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This is BBC World News Today, broadcasting in the UK

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I'm Karin Giannone The Headlines Tunisia says it's uncovered

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a terrorist cell linked to the Berlin Christmas

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A nephew of Anis Amri was among one of the three men arrested

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Benjamin Netanyhu orders a review of Israel's relationship

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with with the United Nations after a vote condemning

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Security forces in Tunisia say they've arrested three members

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of a terrorist cell linked to Anis Amri, the Tunisian

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who killed 12 people by driving a lorry into a Christmas market

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The interior ministry said one of those detained was Amri's nephew.

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24-year-old Anis Amri was shot dead by police in Milan in the early

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This is Anis Amri, the man suspected of being behind the attack on a

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Berlin Christmas market. And now, authorities across Europe and the

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Middle East are trying to piece together his extremist connections.

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Now a clearer picture of his network is emerging.

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Officials in Tunis say he was connected to a militant cell,

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Amri is thought to have sent his nephew money

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The nephew's now in custody in Tunisia.

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The Spanish authorities are investigating whether Amri may have

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In Tunis today, hundreds of people took to the streets

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They gathered outside the Bardo Museum, which was attacked

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In recent years around five and a half thousand Tunisians have

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joined jihadist groups, making the country one

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of the largest exporters of militants in the region.

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TRANSLATION: The terrorists damage the image of Tunisia in the world,

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and have harmed the expats who are living abroad.

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TRANSLATION: Our message is from the heart, it is a panic

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wave, and you need to understand, Tunisians are afraid,

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Shot dead in an exchange of fire with the police

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And the hunt for more clues about the attacker goes on.

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What began as a horrific attack here in Germany has become

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an investigation spanning Europe and beyond.

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German investigators want to know if he had supporters here,

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people who may have helped him planned the attack and his escape.

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As the city turns down to Christmas, the authorities are still at work.

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So following the arrests in Tunisia, are the suspects now likely to be

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The BBC's Rana Javad is in the capital Tunis.

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It is highly unlikely they will be extradited. I did speak to an

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official at the foreign ministry earlier asking if there was any

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request from the German authorities in that regard and he said so far,

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no request. But in any case, this matter will be handled internally

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here with Aran investigations and he also said there is no hesitation on

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the Tunisian parts to cooperate fully with the German authorities,

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but given the information that has so far been made available to us

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from the Interior Ministry, it does not seem to suggest that this attack

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was something necessarily planned from here, but rather that Anis Amri

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tried to recruit his own nephew in recent months and succeeded in doing

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so if all of the stamens we've gotten so far are accurate, as well

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as to whether people links to him here as well.

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Israel's re-evaluating all of its contacts

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with the United Nations, including its funding UN

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institutions and the presence of UN representatives in Israel.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the announcement a day

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after the UN Security Council passed a resolution demanding a halt

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to Israeli settlement-building on occupied Palestinian land.

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praised US President-elect Donald Trump,

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who's suggested he will reverse America's position on the issue

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at the UN, which allowed the resolution to pass.>

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TRANSLATION: We are entering a new era and as President-elect Trump

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said yesterday, this is going to be much quicker than people think.

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The passing of the resolution has been celebrated by Palestinians,

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as our Middle East Correspondent, Yolande Knell explains.

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Here in Bethlehem, there is the festive mood, for many Palestinians

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feel they have bigger reason to celebrate after this UN Security

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Council resolution which said Israeli settlements are a fragrance

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violation of international law. It has been welcomed by over different

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political factions in Palestine and they are hoping it will strengthen

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their legal case when they pursue action against Israel in the

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international courts. For it's parts, is really officials have come

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out and said this is disgraceful and shameful a resolution and the

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Israeli Prime Minister has said he will not abide by its terms. There

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are more than 600,000 Israelis living in settlements in the

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occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem, that is on land that

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Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East War. And the US really feels

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that at the Security Council it was betrayed by his closest ally, the

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US, which usually uses its veto power to block any resolution

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critical of Israel. Now it is looking to President-elect Donald

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Trump for support and he has already come out on Twitter saying things

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will be different after January 20, which is of course when he takes

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office. The Nigerian president

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Muhammadu Buhari says the army has captured a key base of the Islamist

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militant group Boko Haram. The president said the group

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now had nowhere to hide after being forced out

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of what he called its last enclave. Boko Haram still stages suicide

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bombings in the northeast and in neighbouring

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Niger and Cameroon. Despite the progress, the Nigerian

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Government still has some way to go before victory over Boko Haram is

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achieved. We have to recognise this comes in a long line of quite strong

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statements from the president about Boko Haram. A year ago or so he told

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the BBC that the war against the militant group was technically one

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and the Government had one at that war and yet, in that past year, we

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have seen suicide bomb attacks and other attacks by Boko Haram. What is

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clear is the militant group have lost an awful lot of territory and

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do not control big towns. It seems according to the President's

