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Week 4 2017 Lots of news this week – most of it about “you know who”
V = video report
My Pick of the Week
V How realistic is Donald Trump’s Mexico wall?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37243269
WORLD NEWS
Syria peace talks: Armed groups come in from the cold
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-38712444
Islamic State group ‘lost quarter of territory’ in 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38641509
Where are Sierra Leone’s missing Ebola millions?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38718196
Reina attack highlights widening chasm in Turkish lifestyles
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38666280
FRANCE & Europe
V Why the French presidential election matters
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38682325
Francois Fillon ‘outraged’ over criticism of wife’s pay
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-38745828
France’s Benoit Hamon rouses Socialists with basic income plan
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38723219
France election: Hamon and Valls in run-off for Socialist candidacy
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38710897
Marine Le Pen hails patriotism as the policy of the future (at a meeting where she was judged too ‘socialist’)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38705176
France’s Socialists open battle for party’s future
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38676370
Trump inauguration
Why the row about inauguration ‘lies’?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38716191
President attacks ‘dishonest’ media over crowd photos (despite photographic evidence)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38707722
Compare 2017 with 2009 (interactive)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38682574
V Protesters vs supporters
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38709326
Eight ways President Donald Trump makes history
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38637123
Why more and more Democrats are refusing to go
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38659490
Trump presidency
Executive order pulls US out of TPP trade deal
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38721056
Ethics concerns swirl around Trump team (mainly concerning ‘conflict of interest’)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38526346
Can Obamacare be repealed?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38563143
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Brexit will damage UK and EU, says Pierre Moscovici
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38674197
HEALTH
Artificial intelligence predicts when heart will fail
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38635871
OTHER SITES
Hedge fund managers admit it: They’re delighted that Donald Trump “conned America”
Will Trump’s Presidency Empower Creationists?
https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/will-trump-s-presidency-empower-creationists
The 5 Biggest Myths About School Vouchers (the Trump administration is in favour of school vouchers)
http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2049761,00.html
Sport
Ball girl sends heartfelt letter to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-38713952
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT
Tomorrow’s Cities: What can be done to improve air quality?
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37372119
(Net) neutrality fear over Trump appointee
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38727781
CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)
Why we must save dying languages
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140606-why-we-must-save-dying-languages
How Irish falconry changed (the English) language
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170111-how-irish-falconry-changed-language
TRAVEL
The highest waterfall on Earth
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170112-the-highest-waterfall-on-earth
Monstrous spiders and centipedes that prey on large animals (not recommended for those of a delicate nature)
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170118-monstrous-spiders-and-centipedes-that-prey-on-large-animals
MISCELLANEOUS
Iraqi Kurdish fashionistas make a splash
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38692382
The policemen who dressed as women to hide from IS (Unbelievable – something to laugh about from Syria)
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38663595
Moth with ‘golden flake hairstyle’ named after Donald Trump
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38661250
Meet the people leaving Trump’s America
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170123-meet-the-people-leaving-trumps-america