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Welcome to BBC World News Today, I'm Karin Giannone in London.

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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton slugged it out for 90 minutes.

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No knock-out blow, but who came out on top?

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Scientists in the United States say the world's first baby has been born

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using a new "three person" fertility technique.

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For the first time, the International Criminal Court has

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passed a sentence for cultural destruction.

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The crimes were committed in Mali by a jihadi.

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Nasa finds more evidence of water on one of Jupiter's moons.

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Reaction has been coming in thick and fast since the to US

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presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump

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faced each other in their first televised debate.

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Campaign teams for both have praised the performances

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But Donald Trump, despite initially saying the moderator

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Lester Holt had done a good job, is now saying Holt was tougher

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Trump has also complained about his microphone crackling

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In response, Hillary Clinton had this to say:

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Anybody who blames it on the microphone is not having a good

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night. In diplomacy, they call

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this a grin and grab. In last night's presidential debate,

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it quickly gave way to grimaces, as both

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candidates exchanged blows. Donald Trump started attacking

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Hillary Clinton for initially backing

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the Pacific Trade Deal The gold standard of trade,

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you said it was the finest And then you heard what I

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said about it and all Well, Donald, I know

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you live in your reality, But then it was Donald Trump's

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to be put under the cosh. First over his refusal to hand

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over his tax returns, something that

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all candidates have done Maybe he doesn't want the American

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people, all of you watching tonight, to know that he's paid

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nothing in federal taxes, because the only years that anybody's ever

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seen were a couple of years when he asked to turn them over to state

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authorities when he was trying to get a casino licence and they showed

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he didn't pay any But how smart, when

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everybody else has His business acumen

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is a cornerstone of his appeal, not questions. He then came under attack

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over his attitude towards women, a key demographic in this

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election where he is trailing badly. But this is a man who has called

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women pigs, slobs and dogs. She spoke about a beauty pageant

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contestant who Mr Trump had called Miss Housekeeping,

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because she was Latino. Donald, she has

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a name. Her name is Alicia

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and she has become a US citizen and you can bet that

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she's going to vote this November. But Donald Trump then sought

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to make it about character. I said she doesn't have the stamina

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and I don't believe To be president of this

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country, you need Well, as soon as he travels

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to 112 countries and negotiates a peace deal, a

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ceasefire, a release of dissidents, an opening of new opportunities

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in nations around the world or even spends 11 hours testifying in front

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of a congressional committee, you Hillary has experience,

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but it's bad experience. We have made so many bad

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deals during the last... So she's got experience,

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but it is bad, bad Donald Trump is positioning

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himself as the political outsider and that resonates

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with many disillusioned Americans. By the end of the debate,

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it was Donald Trump's stamina that

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seemed to be flagging. Here, both sides are claiming

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victory, as you would expect, and Donald Trump has come

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in to do his own spinning. He had one question to answer

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in this debate: Did he have the temperament to be

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the next commander-in-chief, Mr Trump, are you satisfied

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with how it went? Several news organisations carried

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out their own polls, A joint CNN/ORC survey

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gave Mrs Clinton 62% But the organisations

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acknowledge that more Democrats The broadcaster CNBC

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asked people to cast The outcome was 61 to 39

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in favour of Mr Trump, although there's no way of knowing

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the background of any But the Public Policy Polling

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Organisation carried out its own survey of what it claims

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is a balanced group of more than a thousand

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registered US voters. They called it 51 to 40 for Clinton,

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with 9% of people undecided. Well, Pennsylvania is a key swing

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state for both candidates. To get an idea of the reaction

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from voters there, our correspondent Rajini Vaidyanathan

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is in Philadelphia. What is the verdict? Well, I've

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spent the morning here at Philadelphia's Reading terminal

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market and people are just finishing their lunch, but throughout the

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course of the morning, people are Pindar jesting and discussing last

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night's debate and as you say, Pennsylvania is a key state in this

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election and it is a key battle ground and where both Clinton and

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Trump both need to win if they want the keys to the White House. So what

