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The Trump administration is scrapping a scheme

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that protects some young migrants from deportation.

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The open-ended circumvention of immigration laws was an

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unconstitutional exercise of authority by the executive branch.

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Russia's President Putin warns that a military stand-off

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with North Korea threatens a global catastrophe.

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A new hurricane in the Atlantic strengthens

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into a potentially catastrophic category five storm -

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And the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge win their privacy

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Hello and welcome to World News Today.

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The Trump administration has announced it's scrapping a policy

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that protects young undocumented migrants in the United States

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The policy known as Daca was introduced

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in 2012 by President Obama, who wanted to give them

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It's estimated that around 800,000 people are affected

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The US attorney general, Jeff Sessions, said the policy

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was unconstitutional and an open-ended circumvention

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The executive branch, through Daca, deliberately sought to achieve

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what the legislative branch specifically refused to authorise

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Such an open-ended circumvention of immigration laws

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was an unconstitutional exercise of authority by

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The effect of this unilateral executive amnesty, among other

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things, contributed to a surge of minors at the southern border

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that yielded terrible humanitarian consequences.

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It also denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of Americans

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by allowing those same illegal aliens to take those jobs.

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We can speak now to the BBC's Richard Lister in Washington.

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In the President Trump are also policies. Some have been scuppered

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by the practicalities of Washington. Will this definitely happen? I don't

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think so, far from it. What he has done is he's seen over the past few

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months the political realities of this situation, which is the vast

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majority of Americans believe that these people should be allowed to

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stay. They have known no other country, for most part, for the full

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lives. He has made some statements about how he loves the Dreamers. He

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has campaigned on the fact that she will abolish this legislation and

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the Conservative people are holding on to it. He's pointed it over to

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Congress. Congress have been trying to do it is diverse and why. The

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idea they can do it in the next six months is optimistic. What are the

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politics and Congress? Plenty of a there represent parts of America

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close to the border, where there are thousands of immigrants. This is one

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of the reasons why this kind of legislation has never been passed,

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the Republican party is divided on it. Some of the comments today, John

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McCain, a prominent Republican, said that what was announced today was

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the wrong approach to immigration policy. Republican Congress manner

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with a opposing it you said that this would be political suicide if

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Daca isn't abolished. It is conceivably possible that Congress

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could decide that they feel that the American people believe these

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800,000 individuals should be allowed to remain. That's what

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Donald Trump came into office promising would never happen. One

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less thing to understand, whilst his process happens, will they be

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immediate consequences for any of these 800,000 people? Not really. As

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far as these people are concerned, if they have currently signed up to

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a two year work permit, which we all will have done, work or study, they

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will be allowed to sit out for these two years. They will remain in the

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US for that time. If their prominence are due to expire before

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that time, they have an -- until early October to renew. They have a

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two-year window to wait and see what happens. If Congress decides that

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they should not be allowed to remain after that, they are liable for

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deportation, even though it has been stressed they would not be a

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high-priority target. Our website has more

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on President Trump's decision to end Including this video

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about Jesus Contreras, who helped rescue flood victims

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after Hurricane Harvey hit Texas. Russian President Vladimir Putin

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says further sanctions against North Korea are useless

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and that ramping up military preparations could lead

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to global catastrophe. It comes after the US said it

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would table a new UN resolution on tougher sanctions in the wake

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of the latest test of Of the eastern coast

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of South Korea, today The commander of this fleet

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said they were training South Korea has held military drills

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for two days now in response Pyongyang claims it's successfully

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made a hydrogen bomb that can be fitted onto missiles capable

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of reaching America. At a UN conference in

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Geneva, North Korea's The recent self defence images

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by my country DPRK are gift package The US will receive more gift

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packages from my country as long as it relies on reckless

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provocations and futile attempts Those attempts include further

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squeezing North Korea's economy. But some don't think

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that's a good idea. TRANSLATION: The use of sanctions

