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This is BBC World News Today with me David Eades.

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International efforts to broker a humanitarian truce

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More victims from the downed Malaysia Airlines

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flight return to the Netherlands - but eight days on, bodies still

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Also coming up, how will the United States deal with the

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How a new treatment for breast cancer could help tens of thousands

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of women - and save Britain's National Health Service money.

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The death toll in Gaza rose above 800 today,

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as diplomats continued to push for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

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The United Nations said that 150,000 people in Gaza -

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Israel has continued its air and ground missions to end

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the launching of rockets from Gaza while Hamas insists that

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the blockade on the area is lifted as part of any ceasefire.

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Big and has rejected the cease-fire. They have called for modifications.

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-- the Israeli cabinet. In a moment the view from Israel -

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but first our correspondent Ian Pannell has just sent this

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report from Gaza. The girl was delivered

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by emergency Caesarean She was killed in

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an Israeli air strike this morning. The baby was still

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two weeks premature. Doctors say the little girl has

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a 50-50 chance of living. The woman's uncle showed us what

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remains of their home and the place Israel insists it tries to avoid

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civilian deaths but this morning it was not

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a fighter who was killed, just This is where the bomb landed

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about two o'clock in the morning. There has been some damage to

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the house over there. This part was

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a UN sanitation compound. But this was a small block housing

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a few families. This is where the mother was living

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and she was trapped as She was underneath and unable

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to escape and eventually died. Two Hamas rockets launched

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into Israel. Homeless families living in a UN

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school clap and cheer. There is nothing to celebrate

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in Gaza. This young girl

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and her brother were injured when The mother talks of the moment

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her husband died in her arms. Despite talk of a ceasefire, the

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suffering and pain go undiminished. Fawaz Gerges is Professor of Middle

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Eastern Politics at the London School of Economics and Political

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Science. I was going to see, is this the

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tipping point moment with regard to cease-fire negotiations? The Israeli

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perspective is not good at the moment. The Israeli government, as

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you know, rejected the John Kerry proposal. This is a bargaining

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process. John Kerry's proposal is a 2-stage process. He would like a

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one-week long cease-fire. In tandem with talks which tackle the security

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questions. The security questions are the heart of the problem, the

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eight year Israel siege of Gaza. A siege which has had devastating

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impact on the lives of Palestinians. This is the central question. How do

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you stop the rockets? And how do you end the siege? Egypt has also

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imposed a bloody siege on Gaza. It is starting 2 million people. It

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seems clear internationally that this must be confronted this time.

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At the same time, the end to Rocky -- rocket attacks into Israel is as

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cynical and no one. Hamas leaders have made it clear they would accept

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any cease-fire which gives them guarantees that the eight-year

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blockage would be over. Hamas has never said it would not accept a

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cease-fire. Their goal is to end the blockade. It is causing starvation.

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The central concern of Hamas is that. And now the Palestinian

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president has joined Hamas in demanding the end of the blockade.

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In this sense, there is a widespread belief that the cease-fire, the end

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of rockets and at the same time end the blockade. Let us jump ahead. It

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is still Hamas, to some extent in the driving seat, and from an

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Israeli viewpoint, that is a trump card for Israel. This is a terrorist

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organisation? You are correct. The foolish rockets of Hamas. Look at

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the number of casualties. How many Palestinians have been killed? 830.

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Most of them are civilians. 200 children will stop. The rockets are

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providing ammunition to the far right. The far Right faction is you

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want to continue the war. The ultraconservative ring -- wing

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within the government has won the deed for the moment. Thank you very

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much for joining us. More planes carrying the remains

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of victims from the Malaysian airlines crash have landed

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at Eindhoven in The Netherlands. It's been more than a week

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since the MH17 was shot down in the fields of Grabovo,

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but the site is yet to be secured The BBC's Tim Willcox is in Kharkiv

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for us. Thank you very much. The number of

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forensic teams grows by the day. They will be joined by 14 military

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police from Holland is. They will be unarmed but will be gathering

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evidence. As you say, more coffins were flown from here today to the

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Netherlands. 74 coffins in total. It had been thought by the team is

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processing the bodies on the grounds, they would have completed

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their task today. But they have not. There is a fourth carriage on the

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train which was brought here which needs to be cleared. So potentially

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more flights tomorrow or the following day. I report was at the

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airport today whether Dutch and Australian foreign ministers came to

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visit the team working on those bodies. In a city on the edge of a

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war soon, thoughts for those passengers, people on a flight which

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flew over here. They are now mourned in the east of you clean. This

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morning at the airport it is another solemn ceremony. -- Eastern Ukraine.

