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This is BBC World News Today with me, Philippa Thomas.

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It's been one of the bloodiest days so far of the conflict over Gaza.

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The bombardment continues, and Gaza's only power station is

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hit, as Israel says it's stepping up the pressure on Hamas.

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As the EU announces the toughest sanctions yet on Russia

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And what it calls terrorist targets. This is Hamas

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infrastructure. As the EU announces

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the toughest sanctions yet on Russia over Ukraine, we'll bring you

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reaction from Moscow. A war crimes investigator says some

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former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army should face

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charges of crimes against humanity. Too much unhealthy food, too much

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drinking, and too nationalistic - youngsters around the world give

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their views on Britain. But it's not all bad - find out

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what they did like a little later. More than 100 Palestinians are said

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to have been killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza,

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after one of the bloodiest days Israeli airstrikes have targeted

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sites associated with Hamas, Among the dead, are members

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of the UN Relief and Works agency. Since the current conflict began,

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1,156 Palestinians have been killed. 55 Israelis have been killed,

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most of them soldiers. Israel's Prime Minister has warned

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that the conflict will continue as This report from our correspondent

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Ian Pannell, who is in Gaza. Gaza trembled with the few real last

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night. Dash-macro Furia of war. Israel warned it would act

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aggressively. It did. People were forced from their homes.

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Out into a city with few safe places to hide. Israel wants to weaken

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Hamas anyway it can. This includes hitting Gaza's only power station.

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Adding to the misery of those who live here.

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Through the night, and into the day. Across large parts of the Gaza

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Strip, the bombing is relentless. It is still early in the morning in

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Gaza, and there were a large number of attacks overnight, and as you

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just heard, the attacks are continuing throughout the day.

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Israel says it is hitting a number of what it calls terrorist targets,

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Hamas infrastructure. Those are things that belong to the militants,

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but as we have seen, civilians are increasingly being caught in the

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crossfire. The front line edges ever closer. As

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whole neighbourhood is empty. Today, one more family fled. Tens of

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thousands of people have already been forced from their homes.

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Others have been buried beneath. Neighbours and family scramble to

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rescue the injured and the dead. More than 100 people were killed

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last night. People have suffered, and they have grieved. So far, it

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has brought them nothing. Not even funerals here are sacred.

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Nor are mosques. Israel says they have been used to hide weapons. But

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if this is supposed to weaken people's resolved, it does not. We

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have been blockaded for the last seven years. We have been deprived

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of all this for the last seven years. Don't talk to me about

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rockets that are so tiny, small. Look at this! Look at this.

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Entire areas of Gaza are being eviscerated. Both sides are under

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pressure to talk. Rumours swirl of possible deals. And all the while,

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the conflict grows. 500 more people sought shelter at

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this school last night. It already houses thousands. One of them was

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born at 5am today. Ibrahim. His new home is a classroom that he

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and his mother share with 80 others. TRANSLATION: After eight years

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waiting for him to come, we are now living here in a school. The more

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they lose, the more they are determined it should be for a

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reason. Our correspondent Jon Donnison

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is in Jerusalem. I want to ask you about public

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opinion on both sides. First, what people in Israel are saying as they

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also watch these pictures. Look, I think the government here has

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overwhelming support. If anything, there is pressure for them not to

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stop. When you look at the opinion polls, I think it is around 80%

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supporting the government operation in Gaza. There is a rally taking

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place in Israel's biggest city, Tel Aviv, this evening, which is urging

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the military to finish the job, as they put it. It is going to be

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interesting to see what the turnout is. We had a peace rally at the

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weekend in Tel Aviv, and that just attracted a few thousand. I suspect

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we could end up with a view more tonight.

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And what about the people of Gaza? Because so many essentials of their

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life are now being dismembered, whether water supplies or power

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supplies. Can we tell whether they still strongly support Hamas?

