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Question: Food is the biggest target for shoplifters according to figures which also reveal which stores are hit hardest.

Asda in Wrexham recorded the highest level of shoplifting of any store in Wales over the past three years with 350 offences, BBC Wales found.
The chain was the most hit by thieves in three Welsh police force areas.
Asda said it took such crimes seriously but shoplifters accounted for a tiny fraction of people visiting its stores.
The statistics compiled by BBC Wales found Asda came top in shoplifting crime in North Wales, Gwent and Dyfed-Powys Police force areas.
In the South Wales Police force area Boots stores in Swansea and Cardiff reported the most shoplifting.
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) says more than eight out of 10 adult shoplifters have a previous conviction which suggests that current sentencing has a "limited impact" in preventing re-offending.
The figures, obtained through Freedom of Information (FoI) requests, also show that in every area of Wales, food is the most shoplifted item.
Earlier this month, North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Winston Roddick said officers will start to give details of food banks to shoplifters because of concern about crime being committed to get drugs or food.
Shoplifting in north Wales has increased by 21.7% compared with last year, which Mr Roddick said accounted for 10% of all local crime.
The statistics on the worst-hit stores throughout Wales show:
In a statement, an Asda spokesperson said: "Our total customer numbers for the stores you list have been around the 10m mark so as you can see this is a minute fraction (around 0.005%) of the people who visited our stores during this period.
"That said we do take shoplifting very seriously and work with police and crime squads to bring this figure down even further and allow us to continue to offer the low prices that customers expect from Asda.
"That's probably one of the reasons why it looks like we have 'the most shoplifting offences' - we're just good at catching it and reporting it."
BBC Wales also asked two of the other chains for comment. Boots said it invests significantly in crime prevention and have a number of measures in place and Tesco said staff "work very closely with the local police" to prevent shoplifting.
According to the BRC, the direct cost was Â£511m in the years 2012-13 and the amount retailers spend on crime prevention measures is virtually the same.
It is calling for shoplifting to be "taken seriously within the criminal justice system", claiming half of all fines for shoplifting go unpaid so it wants sentences changed to act be a stronger deterrent.
According to its figures for 2012, 85% of adult shoplifters who were caught had a previous conviction, with 41% of them having 10 or more convictions.

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Two men in their 20s entered a convenience store in Brixton and one of them, armed with a pellet gun, shot at a 44-year-old man behind the counter.
Some of the pellets lodged in the victim's eyes and face.
The second man stole the cash register and they both ran off. Met Police have released CCTV footage of the "vicious attack" in a bid to catch the robbers.
The offenders are described as being of medium build and were seen wearing hooded tops and running off in the direction of Thornbury Road in Brixton.
The robbery happened at about 20:35 GMT on 25 October at the Phambra Foodstore, in Lyham Road.
Det Con Ben Turner said: "This was a vicious attack that could have left a man blinded.
"We desperately want to find the men responsible for this crime. They used gratuitous violence to carry out this robbery and are clearly dangerous."
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Metropolitan Police.
One convenience store worker is seriously injured during robberies or attempted robberies about every six months in mainland UK, The Association of Convenience Stores spokesman said.
There are more than 50,000 convenience stores in the mainland UK and tens of thousands of newsagents and other specialist food stores.
"Serious incidents are thankfully still quite rare, but around half of all convenience store workers, especially in the smaller stores, report facing verbal and physical abuse on a regular basis," the spokesman said.


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Question: A man who was found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to dogs and selling them without a licence has been banned from keeping animals for 10 years.

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Christopher Gorman, 54, has also been made subject of a six-month restriction of liberty order and been fined Â£500.
Gorman, who kept the dogs in the back yard of his home in Airdrie, was convicted of 10 animal abuse offences.
Sheriff Derek O'Carroll said he had shown "no remorse".
Passing sentence, he said Gorman had acquired a large number of dogs from England and Lithuania between June and October 2015.
He kept them in his home and garden, where they lived in an "unsuitable and unhygienic environment", before selling them for profit.
Sheriff O'Carroll said Gorman had been "wholly unqualified to provide proper care and treatment for the dogs".
They were rescued by the Scottish SPCA - but Gorman then acquired more dogs, and continued to keep them in the same conditions.
The SSPCA visited his home again on 19 January 2016 and removed the animals, one of which had to be put down.
Sheriff O'Carroll told Gorman: "These dogs were also subject to unnecessary suffering as a result of your actions and neglect."
He said the 54-year-old had denied responsibility and maintained that the condition of the dogs was not his fault.
"The court reports prepared on you show that you have no remorse whatsoever," he added.
Gorman was banned from keeping animals or running a pet shop for 10 years.
The restriction of liberty order means he will be tagged and will be unable to leave his home between 19:00 and 07:00 each day.
The Crown has estimated that Gorman had assets totalling more than Â£1.2m, and that his actions had left the SSPCA with a bill for more than Â£354,000.
However, the sheriff said that he did not have the power to make a compensation order as part of the sentence.

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A petition with nearly half a million signatures demanding tougher penalties has been delivered to Westminster.
It calls for a register of people convicted of seriously ill-treating animals and a ban on keeping pets.
Four teenagers received five-year bans for breaking Chunky's leg and neck and setting him on fire in Margate.
More than 498,000 people have signed the petition, which calls for a US-style animal-cruelty register to be established in the UK, denying abusers the opportunity of ever owning an animal in the future.
It was delivered to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs by Chunky's owners and Maxine Berry, who launched the petition.
The four boys, aged 15 and 16, who cannot be named, were disqualified from keeping a pet for five years last year after Chunky - a Chihuahua cross - was found with life-threatening injuries.
He has since recovered.


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Question: A makeshift mortuary set up as the Hillsborough disaster unfolded was a "scene of utter chaos", a former police inspector has told the inquests.

John Charles said the facility, in a gymnasium, was like Dante's Inferno, a poem depicting a journey through hell.
He described seeing "fighting and arguing" over casualties and people "dumping bodies and running out again".
He also spoke about a "police action note" which he agreed was a direction "to sanitise" accounts of the day.
The court heard the note addressed to Supt Norman Bettison, who was gathering evidence about what had happened at Hillsborough, recalled how South Yorkshire Police's lawyers Hammond Suddards "required rebuttal evidence" in 1990.
The gym was commandeered as a first aid centre and mortuary after a crush on the Leppings Lane terraces fatally injured 96 fans, during the FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest on 15 April 1989.
Mr Charles said he went to the room twice, once briefly and then for a second longer time.
He said when he first arrived, there "seemed to be dozens of people in there".
"As you came through the door, it was just bodies, then in the cricket nets, you had casualties," he said.
At the far end of the room, he said he also saw programme sellers handing over unsold magazines and money to Sheffield Wednesday officials, which he said he was "incredulous" about.
Mr Charles said after going outside to try and contact his officers and help clear a ramp leading into the ground, he went back into the gym, which was "like something from Dante's Inferno".
"It seemed to be utter chaos. It just seemed to be uncontrolled. It was not somewhere that you wanted to be."
While looking for a way out of the gym, he said Det Supt Graham McKay ordered him to deal with the situation.
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On being given that order, Mr Charles said he "stood a bit nonplussed for a few seconds".
"There was a bit of panic on my part because I thought 'How am I going to sort this out?'," he said.
"I think... discipline and training then took over."
The court heard he "got rid" of people who should not have been there and were not dealing with casualties "to get some calm and some order to the situation".
He said he then ordered officers to sort the dead into rows, give them numbers and take Polaroid photographs of their faces to use for identification.
He also allocated each body an officer to ensure "continuity", he said.
The jury was told the officers were fed a meal of chicken and chips in the gym on his orders, which Mr Charles said "wasn't out of disrespect" but was done to keep that "continuity", as he "didn't want officers wandering off outside and not coming back".
Mr Charles was also questioned about his written accounts of the gymnasium, which he described in his first handwritten report as "unbelievable chaos" and "utter chaos".
The court heard that in his formal typed statement though, the scene was described as "somewhat chaotic".
Mr Charles said somebody had "paraphrased" his statement when it was written up.
Asked if he thought the typed version had a "pretty significant difference in emphasis", he said he could "only agree".
He said he had never considered why the accounts were different, but it may have been to "play down the chaotic situation".
He was also asked about the note to Supt Bettison, which said a nurse who was a spectator at the match had made a statement about the conditions in the mortuary and added that "rebuttal evidence [was] required".
The note, dated 5 June 1990, asked for new statements from officers in the gym and those in charge.
Pete Weatherby QC, who represents 22 of the victims' families, said it amounted to a "direction to fit up evidence".
"I would say it's a direction to sanitise, remove stuff that people didn't want to come out," Mr Charles said.
He added that he stood by his first account, which said the gym was a scene of "unbelievable chaos".
The inquests in Warrington continue.

