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This is BBC World News Today with me Zeinab Badawi.

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Brazil's moment to shine as host of the World Cup is eclipsed by public

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sector strikes just three days before the first match kicks off.

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Protests on the streets of Sao Paulo - police use tear gas to disperse

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I live in Rio de Janeiro where here, at least they are getting ready to

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party. Police in Pakistan are back

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in control of the country's largest airport after Taliban fighters storm

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a terminal leaving 31 dead The row over infiltration of schools

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in England by militant Islamists. The Government places six schools in

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Birmingham under special measures. And Rik Mayall, one of Britain's

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most popular and talented comedy We start in Brazil where riot police

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in the country's biggest city Sao Paulo have fired tear gas

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at protesters who are demanding The subway strike has unleashed

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transport chaos in the city which hosts the opening match

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of the football World Cup Not quite the suspicious start to

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the World Cup that the authorities might have been hoping for?

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Everywhere else in Brazil it seems they are getting ready to celebrate

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the start of the World Cup, but that is still one outstanding industrial

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dispute. For supporters lucky enough to go to that first match on

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Thursday evening, there is a fair chance that they are going to

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struggle to get to the ground, unless they leave a very long time.

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Maybe this is just brinksmanship on the part of the unions. They know

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that this is their moment of maximum leverage over the governments, over

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a strike that has been declared illegal. There where clashes today.

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Gridlock in Brazil's biggest city just three days before the World Cup

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Striking Metro workers continuing to demand pay rises in excess of 10%.

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Military police again try to break up the protests and yesterday

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But these workers voted overwhelmingly to stay out

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until their demands are met and say they don't care

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It's a new stage for the Brazilian situation since the last year

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and the World Cup is just the beginning of a new wave

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The Government insists that these strikes and protests will not be

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allowed to disrupt the World Cup and will use whatever force they deem

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necessary, but if the riot police, as in the past, move in too hard, it

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may exacerbate tensions even further and lead to more delays

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for fans trying to get to World Cup games across Brazil.

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Sao Paulo's chronic transport problems are notoriously bad

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at the best of times and if these protests continue

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the impact for World Cup schedules and fans could be enormous.

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The protesters? mood is upbeat for now but things could turn ugly

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if there is no last-minute deal or the Government tries to resolve

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Here in Rio de Janeiro one of the principal concerns for the parties

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has been the security situation. There have been attempts at what is

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called pacification. I went to one of the first places to be pacified.

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This favela used to be a place where drug dealers openly carried guns.

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That has changed. There are no streets, just steps. This policeman

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is now in charge of that favela. He told me of the dramatic difference

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that the pacification unit had made. When was the last homicide in the

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favela? For more than five years there has not been a homicide.

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Pacification is relative. We ran into this police squad, guns drawn,

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looking tense. One of duty officer told us about an encounter he had

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had in a nearby favela. How many shots did the drug dealer fire? It

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was very difficult to count. Lots. Very dangerous. The drug dealers

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shot from all directions. Before this favela was pacified over three

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murders per month in the community of just 7000 people. The figures

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speak for themselves. And the scars of the battles are everywhere. For

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all the problems and frustrations of daily life this favela is getting

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ready to party. Yellow, blue and Green paint must surely be in short

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supply. The World Cup is very important to us. Everybody is

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excited about the games. Regardless of everything that is happening, the

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important thing is that we participate and celebrate.

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Everything is going to be all right. The beautiful game has never been

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played more beautifully done by Brazilians. These favela children

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dream that one day it will be them representing the national side. On

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the question of who will when they speak with one voice. Brazil.

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Brazil. Brazil. I think we will hear people chanting Brazil quite a lot

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over the next few weeks. The weight of expectation is high on the

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national side. Just beyond where we are broadcasting, just down there,

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that is the supporters all that is still under construction. They will

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be welcoming tens of thousands of supporters. There will be a huge

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screen. Their workers are tried to get everything in place for the

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opening match of which takes place on Thursday, less than three days

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from now. You really do see that football is

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in the DNA of Brazil. It is a leveller and an equaliser. It is a

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country that is not equal in many ways.