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More unidentified remains are loaded onto planes. Getting the remains of

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the victims out of Warsaw and here to government-controlled Ukraine and

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then onto flights to Holland, more than a week after the flight was

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shot out of the sky, continues to be a complex international Ian --

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effort. Countries like Australia and Holland want assurances that the

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crash site Holland want assurances that the

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people can access it securely. The Australian Foreign Minister told me

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it was the wish Australian Foreign Minister told me

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community that the crash site be secured. We are doing

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community that the crash site be security council task asked to do

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and that is establishing a proper crash site investigation. We assume

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our support their, security for them

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just in case. It is hoped that an armed Dutch and Australian police

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will come year where parts of the plane and probably still bodies are

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scattered. The Dutch Prime Minister told the BBC that those responsible

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will face justice. Be assured that I am extra me motivated to find him,

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her or then Anderson as we know, they will not escape justice. -- and

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as soon as we know. Meanwhile, the consequences of war, people fleeing

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their homes to avoid the violence. That is the problem, the town is

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still in the middle of war zone. Despite the calls for a six

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cease-fire around the site fighting has continued and rockets have been

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fired. Done yet is not too far away and that is the last stronghold of

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the rebels. The Ukrainian army is shelling that town and the militia

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are fighting back. Berries are fighting brigades -- there is

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fighting brigades made up of fighting there. In the last odours

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so, the Pentagon says it had evidence of multi-calibre rocket one

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she is being shipped across the border from Russia that century as

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early as today. -- rocket launchers. The fighting continues and it seems

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like it will be quite a while before those international teams will find

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it safe enough to go down and collect evidence. Four days nobody

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parts and bits of wreckage have been left isolated. No one is controlling

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that. The families of the victims of the flights will find it a long

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process to get all the body parts which are accessible on the ground

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back to Holland is for a formal identification. Thank you very much

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indeed. The French government has confirmed

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that there are no survivors from an Air Algerie plane

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which crashed over Mali yesterday. 116 passengers and crew were

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on board. One of the flight

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recorders has been found. It's thought the plane, which had

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taken off from Burkina Faso, came In Afghanistan,

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Taliban militants have shot dead 15 people, including women and a child,

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in the central province of Ghor. Gunmen stopped two vehicles

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and ordered the passengers to stand in line at the side of the road

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before shooting them one by one. The victims were from the minority

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Hazara community, which has faced Jailed Al Jazeera journalist,

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Australian Peter Greste is to appeal against his conviction

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and seven year sentence for Mr Greste and his colleagues,

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Mohammed Fahmy and Baher Mohammed, were arrested in December as part of

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a crackdown on Islamist supporters Illegal immigrants is an issue for

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many countries and the US is no difference. President Obama will be

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meeting Central American presidents to stem the flow of illegal child

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migrants. In the last eight months, nearly 60,000 children have crossed

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the board are illegally into the US. Navigating the climbing frame, this

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six-year-old has just completed a far tougher journey. He arrived in

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America this month from El Salvador. Finally reunited with his mother who

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made the same journey two years ago. She has asked not to be identified.

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It is risky to travel as a family because people take more interest in

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you. It is less dangerous for the children to come on their own.

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Daniel made the 5000 kilometres trip with his two young cousins. He is

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escaping gang violence and poverty back home. What did he tell you

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about the journey? The only thing he said was that he was scared when he

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got to the border. When you cross the river with water up to his neck

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and when he was caught by the immigration officials. When you

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arrived at the detention centre with his clothes still soaking wet. The

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detention centres on the border are child migrants are brought to when

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they are right. It is their first taste of the American dream,

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conditions are cramped. Nearly 60,000 children cross the border

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illegally in the last six months. Many make the journey across the

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river of the Rio Grande Bay. It separates America from Mexico. If a

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parent that their children through half of what these illegal aliens do

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in Texas then the parent would have been charged for child endangerment.

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They are putting their children at risk when they do this.

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Here in Washington solving the problems at the border remains a

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huge challenge. President Obama has described the flow of child migrants

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as a humanitarian crisis. His critics wonder how he will speed up

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deportations when there is such a huge backlog in the courts. As for

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Daniel, it could take years for a judge to decide his fate. His mother

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is scared that he will be sent back to El Salvador. She wants her son to

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stay in America, a country that she believes will give him a better

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chance in life. Joining us from Washington is Doris

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Meissner, senior fellow and director She's also the former Commissioner

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of the US Immigration and Naturalization Service under

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the Clinton administration Thank you for joining us. One would

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presume that the questions surrounding this issue is, how do

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you stop all these children coming over? Is that the predominant

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concern, do you think? It certainly is the concern of many people in the

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NATO states, the net six Congress. -- in the United States, the United

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States Congress. There are young people in this globe who have claim

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for asylum in the United States, several other provisions under US

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law because of the safety problems that they have experienced in their

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own home countries. There cannot be simply an effort to stop them and