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Jurors concluded the 96 victims of the 1989 disaster were unlawfully killed and there were police failings.
Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham said "those responsible must be held to account" saying the force had gone back on its 2012 apology.
The force's Police and Crime Commissioner said there had been an "erosion of trust".
Dr Alan Billings said he had no choice but to act.
The PCC said: "The continuing criticism that has been directed at the Chief Constable and the eroding trust and confidence in South Yorkshire Police I have been left with no choice other than to suspend David Crompton from his duties.
"I have reached this decision with a heavy heart following discussions with David."
Mr Crompton was due to retire in November after four years in the role.
Hillsborough campaigner Margaret Aspinall, whose son James died in the tragedy, welcomed the suspension.
"The system, the police force of South Yorkshire, ought to be ashamed of themselves and hang their heads in shame," she told crowds gathered at a vigil in Liverpool in memory of those who died,
She added: "Let's hope that's only the beginning of what's going to happen - we have had 27 years of sleepless nights - let's hope you are getting yours now."
About 30,000 were estimated to be at the vigil, where flowers and scarves were laid on the steps of St George's Hall in the city centre.
Mr Burnham, who has backed the campaign for justice for the Hillsborough victims, had called for Mr Crompton's resignation in the House of Commons.
He said the force had gone back on its 2012 public apology following the release of the Hillsborough Independent Panel report.
Mr Burnham said: "Shamefully, the cover-up continued in this Warrington court room. Millions of pounds of public money were spent retelling discredited lies.
"Lawyers for retired officers threw disgusting slurs; those for today's force tried to establish that others were responsible for the opening of the gate.
"If the police had chosen to maintain its apology, these inquests would have been much shorter."
Responding to calls for the force to be disbanded, Dr Billings said it was "too big a step".
Although the PCC Dr Alan Billings suggests the decision to suspend David Crompton was triggered by reaction to the Hillsborough verdict, Mr Crompton's position has been under intense scrutiny for several years.
In 2013 he had to apologise after accusing a Hillsborough campaign group of lying. In a memo written before the Independent Panel report on the tragedy, Mr Crompton had said his force needed to be "innovative" in its media handling otherwise they'd "just be roadkill."
A year later, he came in for further criticism over South Yorkshire Police's search of Sir Cliff Richard's home, and last month a damning report revealed serious flaws in the way the force investigated child sexual exploitation.
After the report was released, Mr Crompton announced he'd be retiring in November.
Dr Billings' action could hasten the chief constable's departure but it illustrates a wider point: the power wielded by directly-elected police and crime commissioners. It is the fourth time since November 2012 that a PCC has suspended a chief constable - something that was very rarely seen under the previous system of police authorities.
Lawyers acting on behalf of the 22 of the families welcomed the suspension.
The statement from Broudie Jackson Canter said: "We hope and expect that his conduct will be subject to the rigorous and impartial scrutiny which has so long been denied to the families."
Deputy Chief Constable Dawn Copley has temporarily taken over the chief role.
In a statement, she said she had been "asked to act as Temporary Chief Constable" by the PCC "which I have agreed to do".
"This is a significant day for South Yorkshire Police.
"However, we are absolutely determined to maintain our focus on delivering the best possible policing services to the communities of South Yorkshire," she added.
In 2012, Mr Crompton admitted "grave errors" were made during the Hillsborough disaster and has apologised "profoundly".
On Tuesday after the inquests conclusions were delivered, he admitted the policing of the match was "catastrophically wrong" and "unequivocally" accepted the findings.
Hours before his suspension, the force said: "We have never sought, at any stage, to defend the failures of South Yorkshire Police or its officers.
"Nevertheless, these failures had to be put into the context of other contributory factors. In other words, where do the failings of SYP stand in the overall picture?
"We are sorry if our approach has been perceived as at odds with our earlier apology, this was certainly not our intention."
Home Secretary Theresa May has praised the "extraordinary dignity and determination" of the Hillsborough families.
She said for 27 years the families and survivors "fought for justice from the authorities that should have been trusted, and have laid blame and tried to protect themselves."
The families "have never faltered", she said, and commended their courage, determination and resolve.
The fans died as a result of a crush during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's stadium on 15 April 1989.
Mrs May said the jury found that blunders by South Yorkshire's police and ambulance services "caused or contributed to" the deaths as a result of the disaster.
The jury also concluded that Liverpool fans were not to blame for what happened.
She read out the potential offences under investigation including gross negligence manslaughter, misconduct in a public office, perjury and perverting the course of justice.
John Joyce, 72, who was at Sheffield Wednesday's ground on the day of the disaster, said like the families of the dead, he too wanted to see the police prosecuted.
"From day one they were at fault. They called us robbers, pickpockets and everything. Rubbish. They switched the statements, it's been hard. I was at the game, I was in the stands, that's why I have lived with it for 27 rotten years," he said.
The inquests jury heard more than two years of evidence at Britain's longest running inquests.
Nine jurors reached unanimous decisions on all but one of the 14 questions at the inquests into UK's worst sporting disaster.
The coroner Sir John Goldring said he would accept a majority decision about whether the fans were unlawfully killed - seven jurors agreed they were.


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Question: Police investigating the murder of County Down woman Lisa Dorrian have ended a search of land outside Comber.

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Ms Dorrian, 25, was last seen at a party at a caravan site in Ballyhalbert in 2005.
The PSNI said no human remains were found during the search, which started a week ago, but a number of items were removed for further examination.
Police have previously made several arrests, but no-one has been charged with her murder.
Det Ch Insp Justyn Galloway said: "Our inquiries are continuing. We would again appeal to those individuals who know what happened to Lisa to provide that information.
"This would enable Lisa's family to have some degree of closure as they face another anniversary of her disappearance in the coming days without the answers they so desperately crave and deserve."
Last February, a reward of up to Â£5,000 was offered by the Crimestoppers charity for information about Ms Dorrian's murder.
This reward was in addition to one of Â£10,000 previously put up by the family.

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It follows the discovery of a suspicious object in the Millreagh housing development earlier on Wednesday night.
Police are also at the scene of the alert.


Question: Statues of barons that were part of a Magna Carta trail in Lincoln have gone on show at the city's castle.

The 25 figures, designed by Lincolnshire artists, will be on display until Tuesday before being auctioned for charity.
Money raised from the auction, taking place on Lincolnshire Day, will go to The Trussell Trust.
Themes for the barons include Truck Driver Baron, the Graduate Baron and the Beekeeper Baron.
The Lincoln Business Improvement Group (BIG) said they had attracted a lot of interest.
Spokesman Matt Corrigan said: "People have been asking how much they are all going to sell for - and it's very difficult to say."
The barons will be auctioned on 1 October.
A set of 25 other barons, which featured on a similar trail in Salisbury, will be auctioned on the same night at Salisbury Cathedral.
The baron trail was part of the 800th anniversary celebrations of the sealing of Magna Carta.
Lincoln holds one of four remaining original copies of the charter, which was sealed by King John at Runnymede in 1215.
Donations made during tours of the baron trail will be given to the city's first responders service.