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Is of course there are people who support Hamas in Gaza, and

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generally, when we have had conflict in the past, I was based in Gaza for

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nearly four years, Hamas gets a short-term boost from the conflict,

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because usually, after each conflict, they try to sell it as a

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victory to them, but it tends not to last too long, and also, when you

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delve a little bit deeper, you do meet a lot of people who say, look,

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this is pointless, it happens every two or three years, they get

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pummelled, and much they don't like what Israel is doing, there are some

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who think Hamas is it upon themselves. -- bringing it upon

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themselves. But in terms of what people are thinking at the moment, I

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would say not only in Gaza but in the West Bank, there is overwhelming

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sympathy with the people of Gaza amongst Palestinians. Thank you very

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much. Fighting is intensifying

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in eastern Ukraine in several of the rebel-held towns and cities

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surrounding the crash site These are the latest pictures

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from Donetsk - one person was killed when this apartment block was hit

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by artillery fire. Ten Ukrainian soldiers and at

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least 22 civilians have reportedly And for a third day, the fighting

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has stopped international investigators from reaching

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the crash site of flight MH17. The EU has announced the toughest

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economic sanctions so far imposed on They'll be put in place almost

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immediately, targetting the defence, finance and oil industries.

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The sanctions include: barring some Russian state-run banks

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from raising funds in European An embargo

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on future arms sales to Russia. Restrictions on the export

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of certain technologies used And adding more names to the list

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of those subjected to travel bans and asset freezes,

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including more members of President Well a little earlier,

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US secretary of State John Kerry gave a news conference in

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which he strongly criticised The Russians and their so-called

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volunteers are continuing to ship arms and funds and personnel

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across the border, we see this, We now have clear evidence

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of artillery and rocket fire, And while the Russians have said

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they want to de-escalate the conflict, their actions have

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not shown a shred of evidence that they really have a desire to end

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the violence and end the bloodshed. Moscow is

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Dimitry Babich, political analyst Moscow is no country likes of

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sanctions, but I think the main problem is that these sanctions are

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pointless. It is not clear what these sanctions

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are meant to achieve. It is obvious that the West and their leaders have

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talked themselves into believing that we have in Ukraine is not a

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civil war, but just a Russian intrusion, so if you pressure Mr

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Putin, the war will stop. But the problem is, it is indeed a Civil

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War. There are some Russian citizens participating, so-called

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volunteers, but it is mainly a war among Ukrainian citizens. So, by

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imposing more and more sanctions on Russia, the West is not going to end

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this war. What John Kerry had to say today was

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that the Russians and their so-called volunteers are continuing

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to ship arms and volunteers across the border. He says the Americans

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have clear evidence of that. The Russians may say they want to

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de-escalation is conflict, John Kerry says, but their actions show

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not a shred of evidence that they want to do so. His point is that

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President Putin could be escalated as, could stop arms going across the

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border, but he is choosing not to. I mean, Mr Kerry made lots of

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statements. It is clear that he is biased on many issues, including,

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for example, the investigation of the disaster that flight. It is not

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clear why the black boxes have not yet been published, the information

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from them. It is not quite clear why the Iranian government has not

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publish the records of the talks between air traffic controllers in

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Ukraine, and the plane. -- the Ukrainian government. So Mr Kerry is

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biased, and I honestly don't believe that you can, for example, stop the

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flow of arms from Pakistan and Afghanistan. In the same way, I

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think it is very difficult to prevent all the Russians who

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sympathise with the people of Ukraine from crossing the border.

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You have seen from the pictures that you have shown, how many people have

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been killed there by bombs, so Russians sympathise with them, very

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much like, for example, the people of the West Bank sympathise with the

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people in Gaza. How much damage to you think these

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sanctions will do to Russia and Russians?

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I think the damage will equal the damage done to the European Union,

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because EU is actually punishing its banks. The banks of the European

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countries will not be able to lend money to Russia and get an

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interest, so I think the losses will be mutual.

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And, of course, they will be felt in a few months, maybe, or if you

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years. Thank you.

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

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An influential cousin of Afghanistan's outgoing

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president, Hamid Karzai, has been killed in a attack in Kabul.

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Hashmat Karzai died when a suicide bomber blew himself up while hugging

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him, on the pretext of greeting for the Muslim festival of Eid.

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Mr Karzai was a prominent member of the election campaign team

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for Ashraf Ghani, one of two presidential candidates in

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England batsman Moeen Ali has been warned not to wear wristbands

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showing support for Gaza during the third Test with India any more.

