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The BBC’s Andrew Harding was threatened at gun point by militia loyal Mr Gbagbo as he travelled to interview Mr Outtara.
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GP Dr Rosemary Leonard: “There’s been a rush on the flu vaccine and my surgery ran out”
The government has urged flu vaccine suppliers to get extra jabs into the UK “as soon as possible” amid concerns some GP surgeries are running out.
Reports have been circulating for a few days that patients were being turned away by doctors because they had run out of vaccinations.
The Department of Health has now admitted to problems in some areas.
Manufacturers have been told to start gathering any left over vaccines from factories across Europe.
It is thought to be the first time for years that the government has intervened in the seasonal flu programme in this way.
Flu vaccines – like many others – are ordered directly by GPs. They estimate how many they need based on uptake in previous years.
More than 14m doses have already been delievered to GPs in the UK this winter.
Up until early December there seemed to be plenty in the system as immunisation uptake was lower than in previous years.
However, doctors have reported an increase in interest in the flu jab following media coverage of the outbreak and this has been followed this week with reports of doctors running out.
Dr Rosemary Leonard, a GP who appears on TV, has said her surgey has none left, while readers of the BBC website have emailed in to say they have experienced problems getting vaccinated.
It has now emerged the government has intervened by urging its manufacturers to scour the continent for any spare vaccines.
The Department of Health has asked suppliers “to be in contact with their factories in Europe to see if more UK licensed vaccine can be brought into the UK as soon as possible”.
But a Department of Health spokeswoman said while there was “no national shortage” some areas were experiencing “local supply issues”.
She said she hoped these issues could be resolved locally – GPs with too much vaccine can sell it on to neighbouring doctors who run out.
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Police have appealed for drivers who may have hit the girl to come forward A 16-year-old girl has died after being hit by a series of cars as she was walking along the A9 in Perthshire.
The teenager, who was not been named, was found on the southbound carriageway near Auchterarder shortly after 2200 GMT on Tuesday.
Officers are speaking to a number of the girl’s friends who were nearby at the time of the incident.
Tayside Police said several drivers had come forward to say they may have hit the girl as she lay in the road.
The A9 is still closed in both directions to allow a crash investigation to take place.
Supt Tony Beveridge said: “We have already had a number of drivers come forward reporting that they may have hit the girl as she lay on the carriageway.
“It would have been dark at the time of the incident and it’s possible that some drivers may even have thought that they have hit an animal.
“I would urge any drivers who were travelling on the A9 southbound last night to check their vehicles and to get in touch with us if there is any possibility that they may have hit something on the road.”
Elsewhere, the M9 was closed in both directions near Stirling after eight vehicles were involved in three separate crashes.
Central Scotland Police said a number of other collisions on the M876 and M9 had been caused by black ice.
Ch Insp Donald McMillan said: “Motorists should reduce their speed and drive carefully. While the roads may look wet this can be deceiving and it may actually be stretches of black ice.”
On the M9 northbound, five vehicles were involved in two separate collisions between Junction 8 and Junction 9.
One man was trapped and freed by Central Scotland Fire and Rescue. The others were described as being slightly hurt.
A marked police car, parked in front of the collisions to protect the scene, was also badly damaged after a car lost control and hit the vehicle. Officers were not in the car at the time.
The M9 southbound between Junction 9 and Junction 8 was closed after a vehicle left the carriageway.
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England will resume on 488-7, 208 runs ahead of Australia, on day four of the final Ashes Test in Sydney.
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Both sides have been conducting military drills amid the rising tensions North Korea wants “unconditional” talks with the South to put an end to months of extreme tension, the North’s official news agency reports.
In a rare conciliatory gesture, KCNA said Pyongyang was ready to meet “anyone, any time, anywhere”, and proposed a mutual end to provocation.
The late-night statement came as top US envoy Stephen Bosworth began a new round of diplomacy in the region.