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The Heritage Lottery Fund cash was spent on restoring the Grade I listed Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The building has now opened as an educational centre with digital exhibitions charting the city's history.
The castle is linked to the Black Gate which was added to the site by Henry III in the 13th Century.
It later became a merchant's residence and then, in the 19th Century, a slum tenement.


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Question: Olympic sailing champion Hannah Mills says she would love to be involved in a future America's Cup.

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Sir Ben Ainslie is currently leading the bid to become first British success in the world's oldest sporting event.
When asked whether she would like to be involved in the future, Mills, who won Olympic gold in Rio, said: "Definitely, it's an incredible event and something I have loved watching for many years.
"Along with the Olympics, it's the other pinnacle of our sport.
"I would love to be involved in some way in the future."
There are no women in the crews of the six boats in the 2017 America's Cup and Leslie Egnot is the only woman to helm a boat in the event, skippering the all-female crewed Mighty Mary in 1995.
Mills accepts there would need to be a change to enable women to compete in future events with roles becoming more physically demanding.
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"It's a really interesting discussion topic," said Mills.
"If you look at it in terms of the physicality now, there are four roles on that boat that mean there is absolutely no way genetically a woman could match a man, which you have to accept.
"But the rules of the boat could change a little bit and a few more roles in the crew become a little bit more specifically sailing skills-based. If physicality wasn't the dominant factor, then it could be an option.
"It's like all walks of life with equality and giving people a chance to prove themselves and breaking through that barrier.
"Hopefully in the future, we will get there."
Four times Olympic champion Ainslie is leading the Great Britain charge in his Land Rover BAR boat as they continue their quest to become the first British crew to win the America's Cup which was first staged in 1851.
In his crew is Mills' fellow Welsh competitor Bleddyn Mon.
"It's amazing to see him out there and he has worked so hard to get there," said Mills.
"We know a lot of the guys out there.  It's very exciting to watch and if anyone can pull it round, it's Ben for sure."
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Mills, 29. is currently competing in a World Cup Series final event in Santander with Eilidh McIntyre in the 470 discipline which the Welsh woman won Olympic gold in Rio last year with the now retired Saskia Clark.
Mills has been considering switching to the 49erFX event for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics but has yet to find a permanent partner.
Mills is planning to compete in the 470 world championships in Greece in July and the 49erFX global equivalent in Portugal at the end of August.
"I hadn't sailed a 470 since the Olympics," said Mills, who was third after the first day in Spain with the medal race on Sunday 11 June.
"A great opportunity came up to sail with Eilidh who was reserve in the Olympics.
"I feel rusty right now.  It's just about having fun and seeing whether this is a viable partnership if I am going back into the 470.
"I am keen to do the World Championships with Eilidh next month.
"I am struggling on the crew front in terms of the 49erFX and still looking for a partner.
"This year is just about enjoying the journey with Tokyo being three years away."

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Fresh from collecting a fourth career gold medal at London 2012, Ainslie is now concentrating on making a challenge for the 35th version of the series.
The 34th America's Cup, to be held in San Francisco in September 2013, will come too early for the Briton.
"I've had some America's Cup experience in the past and I would really love to be part of a winning team in the future," said Ainslie.
"As a kid my main two goals were the Olympics and the America's Cup."
He will sail a catamaran under his Ben Ainslie Racing (BAR) banner, with JP Morgan announced as the main sponsor for the team, and will enter the upcoming America's Cup World Series, which starts in San Francisco on 21 August.
"We started a new team, JP Morgan BAR, which will take part in the America's Cup World Series," he said.
"It will take part in this coming series and the one after, which is really a great opportunity for us to build this team up.
"The next America's Cup is in 2013 and we want to try and build this team up for the World Series so we can be a proper challenger for the America's Cup post-2013."
Ainslie won his fourth Olympic gold in a row by coming home first in the Finn class at Weymouth, a victory that makes him the most decorated Olympic sailor in history.


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Question: Africa's population is expected to double by 2050, but in the country with the highest birth rate in the world it's on track to triple.

In Niger, women have an average of 7.6 children each - and in rural Zinder the rate is even higher.
Not surprisingly it's more than just a statistic in almost every village you visit - there are kids everywhere.
Even the children have children - more than half the girls are married before the age of 15.
As economies grow and both countries and their people get richer, the number of babies being born naturally begins to fall, but Niger is also one of the world's poorest countries.
"In Niger, we have a national characteristic which is pro-birth where having children is considered a traditional sign of wealth and power," said Dr Hassane Atamo, head of the government's family planning division.
"The immediate consequences of having such a high birth rate is that it's impossible to feed, educate and care for all these children in the short term.
"In the long term, the very survival of the country is threatened unless we take this window of opportunity to make the most of this youth dividend."
Most of the economy is in agriculture - subsistence agriculture - and barring a dramatic transformation it's an opportunity that may not be taken.
And so in the village of Angoual Gao they're getting plenty of outside help to try to encourage better family planning.
Tucked away amid the thick mud-walled compounds a group of young women are sitting having very frank conversations about contraception, forced marriage, or the problems of marrying young and having children early.
It's what the aid workers call "a safe space" for girls - and some of them are as young as 10.
Saratou Kanana, 27, is one of three older girls trained to lead the conversation.
She's had four children, but despite all the talk of "spacing" births - leaving it longer between each child - she won't say how many more kids she wants.
"It all depends on Allah," she said. But it is a little more complicated than that.
After dodging a question asked a few different ways, the translator finally explained.
As a woman, she has no say.  It depends on her husband. If her husband decides to stop having children, then she can go to the health centre and stop.
"But here it all depends on the husband.  The last word is from the husband."
And so on the other side of town the men are sitting cross-legged under a tree and chatting about similar things - they call it husband school.
Health, education and talk of the millet harvest is interspersed with chats about breastfeeding and spacing children.
Although Musa Malamharu, 47, is leading the conversation, he has two wives and 15 children, and is expecting to have at least two or three more.
It's part of the same programme - Project Sawki they call it - and the aim is to reduce the number of women dying in childbirth and children dying before the age of five - as well as trying to encourage smaller families.
If there's more certainty in life people don't need as many children, but it's getting over the "national characteristic".
Mudaha Musa, 27, seems persuaded that five or six children - two or three more than he has at the moment - are probably sufficient.
"Truly there is a problem here with having too many children," he admitted, "but with husband school we've begun to see the benefits."
Education appears to be the key to reducing the number of babies born.
At a mobile clinic well off the main road a small open room is packed full of women and small children.
The nurses are handing out different contraceptive methods for the crowd to inspect.
There are condoms, femidoms, pills, inter-uterine devices and even a discussion about birth control implants.
That's when Nana Aisha, 28, stepped up and said that's what she's agreed - despite fears about the pain and the dangers - to have a three-year implant injected in front of everybody.
"I'm just going to show to the other ladies, because there are some false rumours that it might be something that can get stuck inside of muscles," she said, and it was over in an instant.
Some of the women gathered round to prod and poke at her arm - the implant clearly visible beneath her skin.
She has three children, but will put off having any more for at least the next three years.
"My husband is an educated person.  He's actually the one who's encouraging me to go to the health centre for family planning," she said.
But even if many people are persuaded, the dramatic growth of population in Niger will take a long time to slow down.
Its population of 21 million people is predicted to exceed 68 million in the next 30 years.
"Yes the culture is changing.  Because it's women themselves who understand that having many children is a problem for themselves," said midwife Furera Umarou.
She believes those couples who are persuaded may have four or five children rather than eight or nine - it's a start.
There's much talk of a "demographic dividend" - the ability of a young and active workforce to catapult economies out of poverty as fertility and mortality decline, but that needs investment and jobs for them to fill.
"If we don't capture the benefits of the demographic dividend, we will be thrown into a total state of disequilibrium," said Dr Hassane Atamo, head of the government's family planning division.
"That could threaten the survival of the country and encourage different things like terrorism and immigration."
A vast pool of jobless young people could be set on the migrant trail to Europe, or into the hands of Islamist extremists like Boko Haram.
Massive population growth is everyone's problem.

