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Washington, I'm Jane O'Brien. Today Reporting from

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Rescue workers in Italy fight to save people from a powerful

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earthquake that has killed at least 250. Strong after-shocks are

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hampering recovery efforts. Just have a look over here. All that dust

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has been caused by Vinny after-shock. Turkey ramps up its

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offensive against so-called Islamic State, sending more tanks into

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Syria. A peace deal is finally

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reached in Colombia. More on the historic agreement

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struck between the Colombian Government and left-wing

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guerilla group, the FARC. And the BBC Pop Up team

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is in Russia, with a look at one small village's success in giving

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foster families Central Italy has been hit

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by a series of powerful They've hampered rescue

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teams on the ground who are racing to find survivors

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of Wednesday's earthquake. The number of people killed in towns

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near the epicentre has climbed The shallow 6.2 magnitude earthquake

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was centred between two small towns, Look at the town of Amatrice and see

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if you can find anywhere The quake damaged or destroyed

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much of its historic centre. This afternoon, there

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was a large after-shock. The ground has just shaken again

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here, and You will see all that dust has

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been caused We heard and we felt the entire

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tarmac here, This woman is still recovering

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from the quake itself. She and her family were sleeping at

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home when they felt the ground move. TRANSLATION: You can't

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understand it. It is as if you see

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the face of death. One girl underneath this rubble

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knows what that was like. Rescuers found her legs first

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Julia was trapped. and they pulled her out to

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cheers. This is what rescuers

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have to deal with. In the summer this area is full

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of foreign tourists, making it much harder

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to track who survived In Amatrice we watched

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rescuers search Two hours later they

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pulled out a body. This is what the loss

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of hope looks like. Relief workers, clearly

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exhausted, say it is It is so difficult,

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this man told me. The sniffer dogs are not

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finding anything. The youngest may have no idea

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a new temporary home in the park. what they

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have all just lived through. Jenny Hill is in the tiny village of

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Casale, near Amatrice. This is the tiny,

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historic hamlet of Casale. It's one of dozens dotted

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around the countryside. Tiny, very old places,

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idyllic places. Rescue teams who have been working

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here throughout the day, overnight, tell us that 15 people

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lost their lives pulling bodies from

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the wreckage of these homes. In fact, the last

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of those bodies has only just been loaded

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onto a trolley and taken away. It is extraordinarily distressing

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work for the rescue workers. It's not long since there

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was a violent after-shock which went on for several seconds,

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knocking people off their feet. It's unnerving if you are just

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experiencing it, but imagine being amongst these partially

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collapsed, unstable It's a very difficult job

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for the rescuers and this region They are still dealing with these

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terrible after-shocks and at some point, of course, they are

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going to have to clean up I think Casale is really very

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striking because when you look at these houses here,

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you really get the sense of an idyllic place,

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somewhere where people go to relax, Turkey has sent more tanks

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into Syria today as part of its offensive against so-called

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Islamic State. It's Turkey's biggest intervention

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in Syria's five-year war, and with the help of Syrian rebels

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has focused so far on the former

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IS stronghold of Jarabulus. Today the BBC obtained dramatic

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pictures of the assault. From the border, our Turkey

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correspondent Mark Lowen Savouring the liberation

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from jihadists. "The heroes are inside Jarabulus,"

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says a rebel soldier. Exclusive pictures showing Syrian

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fighters entering a stronghold The offensive began yesterday

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morning. Syrian rebels backed by Turkey

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preparing for battle. The aim, to push Islamic State out

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of the key border town that But Turkey had another target, too,

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its commander telling fighters, "Kurdish separatists

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have emptied Arab towns Pushing back the Kurds was a Turkish

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priority in the offensive. Turkish tanks launched

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the operation, firing first from Turkey before crossing

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over the border. That paved way for a ground

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offensive by hundreds of rebel soldiers,

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meeting limited resistance. Villagers along the way were barren,

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emptied by Islamic State. We will never know what happened

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to the residents. Here, a fighter orders

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buildings and cars searched And then they reached it, a

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triumphant entrance into Jarabulus. The infamous Islamic State black

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once marked their vicious rule but they seem to have withdrawn

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even before the assault. "In the name of Allah, we promised

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and we kept our promise," he says. Jarabulus has been completely

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liberated, people But which people?

