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This is BBC World News Today with me, Tim Willcox.

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World powers agree to push for a temporary halt to the fighting

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in Syria to relieve besieged towns, but President Assad says his forces

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Pope meets Patriarch - the heads of the Roman Catholic

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and the Russian Orthodox churches are to hold their first talks

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Also coming up: The paedophiles using secret groups on Facebook

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Facebook promises to investigate - the Children's Commissioner

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for England says the company needs to do more to protect the young.

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From what we have shown you, are they doing enough? If these are run

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Facebook today, then, no. If these are run Facebook

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today, then, no. The Japanese MP behind a national

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debate about paternity leave resigns after having an affair

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while his wife was pregnant. Russian warplanes have been

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in action over Syria again today, just hours after major powers agreed

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on a pause in fighting. Officially, the so-called cessation

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of hostilities is due to begin in a week's time, but the UN says

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aid deliveries to some besieged areas inside Syria could

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begin within 24 hours. The agreement, reached in Germany,

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came shortly after President Bashar al Assad said he intends to fight

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on until he's brought the whole Our Chief International

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Correspondent, Lyse Doucet, reports. The anguish of Aleppo,

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Syria's biggest, once beautiful, This month, tens of thousands

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are fleeing Russia's bombing there. Moscow says it is striking

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terrorists, the so-called The West says it is mainly

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bolstering the Syrian military But now, in Munich, in the early

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hours, the world's most powerful diplomats emerged to say they had

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finally agreed a truce We have agreed to implement and

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nationwide cessation of hostilities, to begin in the target of one week's

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time. It is ambitious, but everybody is determined to move as rapidly as

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Russia's Sergey Lavrov talked of a return to peace talks,

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But in the bright light of day, the doubts became clearer,

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most of all about Russia's intentions.

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It is possible, we don't know, it is possible that the Russians had

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limited military objectives and actually over the last month

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or so they have largely achieved them and that they are genuinely now

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ready to see a scaling down of military activity

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but we will not know that for sure until we see the Russians delivering

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Today, Syria's rebel leaders are raising objections,

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so is Syria's President Assad, who spoke before the deal was done.

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TRANSLATION: We have fully believed in negotiations

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and in political actions since the beginning of the crisis.

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However, if we negotiate it does not mean that we will

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First, through negotiation and second, through fighting terrorism.

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The two track are separate from each other.

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Syria's war is also a major humanitarian crisis.

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Munich's deal means government and rebel forces must let aid enter

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besieged areas, where people are starving.

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Imagine that we have several convoys for several days and we repeat it

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every time we offer it, would that not make a difference?

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Do you think this is a turning point?

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Strong words have emerged here in Munich, but great scepticism too.

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The next week will make it clear whether this was a major

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breakthrough that can help ease the suffering of Syrian civilians,

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or whether it is another major setback that will make a devastating

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If you The Pope and the Russian Orthodox Patriarch will meet in Cuba

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on Friday - the first ever encounter between the heads of the two

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churches since they split in the 11th century,

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The Vatican has been pushing for such a meeting ever

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since the collapse of the Soviet Union,

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The meeting is being seen as a major step towards warmer relations.

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Our correspondent Will Grant is in Havana.

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we are expect when Pope Francis at any time now. This is the most

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historic varying of hatchets, isn't it? Isn't it? And what an

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extraordinary place for it to happen, in Cuba, a country that has

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been gone through its own warming of ties with the United States, and

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Pope Francis was important in bringing Washington and Havana

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around the negotiating table. This time he is on a diplomatic mission

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of the zone to help rebuild the eastern and western sections of the

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Christian faith. It will be welcomed, not only by the many

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millions of followers of Pope Francis, but at least two thirds of

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the more than 200 million Russian Orthodox followers, many of whom

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will have wanted to see these tensions ease, these lingering

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suspicions that in some cases are centuries old. What will it mean in

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concrete terms? I think this is very much about her spirit of fraternity,

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that is a word that Pope Francis users and likes to make the most.