Fifty-four African nations have adopted a unified position, calling for an agreement to limit warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels by the end of this century.
It is a more ambitious target than the 2C previously favoured by many developed nations and which is generally regarded as the gateway to dangerous warming.
Africa is expected to be one of the continents hardest hit by climate change, with an increase in severe droughts, floods and storms expected to threaten the health of populations and economies alike.
Part of that vulnerability is simply down to geography - already the hottest continent, Africa is expected to warm up to 1.5 times faster than the global average, according to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - the recognised global authority on climate science.
However, it's not just about where people live, but also whether they are prepared for what's coming.
With one in four people in sub-Saharan Africa still living in extreme poverty, hundreds of millions of people do not have the same safety net afforded those in wealthier, industrialised nations.
For a continent which has barely contributed to climate change, many argue that Africa will bear a disproportionate burden.
Even today, during a period of unprecedented industrialisation on the continent, Africa accounts for less than 4% of the world's annual greenhouse gas emissions, which experts say are responsible for global warming.
Here are some of the key ways the IPCC predicts climate change will affect Africa:
The IPCC says it has "high confidence" that rising temperatures and unpredictable rains will make it harder for farmers to grow certain key crops like wheat, rice and maize (corn).
For example, it predicts that by 2050, yields for maize in Zimbabwe and South Africa could decrease by more than 30%.
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One prominent climate scientist has used IPCC data to predict that by 2100, Chad, Niger and Zambia could lose practically their entire farming sector due to climate change.
This scenario is especially worrying when you consider that, according to the World Bank, agriculture employs two in three people in sub-Saharan Africa and accounts for a third of GDP.
When it comes to farming, climate change may take with one hand and give with the other.
So, as it becomes harder to grow maize in southern Africa, it could become easier to grow it in the highland areas of East Africa in countries like Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania, though the overall picture for cereal crops in Africa is still a pessimistic one, the latest IPCC report says.
The challenge to agriculture may also force farmers to be more savvy with their choice of crops.
If climate change means it no longer makes sense to grow maize in certain regions, another staple, cassava, a root vegetable which has a "hardiness to higher temperatures and sporadic rainfall" and is already widely consumed on the continent, could provide a viable alternative, it says.
Food insecurity, one of the key threats from climate change, will necessarily have a knock-on impact on people's health.
The IPCC reports that in Mali by 2025, 250,000 children are expected to suffer stunting, or chronic malnutrition, and that "climate change will cause a statistically significant proportion" of these cases.
Although the rate of under-nourishment in sub-Saharan Africa is coming down (it now stands at just under 1 in 4 people), the overall numbers have increased because of the rapid birth rate in recent decades.
By 2050, the population of sub-Saharan Africa is expected to more than double to 1.9 billion. That means even more mouths to feed at a time when the agricultural sector could well be struggling.
The IPCC admits that "the complexity of disease transmission" makes it incredibly difficult to say which diseases may become more or less prevalent as a result of climate change.
But it does offer one confident prediction for the highland areas of East Africa, which are among the most densely populated on the continent.
According to the reports' authors, it is not only maize crops which are likely to benefit from the warmer temperatures, but malarial mosquitoes, causing increased epidemics of Africa's biggest killer, and introducing the disease to altitudes above 2,000 metres, which have so far been considered out of harm's way.
This new threat looms even though Africa has managed to reduce its malaria mortality rate by more than a third since the turn of the century.
One of the biggest threats facing the continent is also one of the hardest for scientists to definitively pin on climate change.
Water scarcity is driven by so many other factors, such as population growth, rapid urbanisation and changes to the way land is being used, that it has not yet been possible to figure out exactly how climate change will add to the mix.
Added to this, many African countries are already under high levels of "water stress", and 95% of farmed land in sub-Saharan Africa is estimated to be rain-fed.
"Water is life - with no water, Africa will be a dead continent," Opha Pauline Dube, Associate Professor at the University of Botswana and review author of the latest IPCC Africa report, told the BBC.
"Further water scarcity will negatively affect food production, trigger several diseases and worsen energy shortages which are already constraining development in many African countries," she adds.
Unreliable rainfall in the future will also play a big part in any crisis over water resources, but frustratingly again for scientists, it is much harder to make confident predictions about rain than it is about temperature.
The IPCC has predicted that rainfall is expected to decrease in northern Africa and parts of southern Africa.
Despite this uncertainty, three contributing authors to the Africa report told the BBC that changes in rainfall were the single impact of climate change on the continent which they were most worried about.
Africa will need to act to reduce man-made climate change as well as putting in place strategies to deal with those which cannot be avoided, but it is not going to be cheap.
The continent will need $20-30bn every year for the next two decades, according to the African Development Bank (AfDB), and African negotiators will be looking to developed nations in Paris to make firm financial commitments as well as agreeing to curb emissions.
In the words of AfDB president Akinwumi Adesina last week at the summit in Paris:
"Africa has been short-changed by climate change. Africa must not be short-changed by climate finance."
COP 21 - the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties - will see more than 190 nations gather in Paris to discuss a possible new global agreement on climate change, aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the threat of dangerous warming due to human activities.
Analysis: Latest from BBC environment correspondent Matt McGrath
More: BBC News climate change special report


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Question: Russian President Vladimir Putin "personally ordered" the killing of Alexander Litvinenko, the inquiry into the former spy's death has heard.

Ben Emmerson QC, for Mr Litvinenko's family, said in his closing statement that Russian state responsibility had been proven "beyond reasonable doubt".
Mr Litvinenko's widow Marina said she believed her husband's "murderers and their paymasters" had "been unmasked".
But the Kremlin told the BBC it did not trust the inquiry.
Dissident Mr Litvinenko, 43, drank tea containing a fatal dose of radioactive polonium during a meeting with suspects Dmitry Kovtun and Andrei Lugovoi in London in 2006.
The Kremlin wanted Mr Litvinenko dead and provided the poison used to kill him, Mr Emmerson alleged.
Scientific evidence proves Mr Kovtun and Mr Lugovoi killed the former spy, he added.
Mr Emmerson told the inquiry Mr Putin was an "increasingly isolated tinpot despot" and a "morally deranged authoritarian".
He said the Russian president and his allies are "directly implicated in organised crime".
Mr Putin's "personal cabal" are "willing to murder those who stand in their way", Mr Emmerson added.
He said: "If the Russian state is responsible, Vladimir Putin is responsible.
"Not on some analogical version of vicarious liability but because he personally ordered the liquidation of an enemy who was bent on exposing him and his cronies."
The QC said Mr Kovtun had failed to appear before the inquiry because he would be unable to explain the evidence against him.
Mr Kovtun said in March that he wanted to testify, but failed to appear by videolink.
Speaking outside the Royal Courts of Justice after the closing statements, Mrs Litvinenko said she believed "the truth has finally been uncovered".
She said her husband had "vowed to expose corruption" in the Russian Federal Security Service and the "highest echelons of power in Russia".
"His actions were perceived as treachery and he paid the ultimate price for them," she said.
Mrs Litvinenko added: "Any reasonable person who looks at the evidence presented in the inquiry will see my husband was killed by agents of the Russian state in the first ever act of nuclear terrorism in the streets of London.
"This could not have happened without knowledge and consent of Mr Putin."
The Kremlin said the accusations raised at the inquiry had been heard before.
A spokesman said: "Such statements were made without any results from the investigation, and after there were results of some sort of investigation.
"It seems they had to add something, so that their words could seem convincing."
He said officials in Russia "don't want to have anything to do" with British investigations into the death.
Mr Lugovoi said the inquiry had been "biased".
"These proceedings have long since stopped being of interest to me, since I understood a long time ago that they are biased and politicised," he told Interfax.
Inquiry chairman Sir Robert Owen will now consider the evidence heard over the last six months.
He is expected to report back to the home secretary by the end of the year.
Who was Alexander Litvinenko?

