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This is BBC World News Today with me Geeta Guru-murthy.

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Malaysia says the half-brother of the North Korean leader

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Toxicology reports show he died from VX poisoning -

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a substance which the UN classifies as a weapon of mass destruction.

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Donald Trump's latest promise to his supporters:

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and better America - and no delay in building the wall:.

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With building the wall. We're building the wall. In fact, it's

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going to start soon. Way ahead of schedule.

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The fatal shooting of an Indian man in the US is investigated

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The American new intervened is hailed as a hero.

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And preparations begin for Sunday's Oscars ceremony. Will Hollywood the

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Goering La-la? -- the. Five. Welcome.

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Police in Malaysia say a highly toxic nerve agent called VX has been

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found on the face of Kim Jong Nam - the murdered half brother

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Mr Kim died last week after two women accosted him

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briefly in a check-in hall at a Kuala Lumpur airport.

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The nerve agent, VX, is classified as a weapon of mass

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Our correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports

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Last week at Kuala Lumpur airport, and some choose to attack Kim Jong

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Nam in full view of these six CCTV cameras. It was a very deliberate

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and public act of violence. To date, we learned what killed him. As is

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even more shocking. It is VX nerve agents. A chemical weapon. Kim Jong

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Nam was walking across this busy departures hall was the granny was

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attacked at this exact spot and now we know what killed him. Small

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Charitable Donations and Childcare Payments Bill:. One of the most

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deadly nerve agent ever invented. 100th of a gram would have been

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enough to kill him. -- VX. Someone used it to kill and hair in the

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middle of this International Airport. It is colourless and

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odourless with the view of engine oil. Said Adley, it is classified by

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the United Nations as a weapon of mass destruction. -- so deadly.

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Symptoms include:. It was produced in the 80s. North Korea's dictator

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Kim Jong Un already had nuclear weapons. Some think he has sent a

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message by killing his brother with the deadly nerve agent. What we do

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know is they have a weapon of mass destruction. VX, which has the

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potential to kill many thousands of people, they show that they want to

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be part of the weapons of mass destruction club and that they

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should be taken the really. If we do nothing, we are going to be in a

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very difficult position. This is probably far more dangerous than the

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nuclear weapons programme that has been spoken about in the past 12

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months. The more we learn, the more bizarre the story becomes. This is

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one of the alleged assassins' Facebook page. Nothing about her

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suggests he could be a killer. About the only thing we knew is that Kim

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Jong Nam must have died in excruciating pain. His body

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convulsed, his long lasting for air. -- lungs. -- gasping.

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Richard Guthrie is a chemical weapon consultant and he can join

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Thank you for joining us. What do we know about VX and who might possess

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it? It is one of the most potent nerve agents. It is highly toxic and

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has a perfect right interviewing signalling between nerve cells says

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edition doses, the nerves cannot Ali Al basic functions, such as

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controlling heartbeat and breathing. That can inevitably leads to death.

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In other countries have manufactured it over the years, mainly in very

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small quantities. It is hard to scale production to an industrial

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process because the chemistry is quite complicated and some of the

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Chronicles used to manufacture it are highly reactive. -- chemicals.

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Have to be used under controlled conditions. It is made in small

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quantities in a number of laboratories at long, across the

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world, primarily to test equipment. The Beano which countries, other

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than North Korea, might possess this and do we have any evidence they

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might possess it? -- Do we know. Many countries have now signed up to

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the 1990s the chemical weapons Convention, which is aimed at the

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chemical weapons free world. There are only about five countries who

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have not signed up and your career is one of them. There are other

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countries who have had VX, such as the United States, former Soviet

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Union and Syria had a small quantity. There is of all been

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destroyed. How worrying is that we have seen this being used in such an

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open, busy area? How was it not picked up in Malaysia? Well, it's

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easy for VX not to be picked up because it is contained, then it

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would not give off any kind of odour. It is easy to protect a small

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quantity and they would only need a small quantity in this case. There

