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civil rights campaigners, whos died at the age of 93. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the european court of human rights has tonight refused an application by the parents of archie battersbee to postpone the removal of his life support, effectively ending the familys legal battle. doctors — who say archie is brain stem dead — were waiting for a decision from the court before beginning the withdrawal of his treatment. the 12—year—old has been in a coma since an accident at...

I think for that is because taiwan has changed over the decades. it is now a vibrant democracy with a free press, independent courts and an emerging and very strong sense of its identity, while china has moved in the opposite direction — now increasingly authoritarian. whereas it once could hold at the prospect of peaceful unification as a somewhat distant but still realistic prospect for its people, that now looks like an increasing possibility, so this whole visit has brought into sharp reli...