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the voters see a thing? I'm joined by Jim and Dorothy. Let us begin

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with you, Jim. What did you think? I was disappointed to some degree, I

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thought the moderator conducted himself like a rookie. I say that

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for two reasons, one is that he always started the questioning with

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the same candidate, except for one time and I think that's gave an

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advantage to that candidate. Do you mean Clinton? Yes, and she started

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the canisters, except on the second to last question I gave her an

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advantage of getting her ideas out in the brains of the audience and

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the people. And then Mr Trump had to say things that would try get those

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ideas away from them. You support and all Trump? Yes. How would you

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assess his overall performance? I think they both did OK. I don't

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think either of them are really gained any votes lost any. I think

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they're both did pretty well. Dorothy, you are supporting Clinton.

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How do Joe candidate do? I think she did well and her experience showed.

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She knows how these things work and knows how to make the best advantage

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of the situation she was in. I think she did fine. I don't think either

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one would have gained or lost and supporters. A debate is difficult

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for someone to change someone's mind, because it is so difficult a

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situation for them to be in. How much of this is now box office a

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reality television and how much is really about important political

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issues? I think a lot of it is just reality television. Trying to get

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the attention of voters, applying their base instinct and I don't

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think... I so by Hillary, and I don't think Donald Trump as many

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real ideas or his policies are fully formed. Clinton has a lot more

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experience in that areas and I think it is a matter of personality, at

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one point or another, people are going to gravitate to the

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personality they like best, for better or worse. General, finally,

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what do you think Donald Trump needs to do before the next debate? He

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needs to stick to his solutions for the problems in America. He has that

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figured out pretty well. He doesn't think like a politician or talk like

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one but I do know how to tell them to change or to improve on that. An

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example, last night, Clinton talked to him about his financial problems.

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She brought up 15 points and all of those are based on speculation. Now,

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she worded it is such a way that if a person wasn't paying close

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attention, they'd think that she was making factual statements. Letters

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asked Dorothy's opinion. I agree Trump doesn't talk or act like a

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politician, he should do that a little more. A bit more grandeur and

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controversial statements alienate a lot of people and I think if he

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wants to get enough support committee needs to stop alienating

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people. But in a way that seems valid, not him just saying what we

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want him to say, that he really means it. I don't know if he has

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time to do that. Interesting views there. It is of course worth noting

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that was the first of three presidential debates and there's

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also a vice presidential debate next week. A lot of time in store for

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many undecided voters who I've messed this morning to make up their

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minds. -- who I've met this morning. There was a lot of talk

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at the debate on trade and Donald Trump had some things

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to say about Asia as well. Joining me from Washington

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is political risk Welcome to the programme. Did you

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get much of a picture of the kind of America we would see under each

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candidate last night from that debate? How they would deal with the

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rest of the world when it comes to trade? I thin maybe not so much with

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trade, but certainly in terms of how they approach the world. From Trump

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we got the same message is been saying all along, and that is that

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US allies are taking advantage, we are footing the bill for the

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Security and allowing them to get rich and take advantage of US

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economic openness and trade deals and that has to stop. That has been

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his worldview and he has been consistent. From Secretary Clinton,

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it is a little different. She doesn't bother transpacific

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partnership anymore, but she does have a worldview that recognises the

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value of the institutions of the America created after the end of

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World War II. She recognises there are some positive gains from the US

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underwriting these global institutions. She knows that has to

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continue and that there is for argument that. Donald Trump going on

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in the attack over Clinton's reversal on that trade deal, how

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much of a blow did he land there? That was seen as one of his

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strongest elements. Is certainly an issue where Secretary Clinton is

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vulnerable. People on her left, former supporters of Senator Sanders

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from the Democratic campaign, I think it was a big issue for them.

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There's a lot of questions over where she stands on this, what will

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she do about it. Wherever her heart is, I think if she were elected, it

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would be hard for her to move forward with the trade agreement.

