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This is BBC World News Today with me, Alpa Patel.

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The headlines: The offensive to reclaim

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the last Islamic State stronghold in Iraq intensifies.

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As security forces close in on Western Mosul,

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thousands of civilians remain trapped in the fighting.

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We talk to some of those who have managed to escape.

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Murder, rape and the destruction of villages - the BBC hears

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accounts of abuse suffered by Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim

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The deadly impact of ebola on gorillas -

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a third of the world's population killed by the disease

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And the pitfalls of working from home - see the moment a guest

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is interrupted by his children while giving

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It's also the so-called Islamic State's last major

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But Iraqi forces say they are within weeks of driving

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After five months of fighting there have been heavy casualties.

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But government forces now control the east of the city.

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Which is divided by the River Tigris.

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Now they're pushing into the west of the city,

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where hundreds of thousands of civilians remain trapped.

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And the militants are still deeply embedded.

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Our correspondent Orla Guerin and cameraman Nico Hameon

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are close to the front line and sent this report.

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They are fleeing on foot from western Mosul,

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Countless numbers are likely to follow,

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and imagine if this was all you could bring with you.

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Many waited 'til the fight came right to their door.

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At 76, forced to leave home for the first time in his life.

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He told us a mortar landed nearby, just moments before.

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His ten-year-old grandson and namesake, clutching his

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school bag, though his only lessons here were in war.

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"I'd like to go back to school right this minute", he said.

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So-called Islamic State stopped him going years ago.

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Now, back in Iraqi hands, for what it's worth,

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It was just four days ago they were driven from here.

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This is the Engineering Department of Mosul University.

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On the IS curriculum, how to make chemical weapons.

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It was a source of pride for the people of Mosul.

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It was also a key strategic location for the so-called Islamic State.

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It gave them high ground to dominate the area,

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it was heavily defended by Uzbek fighters and this is just one

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of the areas that's going to have to be rebuilt

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when the battle for Mosul is finally over.

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Some Uzbek militants are still lying where they fell,

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no decent burial for those who terrorised a city.

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Nearby, a suicide belt they didn't manage to use.

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At dusk, troops gather for the next push forward.

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Increasingly, they strike under cover of darkness.

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Hunting for the extremists who once controlled nearly a third of Iraq.

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Some of the hardest fighting may be ahead in

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In the narrow streets of the old city,

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Beneath a sky lit only by embers of battle.

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In the pitch black streets, few signs of life, but hundreds

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of thousands remain in western Mosul,

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This lady and her family are sheltering in an abandoned house

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Three of her loved ones are in hospital,

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I lost my house, my children were injured.

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Her beloved Mosul will never recover, she believes.

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What future for a broken city in a fractured nation,

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even after the extremists are pushed out?

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There are fears that when Iraqis finish fighting IS,

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Staying in the region, the Turkish military say troops

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and Turkish-backed rebels have killed more than 70 Kurdish

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fighters in northern Syria, just in the past week.

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Turkey has threatened to attack the town of Manbij that is held

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The group is supported by the US, which sees it

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as the most effective force to launch a long anticipated attack

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on Raqqa, the IS de facto capital in Syria.

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It comes as the Russian president, Vladimir Putin has praised

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what he called the "unexpected level of contacts" that are developing

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between Russian and Turkish military agencies and special services.

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Following talks in Moscow with his Turkish counterpart,

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Recep Tayyip Erdogan, he said the two countries

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were working energetically to solve the Syrian crisis.

