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Turkey holds its largest trial yet over last year's attempted coup.

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Nearly 500 people are marched to court, heckled by

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Two Venezuelan opposition leaders are taken from their homes

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After the way he was taken and beaten we were desperate

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because I don't know my father's physical condition.

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Anthony Scaramucci's time as Trump's communications

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But late night comedians in the US are making hay.

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A White House media briefing is about to start.

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Hello and welcome to World News Today.

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We begin with Turkey and there's been dramatic scenes outside

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a courthouse near the capital, Ankara, where the trial has started

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for nearly 500 people accused of plotting to overthrow

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the government in last year's attempted coup.

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Forty of the plot's alleged leaders were marched in,

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heckled by government supporters and relatives of those

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Some of those on trial are facing charges from

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attempting to assassinate the president, to murder.

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The BBC's Middle East editor Sebastian Usher reports.

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One by one of the alleged leaders of the coup were marched up to the

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court. An angry crowd including both relatives of those killed during the

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coup and some of those wounded in the violence and child that demand

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for the return of the death penalty which was abolished in Turkey years

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ago also for some of the crowd, the treatment of the accused was already

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lenient. TRANSLATION: It is not normal that the state is feeding

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these assassins, we want to see them with chains round their feet. They

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did not even come with civilian clothes on but instead with their

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prison clothes -- should not even come. The last time some the suspect

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like the act forced the money was seen in public it was in the

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immediate aftermath of the two when their faces were bruised and

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bloodied. No doubting the anger that the attempted coup provoked, not

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just among the President's 's borders but many other Turkish babe

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as well. With the streets of Ankara and Istanbul commitments attack and

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more than 250 people killed on July 15 last year. The first anniversary

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of the defeat of the coup with celebrated two weeks ago with a huge

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rally in Istanbul that was addressed by President Erdogan who inaugurated

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a monument to those who died. His position has been strengthened by

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the two of his critics say he has used it to dogged all his opponents.

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Some 50,000 people remain in detention in connection with it but

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the man the Tigers government accused of being behind it, this

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Muslim cleric, remained in the United States despite Ankara's

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repeated demands for his extradition. He has been tried in

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absentia for this, the biggest trial far off suspects. I thought now they

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face life imprisonment if convicted but the calls for them to receive

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the ultimate punishment are only likely to grow at their trial

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continues through the rest of this month.

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Aykan Erdemir is from the Foundation for Defense

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He is live with us here. Thank you for your time. Do you approve of the

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use of mass trials in these circumstances? This is a historic

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trial because as you know Turkey have had a string of creditors,

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failed or successful, and rarely has anybody been brought to court -- a

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string of coups. Turkey has a culture of impunity and lack of

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accountability is a bit is a turning point fully Turkish justice system

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and as you can see across the political spectrum there is support

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for the trial of the plotters. Having said that, there are major

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concerns among the opposition that there is a lack of rule of law and

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due process. There are concerns that the ongoing trials could be used as

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part of which chance to go after opposition figures who had nothing

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to do with the coup and also there are concerns that some of the State

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officials who had been culpable or negligent in the run-up to and in

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the aftermath of the coup could be spared from these trials. There are

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still questions of transparency and accountability. You say some

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opponents have concerns these trials could be used for political means.

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You were an opposition MP, do you have there concerns and do you

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believe these trials will inevitably become political? What I think most

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people including the agreed on that come all plotters of the coop should

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be brought before court and they should be an example for Turkish

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politics, that there is accountability... I understand that,

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very few people in Turkey would suggest coup plotters should be

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brought to court but I was asking if you believe these trials can remain

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apolitical? Actually from what we can see so far with the number of

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people detained there certainly are a large number of individuals who

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had nothing to do with the coup, with the plotters, and who have been

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targeted simply because they are in the opposition. This is a growing

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concern not only for me but for the opposition across the spectrum in

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Turkey. Thank you for your time, we appreciate you joining us today.

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Two Venezuelan opposition leaders who were taken away from their homes

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overnight have been transferred to the Ramo Verde military

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Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma were already under house arrest.