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of any kind in this case is already As I told my colleagues yesterday,

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they will eat grass but they will not give up this

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programme if they do not feel safe. South Korea doesn't feel safe either

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and so were setting up this American anti-missile defence system designed

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to shoot down enemy rockets. And now President Trump has said

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he is allowing Japan and South Korea to buy more sophisticated military

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equipment from the US. He's also agreed to remove limits

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on these South Korean missiles. Lifting restrictions on the weight

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of the warheads they can carry. It's this country, South Korea,

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which has the most to lose Some people here even still have

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family living up in the north. They've heard these threats

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for so long now that they've almost And yet things are

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a bit different now. TRANSLATION: The experiment

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North Korea did this time was much larger in scale and so it

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makes me nervous. This woman says she is worried

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but she doesn't believe war Barely 50 kilometres

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from the border with North Korea, people here live each day

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with the knowledge that they are vulnerable,

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but with a strong belief that the peace that has held

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for more than 60 years In Harvard for us is

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Professor Graham Allison, who served as Assistant US Secretary

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of Defense in the first Clinton Administration,

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when they too had to consider what to do about Pyongyang's

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weapons programme. What advice did you offer them and

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what advice would you offer the Trump administration now? This could

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stars is different but if they go back to 1994, that was when North

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Korea was for the first time acquiring the mature real for

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nuclear weapons. It was believed at the time that I was there that we

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should offer two options to North Korea, eliminate the material we

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will do so by an air strike. I strongly supported that

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recommendation and even in retrospect I believe that that was

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our best choice. We knew, however, that in response to that North Korea

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could conceivably have attacked Seoul and initiated a second Korean

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War. This is the land of lousy options. He failed in Iraq and now

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North Korea has 60 nuclear weapons. -- we have failed. It has the

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ability to deliver nuclear weapons against Japan, South Korea and is

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just about to be able to secure capability against the West Coast.

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Today, given that North Korea has weekly weapons and the capacity to

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deliver weapons against South Korea, Japan, including American bases, I

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think a military option needs to make it as credible as possible.

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It's extremely difficult to make credible. I would have reservations.

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What did you make about China's statement that it would not allow

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war on the peninsula? South Korea and China are both saying they can

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think of four on the peninsular because it is almost a navigable. --

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think of war on the. But I'm in the business of thinking about the

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unthinkable is. The US couldn't imagine what against China,

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MacArthur couldn't even imagine it. Chairman Mao certainly didn't want a

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war with the US but it came. What they are expressing is there hope

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and aspiration that there would not be a war but also their fears that

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the consequence of the chain of evidence we are now seeing could

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actually end in a war. -- chain of events. Would you agree that what

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we've seen in the past few days is the evidence of the will's great

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powers to do anything about this? -- the world's great progress. Has the

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chance past? This is a good reminder that great powers are not as great

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as they might imagine they are. A little, isolated country like North

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Korea, if it is determined to do so, can build nuclear weapons and

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capabilities to deliver them. This also reminds us that the failures to

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act when you can act preventively lead you often to circumstance in

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which your options have narrowed and they've gotten worse. I think this

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is a case that gives us too sharp reminders of the necessity to try to

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deal with the stitch in time that saves dying or the action that can

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be taken at the point at which it can be taken. Interesting to talk.

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Thank you for your time. Life from Hertford. -- live from Hertford.

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Let's take a look at some of the other

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A row over how much money Britain should pay

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the European Union when it leaves will go on until the Brexit

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That's according to the UK's Brexit minister David Davis.

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He's been briefing MPs at the start a new session of Parliament.

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He said the talks had been tough and confrontational.

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A four-year-old girl in Italy has died of malaria,

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where the disease was eradicated several decades ago.

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Sofia Zago died in Brescia, in northern Italy, on Sunday night.

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Doctors are puzzled about how she contracted the disease

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as the girl hadn't visited any countries where malaria is common.

