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A Russian warplane is shot down by Turkey on the border with Syria.

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The pilots parachuted out but there are conflicting reports

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Turkey says the jet was flying over Turkey's territory. Russia denies

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that. Today's event is a stab in the back

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that has been given to us by accomplices of

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Turkey's president Erdogan said shooting

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down a Russian plane was completely in line with rules of engagement.

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Also coming up, France's prosecutor says the man who

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planned the Paris attacks went back to the scenes of the killings,

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while the siege at the Bataclan concert hall was still underway.

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Could a genetically modified mosquito be the key to stopping

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President Putin has warned that Turkey's shooting down of a Russian

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warplane on the Turkish-Syrian border will have serious

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He described what happened as a "stab in the back" committed

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The Turkish authorities say its fighter planes targetted the

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Russian aircraft after its pilots repeatedly ignored warnings that it

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Moscow insists the plane had always been over Syrian territory.

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The two man crew ejected before the plane came down

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There are still conflicting reports about their fate.

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In a moment, the latest on the Russian response.

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But first, Mark Lowen reports from Istanbul.

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Hit mid air and collapsing into flames.

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A Russian jet plunges through the skies above the Turkey Syria border.

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Downed by a Turkish strike, the plane is consumed by fire.

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It is the cost, says Turkey, of Russia violating its airspace.

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Just visible, the parachutes of the two pilots escaping the crash.

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Russian helicopters were sent in to search for them, but Syrian rebels

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Turkey immediately released an image which it says shows

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The flight path appears to cross Syria's border into Turkey.

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The Turkish Prime Minister insisted his country had simply carried out

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its rules of engagement, and the Russian plane had been

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We have never been a country which had designs against another country.

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But everyone should know that Turkey has the right to respond

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if it airspace is violated, despite repeated warnings.

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This is what everyone feared might happen

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when Russia began military action in Syria.

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That a crowded airspace and rival allegiances could provoke

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This is not just Turkey against Russia.

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Ankara is a vital Nato member and has been military alliance

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The fear is that this could now escalate fast.

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In recent days, Russia has targeted this minority, the Syrian Turkmens.

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A Turkic speaking ethnic group, they have been fighting

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against the Assad regime and are strongly supported by Ankara.

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They say their fighters shot and killed the Russian pilots.

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But the Turkish authorities say that isn't true,

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and that both pilots are alive and they are trying to get to them.

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Like a fireball in the sky, the first time a Russian jet has

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been shot down by a Nato member in over half a century.

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In Syria, this is the heart of Russia's military operation.

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This month, the Russians gave us rare access

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They told us their war on terror was going according to plan.

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But they hadn't planned on Turkey shooting down one of their planes.

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When it came, the Kremlin's reaction was a mixture of disbelief and fury.

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We have been stabbed in the back by the accomplices of terrorism.

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There will be serious consequences for Turkey.

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Vladimir Putin is known for his strong language.

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But it doesn't get much stronger than this.

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Equating Turkey with terrorist, Nato with Islamic State, and

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pledging that Russia would not stand by while such crimes are committed.

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Moscow insists it is air force is operating solely over Syria,

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and that the fighter jets shot down today had not crossed into Turkey.

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But Russian jets have strayed into Turkish airspace before.

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Those violations recorded at Nato's command centre.

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Last month, the alliance accused Moscow of irresponsible behaviour.

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But where does today's incidents leave relations between Russia

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Never for the last... probably 50 years, did we have

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anything as significant in terms of Russia Nato air confrontation,

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Back at Russia's airspace there's a message on this bomb.

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Moscow insists its air strikes are all about destroying international

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terrorism, and that the shooting down of one of its jets

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With me is Olga Ivshina from the BBC's Russian Service.