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Even President Obama is trying to get it done before he leaves office,

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despite the obstacles. Is there any perception that Trump is more

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trustworthy with matters of trade, given that he is a product of the

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business world and not a politician? I don't know if trust really gets

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there. This is someone who I thin back in 2000 talked about how he

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was... If he were elected, he was going to be his own trade

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Representative. So he's talked a big game about trade deals. But this is

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closing the barn door after the horse has bolted. The US is still a

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major manufacturing power, is just that they are very efficient at the

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same number of manufacturing jobs available. In some ways, Secretary

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Clinton's approach is better in that she's thinking about creating jobs

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in the economy as a whole and we've heard none of that from Donald

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Trump. He talks about these bad trade deals, there's no plan for how

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to create good jobs in the United States, he just talks about stopping

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jobs going overseas. That's not good enough. Thank you.

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Scientists in the United States say the first baby has been

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born using a new "three person" fertility technique.

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The New Scientist Journal says a baby boy,

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who is now five months old, was born to Jordanian parents.

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They were treated by a US team in Mexico

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as the procedures are not approved in the US.

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parents with rare genetic mutations to avoid passing

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It involves removing the nucleus from one of the mother's eggs,

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and inserting it into a donor egg which has

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In every case here, this is a genetic mutation which is passed on

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a downer through the mother's ache in structures known as the power

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packs of themselves. In a couple, from Jordan, had already had two

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children who died of a genetic disorder and four miscarriages, all

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as a result of this. Experts in New York took healthy donor DNA from a

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second woman and mixed it with the DMA, the key DNA that you inherit

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from your parents that affects your personality, how you look, all the

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key DNA, and produced this healthy baby boy who is now five months old.

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But that tiny bit, that no .01% of DNA from the third person will be

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passed on down the generations. A little bit of disquiet that we

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haven't had the full scientific report on this, where having to take

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their word on it. It has come out as an abstract, one of the short, brief

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paragraphs that hasn't even been discussed at the scientific

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conference. We will get it at some point. What is the ethical and legal

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position of a technique like this? It is very interesting, a lot of

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people are uncomfortable about it. It's interesting that last team

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based in New York, just off Central Park, went to Mexico to do it. They

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went to Mexico, because there are no rules there. Indeed, many countries

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would make this illegal. The only country that has specifically passed

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legislation to permit it is the UK and a team of scientists in the

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North of England are planning to help a handful of women every year,

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but they haven't even applied for the license yet, this team, is not a

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race of course, that New York have done it first. Thank you.

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

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Typhoon Megi made landfall in Taiwan, the third major

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storm to hit the island in a matter of weeks.

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Megi has brought winds of nearly 200 kilometres an hour

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and has caused disruption across the island.

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At least four people have been killed, and hundreds injured.

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Schools and offices are expected to be shut for a second

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New York authorities say a firefighter has died

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after responding to a report of a gas leak at

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It seems an explosion happened at the two-storey private house

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after the firefighters discovered a drug lab.

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Six other officers have been taken to hospital with minor injuries.

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A trial has begun in France of 15 current and former

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employees of Air France, after two company executives

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had their shirts torn off as a meeting on job cuts

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Five of them face charges of organised violence,

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while the rest are accused of damaging property.

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The violent protest took place last October at the airline's

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An Islamist militant from Mali who destroyed historic shrines

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in the city of Timbuktu has been sentenced to nine years in prison

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at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

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Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi led the desecration of a number

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of ancient tombs four years ago when an Al Qaeda-linked group took

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According to tradition, the door of this city

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mosque was supposed to

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In this footage played in court, you can see

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In this footage played in court, you can see it been broken down by

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jihadists, an attempt to destroy the mystery

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and with it, centuries of

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He was found guilty of running the morality brigade,

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a religious vice squad carrying out orders from the sharia courts.

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They considered these Sufi shrines to be un-Islamic.

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At the start of the trial, the prosecutor explained why the

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destruction of cultural heritage is being prosecuted as a war crime for

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Attacks on cultural property have become actual weapons

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They are being used to eliminate entire communities and

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It is done to make it seem as though they never existed.

