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The funeral takes place of the elderly priest murdered

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Tributes pour in as France comes to terms with its latest

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extremist attack - this time by two French

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teenagers pledging allegiance to so-called Islamic State.

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Another day of violence in northern Syria, with reports of a gas attack

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A drug to prevent HIV can be made available in England,

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rules the High Court, but who should pay?

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And wanted in paradise - a teacher for a very small school

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on a tiny Scottish island - fancy a change of pace?

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The funeral has taken place of the French priest

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killed in his church by Islamist extremists.

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Father Jacques Hamel, who was aged 85, was killed by two

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French teenagers as he led a service in Rouen in Normandy.

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The attackers pledged allegiance to the group known as Islamic State.

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The attack was described by the French prime

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Our correspondent James Reynolds reports from Rouen

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The city of Rouen came to its gothic Cathedral to bury

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The body of 85-year-old Father Jacques Hamel was borne inside.

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"No-one deserves to die like he did", said Nicol Poplan,

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"we knew the Father so well, it hurts us so very badly."

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More than 1,500 mourners heard tributes paid

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"I love you, uncle", said his niece, Jessica.

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The Archbishop spoke directly to the assailants

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TRANSLATION: You who are tormented by diabolical violence, pray that

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God frees you from the clutches of the demon.

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The mourners here at the Cathedral will have many questions.

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Could the French authorities have done more to stop the two attackers

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from getting to the priest in his church?

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And, more broadly, what can this country do

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For some here, the answer is obvious.

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TRANSLATION: The government must check the prisons, it

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It must not allow people who try to go and fight

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Decades ago, Jacques Hamel also left his own country to go to war.

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He did his military service in Algeria, where the family of one

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Kareem Beniash's family is also from Algeria,

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he came here to share the city's grief.

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We Muslims of France, we have to be with our French

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We have to be with them and with Christians,

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especially Christians, because they believe in the same

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France is a secular state, but this afternoon the old rituals

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of the Catholic Church had their place.

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In the 15th Century in Rouen, Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake.

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This city knows how to grieve for those who died for their faith.

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In a few minutes I will be speaking to a bikini -- an expert in teenage

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radicalisation. In Syria, it's been another day

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of violence in the northern city of Aleppo as rebel fighters have

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continued their offensive to try and break the siege imposed

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by government forces. In Idlib province, there have been

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reports of a gas attack that has Idlib is a Syrian province close to

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the order of Turkey and it has seen increasing attacks in the past few

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days. These are people being treated at a local hospital after inhaling

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toxic smoke. The video is filmed by medical staff where they say

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poisonous gas was dropped by an aircraft late Monday night. Dozens

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were treated and later discharged. The town is 20 kilometres east of

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the area where a Russian military helicopter went down a day earlier.

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No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. In

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Aleppo it has been another day of violence. These are streets of the

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eastern part of the city held by rebel groups. It has been under

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siege by government led forces. Rebel fighters launched a major

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offensive on Sunday night to break the siege and the battle has

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continued. Rebel groups say they are making quick progress. The Syrian

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monetary has released this video and says its forces have been fighting

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back. The Government has denied rebel claims that Kerry is

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controlled by it have been taken over by the opposition. -- areas.

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This town is held by so-called Islamic State but a major operation

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has been underway by a US backed coalition to take control of it from

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IS. Kurdish fighters are leading the battle and they now claim to have

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taken over large parts of the town. For Islamic State the town is an

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important link leading proud of its stronghold rack. And losing it would

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be a big blow. Prep is a drug that has been

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labelled a "game-changer" Preexposure prophylaxis is what it

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actually stands for. But who should be responsible

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for paying for it? Here in the UK, the High Court has

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just ruled that the National Health Previously, they said it should be

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funded by local authorities. Let's look at why campaigners say

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access to Prep is such Prep has been shown

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to reduce the risk of HIV A handful of countries use it,

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including the US and France, to help protect the most

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at-risk gay men. The once-a-day pill

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can cost up to ?400- or around 500 US dollars -

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a month per person and works by disabling the virus

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and preventing it from multiplying. His life was put on hold when he was