Tensions have been high since the North shelled a Southern island in November.
KCNA said North Korea was proposing “having wide-ranging dialogue and negotiations” with Seoul, saying such co-operation was “the only way out from this serious situation”.
“In order to mend the North-South relations, now at the lowest ebb, we will conduct positive dialogue and negotiations with the political parties and organisations of South Korea including its authorities,” the statement said.
It proposed that both sides also put an end to “slanders and calumnies” of each other, and refrain from “any act of provoking each other in order to create an atmosphere of improving the inter-Korean relations”.
The statement came as Mr Bosworth arrived in China, North Korea’s ally, for further talks aimed at calming the heated atmosphere on the peninsula and tackling the North’s nuclear programme.
On Wednesday, he held talks in Seoul with South Korea’s foreign minister and chief nuclear negotiator.
The men agreed that the six nation talks could only restart once North Korea had demonstrated a commitment to denuclearisation and to improving relations with the South, Yonhap reported.
Mr Bosworth, who is visiting several north-east Asian capitals, said earlier that “serious negotiations must be at the heart of any strategy for dealing with North Korea and we look forward to being able to launch those at a reasonably early time”.
Earlier this week, South Korea’s President Lee Myung-Bak offered closer economic ties with the North if it changed its course.
The US and Chinese presidents are due to meet in Washington later this month – with the issue of North Korea likely to be high on the agenda.
North Korea says the 23 November shelling of Yeonpyeong island, which killed four people, was in response to South Korean military exercises in the area – close to the disputed inter-Korean western maritime border.
The attacks came months after international investigators blamed Pyongyang for an attack on a South Korean warship which killed 46 sailors.
In the wake of the shelling of Yeonpyeong island, the US and South Korea held large-scale military exercises in the area.
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Control orders were introduced under the former Labour government in 2005 Control orders “haven’t been a success” and need a “proper replacement”, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.
The future of the anti-terror measure has been a cause of contention between Tories and Lib Dems, but Mr Cameron said he was “confident” of agreement.
The Lib Dems promised in their election manifesto to replace control orders, but some Tory MPs want to keep them.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said the coalition government would make an announcement “very soon”.
Introduced under the former Labour government in 2005, control orders allow ministers to place a terrorism suspect under close supervision that some say is similar to house arrest.
Opponents say this infringes civil liberties, but supporters argue it is necessary to protect the public.
A review of control orders was announced in July and is being overseen by former director of public prosecutions and Lib Dem peer Lord Macdonald.
The results had been due to be published before Christmas but this was delayed amid reports of policy disagreements between the coalition government partners.
Mr Cameron, on a visit to Leicester, told the BBC: “I think we need a system that keeps the country safe but that respects our freedoms. Nick Clegg and I are working very hard to bring this about.”
He added: “The control order system is imperfect. Everybody knows that. There have been people who’ve absconded from control orders. It hasn’t been a success. We need a proper replacement and I’m confident we’ll agree one.”
Mr Cameron also said: “It’s not about a victory for the Conservatives or the Liberal Democrats. It’s about trying to do the right thing for our country, for the security of our country and our civil liberties.”
Earlier, while canvassing in the Oldham and Saddleworth by-election, Mr Clegg said: “Control orders is part of a wider review looking at counter terrorism measures which we announced in the coalition agreement.
“Why are we holding that review, we’re holding that review because everybody in the coalition, Conservative and Liberal Democrat, thinks the last government didn’t get the right balance between liberty and security.
“Of course our absolute top priority must always remain the safety of the British people but we mustn’t do that by sacrificing traditional British liberties which have always made this country very great.”
He added: “We’re going to make an announcement very soon I hope but it’s a very important task this, it’s a painstaking task to get the balance between liberty and security right and that is what I’m committed to do.”
The previous Labour government argued it had to control some suspects who could not be prosecuted because secret intelligence was not allowed in British trials.
