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This is BBC World News Today, broadcasting in the UK

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Canada abandons efforts to secure a massive free trade deal

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It says the EU is "not capable" of signing such a deal,

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after it was blocked by a region of Belgium with a population

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Remembering the victims of one of the worst disasters in British

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modern history. It is 50 years since a village in Wales was engulfed by

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coal waste, killing over a hundred children.

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In Iraq - Islamic state suicide bombers launch

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a surprise attack on Kirkuk - the city is now under curfew.

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And Wonder woman's new turn - she is to become a UN Ambasssador

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for women and girls - but not everyone is happy.

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It's taken seven years, but now a trade deal between Canada

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and the European Union appears to be on the verge of collapse.

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The deal is called CETA, but it's run into trouble

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To be specific, it is in fact because

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of a region in Belgium called Wallonia.

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It's important to say that Belgium is the only country out

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of the EU block of 28 opposed to the deal

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Well, the region of 3.6 million people says the deal threatens

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They fear increased competition from North American multi-nationals

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Here's our business correspondent Samira Hussain with more.

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They were in negotiations for seven years and this

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This was really, you know, what they would say -

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they were just putting the bow on the finishing touches.

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Canada's prime minister Justin Trudeau is due to go

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to Brussels next week to sign the deal, so it seems

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it was almost there, and now it seems that it is not,

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but it is also significant for other possible trade deals.

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The United States is negotiating, or is looking to negotiate, a trade

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If this trade deal with Canada ends up falling apart, it also puts

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a potential trade deal between the United States

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and the European Union in jeopardy, and it comes at a very interesting

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And the trade rhetoric has grown quite significantly,

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especially in this heated US presidential campaign.

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There is a lot of talk of trade deals and the kind of negative

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impact it has had on some parts of the United States,

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so to be negotiating a new trade deal in this kind of era

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In the last hour Christophe Bondy, a former Canadian trade

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negotiator on the CETA deal, spoke to the BBC's Tanya Beckett.

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He said the deal was blocked in the 11th hour.

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We were getting close to a signing ceremony that was to take place

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on the 27th and here we found out one of the subnational

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governments in Belgium is able to hold up the entire deal,

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so the ball is really in Europe's court right now

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Do you see this as a failing of Europe?

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I think it shows the complexities of dealing with...

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Trying to proceed with a trade agreement with Europe,

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given the multiplicity of political issues that can be going on that may

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My understanding is this has more to do with internal Belgian politics

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than it has to do with this international trade deal.

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That may be the case but it is true that in the West we also are seeing

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a general reluctance to believe in trade deals and their ability

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Certainly the context is challenging for anyone pursuing

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international trade negotiations, and I think that is why Canada has

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tried to approach these negotiations and its entire trade policy to blend

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both trade and the social aspects, so this is a bit

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This deal is one of the most progressive trade deals that has

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It has protection for the environment built in,

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protection for labour, for small and medium enterprises.

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So it is really a gold standard agreement, and if that

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agreement can't make it through in the European

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Meanwhile the other major topic of discussion at this summit

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in Brussels was Britain's departure from the EU.

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Theresa May said she is optimistic she can get a deal

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Well, my colleague Ros Atkins is in Brussels.

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He explains just how much people are talking about Brexit.

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We knew this wasn't on the agenda formerly.

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Theresa May was due to give a briefing to the other 27 leaders.

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She did that, it lasted five minutes, and I interviewed a number

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They all said it was as they expected -

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she confirmed that Britain intends to exit the European Union and it

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intends to trigger Article 50 by the end of March,

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but really this was never about policy detail.

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It was about tone and about developing relationships.

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This was the UK Prime Minister Theresa May's first EU summit,

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and it was invaluable time that she had got meeting the other

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27 leaders and starting to develop those relationships which will be

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crucial when the Brexit negotiations carry on.

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Speaking to those leaders who met her for dinner last night,

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the all emphasise how they want a good working relationship,

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they want the process of Brexit to be as smooth as possible

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and to serve the interests of the EU and UK, so it's so far,

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But of course they will be put under huge pressure once

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It was one of the worst disasters in modern British history.

