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This is BBC World News Today, broadcasting in the UK

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Police in Cologne use water cannon against right-wing activists,

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protesting against migrants following a wave of crime

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A convoy due to deliver aid to thousands trapped in the Syrian

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Back behind bars - one of Mexico's most notorious drug

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barons is recaptured after six months on the run.

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We meet the woman who's recreated a ground-breaking journey -

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half way around the world in this vintage biplane.

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Police in the German city of Cologne have fired tear gas and water cannon

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to disperse supporters of the far-right Pegida movement.

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The protest was organised following a wave

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of attacks carried out in the city on New Year's Eve by gangs of men -

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Pegida opposes Germany's open-door policy for refugees and had

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organised this rally near Cologne's main railway station.

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But it was faced by a much larger counter demonstration.

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Our correspondent Anna Holligan was there.

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Dramatic scenes as they please try to contain these protesters, it was

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very tense, things have quietened down bow, here in Cologne. The riot

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police have contained the hundreds of right wing the Guido Pella test

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is inside Cologne station -- right wing Pegida protesters. They have

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now been dispersed onto the platforms and they are the input

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onto trains out of here. -- they are being put onto trains. There are

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police dog said. This is an effort to make sure that there is no more

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violence following those attacks on New Year's Eve -- there are police

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dogs here. The police faced huge amounts of criticism for their

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failure to protect the women who work here and who were assaulted --

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who were. Melanie Dittmer is a Pegida activist

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who took part in the rally today - We were demonstrating on the street.

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For the rights of German women on the streets. The police then started

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to riot. They gave us some water. It was a very bad situation for us, the

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demonstration stopped and we had to go back to the station and now the

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event is over. Many people were getting hurt by the police they also

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kicked old people on the ground. They had to gas in their eyes. The

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group separated -- they had to gas. We were not in front of the

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left-wing activists, but the police stopped the demonstration illegally.

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We had a big problem today on the street. It is not democracy in

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Germany. It is a policy. Aid agencies now say they expect

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to start delivering food and medicine to a handful

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of besieged Syrian towns and villages on Monday,

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a day later than first hoped. They include Madaya -

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a rebel-held town near the Lebanese border, where 40,000

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people are trapped - and where there have been reports

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of people starving to death. The International Red Cross

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and the UN World Food Programme are preparing convoys with enough

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supplies to last a month. Jim Muir's been monitoring

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developments from the Lebanese It is always a tricky business,

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because when you take in aid in these conditions you have to cross

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battle lines which have been there for months and people have been

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killed on both sides and it's a tough thing to negotiate, and there

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are different factions on the ground. Not just the government

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against one scene, there is a group of different factions and the rebel

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side and on the government side, and so it needs everybody to say yes,

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not just at a political level, but all the way down the chain of

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command to individual groups and adjust individual people on the

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ground. Everybody has got to be in accord for this to happen, because

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you cannot put the lives of aid workers and relief workers at risk

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why throwing them into an unknown situation, so there is a lot of

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negotiating and many lines have to be cleared. It seems there might

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have been an insistence that rather than the delivery to Madaya going

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ahead on Sunday as planned followed by a delivery to the two government

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held villages on Monday, there might have been an insistence that that

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should happen simultaneously and that is in effect what will happen

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if they go ahead on Monday which seems to be the plan.

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Ammar Ghanem is a Syrian-American doctor who grew up in

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He's been in regular contact with friends and family trapped

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there - and he joins us now from Indiana.

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What are friends and family telling you about the conditions in Madaya?

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The conditions are miserable and they are telling us that whatever

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they are describing, it will be hard for us to imagine the situation.