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The town looks deserted. And so Islamic State has been

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cleared with the warning Victory is sweet, but fierce

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battles lie ahead. Well, as the fight against

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Islamic State continues, conditions inside Syria

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are growing worse. Russia has agreed to a 48 hour

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humanitarian cease fire to enable aid to reach two million

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people in Aleppo. For more on the situation,

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I'm joined by PJ Crowley, former US State

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Department spokesman. Why has it taken so long when some

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of the most distressing images have been coming out of Aleppo, to agree

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to this 48-hour window? You have to look at it more broadly. We have

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defined the conflict in terms of Islamic State. But this is easily a

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10- sided conflict. It makes it very difficult even to define what the

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Syrian civil war is about and how to manage what is happening on the

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ground right now and to get to an acceptable, political solution that

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every one of the protagonists inside Syria can live with. And the reality

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is, we are talking about Aleppo, talking about the prospective peace

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agreement, talking about Jarabulus, the dynamic inside Syria, the key

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players are jockeying to try to obtain as much control of territory

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as they can to influence that the eventual solution. And the key

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example as you have just heard is Jarabulus. Here, you have the Turks

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fighting the Kurds, who have been an ally of the US. What is the US

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priority right now? It is to defeat Islamic State and eliminate the

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caliphate, but for a country like Turkey how that is accomplished

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matters profoundly. Around Jarabulus you have two Kurdish enclaves, the

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Kurdish allies of the US, if you will. They would love to consolidate

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and on planes that would give them a stronger position when it does come

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to an eventual negotiation. That is highly problematic for the Turks.

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Because the key ally of the United States who has done the most, who

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has been most effective is the PKK, and also the PKK, there's been a

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long-standing confrontation between them and the Turkish government. The

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reality on the ground is that we're going to see these collisions of

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interest for some time. Absolutely. What round is there for the next

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round of peace talks when Sergei Lavrov meets John Kerry in Geneva?

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It is important to try to plough the ground that is there and to reach

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understandings when you can, but fundamentally, at the dynamic on the

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ground when it supports a political negotiation in my mind, tragically,

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for Syria, we still have weeks, months, perhaps even years before

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the situation on the ground clarifies to the extent that a rule

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negotiated solution becomes plausible.

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Now a look at some of the day's other news.

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Myanmar's President, Utin Chaw, has visited one of the country's

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most significant heritage sites, damaged by a powerful

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Some of the centuries-old pagodas and temples in the ancient

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city of Bagan were hit by the 6.8 magnitude quake.

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It shook buildings across the country, and tremors were felt

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as far away as Thailand, Bangladesh and eastern India.

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The impeachment trial of suspended Brazilian President

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She's accused of tampering with the budget

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saying she's the victim of a political coup.

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The Senate is hearing from witnesses.

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Ms Rousseff will start her defence in person on Monday.

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The world's first self-driving taxis have started picking up

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A US based start-up firm, Nu-Tonomy, is offering the service and plans

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to start with six cars for now, growing to around 12

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Uber is planning a very similar project to be launched in Pittsburgh

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After a half century of civil war, Colombia's government has reached

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a historic peace agreement with the left-wing FARC rebel group.

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The announcement came after nearly four years of negotiations.

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Details of the deal will now go before the Colombian

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parliament and a referendum is expected in October.

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Natalio Cosoy reports from the Colombian capital, Bogota.

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After many years of fighting, kidnapping and war, and four years

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of negotiations with the FARC rebels, the Colombian president

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finally had some good news. TRANSLATION: Today, we can finally

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say that everything is agreed upon thanks to the titanic efforts of the

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delegates at the negotiating table, the final pending matters were

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agreed upon. The conflict, which began in 1964, has fuelled more than

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260,000 people -- killed. Uprooted almost 7 million, and left 45,000

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missing. The illegal trade in cocaine has fuelled the conflict,

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but has been funding the FARC rebels and drawing other groups into one of

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the most protracted conflicts in the world. In the capital city, Bogota,

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Colombia 's took to the streets to celebrate the historic peace deal.

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TRANSLATION: This announcement is important for Colombians. Most of us

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have been born in a country at war and this offers a way of hope, and

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the chance of a bright future. TRANSLATION: It is very moving. My

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father and grandparents have been victims of the violence. Giving is a

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chance as a society is very exciting. Everyone here is a firm

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supporter of the peace process but there are many in Colombia who are

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wary of these agreements and feel that they could give impunity to the

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rebels. It will be signed up to a vote in October if they approve the

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agreements, and there is finally peace with the FARC in Colombia. For

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now, roughly 7000 FARC Green-Ellis in the jungles and plains of the

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Andes are resting their guns, and after the war, they people are

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beginning to enjoy other pursuits. We have reports that an American

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Navy ship has filed three warning shots after an Iranian vessel made

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an approach at sea. This happened between the Gulf of Oman and the

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Persian Gulf. According to the US defence official, the Iranians

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vessel carried out unsafe, unprofessional manoeuvres. This was

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after the US reported a similar incident with an Iranian vessel on

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Wednesday. The British government has

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restated its goal of cutting the number of migrants coming

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into the country to New, official figures reveal

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that the figure remains 327,000 more people came to the UK

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than left, in the year to March. Cutting migration from EU countries

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is a key aim for British officials On a farm in Kent, Bulgarians

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and Romanians help produce strawberries for high street

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supermarkets - evidence of how EU migration has grown to support

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substantial parts of the UK economy. The Government interprets the Brexit

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vote as a clear mandate to reduce net migration down to the tens

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of thousands, but as yet there is no clear strategy

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as to how they'll achieve it, I'm very concerned that we might not

