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Another humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza collapses, just hours

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Israel and Hamas blame each other for breaking the truce,

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Over 50 Palestinians have died in the past few hours.

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An Israeli soldier is also believed to have been seized

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His father has called for his return.

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We are certainly army will not stop under any circumstances, or leave

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any stone unturned and will bring him back safe and sound.

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The World Heath Organisation warns of a potential catastrophe, as

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West Africa's ebola outbreak spreads too quickly to be controlled.

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The race to unlock thousands of genetic codes

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and transform the treatment of rare diseases and cancers.

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And a first hand look at life in the trenches, as we mark

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the centenary of the start of the First World War, the pictures

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and papers of one of the best known British war poets go on line.

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It was meant to last three days, but the humanitarian ceasefire

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in Gaza collapsed, just hours after it began,

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It followed a heavy exchange of fire, in the southern city of Rafah,

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where at least 53 Palestinians were killed and 200 wounded.

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Two Israeli soldiers have been killed and one is

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The last soldier seized by Palestinian militants in 2006, Gilad

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Out correspondent Jon Donnison reports from Gaza City.

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This morning, at last, some hope in Gaza. They were born on the eve

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This morning, at last, some hope in supposed cease-fire, quadruplets. A

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combined weight of seven kilos. supposed cease-fire, quadruplets. A

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that she went through five years of failed IVF treatment and that at

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last, in these difficult times, failed IVF treatment and that at

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has some happy news. We hope failed IVF treatment and that at

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we have to take a risk after this disaster in Gaza Strip. But what

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kind of life awaits these children? One-day-old and born into this

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world. This is what is left of this area on the boundary with Israel. It

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has been pounded for more than three weeks. By mid-morning, as word of

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the cease-fire was spreading, it sprang back into life. The UN said

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more than a quarter of the population of Gaza has been

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displaced. Food, water and power are in short supply. People are using

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this brief lull in the fighting to return to their homes, and many are

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finding them completely flattened. They are picking up what they can

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and heading to seek shelter. All the while there is a stench of dead

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bodies, still trapped under the rubble. But the cease-fire was over

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almost as soon as it had started. More Israeli

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almost as soon as it had started. Palestinian rockets. At

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almost as soon as it had started. Palestinians were killed today and

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many more wounded. And then from Rafah in the south of Gaza, the news

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that would see this Rafah in the south of Gaza, the news

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even further. An Israeli soldier suspected to have been captured

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alive by Hamas fighters after crossing the border through a

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tunnel. Israel said one fighter detonated a suicide belt as he

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emerged from underground. Two soldiers were killed and a

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23-year-old was dragged back into Gaza. TRANSLATION: We want to

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support the army and the state of Israel in the fight against Hamas

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and we are certain that the army will not stop and will not leave a

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and we are certain that the army stone unturned in strip and will

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bring him back home safe and sound. Hamas will see this as a dig resort.

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It took more than five years to free the last soldier captured, Gilad

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Shalit. Israel has said it will respond with crushing force. People

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in Gaza are preparing for this tiny strip of land to be hammered.

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STUDIO: The war of words and blame for who

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is responsible for breaking the Earlier I spoke top the Israeli

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government spokesman Mark Regev, ceasefire has intensified today. We

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were not conducting any offensive operations whatsoever against Hamas

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in Gaza. There was an unprovoked attack on the soldiers. Two of our

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soldiers were killed and others injured and I am afraid one seems to

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have been kidnapped. By breaking this cease-fire, they killed

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Israelis, not only slammed the door shut on diplomatic solutions, but

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they have unfortunately destroyed the chance for the people of Gaza

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receiving the humanitarian help that they need. There was supposed to be

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a three-day period of cease-fire, to allow the people of Gaza to get that

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humanitarian support they needed. And this shows what Hamas thinks

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about the people of Gaza and what their agenda is.

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But Palestinian spokeman Husam Zomlot says the Israeli

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action targets civilians and is not directed solely

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This is not against Hamas. It is against the entire Palestinian

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people. It did not start in Gaza. It started here. We have got no rockets

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on the West Bank. Yet Israel kills every day. Including today! And

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therefore we have two do today... He is engaged, Binyamin Netanyahu in

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the liquidation of everything. Our children, are women, how electricity

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and even powered humanity. We need to stop him from spreading venom, as

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if we want our children to die. No, for 70 years we have been fighting

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for life! The head of the

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World Health Organisation has said the Ebola outbreak

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in West Africa is moving faster than Margaret Chan was speaking in

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Guinea, of the West African countries that

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have been affected. The WHO has announced $100 million

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initiative to tackle the outbreak, which has killed more than seven

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hundred people in Guinea, Dr Oliver Johnson is in

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Sierra Leone, where a public health He spoke to us from just outside

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the Ebola Isolation unit Dr Oliver Johnson. And we are joined

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now from Geneva. A $100 million programme but what will it be spent

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on? We need extra doctors, nurses and experts in communications in

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order to get the patients getting into the health facilities, many

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people are not coming into health facilities at all and staying in

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their communities. They need to change the transmission

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arrangement. They are preparing neighbouring countries to be ready

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to detect outbreaks and treat people in the country that are infected.