But shadow home secretary Ed Balls indicated last autumn that, if police and security services could persuade the home secretary that alternatives such as travel restrictions and increased surveillance could work, Labour should support a change.
Former Conservative leader Lord Howard said this week that control orders had to stay because there was “no alternative way” of preventing terrorist attacks in the UK.
And the government’s independent reviewer of anti-terror laws, Lord Carlile, agreed, saying the police and security services had made a “clear case” for their retention.
The review of control orders is also looking at the 28-day limit on holding terrorism suspects before they are charged.
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Israel’s PM and interior minister are heckled at a memorial service for the 42 people who died in the country’s worst-ever wildfire.
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Two goals from Benjani heaps more pressure on under-fire Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson as his side are comprehensively beaten at Ewood Park.
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Arsenal hit the post three times as they fail to break down a stubborn Manchester City side, both teams failing to exert real pressure on Premier League leaders Man United.
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Leon Best scores a hat-trick on his first league start for Newcastle to help them to victory over West Ham.
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Wolves rise out of the drop zone thanks to a Jose Boswinga own goal to pile more pressure on to defending champions Chelsea.
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2010 was the coldest December in the UK since records began
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Opposition politicians take up their seats in the new National Assembly in Venezuela, the first in five years to have substantial opposition representation.
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John Boehner has said newly empowered Republicans will listen to the American people Republicans will take control of the US House of Representatives when the US Congress meets shortly, vowing to cut spending and repeal health reform.
The new Congress is being sworn in two months after mid-term elections which saw President Obama’s Democrats suffer heavy losses to the opposition.
Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi will turn over the speaker’s gavel to John Boehner, a Midwestern conservative.
A BBC correspondent says the stage is now set for ideological battle.
The Republicans control the House for the first time in more than four years, while the Democrats have only a slim lead in the Senate.
The BBC’s Paul Adams, in Washington, says there are tough fights ahead as the president, determined to press ahead with his reform agenda, locks horns with a Republican Party emboldened by its successes in November.
Republican leaders have vowed to slash spending by as much as $100bn, scrap “job-killing” government regulations, overhaul the tax code, crack down on undocumented immigration, cut diplomatic and foreign aid funds, and investigate the administration.
As soon as next week, the Republicans will launch what is being seen as a symbolic move to repeal President Obama’s most ambitious legislative effort so far: the reform of America’s healthcare system.
The move is expected to pass in the House, but fail in the Senate, but will be followed by a protracted attempt to pick the reform to pieces, our correspondent says.
Add to this a series of bitter debates over spending and how to control the country’s budget deficits, and the scene is set for a tempestuous political season, our correspondent adds.
On Thursday, the Republicans will have the US Constitution read aloud in the House chamber, a gesture in line with many conservatives’ view that Democrats have overstepped their authority in passing sweeping regulations.
“Some Democrats are rubbing their hands in glee at the prospect of being the opposition in the House”
The Republican Party seized control of the House in the November mid-term elections thanks in part to the anti-government Tea Party movement, which sprang to life in 2009 in protest against Mr Obama’s economic stimulus effort and bid to reform healthcare.
Speaking as he flew back from holiday in Hawaii on Tuesday, Mr Obama said he expected Republicans “to play to their base for a certain period of time”.
He added: “I’m pretty confident that they’re going to recognise that our job is to govern and make sure that we are delivering jobs for the American people and that we’re creating a competitive economy for the 21st Century; not just for this generation but the next one.”
But AB Stoddard, a columnist with the congressional newspaper, The Hill, told the BBC Congress was more polarised than ever.
“We have a different makeup in a new Congress controlled on the House side by Republicans, a lot more conservative, Tea Party backed freshmen coming in.
“They are not in the mood to help President Obama and the Democrats with any of their initiatives, so the dynamic will shift dramatically.”
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The UN says it is planning to send 1,000 to 2,000 more peacekeepers to Ivory Coast amid the continuing political crisis in the country.
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