. They had already been convicted of an earlier

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attack on another woman at exactly the same spot. They're the first to

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be sentenced under tough new laws, introduced after the Delhi bus rape

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in 2012. A Turkish court has overturned a ban

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on YouTube that was imposed after the video-sharing website was used

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to spread leaked audio files from a state security meeting. The Ankara

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court ruling says a blanket ban of the social media website violated

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human rights. It comes a day after the government was forced to comply

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with a court ruling to unblock Twitter in Turkey.

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Japan's biggest online retailer, Rakuten, has decided to stop selling

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whale meat following Tokyo's decision to cancel its annual whale

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hunt in the oceans off the Antarctic. Japan called off the hunt

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after the International Court of Justice in The Hague said it was

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illegal, in a case brought by Australia and New Zealand. Rakuten

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has also announced that it will stop selling dolphin meat.

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Now, there is good luck, and outrageously good fortune. A scrap

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metal dealer in the American Midwest bought this egg for around ?8,000,

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thinking he could sell it on or melt it down for gold. It was only after

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reading an article that he discovered it was in fact an

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imperial Faberge Easter egg, one of just 50, made for the Russian Royal

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Family. It has just been sold to a private collector for ?20 million -

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that's $33 million - and is soon to go on display in London. The

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original article was written by Roya Nikkhah, and she has the story.

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Alexander III had money and palaces in abundance but when he wanted to

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give something truly unique to his empress, he turned to the most

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sought after July of the day, Carl Faberge. And here it is, a lost

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treasure, remarkably rediscovered, set with diamonds and sapphires, and

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be sumptuous golden egg is among the rarest artworks in the world.

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Faberge's eggs opened to contain a surprise. They became increasingly

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elaborate as he honed his craft. Each is unique. Only 50 were ever

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made. But the Russian Revolution of 1917 saw imperial treasures seized

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by the new government. Later, many were sold to the West by the

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Bolsheviks. So how rare is it to rediscover an imperial Faberge egg?

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It is beyond breath. If you can say that. It is so unbelievable that

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this has been discovered and saved. It is a time capsule that we will

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never, ever see again. The egg was last seen in public in 1902 at an

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exhibition of imperial Faberge treasures in Saint Petersburg. It

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was not seen again until 1964, when it was auctioned in New York for

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?875, but it was not identified as Faberge at the time. It reappeared

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last year when the egg was bought by a scrap metal dealer at a flea

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market in America's midwest. He paid just ?8,000 for it and kept it in

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his kitchen. It was only when he opened up the eighth and found this

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inscription inside, the name of the watchmaker, that he looked it up

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online. He found an article about the hunt for missing Faberge eggs

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and found that this lump of gold is worth ?20 million. This is the Julie

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who verified the find as the third imperial Faberge egg. -- this is the

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July. I felt like Indiana Jones. This is the thing that we search for

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everyday. The man who discovered the ultimate golden egg wants to remain

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anonymous. It will soon disappear into the vaults of a private

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collector, and this historic peace may never -- this piece may never be

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seen again. With me in the studio is Toby Faber,

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the author of the book Faberge's Eggs. Just eight coincidence, your

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name! Extraordinary story, isn't it? Do you think it is surprising

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that such a beautiful, elaborate, albeit small piece just went

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unnoticed? If you surprising but not unlikely. It is quite small. It is

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not backed elaborate. There is nothing about it that makes it

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personal to his original owners. Other eggs have pictures of the

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palaces and their children. This one just happens to be vaguely egg

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shaped. Very detailed work. I note he bought it just for the value of

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the gold and the gems in it. But he would have thought that somebody

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would have clocked that it is very beautifully crafted... Yes, we will

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all be frequenting American flea markets, I think exhibition at it is

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an amazing piece. Stunning. Tell us where this particular find... How it

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sits with the rest of the Faberge... What is interesting about it is it

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is very early. If you think about the eggs that we already know about,

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we know about the very first one, which looks like a hen egg on the

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outside. It is more elaborate open. The next one to survive comes from

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five years later, 1890. From then on they are very elaborate. It has pink

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enamel. So this is part of the progression. It shows gradual

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increasing collaboration, probably Faberge himself getting more

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autonomy as he is allowed to come up with his own ideas. And just tell

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us, quick bit of history, why are Faberge eggs so desirable? They are

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wonderful. So many things. There is a wonderful series of inventiveness

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in the eggs that spans 30 years of different designs. There are

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wonderful stories. There are stories of the individual eggs reflecting

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what is going on in the lives of the stars, and after the revolution you

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have the stories of the eggs being lost and rediscovered. You have this

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thing about here are the rulers, separate from their people, living

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their lives and commissioning these eggs. They represent the end of an

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era. Are they all in private hands? After the revolution, of the 50

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made, roughly 40 appeared in the Kremlin. Stalin sold many of. 30

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were sold to the West and our current Queen has three. Bought by

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her grandmother. There are several in American museums. And a Russian

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oligarch has some. Another story related to art before we go.

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The former US President George Bush has found the time to develop a new

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passion since leaving the White House - he's become a painter. The

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Take a look and see what you think. Here's Vladimir Putin. The

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paintings, which are to be displayed at the Bush Presidential Library in

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Texas, also feature the former British prime minister Tony Blair.

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And Pakistan's former President, Pervez Musharraf, has also been been

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captured on canvas. Mr Bush said the subjects of his portraits had all

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earned his respect and admiration. And evidently, that includes himself

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- the collection includes this self portrait.

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Over the past 24 hours, we have seen a shift in wind direction and that

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has meant an improvement in air quality. Tomorrow looking cloudy.

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Some rain, although not everyone will see it. Light, patchy

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