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diagnosed HIV positive. He thought he had been chosen for a trial of

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the drug now known to prevent infection but he missed out. Years

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back now to his training as a circus performer and says the argument in

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favour of the drug known as Prep is clear. That is one of the things, it

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stops the transmission of the fact but also the psychological effects

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of being diagnosed with HIV which destroys peoples lives. Trials have

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shown is Prep to be highly effective for those most at risk from HIV. The

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NHS argument was that the England local authorities are responsible

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for sexual health and prevention survey should pay for it. That was

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rejected by a High Court judge. If you ignore AIDS it could be the

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death of use of both die of ignorance. AIDS is no longer on the

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threat it was at the time of this advert in the 1990s. Thanks to new

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drugs, HIV patients are much less likely to develop AIDS but

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campaigners say reducing the HIV infection rate is a priority and the

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ruling is significant. We are delighted. It is such an important

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decision which could have a great impact for people at risk of HIV.

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Why do you say the NHS should pay to protect people when they look after

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themselves by having protected sex? The majority of gay men to protect

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themselves by using a condom is and we know from studies that it condom

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use is much higher than with the general population. As with the

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general population, a lot of people are not successfully able to use

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them every single time. NHS England says it will appeal against the High

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Court ruling and even if it fails they are no -- under no obligation

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to fund the drug or consider the effectiveness alongside other health

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conditions. Prep will be seen and considered alongside 13 other

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treatments including children with cystic fibrosis, prosthetic limbs

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and certain types of implants. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

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are facing the same dilemma as they try to come to a decision on Prep.

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As far as Siddique is concerned, the new drug deserves a fair hearing. I

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missed a chance and that is why an advocate for Prep. Other people in

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my position on the right knowledge that can be provided. Themselves

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from contracting HIV. Even though I am fit, it is still hitting me every

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time I think about it. For more I'm joined by Yusef Azad

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from the National Aids Trust, who led the legal challenge

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against the National Health Service. Why is Prep so important,

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given the range of other precautions Why should the National Health

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Service pay for a drug when people can take action and practice safe

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sex themselves and protect themselves? Prevention is always

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cheaper and better than treatment. Spending money on Prep is cheaper

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than spending money on a lifetime of treatment for someone who could have

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not got HIV if they were on Prep. It is still more expensive than

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spending money on someone who has protected themselves through taking

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responsibilities. Asking for Prep is responsible and we need to push back

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on the idea that they are possibly being irresponsible. They want to

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protect themselves and their sexual partners from the risk of HIV coming

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to your important point, condom is, apart from anything else, Prep

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doesn't protect from other sexually transmitted infections. No one is

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proposing that Prep replaces condom use. Studies in the real world, Prep

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doesn't replace condom use. We have been promoting condom use for 30

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years. If we were able to get 100% of people to use them all the time

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we would have done it by now. Even with all the proportion -- promotion

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we do now, daybreak and people are not in the Right Reverend find at

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the right time. In some ways they are not always wearing it. We need

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to add to condom use with a further prevention option which will do

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something to reduce the still high rate of HIV transmission in this

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country. The message that you mentioned, 30 years of campaigning

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for condom use, it hasn't worked 100%, but don't you feel the

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availability for something like Prep could undermine the message even

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further? No, because we would be advocating, as would the NHS, if it

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is provided through them, a combination of prevention options.

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The study that has taken place, people did not migrate from condoms

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when they started ticking Prep. They used both. There was no different in

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STI rates between those on Prep and not on Prep. They will go every

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three months to pick up the drugs and have a full checkup and also be

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offered condom is talk through issues they would have over safer

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sex. This is about belt and braces and about strengthening further our

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response to sexual health risk. It isn't encouraging people to move

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from one option to another. NHS England has said it will appeal

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this. Where do you see this going next? We are disappointed, because I

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have never read a judgment which soak come principally comes out in

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favour of every point that we made, that process will go on. We are

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disappointed because it could delay things even further. It is kicking

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he can down the road while everyday, eight gay men acquire HIV, many of

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them could benefit from Prep. NHS England have said they will now