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Bangladesh has called on world leaders to put pressure

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on the Burmese government to take back Rohinja Muslims,

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who've fled the recent fighting in Myanmar.

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The UN says another 35,000 have crossed the border

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Our correspondent Sanjoy Majumder sent this report

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from near the border of Bangladesh and Myanmar's Rakhine State -

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where the vast majority of Rohingya Muslims live.

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These are the latest batch of Rohingya refugees who've arrived

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Lots of children, as you can see, a lot of women.

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They're exhausted, because whatever food they had to eat along

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But the biggest thing for them is, they've made it to relative safety.

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Now, over on that side is Myanmar's Rakhine State where,

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over the past few days, we've seen fresh fires break out,

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There's no way, of course, to verify this, and these people

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What they'll do now is head to any temporary shelter they can find -

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by the side of a hill, inside a building, just to get

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The biggest thing now is, even though they've got

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here to safety, what'll happen to them next?

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They have to be fed and then, eventually, they need

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to find some place to live, some place to build

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Sanjoy Majumder reporting there from the Bangladesh border.

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Just as the clean-up begins after hurricane Harvey, islands

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across the Caribbean are being told to speed up their preparations

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Irma is churning in the Atlantic ocean

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as a category five hurricane, the most severe designation,

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pushing towards the British Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

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The exact path is hard to predict, but many are now bracing

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With me is Stav Danaos from the BBC weather service.

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visit is dangerous. Wind gusts over 200 miles an hour, 185 mph sustained

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wind speed. This has put it into one of the top three strongest ever

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Atlantic hurricanes. This is seriously powerful. It is moving

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westwards at the moment and will continue to do so. By the early

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hours, 7am, GMT, it will make landfall across some of the Isles,

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potentially Antigua. The strongest winds are around the eye. This is

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the image showing have take the eye is. It is quite a small area in

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comparison to the size of the store but with this area makes landfall as

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we -- is where there will be devastation. How does it compare

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with Harvey? It's different. Harvey weakened as it made landfall and it

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almost stalled, it became and intense phenomenal rain event.

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That's why we saw such huge amounts of April. The wind wasn't really a

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problem. This system is dangerous because of the potential flooding,

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damaging winds, catastrophically dangerous winds. Also a significant

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storm surge, because the storm is so deep, the low pressure is so deep.

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One of the places in Irma's sights is Cuba.

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The BBC's Will Grant joins us now from Havana.

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Tell us about the preparations that I imagine are being planned. They

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are, at this stage they are mainly plant at a level of neighbourhood.

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-- been declined. Individual families getting ready. Cuba knows

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how to get ready for hurricanes but so far there hasn't been a huge

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amount of preparation at a Government level. A few days to go

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before it reaches Cuba and they are waiting to see exactly what the

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trajectory will be, I think. The story at this stage is further east

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than Cuba, in the direction in which the hurricane Irma is ticking. It

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looks set to hit some of the smaller Caribbean islands, Puerto Rico is

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getting ready and they look very likely to receive the product of

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this storm. Quite a lot, perhaps too many Cubans, banking on the fact it

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might lose some of its power between hereunder. Presumably, Cuba has a

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lot of experience dealing with storms. If it does come their way,

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this will not be a complete shock? Absolutely, in the past they've

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shown that they listen to the instructions, so if they are ordered

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to evacuate they do so. There are other difficulties in other parts of

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the Caribbean of people, particularly in rural areas,

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insisting to stay with their animals, that is not such a problem

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in Cuba because of the centralised Government and they control, they

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tend to do what they are told when told to do so by the state. That

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said, the idea of this hurricane would run along the northern

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coastline of Cuba, picking up our weather, causing foot soldiers, is

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particularly worrying. -- causing flood surges. If the storm does

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avoid stupor, we will have to keep an eye on it.