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Yes, a flippant point first. One of the coaches said, if you watch a

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Brazilian dance their feet move at an incredible pace. That is what

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these young kids bring to the football. It is dazzling. It is

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Samba football. But it is a great leveller. It is the source of

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peoples dreams. The national side, with the exception of one player, is

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drawn from favelas. It is the kids who kick around on a dirt track

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outside shantytowns tuning that one day they will be picked up by one of

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the big teams and then eventually gets picked up by a big European

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team and then shine on the national stage. Football is something where

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everyone is equal. Except maybe that in the favelas they are better

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footballers than they are in the wealthy suburbs.

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Nice to see you so animated. Clearly a big football supporter yourself.

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Pakistan's largest airport has reopened

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after an overnight battle between Taliban gunmen and police that left

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Witnesses living nearby said it sounded like war had broken

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On Sunday evening ten attackers stormed Jinnah International

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They entered an area used mainly for cargo and private flights,

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hurling grenades, firing automatic weapons and rocket launchers.

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Pakistan's Taliban has claimed responsibility,

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Turned into a virtual war zone, Pakistan's biggest airport,

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in a battle that lasted all night until Government troops finally

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As the wounded were evacuated, burning cargo buildings lit up

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the night sky, an eerie site in what is normally

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Just how heavily armed the ten attackers were is clear

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Grenades, rocket launchers and suicide belts.

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Also food and water, suggesting they were planning a siege, or to hijack

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Pakistan's Government praised its troops for their swift response.

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Our forces have done a tremendous job.

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We saw how quickly they controlled the situation.

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Our army and police tackled the situation nicely and killed all

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the terrorists involved in the incidents.

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In claiming responsibility a spokesman for the Pakistan

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Taliban said the attack was in revenge for the death of this leader

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But he also warned more attacks were planned.

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They are not the same as Afghanistan's Taliban, but there

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are links. The Islamic insurgency is against Pakistan's Government.

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Recent attempts at peace talks by Pakistan's prime minister caused

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a split in their ranks and it is possible this attack was to try to

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It would have caused a lot of material damage

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if they had hit commercial airliners and it would have provided them with

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the iconic images that they need in their campaign.

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The attack was less devastating than it might have been,

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but it still raises questions about Pakistan's security.

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In the UK, a political row has broken out over schools in England's

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England's education watchdog says six schools in Birmingham have been

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Those schools have now been placed under what's been described

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as special measures, and the Prime Minister David Cameron

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is calling for snap inspections of all schools in the country.

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Birmingham schools have endured months of leaks and rumours

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Today, a damning verdict for five of them, with Ofsted condemning

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a culture of fear and intimidation that was quite shocking.

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Some headteachers, including those with a proud record of raising

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standards, have been marginalised or forced out of their jobs.

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This has left a vacuum in which schools previously rated good or

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outstanding have suffered enormous staff turbulence, a collapse

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in morale, and a rapid decline in their overall effectiveness.

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Ofsted said there had been a deliberate attempt to change

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the ethos of the schools, with the curriculum being narrowed,

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and an exclusively Muslim culture in non-faith schools.

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Outside one of them today, Park View, opinions were sharply

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In 2001, people achieving A* to C was any five to 7%.

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Now, it's 76%, it is a huge achievement.

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So, the haters, the people who are against the school, don't want us

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We do have Islamic assemblies but they just teach lessons like,

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being nice to one another, being nice to your parents.

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It's not like we have courses on how to make bombs.

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You can, you can, but you can't have a girlfriend or boyfriend,

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And in Islam, you can't have an girlfriend or boyfriend either.

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Yeah, but it's not an Islamic school.

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Yeah, it does feel like an Islamic school, but it's not supposed to be.

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There is something wrong that two years ago, a school that has been

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rated as outstanding in all the different sections

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of the report, 18 months later, has been classed as inadequate.

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There is a failing in the process of Ofsted or,

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they have come back here with a political agenda to look for certain

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Earlier, their teachers expressed anger that

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their school, which was found to be outstanding by inspectors two years

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Ofsted inspectors came to our schools looking for extremism,

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looking for segregation, looking proof that our children

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have religion forced upon them as part of an Islamic plot.

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Excuse me. The Ofsted reports found absolutely

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because this is categorically not what is happening in our schools.

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At this school, Oldknow, Ofsted says a small group

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of governors has been promoting a narrow faith-based ideology,

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But the school principal, curently on sick leave,

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said she had been targeted by a hostile governing body.