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Before we talk about Russian reaction, do we have any more detail

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about what happened to the pirates? The destiny of one pilot is now

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known for sure because it has been acknowledged he was killed. We still

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don't know what happened to the second pilot because there are

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conflicting reports over his destiny. He might be captured or he

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might be dead while he was using his parachute. But there is also other

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developments because the Russian minister -- Russian Minister of

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defence acknowledged its lost a Russian helicopter which it sent to

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rescue the men. We've heard fury

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rescue the men. We've also heard talk of

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consequences. We have had We've also heard talk of

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response, the military We've also heard talk of

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been suspended. Are we expecting more?

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There will be a serious response from officials and a serious freeze

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in relations because the Foreign Minister of Russia has cancelled his

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visit to Turkey. The Russian parliament called for the suspension

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of all relations with Turkey. Bearing in mind that this there are

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specific economic ties between Russia and Turkey, there is a

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significant oppressions -- presence of Turkish businessman in Russia. I

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think these areas will be damaged significantly. The Russian tourist

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agency has already urged Russian tourists not to go to Turkey any

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more. Potentially a lot to lose on both

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sides. Before this happened, what revelations like?

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For years, it was close relations. Especially economic link. That was

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very strong. There was a gas pipeline being built. There were a

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lots of minor relations in business, especially in some Muslim regions.

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Turkish business was quite significant. Turkey was the second

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most popular location for Russian tourists for years. Especially

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bearing in mind the situation in Egypt, many were thinking to go to

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Turkey. If there were members of Nato hoping

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to bring Russia closer in the operation against Islamic State

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group, this is a big potential setback.

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This could be a pivotal point in the story and it definitely shows how

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big the price is when there is a lack of corporation between powers.

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Today in Russian media we saw a lot of criticism towards Nato. What is

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interesting is they are criticising everyone except for France. Now we

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know that and the French President is in the United States. France may

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be the peacekeeper that is able to bring everyone together because

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definitely there is a huge need for a co-ordinated action by joint

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forces in order to oppose Isis. Thank you.

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A short time ago I spoke to the BBC's Selin Girit in Istanbul

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and asked her about what's been said in Turkey.

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The Turkish President in the last half an hour was live

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He repeated the earlier statements coming out

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Suggesting that the Russian aeroplane was in clear

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The Prime Minister repeated that and he said everyone had to

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respects Turkey's right to defend its borders.

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So, Turkey is insisting that there was

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This was a claim also repeated by the premise to earlier in the day.

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And they are saying it is Turkish government's duty

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And its territory. Which got a response from the US when Obama said

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Turkey had the right to defend its borders as well. That is the liner

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Turkey is insisting at the moment. There are conflicting reports about

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the fate of the pilots and that will be crucial about how this recent

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crisis will be escalated or de-escalated. The tone of the

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statements coming out from Turkey and Syria will be very crucial as

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well. Putin was taking a hard line approach towards Turkey, serious

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accusations he made. But we haven't seen that kind of hardline rhetoric

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from the mouth of the Turkish President, who is not necessarily

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known for mild attitudes. So, we can observe that. Turkey is trying to

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keep things, at the moment. President Obama met with

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France's President Hollande today After the meeting he spoke

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about the downing of the Russian warplane and about the fight

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against the Islamic State group. Our North America Editor,

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Jon Sopel was there. Barack Obama started by saying that

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of course Turkey has the right to defend its own airspace. But also

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made a plea that this should not escalate any further. But he did say

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that the Russians were taking a risk in operating so close to the Turkish

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border. And that exacerbated the situation. And also making the case

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that they want Russia to be part of the coalition that is fighting

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against Islamic State, but not all the other rebel groups. So, you cant

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help and sense, almost, the level of anxiety that where this could lead

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to next as a reaction by the Turks shooting down that Russian jet. We

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have heard the rhetorical reaction from Moscow. We wait to see what the

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reaction of them might be. More widely, what has President

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Hollande been hoping to achieve? Is he likely to have got it?