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Moscow and Ankara concerning the future for Syria is the much

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different but it is different from the one that the United States have

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and it seems that for President Putin and President Erdogan it is

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easy to talk to each other than talk in that triangle involving the

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United States, Tokyo and Moscow. So Russia has already taken the grounds

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that it needs and they have the help to recapture Aleppo, they help to

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recapture Palmeiro, and Turkey tries to secure a buffer zone between

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Syria and its own borders. And they have much more grounds for

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cooperation and talks rather than each of them has with the United

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States because the United States is such a powerful player. The German

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car-maker Volkswagen has pleaded guilty in an American court to three

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criminal charges linked to the diesel emissions scandal. The plea

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as part of a deal with the US Justice Department, under which the

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company will pay fines of more than $4.3 billion. Volkswagen has

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admitted that, between 2009-2015, vehicles were fitted with illegal

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software allowing them to pass emissions tests whilst still

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producing high levels of pollution. It's something Myanmar's government

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doesn't want the rest of the world to know about -

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how it treats its About a million Rohingya live

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in Myanmar - but they're denied citizenship and the most basic

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of human rights. In the last six months,

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75,000 refugees have fled The BBC has heard numerous

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testimonies of rape and murder being committed

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by the Burmese security forces. Here's our Myanmar

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correspondent Jonah Fisher. We have been receiving shocking

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video from a part of Myanmar at this close to the outside world. The

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Burmese government is trying to keep what its soldiers of the to an

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unwanted Muslim minority a secret. So we have come across the border to

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Bangladesh. 75,000 Rohingya Muslims are fled here in the last few

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months. This is Muhammad. He says he left his village in November when it

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was attacked by Burmese soldiers. His elderly father was too frail to

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flee. Four days, Muhammad heard nothing. Then when the Army

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withdrew, he returned to a gruesome scene.

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TRANSLATION:... This extremely distressing footage

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was from Mohamed's village. He tells me he believes his dad was shot, and

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the body burn. -- burned. Mohammed's story is

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supported by a video that we have verified of helicopters overhead,

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burning homes and large numbers of burnt bodies. Rate has been alleged

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on a massive scale. This woman became famous in Myanmar when she

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bravely spoke out about the abuse of Rohingya were meant to a team of

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government investigators. Months later we found in Bangladesh. She

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told us what the soldiers had done to her.

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She says she had to flee Myanmar after soldiers printed out her

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picture and came looking for her. The sheer scale of what the Rohingya

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refugees are alleging, with hundreds still doubt been killed and many

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more abuse, has shocked this United Nations envoy. I would say crimes

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against humanity. Definite crimes against humanity. How much

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responsibility should the leader of Myanmar therefore this? At the end

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of the day it is the government, the civilian government, that has the

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answer and respond to these massive cases of horrific torture and very

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inhumane crimes that they have committed against their own people.

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Myanmar's form of democracy icon refused all our interview requests.

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The United Nations has accused this country of crimes against humanity.

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Do you have any response to that? We spoke to one of her closest aides.

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That she take on board what people are saying when they say that it

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does not seem like she cares about the human rights of the Rohingya,

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for example? Please change the subject. We do not talk about the

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Rohingya. Hundreds of them have been killed. That is why we are raising

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the issue. Not hundreds. It is almost one year since all San Suu

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Kyi took office. So far the price of power has been silence and the

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principles and values once synonymous with her name. Let's take

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a look at some other news. EU leaders have stressed

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the importance of unity at a meeting ahead of Britain's expected

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departure from the bloc. The president of the European

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Council, Donald Tusk, should be to strengthen mutual trust

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for the remaining 27 members as they discuss proposals

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for a multi-speed Europe. Members of the Standing Rock Sioux

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Nation and their supporters have marched through the streets

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of Washington to protest against the controversial

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Dakota Access Pipeline. Native American tribes say leaks

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from the oil pipeline will pollute water supplies and endanger sites

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they consider sacred. The Formula 1 world has paid tribute

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to the former champion racing driver and motorcyclist John Surtees,

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who has died at the age of 83. John Surtees is the only man to win

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World Championships Tens of thousands of South Koreans

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have come out on the streets of Seoul to celebrate a court

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decision to remove President Park

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Geun-hye from office. The court upheld a parliamentary

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vote to impeach Ms Park over her role in a corruption

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scandal involving one

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of her close friends. The friend is accused of using her

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presidential connections to pressure companies to give millions of

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dollars in donations to foundations she controls. She is now on trial.

