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Question: A bid for broadcaster Channel 4 to relocate to the West Midlands has been officially launched.

The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) estimates a move could boost the region's economy by Â£5bn over 10 years.
A government consultation is considering whether the broadcaster should move out of the capital.
Metro mayor Andy Street said Channel 4 would "thrive" in the region due to its youthful population, and could create up to 800 jobs.
Sites have been proposed in Birmingham, Coventry, Solihull and Dudley.
A consultation into the broadcaster's future was launched after the government carried out an 18-month review of the publicly-owned channel, which has more than 800 staff but fewer than 30 based outside central London.
Culture Secretary Karen Bradley said "the benefits of this national asset to be spread far and wide, not just in London" although Channel 4 has said a "substantial relocation would be highly damaging".
Launching his region's bid, Mr Street said: "The West Midlands, as the youngest, most diverse region, would naturally help in the journey [Channel 4] are already taking."
He described the West Midlands' transport links to London as "one of our ace cards" and cited the success of other relocations to the region including HSBC and HS2 headquarters.
Mike Bradley, chairman of the Campaign for Regional Broadcasting Midlands, said: "The West Midlands is the ideal location for Channel 4," adding a relocation to the region would "place Channel 4 right at the heart of its audience."
Elsewhere, two Bradford MPs are calling on the broadcaster to move its HQ to West Yorkshire.
Last week, Shipley Conservative MP Philip Davies told the House of Commons how the broadcaster should move to what he called "gritty" West Yorkshire.
And Keighley Labour MP John Grogan told BBC Radio Leeds about a possible joint Leeds-Bradford bid.
He said: "MPs in West Yorkshire are being asked to back a bid led by Screen Yorkshire, as I understand it, to bring Channel 4 to West Yorkshire.
"It would be a mixture of Leeds and Bradford. There would be, as I understand it, in Leeds, the main Channel 4 building, but also the idea is they also have a training academy and that would come in the plans to Bradford."
The government said it would consider all bids with the broadcaster "to ensure that Channel 4 maximises its delivery of public value".

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Provided: "['this is part of a news article. represent it to retrieve the first (missing) sentence of the article', '870s - First Norse settlements on Iceland. Previous inhabitants were a small number of Irish monks.\nTradition says \'Bay of Smoke\' was founded in 874\n930 - An annual parliament - the Althing - established, to make laws and solve disputes.\n986 - Erik the Red takes settlers from Iceland to colonise Greenland.\n1000 - Iceland adopts Christianity. A golden age of Icelandic culture begins, producing great works of medieval literature.\n1262-4 - Icelanders recognise the King of Norway as their monarch.\n1380 - Norway and Iceland enter a union with the Danish crown.\n1402-04 - Plague hits Iceland, killing half the population. The plague returns in 1494-5 with similar fatalities.\n1550 - Catholic bishop, Jon Arason, captured and beheaded in his northern diocese. This marks the final victory of the Lutheran Reformation in Iceland.\n1602 - Denmark assumes a monopoly on all Icelandic trade. This continues for around 200 years.\n1700s - A period of decline in Iceland, with disease, famine and a volcanic eruption in 1783 reducing the impoverished population from 50,000 to 35,000.\n1814 - Norway enters union with Sweden; Iceland remains under Danish rule.\n1845 - The Althing meets again in Reykjavik.\n1848 - Denmark\'s monarch renounces his absolute power; Denmark prepares to become a representative democracy. This raises questions about Iceland\'s status.\n1874 - Iceland given limited autonomy; the Althing has power over internal affairs.\n1904 - Iceland attains home rule; rule by parliamentary majority introduced. The country experiences rapid technological and economic progress. University of Iceland established in 1911.\n1918 - Iceland achieves full self-government under the Danish crown. Denmark retains control over foreign affairs only. The treaty is valid until 1943.\n1940 - German forces occupy Denmark. British forces occupy Iceland.\n1941 - The United States takes over the defence of Iceland and stations tens of thousands of troops there.\n1943 - The Treaty of Union with Denmark runs out, with Denmark still occupied by Nazi Germany.\n1944 - Icelanders vote in a referendum overwhelmingly to cut all ties with Denmark and become a republic. The Republic of Iceland is proclaimed on June 17th.\nIceland becomes a member of Nato.\n1958 - First "Cod War" as Iceland extends its fishing limit to 19 kilometres.\n1970 - Iceland joins European Free Trade Association (EFTA).\n1972 - Iceland extends the fishing limit to 80 kilometres. Renewed confrontation with Britain.\n1975-6 - Third "Cod War" as Iceland extends its fishing limit to 320 kilometres.\n1980 - Vigdis Finnbogadottir becomes first woman president of Iceland.\n1980s - Iceland suffers from high inflation, averaging 38% annually.\n1985 - Iceland declares itself a nuclear-free zone.\n1991 - David Oddsson elected prime minister.\n1992 - Iceland leaves International Whaling Commission (IWC) in protest at what it sees as the IWC\'s anti-whaling stance.\n1996 - Olafur Ragnar Grimsson elected president.\n2001 - Iceland applies to rejoin IWC but is granted only observer status because, after a gap of 12 years, it says it has plans to resume commercial whale hunting despite an IWC moratorium.\nSinger Bjork had a top selling album at the age of 11\n2002 October - IWC votes by narrow margin to readmit Iceland as a full member, despite the country\'s plans to resume hunting for what it terms research in the near future and limited commercial hunting after 2006.\n2003 May - David Oddsson continues as prime minister in coalition government following elections.\n2003 August - Iceland embarks on its first whale hunt for 15 years, with a "scientific catch" to study the mammals\' impact on fish stocks.\n2004 June - Olafur Ragnar Grimsson re-elected president.\n2004 September - David Oddsson hands over premiership to former foreign minister Halldor Asgrimsson.\n2004 November - Grimsvotn volcano erupts, scattering ash as far away as Finland and causing aircraft to divert. The volcano is in a remote part of the island and there are no casualties.\n2006 June - Prime Minister Halldor Asgrimsson resigns after his party\'s poor performance in local elections and amid concerns about the economy. He is succeeded by Geir Haarde.\n2006 - The last US military personnel leave the Keflavik base, ending a military presence dating back to 1951. The US says it will defend Iceland as a Nato ally.\nBobby Fischer\'s 1972 Reykjavik clash with Boris Spassky made him a hero in Iceland\n2006 October - Iceland breaks its 21-year moratorium on commercial whaling; the fisheries ministry authorises a catch of 30 minke and nine fin whales.\n2006 December - Population grows 2.6% in past year. Officials attribute this to immigration, encouraged by the rapidly growing economy.\n2007 April - Iceland and Norway agree to expand defence cooperation to help secure future shipments of oil and gas.\n2007 May - The governing coalition holds on to its majority in parliament by a single seat in general elections. The Progressive Party leaves the coalition with Geir Haarde\'s Independence Party. It is replaced by the Social Democratic Alliance, which gives Mr Haarde a much larger majority.\n2008 January - Controversial US-born former world chess champion Bobby Fischer dies aged 64 in Iceland. A popular figure in Iceland, he had been granted citizenship to prevent Japan from extraditing him to the US.\n2008 April - The government warns that it may intervene in the country\'s currency and stock markets to fight hedge funds that it says are attacking Iceland\'s financial system.\n2008 October - The government takes over control of all three of Iceland\'s major banks in an effort to stabilise the financial system, which has been hit hard by the global financial crisis.\nThe 2008 crash of Iceland\'s banking system sparked angry protests\nWaking up to reality in Iceland\nCrisis claims Icelandic cabinet\nWeeks later, Iceland applies to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for emergency financial aid - the first western country to do so since 1976.\n2008 November - IMF approves $2.1bn (£1.4bn) loan to help Iceland through its financial crisis.\n2009 January - Prime Minister Geir Haarde calls a general election for 25 April, two years early. The move comes after demonstrations calling on the governing coalition to resign over the country\'s economic meltdown.\nDays after calling the election, Prime Minister Haarde announces the immediate resignation of the government, following the breakdown of talks with his coalition partner, the Social Democrats.\nSocial Democrat Johanna Sigurdardottir takes over as prime minister, at the head of a centre-left coalition with the Green-Left party.\n2009 April - PM Johanna Sigurdardottir\'s centre-left coalition wins majority of 34 out of 63 seats at parliamentary elections.\n2009 July - Iceland formally applies for EU membership after parliament votes in favour of accession.\nEU foreign ministers ask European Commission to begin assessing Iceland\'s readiness for membership, opening accession proceedings.\n2010 February - Unemployment soars to over 15,000 (over 9% of work force) - up from just over 1,500 (1% of work force) at the beginning of 2008, before the financial crisis took hold.\n2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajokull volcano generated huge excitement - and travel disruption across Europe\n2010 March - Voters overwhelmingly reject a referendum proposal to pay the UK and the Netherlands 4bn euros (£3.4bn) worth of compensation for the collapse of the Icesave bank.\nThe Eyjafjallajokull glacier in southern Iceland starts a massive eruption, creating an ash cloud that disrupts flights throughout Europe for several months.\n2010 April - The IMF clears a further $160m (£104m) tranche of the aid package granted in 2008 but delayed by wrangling over compensation for the Icesave collapse.\n2010 July - Formal talks on Iceland\'s EU accession begin.\n2010 December - Government agrees new deal to repay the UK and the Netherlands the 4bn euros (£3.4bn) they lost when the Icesave bank collapsed in 2008. Under the new settlement, repayments will be completed by 2046.\nIceland says it will unilaterally increase its mackerel fishing quota by nearly 17,000 tonnes in 2011.\n2011 - Economy registers first signs of growth in response to austerity programme and unemployment begins to fall fast.\n2011 February - Parliament approves new deal to settle UK banking dispute with UK and Netherlands, which voters reject in April.\n2012 February - The credit rating agency Fitch raises Iceland\'s sovereign rating to BBB-, which makes the country once again fit for investment.\n2012 April - Former Prime Minister Geir Haarde is found not guilty of negligence in his trial over his handling of the 2008 financial crisis.\n2012 July - President Grimsson wins a record fifth term in office.\n2012 September - IMF praises Iceland\'s economic recovery.\n2013 January - A European court clears the government of failing to guarantee minimum compensation for British and Dutch savers.\nIceland awards two licences for oil and gas exploration and production to Faroe Petroleum and Valiant Petroleum, with Norway taking a 25% stake in both.\n2013 April - The opposition Eurosceptic and centre-right Progressive and Independence parties win parliamentary election in backlash against Social Democrats\' austerity measures.\n2013 May - Progressive and Independence parties form a coalition government. They promise to hold a referendum on whether or not to proceed with Iceland\'s EU membership negotiations.\n2013 December - Four former bosses of the Kaupthing bank are given prison sentences for market abuses just before it collapsed in the 2008 financial crisis.\n2014 February - Britain and the Netherlands file a claim of nearly $5bn (£3bn) over money their savers lost in the 2008 collapse of the Icesave bank.\n2015 March - Official figures show Iceland\'s GDP has returned to the level it was at before the 2008 financial crisis.\nThe centre-right governing coalition withdraws Iceland\'s application for EU membership. About 7,000 people protest against the decision in Reykjavik.\n2015 October - Government says it has reached an agreement in principle with the three failed banks on steps to be taken to make possible the lifting of capital controls.\n2016 April - Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson steps down after leaked documents from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca reveal that he failed to declare ownership of an offshore company when he entered parliament in 2009.\n2016 October - Prime Minister Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson resigns after a snap vote sees his Progressive Party lose more than half of its parliamentary seats. The conservative Independence Party, which emerged as the biggest party after no party won a majority, will now seek to form a coalition government.']" Match: "['This is the first sentence of a news article. Represent it to easily retrieve the remaining few sentences of the article', 'A chronology of key events:']"