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I'm upset, because I am the principal of Oldview academy and

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I have been treated in this manner. It's disgraceful.

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The Education Secretary today said he would take decisive action.

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Schools that are proven to have failed will be taken over,

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put under new leadership and taken in a fresh new direction.

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On today's evidence, schools in Birmingham have been

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subject to an organised attempt in some cases to entrench

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But whether or not that amounts to extremism will be hotly debated.

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Now a look at some of the day's other news.

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Syria's President, Bashar al-Assad, has announced a general amnesty for

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prisoners in the country, but it's not clear if opposition activists or

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The announcement comes just days after Assad won a third term

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in elections that the opposition and Western nations

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India's new government has set out its plans for rapid economic reform.

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President Pranab Mukherjee says the government will provide water,

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power and a toilet to every home within the next eight years.

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He's also promised a zero tolerance approach to violence against women.

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And Egypt's Interior Ministry says seven men have been arrested

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on suspicion of sexually assaulting women at celebrations for

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President Abdul Fattah al Sisi's inauguration on Sunday.

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The arrests come amid growing outrage over a graphic

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video that shows a woman being sexually assaulted, allegedly during

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Japan says it intends to resume its international whale hunt. The Prime

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Minister told a Parliamentary hearing that his government is

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committed to the eventual resumption of commercial whaling.

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In just over 100 days, Scotland will decide whether to stay part of the

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Opinion polls suggest the No campaign is maintaining

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its lead with 58% of voters wanting to stay in the union.

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But Scotland's First Minister says the credibility of its Yes

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For more on this, let's go to the BBC's Rob Watson who

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First of all, give us a brief assessment of the two campaigns.

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I think there is no doubt that the yes campaign has been very vibrant,

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they are after all campaigning for their lifetime ideal. The no

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campaign, if you like, has been set by some of the problems that you

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would get from parties that are often at odds with each other, the

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political party that favour union. Overall it has become rather

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distilled. We know what the yes campaign stands for, they believe

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that there is a logical proposition that Scotland would be best

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governed, purely, from this building behind here in Edinburgh. The no

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campaign is founded on this fundamental idea that the union has

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been incredibly successful for 300 years, why would you risk damaging

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it? You get those in the no camp we

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say, we might end up sleepwalking into independence because their

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voters are less inclined to go out and vote in that referendum. The

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pro-independence voters armour motivated. -- are more motivated. I

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do not think there is any doubt that there is a lot of gaming and has

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been going on about how you interpret the polls, harmony people

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are really undecided to come and what about turnout. The yes campaign

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is try to put out the line that this will be so momentous that when

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Scottish people have been given this chance on September 18, they are

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going to think, I do not want to throw away this industry --

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opportunity to go independent. I think the no campaign are basing

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their hopes on this idea that the Scottish people are inherently quite

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conservative with a small fee, and while they might be tempted into the

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idea of independence, the majority will say at the last minute, not

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sure about this, too much uncertainty. How much influence does

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outside in -- opinion have? For example, President Obama saying last

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week he thinks the UK would be better off staying united. Well, far

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be it from me to downplay the influence of President Obama, but I

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think the sense is here in Scotland that intervention such as that, they

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very much make a splash on the day that they are made, but I think to

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try and give some context to those outside of Scotland, the people here

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have been listening to the arguments for and against since 2011, since

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the Scottish National party won the parliamentary elections here. So

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people are really steeped in this stuff. I think interventions from

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outside the United Kingdom probably don't have much effect. Have some of

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the interventions from London had an effect, such as the government

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saying, we are not keen to have you using the pound? There may be other

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convocations? I suspect they will have. Even amongst voters who do not

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like that sort of message, it leaves an impression somewhere. Thank you

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very much indeed. The referendum is 100 days away.

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The post of President of the European Commission is

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the most high profile job in the European Union and there is

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The British Prime Minister David Cameron is in the thick

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of the behind the scenes negotiations to try to

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prevent an arch federalist like the front runner Jean-Claude Juncker

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In the next few hours, Mr Cameron will be meeting

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his counterparts from Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden in

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Stockholm to try to influence the race for the Commission President.

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Joining me from Brussels is the Europe analyst

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and senior adviser to the European Policy Centre, Jacki Davis.