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This morning a minute's silence was held in the village

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of Aberfan at 9.15 - the exact moment 50 years ago

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when 116 children and 28 adults were killed.

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They died when an avalanche of coal waste - 150,000 tonnes of it -

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slid down the hillside and engulfed the village primary school

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Around half the children at the school were killed.

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Sian Lloyd has spent the day in Aberfan and sent us this report.

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Early morning in Aberfan, and a community coming together

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to remember the disaster 50 years ago.

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The site of Pantglas School is now a memorial garden.

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At 9:15, the moment classrooms were engulfed, silence fell.

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And at the cemetery, high on the hillside.

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This was a time to remember the 144 people who died in a man-made

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disaster, when liquefied coal waste slid down the mountainside.

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Eight-year-old Gerald Kirwan was in the second year juniors.

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He was one of the lucky ones, but his memories

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I could hear like, a rumbling, like a thunder.

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A hell of a noise, didn't know what it was

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and we looked up to the window and we see, like,

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I'd been pushed across the classroom to the back wall,

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We were just waiting, wondering what had happened

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to cause the devastation we were trapped in.

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Where classrooms once stood, today the Prince of Wales planted a tree,

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No-one should have to bear the losses you suffered, but

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no-one could have borne those losses with greater strength

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A balloon for each of the victims and a moment for Gerald Kirwan to

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share with his granddaughter, after keeping his emotions bottled up

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We never, ever spoke about it, to my mother and father,

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Even the children, there were only a few of us

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But it had been a disaster that was waiting to happen.

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Coal waste had been dumped in huge tips on top of streams and

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Local people were joined by miners in the search for survivors.

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But as the hours passed, rescuers realised that

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the children they were now finding had all died.

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Many were looking for their own own sons and daughters.

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David Goldsworthy lost his ten-year-old

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This is the first time he has returned to Aberfan

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on the anniversary itself from Canada, where he emigrated

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He would have been 60 this year, in August.

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No-one was ever prosecuted for the lives that were lost,

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although the National Coal Board was found to be to blame.

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I can go back to that class in seconds.

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And I don't imagine that will ever go away.

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That was the report on the Aberfan disaster which happened 50 years ago

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today. Let's go to Iraq and the fight

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to retake the city of Mosul Government troops backed by Kurdish

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forces are inching forward. With Iraqi troops pushing

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in from the south and Kurdish But today IS militants struck back -

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launching an attack in Kirkuk, about 200 kilometres

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south-east of Mosul. Our Middle East correspondent

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Orla Guerin sent this report Savouring freedom -

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civilians brought to safety They escaped the tyranny

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of so-called Islamic State, and the dangers of

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coalition air strikes. IS targets north of Mosul

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being pounded again today, This is the scene in

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the city of Kirkuk. Security forces battling to regain

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control, after a daring They hit multiple targets

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in and around the oil-rich city, which is 100 miles from Mosul

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and had been considered secure. Troops hunting for the militants

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who proved they can still strike Back at the front line,

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bomb disposal experts arrived They've already cleared 300

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landmines along a stretch Troops are getting into position

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now for mine clearance. This is absolutely crucial

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for the Peshmerga The mines are slowing progress

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and they're claiming lives, but the work has

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to be done with care. Islamic State has laid mines

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in this area like a carpet. There were fears it

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was a suicide bomber. Nearby, civilians who had just fled,

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now safe from IS, but being screened by Kurdish intelligence,

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they're trying to prevent militants This man tells us they were forced

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to grow beards, and if IS caught someone with a phone,

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they were beheaded. He's rushed away before

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he can say more. A new camp is now being raised

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here for the many others who are expected to seek refuge

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from Iraq's latest war. Orla Guerin, BBC News,

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north of Mosul. Stay with us on BBC

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World News - still to come: The pride of the Russian Navy SEALs

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down the English Channel on its way to Syria. The British say they are

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watching them every step of the way -- sails down.