20 May 2016 Last updated at 02:40 BST
Almost 50 designs from architects in the UK, France, Sweden, Germany and the United States were submitted as part of a competition.
Two finalists will be chosen and the winning design will be announced in September.
A planning application was submitted for the Â£100m development in January, but it will not be looked at by council planners until the autumn.


Question: Apple is working on an Apple Watch that does not need to be paired to an iPhone, according to a report.

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Bloomberg reports that the new Watch will connect directly to LTE mobile networks.
The company has begun talks with providers in the US and Europe about offering the device later this year, the report says.
Apple launched the Watch in 2015 but is yet to share any sales figures.
In a recent call to investors, Apple boss Tim Cook said his firm's watch was the best-selling smartwatch in the world.
But in the wider wearables market, Apple lags behind Chinese firm Xiaomi and San Francisco-based Fitbit, according to Strategy Analytics.
While originally positioned as a luxury device, Apple has more recently focused on the fitness credentials of the Watch.
Untethering it from the iPhone would open up a range of new functionality - such as allowing users to download songs on the move, even if they do not have their smartphone with them.
"Apple clearly has big plans for Watch both in the health segment and as a gateway to the connected home,” said Carolina Milanesi, consumer tech analyst at Creative Strategies.
"Direct network connection helps in both making sharing data more reliable and faster."
However, there will be concern about the battery life of the device. Most of the computational heavy-lifting on the current Apple Watch is done via the paired iPhone.
According to Bloomberg’s report, the new device’s modem will be manufactured by Intel.
The device would come on to the market several years after Apple rivals Samsung and LG launched their own cellular-enabled smart watches. However such devices have tended to be too large to gain any kind of mainstream popularity.
Apple did not respond to the BBC’s request for comment on Friday.

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But today's show at the Yerba Buena Arts Centre in San Francisco might well break the internet, such is the excitement and anticipation. And this for the second event about a device first unveiled last September. So what do we need to know this time? Here are five questions I will be hoping to see answered...
We know that the starting price of the basic sports model will be $349 (£230). What we don't know is what that means in other currencies, and how much the rest of the range will cost. It's thought the gold-cased version could cost as much as $10,000 (£6,614), and it looks as though even the basic models will be priced at a level which will make it a far-from-casual purchase. By contrast, the new Pebble Time, the latest version of the most popular smartwatch to date, is going to cost $199 (£132).
Apple has been signalling that the watch will need recharging every night - and there are some hints that really heavy users could find they run out of juice midway through the day. We've got used to that with smartphones - will we be so happy about yet another gadget which needs constant recharging? Some smartwatches last much longer on a charge, notably the Withings Activite Pop which has a battery lasting eight months. But they can do much less, which brings us to our key question….
The demos we've seen so far show the Watch providing some of the notifications you get on an iPhone, combined with tracking your physical activity and your heart rate. That's similar to what plenty of other devices do, but what will be key is the user interface. Apple has shown in the past - notably with the iPhone and iPad - that it can take existing technologies and make them far more attractive and easy to use.
We know that the mobile payments service Apple Pay will work with the watch, and could provide a compelling use for it. Right now, that is only available in the US, but it's thought it could be coming to the UK this year. So far, Apple Pay has been a big hit, but has also been popular with fraudsters, although that appears to be the result of lax identity checks by the banks rather than a fault with the technology. Today's event provides an ideal opportunity for Apple to take its mobile payments system  to the next stage, while providing reassurance about security.
This is one question unlikely to be answered today. But here's a safe bet - within a week of the Apple Watch going on sale it will be the best selling device on the market. But that is not a high hurdle to clear when fewer than five million smartwatches were sold in 2014, according to research firm Canalys. Analysts predictions for how many devices Apple will sell this year range from eight million to more than 40 million.  The bigger question will be how many are sold in 2015 - only then will we know whether the Watch is the Next Big Thing or just another smartphone accessory.


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Question: A chronology of key events:

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1918 - After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, British forces occupy the oil-rich Ottoman vilayet (province) of Mosul, bringing extensive Kurdish-populated areas under British rule.
1919 - Mosul area is added to the new Iraqi state, which comes under a British mandate.
1920 - Treaty of Sevres, signed by the defeated Ottoman government, provides for a Kurdish state, subject to the agreement of the League of Nations. Article 64 of the Treaty gives Kurds living in the Mosul vilayet the option of joining a future independent Kurdistan.
1921 - Emir Faysal crowned king of Iraq, including Mosul.
1923 - Shaykh Mahmud Barzinji rebels against British rule and declares a Kurdish kingdom in northern Iraq.
1923 - Kemal Ataturk's newly founded Turkish Republic gains international recognition with the Treaty of Lausanne. The Treaty of Sevres is not ratified by the Turkish parliament.
1924 - Sulaymaniyah falls to British forces.
1932 - Uprising in the Barzan region to protest at Iraq's admittance to the League of Nations, while Kurdish demands for autonomy are ignored.
1943 - Mullah Mustafa Barzani leads another uprising, and wins control of large areas of Irbil and Badinan.
1946 August - British RAF bombing forces Kurdish rebels over border into Iran where they join Iranian Kurds led by Qazi Mohamed, who founds an independent Kurdish state in Mahabad.
1946 - Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) holds its first congress in Mahabad. Within a few months, the "Mahabad Republic" collapses under attack from Iranian forces, and Mustafa Barzani flees to the Soviet Union.
1951 - A new generation of Kurdish nationalists revives the KDP. Mullah Mustafa Barzani is nominated president while in exile in the Soviet Union, but the real leader of the KDP is Ibrahim Ahmad, who favours close ties with the Iraqi Communist Party.
1958 - Overthrow of the Iraqi monarchy allows Kurdish nationalists to organise openly after many years in hiding. A new Iraqi constitution recognises Kurdish "national rights" and Mullah Mustafa Barzani returns from exile.
1960 - Relations between the Iraqi government and Kurdish groups become strained. The KDP complains of increasing repression.
1961 - KDP is dissolved by the Iraqi government after Kurdish rebellion in northern Iraq.
1970 March - Iraqi government and the Kurdish parties agree a peace accord, which grants the Kurds autonomy. The accord recognises Kurdish as an official language and amends the constitution to state that: "the Iraqi people is made up of two nationalities, the Arab nationality and the Kurdish nationality."
1971 August - Relations between the Kurds and the Iraqi government deteriorate. Mullah Mustafa Barzani appeals to the US for aid.
1974 March - Iraqi government imposes a draft of the autonomy agreement and gives the KDP two weeks to respond. Mullah Mustafa Barzani rejects the agreement, which would have left the oilfields of Kirkuk under Iraqi government control, and calls for a new rebellion.
1975 March - Algiers Accord between Iran and Iraq ends Iranian support for the Kurdish uprising, which collapses. Barzani withdraws from political life.
1975 June - Jalal Talabani, a former leading member of the KDP, announces the establishment of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) from Damascus.
1978 - Clashes between KDP and PUK forces leave many dead.
1979 - Mullah Mustafa dies, his son Massoud Barzani takes over the leadership of the KDP.
1980 - Outbreak of war between Iran and Iraq. KDP forces work closely with Iran, but the PUK remains hostile to cooperation with Tehran.
1983 - An Iranian counterattack opens a northern front in Kurdish northern Iraq. With support from KDP fighters, Iranian troops take the key town of Hajj Umran. Human rights organisations say Iraqi troops killed around 8,000 men from the KDP leader's home area of Barzan in revenge.
1983 - PUK agrees to a ceasefire with Iraq and begins negotiations on Kurdish autonomy.
1985 - Under increasing Iraqi government repression, the ceasefire begins to break down. Pro-Iraqi government militia men kill Jalal Talabani's brother and two nieces.
1986 - Iranian government sponsors a meeting reconciling the KDP and PUK. Now both major Kurdish parties are receiving support from Tehran.
1987 - Jalal Talabani and Massoud Barzani join forces with a number of smaller Kurdish factions to create the Kurdistan Front.
1988 - As the Iran-Iraq war draws to a close, Iraqi forces launch the "Anfal Campaign" against the Kurds. Tens of thousands of Kurdish civilians and fighters are killed, and hundreds of thousands forced into exile, in a systematic attempt to break the Kurdish resistance movement.
5,000 Iraqi Kurds were killed in the 1988 chemical gas attack
Eyewitness: Halabja gas attack
1988 16 March - Thousands of Kurdish civilians die in a poison gas attack on the town of Halabjah near the Iranian border. Human rights watchdogs and Kurdish groups hold the Iraqi regime responsible.
1991 March - After the expulsion of Iraqi troops from Kuwait in March 1991, members of the pro-government Kurdish militia, the Jash, defect to the KDP and PUK, but the uprising grinds to a halt and US-led forces refuse to intervene to support the rebels. Around 1.5 millions Kurds flee before the Iraqi onslaught, but Turkey closes the border forcing hundreds of thousands to seek refuge in the mountains.
1991 April - Coalition forces announce the creation of a "safe haven" on the Iraqi side of the border. International aid agencies launch a massive aid operation to help the refugees. Meanwhile, Jalal Talabani and Massoud Barzani open negotiations with Saddam Hussein on autonomy for Kurdistan.
1991 July - Talks continue in Baghdad, but Kurdish peshmerga forces take control of Irbil and Sulaymaniyah, in defiance of Iraqi government orders.
1991 October - Fighting between Kurdish and Iraqi government forces breaks out in earnest. Saddam Hussein fortifies the border of Kurdish-held northern Iraq and imposes a blockade.
1992 May - Elections held in areas under Kurdish control give KDP candidates 50.8% of the vote, while the PUK takes 49.2%. The two parties are equally balanced in the new Kurdish government.
1992 September - Newly-established Iraqi National Congress (INC), which brings together a wide-range of Iraqi opposition groups, meets in Salah-al-Din in the Kurdish-held north. KDP and PUK representatives take part.
1994 May - Clashes between KDP and PUK forces spill over into outright civil war. The PUK captures the towns of Shaqlawah and Chamchamal from the KDP.
1996 May - UN agrees "Oil-for-Food" programme with Baghdad; 13% of the proceeds from Iraqi oil exports are earmarked for the three northern governorates, which are largely under Kurdish control.
1996 August - Masoud Barzani appeals to Saddam Hussein for help to defeat the PUK.
1996 September - With the help of Iraqi government troops, KDP forces seize the northern city of Irbil and take the PUK stronghold of Sulaymaniyah. A new KDP-led government is announced at the parliament building in Irbil.
1996 October - PUK forces retake Sulaymaniyah.
1997 January - PUK announces a new government based in Sulaymaniyah. Both the PUK and KDP claim jurisdiction over the whole of the Kurdish-controlled north.
1998 September - Jalal Talabani and Masoud Barzani sign a peace agreement in Washington, but government of the Kurdish region remains split between the two rival administrations.
2000 November - In a letter to the United Nations secretary-general, the PUK accuses the Iraqi government of expelling Kurdish families from Kirkuk.
2001 September - Fighting breaks out between the PUK and the Islamic fundamentalist group Jund al-Islam, later renamed Ansar al-Islam.
2002 June - PUK and KDP officials take part in joint discussions with other Iraqi groups aimed at coordinating the work of the opposition in the event of a US-led military campaign against Iraq.
2002 October - Joint session of the Kurdish parliament convenes in Irbil. KDP and PUK parliamentarians agree to work together during a "transitional session" until new elections can be held.
2003 February - US Secretary of State Colin Powell accuses Iraqi Kurdish Islamist group Ansar al-Islam of playing a pivotal role in linking Osama Bin Ladin's al-Qaeda network with the Iraqi regime.
2003 February - Kurdish leaders reject proposals to bring Turkish troops into northern Iraq as part of a US-led military campaign to oust Saddam Hussein. Anti-Turkish demonstrators take to the streets of Kurdish towns.
2003 February - Failure of a parliamentary bill allowing US troops to deploy on Turkish soil hits American plans to open a northern front against Iraq.
2003 3 March - KDP and PUK create a "joint higher leadership" in the Kurdish-held north, under the chairmanship of the two party leaders, Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani.
2003 20 March - US-led coalition forces invade Iraq and begin bombardment of Baghdad and other cities. Mosul and Kirkuk near the Kurdish enclaves come under heavy fire.
2003 22 March - Coalition forces launch Cruise missile attack on bases held by Ansar al-Islam in the north. Dozens killed in the headquarters of the Islamic Group, an unrelated radical Islamist faction when a missile hits the Khormal area.
2003 27 March - Hundreds of US paratroopers land near Irbil, signalling the opening of a northern front in the war on Iraq.
2003 9 April - US forces advance into central Baghdad. Saddam Hussein's grip on the city is broken. In the following days Kurdish fighters and US forces take control of the northern cities of Kirkuk and Mosul.
2003 July - Interim governing council (IGC) meets for first time. Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay killed in gun battle in Mosul.
2004 1 February - At least 56 people die and more than 200 people are injured after a double suicide bombing at the offices of the two main political Kurdish parties in the northern city of Irbil. Several senior political figures are among the dead.
2005 January - An alliance of Kurdish parties comes second in Iraq's landmark national election, sending 77 deputies to an interim parliament.
2005 April - PUK leader Jalal Talabani is elected as interim Iraqi president by MPs.
2005 May - At least 50 people are killed in a suicide bomb attack on police recruits in Irbil.
2005 June - First session of Kurdish parliament held in Irbil; KDP's Massoud Barzani is president of autonomous region.
2005 December - News that a foreign firm has begun drilling for oil in the Kurdish north sparks new fears of secession among Iraqi Sunni leaders. Kurdish authorities later report a "major discovery" of oil.
2006 September - Massoud Barzani orders the Iraqi national flag be replaced with the Kurdish one in government buildings. But Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki says: "The Iraqi flag is the only flag that should be raised over any square inch of Iraq."
2006 September - Five blasts caused by one suicide truck bomb and four car bombs kill 23 people in Kirkuk.
The BBC's Newsnight programme reports that former Israeli commandos secretly trained Kurdish soldiers in Northern Iraq to protect a new international airport and in counter-terrorism operations.
2007 April - The head of Turkey's military says his country should launch an operation against Kurdish guerillas based in northern Iraq.
2007 May - The Kurdish regional government takes over responsibility for security in the three Kurdish provinces from the US forces.
2007 July - Human Rights Watch gives details of torture and abuse in prisons run by the Kurds in the Kurdish area of northern Iraq.
2007 August - At least 300 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks on members of the Kurdish Yazidi sect in northern Iraq.
2007 September - Iran shells rear bases of Kurdish rebels in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Iran closes its border with Iraqi Kurdistan to protest at the detention of an Iranian by US troops.
2007 October - Turkish parliament gives go-ahead for military operations in Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish rebels. Turkey comes under international pressure to avoid an invasion.
2007 November - A referendum on whether Kirkuk province should become part of Iraqi Kurdistan is due to be held, but is in the event put on hold indefinitely.
2007 December - Turkey launches air strikes on fighters from the Kurdish PKK movement inside Iraq.
2008 February - Turkish forces mount a ground offensive against PKK Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq.
2008 September - Iraqi parliament passes provincial elections law. City of Kirkuk, claimed by Kurdistan Region, is excluded from provisions of law until its status is settled.
2009 April - Turkish warplanes bomb PKK Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq after Turkey accused the group of killing Turkish soldiers in two attacks.
2009 June - The Kurdish government begins crude oil exports to foreign markets. Contractors are to pump 90,000-100,000 barrels a day from two northern oilfields to Turkey. The central government is allowing its pipeline to be used in return for a share of revenues.
2009 July - Massoud Barzani is re-elected as president of Kurdish autonomous region.
Ruling two-party coalition wins parliamentary election, but with reduced majority. Recently-formed group Change Movement (Gorran) wins 25 seats in 111-seat regional parliament.
2011 February - Public protests against corruption and power held by KDP and PUK start in Sulaymaniyah city, heartland of opposition Change Movement; at least two protestors killed.
2011 August and October - Turkey launches air and ground assaults on PKK militants in Iraqi Kurdistan.
2012 April/May - Oil exports from Iraqi Kurdistan are halted amid a row with central government over contracts with foreign firms. The region says it expects to start exporting oil via a new pipeline to the Turkish border in 2013.
2012 June - Turkish air force strikes at Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebel bases in northern Iraq days after eight Turkish soldiers are killed in a PKK attack in southern Turkey.
2012 September - Turkish air force says it kills 25 PKK rebels in further strikes on bases in northern Iraq.
2012 December - Jalal Talabani, Iraq's Kurdish president, suffers a stroke. He undergoes treatment in Germany and makes progress.
2013 April - At least 31 people are killed and more than 200 others wounded in explosions in cities across the country, including Kurdistan.
2013 June - Iraqi cabinet holds a meeting in Iraqi Kurdistan in a symbolic effort to reduce tensions over a range of political and economic disputes.
2013 May - Flood of refugees from Syria prompts authorities to shut the border temporarily.
2013 August - President Barzani secures a two-year extension to his second term of office.
2013 September - Regional parliamentary elections provide an upset to the government, as the opposition Change Movement wins 24 seats, pushing Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) into third place. The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) of regional President Massoud Barzani remains the largest bloc with 38 seats.
2014 March - The Iraqi government under Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki blocks the transfer of revenues to the Kurdish authorities, leaving regional leaders unable to pay the salaries of officials.
2014 May - Kurdistan officially markets its first pipeline oil, despite opposition from the government in Baghdad.
2014 June - As the Sunni coalition led by the hardline Islamists of ISIS (The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) seizes control of much of Anbar Province and the approaches to Baghdad, Kurdish Peshmerga forces capture Kirkuk - the oil-rich city outside the borders of Iraqi Kurdistan that Iraqi Kurds have long regarded as their capital.
2014 July - President Barzani announces plans for an independence referendum later in the year, saying that independence is a "natural right".
2014 August - Islamic State conquers several Kurdish-held towns.
US jets support Kurdish Peshmerga forces by striking jihadist positions.
Islamic State defeat Peshmerga forces defending town of Sinjar, prompting an exodus by people of the Yazidi religious sect.
US, Iraqi government supply Peshmerga fighters with weapons to help them battle Islamists.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki - who had come to be seen as an increasingly divisive figure who alienated the Kurds - is replaced by Haider al-Abadi.
2014 September - Kurdish leaders agree to put independence referendum on hold, on the grounds that fighting Islamic State is currently the top priority.
2014 October - The Iraqi Kurdistan government sends Peshmerga forces to the northern Syrian city of Kobane - via Turkey - to back fellow Kurdish fighters attempting to defend the city from attack by Islamic State militants.
2014 December - The Iraqi government and the Kurdish leadership sign a deal on sharing Iraq's oil wealth and military resources, amid hopes that the agreement will help to reunite the country in the face of the common threat represented by Islamic State.
Peshmerga and Syrian Kurdish fighters retake Mount Sinjar from Islamic State forces.
2015 May - Iraqi Kurdistan parliament appoints committee to oversee revision of constitution. One of the issues under review is the number of terms the president should be allowed to serve.
2015 June - President Barzani's chief of staff announces that a presidential election will be held on 20 August, a day after Mr Barzani's current term of office expires. The president's critics accuse him of seeking to pre-empt any revision to the constitution that would prevent him from serving a further term.
2015 July - Turkey joins the US-led military alliance against Islamic State but insists that air-strikes against IS should go hand-in-hand with operations against Kurdish PKK militants in northern Iraq. Ankara launches a bombing campaign against the PKK in northern Iraq - the first time that it has attacked the Kurds since reaching a ceasefire with them in 2013.
2015 August - The Iraqi Kurdistan leadership urges the Turkish government to exercise restraint and calls on the PKK to move its bases away from populated areas in order to reduce the risk of civilian casualties.