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Commission president, not officially on the agenda on these talks, but

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hard to imagine it is not going to be discussed. Absolutely, as you

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say, responsibly what they are there to talk about is not the

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personalities for the next five years, who will run the EU, but the

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programme. This is a group of economic liberals, they want to

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focus on the reform agenda for Europe, from measures to boost

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economic growth, job creation, make Europe more competitive. They are

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discussing the programme but given the battle royal that is developing

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over who should be the next commission president, personalities

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are important. It is an imaginable that they will not discuss this in

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the margins. And John Claude Junker seems to be the man that the man

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that a lot of people want to stop, an arch federalist. There have been

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a lot of fluid allegations about him, it has become quite personal

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and nasty according to his own aides. Absolutely, it is not just

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about his views on Europe, there is a sense that he is part of the

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European old guard. The former Luxembourg Prime Minister, chair of

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the Euro group, the Eurozone finance ministers. Seen as a traditional

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European integrationist. There are those like the four who are meeting

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tonight and tomorrow who really wants to focus on a new agenda and

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say we need fresh faces and thinking. That is the personality

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element of it. There is also a process argument. There is a battle

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between EU leaders, governments, and the newly elected European

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Parliament. They say Jean-Claude Juncker was the candidate of the

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biggest group in the Parliament, that emerged with the most votes,

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and therefore he should get the job. Government leaders are saying,

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that is not your job. We choose who we would like to run the UV #

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executive and you get to approve it. This is being played out on so many

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different levels. Some object to the man, some object to his approach on

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policies, and many object to the process. Some predicting this

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argument will be resolved by June but it could run into autumn. Where

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is the all-powerful Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany on this? She

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has supported him but it seems a bit tepid now. She has got a nightmare

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problem. She is not that enthusiastic about him but she went

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along with the process of him being the candidate of the party that her

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group belongs to in the European Parliament. She is now being told to

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honour that and has come under huge pressure in the German media from

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her coalition partners, and also people saying, do not back David

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Cameron, he is bullying the rest of Europe in his refusal to accept John

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called Junker. But she will want consensus, she is caught between a

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rock and a hard place. One of Britain's best known

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comedy actors Rik Mayall has He starred in some

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of the most successful comedy series of the Eighties and Nineties,

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like The Young Ones and Blackadder. Police and paramedics were called to

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Rik Mayall's house in South West London at lunchtime

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but he died at the scene. His death is not thought

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to be suspicious. Here's our arts correspondent

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David Sillito. Will you stop making that

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revolting noise, Vyvyan? You know I'm ill!

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Stop shouting, Neil! Desperately right on,

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more than a little tragic. If you want to hear shouting, matey,

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this is it. Aaargh! Rick in The Young Ones wasn't just

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a funny character. If you were a student in the 80s,

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you probably met someone a bit Oh, now, how ruddy considerate,

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Vyvyan, thank you very much! Alternative comedy had landed

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on television. Over the next 15 years,

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Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson took that template...

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Aargh! And just turned up the volume, with

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a hyperactive cartoon violence. They had met university

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in Manchester in the 70s, and became part of the new world

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of the comedy club. Shut up!

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But it was his idea for a sitcom about four students

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that made his name. You haven't got an MP, Rick,

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you're an anarchist. Oh, well,

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then I shall write to the lead If you needed comic swagger,

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he was your man. Hooray!

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Hooray! Where haven't I been?

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Woof! But in 1998, Rik Mayall suffered

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very serious injuries Copy that, Sergeant,

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I can report the Batnet has just He did, though,

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return to our screens. Last year, he appeared on Jonathan

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Creek. David Walliams, Bob Mortimer,

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Helen Lederer, Eric Idle, have all this afternoon spoken of their

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sadness, the loss of a great talent, whose place in comedy history will

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always be that moment back in the early 80s when a Cliff loving

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anarchist led the charge of a new generation of comedians and a new

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way of making us laugh. Who's been tampering with

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my question cards? Three days before the start

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of football World Cup in Brazil, protests are continuing

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in the country's largest city, Sao Paulo, despite riot police

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earlier firing tear gas to force one The demonstration began as a show

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of support for metro workers, who've been on strike since last

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Thursday demanding higher pay. Hello. Whilst the sun it has been

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hot and humid today, others have had some torrential downpours. Through

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the night we will keep some showers around and still

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