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statement that they may have lost their territory in the north-east of

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the country. But the group's tactics have changed and they've become an

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organisation that uses more suicide attacks and sneak attacks rather

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than old and territory. So it would be premature to say that Boko Haram

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was finished, they still operate in Chad and regional countries, too. It

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was also striking that the president referred to new efforts to get the

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release of the schoolgirls who were taken over two years ago and around

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200 of them are still believed to be in captivity of Boko Haram. He did

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not say we have taken them back from this camp, it had been assumed

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they'd been captured. So the implication would be they do not

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know exactly where the girls are and I would also imply that Boko Haram

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is still in places in Nigeria or in neighbouring countries where the

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Nigerian Government cannot get to them. So the war is definitely not

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over, but the Government at least, the Nigerian Government, is saying

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this is a major step forward in that war. Reports from Congo said talks

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of the deal Senate President leaving power at the end of next year I'll

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close to agreement. The president has refused to step down even though

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his term of office has expired. Under the proposed agreement, a new

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Prime Minister will be chosen from the opposition and elections would

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be held next year. Temperatures in the North Pole could be up to 20

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degrees higher than average today in what scientists say is a

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record-breaking heatwave. They say an air temperature of just below

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freezing instead of the usual level of around -30 is preventing ice from

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forming. Researchers say the unseasonably warm weather patterns

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have a direct link to man-made climate change. Actress Carrie

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Fisher is in intensive care in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a

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heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles. She is best known

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for her role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars films. Miss Fisher who is

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60 was flying back after finishing a tour to promote her autobiography.

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Rick Parfitt has died in Spain at the age of 68. He was being treated

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in hospital for a severe infection. He was still recovering from a heart

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attack he suffered earlier this summer.

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I've got to where I wanted to go, to become a pop star or a rock star.

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To Status Quo fans he was easy to spot, the bobbing blond head.

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He was responsible for some of rock music's greatest riffs.

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From 1972 there was a Status Quo album in the top ten

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Rick Parfitt met Francis Rossi when they were teenagers.

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Their first single was a bit of 60s psychedelia.

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But their passion was something a bit more raw.

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All our records sound alike, of course they do,

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They are going to sound like us, who are we supposed to sound like?

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As soon as I had the idea, I couldn't think of anyone better.

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MUSIC: "Rockin' All Over the World" by Status Quo.

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When it came to sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll,

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This riff arose from the consequence of a huge dose of amphetamines.

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Good night, Rick, see you in the morning!

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I came back in the morning and he was there.

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He has a particular type of woman, blondes!

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Even when he was recovering from heart surgery he was still

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When it came to turning rock into hit songs,

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Pope Francis 's lead in the Catholic Church by celebrating Mass at Saint

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Peter 's Basilica in the Vatican. There he is. David, the first major

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event of the Christmas season for the Pope? Yes, and there is heavy

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security in the Vatican. There are policemen and soldiers stationed

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every few hundred yards, so the crowds attending tonight's midnight

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mass inside Saint Peter's Basilica have had to pass through metal

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detectors. There's a general sense of insecurity I think here in Italy

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after the attacks in Berlin and the shooting of the main suspect up in

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Milan. The Pope at is just making his money, his first public

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appearance during the Christmas holiday. And he is talking about the

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necessity for Christians to humble themselves before Christ and he is

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saying that in the world today, if you look around, there are many

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children are suffering in ways that defied dignity. It talks about

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children suffering in ships with other migrants cross in the

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Mediterranean. Children who are hungry and have been trying to

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shelter from the bonds in Aleppo. -- the bonds. I think it is a muted

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Christmas message, nonetheless though, it is... David, I am afraid

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we are losing sound there. Apologies for this. Thank you from David and

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you can see what is going on in Saint Peter's Basilica. Pope Francis

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celebrating Christmas Eve Mass. Stay with us. Still to come. We meet the

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French oyster farmers using a high-tech solution to stop thieves

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from stealing their catch. The Queen's granddaughter

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Zara Tindall and her husband Mike The couple announced

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they were expecting their In a statement the spokeswoman said:

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"Very sadly, Zara and Mike Tindall At this difficult time,

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we ask that everyone Buckingham Palace last thing it is a

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private matter. Zara was always an ambiguous situation. Although she is

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the Queen's granddaughter, neither she nor her husband are members of

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the working royal family. They both carved out distinguished careers in

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their respective sporting fields. They married in 2011 and have one

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daughter who will be three next month. This pregnancy announced a

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month ago, and it was thought this baby would have been born in the

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spring, so it is thought that she would have been around four months

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pregnant. No medical risk to her, but as you say, very sad for both of

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them. You're watching BBC world News today. The latest headlines. Tunisia

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says it has uncovered a terror selling to the Berlin Christmas

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market attacker, Anis Amri. orders a review of Israel's contacts

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with the United Nations, after a resolution demanded a halt