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They were taken back to prison after recording videos urging

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the Venezuelan people to protest against the government

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Mr Ledezma's daughter told the BBC that her father felt

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He had a moral responsibility with the Venezuelan people of saying

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that what happened last Sunday was an electoral fraud,

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and my father, as the current mayor of Caracas, knew that he has

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the responsibility of addressing the Venezuelan people and telling

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all of us that we need to keep protesting peacefully

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What happened to my father last night at 12.45am in the night

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was nothing else but a kidnap, a kidnap because the Maduro

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political police just took him without a warrant or anything

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My father was violently taken for a lot of hours.

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It wasn't until one hour ago that we have the confirmation

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that my father was actually taken to the military jail

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of Ramo Verde, the same destination as Leopoldo Lopez.

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Until this moment I don't know my father's physical condition.

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He was beaten, he was taken in a very violent way and I want

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the world to know that we're talking about the elected and re-elected

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The only mayor in the world who is arbitrarily detained.

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We're talking about a man whose only crime has been demanding

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the dictatorship we are suffering in Venezuelan, demanding the lack

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of food, the lack of medicine and demanding the humanitarian

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There is more information on the situation in Venezuelan on line on

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the BBC website. Let's take a look at some of

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the other stories making the news. Explosions at a mosque

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in the western Afghan city of Herat have killed about 20 people

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and injured many more. Police said the attack was carried

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out by a suicide bomber and another assailant who threw

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a grenade at worshippers. The mosque is in an area mainly

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inhabited by Shia Muslims. Three suspected gang members have

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been killed in a shoot-out It was during a hearing involving

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a group of central Asian nationals accused of murdering motorists

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in the Moscow region. Police say five defendants

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tried to seize weapons The three were killed

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trying to escape. China has formally opened its first

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overseas military base. The event, in Djibouti in east

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Africa, was timed to coincide with the 90th anniversary

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of China's People's Liberation Army. Authorities have dismissed

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concerns about China's expanding military prowess,

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arguing the base will be used A great day at the White House -

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that was Donald Trump's assessment last night after his new director

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of communications, Anthony Scaramucci, was sacked even

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before he'd formally taken Not for the first time the president

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seemed at odds with many observers Here's our North America

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Editor Jon Sopel. It's being billed

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as the Last Supper. Anthony Scaramucci last night having

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dinner at where else? The restaurant in the Trump Hotel

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just hours after he had been At roughly the same time

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came this extraordinary The swearing in of General John

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Kelly as chief of staff being seen as a new beginning

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for this administration. He will do a spectacular job,

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I have no doubt, as chief of staff. So could this mark the end

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of what has been a turbulent, dysfunctional six months

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for all the President's men? The former National Security Adviser

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was the first to go, fired after just 24 days in the job

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after he lied about his contacts Three months after being fired,

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Trump's first communications director, the rather anonymous

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Mike Dubke, handed Then came the super sacking,

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the high profile and brutal dismissal of the former FBI

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director, James Comey, infuriating the president

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with his investigation into links between the Russians

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and the Trump campaign. 11 days ago it was the turn

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of the press secretary Sean Spicer. He walked, furious that

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President Trump had hired Anthony Scaramucci

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as communications director. The departure of Reince Priebus

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came as little surprise after he was subject to a vicious

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verbal attack by incoming After just ten days into the job,

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Mooch was front-stabbed The profound hope among those close

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to the President Trump is that, with General Kelly in charge,

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there will be a fundamental change A change in personnel leading

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to high expectations followed But in the meantime, the late-night

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comedians are making hay. The president has been

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very busy repealing and replacing his staff,

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most notably Anthony Lasted as communications

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director for only ten days! And then he left us

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with nothing but memories, But some things are still

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refreshingly familiar. Donald Trump tweeting

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a short time ago... Keep an eye on Twitter for updates

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on that story. When Waheed Arian was a young boy

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growing up in Afghanistan, Many years later he's now

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an emergency medic living in the north west of England

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and using augmented reality to help today's victims

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of violence in his homeland. His "tele-medicine" system allows