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That was the word his lips when he became the Havana late last year. In

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these terms I think it is about the Catholic faith and the Orthodox

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faith finding common ground in times in which Christians around the

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world, particularly in the Middle East, feel that they are being

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persecuted, under attack again on a number of different fronts. We have

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seen, particularly during the Cold War, there was a lot of suspicion

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between Pope John Paul II and previous patriarchs. Pope Francis is

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a very different character to the men who came before him and I think

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it took aim and the took a different kind of papacy to bring this about.

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What is the reaction where you are in Havana. We are just watching live

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pictures of dignitaries walking around at the airport. There is Raul

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Castro, Whittington greets... Sorry, yes, these are live pictures.

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There is a more nuanced feeling towards Catholicism in Cuba, isn't

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there? There was great excitement ahead of his visit in September.

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This time I would say it has been greeted with more surprised than

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excitement. Cubans woke up to the news on the state run newspaper that

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the Pope will be returning again. Many thought, my goodness, I so

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quick, he was here very recently. There are reasons I think that it is

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Cuba., one, that the patriarch has very warm ties with the Castro

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brothers. The Pope off the back of that recent visit has a real

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affection for Cuba and Cubans. And truly logistical terms, it is en

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route to Mexico where he will be carrying on from here, having an

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eight-day visit there. There is an interesting reason that it is Cuba,

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despite the fact that it is a secular state, it is a country that

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has been associated not with the Catholic faith over the years, but

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with Communist beliefs. That is changing, though. Thank you. If you

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are just joining us, Pope Francis arriving at Havana airport where he

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will be meeting the patriarch. That is the first time that has happened

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since the great schism of 1054 when Pope Leo the ninth and

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excommunicated the patriarch we will discuss this in more detail in a few

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moments. Now a look at some of

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the days other news. Thousands of farmers

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from across Greece have taken their protest

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against austerity measures Fires have broken out among

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the crowds and there've been The workers are angry at government

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plans to increase their taxes. A five-story building has collapsed

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in the centre of Istanbul. Local news organisations say

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the building came down near Istiklal Avenue,

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a busy pedestrianised street. The Istanbul governor has told

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reporters that noises from the building alerted people

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that it was about to collapse, the area was evacuated

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and it appears that no one Former FIFA Secretary General Jerome

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Valck has been banned from all football-related

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activity for 12 years. Valcke was found guilty by FIFA's

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Ethics Committee of a wide range of offences, including taking

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private jets for personal use, destroying evidence and trying

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to force through an undervalued sale European scientists have decided

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to give up trying to contact the Philae space robot,

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which became the first craft to touchdown on a comet

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more than a year ago. Philae operated for just 60 hours

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after an awkward landing. Contact was briefly re-established

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with the lander last July, but Mission Control has now given up

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hope of any further communication as the comet heads towards a much

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colder part of its orbit. A BBC Investigation has found that

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paedophiles are using secret groups on Facebook to groom children

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and exchange obscene images. Online settings mean these groups

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are invisible to ordinary users - The Children's Commissioner

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for England says the company isn't doing enough to protect children

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by policing the groups. Facebook has now agreed

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to investigate. Angus Crawford has this

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special investigation. Neil Ivel calls himself

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a "paedophile hunter." He and his wife pretend to be young

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girls online to expose the men that This man, Lee Hardy, pleaded guilty

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and was sent to prison. Why would you go and

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do that to a child? Hardy was a member

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of a secret group. Facebook settings mean

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that these kind of groups We all know there's

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a dark side of the web. Everyone thinks

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Facebook's brilliant. Put a little status on,

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you know, go to the shops. We decided to find

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out for ourselves - setting up our own fake profile,

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gaining access to closed Many of the pictures

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in these groups are obscene, indecent, but what is as disturbing

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is that many other pictures appear to have been stolen and disgusting

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comments have been written Facebook actively promotes

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its family values. And takes pride

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in its safety standards. Surely, they'd quickly remove