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I think he probably has. It was a stepping up of the action that is

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being taken. Not a completely new literary strategy. No one is talking

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about putting tens of thousands of troops on the ground to try to

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retake Raqqa. They are talking about an intensification of the

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bombardment and going after a wider scope of targets, greater

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intelligence sharing. On all of that, Barack Obama and Francois

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Hollande seem to be standing shoulder to shoulder. Hollande will

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not go to see Angela Merkel and tomorrow -- Holland will go and see

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Angela Merkel tomorrow and Vladimir Putin on Friday.

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One line on Reuters to tell you about. A hostage situation is being

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talked about in a northern French town near Belgium. Several with

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gunshot wounds. That is coming from medical services. Just one line

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coming from Reuters about a hostage situation in the northern French

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town near Belgium with several people suffering gunshot wounds. We

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will update you with anything more that comes out. We don't know if

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this is connected to anything we have been feeling in recent days, or

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completely separate. A hostage situation in the north of friends

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near Belgium. Well, as we've been hearing,

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French President Francois Hollande is in Washington trying to build

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support in the fight against In a moment we'll speak to our Paris

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Correspondent, but in the latest development the French interior

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minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, has announced the first round of charges

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to be filed against suspects thought to have been involved

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in the November 13th attacks. He said that since the attacks,

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more than 1,230 searches In those raids,

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police had seized 230 weapons. Although he didn't clarify what

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sort of arms they were, he did He also announced that 124 people

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had been charged, though we are still waiting to hear

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the exact nature of those charges. The BBC's Paris correspondent Hugh

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Schofield can give us the latest. Hearing from the prosecutor a short

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while ago, a number of lines are emerging?

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Not very detailed, but some of it interesting. First of all I pick out

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the fact that one man has been placed under investigation for

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terrorist relating charges. This is the man who rented out the flat in

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Saint Denis to the alleged ringleader of the attack. The flat

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was raided and the alleged ringleader, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was

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killed along with cue others. He was seen on French television on the

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morning of the raid saying I know nothing, I just let the people have

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my flat. The police don't believe him entirely. He has been in custody

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and is now being charged on terrorist offences because the

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police do not believe he could not have known the people were linked to

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the terrorist attacks. There is also an interesting detail about the

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third body found in the raid on the flat. If your member, in the flat in

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Saint Denis were found the remains of the ringleader, his cousin and a

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third person. They now think the third person was one of the gunmen

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at the bars and terraces, the cafes, in that gang that carried out the

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shootings that. They believe this person was an accomplice that works

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with the ringleader on that night. Another further detail, rather grim,

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Abdelhamid Abaaoud it is alleged part in the shootings and then drove

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the car with this accomplice out to a suburb and came back on the Metro

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to the scene of the crime. He arrived back on the Metro and is

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seen on video on the train. He comes back and walks to near the Bataclan

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where he knows that his other team are inside having killed many people

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and waiting for the police to intervene. There seems to be this

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urge to bring him back to the crime and walk among the crowd and see

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what was happening. Thank you, we will leave it there.

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Let's update you on about one line from Reuters that we had about a

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hostage situation in northern France. That is all we have so far.

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It is in the northern French town. There is a hostage situation and

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several people have gunshot wounds. We don't know if that is the

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micro-if there is any -- we don't know if there is any relation to the

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Paris attacks or recent events in Belgium. We will keep you up to

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date. A Pakistani-born man who plotted

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terror attacks across several countries has been

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jailed for 40 years in the US. 29-year-old Abid Naseer

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had been extradited from the UK. He'd plotted to bomb

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Manchester's Arndale Centre here Other planned targets were the

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New York subway system and We are getting reports from Tunisia

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that an explosion has hit a bus carrying presidential guards

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in the capital, Tunis. An interior ministry spokesman

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has been quoted saying at least 12 people had been killed and more

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than a dozen others wounded. The cause of the blast was

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not immediately clear. Bed nets, repellent, insecticides -

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massive resources and intensive effort go into trying to ward off

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the mosquitos that carry malaria. But what about going to the problem

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at source - what if you could take Scientists in the US say they've

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done just that - breeding a genetically modified mosquito

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that can resist malaria infection. We'll talk to an expert