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Vladimir Putin claims that 4000 Russian citizens

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are fighting in Syria on the side of so-called Islamic State.

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Many of them have travelled there from the Russian

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Our Russia correspondent Steve Rosenberg has travelled

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to Dagestan to find out why people are leaving and what it means

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They used to believe that this is where the gods

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In Dagestan today, the battle cry is Jihad for people leaving these

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Artur Magomedov says his wife was drawn to radical Islam.

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One day without telling him, she took their two daughters

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and left for Syria to join so-called Islamic State.

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Desperate to rescue his children, Artur smuggled himself

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into Isis-controlled territory in Syria.

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To escape from the caliphate, they headed to the Turkish border.

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TRANSLATION: I picked up my little girl and told my

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The Turkish border guards were just 50 metres away

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We dived into an irrigation ditch and hid there with

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Then we escaped through some long grass and I saw

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TRANSLATION: My youngest daughter asked me later,

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how come everyone else has a mother and I don't?

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But I know the girls are still in touch with their

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It's not only from this house, this village that people

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Dagestan has become a key recruiting ground for Islamic State.

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The authorities here say that 1200 Dagestanis have

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That means that, relative to its population, this part

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of Russia has produced ten times more jihadists than Belgium,

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which is Europe's top source of fighters for the caliphate.

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What has been drawing Dagestanis to Syria?

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Marat says he was brainwashed by radical preachers online.

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He had abandoned his pregnant wife in Dagestan for jihad in Syria.

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TRANSLATION: I felt my sole duty was to wage holy

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It was just Muslims fighting Muslims.

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Some claim the authorities have made the situation worse.

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In this town, I'm shown the mosque of a fundamentalist branch of Islam.

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He admits that up to six members of the congregation

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But closing the mosque, he says, is no solution.

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When the young people are here with us, he says,

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But shut the mosque and the young people leave.

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Who knows where they go and what they are doing?

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Islam is part of the fabric of life in these mountains.

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But the kind of Islam the authorities want people

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here to embrace is an Islam that preaches tolerance and that

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supports the Government, so that Dagestanis won't feel

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A court has ordered a French celebrity magazine to pay ?100,000

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in damages to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge for publishing topless

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photos of the Duchess five years ago.

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The photographs, taken when William and Kate

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were on holiday at a private chateau in Provence, were printed

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On one side of the Channel today, there was barely

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a front-page without her - the Duchess of Cambridge,

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Her private life a cause for media interest, national comment,

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But when does interest become intrusion?

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In the Paris suburbs today, judges ruled that French

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celebrity magazine Closer did invade her privacy by

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publishing topless photos of the Duchess on holiday.

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The magazine Editor and Chief Executive were each

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fined 45,000 euros - the maximum penalty,

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C'est le montant maximum prevu par la loi.

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The Royal couple were also awarded 100,000 euros in damages.

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A high figure for France, but far smaller than the 1.5 million

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The lawyer for Closer described the amount requested

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as extravagant and said the private lives of

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the Royal Family were a matter of public interest.

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TRANSLATION: The photos showed a couple in love.

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And I'll remind you that in the case of the Duke's parents,

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we were led to believe that they adored each other

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by being given official photographs and it wasn't the reality.

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Here, at least, the photos aren't offensive and show

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It's in the public interest to know that.

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The Duke of Cambridge said the clandestine way the photographs

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were taken had been particularly shocking and all the more painful

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given the way his mother, Diana, had died here in Paris,

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In a statement after today's ruling, Kensington Palace described

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photographs as a serious breach of privacy and said the couple

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wished to make the point strongly that this kind of unjustified

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Last week, William went to view tributes laid to Princess Diana

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on the twentieth anniversary of her death.

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Having watched the media make both hero and hostage of his mother,

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the Duke of Cambridge seems determined to stop the same thing

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Don't forget you can get in touch with me and some

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if you have a smartphone, you can download the BBC at. I'll be back in

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