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this type of material once So, we used Facebook's own report

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button to tell them about some They did not breach

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the company's standards. The picture of this girl in bra

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and pants wasn't taken down. Nor was this one in a group called

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"Cute teen schoolies". We reported a whole group called

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"We Love Schoolgirlz." We showed what we found

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to the Children's Commissioner for It would be completely necessary,

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in my view, for Facebook to be very proactive about recognising these

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are here seeking out, at very least, the very obvious titles of these

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groups and closing them down. From what we've shown you,

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are they doing enough? We asked Facebook for an interview,

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but our request was refused so we caught up with the company's

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Head of Public Policy at an event When it comes to specific groups

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I think it's really important that we investigate the group,

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so if you're able to share the details of the groups with me

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then I can work with my colleagues who do the investigating on these

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and make sure we are investigating and removing the content

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that shouldn't be there, also dealing directly with law

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enforcement to make sure that they are aware of these

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groups and that we follow That's really important that

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were going to do that and we can give you that commitment

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that we are going to do that. The worst of what we found

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we handed to police, Facebook says it will

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also investigate. But how many more such groups exist

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and are Facebook's procedures robust enough to find them

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and shut them down? Let's return to the arrival of the

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Pope in Havana, where he is due to meet Patriarch Kirril. It is an

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historic moment, the first time that both leaders, the Pope and the

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patriarch have met for a thousand years.

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He is the author of Francis: Pope of Good Promise.

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It is a symbolic moment. Will there be some sections of both churches

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who will not be quite so happy? Yes, let's not forget that we have a

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section of the Orthodox Church in the Ukraine who consider themselves

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Catholics who are obviously on the wrong side of the Crimea crisis, who

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were accused by Moscow of stimulating uprising against the

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pro-Russian president. There is quite a lot of attention on that.

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Your correspondence before was talking about the tensions that the

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reduced to be with Pope John Paul II. He was Polish, don't forget. The

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Polish Catholic bishops were trying to reach some sort of agreement with

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Patriarch Kirril and reached the conclusion about two years ago that

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there was nothing doing because he was very for President Putin. Also

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the human rights people in Russia. This is patriarchy he has said very

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little about human rights violations, hasn't spoken by the --

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spoken out about President Putin. What is the point of this? The point

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of it in one word is Syria, I would of thought, given the news that you

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were headlining before. Everything is coming together, as Europe

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correspondence pointed out there is real concern about the persecution

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of the Christians in Syria and North Africa. The threat of terrorism by

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Isis and others. They want to form some kind of common front on this.

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What is some kind of common front on this.

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will really break the ice theologically, is that this is the

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first Catholic Pope that on his election day comes onto the balcony

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at St Peter's and 30 much the first word he said is that I am the Bishop

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of Rome. He is saying I am not the huge authority, commanding authority

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over all the Christians, he is saying I bishop like anybody else.

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Given that the system a thousand years ago was begun as I sleep over

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the issue of primacy, this is a real olive branch to the Orthodox

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churches. We will see extraordinary images. Here is the humble Pope

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Francis meeting this Orthodox patriarchy he will have a slightly

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more elaborate vestments. Superficially chalk and cheese.

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Let's hope Pope Francis brings a bit of humility to the Russian Orthodox

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Church. The reason it is in Cuba, which is an interesting choice,

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given the Communist background backcountry the fact that it is a

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more secular country? Yes, don't forget that the Cubans were Catholic

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before they became Communist. Fidel Castro was educated by the Jesuits.