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These are some of the key measures we are trying to address. This is a

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$100 million programme support. And a big information campaign as well.

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People are getting infected by preparing bodies for burial. This is

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right. An information campaign is informing people that are preparing

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the bodies of people that have passed away through this illness and

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this is key. Some people might have family members at home that are

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infected and they have to get to hospital. That makes it possible

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otherwise for transmission to continue. The earlier they can get

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to health facilities the better. The better chance we have got of

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stopping the transmission of the outbreak. How big a threat is Ebola

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internationally? Some people say that it is not that fatal compared

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to other major illnesses and maybe you are overreacting. The

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transmission of this disease is very difficult to come by. It is people

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to people. Not airborne. To come into contact, you have to be

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touching, in contact with probably the fluid of people infected. The

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blood, the sweat, even the bile in some cases. It is hard to be

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infected. But at the same time there is a lot of concern about this

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virus. Because of everything associated with it, people are not

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coming forward. It is causing a lot of concern. And people need to be

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aware that this outbreak can be controlled. An intensified effort is

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needed with the help start available in these countries to turn that

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outbreak around, and more are needed. Thank you very much for

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joining us on the programme. Now a look at some

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of the days other news. Uganda's Constitutional Court has

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overturned a controversial anti-homosexuality

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act, which strengthened penalties The judge said the law was null

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and void, as it had been passed in parliament

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without the necessary quorum. The law was heavily criticised

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by human rights groups. Several countries

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including the United States cut aid A team of about 60 Dutch

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and Australian forensic experts have started to search the crash

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site of the downed Malaysian The remains of at least eighty

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people are unaccounted for, The team has struggled to get access

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to the site all week, due to security concerns over

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fighting in the area. with the mass media regulator

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and conform to Internet companies will also be

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required to allow Russian More than 1,000 veterans are taking

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part in events in Poland to mark the 70th

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anniversary of the failed Warsaw Uprising against German occupation

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during the Second World War. An estimated 180,000 civilians

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and 18,000 Polish resistance Gas explosions in Taiwan have

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injured almost Gas explosions in Taiwan have

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60. It tore into a southern city in the early hours of the morning.

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60. It tore into a southern city in from the explosions and it is

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startling. It four of the streets. In this densely

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startling. It four of the streets. neighbourhood, the area affected

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covers one square, to. -- one square kilometre. Many vehicles were turned

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upside down, including a fire engine responding to reports of a possible

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gas leak. Five fire-fighters were among the people killed. The

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explosions occurred just before midnight, sparking several fires.

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explosions occurred just before Most of the people killed, or

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injured were on the street and the time. Some came out because they

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smelt a strong odour. Others were just passing through on their way

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home. Many of the survivors were still in shock. The windows of homes

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and businesses were completely shattered. This lady said the

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explosion was so powerful it knocked her off her chair. This man said he

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and others tried to clear the rubbish from the streets to make way

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for the ambulances and fire trucks but he was told to leave because it

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was not safe. Kaohsiung is now the centre of a's at a chemical

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industry. The offer suspect the main cause of the last is a chemical leak

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from one of the many pipelines belonging to petrochemical

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companies. As excavators work to clear the streets, hazardous

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materials specialists try to detect for unsafe levels of chemicals. Many

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residents are worried. With many petrol companies' pipelines believed

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to run under the city streets and some of them believed to be

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decades-old, they fear more explosions could occur.

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Here in the UK, a pioneering project which aims to revolutionise

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The aim is to map 100,000 complete DNA codes in the hope

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of better understanding and combating cancer and rare diseases.

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The British Government wants the country to be a world leader

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If you look at the whole population, one in 17 as a rare

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disease which is little understood. For them and thousands more

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diagnosed with cancer every year, the announcement could pave the way

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for a much better understanding of their condition and how they might

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be treated. A major new investment at the centre near Cambridge will

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hold the key. Mapping one patient's genetic structure used to take

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years, now at labs like this it is done in days and that will

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revolutionise some areas of medicine. This is about a national

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reservoir of data that will make this country and the NHS the leader

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in designing the drugs or tomorrow. The genome is an individual's

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personal genetic code, mapped from DNA samples taken from blood or

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tissue, using the genome and comparing it with other members of

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their family may indicate whether a condition is hereditary. For

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patients of cancer, healthy and tumour cells can be compared.

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Long-term, that could help doctors decide which new drugs might work

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best. The process has provided peace of mind to this woman, who has a

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serious condition affecting her blood pressure. After tests, she now

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knows her daughters have not inherited it. For me, it was a, and

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for my family, to know whether I might pass it on to my children. My

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girls are 19 and 21. They were keen to know that I carried the gene for

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it. There is clearly great excitement in the scientific

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community about the work going on here. But patients will want to be

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assured that the personal genetic data is stored securely and is not

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potentially available for outside martial interests. Where will the

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data go? Will the patients have to trust those decisions or well they

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know? Will be no dead data is being used to cure this type of cancer and

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that type of hereditary disease? Project chiefs said the data will be

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made only two accredited medical researchers and not insurance

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companies, but they have been urged to make clear to patients who will

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see the data and what it will be used for.