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Question: A man who set two dogs on a fox has been fined £210 after being found guilty of animal cruelty.

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Stephen Parkes, 35, from Walsall, was banned from keeping dogs for a year after being convicted of fox hunting at Birmingham Magistrates' Court.
Police found a group of men and two dead foxes on waste ground off Goscote Lodge Crescent, Walsall, last November, the hearing was told.
Parkes, of Bloxwich Road, was also ordered to pay £270 in costs.
He denied fox hunting contrary to the 2004 Hunting Act and two counts of causing unnecessary suffering to the dogs and was prosecuted by the RSPCA.
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Police officers came across a group of men who scattered leaving Parkes and another man at the scene holding shovels, the court heard.
Commenting on the court hearing, RSPCA inspector Rob Crutchley said: "The two dogs had nasty-looking wounds to their muzzles which a vet later confirmed were consistent with fighting with a fox.
"Likewise, the fox had injuries to his body which were consistent with being attacked by dogs, and a post-mortem examination confirmed this.
"This is a horrific case which not only caused suffering to a fox, but also to the two dogs as well."

Stephen Potts, 48, from County Durham, was jailed in August after his animals bit Lindsay Edwards, 63, leaving his skull exposed.
He was jailed for three months and the six dogs were ordered to be destroyed.
Mr Potts appealed against the destruction order, but it was refused by London's Court of Appeal. He was not appealing his jail sentence.
He has two weeks to appeal against the decision and for it to be heard by three judges at the same court.
Mr Potts, was also banned from owning dogs for life which he is also appealing against.
The attack on Mr Edwards in October, 2014 Belmont happened weeks after Mr Potts had been savaged by two of his own dogs and had to have an arm amputated.
Mr Potts, from Low Pittington, County Durham, had denied seven charges of owning dangerously out of control dogs.
However, on the second day of his trial at Durham Crown Court he admitted six lesser charges of being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control in a public place.
The two dogs that cost him his arm have already been destroyed.


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Question: A number of theatres in Yorkshire employ fewer than 5% black or minority ethnic (BME) workers, according to an Arts Council England (Ace) report.

In 2013/14, York Theatre Royal and Sheffield Theatres reported the number of BME employees as 3%, while Hull Truck Theatre had none.
ACE said that a survey showed that 14% of the English workforce were from BME communities.
Hull Truck Theatre said it was taking action to address the issue.
Last year Sir Peter Bazalgette, chair of Ace, said organisations could have their funding cut if they failed to improve diversity.
Speaking at the launch of the new report, Sir Peter said theatres had to make "their work more reflective of their communities, and representative of 21st Century England".
"The arts can show us how things are and the arts can give us a vision of what they could be," he said. "They can make the case for diversity; they can be the case for diversity. They can bring us together."
Ace said it was providing Â£8.5m of funding to encourage diversity.
The executive director of Hull Truck Theatre, Janthi Mills-Ward, said the theatre had introduced an apprenticeship scheme "which has changed the demographic".
"Hull's demographic is actually 94% white," she said. "So actually, young people, or anybody from Hull from a BME community might not have seen a career in the arts as something they could go in to."

Other organisations that will benefit include transgender theatre group Trans Creative, Leicester Dance Theatre and Diverse City.
The aim is to enhance diversity in England's arts sector.
Kate O'Donnell from Trans Creative said it will "enable us to... raise the visibility of transgender work".
She added: "This is just the start - Trans Creative is looking forward to making transgender arts and cultural activity part of the mainstream, so that it truly reflects what's going on in society today."
Abid Hussain, director of diversity at Arts Council England, said: "We want to ensure our investment supports and nurtures creative talent from all communities and backgrounds."
Trish Wheatley, director of DAO, said it was "an important moment" for her organisation.
"We are looking forward to working with all our partners, new and old, to support a vibrant and inclusive artistic community that recognises the talents and voices of disabled artists," she said.
Other organisations who will benefit include the Ort Gallery in Birmingham, One Latin Culture in Liverpool, the Milton Keynes Islamic Arts Heritage and Culture Organisation and Ballet Black.
Beneficiaries will receive funding through the Art Council's Elevate fund, designed to strengthen organisations already contributing to enhancing diversity within the sector.
Elevate was developed in response to an equality analysis led by the Arts Council in 2014.
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Question: Birmingham City have made their fifth signing of the January transfer window by bringing in Besiktas winger Kerim Frei on a three-and-a-half year deal.

Buying a wide man was one of Blues boss Gianfranco Zola's main priorities.
He had also been in the market for Derby County's Johnny Russell, as well as Robin Quaison, from Italian Serie A side Palermo.
But Birmingham have now agreed an undisclosed fee with the Turkish side, reportedly close to £2.2m.
Austria-born Frei, 23, who has won five international caps for Turkey, after representing Switzerland, where he was raised, from Under-15 through to Under-21 level.
He has a Moroccan mother, but chose to commit his international future to Turkey, the home country of his father.
Frei has been with Besiktas, since joining the Turkish side from Fulham, where he spent three seasons.
His arrival follows the completion of striker Lukas Jutkiewicz's move from Burnley, and the signings of West Bromwich Albion midfielder Craig Gardner and full-backs Emilio Nsue and Cheick Keita from Middlesbrough and Italian side Virtus Entella respectively.
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Scotland international McCormack, 30, has recently been left out of Villa's side for disciplinary reasons.
The ex-Leeds and Fulham man, who signed for Villa for £12m in August, last scored on 26 December.
Clough, 21, has scored 21 league goals in 59 appearances for Bolton.
He was close to leaving the Macron Stadium 12 months earlier, but turned down an offer from Bristol City after a £2m bid was accepted by the club.
Meanwhile, Forest have confirmed the signing of Benfica midfielder Joao Teixeira, 22, who has joined on loan until the end of the season, while Reds have also signed 22-year-old Chesterfield winger Gboly Ariyibi for an undisclosed fee on a three-and-a-half-year deal.
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Question: Councillors in Swindon have voted to create three new parish councils in a bid save borough council funds.