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on this life-threatening disease in a moment, but first just a reminder

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of how many of us this affects. About 3.2 billion people, almost

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half of the world's population, The disease kills

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around 580,000 people a year. Young children, pregnant women

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and non-immune travellers from malaria-free areas are particularly

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vulnerable to the disease. Malaria is preventable and curable,

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and increased efforts are dramatically reducing

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the malaria burden in many places. Between 2000 and 2015, malaria

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incidence fell by 37% globally. Sub-Saharan Africa carries

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a disproportionately high share In 2015, the region was home to 89%

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of malaria cases and 91% I have been speaking to a biologist

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at the malaria research Institute in Baltimore. He explains why this

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development is so significant. It's a proof of principle study of a

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technology that can be used to spread malaria resistance genes in

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Muskie to populations. Thereby, that the mosque eateries that are capable

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of committing -- capable of transmitting malaria. This is a self

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propagating systems that can propagate itself on its own. And

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thereby protect a large number of people from infections.

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So, by self propagating you mean once you have done this to a

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mosquito its offspring are then free of malaria?

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That's right, the offspring become free of malaria and the offspring of

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those offspring become free of malaria. The beauty is it is self

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propagating. It will protect the entire human population without any

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participation. People will not have to use drugs or bed nets or make any

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changes in their lifestyle, really. It's only been tested in the lab.

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How far away are we from putting this into practice in the real

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world? It will take a few more years for

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that. The system needs to be refined. The genetic drive system

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that Doctor James and his co-workers presented in a recent paper, but

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also the resistant genes that are propelled by this genetic drive

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system have to be refined and optimised. It is very important that

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the first trials will be successful. Are there any drawbacks? Is there

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any thing that worries you about what the process has to face further

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down the line? Not really. There is really no

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scenario I can think of that would lead to any adverse effects in terms

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of the populations that live in the areas where these mosquitos will be

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used. The only possible adverse will be that the parasite will develop

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resistance to the genes we are spreading in the mosquito

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population. Then we would have to think of another strategy of

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blocking the parasite and that is the same thing that happens with

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drugs, for example. There must be millions of people

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looking at this research with such great hope that it could be a

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permanent breakthrough in the fight against malaria. Could it mean the

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end of the disease entirely? I don't think it could mean the end

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of the disease on its own. This strategy will not work on its own.

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Like all malaria control strategies, it will work better in certain

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areas. It will have to be combined with other new or existing malaria

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control strategies such as the use of bed nets, insecticides or drugs.

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The war against malaria cannot be won with a single weapon like this,

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but like any war one would have to use multiple weapons to attack this

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terrible disease. The American actor Patricia Arquette

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highlighted the problem of sexism in Hollywood when she called for pay

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equality in her Oscar acceptance She discusses what happened

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afterwards. So, we happened to get all

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of this data out of that that had to It also revealed that other

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departments, Editors and sound mixers and all

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kinds of different things where And I've talked to many agents,

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managers, lawyers in the business and they all

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say, well, we always know they don't You always know that are not going

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to budget as much After my speech,

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I went somewhere and a sound mixer "My boss called me in

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and gave me a raise the next day. "I'd been making so much less than

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my male co-workers for so long." Now, if women take action, the

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company has to prove that they were Meaning they have to say to the

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woman, no, we paid you less because you don't have a diploma or you sell

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less of this product or you've They have to show

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a tangible reason why they can pay this woman less than her white male

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counterpoint in the same job. We will leave that there to update

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you on the breaking news we have had in the last few minutes. In the last

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few minutes, that hostage situation in the northern French town near

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Belgium, about one hour west of Brussels, there are some pictures

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emerging of the scene but very few details. All we know via Warner news

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agency, Reuters, is that medical services there are staying several

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people have gone wins in that hostage situation in northern

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France. We don't know if it was linked to what we have seen in the

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Paris attacks. We will keep you updated here on World News Today.

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Eastern areas will have much more in the way of sunshine compared with

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today, but it will be chilly at

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