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have sufficient labour post-Brexit, and I'd like the Government to fully

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engage with agriculture and horticulture to get a visa

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restricted work scheme in place so we have enough people

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to harvest our crops. There have been suggestions that

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Britain might expand its Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme for low

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skilled EU migrants, an idea that would prevent people

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like Cesar from staying on after the harvest

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is safely gathered in. Well, my plan now is to carry

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on into the winter, and after It's not just

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agriculture, of course. If Theresa May is serious

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about reducing net migration by two-thirds, Britain is going to have

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to adapt to potential labour shortages in the hospitality sector,

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in the care sector, in construction, A report today calculates that

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5% of all health service staff in England are EU migrants,

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one in ten doctors, warning that the NHS could face

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collapse unless a way is found to retain European staff,

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but the Government is suggesting a shift away from our addiction

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to cheap foreign labour. It's not just doctors

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and professionals. A lot of the sort of jobs

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we need in the economy, we don't have the skills,

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and I think the challenge for us is through the apprenticeship

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programme, through that they go on the train

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to make sure British people This part of Kent voted

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overwhelmingly for Brexit, so what do the people of Rochester

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think UK immigration policy I think they should all go back

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to where they belong, really. Our country is ruined

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now, isn't it? There are no houses for us,

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there are no jobs. I'd like them to do

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what we voted for, really, which is to make it much lower,

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much fairer, and a points-based The people who come over here,

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they are working in the nursing homes, they are working

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in the health sector, they are doing jobs we don't want to do,

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ie cleaning or whatever it may Absolutely, I think we should let

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in the majority of them. The Brexit vote didn't resolve

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the immigration debate. If anything, it has prompted

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new and vital arguments. Well, now to politics

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here in the United States. Republican presidential nominee

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Donald Trump is making a push Earlier today he held a round-table

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event at his New York offices Mr Trump is trying to win over these

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voters, who polls show overwhelmingly support

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Democrat Hillary Clinton. Yesterday at a rally in Jackson,

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Mississippi, the Republican nominee had strong words for his Democrat

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rival, saying she is not a champion Hillary Clinton is a bigot, who sees

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people of colour only as votes, not as human beings

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worthy of a better future. She's going to do nothing

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for African-Americans. She's going to do nothing

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for the Hispanics. Strong words, there. But Hillary

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Clinton enjoys vast support from minorities, so why is he calling her

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a bigot? It is out of the traditional play but to attack a

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candidate at their strength. This is a strength of Hillary Clinton. She

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has vast support among minority voters. It is blunt language, but it

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is not surprising that he's trying to damage her a little bit. You

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don't go after the Uighurs, you go after where they are strongest. This

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is usually done by surrogates and not by the candidate themselves.

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When George W Bush went after John Kerry, he had someone else, after

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his world record instead of seeing it himself. What about Donald Trump

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's Mac stance on immigration was Jarabulus lots of people he seems to

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be backpedalling from his original stance, that he should build a wall

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and kick everybody out? He has quit talking about the wall. He says that

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it will still be built. But sending people out of the country? That is

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softening. He says there are people here who have been here for ten

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years, they are not all bad. He is realising that he just can't do

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that. It would cost too much money and would break up families. The

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question is whether his core base of support will be on board with him on

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that. They see him as a central part of his message. They see that

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they're out to get the average working both because of trade deals

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and immigration and if he backs off on immigration that could call into

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question all of this. And I don't think that they are going to buy a

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couple of lines in a speech after he spent an entire year talking about

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how he wants to crack down on Hispanic voters. Will all this back

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and forth have any affect on the boat on the day? We have two one

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half months until the vote. That is the big question. Right now, we hear

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some Hispanic supporters say, we are looking at his track record. He may

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be having a moment where he is realising how impractical this is,

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but also, he's looking at the opinion polls and seen the bottom

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dropping out of the Hispanic vote. He's decided he needs to do

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something to address it. That doesn't seem to have done it. Thank

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you very much. Now to Russia, where the BBC Pop Up

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team is once again covering the stories you the viewers

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have asked for. The country has long struggled

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with overcrowded children's homes and a large number of orphans

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in need of care. But for more than a decade,

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a small village south of Moscow has been experimenting

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with what the founders think may be a novel solution to support both

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foster children and the families We go into orphanages,

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and try to find children who would With from 5-3 children

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in every family, foster If they want to be

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inside the family. It's a very unusual

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way of taking care of There was no tradition

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in Soviet times. And there was absolutely no

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tradition of fostering. Something is changing

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in the brains of people. A quick reminder of the main news.

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Rescue workers in Italy are racing to save survivors from a powerful

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earthquake that has killed at least 250 people. Dozens are believed to

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still be trapped, as strong after-shocks hinder recovery

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efforts. But for now, from me Jane O'Brien

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and the rest of the team, goodbye. Hello there, some heavy, thundery

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downpours rumbling across the country at the moment. But they will

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clear through and tomorrow should be a fine

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