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has been a very long history of assassination by poison over the

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decades. Famously in 1989, the apartheid authorities tried to kill

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a reverend who became adviser to the President when it was the ANC

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administration. They laced his underwear with nerve agent and he

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was lucky to survive. Some assassination by poison is done

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discreetly in order to make it look like it's natural causes. Other side

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dot-mac times, it is done in an overt manner to be an expression of

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power. This would seem to be a case where the authorities, one presumes,

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in North Korea, want to strand agelong, powerful message that they

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have these materials and can use them. -- send a strong message. We

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want to talk about the effect on the victim, or how it acts. Looking at

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the footage, it was such a brief level of contact if that is what

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happened. It is potentially a very brief level of contact bodies VX

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will play on your skin and may need a drop of a less than the size that

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you can see with the visible ally to kill. Because it affects the nervous

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system and permeates through the body affecting the nervous system.

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Then the large exposure would be quick, but it can, over a period of

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Alice, with very tiny exposure, implies that the substance detected

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was VX, that it was not the smallest of those is to allow him to walk

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around for some minutes, but that doesn't go out VX. It is very

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consistent with known reactions of VX recommending the past. Thank you

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very much indeed. Good to talk to you. Thank you.

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For Donald Trump, it was like going back

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The President has been speaking to the Conservative wing

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of the Republican Party, at an event in Maryland -

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the place he says he made his first real political speech,

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at the start of his campaign for the White House.

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He told the gathering that he'd inherited a mess, but said

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he was keeping his promises, and insisted that construction

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of the wall along the Mexican border would start soon.

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Here's a little of what he had to say.

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For too long, we have traded away our jobs to different countries. So

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terrible. We have defended other nations' borders, while leaving Al

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is wide open, anyone can come in. -- ours we are going to build a wall.

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Don't worry about it. We are building the wall. In fact, it will

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start soon, way ahead of schedule. CHEERING

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Way, way, way ahead of schedule. I'm not against the press, I don't mind

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bad stories if I deserve them. I don't get too many of them. I can

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only against the fake news, media press. Fake, fake. We have to leave

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that word. I'm against people who make up sources.

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They shouldn't be allowed to use sources unless they

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We are also putting in a massive budget request for our military.

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CHEERING And we will be substantially

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upgrading all of our military, all of our military. Authentic,

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defensive, everything. They get and better, and stronger than ever

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before. And hopefully we will never have to use it but nobody will

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message is, folks. Jane O'Brien is in

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Washington for us. We have seen two very senior members

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of the new administration in Mexico City this week. He is still going

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forward with the plan, any detail on it? Now. That is the bottom line. No

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detail whatsoever. When he says he is ahead of schedule, we don't know

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what the schedule was so no clue what that means. He also still have

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to find the money because no one has come up with Google paid. Mexico

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said it will not but presumably the will have to leave some amount of

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billions of dollars to build the wall. There are issues over the land

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that this wall will cross, much of it is owned privately. We will have

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to buy it on private land owners, all the drill. That will cost money.

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All sorts of details that will need to be thrashed out in that speech.

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Fake news and fake sources, we heard. This be a recurring theme.

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Some of his own sources been called into question a number of times on

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the campaign trail. What a remake of this latest assault? To be perfectly

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honest, you have to take it with a pinch of salt. What he was doing

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there was playing to his audience. This was his warm up act. He

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mentioned that at the beginning of his speech and the audience loved

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it. His actual message there was that his supporters should listen to

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him. They should not be distracted by all the bad press that he is

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getting like the story about what he is doing all the stories about his

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dysfunctional White House, or the story about what he says. They

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should listen to him, they should listen and look to what he is doing

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and I think that is the message he is trying to get across there.

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Again, saying he is going to improve funding for the military. Again, I

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don't know if any numbers came out there. He is a very powerful man in

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a powerful position with a huge military already. Indeed. What he

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did not mention is, as he said, the military has always been big.