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to Israeli settlement-building Fatima is a child of war. All three

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years old, she is to understand why her countrymen have turned their

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guns on each other the knots too young to bear the scars. She was

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seven years old when a tank shell tore through her home in

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north-western Syria. The final followed cripple the right hand,

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legs and vocal cords. 60% of her body was burnt. Her father went from

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hospital to hospital, pleading for doctors to save her life. Bred

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TRANSLATION: One hospital suggested giving her a lethal injection. They

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said Burns were too severe and that she be disabled for life. Now, when

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I look, I thank God she is alive and she makes us feel happy just by

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Cinco. -- just by seeing her. German surgeon heard the story and decided

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it could have a happy ending. She was instrumental in bringing Fatima

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and her friend -- family to Germany. She is damage treated. It is a huge

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challenge to operate on a child that is very underweight. She has the

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weight of a one-year-old. But we cannot wait much longer, because we

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want to walk as soon as possible. The doctors they have decades of

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experience, but even for them, this is not an everyday operation. The

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surgeons are conducting several procedures today. They want is to

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heal some of the scars of Fatima's face and test to see if they can

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help her hair grow again. But the main aim is to help her walk again

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and they are correcting her feet and using steel pins to keep them in

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place. If all goes well, they hope she can walk after three months.

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Three hours later, the operation is finished. Doctors say it will be

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sometime before they can determine whether it was success or not. It is

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not only if the mechanics are corrected, but also the psychology

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of being able to stand on her feet and climate and use her feet and

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start walking. So we don't know yet. For now, Fatima's wombs have been

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reopened. Her mother hopes that tears are worth it.

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TRANSLATION: We will walk together, God willing. And I hope she will be

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in the best position. She has suffered so much as a child. Fatima

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will remain in hospital for many weeks. She will receive

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physiotherapy and psychological support and Doctor soaps operate on

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her again in January. There will be more pain ahead, but the worst is

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now over. You may have heard of sheep rustling cattle rustling, but

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how about oyster rustling? In France every year, as the festive season

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gets underway, oyster farms on the coast are increasingly the target of

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thieves trying to cash in on the lucrative Christmas market. But help

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is at hand thanks to a new secret electronic oyster that act as a

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tracking device if it is moved. Every year at Christmas time, the

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French shell out millions of euros on seafood. And every year here, the

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farm shop does a thriving trade. But there is a downside to the booming

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oyster beds as demand goes up, so do prices and so does the temptation

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for oyster poaching. Oyster rustling at Christmas time in France is no

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laughing matter. Every year, tonnes of oysters are being stolen by

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unscrupulous operators and oyster growers have to spend a fortune of

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their own on security and night time patrols and cameras. At the nearby

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town there is a high-tech hub where they may have another answer.

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Scientists say have devised a kind of spy in the sea. This succulent

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thing has valves of the electronic kind. It sits with the real oysters

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and if they are unexpectedly taken off in the back of a truck, it sends

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out an alarm. They have a motion detector. The battery and a GPS

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process are in there. If there is a movement on the process is wakened

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and it sets the GPS position to your mobile phone. It can stay in water

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for up to two years. Being indistinguishable from the rest of

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the by, the Beacon will not be seen by the poacher. Here they fear

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night-time raids and at low tide, with a team of thieves and a truck,

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it would not take more than an hour to lift the terms of oysters that

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idea, especially if they know what they are doing. Oddly enough, the

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culprits are thought to be mainly other oyster growers.

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TRANSLATION: The problem is that orders for Christmas are made by

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wholesalers are very early in the year, but later, when some growers

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realise they are not going to be able to fulfil their orders, the

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easy solution for them is to steal oysters from their neighbours. There

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is a small amount of petty theft, it is true, but that is a side issue.

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Petty thieves cannot make off with five tonnes. There is one downside,

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of course, somewhere in here, there is a secret sleeper. Who is going to

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crunch into that for the Christmas lunch? President Obama has delivered

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his final Christmas message from the White House. Sitting alongside his

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wife Michelle, he said it had been an honour to serve as America's

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president. One of the best parts of the holiday

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season is spending time with the special people in your life

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and for me that means getting some help from my best

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friend for our annual Given how our first Christmas

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weekly address went, This is our first Christmas

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in the White House and... All right, you got

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to get it together. You are going to have

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to pull it together, Potus. Celebrating the holidays

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in the White House over these past eight years has been

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a true privilege. We've been able to welcome over

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half a million guests, our outstanding pastry chefs have

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baked 200,000 holiday cookies. And Barack has treated

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the American people Although a few got

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a frosty reception. We wish you and your family

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a happy and healthy 2017. Pope Francis is celebrating

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Christmas eve Mass in Saint Peter's Basilica. It is very busy and we

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have heard that this is the first major event of the Christmas season

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for Pope Francis. Of course there is his nude blessing on Christmas Day.

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Let us

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