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In northern Spain. It is a perfect meeting point, particularly again

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that correspond to -- correspondence pointed out, very soon after this

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dramatic reconciliation between Cuba and the US, which the Vatican had a

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huge play in terms of mediation. A young Japanese MP who made

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headlines last year for his insisting on taking paternity leave

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has quit parliament after confessing to an affair with a bikini model

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while his wife was pregnant. Kensuke Miyazaki made

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waves inside the ruling Liberal Democratic Party

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when he announced he would be the first Japanese MP ever

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to take paternity leave, but this week a Japanese magazine

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revealed the scandal. Bowing deeply and repeatedly,

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Kensuke Miyazaki went before the cameras today to confess his

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infidelity. Young, handsome, successful and apparently a devoted

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husband, Kensuke Miyazaki had become the poster boy for those who want

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Japanese men to do more to help raise their children. Kensuke

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Miyazaki and his wife are both Members of Parliament for the ruling

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Liberal Democratic Party. In December he made headlines when he

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announced he would become the first Japanese sitting MP ever to take

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paternity leave. It was supposed to begin this week. In Japan, only 2.3%

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of the Father's Day paternity leave. The government wants to raise it to

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13% by 2020. I thought that by declaring I wanted to take paternity

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leave I could cause a bit of a stir. Instead, Kensuke Miyazaki is out of

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a job and in disgrace. Earlier this week a Japanese scandal magazine

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published a story alleging that while his wife was preparing to give

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birth in Tokyo, Kensuke Miyazaki was in his apartment in Q2 with another

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woman. Today, he admitted it was true. There is now concerned from

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former supporters that his scandal will be used by those who oppose

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Japanese men taking time off to be with their newborn children. Japan

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has one of the most generous paternity leave systems in the

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world. Men can, in theory, take up to a year off work, but many bosses

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still refuse or threatened meal workers with dismissal or demotion

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if they do. Right now, only to prove -- 2.3% of Japanese men to take any

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paternity leave at all. Sometimes the online world can be

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cruel and its targets One of them was a four-year-old boy

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with Pfeiffer Syndrome, which leads to facial deformity,

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who became a meme online. But his mother decided to fight

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back, using the internet to educate I was going through my phone

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on Facebook and one of the moms in a group I'm in on Facebook,

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she posted it and said, Within a couple of minutes people

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had tagged me in it and said, It just didn't even resonate with me

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as even attempting to be funny. I just didn't understand the intent

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behind someone that made that. Every time we would finally get

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Facebook to take one down, it's like within an hour somebody

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would send us a link You click on the report button

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and you and you just report it for whatever content you think

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it's being misused for, I don't know that that is

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what necessarily takes But when I looked into it more

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and I found the copyright claim, every time I filled out

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the copyright form, that photo was taken down usually

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within 24 hours. People share stuff that

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engages them in some way. Often times that engagement

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is something they makes them And then a subset of that is

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engagement that's humorous She enlisted friends,

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she enlisted people to spread the meaning of, let's take these

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down, in a way that used the same tool that spread the image to

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the service of removing the image. I've had a lot of people reach out

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and say, "I didn't know that was a real child in that photo

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and I saw your story on the news and I want to thank you for sharing

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what he has and what it is about. And I'm so sorry for

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posting that meme." It's turned into something more

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than just distorting the photo Those of you who can't

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send a message on phone, tablet, or computer without an emoji

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attached may well already know that US reality TV star Kim Kardashian

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has released her own set of wildly Now these icons are facing

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new competition from a set that mock another famous Kim -

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the North Korean leader, The "Kimunji" series

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features Mr Kim, his father and his grandfather,

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as well as various military weapons. They were created by US-based web

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designer Ben Gillin who says he hopes they will get people

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talking about North Korea. Mr Gillin also says

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he created the icons to mock Kardashian Kimojis, which he says

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are damaging to society. The reality star's Kimoji app became

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the top-selling app on iTunes A reminder of our main news: World

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powers have struck a deal It stipulates a cessation

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of hostilities in a week's time and an immediate start of aid

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deliveries to some besieged towns. But in an interview recorded before

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the deal was announced, President, Bashar al-Assad,

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says he intends to fight on until he's brought the whole

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country back under his control. President, Bashar al-Assad,

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says he intends to fight on until he's brought the whole

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country back under his control. But for now from me,

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Tim Wilcox, and the rest There is a cold weekend in prospect,

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some to

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