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In December Parliament voted to impeach President Park with the

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final decision moving to the Constitutional Court. In February,

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the boss of Samsun became involved in the scandal. He was arrested and

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accused of making donations in return for political favours. His

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trial started on Thursday. Today comes the final episode, as the

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Constitutional Court rules to uphold the impeachment and President Park

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is ousted from power. The chief justice says that Park

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broke the law, and the trust of the people. Outside the court, pro Park

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protesters clashed with police. Officers struggled to stop

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demonstrators on the other side toppling a bus. Two protesters died.

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The night, anti Park protesters have been holding a victory rally. I felt

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shivers going down my spine and I'm sure I'm not the only one in South

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Korea today to feel this way. It is an extraordinary thing in the

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history of a country to see the president removed the democratic

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constitutional mechanism. There will be an election within two months.

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For three months, protesters have chanted that President Park must go.

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Tonight, she spent her last night in the Presidential Palace. She may yet

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end up behind bars. News about the recent outbreaks

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of Ebola in West Africa has centred

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on its devastating impact on humans. But gorilla populations

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are known to have suffered A third of the world's gorillas have

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been killed by ebola When a group is infected,

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around 95% of them die. With all four species of gorilla now

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critically endangered, researchers from Cambridge

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University want to immunize Our science correspondent

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Rebecca Morelle has more. In the African forests, an animal

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at risk of vanishing forever. Gorillas already face many threats,

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from poaching to habitat loss, but perhaps the most

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worrying is ebola. The deadly disease is thought

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to have wiped out many thousands So we put it on the sides

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of the nose This scientist has carried out

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a small trial on captive chimps, the last before bio-medical

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research on these animals He found a vaccine protected them

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against the virus and now he wants

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to use it on gorillas in the wild. Ebola and other diseases

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are a huge threat. If these were our children,

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we vaccinate our children, right? We vaccinate wildlife

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in the developed world. Why aren't we vaccinating our

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closest relatives in Africa? The deadly toll of ebola in humans

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is all too well-known. The 2013 outbreak in West Africa

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killed more than 11,000 people. Now, though, there's

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an effective human vaccine. Ebola in humans and gorillas

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is closely linked. The virus can

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cross between species. Some argue that gorillas should

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now be immunised, too. Gorillas are one of our closest

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relatives and saving is now a number one priority

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for conservationists and an ebola vaccine does offer

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some much needed hope, but there could be

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significant risks. Finding a method to get a dose

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of the vaccine into every

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gorilla would be difficult. There's also a risk that it

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could harm the animals, We, as great ape conservationists,

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are concerned about any unintended impacts on the health of the target

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apes, such as introduction of a disease that might spread

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amongst the intended population The future of these animals

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is hanging in the balance. The forests are currently free

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of ebola, but it's inevitable

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it will strike again. Conservationists need to decide

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whether the risk of vaccinating or not vaccinating is one they're

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willing to take. Absolutely stunning animals, aren't

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they? Have you ever wondered

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what infinity might look like? The 87-year-old Japanese artist

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Yayoi Kusama has pretty much captured the experience

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at an exhibition at the Hirshhorn

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Museum in Washington. The 87-year-old Japanese artist

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Yayoi Kusama has pretty much at the Hirshhorn

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Museum in Washington. It's become one of the art events

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of the year, with long lines to glimpse inside her

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so-called infinity rooms. Jane O'Brien went to see

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what all the fuss is about. It is easy to get lost in one of

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Yayoi Kusama's row in committee rooms even though they are

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physically quite tiny. Mirrors and lights warped perceptions of what is

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real and what is illusion. We are living in a time when almost

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everything we see and experience is through digital technology, through

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digital media, through e-mail and so on. That is so much a part of our

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lives and perception that she reminds us that there is this other

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aspect of experiencing space that sometimes is more tactile. To

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understand how Yayoi Kusama reached infinity, you need to step into her

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white room. As a child, Kusama had a vision of polka dots which led to an

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acute neurosis which she confronted by focusing on dots in her art.