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The 27-year-old wore bands saying "Free Palestine" and "Save Gaza" on

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International Cricket Council rules state players should not wear

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messages relating to "political, religious or racial activities

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Libya says Italy has offered to help extinguish a huge blaze that has

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engulfed the biggest fuel depot in the capital, Tripoli.

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It's to send seven aircraft and a team of firefighting experts.

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Libyan officials blame clashes between rival militias

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for starting the fire, described as "out of control".

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Most of the 1,200 people evacuated in Northern California,

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where a wildfire destroyed 20 homes, have been told they can safely

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return after a series of steady gains in the firefight.

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In Yosemite National Park, a relentless air assault helped

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limit the spread of flames that had spread through more than six square

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A European Union war crimes prosecutor says that some former

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leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army should face charges of crimes

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against humanity against ethnic Serbs in the wars 15 years ago.

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Clint Williamson has been detailing findings from his investigation,

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including evidence that a number of people were killed to harvest

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From Belgrade, Guy Delauney reports. The Kosovo conflict left the mixed

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judicial legacy. Senior Serbian figures have been prosecuted, and

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some conflict it, for atrocities against ethnic Albanians. But

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justice for ethnic Serbs who suffered has been in short supply.

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That may change. Certain sectors intentionally targeted members of

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the population. That included abductions, sexual violence, forms

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of the new mean treatment, forced displacement of individuals from

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their homes and communities, desecration and destruction of

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churches and other religious sites. In Kosovo's B have been bracing

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themselves for this -- in Kosovo's capital they have been. We hope for

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more clarity, but we understand the process is a complicated, difficult

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one. Again, this is why we remain open for a further cooperation in

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the future. Here in Belgrade people have long will -- long since become

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cynical about international justice. They say that it has not been good

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at holding those who committed crimes against ethnic Serbs to

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account. TRANSLATION: At this point we cannot say definitely whether

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something happened or not. There are suspicions, strong evidence, and

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also evidence of organ trafficking. But we will wait. The forthcoming

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tribunal is likely to cause political turmoil in Kosovo, but in

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the long term it may aid reconciliation in the region of

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April can be convinced that justice -- if people can be convinced that

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justice is possible. In Sierra Leone,

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the country's lead Ebola doctor has become the latest person to die

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in the outbreak that has killed Dr Sheik Umar

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Khan contracted the Ebola virus He has been described

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as a national hero in Sierra Leone. Two airlines

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in the region have now banned flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone

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after a man who flew to Nigeria It has been more than a week since

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the first case of the Ebola virus was recorded. The patient's death

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has raised concerns here about whether the virus could have spread

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to other people. The hospital where he died, in an isolation ward, has

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also been closed temporarily. We have contacted over 30,000 people in

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this area, because anybody and everybody who has contacted this

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person is going to be treated as a suspect. The current outbreak of the

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Ebola virus in West Africa has killed hundreds and the Nigerian

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public is hoping this single case within these borders will be the one

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they won. My concerns is that this is a very densely populated city. I

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am not certain about this state of affairs of our health care system.

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If the top hospitals can... These are the places people will normally

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visit. If they go on strike and we have a situation like this then that

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is a cause for concern. I do not eat anything, I do not have any food

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outside, I sit in my house. I do not know how you can contract the

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disease so I am very much afraid. I do not even like to be talking to

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people. To use these fears the government is advising the public to

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take a cautionary measures against infection. It has also set up

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isolation wards at the country's major airports to keep this deadly

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violence A-star virus from creating an international health crisis. --

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this deadly virus. The former Governor of Alaska

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and 2008 Republican Vice President candidate, Sarah Palin,

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has launched her own news channel. The conservative politician's online

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subscription channel, which costs She says her channel is

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a way to sidestep the mainstream US media and build a community with

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like-minded conservatives. The channel features online video

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chats and a look into life This is a news channel which is much

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more venues. This is a community or we will be able to share ideas and

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discuss the issues of the day, and we will find solutions. Are you

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tired of the media filters? I am, I always have been. So I am going to

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do something about it. NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity has

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broken the record for space travel. The American space agency says that

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it was never meant to drive further than about 800 metres from its