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America is a superpower. What has been lacking in the last eight years

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is the political will to use it. I think that is far more to the point

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and again, it comes down to money. He mentioned in that speech

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sequestration, a horrible word but it's what Congress decided to do

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when they couldn't agree a budget eight years ago, blanket cut across

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the board, including the military. There is a deficit budget talks have

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not left on dress, they will be watching the dolls anti-sense, and

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they will want to know how Donald Trump wants to pay for his enlarged

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military. -- and the cents. Thank you.

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Iraqi forces are launching attacks on a neighbourhood

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in the west of Mosul - one day after troops

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It fell to IS in June 2014 and the Iraqi military

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operation to re-take it began in October last year.

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Government forces retook the eastern side -

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across the River Tigris - last month.

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The river, which splits the city in two, is now the front line.

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Iraqi forces advanced into the western side

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via the south on Sunday, moving in on the airport.

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And also cutting off exit routes to the Syria border to stop IS

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Well, earlier we received this update via twitter

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correspondent Quentin Sommerville, who's on the front line in western

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Here is a look at part of his story to day.

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Do follow him on Twitter to keep up to date with what is happening in

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Mosul, in a rock. Now a look at some of

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the days other news. France's far-right presidential

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candidate, Marine le Pen, has refused to be questioned

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by police in connection The National Front leader denies any

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wrongdoing and claims the allegations are designed

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to damage her election prospects. The European Parliament alleges that

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more than 300,000 euros of funding was misspent

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by her party. Britain's main opposition

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Labour Party has suffered a shock defeat to the governing

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Conservatives in a parliamentary It's the best by-election

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performance by a governing party in Britain in more

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than half a century. Labour had held the seat

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for more than 80 years. At least 18 people have been killed

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in a crash improve. Many casualties were on the bus which burst into

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flames and chainsaws were used to free people from the wreckage. --

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Peru. US police are investigating

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whether the fatal shooting of an Indian software engineer

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in the state of Kansas Srinivas Kuchbhotla was killed

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and another Indian engineer Alok Madasani was injured

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in the attack. Adam Purinton has been charged

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with murder after the shooting Some people on social media have

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blamed the charged atmosphere created by Donald Trump. It has been

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said it's too early to point out a motive.

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A third victim who was injured is 24-year-old Ian Grillot.

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He's being hailed as a hero after stepping in and trying

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He has been speaking from his hospital bed. I heard gunshots, I

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got out, expected his magazine to be empty, tried chasing down, but I

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guess I miss counted. I got behind him and turn around, he fired at me.

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-- need to around. We are looking at if the crime was

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committed with buyers and motivation. -- biased motivation. I

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just done what anyone should do for another human being. It's not about

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where you're from or ethnicity, we are all humans. One of the gentleman

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who survived came in here today and it was the greatest thing. I can't

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even describe it. Some one who was watching over me. I wanted to go

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fishing this weekend but I don't think that's going to be happening

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right now. That's my first thing I want to do is do a bit of fishing

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and get together with the gentleman that I have now become best friends

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with after last night. Of course, one man killed and

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another Indian person injured. We will keep up-to-date with that story

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for you. We've been reporting

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on President Trump's rally today - but remember his rally last weekend

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in Florida and his His remarks about what was happening

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there on the night before I do a lot of heat on Sweden. --

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took. A day later, I said, has anyone reported what has been going

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on? It turned out they didn't. Take a look at what happened in Sweden. I

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love Sweden. Great country, great people. I love Sweden, but they

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understand I'm right. The people over there understand I'm right.

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Take a look at what is happening in Sweden.

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The comments Mr Trump was referring to concerned a Fox News documentary

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about alleged violence committed by refugees in Sweden.