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A historic moment that many of his victims have

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The former dictator in the dock - older, slimmer, but as he sat

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Dawn, and as the sun breaks through the piercing chill of night

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on the plain outside Korem, it lights up a biblical famine -

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The depressing conclusion - in Argentina today

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it is actually cheaper to paper your walls with money.

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We have had controversies in the past with Great Britain,

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but as good friends we have always found it good and lasting solution.

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Concorde bows out in style after almost three decades

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in service - an aircraft that has installed its many admirers

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for so long taxis home one last time.

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Canada has walked out of talks to save a free trade deal

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with the European Union after it was blocked by the Belgian

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Commemorations have been held on the 50th anniversary of one

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of the worst disasters in modern British history - when a village

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in Wales was engulfed by coal waste, killing over 100 children.

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A flotilla of Russian warships have passed

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through the English channel today - on its way to Syria.

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The vessels included the aircraft carrier -

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The flotilla, which is being viewed as a show of strength

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from Moscow, was shadowed - all the way - by the Royal Navy.

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Our correspondent Daniel Sandford watched as they passed

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Cruising past Dover Harbour, beneath the iconic White Cliffs of Dover

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and into the English Channel, Russia's only aircraft carrier

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the Admiral Kuznetsov, a 30-year-old survivor

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On its decks, the planes that will reinforce the Russian

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Also in the flotilla, the battle cruiser, Peter the Great,

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and the Russian ships were man marked as the Defence Secretary put

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The type 45 destroyer HMS Duncan had sailed from Portsmouth to do

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The type 23 frigate, the HMS Richmond has been

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tracking the Russians all the way from Norway.

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As we watched, all the ships were sailing west, straight down

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It's been an extraordinary display of Russian military power,

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just a few miles off the British coast.

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One Moscow newspaper called it 'an armada',

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and its chosen route, straight down the English Channel,

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is likely to have been chosen deliberately.

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The warships could have gone round the north coast of Scotland,

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but this was the route that sent a message.

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The deployment itself is clearly directed,

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in the immediate sense, toward Syria, but it has a side

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benefit to the mentality of the present-day leaders

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of Russia, of showing that they still have a navy

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And the message to this country, in particular, is probably

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that their navy is more extensive than ours now.

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For ten years now Russia's been directing displays

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This was an encounter off the coast of Scotland,

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filmed by the crew of a Russian bomber as it was challenged

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But today's Russian drive-by, on the way to prop up

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President Assad in Syria, was one of the more

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dramatic displays, so close that the warships

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could be clearly seen from the White Cliffs of Dover.

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Daniel Sandford, BBC News, in the English Channel.

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Let's take a look at some other stories now:

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At least 53 people have died in a train crash in Cameroon.

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The state rail company of Cameroon says a train has derailed

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between the country's two main cities, Yaounde and Douala.

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Witnesses say ten carriages overturned, trapping passengers

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Extra coaches had been added to the train

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because the highway between the two cities was closed due

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European space officials have acknowledged a craft sent to Mars

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crashed when touching down on the surface on the

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The mission had been designed to usher in a new era

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Officials estimate the impact could have happened

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at a speed greater than 300 kilometres an hour.

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Thailand and Australia have asked fans attending next month's

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World Cup qualifying match to refrain from chanting,

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out of respect for the mourning of the Thai king.

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Both teams have also asked fans to wear clothing which is black,

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white or grey, preferably without any designs.

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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says two

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of the Club's star players - striker Sergio Aguero

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and defender Vincent Kompany - both "have a future".

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Neither started the Champions League defeat against Barcelona

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on Wednesday and Kompany wasn't even on the bench, leading

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to reports they are not in the manager's plans.

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Vincent Kompany and Sergio Aguero, their future at Manchester city...

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Vincent Kompany was not fit, he was not perfectly fit, and that is why

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we took that decision. Between them it would normally be Vincent Kompany

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on the bench, but he was not fit. With respect to Sergio Aguero, it

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was a tactical decision about the game.