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They need food to eat, the children have no milk, no drink, and the

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situation is miserable, and people are starting to eat grass and leaves

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and eating cat meat and dog meat, the situation is measurable. The aid

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convoys are not going to go into day as first type, they will go in on

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Monday, but that will not come as good news to the people there. I

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don't know where the delay is coming from. We want everybody to be safe,

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and we know the roads have got to be clear. Madaya is on the border

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between Lebanon and Syria, and that area is fully controlled by the

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regime, and so there is only one side controlling that area. It is 30

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miles from Madaya to the Lebanese border, and every day we are seeing

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more deaths and more suffering for the people there. A small charity

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was able to get into Madaya, distributing small amounts of food,

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why has it taken so long for the big aid organisations to get into

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Madaya? That is what I don't understand. This is not a new issue,

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it has been like this for the last six months, and I don't know where

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the delay is coming from. The other thing we worry about, the

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possibility of deliveries without a long-term solution, we are asking to

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lift the siege completely, and we are asking them to allow

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humanitarian aid and medicine and we are asking for freedom for people to

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move in and out, and we are aware that they are lacking any medical

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care to give them the care they need. We want a solution long-term,

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not just Madaya, there are many other suffering areas. A suburb of

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Damascus, there are many other areas of Syria. We are counting on the

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international humanity. Thanks for joining us.

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Six months after he escaped from a maximum security prison,

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the notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman -

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known as "El Chapo" or "Shorty" has been recaptured.

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But he's already escaped Mexican authorities twice.

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So unsurprisingly there are questions about how they'll keep

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El Chapo in their grasp this time - with speculation over possible

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This will be a hot political potato, because this is the biggest and most

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notorious criminal in Mexico and there will be an issue of

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sovereignty, and they might want to try him in Mexico. The US requested

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extradition for him to and half weeks before he disappeared last

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July, and they might be keeping up the efforts to extradite him once

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again, given that he faces charges in the US. The issue comes down to

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security, he has disappeared from a high security prison, two different

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ones, and last night he went back to the high security prison which she

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disappeared from last alike, there are limited places where he can go

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-- which he disappeared from last year. Given that he has escaped

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before, what measures are being put in place so that the Mexican

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authorities are not embarrassed again? Nobody has come forth to say

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what extra measures, and ultimately he escaped from the top security

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prison which is just outside Mexico City, he was in a secure wing, as

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well. The issue is not so much about the security, but the collaboration

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with people inside. Many people left and moved on, when he escaped last

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July, and so the hope is the new people will be less corrupt, that is

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the issue. Last alike, the government look stupid at best an

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institutionally corrupt at worst, and very few people believe that he

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could have built a tunnel a mile long without inside help and without

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anybody knowing, and so the issue is the security within the jail, making

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sure the people looking after him are on the side of the authorities

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as opposed to on the side of Joaquin Guzman.

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Tens of thousands of people in Poland have taken part in rallies

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across 19 cities in protest against the new right-wing

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government's moves to take control of public broadcasting.

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A new law allowed the government to install new management teams

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on Friday in the public TV and radio companies.

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The reform has raised concern in Brussels

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and the European Commission is to debate the rule of law

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In Warsaw, 7000 -- several thousand people gathered, shouting freedom of

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speech, and there were many other rallies across the country, some

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were waving flags in response to the government's Eurosceptic stance, and

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many are worried that the public television bubble gum a mouthpiece

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for the government's right wing views. -- public television will

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become a mouthpiece. TRANSLATION: We are worried about half-truths and

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distorted stories and so on. The government has justified the move,

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saying the public media was biased against it, and the Foreign Minister

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said the broadcasters had been promoting leftist values, such as

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cycling, vegetarianism and renewable energy. The governing Law and

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Justice party says it won a mandate for rapid reform in the recent

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elections, and it has moved swiftly to increase its control of state

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institutions including the civil service. It has neutralised the

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Constitutional Court to strike down legislation, and those reforms have

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brought tens of thousands of people onto the streets on three occasions

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in the past month. It has caused concern in Brussels, as well.

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European Commission is starting a review of the rule of law in Poland,

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which in theory at least could lead to sanctions.