Marina Litvinenko will have private talks with Theresa May a week after the official inquiry report was published.
At the time Mrs May said the murder was a "blatant and unacceptable" breach of international law.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has said the public inquiry was "politicised".
One of the two men accused of killing Mr Litvinenko, 43, Andrei Lugovoi, branded the inquiry's conclusions "nonsense".
Mr Litvinenko, a Russian dissident who became a British citizen, died in November 2006, three weeks after he drank tea laced with polonium 210 at the Millennium Hotel in Mayfair, central London.
Ahead of the meeting, a Home Office spokeswoman said: "The home secretary made clear that she would meet Mrs Litvinenko and listen very carefully to what she has to say."
Mrs Litvinenko called on Prime Minister David Cameron to impose "targeted economic sanctions and travel bans" against individuals, including Mr Putin.
The government has announced financial sanctions against the two men whom the inquiry identified as Mr Litvinenko's killers - Mr Lugovoi and Dmitri Kovtun, Both deny any involvement.


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Question: One of Scotland's leading QCs will chair a statutory public inquiry into historical abuse of children in care.

Susan O'Brien's remit will include allegations of abuse in institutions, foster care, long-term hospital care and boarding schools.
Education Secretary Angel Constance said the inquiry would have powers to force witnesses to give evidence.
She had previously said abusers would "face the full force of the law".
The minister also confirmed the Scottish government intends to lift the three-year time bar on civil actions.
This will include compensation claims for damages in cases of historical abuse that took place after 1964.
New funding of Â£14.5m for support services was also announced to the Scottish Parliament, in a move designed to ensure survivors have access to the services they need now.
The education secretary said: "For the purposes of the inquiry the term 'in care' will carry a broader interpretation beyond those formally placed in care by the state.
"It will include allegations of abuse affecting boarded out children, child migrant schemes and school hostels and health care establishments providing long term care for children.
"Furthermore, I have also decided that independent boarding schools must be included.
"While parents were responsible for the residential placement of children in these institutions, I am of the view the state also had a responsibility to ensure a standard of care."
Ms O'Brien previously chaired a panel which investigated the death of 11-week-old baby Caleb Ness in Edinburgh.
It produced a 2003 report resulting in the reorganisation of Edinburgh's social work department.
The QC has been an employment judge for 15 years and is currently a governor of Heriot-Watt University.
Ms O'Brien said: "I appreciate that no one can provide full justice for any victim of abuse in childhood, but the Scottish government is anxious to enable victims to tell us what happened to them and the impact it had on their lives.
"The inquiry panel will try to identify any lessons from past failures which will help to keep our children safe in the future."
The original announcement of the inquiry being set up last December came 10 years after former First Minister Jack McConnell offered an apology to victims of abuse in children's homes, but at the time stopped short of agreeing to a full public inquiry.
Scottish Labour's education and lifelong learning spokesman Iain Gray said the announcement was "great progress indeed, but it has taken a long time".
He added: "Central to the survivors' confidence is the chair of the inquiry, as we have seen all too clearly in England. So we must ensure urgently that Susan O'Brien enjoys the confidence of survivors.
"Importantly, it must be clear that survivors will receive the support - psychological, legal and financial - that they need to ensure justice is served."
Alison Todd, chief executive of the charity Children 1st, said: "This is about listening to people who were failed as children, acknowledging what happened to them and learning from the past to make things better for children in the future."
Assistant Chief Constable Malcolm Graham, of Police Scotland, said: "Our investigations will always be victim-focused and I would again encourage anyone who may have been a victim, regardless of when that was, to come forward safe in the knowledge that they will be taken seriously and will always be dealt with sensitively."

The 16-year-old died after being stabbed with a knife at Cults Academy in Aberdeen in October last year.
His killer is serving nine years detention for culpable homicide.
The independent review, led by Andrew Lowe, is expected to be published in September.
As part of the investigation, a "detailed timeline" will be drawn up showing which agencies were involved with the killer, who cannot be identified for legal reasons. In the review he will be referred to as Child A.
It will also look at information sharing between agencies during his childhood.
In addition, the scope of the review will include:
The review was commissioned by Aberdeen City Council, NHS Grampian and Police Scotland in the wake of the trial of the schoolboy's killer at the High Court in Aberdeen.
The court heard that the schoolboy was fatally stabbed in the heart after a row over a biscuit.
Following the verdict, it also emerged that concerns were raised about the 16-year-old killer nine years ago, when he was in primary school.
During the review, its chairman, a former lawyer, will have access to all the necessary case files from the council, health board, the police and the Scottish Children's Reporter.
Andrew Lowe will also be able to draw on any additional independent professional expertise he requires to meet the terms of the review.
Mr Lowe is the independent chairman of child and adult protection for Renfrewshire and the chairman of the Glasgow Public Social Partnership for Learning Disability.


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Question: Australian rider Josh Brookes will continue to race with the Milwaukee Yamaha team in next year's British Superbike Championship.

Brookes switched to Yamaha for the 2014 season and is in third position in the championship ahead of this weekend's final three races at Brands Hatch.
The Yamaha rider, 31, has clinched four victories this season in addition to a further seven podium finishes.
"I would feel like a quitter if I left the championship now," said Brookes.
"I know there was talk of me leaving BSB, but with potentially a new bike and high expectations I want to win this championship before moving on.
"Naturally the second consecutive season with a team is always better than the first because you have experiences to build on, so hopefully next year we can reach our potential of winning the championship."
Brookes also raced for Milwaukee Yamaha at the North West 200 and Isle of Man TT.

Ian Hutchinson has already signed to race for Tyco this season and Seeley, 37, is expected to be his team-mate.
Seeley holds the record for number of wins at the North West with 18 and previously won a British Championship with Tyco.
He will ride Gearlink Kawasaki bikes in the supersport races at the North West 200 which takes place from 8-13 May.
The Northern Irishman parted company with the Briggs Construction BMW outfit at the end of last year's British Superbike campaign.


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Question: Tunisia fought back to earn a 1-1 draw with Nigeria as Guinea and Niger drew 2-2 in the sides' second Group C matches at the African Nations Championship (CHAN) in Rwanda.

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Nigeria, who would have qualified for the next round with a win, went ahead through Elvis Chikatara on 51 minutes.
But Tunisia levelled on 69 minutes when Ahmed Akaichi headed in.
Akaichi came close to scoring a winner for Tunisia but was denied by a goal-line clearance by Kalu.
The result meant Nigeria stayed on top of the group, with four points, and Tunisia moved to second on two points.
Their positions in the table remained the same after Guinea and Niger drew 2-2 in the day's second Group C match.
After 38 minutes of deadlock there were two goals in two minutes in Kigali.
Issa Moussa's goal for Niger was cancelled out by Alseny Camara's third goal of the tournament just a minute later.
Niger's coach Francois Zahoui, who led Ivory Coast to the final of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, was forced to make three changes before half-time due to injuries.
But his side managed to regain the lead four minutes into the second half with Moussa on target again.
With 12 minutes left to play Guinea levelled for a second time -  the fourth time they have done so at the tournament - through Aboubacar Bangoura.
The final matches in Group C are on Tuesday when Nigeria play Guinea and Tunisia face Niger.