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Lauren Holiday, the US football star famous for helping her team win

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the 2015 Women's World Cup, has had a brain tumour removed.

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She was diagnosed just six weeks before she was due to give birth.

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The two-time Olympic gold medallist decided to have her baby first

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before surgery to take out the benign growth.

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Her husband, NBA basketball star Drew Holiday, has taken indefinite

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leave from the game to help care for her.

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Her former USA team-mates were in action on Thursday night -

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and took to social media to support her.

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Morgan Brian posted this picture of them wearing wrist

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bands labelled, "LH12," her initials and shirt number.

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She also said, "Last night we played for you."

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Bangladesh have moved to within 72 runs of England after two days

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The visitors were bowled out for 293 in the morning,

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Moeen Ali made a breakthrough just before lunch, taking two

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Opening batsman Tamim Iqbal was 55 not out

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as Bangladesh made 119-3 by tea - he eventually went for 78.

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Bangladesh finished the day on 221 for five trailing

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England by those 72 runs.

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One baseball line for you - the Chicago Cubs are just one

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win away from their first World Series appearance since 1945,

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after beating the Dodgers 8-4 in Los Angeles on Thursday.

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The win means the Cubs are 3-2 up in their seven-match

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Obviously it feels good. I would much rather go home under those

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circumstances than the other. You want to get it done as quickly as

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possible so it will be a formidable event. Our guys will absolutely be

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ready for the moment, I promise you that. It is great. The city of

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Chicago will be buzzing right now. I expect it to sell out. It will be a

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lot of fun. The NFL says it will

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reopen its investigation into this man, New York Giants

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kicker Josh Brown, after police documents

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revealed the player admitted Brown was arrested last year but no

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charges were brought. A separate NFL investigation

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led to a one-game ban. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said

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they were not given access to all the information at the time

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but will now look at the case again. We take this issue incredibly

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seriously. This is something we have been working on through policy

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changes, to educating our players to make sure they understand how to

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deal with issues with their families, give the resources to be

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able to deal with this. But when it happens we are not going to tolerate

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it. So we have some new information here. We will evaluate that in the

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context of our policy, and we will take it from there.

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She's a comic book super hero - who became a TV star

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in the 1970s watched by millions here and around the world.

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But now, in a story twist, the United Nations is making wonder

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woman a UN Ambassador for Women and Girls.

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It is a decision that has bewildered some and sparked

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protest from others - as Nick Bryant reports

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She can leap from tall buildings, she can also bend steel, but the

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transformation of Wonder Woman into a UN Ambassador for Female

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Empowerment has plunged this world body into the kind of storm that

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would test even her superhuman powers.

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This is the modern-day face of Wonder Woman, and the actress

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Lynda Carter who brought her to life in the television series was also at

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With a new film about to be launched, UN officials

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hope the hero will help to reach younger audiences around the world.

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So Wonder Woman lives - do not doubt it.

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Wonder Woman helps bring out the inner

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But staff at the UN today mounted a silent protest.

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"Real women deserve a real ambassador", read their signs.

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There is also a real annoyance that the

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superhero's leather boots might trample on cultural, religious and

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Hundreds of UN staff have added their names

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to an online petition, complaining, and I quote,

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"That a large breasted white woman of impossible

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proportions, scantily clad in a shimmery, thigh-baring body suit

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with an American motif and knee-high boots is not an appropriate

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So what's been the reaction outside the UN?

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I like what she stands for, I don't really

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Although Wonder Woman is a great character, I think we can find

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someone better to represent women, someone who is not

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The UN hoped this collaboration would be a PR coup,

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but there are many senior figures here who view it

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Wonder Woman raising eyebrows in New York. Now there is just time to

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bring you these pictures... A Russian Soyuz spacecraft

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has succesfully docked with the International Space

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Station. The Soyuz craft, with two Russians

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and one American on board, completed the docking

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manoeuvre on Friday morning, after blasting off from

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Kazakhstan two days earlier. The three men will spend five months

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on the station before Don't they look very happy to be

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there? Don't forget you can get in touch with me on Twitter. I am Alpa

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