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The diaries of one of Britain's most famous war poets, Siegfried Sassoon,

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provide an intimate insight into life in the trenches

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Now for the first time, thousands of his personal papers, some still

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bearing mud from the Somme, have been digitised and put online

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The project has been launched to coincide with the 100th anniversary

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John Mills is in as expert on the works of Sassoon

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and catalogued the archive when the university bought it in 2009.

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I was looking through today, it is just stunning. You feel so close to

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Sassoon and the moments when he was writing all this down. That's right,

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the virtue of a digitised project is that it gives us images of the pages

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themselves. So we are not reading a printed version, we're looking at

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high-definition photographs. You can zoom in on them. Sassoon was writing

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in very small journals, which he had to keep his writing in. Sometimes,

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he would write in pencil and then rub out and go over it in ink. With

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these images, you can examine the writing even more closely. What did

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you learn, that was new about Siegfried Sassoon? From handling the

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original documents, you learn that they show how he combined his roles

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as soldier and poet, because he was a creative artist, first and

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foremost a writer, he had been writing before the war, and his

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life's work was to turn his experience into words. But he was

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also in charge of men in battle. So he had to combine those roles and

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with the journals, you get extra of different types of writing. You have

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one page a diary entry, you turn the page and you have the first draft of

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the poem perhaps dealing with the same experience as the diary. The

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about. Turn the page again and you get a list of his troops. Although

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he used his diaries from both ends, and you cannot be sure that there is

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a sequential in time between one page or another, the variety of

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material shows you how he experienced the war as it was coming

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past him. I was interested to see that the first draft of one of his

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most famous poems and what he chose to take out of that before it was

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published. It is a fascinating one, from a volume that was given to

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him, he was using it to write fair copies of his poems. He would write

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it out in his best handwriting in that book. With that page, you see

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four mines which he has scored through heavily and put in the

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margin, cut this out. It makes the poem more effective because

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margin, cut this out. It makes the two lines of the published version,

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you are too young to fall asleep forever, it is a powerful. The lines

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he has cut out are really rather poetically ineffective

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he has cut out are really rather excising them, he has come

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he has cut out are really rather better piece of work. Although

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sometimes when we talk about Sassoon taking things out of his poems, we

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think taking things out of his poems, we

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censorship, but in fact like any other creative artist, he

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censorship, but in fact like any to make as good a piece of work as

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he can. I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in

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and the death toll continues to mount.

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For more, we can now cross to Lord Levy,

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America could end this now, why isn't it?

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America could end this now, why entrenched. Israel's anxiety has

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been deepened, a soldier being kidnapped, more rockets, more

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tunnels they had discovered, that they really didn't know where they

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are. -- that they didn't know about. And the people are

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traumatised. Europol... If I may, please. A Palestinian people who are

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also traumatised, and where there is just death, families being wiped

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out, children, women, the whole situation is such today, that with

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the cease-fire being in operation for such a short period of time,

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somehow, the flames have to be calmed down. This situation has to

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be stopped. And the patrons of both sides need to come in and help to

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calm the situation down. Are you appalled by the civilian

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casualties? I cannot hear you, I am sorry. Are you appalled by the

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civilian version of these? If you were acting for Tony Blair, would

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you be putting pressure on the Israeli authorities not to use such

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blunt force in such heavily populated areas? OK. I am appalled

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by war. I am appalled by rockets being fired. I am appalled by

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tunnels being built in order that they can in full trait and kill

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people. -- infiltrate. I am appalled by hatred, by the want to destroy

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and kill other people. I am also appalled by the death of the -- on

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the Palestinian side, young children not given the opportunity of life.

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Families being wiped out. This is also horrendous. I am appalled by

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the hatred and the vitriol and the desire, somehow, that death can be

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just so easy. Why is Hamas so hell-bent on destruction of Israel?

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Why does Israel have to go in and do what it is doing? It is because both

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sides need to find a way forward, out of this chaos. Israel has to

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have security, and its people feel that they are not good to have

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neighbours around them who want their destruction is --

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destruction, and the Palestinian people absolutely must believe that

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they have a way forward and their result for them. One more question,

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if I may. Where is the man who appointed you, Tony Blair, is he in

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the region? Is he trying to broker some sort of cease-fire? I spoke to

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Tony on Thursday and I spoke to him in Jerusalem. But let me just say

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this, I was his envoy for nine years. What he does, he does. And I

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hope he does it well. What I do, I do, and I hope I do that well. So,

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it is not for me to decide what Tony Blair now does or does not do. He

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does not spend a great deal of time in the region with all those other

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interests, does he? I do not keep his diary, nor do I have any idea of

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where he spends his time. Thank you very much for joining us.

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That is our main story. The cease-fire which was brokered

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between Hamas and Israel which was meant to last three days broke up in

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just five hours. This is Beit Hanoun on the border, completely

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devastated. More from us in a moment.

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