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The Conservative-run authority said it can no longer afford work such as street cleaning and grass cutting and this was one way of providing services.
Critics said the move could cost taxpayers an extra Â£75 a year as parish councils can raise their own taxes.
After Wednesday's cabinet vote, the decision will go to a full council vote next month before it can go ahead.
The new parish council areas are being described as West Swindon, North Central, and South Central.
Two existing parish councils, will have their boundaries adjusted to fit in with the plan.
Cabinet member for Communities, Mary Martin said they were facing "unprecedented budget pressures".
"That squeezes those important local services - street cleaning, grass cutting, looking after children's playgrounds.
"And what this provides us with is a mechanism to ring fence that money and provide that service in perpetuity," she added.
At the moment, 41% of Swindon households fall into 16 parished areas in the city.
Colin Doubleday, who runs a residents association in Swindon, said: "They really are showing they have a contempt for Swindon.
"They haven't asked us to have an opinion about how we solve what is a big problem, it's our problem how we pay for things going forward so they should be asking us, working with us and finding solutions."

Brierley Town Council needed a £1.3m loan to cope with its financial problems after Janet Cooper was jailed for eight years for theft and fraud in 2013.
Residents voted to abolish the authority in a ballot in 2015.
Its assets and liabilities have been taken over by Barnsley Council.
In the referendum in September, about 1,200 people - 21% of the electorate - voted on the town council's future, with 983 calling to scrap it and 202 voting to retain it.
Barnsley Council said the takeover would be carried out "without any additional costs for Barnsley council tax payers".
The deal means that town council facilities, such as community halls, sports grounds and allotments, will remain open.


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Question: The Archbishop of Wales has used his Easter message to urge Christians to "be alert to the presence of God".

Dr Barry Morgan said "resurrection moments" happen "when we see the power of God at work".
He said the "power of God" is present when we see "unexpected acts of kindness from strangers, forgiveness, generosity and sacrifice".
The archbishop held a service at Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff, on Easter Sunday.

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The Most Reverend Justin Welby spoke about finding God in a world which "feels more awash with fear".
His sentiment was echoed by Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Britain's most senior Catholic, at his midnight Mass.
In his homily at Westminster Cathedral he said there was "much anxiety about the state of the world".
Mr Welby delivered his sermon during a Eucharist service at Canterbury Cathedral on Christmas Day.
In the sermon, he told the congregation that the end of 2016 "finds us all in a different kind of world, one less predictable and certain, which feels more awash with fear and division".
He quoted Bank of England governor Mark Carney who said globalisation had for many brought "uncertainty" and "low wages, insecure employment, stateless corporation and striking inequalities".
He said: "That uncertainty of our world, our feelings tells us that our values are in the wrong place.
"Economic progress, technological progress, communication progress hasn't resulted in economic justice. It hasn't delivered glory for us."
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The traditional sound of Once in Royal David's City heralded the start of a solemn Midnight Mass at Westminster Cathedral.
Cardinal Vincent Nichol began his sermon by quoting the poet WB Yeats - referring to a turbulent year.
"Uncertainty on many levels in this country and in those major partnerships and neighbours that we haveâ€¦ so with Europe, America, the Middle East. It's an unsettling time," he said.
He argued the answer was neither materialism nor the pursuit of selfish interest but rather a renewed focus on the life of Christ.
"The birth of Jesus is a recorded fact, marked in time, as we heard in the Gospel," Cardinal Nichols said. "The life he holds out for us is not a theory or a philosophy or an ideal."
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, also addressed the uncertainty that has marked global politics, saying that anxiety about the future is a clear sign that we have placed our trust in the wrong things.
The archbishop drew on his personal experiences of meeting "persecuted believers" who, he says, have "seen the glory of God, a glory that chases away the fear of terror".
He added: "How then do we find glory? The only place and person who can bring glory to us is the child of Bethlehem who became the victim on the cross."
In a similar vein, Cardinal Nichols spoke at midnight Mass of a "deep and widening sense of uncertainty" felt by many people.
"Yes, we are anxious of the current instability in economic prospects and in the effectiveness of political structures," he said.
"But here we come to a deeper centre, to Bethlehem, to Him who shows us the foundations on which we must build, the priorities we must seek."
He urged Catholics to show compassion to "the homeless, the refugee, the victim of violence and human trafficking", and in particular, older people, who were too often left alone without human contact.
"Meeting this challenge requires a recognition that good care for the elderly and vulnerable is not only important but nothing less than a defining characteristic of our society," he added.
The Church of England's second most senior figure, Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu, also urged those worried about Brexit and the US presidential election to look to God.
Writing for the Yorkshire Post, he said: "In the midst of uncertainty and personal danger, I can testify to the fact that God will never leave us or forsake us. God will always show us a way."
Meanwhile, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland the Right Reverend Dr Russell Barr discussed the contrasts of Christmas, and how the promise of Christmas cheer was juxtaposed with "unspeakable human suffering in war-torn Aleppo or Yemen or South Sudan".


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Question: A carpenter has described to a court the moment his friend and co-worker was involved in a fatal fall at a building site.

David Clark, 55, died in hospital in October 2014, almost a month after the accident at a property in Brighton.
Michael Holland, owner of a renovation company, and Grant Oakes, the site foreman, deny manslaughter.
Andrew Cooper told Lewes Crown Court his friend Mr Clark fell silently when a board cracked beneath his feet.
The court heard the pair had gone to get some equipment to bridge a void of 4.5m above a stairwell where they working in the east wing of the property in Stanmer Park.
Fighting back tears, he said: "We started walking back. Dave walked across the single board, I heard the board crack, and I saw him falling through the gap. It all happened in a split second.
"He didn't say a single thing."
Mr Cooper told the court the workers would lay out temporary plywood boards while working on the first floor, as they could not lay a permanent floor until the roof was weather-proofed.
A site visit from a health and safety inspector in 2013 raised six issues on the west wing - where the men had previously been working - around the risk of workmen falling through gaps in the floor.
Mr Oakes instructed workers on complying with the improvements, using guard rails and screwing down the temporary flooring, the court head.
However Mr Cooper conceded they started getting "a bit lax" about eight months later, because the measures took extra time which the men were not being paid for.
Mr Oakes of Elm Drive, Hove, pleaded not guilty to failing to discharge his duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act.
Millionaire businessman Mr Holland, of Kings Road, Brighton, pleaded guilty to the same charge.

Police say the death is not being treated as suspicious.
It has emerged she sent a Valentine's message on Facebook to her five children less than an hour before she was discovered in the town.
Ms Williams' body was found on Sunday night in a shelter at Newry Beach.


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Question: As bulldozers continue to clear part of the makeshift Calais camp known as the Jungle, some migrants continue to resist the move into container accommodation.

Feet up and cigarette in hand, Rahim is lying on a wooden crate that serves as a bed, listening to Shakira on his laptop.
The thin plywood and plastic walls of his makeshift hut offer little protection against the cold, damp winter air, and he's wrapped in a blanket to keep warm.
Rahim is from Kabul and arrived in France six months ago in search of a better life.
A handsome and self-assured young man in his late 20s, dressed in a smart black shalwar kameez, he describes how he set up shop in the Afghan section of the infamous Calais jungle camp, opening a cafe offering cheap food and shelter for new arrivals.
The cafe which Rahim calls his "hotel" may be no more than a rickety shack, but business is booming.
As he tells his story, a succession of young Afghan men in cheap leather jackets come and go.
Some bring in water from a nearby stand-pipe. Others stir the cooking pots on a portable gas stove in the kitchen area.
Overhead, the walls are lined with wooden shelves full of jars of Indian spices and cans of beans and peas.
'I've got 20 men working for me here, and I pay them 25 euros a day," Rahim tells the BBC.
He even earns enough to send money back home.
Rahim's story is a clear illustration of the complex and often perplexing realities of life in the Calais camp.
He openly admits that his life wasn't in danger in Kabul.
"Thank God we were always well off," he says with a smile, "I never worked a day in my life."
But Rahim, and many young single Afghan men like him in the camp are all in search of something life back home could never offer - the opportunity to make something of themselves.
They do not think the world owes them a living. But they definitely think the world owes them the chance to try and live their dream.
For most of the Afghans that means finding a way - somehow - to reach the UK.
"The French are racist, there are no jobs here," says Rahim. "At least in Britain we can find a job or do business."
Everyone is waiting for their chance to scale the fences around the port and smuggle themselves onto a truck heading for the UK.
One of Rahim's friends Khan Zaman has already made two failed attempts.
"Last time I hurt my leg and ended up in the hospital," he says.  "After that I decided to stay put for a while and make some money."
In recent weeks the determination to make it to the UK has put the Afghans on a confrontation course with the French authorities.
Local police are trying to clear parts of the camp close to the main road, and to encourage migrants to move into new purpose-built shelters.
"I'm not going anywhere," says Rahim.  "It's either Britain or right here! How am I supposed to earn a living in the new camp?"
There have been regular night-time confrontations between the young Afghans and French police.
Rahim and his friends show us footage on their mobile phones of riot police firing tear gas at crowds of young men hurling stones back at them.
Among the piles of rubbish building up all over the camp, there are many tear gas canisters.
The Afghans are not happy with this state of affairs, but neither, for different reasons, are some of the other residents of the camp.
In another section of this vast and sprawling place there are many families from Syria and Iraq.  It's here that most of the estimated 400 women and 100 children in the camp live.
Desperate to escape the squalor and freezing cold of the "jungle", these people are keen to move with their children into the safer and cleaner heated container city which the French authorities are building.
Some told the BBC off the record that they were angry with the Afghans for courting confrontation with the police and giving the whole refugee community a bad name by refusing to move.
Back in the Afghan section, night is drawing in and the makeshift cafes are starting to get busy.
At the "Three Star Hotel" - a rival establishment to Rahim's, a cook is busy rustling up beef and chicken soup at bargain prices.
Outside Rahim's cafe there's a commotion.
A group of Somali migrants have turned up selling winter coats and boots.
The Afghans call the Somalis the "black market" and it's clear the two groups have little sympathy for each other.
The Afghans accuse them of selling warm clothing sent by charities. But it doesn't stop them buying things.
"I got this from one of these guys for 20 euros," says Rahim, showing us his coat. "They make a profit from our desperation."
Rahim definitely needs his coat. On this freezing, wet January night the outside temperature is dropping towards zero, and it's not much warmer inside the cafe.
The bare earth floor is covered with a few thin sheets of cardboard, and there's a cold draft blowing through a hole in the wall that's patched over with a plastic bag.
Rahim and his friends and customers are huddled together eating plates of Afghan chicken stew.
The enticing smell of the food mixes with the oppressive smell of sewage that hangs permanently over the camp.
Later there's another smell - hashish, which many young men smoke here to help them get through the long days and even longer nights waiting for their chance to move on.
The names in this story have been changed to protect the identity of the interviewees.