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landing site. It has found evidence of water in Mars and is still

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continuing its work. The previous record was set in 1973 by a Soviet

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Union moon rover. The UK - a place of culture,

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good manners and good humour. That's according to a new study

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by the British Council, who asked 5,000 young people from

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China to Brazil what their opinion But it is important to be balanced,

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of course, so they also asked what 27% of those who answered said they

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thought the British drank too much. Prince Charles wasn't named

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in person, of course. Just under a quarter of people,

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23%, But who doesn't love a fried

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breakfast every now and then? And one in five thought British

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people were too nationalistic. Though that won't stop us cheering

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for home nations at the We felt it was important to conduct

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our own research into this matter. So we took to the streets of London

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to ask what people liked, and didn't I hate the traffic jams. Sometimes

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they do not move. I do not really like the people, I find them quite

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rude. British people are a bit pale. But we're not that different,

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British and Norwegian 's. We found the food a bit challenging

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sometimes. It is often very grey, to wake up in the morning and it is

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grey and cold, it is not a nice way to start the day. The weather is

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pretty bad. Ren?e. Grey and probably the feed as well. They are very good

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at queueing up. It is lovely. Even the GPS said, please do this, please

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make a U-turn. With me is Mark Moulding, a

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spokesman for the British Council. Welcome to world news today. Why did

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you choose the countries that you chose for your survey? These

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countries are very important for the future of the UK on the world stage.

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They are big economies. They are also the big emerging economies as

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well. The UK's green to have a lot to do with those countries in the

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future if we are to be competitive. It is very important to know what

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attracts them to us but also what is pushing them away at the moment. We

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need to impress them. Top of that is culture. What does that mean?

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Culture means a lot of things. We asked people to identify a figure

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that they linked with British culture. Shakespeare came out on

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top. The Queen was in second place, David Beckham was in third place. Mr

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been and the Beatles were in the top ten. I delved the singer, JK

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Rowling. Quite an eclectic mix. We're not pigeonholed into one sort

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of racket, theatre, high culture, anything like that, it is a real

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spread of things that mean a lot of different things to a lot of French

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people. -- to a lot of different people. What are the things that put

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people of Britain? We could be nicer about the weather, because it is

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nice at the moment. Food is the second least attractive feature in

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the eyes of the world, but I think that is probably based on some

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outdated impressions. 1970s stodgy food, that is not the case these

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days. We have a wonderful culinary scene. It has been a long time since

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food has changed around, it has become very multicultural, that

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implies that we are not getting the message out. People are working hard

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to get the message out onto the world stage. I was speaking to a

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manufacturer in Somerset who has been out to China to try to sell

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bear meet over there. That is something we need to do much more

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of. Things like the way that they view as personally. They think that

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we are intolerant of other cultures and ignorant of other cultures and

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countries and I think that there is a lot that we can do there to

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address that. That is political, there is a lot in current political

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debate about migrants, benefits, tourism and health tourism. That

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bleeds into this. Yes, but what a lot of it comes down to is how we

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conduct ourselves as people. We are notoriously bad about speaking

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foreign languages. The stereotype is British people going abroad and

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speaking very slowly in English to make themselves understood. That is

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terrible, that belies an unwillingness to connect with other

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cultures. Learning another language could help to challenge those

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stereotypes. I would like to thank you in Mandarin, but I cannot and I

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am guilty! If you happened to have

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a spare half a million dollars, Would a bottle

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of ketchup be a wise investment? Not just any bottle of ketchup,

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though, As you can tell,

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it doesn't actually hold any It's been standing on the side

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of a road in California next to a former ketchup factory since the

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late 1940s, and now it's for sale. If you did want to fill it up,

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we're told there's room there for Just tamed to remain June of our

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main news. More than 100 Palestinians are said to have been

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killed after Israel recommenced its bombardment of Gaza. The European

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Union has agreed the toughest sanctions so far against Russia over

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its support for rebels in Ukraine. That is all from the programme.

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Thank you very much for being with us on World News Today.

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It has been another pretty hot day across the south-east corner of the

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United Kingdom. More in the way of clade across the south-west. Most

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places she'd be fine and dry. Still

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