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During the trial all visible signs of the militant

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TRANSLATION: I am pinning my hope on the fact that the punishment

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that will be meted out to me will be sufficient

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enough for the people to

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People were also targeted during the rebel occupation

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and many of the victims say that this case

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fails to cover some of the

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Particularly crimes against women, sexual violence, sexual slavery,

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And the fact that these charges have not yet been

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represented at the ICC is very difficult for people to understand.

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The trial is being seen as a rest success for this controversial

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It proves that some African nations are willing to cooperate

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Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi is unlikely to appeal, which means

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that the authorities now have access to someone who may have inside

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And it proves that people can be prosecuted for

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Timbuktu has now been renovated and for a

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local people, this represents a tangible and symbolic victory

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Reports from Aleppo is a Syrian Government forces have been making

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advances on the ground in the centre of the divided city. Military

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sources and rebels say pro-government forces appeared to be

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mobilising for a possible ground assault after several days of heavy

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air strikes against the rebel held is of Aleppo. The new offensive was

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launched with Russian backing after a week-long ceasefire collapsed.

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The migrant crisis shows no signs of easing.

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The ship which capsized off the Northern coast of Egypt last

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week with hundreds on board has been raised from the sea bed.

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11 more bodies were found on deck bringing the total number

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It's unclear how many more people may be found below deck.

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Many of the dead were young Egyptian men.

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So what's driving so many of them to risk

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From Northern Egypt, Orla Guerin reports.

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The sons of this town are coming back home.

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This village and others nearbyhave buried 20 men and teenage boys.

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They fled the poverty of Egypt's Nile Delta,

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He boarded the migrant ship, though he

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The women tell those people smugglers should be executed.

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Instead, they pay bribes and get released.

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The boy's grandmother said he wanted to help get electricity

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This man says his friends just wanted jobs and

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Among everybody here, if

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you are considering taking a boat, raise your hands.

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Plenty of Egyptian children already have,

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For those who risk of the dangerous voyage across the Mediterranean,

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A boat approaches and families rush to the

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dock, hoping to at least get bodies to bury.

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Some victims phoned home as they struggled

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Relatives tell us that in the crucial early hours, they got no

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They were in the sea from 5am until 11am.

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I come out of the captain, and these

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This man lost his brother, who was only 20.

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I asked him if he'd seen my brother swimming,

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he said he swam for an

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Locals say the lack of opportunities he will keep driving young men to

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see and they expect this tragedy to be repeated.

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Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope has taken new pictures

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of one of the moons of Jupiter, called Europa.

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They show jets of water spurting from the moon's icy surface.

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The images are the first direct evidence that there is a vast

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And the discovery increases the possibility of

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Here's our Science Correspondent, Pallab Ghosh.

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More than 350 million miles away, orbiting Jupiter,

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Scientists think that under its surface there

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might be a vast ocean - and where there's water,

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These new pictures from the Hubble space telescope are the first direct

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At the bottom left, jets of water - the largest of which

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We've discovered these features here which may be plumes of water

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If that's the case, it's exciting because it's depositing material

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from the ocean on the surface of Europa and into space,

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and that means we can look for organics and even signs of life.

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Nasa and the European Space Agency both plan separate missions

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The discovery of these jets now means that the search for life

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Instead of having to land and drill through metres of ice to see

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what's in the ocean, spacecraft can now fly

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through the jets, collect the water and analyse it for evidence

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I'm almost sure there is life of some kind out

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I'd be flabbergasted if there wasn't.

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I think the conditions seem to be right in a number of places that I'm

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almost certain bacteria of some kind must be able to form in the liquid

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water oceans on some of the moons of Jupiter and of Saturn, as well.

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There's a new space race between the European Space Agency

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and Nasa to get to Europa and the other moons of Jupiter.

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Whoever gets there first could answer one of the biggest

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questions in science - are we alone in the universe?

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You can get in touch with me and some of

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

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the way for Scotland by Thursday. It is quite windy across the North

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right now, quite a few showers as well. Things were, later in the

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night. This weather front taking the remaining cloud and drizzle away,

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but

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