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restart the decision-making process that they to everyone's astonishment

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abandoned in March, so they will be ready with a view on Prep, depending

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on the outcome of the appeal. But our message to NHS England is, you

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say you prioritise prevention, this is a fabulous prevention option. It

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is a much cheaper than lifelong treatment. Provided as soon as

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possible. Thank you very much. Now a look at some of

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the day's other news. The president of the International

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Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, has called for a complete overhaul

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of sport's anti-doping system. At a meeting of the IOC in Rio ahead

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of the opening of the Olympics on Friday, Mr Bach said he wanted

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a more robust, efficient system The newly elected governor of Tokyo

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has promised a formal review of the city's preparations

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for the 2020 Olympic Games. In her second day in office,

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Yuriko Koike said an independent panel would assess whether tax money

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had been used appropriately. The Tokyo Games have been plagued

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with setbacks over the cost and The Rio Olympics opens on Friday,

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and one of the likely stars could be The 24-year-old will

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compete in the 100 and 200 Which brings to mind another Dutch

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woman who changed the way the world For our Greats of the Games series,

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David Eades looks back at the 1948 Olympics when Fanny Blankers Koen,

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a 30-year-old mother-of-two, demolished records,

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rivals and prejudices. Postwar Wembley and the unveiling

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of the role of honour after the first Olympics

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since the Berlin games in 1936. The 14th Olympiad took place

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in London, the first It was a huge relief

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that it happened at all. It was also the first time that

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a female athlete emerged as arguably In the 100 metre dash,

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everyone else seems to be standing still as The Flying Dutchwoman turns

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on the power. In the late 40s, her dominance

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was as complete as any athlete. In London, it translated into gold

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medals in the 100 metres, Women doing sport at all

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was kind of frowned on, let alone a 30-year-old

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with two small children. She was kind of beyond her time

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in the 30s and 40s. She may have won the high jump

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and long jump, but was only allowed to compete in three

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individual events. Make no mistake, her nickname

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of the Flying Housewife hinted She was single-minded

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and determined, nothing interested It seems like she was not just one

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hell of an athlete but also No hiding the esteem

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in which she was held But for that war, she might have

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competed in five Olympics. In 1948, her place in Olympic

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history was sealed. Let's go back to our top story, the

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funeral in France of the Catholic priest killed in an Islamist attack

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last week. I have been speaking to Farhad Khosrokhavar via webcam from

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Paris. He is and Iranians born sociologist and author specialising

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in teenage radicalisation. I asked him how the issue of radicalisation

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may change France in the future. My guess is that European society has

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to get used to it, other they will have lots of anger, anxiety, anguish

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and so on. This phenomenon will last at least another decade. The next

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ten years to come, Europe will be the theatre of this sort of

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terrorist attack by Daesh, the self-proclaimed Islamic State in

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Syria in Syria and Iraq. One way is to accept the risks and to behave

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not in an anguished way. Is it always right, the sense that whoever

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carries out this attack or kind of attack, feels isolated and

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segregated to some extent, because even last week one of the teenagers

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who carry out the attack on the priest was a very integrated part of

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the community from a very normal family. Yes, you are right. There is

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a kind of copycat effect. There are lots of people who have mental

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problems, psychological problems, who get involved in this sort of

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thing. The problem is the more you make noise about that, the more you

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show some sort of anger, the more they are encouraged to act, those

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people who are mentally disturbed. That is one of the major problems.

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They should be treated as being vulgar, non-existent people rather

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than negative heroes, that means that by giving them the sort of

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importance through the media and so on, you treat them as being super

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heroes. You have written extensively about the problems with

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radicalisation in prison, give us a sense of how big a problem that is.

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The problem of radicalisation in prison is very complex. You cannot

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do it in three minutes. There is one side of it which is based on the

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fact that imprisons you have most half of the inmates who are Muslims.

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But necessarily practising, but they feel humiliated. -- not necessarily.