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doctors in war zones to get help Our world affairs editor,

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John Simpson, reports. We hear plenty of depressing

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stories about Afghanistan Afghanistan has one

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of the lowest standards Doctors often aren't

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very highly trained But they can contact

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Doctor Waheed Arian, an Afghan who qualified as a doctor

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in Britain, and he can give them detailed medical

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advice using social media. From his home in Chester he takes

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messages a day and night. So I'll take the arrow

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and we place it... Now Waheed Arian and his team

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are developing new ways of showing We discussed a medical case,

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we solved the problem. It was a live medical case in one

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of the hospitals in Kabul, Afghanistan, and using augmented

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reality we discussed it As a boy in the 1980s,

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Waheed had to escape from the Russians who had

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invaded his country. He and his family

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were lucky to survive. When civil war flared up

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in Afghanistan his parents sent him He was 15 and didn't speak much

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English, yet within four years he was studying

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medicine at Cambridge. And he became passionate

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about helping people Waheed doesn't get much time

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with his family in Chester. He's taken leave of absence

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to develop his tele-medicine ideas but in order to pay the bills he has

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to work every weekend Yes, he is away a lot,

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and it can be hard and it can be lonely at times when you're

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on your own and you're seeing But on the other side I know that

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doing amazing things for humanity, he's going to be saving thousands

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of lives so I look at the positive. Helping others in Afghanistan

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to survive is, he says, his therapy. Medical researchers have revealed

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details of a new approach to treating people with pancreatic

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cancer, one of deadliest Scientists in the UK say a pilot

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treatment increased the number of patients whose surgery

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was successful, by almost 30%. Our health correspondent,

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Michele Paduano, reports. Kate Rigby was amazed at how

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smoothly the NHS worked, when she was diagnosed

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with pancreatic cancer. Within seven days she'd had surgery

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at the Queen Elizabeth I can't control NHS budgets

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and all the other things for the poor people who aren't as lucky

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as me, but what I can do is spread Normally, patients with jaundice,

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like Mrs Rigby, have a stent put in to relieve symptoms,

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which delays the main operation. A nurse was employed

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to speed up treatment Cutting out the stent also saves

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the NHS ?3200 per patient. We save the NHS

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potentially ?200,000 per year with the number of patients

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that have surgery within our team. So that, then, is a reproducible

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model that other units up and down At this point in time,

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you would want to go forward for your operation

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next week if you could, rather than to go off and have a stent,

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and your operation seven Pancreatic cancer has

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a very low survival rate. The survival rate is only

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about 7% in the UK - I think what this provides us

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is a glimmer of hope for the future. It provides us with that

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all-important surgical technique faster, and with proven

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results in terms of outcomes. It will be two years

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before doctors can say whether treating patients more

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quickly actually means that And if they do, that will beg

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the question as to whether or not other aggressive cancers

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should be treated more quickly. For now, Kate Rigby

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knows she's been given the best chance possible

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to survive pancreatic cancer. The US Secretary of State, Rex

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Tillerson, is making an appearance in Washington and talking at the

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moment. ... Very experienced a battered and diplomat and he knows

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the area well and knows Russia well and our partners well and he is very

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clear about his mission, to see if we cannot engage to move the process

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in Ukraine forward. It has been stalled for quite some time as you

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know. This announcement has been welcomed both by the Russians and by

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the Normandy group that has been engaged with Russia in effort to

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move the discussions forward. We are hopeful we can make some progress in

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beginning to move the situation in Ukraine to a place of engagement and

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movement towards achieving a true ceasefire because the outbreak of

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violence this year has been just heartbreaking to watch in east

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Ukraine. We are going to continue to uphold our commitment to the

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transatlantic relationship and the president has been quite clear on

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our commitment to Nato and on his expectations of others in Nato and

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all that appropriately so. We have affirmed the commitment to article

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five and unquestionably that should not be an issue in anybody's mind

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any longer and in working with Russia and the difficult issues

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there, I want to acknowledge Brian Hook, Mike director of policy

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planning, who has worked with his team to give that a number of