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send them back without them having an opportunity to have their story

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be heard and a judge decide whether they have the right to remain in the

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United States, or whether they need to be repatriated to their

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countries. They are coming over in tens of thousands, and almost

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unmanageable number. Are there, among those tens of thousands, many

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who want across-the-board and disappear. That keeping track of

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them is the challenge? There are lots of challenges. One of the most

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important characteristics of this is what you pointed out in the package,

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which is that so many people have parents in the United States or at

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least a close relative. Main 2% of them have either a parent or a

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family member. -- 90% of them. The dangerous situations they face in

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their countries and lack of economic opportunity, those who have come

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here and have a stake your want them to come and want them to be here and

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are by and large paying smugglers to bring them. Is there something which

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has been getting worse since the Clinton administration. And is that

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partly because of the inability to deal with it over the last couple of

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decades? We have always had child migrants, but they have been

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predominantly from Mexico rather than from Central America, although

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Central Americans have been in the child migrant population. But they

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have been at a fairly steady rate. It has been several thousand a year,

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5000 two 7000 a year. This just in the last two years that the chilled

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migration phenomenon has really taken off and is dominated by

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children from Central America. And so this is a shift but it is also

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something that we're been dealing with for quite a long time. Thank

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you very much for joining us. A new breast-cancer treatment

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which replaces weeks of radiotherapy could be offered on

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the National Health Service here. It uses a single dose

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of targeted treatment once a tumour As Sophie Hutchinson reports,

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for many patients it could replace The 71-year-old writer says that she

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has never been busier, but almost two years ago she had surgery for

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breast cancer and at the same time was given a new therapy for breast

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cancer. She said it was brilliant because it was over so quickly. I

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had no idea it had been done. I felt tired for a few weeks, classic

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post-op symptoms, but I did not know it had happened. If they had not

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pulled me they had done it I would never have known. There were no side

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effects, nothing to show. The treatment, which

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in the UK, offers a one-off dose of radiotherapy carried out after an

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in the UK, offers a one-off dose of operation in the minutes after any

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tumours have been removed. It lasts around 20 minutes. The benefit of

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using this new device is that it targets the correct area with in the

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breast. It also saves patients time and the NHS money. One estimate has

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put the savings at ?15 million per year. It is a fraction of the time

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that would otherwise have been used. It is one hour in the operating

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theatre rather than 15 minutes everyday for three to six weeks. The

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treatment has so far proved to be as effective as conventional

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radiotherapy. It could transform care for many breast cancer

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patients. Nigeria's Health Minister has

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confirmed that there has been a patient confirmed with Ebola today.

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It is the world's deadliest outbreak to date. We know that the man came

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into Rhigos on Sunday. He was taken for medical treatment and isolated.

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-- Lagos. It took time to get confirmation as to whether this was

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Ebola virus. We then got confirmation that this was indeed

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Ebola, although they health officials here have not yet

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confirmed it. They were the ones that first reported this news about

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this suspected case. He was a man that was put into

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quarantine pretty quickly. Nevertheless he was on a flight no

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doubt full of other passengers that would have gone about their

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business, many into other bilious part of Lagos. -- other various

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parts of Lagos. They have said that this was contained from the airport

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and that the man only came into contact with health workers. It will

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take off well before we can know if there has been any spread of the

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virus so far. No confirmation of that. Considering Lagos and Nigeria

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has major challenges within its health care system it will be

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crucial at this stage for the government to watch and act, as many

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Nigerians would expect, in order to prevent the spread of the virus.

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Scientists believe that this rather scary-looking animal was

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the first creature to bridge the dinosaur and bird species.

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But now, the discovery of 150-million-year-old fossils

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in Siberia shows that feathers may have been much more widespread than

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Our Science Correspondent Pallab Ghosh has been finding out more.

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Sunday in the size were big and scary. And it is thought that they

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had scaly skin -- some dinosaurs. This creature is thought to have

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been the transition from day now saw -- from dinosaur to bird. It arose

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right around the age of the dinosaurs. But new research suggests

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that the arose much earlier, right at the beginning of when the first

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emerged. The discovery of this dinosaur in

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Siberia suggests that they began to develop feathers tens of millions of

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years earlier than previously thought. But some experts have

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doubts. This expert says that the feathers could be something else.

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There are number of features which are completely unlike feathers that

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we have seen on other animals. Some believe that it shows that dinosaurs

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had feathers from the very beginning and were widespread.

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The Israeli government is reported to have said that it is rejecting

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Gaza cease-fire proposal from the Americans as it stands but would

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continue to discuss it. The death toll in Gaza rose above 800 today.

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It is reported that many people in Gaza are now living within UN

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Good evening. The temperatures are about to start heading in the other

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direction. But we're only getting back down to near ready would

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normally be at this time of the year.

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