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Stay with us on BBC News, still to come:

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Fighting for equal pay - why it's male models who find

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themselves at a disadvantage in the fashion industry.

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Police in Ghana have arrested the boyfriend of former TV actress

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Her body was found at their family home in on Tuesday, along

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These are said to be pictures showing the arrest of Arthur

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Simpson-Kent in a southern city in Ghana.

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Scotland Yard would only say that they been made aware

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of an arrest but could not discuss it further.

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The bodies of Sian Blake and her two children were found

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buried in her back garden in south east London after police sniffer

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Police said all three had died as a result of head

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43-year-old Sian Blake had appeared in over 50 episodes of Eastenders

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Eight year old Zachary was the son of her former partner,

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Arthur Simpson-Kent, so was Amon, on the right.

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Police in Cologne have fired water canon, as rival groups stage

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protests over a wave of sex attacks and robberies on New Year's Eve.

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Aid agencies are preparing to deliver food supplies

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to the besieged Syrian town of Madaya on Monday.

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At least three foreign tourists have been injured by suspected militants

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at a hotel in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada.

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It's the second attack on holidaymakers in Egypt

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Last October, a plane carrying Russian tourists exploded over

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Egypt's interior ministry says one of the attackers was shot

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dead by police at the Bella Vista hotel in Hurghada.

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Two Austrian guests and a Swedish national were among those

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The BBC's James Reynolds reports from Hurghada.

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These are the moments after the attack at the Bella Vista

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Two men, each carrying knives, stormed into the hotel restaurant

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and began attacking tourists at their tables.

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This 27 year old man from Gothenberg told me

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that he was stabbed in front of his father.

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All of a sudden I can feel a man coming here and he is stabbing me

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here, and I think he was aiming for my heart, but I put my hands up

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so then he sliced me here on the left side of the neck.

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I stand up and I'm in shock, so they yelled to us,

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The attackers made it into the hotel lobby.

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Minutes later security forces arrived and shot them.

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This is the black Isis flag the assailants had with them.

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Inside the restaurant, Sammie was left lying on the ground.

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It is bleeding so much, so I'm thinking, I am going to die.

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To the relief of his father, a passer-by drove him to hospital.

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Sammie is now almost well enough to go back to Sweden.

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He says that he will visit Egypt again.

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After three months, 23 countries, and 13,000 miles,

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a British pilot has landed in Sydney completing her journey from Britain

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Tracey Curtis-Taylor was recreating the route taken by Amy Johnson,

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the first woman to do the trip solo back in 1930.

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Our Sydney Correspondent Jon Donnison was there when

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The end of an aviation and see, half a world away, Tracey Curtis-Taylor,

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self-declared bird in a biplane, back on terra firma -- aviation

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odyssey. Articles include confidence, her first priority, a

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drink -- after crossing three continents. I cannot believe this,

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they said I was in parallel with a Boeing, and Air France, I thought,

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awesome. In three months of flying, she covered more than 14,000 miles,

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took in 23 countries and had to stop to refuel 50 times. She literally

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saw the world, from the dead Sea in the Middle East, to the temples of

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Asia. Tracey Tim on was emulating one of her heroines, it was 19 gait

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1930 when Amy Johnson became the first woman to fly solo from the UK

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to Australia -- Tracey Curtis-Taylor. The plane was not

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dissimilar to one of those used years ago, this was built in 1942,

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300 horsepower, and a cruising speed of just 90 mph, open cockpit and

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stayed with the old stick and rather. -- steered. It will soon be

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taking to this guy again, Tracey plans to fly across the United

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States -- to the skies again. And now we have all the sport. We

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will start with the third round of the FA Cup, the only non-league side

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left in the competition made it into the fourth round, Eastleigh earned

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themselves a replay after they drew 1-1 with Bolton. Wycombe Wanderers

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drew 1-1 with Premier League opponents Aston Villa. If we had one