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One man died after he jumped from a third-floor window of the building in Boulogne-Billancourt, police said.
Thirteen people were injured in the blaze and six people were rescued by some 70 firefighters who attended.
Traces of fuel and fire accelerator were found in the lobby of the six-floor building in initial examinations, said French news reports.
Migrant centres have been targeted in arson attacks in France in recent months.
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The man who died was a Malian aged about 40, residents' spokesman Bakary Cissoko said.
"He arrived in the shelter about four years ago," Mr Cissoko said.
The facility at Boulogne-Billancourt is run by the Coallia social housing charity. It is housed in two buildings and offers 328 beds.
The accommodation areas were not damaged in the blaze and residents should be able to return soon, Le Monde newspaper quoted police as saying.
Reception centres for migrants have been opened across France since a drive to dismantle makeshift camps.
On Friday, authorities cleared 300 migrants from one such camp in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, reported AFP news agency.
The reception centres are intended to help migrants apply for asylum and, for those granted residency, to help them seek permanent accommodation.


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Question: The final trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens has debuted online and has been met with considerable acclaim.

The film, the seventh in the series, reunites original stars Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill. They are joined by British newcomers Daisy Ridley and John Boyega.
With Star Wars trending on Twitter, one user wrote: "Not been this excited about a movie in a long time!"
The film is released in the UK on 17 December.
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The new trailer gives little away to the plot of the movie but the central character appears to be Rey - played by Ridley who, it's been speculated, is the daughter of Ford and Fisher - both seen in character as Han Solo and Princess Leia.
Directed by JJ Abrams, the film picks up three decades after the events of Return of the Jedi, released in 1983.
The new villain of the movie, Kylo Ren - played by Girls star Adam Driver - also features in the trailer as he appears to address the misshapen mask of the trilogy's original antagonist Darth Vader.
"Nothing will stand in our way," he growls. "I will finish what you started."
Perhaps the most significant thing about the final trailer before the film's release is how little of the story it reveals. So many trailers give away huge chunks of plot, but wisely the Star Wars team appear to have decided that with awareness of the movie running so high, secrecy and curiosity about how the Star Wars saga continues is the best way of drawing in audiences.
So there's only a sprinkling of dialogue over images which range from sights like the Millennium Falcon to action involving newcomers Daisy Ridley and John Boyega.
Additionally fans have commented on how little is seen of the central character from the original trilogy Luke Skywalker and what this might mean for this story. Mention should also be made of one of the most important characters in the Star Wars universe - composer John Williams's music, which as well as giving the trailer an epic feel, also makes it feel new and exciting but still familiar.
Writing a review of the trailer in the Telegraph, Robbie Collins called the two-and a half minute long promo "a perfect blend of old and new, in keeping with the old-fashioned Star Wars aesthetic".
He added: "There's something perversely impressive about the fact that, after three trailers and a behind-the-scenes featurette, director JJ Abrams has still let almost nothing slip about what actually happens in his movie."
A tearful Ridley shared her reaction to the trailer on Instagram, writing: "Staying in a little b'n'b with my friend... Set an alarm to watch the trailer... My friend filmed my reaction. Totally emotional seeing it for the first time and so, so, so incredibly awed to be part of this incredible legacy."
USA Today said: "This trailer more than the two previous ones is hitting hard on the emotion and history involved with this universe."
Liam Jackson said on Twitter: "I'm so freaking excited for this! What an awesome trailer!"
Lauren agreed in her posting: "Was brought up on Star Wars and did love it. But after last three films, went straight off them. Think Force Awakens is making me love it again!"

Despite a lot of news coming out of Disney's D23 last week, the studio still saved some the big guns for San Diego.
Fans were sent into meltdown as they were bombarded with announcements and sneak peeks during the 90-minute session, as stars across the Marvel universe attended to support their films.
Here's everything that was revealed.
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After fans at D23 were given the chance to see the first footage from the highly anticipated film which sees every Marvel superhero unite on screen, 6,000 Comic-Con fans were given the same luxury.
Unfortunately Marvel are still keeping it a closely guarded secret so it hasn't been put online anywhere yet - much to the annoyance of fans not in San Diego. But the reaction from the crowd suggests something close to Beatlemania.
It's likely we'll have to wait until November when Thor: Ragnarok is released before the rest of the world will see it.
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Question: The most senior lawyer working for the independent inquiry into historical child sexual abuse in England and Wales has been suspended from duty.

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The inquiry said it had "recently become very concerned about aspects of Ben Emmerson QC's leadership" of his team and he had been suspended so these could be properly investigated.
The BBC understands more than one complaint has been made against him.
Mr Emmerson said he was "unable" to comment at this time.
The inquiry said press suggestions Mr Emmerson was considering resigning after raising disagreements over its future direction were untrue.
In a statement, it said: "They are not a matter on which he has advised the chair or panel."
The inquiry was set up in 2014 to examine whether public bodies including the police have failed in their duty to protect children from sexual abuse. It will also examine claims of abuse involving "well-known people".
Ian McFadyen, who was sexually abused at school, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the latest development was a "devastating blow" for survivors.
"Legal advice and quality of his expertise is essential, this [inquiry] has just been catastrophe after catastrophe," he said.
"I have met Mr Emmerson several times and he is somebody who I hold in high regard and who I think is trustworthy, so I'm more than upset."
Conservative MP James Berry, who was a barrister in the Leveson Inquiry into press practices, told Today that Mr Emmerson was a "very well experienced and intelligent lawyer".
But he added that he did not want to speculate on the reasons for his suspension.
Labour MP David Winnick, who sits on the Home Affairs Committee, said the inquiry was now in "crisis" and urged the home secretary to make a statement.
He also called for the recently-appointed chairwoman, Prof Alexis Jay, and Mr Emmerson to appear before the committee when it returned on 10 October.
The Times had reported that Mr Emmerson had wanted to reduce the inquiry's workload, but Prof Jay and Home Secretary Amber Rudd both said its scope would not be changed.
Mr Emmerson, who represented the widow of Alexander Litvinenko at the inquiry into the Russian dissident's death in London from radiation poisoning, is a deputy High Court judge, a visiting professor of human rights law at Oxford University and a leading international lawyer.
A spokeswoman for the home secretary said Mr Emmerson's suspension was a matter for the inquiry.
She added: "Our commitment to this inquiry is undiminished. We owe it to victims and survivors to confront the appalling reality of how children were let down by the very people who were charged to protect them and to learn from the mistakes of the past."
She confirmed the inquiry's terms of reference, which are set by the home secretary in consultation with the inquiry chairwoman, would not be changed.
The inquiry has been beset by a series of problems since it was originally announced by then Home Secretary Theresa May.
Prof Jay is the fourth person appointed to lead the investigation.
She was appointed after its third chairwoman, New Zealand judge Justice Lowell Goddard, resigned in August this year, citing the "magnitude" of the inquiry and the "legacy of failure" from its beginnings.
An attempt to start the inquiry in 2014 was abandoned after two proposed chairwomen resigned.
Baroness Butler-Sloss, stood down after just a week in July 2014, saying she was "not the right person" for the job. MPs and victims had raised concerns about her appointment because her brother, Sir Michael Havers, was attorney general at the time of some of the allegations being investigated.
Her replacement Dame Fiona Woolf resigned following questions over her links to establishment figures.

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Philip Temple, 66, admitted seven charges committed in the 1970s when he appeared at Woolwich Crown Court.
He pleaded to 20 similar charges and two of perjury at Croydon Crown Court in April.
In all, he admitted abusing 12 boys and one girl while working in south London care homes and a north London church.
He also admitted lying on oath in the 1990s when he was cleared of child sex abuse charges following accusations by a teenage boy from his church.
A spokesperson for the Catholic Church in England and Wales said that when concerns were raised it was limited in the measures it could take because as a monk he was answerable to the head of his order in Italy rather than the archdiocese here.
But the church said it believes he worked in Christ the King parish between 1999 and 2002 while the commission of inquiry was ongoing, meaning he would have had continued access to children.
The BBC has been told that in recent years Temple spent time at monasteries in Italy and France.
Raymond Stephenson of the Shirley Oaks Survivors Association said: "If Temple had been caught at Shirley Oaks he would not have been able to abuse anyone else."
The BBC is still awaiting comment from Lambeth Council which had responsibility for Shirley Oaks.
The BBC understands the Temple case will now be investigated by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, currently without a chair after the resignation of Dame Lowell Goddard.


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Question: A battling Dan Evans could not take his surprise US Open run into the second week as he lost to Spanish 19th seed Tommy Robredo in four sets.