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His first spell in charge was in 2013 and lasted just seven months.
The 54-year-old replaces Henryk Kasperczak, who was sacked in April, after Tunisia were knocked out of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in the quarter-finals
He led Tunisian club Esperance to the 2011 African Champions League title and has also spent time in charge of the Kuwait national team.
Maaloul's fist competitive game will be at home to Egypt in a 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier.
Niger and Swaziland are the other two teams in Group J for the qualifying campaign to reach Cameroon.
Tunisia are currently joint top with DR Congo of Group A in qualifying for the 2018 World Cup on six points after two matches as they aim to reach the finals for the first time since 2006.
Guinea and Libya are yet to score a point.


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Question: Mercedes's Lewis Hamilton admitted he "needed" victory in the Canadian Grand Prix, after his fourth victory in seven races so far this season.

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Hamilton lost an apparently certain win in the previous race in Monaco because of a team strategy error and was determined to make amends in Montreal.
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"Did I need this? I think so," he said after his dominant win.
His win extends his lead to 17 points. Team-mate Nico Rosberg had cut it to 10 after inheriting the Monaco win.
"I don't feel I needed to be relieved," he said.
"I was quickest all of the previous race weekend as well.
"Obviously we had the problem which enabled Nico to win the race but otherwise, generally I had good pace for the last two races so it's not a relief, it just feels good to continue with good strength and it's great that the team is continuing to be strong as well and continue to move forwards.
"That's probably the most impressive thing."
Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said the team had been through a difficult fortnight because of the criticism they received for the error in Monaco, which has led to a reassessment of how they make major strategic decisions in races.
"After Monaco it was very difficult for the team to handle it," Wolff said. "We were exposed to massive criticism.
"It looked like all the victories and world championships were forgotten and suddenly a bunch of idiots were managing the team.
"And then when he had some ups and downs in the team. The result is satisfying after what happened in Monaco."
Mercedes appeared to have retained their advantage over Ferrari despite the Italian team bringing an upgraded engine to Canada after using three of their permitted 10 in-season development tokens, ascribed to different parts of the engine on a performance-related basis.
Hamilton and Rosberg, who finished a close second, were under no real threat in the race from Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen, who was running third before a spin caused by an engine problem dropped him to fourth.
But Hamilton said it would be wrong to jump to conclusions because Ferrari's lead driver Sebastian Vettel had to start from the back following engine problems in qualifying and a penalty for infringing safety regulations.
Vettel finished fifth and is now 43 points - with 25 for a win - behind Hamilton in the championship with 12 races remaining.
Asked whether he was more relaxed now that the title fight appeared to be himself and Rosberg, Hamilton said: "It's pretty much impossible for you to come to that conclusion because Kimi spun so we didn't really get to see his true pace in the race.
"Sebastian wasn't there and obviously Sebastian has generally been the quicker of the two so far this season so we didn't really get to see Ferrari's true pace this weekend, I think, and in the next race we will."
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After the curtain came down on the season, we asked you to vote for your top three drivers of the year and it was the three-time world champion who came out on top.
Of those who selected their top three drivers of the season via the BBC F1 list, 38% put Hamilton in top spot.
The Briton won the most races with 10 but his title challenge was hampered by mechanical issues.
Hamilton was in particularly impressive form in the closing stages of the season, taking pole and converting it to victory in each of the final four races but in the end Rosberg did just enough as the German beat his team-mate to the title by five points.
Best moment: Hamilton finished the season strongly but it was a brilliant victory in Monaco that kick-started his campaign as he produced a masterclass in defensive driving to keep Daniel Ricciardo at bay for 45 laps.
How Max Verstappen will hope a title battle with Hamilton will be as close as this in the near future. The fearless Dutch teenager was chosen as the number one driver of the season by 37% of you - just 1% behind Hamilton.
The 19-year-old is clearly an exceptional talent but he produced some breathtaking displays this season that will have perhaps taken even those who know him best by surprise.
Best moment: Arguably Verstappen's most eye-catching display was his drive in the wet in Brazil where he battled back from 16th to finish on the podium with one move in particular standing out - a gutsy, around-the-outside pass over Sergio Perez at Turn 10 that he completed in Turn 11 having corrected a big slide on his way through. And this in a season when he won his maiden grand prix in Spain.
It's not surprising to see that some selected Rosberg as their number one driver of the season, he did win the title after all.
He may have had the rub of the green with regards to the reliability of his car, but he undoubtedly drove brilliantly at times this season, especially at the start of the year when he carried on his strong finish to 2015 by winning the first four races.
Best moment: Rosberg was superb in Singapore, winning the race to reclaim the championship lead from Hamilton. However, it was his lap for pole that was particularly outstanding as he qualified over half a second clear of Daniel Ricciardo.
"His victories at Silverstone and Interlagos were peerless," says Tom. "But he's always been capable of mind-bending performances; what stood out about Lewis Hamilton in 2016 was the maturity he showed in adversity. He's now the ultimate all-round driver."
"Some are keen to compare Max to the likes of Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost in his talent - which clearly shone in Brazil, says Jennie, "but I make him my driver of the season not just for talent, but for the thousands of new fans he is bringing to F1. While Lewis Hamilton is lauded for opening F1 to new audiences and doing his thing in Hollywood, for me it's actually Max who is bringing fans through the gates and turning on a whole new generation to the sport we know and love."
Chief F1 writer Andrew Benson: 1) Daniel Ricciardo, 2) Fernando Alonso, 3) Lewis Hamilton
"Ricciardo was brilliantly fast and consistent all season, while Alonso showed his enduring qualities with some outstanding drives and stunning first laps. For me, both, on balance, shaded Hamilton, who was phenomenal as ever for the most part but had a couple of very shaky weekends and made too many poor starts."
Sebastian Vettel finished on the podium in seven of the races in 2016, so is it a bit of a surprise to see him topping this?
Certainly by his high standards, Vettel did disappoint this season. After winning three races in his first season at Ferrari, he failed to claim a single victory in 2016.
Ferrari were expected to be one of Mercedes' main rivals but that challenge failed to materialise as Vettel instead found himself mostly scrapping around in fourth of fifth, his frustration evident in his many expletive-laden radio messages in the latter half of the season.
Worst moment: telling Formula 1's race director, Charlie Whiting, to go away, in a note-quite-so-polite manner.
It was the year to forget for Daniil Kvyat as he started the season at Red Bull and finished it at their junior team, Toro Rosso.
Kvyat later said that situation led to him no longer enjoying F1 and his future in the sport was left uncertain, but his contract at Toro Rosso was renewed for 2017 and he will be hopeful of coming back strongly in the new year.
Worst moment: The Russian was demoted after his home race, where he twice hit Sebastian Vettel within the first three corners of the first lap. Although he did drive to an excellent podium in China before that, managing to rile Vettel in the process.
The Mexican came under fire from his fellow drivers' rival team bosses for his track manners over the course of the season. He was criticised by Daniel Ricciardo for not obeying blue flags in Germany and by Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff for "cruising around" in Singapore while Ricciardo and Nico Rosberg were fighting for victory.
In the end he was dropped by Haas having failed to score a single point all year.
Worst moment: Being hauled back into the garage by Haas team principal Gunther Steiner after attempting to flounce away.
Tom Clarkson: 1) Felipe Nasr, 2) Esteban Gutierrez, 3) Rio Haryanto
"Until we got to Interlagos, 2016 had been an underwhelming year for Felipe Nasr. More often than not out-qualified by team-mate Marcus Ericsson, he delivered no performances of real merit until we got to Brazil. But that drive to 9th place, in those conditions, and in that car, was spectacular. More please."
Jennie Gow: 1) Felipe Massa, 2) Sebastian Vettel, 3) Valtteri Bottas
"Felipe Massa - in what was supposed to be his final year in F1 it would have been nice for the Brazilian to go out on a high - unfortunately its not been either his, or Williams' year and his best result of a couple of fifth's at the start of the season seem a long time ago. At least he now seems likely to get another chance."


