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Tourists by 2020, we look at whether the target is possible or even desirable. The u. S. President has laid out his plan to help leaders in iraq fight a wellarmed insurgency. Barack obama says hes sending up to 300 military advisers to the country, but not combat forces. Iraqi soldiers have been trying to stop the advance of islamist militants who are surging toward the capital. Nhk worlds sachiko pakeda has more. Reporter the Iraqi Government is using staterun tv to show its soldiers are keeping up the fight against islamic extremists, but the reality is, they need help. So after days of deli...

Of undermining democracy. A proposed shake up to University Admissions with the recommendations from University Leaders including offers based on actual exam results, rather than predicted grades. And if you want to get in touch about any of todays stories please do. You can tweet me Annita Mcveigh or with bbcyourquestions. Tonight marks a0 years since the launch of children in need well be looking at how the money raised is being used to help people. A happy ending for scotland for a change the time has come, the time really has come and coming up this hour. Scotland have finally done it, qua...

Netherlands cycle at least three times a week. 80 at least once a week. So all the car drivers are also cyclists and they know as they turn right that there is an 80 chance that they will cut off a cyclist if they dont look. So there is also safety by numbers. One last thing and that is about liability. When i hear about cycling in the u. S. , people say, oh, but cycling is so dangerous. And then we say, no, cycling is not dangerous. Cyclists hardly ever cause accidents. Cars cause accidents. Cars cause facilities and in the netherlands we have the philosophy that car drivers should realize th...

And also from that on responsibility in taking liability. If a car drives over a child on a bike, no matter what happens, he is 100 liable for whatever happens. And even in the other cases, when a car goes in the collision with an adult on a bike, still there is at least 50 liability for the car driver. And when the car driver would say, but yeah, the cyclists made a very strange movement. Then we would say in the netherlands, well, you know thats about cycling. So you should reduce your speed when you see the cycling, you just cant drive on with 40 or 45 miles an hour alongside cyclists becau...

Say, but yeah, the cyclists made a very strange movement. Then we would say in the netherlands, well, you know thats about cycling. So you should reduce your speed when you see the cycling, you just cant drive on with 40 or 45 miles an hour alongside cyclists because there is always the risk that something strange happens so thats important. Jurisdiction. There were initiatives to put in a code, but there was large opposition against it, defacto it doesnt make any difference. Well, and one of the things is of course and i heard that the system in San Francisco of allotting schools to children ...