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Visitors are encouraged to stick them everywhere in this room,

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eventually obliterating the white and leading to oblivion. Which

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brings us back to infinity. At first being in this room makes me feel

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incredibly happy, surrounded by glow-in-the-dark pumpkins, for

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goodness sake. But after a couple of seconds it becomes quite disturbing,

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because this is probably the closest any of us will come to seeing what

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infinity must look like, and once you grasp that, you realise how

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utterly insignificant you really are. Most people inside these rooms

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immediately reached for their are. Most people inside these rooms

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cellphones. This is, after all, the ultimate selfie. But, not so fast,

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says the museum director. If you are in this infinity mode room and you

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don't stop and put down your phone, you're not truly experiencing it

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because it is this moment when you are alone in the cosmos, in one of

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these pieces, and it is a very compelling, kind of poignant

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feeling. Get past the show stopping infinity rooms and there is plenty

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more to tickle the senses. Voluptuous sculptures, dots,

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appendages, dots and poor box. Yoyoi Kusama is arguably the most

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important contemporary artist in Japan. This exhibition reveals why

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her appeal is global. An absolute feast for the eyes, that one.

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Present Donald Trump has spoken to the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas

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by phone. It's the first conversation between them since Mr

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Trump took office in January. A spokesman for the Palestinian leader

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said the US president has invited him to visit the White House to

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discuss peace talks. His spokesman went on to say that President Trump

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invited the Palestinian leader to visit soon.

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A sea turtle in Thailand is recovering well after

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an operation to remove 915 coins from its stomach.

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The 25-year-old turtle, nicknamed Bank, for obvious reasons,

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in various currencies than 5kg of coins

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that tourists had tossed into the pond where she lived.

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Occasionally most of us are guilty of being hungry for cash and a sea

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turtle and Thailand is no different. She was brought from a pond in a

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small fishing village to bets in Bangkok to investigate a cracked

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shell. Attention soon turn to her extraordinary weight. An x-ray

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revealed the cause. This saw the mass that you can see in the stomach

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is in fact 915 coins. Now nicknamed Bank for obvious reasons, the turtle

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is lucky to be alive. The removal of the money took hours of emergency

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surgery, which Bank has certainly paid for, physically. The healing

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seems to be OK. There is no secondary infection, because we are

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using sterile sea water but the nickel concentration is very high

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and her, so that, we have to work on. The coins which were withdrawn

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from Bank are a variety of international currencies. Many

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tourists had tossed them into the pond to invite luck over the years.

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Luck which has certainly rubbed off on this fortunate creature. Now a

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reminder that BBC world News is brought to you live every day.

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Which means - on air - the unexpected can happen.

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Earlier today, our presenter James Menendez was interviewing

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Professor Robert Kelly, at his home in South Korea,

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He had some very important points to make - but I think it's fair

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to say you'll do well to remember them after this.

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He was overshadowed by his children. Scandals happen all the time. The

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question is how democracies respond to them. I think one of your

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children has just walked in. Shifting sands in the region. Maybe

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relations with North Korea change? I would be surprised if they do.

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Pardon me. My apologies! What does it mean for the region? My

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apologies. Sorry. South Korea's policies towards North Korea have

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been severely limited in the last six months... It is no wonder that

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that clip as one while. That is the nature of live TV. And Professor

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Robert Kelley made it through professionally. Goodbye for

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Robert Kelley made it through professionally. Goodbye for now.

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The weekend is looking pretty mixed across the UK. The best day of the

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weekend by far will be Saturday. Quite mild, particularly in the

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south. Sunday will bring some rainfall, not a lot but there will

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be some across the country. Right now it is overcast out there. There

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is a weather front approaching and it is going to bring some rain to

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north-western parts of the course of Friday

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