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Question: The pre-season game between Manchester United and Manchester City in China on Monday is off because heavy rain has left the pitch in Beijing unplayable.

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The Bird's Nest pitch was described as "bad" by United boss Jose Mourinho on Sunday, while City's Pep Guardiola said he hoped there would be no injuries.
Both City and United said "tournament organisers and clubs" decided to cancel the match at the 2008 Olympic Stadium.
Organisers later said the match will not be rearranged.
The first meeting of the respective managers in a Manchester derby since taking charge will now take place on 10 September in the Premier League.
Rain had fallen overnight in Beijing and there were forecasts of more heavy rain on Monday.
The clubs' planned training sessions were switched away from the stadium on Sunday to the Olympic Sports Centre, about a mile away.
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"The cancellation was made in the interest of player safety and comes following extreme weather events in Beijing over a multiple day period, that have left the playing surface in a condition deemed to be unfit for play," a statement said.
"The conditions experienced in Beijing on 19 July and 20 July were reported as being some of the most extreme weather conditions the capital of China has experienced in recent history."
Beijing's average rainfall figure across 48 hours last week was 212mm, the heaviest of the year.
By comparison, December's Storm Desmond saw more than 300mm land on Cumbria over two days - breaking existing UK rainfall records.
Because the game has been cancelled there will not be enough matches played in the tournament for there to be a winner of the 2016 International Champions Cup.
The cancellation capped a chaotic 24 hours for the Red Devils. Manager Mourinho's planned news conference had to be scrapped as too many people tried to get into a room which was deemed too small and too hot.
And a plane carrying some of the players had to make an unscheduled stop in Tianjin, about 160km (99.4 miles) from Beijing, as storms hit the Chinese capital.
United will leave Beijing to return to Manchester later on Monday as planned, while City are due to fly to Shenzhen on Tuesday for Thursday's game against Borussia Dortmund.
Floods in north and central China have killed at least 150 people with scores missing and hundreds of thousands forced from homes.
BBC Sport's Simon Stone in China:
Former manager Louis van Gaal was responsible for cutting Manchester United's pre-season tour to two games - and successor Jose Mourinho is probably disappointed he did not manage to scrap it completely.
To say things have not gone to plan for United in China over the past week is putting it mildly.
From being delayed coming through immigration on their arrival in Shanghai on Wednesday, to the cancellation of the Manchester derby against City today, it has been one thing after another.
The police were responsible for taking the squad to a back entrance of their hotel on that first day, so they did not see all the fans who had turned up to greet them.
On Friday they were beaten 4-1 by Borussia Dortmund. On Saturday, half their team were diverted to Tianjin due to the storms affecting Beijing. They eventually reached the team hotel at 1am.
Sunday saw a planned pre-match training session at the Bird's Nest Stadium moved to the Olympic Sports Centre about a mile away.
And now today. You have to feel for executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward, who made the 10,000 mile round trip for little more than a meeting with Mourinho and co-chairman Joel and Avie Glazer, given he did not arrive until Sunday night.
United will get back to Manchester on Tuesday and continue their pre-season preparations against Galatasaray in Gothenburg on Saturday.
That game could mark a debut for Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who has still to be introduced to the media.
In the meantime, the wait to seal the world record transfer of Paul Pogba goes on.

The Premiership club will travel south to take on City, with Saints stressing there will be "no public access".
"It has come out of the blue through a contact of mine and we were, as you can imagine, delighted to accept the opportunity," said Wright.
"It will be a fantastic experience for the players."
Guardiola's City travelled to China to prepare for their Premier League season and beat Borussia Dortmund on penalties in Thursday's friendly.
However, Monday's planned meeting with Manchester United was called off after heavy rain in Beijing left the pitch unplayable.
Saints' domestic season has already started with Scottish League Cup first-round group fixtures, the fourth and final of which is against Stirling Albion on Saturday.


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Question: Local councils have called for tougher sentences for illegal tattooists, who they warn are offering cheap prices for their services to children.

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The Local Government Association (LGA) said the problem was increasing because tattoo equipment was becoming more widely available and cheaper to buy.
The LGA warned that unlicensed tattooists can take "dangerous shortcuts with health and safety".
They may work in unsterilised studios, using cheap equipment bought online.
The LGA has also urged online retailers to provide warnings to children about the dangers of using do-it-yourself tattoo kits, which can be bought for less than £25.
It is illegal for anyone under the age of 18 to be tattooed, unless it is performed for medical reasons by a qualified medical practitioner, or someone working under their direction.
Unlicensed tattooists, also known as scratchers, often work from home in kitchens or garden sheds and advertise their services on social media.
It is illegal to work as a tattooist without registering with the local council.
LGA Board member Cllr Morris Bright said tattooists operating under the radar posed "a real danger" to people's health as they often have low hygiene standards which "could put your life at risk".
"They can use unsterilised equipment that seriously increases the risk of spreading diseases such as hepatitis or HIV and causing permanent, ugly scarring," he said.
"Unregulated tattooists are also associated with bad tattoos, which require expensive work to put right, and because they've been done illegally, you won't have normal customers' rights.
"We would also encourage anyone who has visited an unregistered tattooist to seek medical advice from their GP and report the parlour to their local authority."
Council environmental health teams are in charge of carrying out raids and prosecuting illegal tattooists.
Those who ignore the law can also be prosecuted under health and safety legislation, which can lead to a £20,000 fine or a jail sentence.
In September 2015, Wrexham County Borough Council prosecuted a man for illegally tattooing children in his home for "pocket money prices".
He was fined just over £600 for six offences and a court order was issued for the destruction of his tattooing equipment.
About 20% of British adults have had a tattoo, according to a You Gov survey in 2015.