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we would be in the next round, but the performance outweighed that,

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even getting that goal, they deserved to be in the hat and we are

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there as a team -- if we had won. Credit to them, at the end, we are

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in the conference, they are in the Championship, three divisions above

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are scum and they showed that, -- three divisions above, and they

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showed that. Tactics don't win this, it is personnel and desire and heart

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and the culture of being a Wycombe Wanderers player, nothing was left

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on the bench, it was a thoroughly deserved draw, I thought. It was a

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good day for some of the big teams, as well, defending holders Arsenal

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beat Sunderland. Manchester United, far from their

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beds, still managed to make it through, beating Sheffield United --

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best. We could have played better, especially in the first half,

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because I don't think that we have moved the ball very quickly and you

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need that when you play against an organisation with ten players behind

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the ball. We did not do that. A few surprise results in the fourth round

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of the Scottish cup, the big shock Annan Athletic from League 2

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knocking out premiership opponents Hamilton 4-1.

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Motherwell were comfortable winners over Cove Rangers from the Highland

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League. Singer Dean Zidane has taken charge

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of his first match since being appointed the first-team coach at

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Real Madrid and he has overseen a comfortable victory, largely thanks

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to a Gareth Bale hat-trick. That result leaves them in third place in

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La Liga. European Rugby Championship cup matches postponed after the

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Paris attacks are being held this weekend with two in the French

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capital. Glasgow were well beaten by Racing 92 two, and in the other

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game, Stade Francais welcomed monster and the home side were

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victorious. -- monster. There was last-minute drama in the match

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involving Leicester and Northampton, the home side just edging it.

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Saracens are still top, even though they lost, and Exeter, in second,

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won. Mo Farah has failed to win his first race of the year, he was

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competing over eight kilometres in Edinburgh. It was a cross-country

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event. He finished second behind the American Gareth Heath. Mo Farah was

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hampered by the deep mud. That is all the sport for now.

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It's not unusual to hear calls for the gender pay gap to be closed,

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but it's normally women who are getting less money than men.

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But in the British fashion industry - female models can often earn

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double the amount that male models do.

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When it comes to the talk about equal pay in the workplace, it is

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normally about women being paid less than a man. But in the world of

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fashion, the very opposite is true. I think it will take people standing

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up to say the rates are different, but the men are doing the same

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thing, to do these shoots, although the men do not take as long to get

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ready, but the models will be called to the shoot at the same time and it

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will be the same usage for the male model and the female model so there

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is no reason why it they should be paid less. Female models entering

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the industry can make more than double what a male model can. Mason

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has just been modelling for a year, and he has found this out. Some of

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those I've spoken to have been annoyed about it, but the majority

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have been, we get this much, and we say, we only get this much were

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doing the same, and theirs is like 25% more. Roughly around that

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figure. Hundreds of male models will be strutting their stuff at the

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Fashion Week this weekend, but this does extend to catalogues and TV

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adverts and magazine advertising. It does not matter if you are a new

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face on the runway or you are a name at the top of the game. No model has

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ever addressed the issue, often you are passive and you are happy to be

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paid to be yourself, anyway. It was not get to the point where someone

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put their foot down. I think I might do that. We need a quality. If

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people banded together there will be a change. The British fashion

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Council says it provides counselling for model rates to design is based

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on the size of their business, and even though it is not get involved

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and the bookings process it does encourage everyone in the business

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to pay everyone the same. High-profile models good make a

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stand -- could make a stand against equal pay. Slowly but surely, change

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is coming, the male fashion industry is worth ?14 billion a year, and as

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more men go out and buy clothes the industry should eventually catch up

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with the ladies in terms of equal pay.

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Star Wars The Force Awakens has already broken box office records,

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and I can add China to the list, it sold 33 million million tickets, the

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biggest ever opening day in China, the second largest film market. That

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is it from the programme. Thanks for being with

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