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options. Two important ambassadors in the regions, John Teft the

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ambassador in Moscow who is dealing with a tough situation and altered

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the ambassador in Ukraine who is to outstanding job working with

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President Poroschenko to help the government in Ukraine, to strengthen

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its own governing standards and continue to make progress on the

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anti-corruption campaign and strengthen their own justice system

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which we think is important to their stability going forward. I want

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return to the Middle East and against the destruction of radical

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Islamist terrorism in the form of Isis or Daesh and also Al-Qaeda and

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the many other names you all know. The coalition has integrated

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civilian and military efforts and I think it has achieved remarkable

:20:44.:20:48.

success since President Trump came into office. He made some very

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significant shifts in military authorities to put battlefield

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command decisions closer to the fight and the results are evident.

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More than 70% of Iraqi territory that was once held by Isis has been

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liberated and recovered, Isis has been unable to retake any territory

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that has been liberated. That is the US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson

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got talking about the US-led coalition's efforts to push the

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Islamic State group out of the territory it hold in Iraq and Syria

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and he has been praising the president for the decisions yet

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again and is claiming those decisions have born benefits both in

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Iraq and Syria. Before we started Syria and Legg listening he talked

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about China and North Korea, saying the US does not blame China for

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North Korea. If you read President Trump's tweets over the weekend on

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the subject you would have heard a man blaming China. We did China

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could resolve this easily and said he was angry it had not happened. A

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different there but not for the first time, between the president

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and some of those in his administration. Mr Tillerson said no

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regime change was planned for North Korea and he acknowledged how China

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has changed and the relationship between China and the US is at a

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pivotal moment and on that I think everybody would agree. We will keep

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listening to that if there are any other significant statements. Now,

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the magazine British Vogue has a new editor today, the first man at the

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helm in its history. He has taken over from the editor of the last 25

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years. The UK fashion industry is worth ?26 billion a year to the

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economy so people will be watching very closely to see how the new

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editor shapes the magazine. He has already made some startling changes,

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as you will see in this report from our arts correspondent, David

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Sillito. Hi, my name is Edward Enninful,

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I'm the editor in chief He looks really eccentric

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and that is going to I was spotted on a train when I was

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16 years old to be a model. I think it's a massive change

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for British fashion. Edward Enninful is today

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in charge of one of the most important names in fashion,

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Vogue. The last editor of British Vogue

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was in place for 25 years They have gone on to Snapchat and

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there is a new, more diverse team. He has over 500,000

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Instagram followers. He has appointed Steve McQueen,

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Naomi Campbell, as you say, All these independent professionals

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who, to a certain extent, rely on social media to keep

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building their brands. Vogue is the top of the fashion tree

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and features clothes It has, though, been a pretty torrid

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time for the magazine business over the last few years because of,

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well, the new competition. News agents have been closing,

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sales of glossy magazines And it is people like Whitney

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who have been changing the business. Nearly everyone wants everything

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right now, fashion today. They want to know what's cool right

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now and that's why social Indeed, people have been predicting

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the death of print for a good few For me it's flicking the page,

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it's the excitement. It's when you're waiting

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for the shoot to come up, you're waiting for the new trend,

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everything. It is a new era then and a new name

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in charge for a business Eight time Olympic gold

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medallist Usain Bolt is due to run his last race

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at the World Athletics He will run his last ever 100 metres

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race at the world of ex-champ Richard in London. His final sprint

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relay will be one week later -- world athletics Championships.

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You guys know, if I show for the championship, if I'm here,

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you know I'm fully confident and ready to go.

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You know as long as I show for the championship my coach

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I'm confident in my ability is always because I know when I go

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out there I'm ready to go, you know what I mean.

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You would not bet against him. And a reminder of our top story, nearly

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500 people had gone on trial in Turkey accused of involvement in the

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coup attempt at last year and there were traffic scenes outside the

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court as 40 alleged plot leaders were marched in and heckled by

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government supporters. Thank you for watching, goodbye.

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Good evening. This rather disappointing spell of weather

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continues, looking out to the Atlantic for more rain to come our

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way and it will

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