Laws criminalising the production, distribution, sale and supply of what are otherwise known as new psychoactive substances began at midnight.
The chemicals, sold under names such as spice and black mamba, are designed to give users the same effect as drugs like cannabis and cocaine.
Last year legal highs were linked to more than 100 deaths in the UK and a rise in violent assaults in prison.
Will ban on legal highs work?
Offenders who break the new laws will face up to seven years in prison under the Psychoactive Substances Act.
Police will also be able to shut down "headshops" - stores which sells drug paraphernalia - and online dealers in the UK.
However, there have been warnings the ban could drive the sale of the drug to the so-called "dark web" - a largely untraceable area of the internet that does not show up on traditional search engines.
A survey by the YMCA charity - conducted ahead of the ban coming into force - also suggested two-thirds of young people who currently take the drugs are likely to continue using them in the future.
Under the new legislation, authorities will have powers to seize and destroy psychoactive substances, as well as carry out searches of people, premises and vehicles.
If a person is found to be in possession of a psychoactive substance in prison, they could face having up to two years added to their sentence.
The legislation has come under intense scrutiny since it was first proposed by the government last year.
It had been widely expected that the measures would be rolled out in April but the start date was pushed back.
What are legal highs?
Analysis: BBC home affairs editor Mark Easton
The story of prohibition over the last 100 years is not a particularly happy one.
Banning alcohol in the US in 1920 pushed the trade underground, with criminals selling bootleg booze of dubious or dangerous quality.
Some 10,000 people died from drinking poisonous liquor before prohibition was lifted.
Many argue the so-called "War on Drugs" has done the same: Simply handing the trade to unscrupulous international criminal gangs.
Drug deaths in Britain are currently at record numbers. But with no governmental appetite in Britain for decriminalisation or legalisation of drugs, prohibition remains the only response the Home Office is prepared to consider.
Read more from Mark
Simon Blackburn, of the Local Government Association, said legal highs were a "scourge on society and shatter lives".
He added the new blanket ban "should help to reduce anti-social behaviour" linked to their use.
"Councils have made every effort to crack down on these substances and the unscrupulous traders selling them, which has seen so-called 'head shops' closed down, intoxicating substances seized, on-the-spot fines issued and successful prosecutions.
"However, this work relied on laws designed for very different purposes, making it much harder for councils and the police to tackle the problem."
Edmund Smyth, criminal lawyer at Kingsley Napley, said police "have ever-more stretched resources so questions remain about their ability to enforce the new regime effectively".
He added: "Many have criticised this act in draft stages - it may prove to be a sledgehammer to crack a nut and have unintended consequences. But it is here and carries serious consequences for those who fall foul of the new law."
Campaigner Karen Vandersypen - whose son Jimmy died in 2014 after taking a legal high - said she was "delighted" the ban had become law.
Jimmy, 20, had a heart attack and later died after taking synthetic cannabis from a shop in Kent.
"We are absolutely delighted this has come into effect," she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"It is just such a shame we have paid such a high price for having it there."
The ban comes into force a day after the owner of a shop selling legal highs and a shop worker were arrested in Greater Manchester after nine people fell ill after taking substances.
Some of the legal highs which have hit the headlines in recent years include:


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Question: Harrison Ford will reprise his role as police officer Rick Deckard in the forthcoming Blade Runner sequel, it has been confirmed.

Denis Villeneuve, who directed Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal in kidnap drama Prisoners, is in talks to direct.
The story takes place several decades after the conclusion of the 1982 film, which was based on Philip K Dick novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
The film is scheduled to start shooting in the summer of 2016.
The cult 1982 film, directed by Sir Ridley Scott, saw Deckard hunting down genetically engineered lifelike robots, known as replicants, in a futuristic Los Angeles, set in 2019.
The latest instalment - reportedly based on an idea from Scott, who will also produce the new film - has been written by Hampton Fancher, who co-wrote the original screenplay. He will be joined fellow screenwriter Michael Green.
"We are honoured that Harrison is joining us on this journey," said producers Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson in a joint statement.
"Hampton and Michael, with Sir Ridley Scott, have crafted a uniquely potent and faithful sequel to one of the most universally celebrated films of all time, and we couldn't be more thrilled with this amazing, creative team."
It marks the third time Ford has returned to an iconic role. In 2008, he returned to the role of Indiana Jones nearly 20 years after the franchise came to a halt in 1989.
Later this year, the 72-year-old will reprise the role of Han Solo in the latest addition to the Star Wars franchise, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Last year he broke his leg on the set of the film.

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The new movie is to be directed by Christopher Miller and Phil Lord, the men behind the hugely successful Lego movie.
The criminal turned Rebellion hero returns in Star Wars' next instalment: The Force Awakens, this Christmas.
Actor Harrison Ford last played Solo in 1983's Return of the Jedi.
No details or castings have yet been announced but the Hollywood Reporter said the script would be written by father and son team Lawrence and Jon Kasdan.
Lawrence Kasdan co-wrote The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, the latter with director JJ Abrams.
The untitled Han Solo project is scheduled to be released on 25 May 2018.


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Question: Catriona Matthew would like to captain Europe when the Solheim Cup is held at Gleneagles in 2019.

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The 46-year-old Scot has played eight times in the biennial matchplay event against the United States.
"I'll put my hat in the ring and see what happens," she told BBC Scotland. "Obviously, it would be a great honour.
"It would be a dream to be a captain and if you are lucky enough to do it in your own country then I imagine that's just a great feeling."
Matthew made her Solheim Cup debut in 1998 but did not feature at Loch Lomond in 2000, the last time the competition was staged in Scotland.
Gleneagles hosted Europe's successful defence of the Ryder Cup last year and, in 1998, was the scene of one of Matthew's six Ladies European Tour victories.
"I was lucky enough to win the WPGA Championship at Gleneagles, so I have great memories from being there," she added.
Matthew played in this year's tournament, held in Germany in September, which was won 14½-13½ by the American team.
The US surged back from 10-6 down to take eight-and-a-half points from 12 singles to regain the title they last won in 2009.
However, the contest was marred by controversy over the issue of the non-concession of a short American putt in the fourballs.
"In every Solheim Cup, there have been little niggles here and there, but it's perhaps been blown up by the rise of social media," said Matthew.
The 2017 event will take place at Des Moines in Iowa.

The biennial women's match-play event between Europe and the United States was last held in Scotland in 2000.
"This date will allow the 2019 Solheim Cup to be the highest profile golf event taking place in Europe and the US," said Paul Bush, director of events at Visit Scotland.
"It will also be the highest profile event taking place from a global sports perspective."
The Gleneagles bid was led by Visit Scotland in conjunction with the Scottish government.
Scotland was among 10 countries to submit expressions of interest in the 2019 event and was chosen ahead of Bro Hof Slott in Sweden in the final vote.
The 2017 event will take place at Des Moines in Iowa, United States, between 18 and 20 August.


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Question: MPs have rejected an attempt by the House of Lords to give 16 and 17-year-olds a vote in the planned referendum on Britain's EU membership.

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Peers amended the legislation paving the way for the in-out poll, due before 2018, to lower the voting age.
But the move was overturned in a Commons vote, by 303 votes to 253 - a government majority of 50.
The government said it would be wrong to alter the "tried and tested" general election franchise for a single poll.
But Labour, the SNP and Lib Dems all favour allowing 16 and 17-year-olds - who were allowed to take part in last year's referendum on Scottish independence - to vote on whether to remain in the EU.
Labour's shadow foreign secretary, Hilary Benn, said the government's decision to block the move was "wrong-headed and unfair".
Speaker John Bercow certified that the changes proposed by the House of Lords were covered by "financial privilege" rules, because the government had estimated that it would cost about Â£6m to implement.
These rules can be used by the House of Commons "as grounds for overruling any House of Lords proposal that has cost implications".
But BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said Labour peers still hoped to force the government to lower the voting age, and would table a fresh motion that did not fall foul of the rules, on Monday.
No date has been set for the referendum, but David Cameron has promised to hold it by the end of 2017.

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During the committee stage of the Referendum Bill, Foreign Office Minister David Lidington said the amendment did "not make sense."
The Conservative politician said it was about the UK's membership so it should be about all of the UK taking a view.
The UK government will hold an in/out referendum before the end of 2017.
The SNP's  foreign affairs spokesman, Alex Salmond, moved the amendment on the so-called "quadruple lock" .
He said: "In America, 14 states can block a constitutional amendment, even if they comprise only 5% of the population.
"Even the prime minister, and many of his MPs, would concede Scotland is a nation. The United Kingdom is a multi-national state."
Mr Salmond added that the matter was about more than a "simple majority across the UK" and the outcome needed to be respectful of the results in the "component nations".
However, Mr Lidington rejected Mr Salmond's argument.
Meanwhile, ministers have confirmed that the poll would not be held on 5 May 2016, the same day as elections to devolved parliaments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
They will also amend planned changes to "purdah" rules, which limit government announcements in the run-up to polls.
Ministers said voters must be assured the referendum would be a "fair fight".
David Cameron is starting renegotiation of the terms of Britain's EU membership ahead of a referendum. Here is some further reading on what it all means:
Q&A: The UK's planned EU referendum
UK and the EU: Better off out or in?
What Britain wants from Europe
Timeline: EU referendum debate