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Our correspondent Maddy Savage has been to Malmo, one of Sweden's

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most diverse cities, to find out what the situation

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You look at what's happening at night in Sweden. Sweden, who would

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believe this? Sweden. Since Donald Trump's comments, there has been a

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way of media stories on Sweden's migration. They take in more than

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almost anywhere in Europe. Many settled in Malmo, everyone is

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Sweden's mouse Toryism neighbourhoods, Rosengard. So what

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it really like there? Police in Sweden and publish data on

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the ethnicity of criminals, but they have taught us that, in Malmo, one

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of Sweden's most diverse cities, crime has actually gone down in the

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last year. In the same time, fair crime here has gone up. It is this

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their asses driving support for the country's national party which

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believes Donald Trump was right to link crime with immigration.

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Rosengard has a lot more problems than we see an more Swedish part of

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Sweden. You want the army together into Rosengard?

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The governments there is talk of no go zones is highly exaggerated. We

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in the spent the night in Rosengard, we saw no outward signs of trouble.

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Is this typical? And many locals here say they are

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fed up of feeling like political footballs on a global debate about

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immigration. A debate plenty with like to call time on.

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On Sunday millions around the world will tune in to watch

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the Oscars where La La Land - a musical revolving

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around two LA dreamers - is expected to scoop

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But the Academy Awards won't just highlight escapism.

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The ceremony will also showcase more earthbound movies

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with diverse casting - and may become an arena

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Top of the Oscars he is La La Land, which seems to have won the hearts

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and minds of Academy members. This musical has earned 14 Oscar

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nominations, matching the wreckage set by the pictures All About Eve

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and Titanic. The stars believe it has revived the musical genre. It's

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a genre we all thought was gone, the old Hollywood musical. It still very

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special that it happened and I think that the audience has connected with

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that. On the block nominees are less creamy than La La Land. When it

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comes to storytelling, they display diversity. Lack of inclusion at the

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Academy Awards has been a big issue. Last year, the Oscars was besieged

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by white protest. This year, there are films like Moonlight and Fences

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nominated, which have largely black casts. There have been many black

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actors nominated this year, as well as one with Indian It's great that

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we have had more black people nominated across the board, actors,

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cinematographers, directors, screenplay. All easily it's not just

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about black nominees, it's about all different kinds of nominees. We

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still have a far way to go before we can say that Oscars Are White is

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obsolete. There has been protest after the protest since Donald Trump

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moved into the White House. The Oscars podium may be used to vent

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discontent. This could be the most politicised Oscars we have ever had

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because I think, for the first time, a mass number of actors feel that

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perhaps their role as citizens is more important and they will speak

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out. Protest extends beyond American shores. Iranian film director

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nominated for his picture, Knee Salesman, has decided not to come

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because of Donald Trump. And actively, with awards shows we have

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seen over the past two or three weeks, people have things they want

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to say. When they get on a platform, they will say it. What they say to

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people you don't think the Oscars is the appropriate arena for expressing

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protest? I think the Oscars are political and it is a platform to

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honour the art. That all becomes part and parcel with the art. The

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White House has suggested the president may already be engaged on

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Oscar night but that may not stop anyone on the podium who criticises

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him and his policies from receiving presidential condemnation or

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ridicule by way of Twitter. That happens to Meryl Streep at a legal

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ban blog award that could happen again on Sunday night. -- own Golden

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Globes night. Now, just last season, Claudio Ranieri was parading around

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the Premier League trophy with Leicester City. Now he has been

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sacked. The bosses said they could not risk the file's future hanging

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just above the relegation zone. However, Claudio Ranieri said what

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happened was an amazing adventure. Is there anything you would like to

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say to the fans? Yes, I am very sad for them. I wish them all the best.

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It has caused some shock waves here. Let me tell you. Gary Lineker,

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former Leicester player, has said he is very sad.

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And you can get in touch with me and the team on Twitter -

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Hello. Nothing too money horizon through this weekend, thankfully. On

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the other hand, no clear blue skies and sunshine all the time. From it.

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It'll be mild, plus the ruins but nothing too extreme. Some rain,

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then. Especially along the west. This set of weather fronts will

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bring a pretty wet and windy start

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