The Briton, 23, had two set points on his own serve to force a decider but could not convert, and Robredo won the third-round match 7-6 (8-6) 6-1 4-6 7-5 in three hours and 13 minutes.
Robredo, who struggled with a leg injury in the closing stages, fought back superbly from 5-3 down in the fourth set to claim victory.
Evans, ranked 179th, earned £60,000 in prize money for his efforts and enough points to get close to the world's top 150, but missed out on a possible dream fourth-round match against Roger Federer.
"It was a tough one, especially to go down in the fourth set after serving for it and having two set points," Evans told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I felt in pretty much total control of the match. The last point is always the hardest one and I couldn't get that last point of the set to take it to a fifth.
"I just played two really loose points - that's all it was. They came at the wrong time. I just have to learn on that for next time."
It was the British number three's sixth match in 10 days at Flushing Meadows after coming through three rounds of qualifying, then beating 11th seed Kei Nishikori and world number 52 Bernard Tomic.
He had never won a match in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament before New York, and playing under lights on the Louis Armstrong Stadium, albeit in front of a sparse crowd, was a far cry from the Challenger events he is more used to.
Evans impressed in the opening set but 31-year-old Robredo's experience told as he edged it in the tie-break, then raced through the second in just 28 minutes.
Defeat was not far away for Evans at 4-4 in the third but he got the vital break with a sharp backhand volley, pumping his fist as he made his way back to the chair, and served out the set to love with an ace.
"I was sure the match was heading to a fifth set but Dan Evans just tightened up. After missing those set points in the fourth, he started rushing a bit, showed his inexperience and made a couple of bad shot choices.
"It is such a shame for him, but once he gets over the disappointment there is no doubt that there are so many positives. It looks like his career is going to go to another level after this tournament."
Things seemed to be turning Evans's way when Robredo spent the next two changeovers having his left thigh massaged, but the Spaniard fought magnificently in the fourth set.
Evans was bristling with positive intent, moving forward at every opportunity, and twice broke to go ahead, but, serving at 5-3, 40-15, the nerves appeared to bite and he gave the set points up with a double fault and an error.
Robredo sensed his chance and pounded away from the baseline, drawing two more errors to recover the game and, after a solid hold, the pressure was quickly back on Evans.
From standing on the verge of a fifth set, Evans was now serving to stay in the match, and a wayward drop shot and a double fault brought Robredo to match point.
He closed in on the net to chase down another drop shot and leapt upon the Briton's response to angle away the volley and bring Evans's amazing US Open campaign to a sudden end.
"It's been a great experience, a great learning curve," added Evans, who heads to Croatia next for Great Britain's Davis Cup tie on 13-15 September.
"I can definitely play with these guys so I should be confident going into the next tournaments."

Murray, 29, came through an even first set via a tie-break, but found himself a break down early in the second.
But Edmund, who will rise into the top 50 after beating Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut to make the least eight, then lost three straight service games to allow his compatriot through.
Murray will face Spain's David Ferrer in the last four.
It was a heartening performance from Edmund, who hung tough with Murray in the first set despite failing to win a single point off the Scot's first serve.
The 21-year-old Yorkshireman, who was ranked outside the top 100 in February, was edged out in the tie-break and then ran out of steam after a promising start to the second.
Murray has lost just once in 11 Tour level meetings with other Britons, going down in straight sets to Tim Henman in Bangkok in September 2006. He beat Edmund at the Aegon Championships quarter-finals at Queen's earlier this year in their only previous meeting.
The other semi-final will see Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov play Wimbledon finalist Milos Raonic of Canada.
Dimitrov ended the challenge of Spanish second seed Rafael Nadal in the quarter-finals with a 6-2 6-4 victory.
It is the first time Dimitrov has beaten the 14-time Grand Slam champion and he is aiming to reach his third final of the year.
Raonic advanced after a 6-4 6-4 win over Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta.


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Question: A temporary measure for disabled access at Weston-super-Mare railway station is "totally unacceptable", an equality forum has said.

People with mobility needs have been asked to call in advance if they require help accessing Platform One.
A footbridge has been the only general way to get to the platform since last summer when anti-social behaviour led to its main entrance being closed.
Great Western Railway said funding was in place for improving the access.
This is likely to mean a new bridge but work is not expected to start until next year, according to spokesman Dan Panes.
In the meantime the platform door would be open on some occasions when possible.
"Whenever possible, we do ask people to call in advance because it does mean we are able to organise things more quickly and make sure we have enough staff in the right place," Mr Panes added.
However, Gordon Richardson - vice chair of the Bristol Equality Forum-  said he thought that was "totally unacceptable today".
"If all they have to do is open a door, why should I have to tell them 24 hours in advance?," he told BBC Radio Bristol.
"Why can't they have something where perhaps you come to that door, there's an intercom and they can then open the door for you and let you in?"
Tina Keddy, a station user from the town, is also unhappy about the temporary measures.
On a recent trip to Bath with her 81-year-old mother, she said she asked a guard if there was help for the disabled "and he said 'no'".
"Mum has arthritis in her spine and in her knee. We were there in plenty of time so slowly we went up the steps, along the top, and down the other side but it was very difficult."

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Campaigners from North Wales Deaf Association (NWDA) said they do not know who placed it there on Tuesday, but "appreciate the support".
The group has been left "frustrated and angry" at a Â£50,000 annual funding cut from Conwy council.
But the authority said talks took place 18 months before funding was cut and it is probing a bench being "defaced".


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Question: General Motors has put on hold a planned $1bn investment in India as it reassesses its strategy in the country.

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Its sales in India have fallen nearly 40%, and its share of the passenger vehicle market has also dropped.
A regulatory crackdown on diesel vehicles has also led the company to rethink its plans.
More than 5,000 new cars are sold in India every day - and it is forecast to be the world's third biggest vehicle market by 2020.
In 2015, Ford committed to investing $1bn (Â£760m) in India to boost its domestic market share and make the country a global export hub.
India is among the fastest growing car markets in the world. No wonder then that some of the world's biggest carmakers are investing heavily.
But it's also not an easy market to crack. General Motors India has still been posting losses two decades after gaining a presence in the country.
India has turned out to be such a difficult market that a former high-ranking GM India employee told me he wouldn't be surprised if the company closed at least one of its two factories in India.
So what's gone wrong?
Partly it's down to what consumers here want. Indians mainly want value for money - a vehicle that gives good mileage, has easy after-sales service and a good resale value.
Other brands like Maruti Suzuki and Hyundai, which dominate the market, have so far managed to deliver on that.
Analysts here say GM got the India market wrong from the beginning and didn't do anything to arrest sagging sales.
"In addition to the shift in customer preferences, the industry is facing unprecedented regulatory uncertainty. Like our competitors, we are paying close attention to how this impacts our business. In light of this, we are conducting a full review of our future product programme in India," Swati Bhattacharya, a spokeswoman at GM India told the BBC.
"As a result, we are also putting on hold future investment in our all-new vehicle family in India until we firm up our product portfolio plan."
The BBC's Shilpa Kannan in Delhi says things have not gone to plan for the company since it unveiled its vehicles for India at the country's biggest auto show a few years ago.
But while GM's share has fallen below 1% in the domestic market, the automaker, which has two factories in India, has seen a rise in exports.
Exports rose to 7,217 units in April-May this year, against 590 units in the same period last year.

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VW's Skoda unit will lead the project to develop components and vehicles.
VW is looking for new markets as it recovers from its diesel emissions scandal.
Tata Motors, which is India's largest vehicle company and owns Jaguar Land Rover, is also hoping to claw back domestic market share.
They have signed a memorandum of understanding on a partnership they hope will potentially lead to Tata Motors launching new vehicles by 2019.
Guenter Butschek, chief executive and managing director, Tata Motors, has put in place a restructuring programme to help build up Tata's lost sales for passenger and commercial vehicles by improving efficiencies, cutting production delays and building economies of scale.
He said: "We strongly believe that both the companies, by working together, can leverage from each other's strengths to create synergies and develop smart innovative solutions for the Indian and overseas market."
VW is investing in self-drive vehicles and greener technology such as electric cars and would like greater familiarity with the Indian market.
Matthias MÃ¼ller, chief executive of Volkswagen AG, said: "By offering the appropriate products, we intend to achieve sustainable and profitable growth in very different parts of the world."
A previous attempt by VW to expand into emerging markets through an alliance with Suzuki Motor Corp ended in 2015, following bitter disagreements.
Carmakers are attempting to win a greater share of expanding emerging markets through the sale of budget cars, which in turn increase familiarity of their brand.
VW is still dealing with the aftermath of the company's emissions-cheating scandal which came to light in September 2015.
VW pleaded guilty to three criminal charges in the US in January this year, and would pay fines totalling $4.3bn (Â£3.5bn) to settle charges over the scandal.
In November last year Volkswagen announced plans to cut 30,000 jobs worldwide with about 23,000 of the losses to be borne in Germany.


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Question: Plans to cut soldiers could leave the Army "short of personnel" and unable to meet future national security needs, a report by MPs has warned.