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At the same time, there are short-term prisons in which you have

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huge numbers of young people in small cells and sometimes two or

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three in a nine square metres sell without any kind of facility so that

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they feel they are humiliated and they developed this sort of hatred

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towards society. And they build some kind of type with the others, self

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proclaiming, and in French prisons it is another contributing factor to

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worst this situation. Farhad Khosrokhavar, a sociologist there in

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Paris. President Obama has weighed

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in on the row between Donald Trump and the parents of a Muslim soldier

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who died serving He said this shows the extent to

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which Mr Trump is unfit to serve as president. He also criticised

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republican leaders for continuing south to support him despite having

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to distance themselves from his remarks. I think you republican

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nominee is unfit to serve as president. I said so last week. He

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keeps on proving it. I think what has been interesting is the repeated

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enunciation is of his statements -- Annunciation is, by leading

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republicans including the Speaker of the house and the Senate Majority

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Leader and prominent republicans like John McCain. The question I

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think that they have to ask themselves is, if you are repeatedly

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having to say, in very strong terms, that what he has said is

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unacceptable, why are you still endorsing him? Donald Trump has

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released a statement saying Hillary Clinton is unfit for government.

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Earlier he also compared his Democratic rival to the devil during

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a campaign speech in Pennsylvania. He made the remark while criticising

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her former party rival Bernie Sanders for backing Hillary Clinton

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during the recent Democratic National Convention. Then when they

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showed Bernie very angry, he made a bad deal. He should have not made

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that deal. He would have gone down as doing something really important.

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Once he made that deal, and believe me he has buyers remorse, this guy

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has buyers remorse. He looked at that and he was so angry when they

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were talking about him and his people were angry and they should

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be. If he had just not done anything, go home, go to sleep,

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relax, he would have been a hero but he made a deal with the devil. She

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is the devil. And it is only just the beginning.

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Beautiful beaches, an abundance of wildlife, extraordinary scenery

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and a school where the class has just a handful of pupils.

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But the tiny Scottish island of Muck is having trouble

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recruiting a teacher for the start of the new term.

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Parents have launched their own, online, search for someone

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with a love of the outdoors who can cope with the unique

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lifestyle a Scottish island has to offer.

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Our Scotland Correspondent Lorna Gordon has been to visit the Isle

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Meet David, Jasper, Daniel, Kitty, Willow, Tara and Hugh.

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Almost the entire school roll on Muck.

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The new term starts in a fortnight and they still need a teacher.

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So their families have taken to social media

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to try to sell the job, and the island.

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I want a teacher that knows how to garden.

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A teacher that knows how to, you know, teach lots of things.

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I'd like a fun, imaginative and happy teacher.

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Muck is the smallest of Scotland's small isles, its one road a little

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You won't find a classroom like this anywhere else.

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Idyllic in the summer sunshine, but in winter very different.

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The island can get cut off, sometimes for days, and the outgoing

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teacher says her replacement will have to come prepared.

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Some days there is, you know, a short distance from the school

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to the hall and some days we wouldn't try that,

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it would be too windy to risk taking the children in that direction.

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So when I say good waterproofs, really good waterproofs!

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The island is at the mercy of the weather and the Atlantic waters.

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Letters, food supplies and the doctor all have to come by boat.

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There are other rural and remote communities in Scotland

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which from time to time also have problems recruiting a teacher

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and then getting them to stay long-term.

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And while there can be challenges in a place like this,

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It's a beautiful island, it's a very, very good,

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strong sense of community and everybody wants to,

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you know, everybody helps each other out.

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That can be handy when a trip to the shops requires a near 20 mile

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Life this remote is not an easy sell.

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And time is not tight until the new school year.

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It's going to be difficult for the kids, they've had

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such a wonderful teacher for the last couple of years.

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Any uncertainty like that is quite unsettling, not just for the kids,

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The children will have supply teachers until a permanent

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They know here that island life is not for everyone,

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but there's already been interest from across the world

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They hope someone will fall in love with Muck, and its school.

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Lorna Gordon, BBC News, on the Isle of Muck.

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If you want to get in touch with us here at BBC World News,

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But for now from me and the rest of the team, goodbye.

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Tuesday has proved to be a hugely disappointing day across many parts

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of the British Isles.

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