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The Commons defence select committee also voices "surprise" at the lack of consultation over the Army 2020 plan.
Under the plan, personnel numbers will be cut from 102,000 to 82,000 by 2018, with a doubling of reservist numbers.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said it would ensure the Army was a "flexible and agile force".
The number of part-time soldiers, or reservists, is to be doubled from 15,000 to 30,000, but the Army is still a long way off from meeting its targets and the MPs' report says there is scepticism that it will be able to recruit the numbers it needs.
Overall, the report echoes a familiar theme: the cuts to the armed forces have been driven by the need to save money, rather than any strategic vision of Britain's place in the world.
The MPs say they were "surprised" at the lack of consultation on such a radical change. The new size of the Army was not part of the original Defence Review in 2010 and had never even been discussed by the National Security Council.
The head of the Army, General Sir Peter Wall, wasn't asked for his opinion either. He was simply told by a senior civil servant what the future strength of his army would be.
So, perhaps it is no surprise the committee feels the Ministry of Defence needs to explain and justify how an army of 82,000 regulars and 30,000 reservists will be adequate to meet the threats of the future.
The MPs say they "remain to be convinced" that the Army 2020 plan represents a fully "thought through and tested concept". They conclude "the MoD has failed to communicate the rational and strategy behind the plan".
But it is not just the lack of strategy that worries them. They're not convinced the Army will be able to deal with the more practical steps of meeting its  recruiting targets either.
"We note the scepticism of some of our witnesses that it will be possible to recruit the required number of reservists in the timescale envisaged," they say.
They say it is "essential" the Army has the ability to undertake future military operations, adding that "any loss of such capability would have serious implications for the UK's national security".
They also note that there is a financial incentive not to use reservists, who will suddenly cost a lot more if they're ever sent on operations. The MPs say "it would be unacceptable if the UK decided not to take part in any action because of the cost of deploying reservists".
Labour claims Britain's armed forces are already significantly under-strength, with  a shortfall of 8,000 service personnel.
Shadow defence secretary Vernon Coaker called the report a "damning verdict" and called for Mr Hammond to "pause his redundancy programme until it's clear that Britain's Armed Forces won't be left with a dangerous capability gap".
The MoD says the 8,000 figure is misleading as it includes those who have recently been made redundant as the overall size of the British military shrinks.
There is though clearly a growing challenge in making a career in the armed forces attractive.
Mr Hammond will have heard most of these concerns before. He's already seen off one attempt to halt the  redundancy programme, at least until reservists have been recruited in greater numbers.
He insists there is "no plan B".
Mr Hammond sees this as more than just a numbers game.  He says "the changes currently taking effect will ensure the Army has a sustainable and properly funded future, as a flexible and agile force with first-class kit and worldwide reach".
That's his hope, but the defence committee still fears it could all go wrong.
They say if there are any more cuts then Army 2020 could completely "unravel".

The letter reflects concern right across the ranks. The list includes not just the "old and the bold" - retired admirals, generals and air marshals - but former colonels, corporals and academics, too. The reality is that defence is not always top of the list of voters' concerns at an election. These are some of the questions behind the letter:
There's always the danger of crying wolf. But few would disagree that the world is dangerous. The letter cites risks from all over the globe - whether from hostile states or extremist groups.
Ministers have long argued that Britain's armed forces are the envy of the world and that even outside the European Union they'll play an important role.
Some have even suggested that defence and security could be the UK's trump card in the difficult negotiations. The implication being that Europe's own security would suffer if they turned their back on Britain.
Those who've signed this letter are not so sure. Brexit has already made the pound weaker. The letter says its fall "threatens the purchase of meaningful numbers of jets" for the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers.
Almost $30bn (£22bn) worth of foreign military purchases planned by the MOD are exposed to currency fluctuations. That said, Britain is not leaving Nato - and it remains the cornerstone of European defence.
The Nato alliance has set a target for its members to spend 2% of their national income, or GDP, on defence. Britain currently meets and is committed to that goal.
In fact, Britain is one of the few Nato members to spend at least 2% on defence, according to the alliance's own figures. But MPs on the Commons Defence Committee say it's been reached by "creative accounting".
Those who've signed the letter put it more bluntly. They say it's a deception.
In 2015, the government started adding several items of expenditure not previously included, such as military and civil service pensions, contributions to UN peacekeeping missions as well as much of the MOD's £1.4bn income.
In the words of the letter "most analysts now agree core defence expenditure for hard military power is well below 2%." However, the calculations are entirely in accordance with Nato's own rules.
It is true that defence spending rose this year. But it follows years of cuts. Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon says the lean years are behind us.
He says the MOD is spending £178bn on new equipment - including new jets, warships, aircraft carriers and armoured vehicles. Though that money is being spent over the next 10 years and also includes the cost of renewing Britain's Trident weapons system. The Treasury used to help foot that bill.
A number of recent reports also question whether the MOD's equipment programme has been fully funded.
Earlier this year, the government spending watchdog, the National Audit Office, noted that billions of pounds of efficiencies had not yet been identified.
While those who've signed the letter praise the government's 2015 Defence and Security Review as setting "the right path for our long term security", they say it has not been fully funded.
They cite another report by MPs on the Public Accounts Committee who said "the affordability of the Equipment Plan is at greater risk than at any time since its inception".
Britain's armed forces are now at their smallest since the Napoleonic wars. The size of the army alone has been cut from more than 100,000 to just 82,000. Even then, the army is struggling with recruitment and is still below its fully trained strength.
The government would argue that, though smaller, the armed forces are now more capable. Investment has been made in new equipment from body armour to drones.
But there are still significant gaps. For example, Royal Navy warships are no longer fitted with any anti-ship missiles. The Navy can't afford them.
Some capabilities have been "hollowed out". While the Royal Navy will soon have two new aircraft carriers, it's still not clear how many jets the MOD will be able to afford. Or how many new warships will be built to protect them.
Those who've signed the letter warn that the armed forces are "having to seek further very damaging savings in manpower support and training".
The last coalition government accused Labour of leaving a £34bn black hole in the MOD's budget. It was the reason why the 2010 Defence Review resulted in such savage cuts.
However, during his time as defence secretary, Philip Hammond claimed to have balanced the books. Under Sir Michael Fallon, though, the accounts are under significant pressure.
The recent report by the National Audit Office said there's now a real risk of a return to the "previous practice where affordability could only be maintained by delaying or reducing the cost of projects".
It's probably too early to say whether there's now a new black hole in the MODs accounts. But some estimate a gap of at least £10bn and growing.
This is by no means the first time that former senior military officers have warned of a crisis in defence.
But it's still not clear whether those concerns are shared by the voters, and whether defence features much in the general election.


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Question: John Prescott has taken up his seat in the House of Lords, becoming Baron Prescott of Kingston-Upon-Hull.

Labour's former deputy PM was among a number of ex-ministers to be given peerages after the election in May.
Lord Prescott, deputy to Tony Blair for 10 years, was watched by his wife Pauline, who sat in one of the public viewing galleries.
Although reportedly against taking a peerage in the past, he now says it will enable him to campaign on issues.
The 72-year old has officially became Baron Prescott during a short ceremony in the House of Lords, although he will be known as Lord Prescott.
Wearing traditional ermine robes, he pledged allegiance to the Queen, signed the official documents before departing the Lords chamber, pausing briefly to chat to Conservative peer Lord Strathclyde, the leader of the house.
After he stood down as deputy leader in 2007, Mr Prescott reportedly indicated that he would not be following in their footsteps.
"I don't want to be a member of the House of Lords," the Daily Mail reported him as saying in August 2008, although he denies ever saying it.
Mr Prescott has remained active in political life despite standing down as the MP for Hull East at the last election.
He campaigned vigorously for Labour - travelling the country in a battle bus - and has since said he wants to be the party's Treasurer to help improve its finances.
Speaking after it was announced he would be nominated for a peerage in May, he said he was not ready for "his pipe and slippers" yet.
"I tell you what. The Lords is a place of class, no doubt about that, and I'd like to be in the battle there, like I am elsewhere," he said.
He said he wanted a platform to continue to make the case for jobs, social justice and environmental protection and denied he had been talked into it by his wife.
"I make my own decisions. Of course I'd be influenced by my wife, but I'm not doing it for that."
Former Labour MPs Quentin Davies, who defected from the Tories in 2007 and became a defence minister, and ex-Cabinet Office minister Angela Smith also took their places in the Lords. They were sworn in as Lord Davies of Stamford and Baroness Smith of Basildon.

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The former shadow secretary of state for Northern Ireland was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer after falling ill while on holiday in Spain.
Mr McNamara, who represented Hull North from 1966 to 2005, had no previous symptoms and died at his home in Formby, Merseyside, his family said.
Tributes have been paid tribute to the "widely respected" politician.
Mr McNamara's family said he was staying in Carboneras and was "pain-free" before becoming suddenly unwell last month.
He was taken out of the Spanish town by air ambulance and admitted to Southport and Formby District General Hospital on 28 July.
In a statement, his family said: "He died peacefully at home, surrounded by his family, following a short and unexpected illness."
They also thanked medical staff in Carboneras and Almeria, and NHS staff and an insurance company who helped Mr McNamara return home.
Tributes have been paid to the politician on social media.
Labour MP for Hull East Karl Turner tweeted: "Sorry to hear that former MP for Hull North Kevin McNamara passed away earlier today.
"He was widely respected and will be missed greatly."
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Mr McNamara, who was born in Liverpool in 1934, graduated in law at the then University College Hull before meeting his wife, Nora, who he married in 1960.
He became head of history at Hull's St Mary's Grammar School before becoming a law lecturer.
In 1966 he won the Hull North seat for the Labour Party, two years after unsuccessfully contesting Bridlington in 1964.
Mr McNamara held a range of positions during his parliamentary career, including shadow secretary of state for Northern Ireland between 1987 and 1995, followed by shadow minister for the civil service between 1995 and 1996. He was a backbencher under Tony Blair before he stood down from his seat in 2005.
Mr McNamara leaves behind his wife Nora, three sons and a daughter. Another of his sons died before him.