Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of Islamist militant group Isis, has called on Muslims to obey him, in his first video sermon.

Baghdadi has been appointed caliph by the jihadist group, which has seized large swathes of Iraq and Syria.
The video appears to have been filmed on Friday during a sermon at the al-Nouri Mosque in Mosul, northern Iraq.
It surfaced on Saturday amid reports that he had been killed or wounded in an Iraqi air raid.
It was not clear when the attack was supposed to have taken place.
In the sermon, at Mosul's most famous landmark, Baghdadi praised the establishment of the "Islamic state", which was declared by Isis last Sunday.
Experts say the reclusive militant leader has never appeared on video before, although there are photographs of him.
"Appointing a leader is an obligation on Muslims, and one that has been neglected for decades," he said.
He also said that he did not seek out the position of being the caliph, or leader, calling it a "burden".
"I am your leader, though I am not the best of you, so if you see that I am right, support me, and if you see that I am wrong, advise me," he told worshippers.
Captions in the video referred to Baghdadi as "Caliph Ibrahim", a name he has used since the group unilaterally declared him leader of an "Islamic state" last Sunday.
Earlier on Saturday Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki fired two of his top security chiefs following the collapse of the Iraqi army in the north of the country last month.
The chief of the Iraqi army's ground forces as well as the head of the federal police both lost their jobs.
Meanwhile, extremists led by Isis destroyed at least a dozen shrines and places of worship in Nineveh province in northern Iraq.
Shia, Sunni and Christian targets were destroyed, with images of their demolition being shared on social media.
More than a million people have fled their homes as a result of the recent conflict, and at least 2,461 people were killed in June, the UN and Iraqi officials say.


England reached the quarter-finals of the Under-20 World Cup in South Korea with a last-16 victory over Costa Rica.

Everton striker Ademola Lookman fired England into a first-half lead before doubling the advantage after the break.
Costa Rica's Randall Leal saw his late penalty saved by goalkeeper Freddie Woodman but tucked in the rebound.
Paul Simpson's side held on and remain unbeaten having topped their group and will play Mexico in the quarter-finals on Monday in Cheonan.
Costa Rica thought they had drawn level at 1-0 down but had a goal ruled out for offside by the video assistant referee.
England's 19-year-old Lookman dominated the game, striking a free-kick against the crossbar in between two nifty finishes.
Everton team-mate Jonjoe Kenny drilled in a low cross for Lookman's first, before fellow Everton forward Dominic Calvert-Lewin played the ball inside from the left flank and Lookman slotted the ball through the legs of keeper Erick Pineda.
England progressed to the quarter-finals of the tournament for the first time since 1993.
Their opening victory against Argentina ended a 17-match winless streak for the Young Lions.


Holyrood's finance committee has called for MSPs to debate the government's budget timetable after the publication of draft spending plans was delayed.

Derek Mackay has put back publication of his first budget until after the UK government's Autumn statement.
Convener Bruce Crawford expressed "concern" at the amount of time MSPs will have to scrutinise budget plans.
A "fundamental" review of the Scottish budget process is to be held in light of Holyrood's new fiscal powers.
The Scottish draft budget is traditionally published in September, but new finance secretary Mr Mackay has proposed delaying his until December - leaving much less time for MSPs to study the details before voting on it in February.
He said uncertainty caused by the UK's vote to leave the EU, coupled with Holyrood's new financial powers, meant he would need to see what moves new Chancellor Philip Hammond makes in his statement on 23 November.
Mr Crawford, an SNP MSP and former cabinet minister, acknowledged the government faces "a significant challenge" in putting the budget together, but said his committee "remains concerned at the amount of time which will be available for parliamentary scrutiny".
And in a letter to the finance secretary, he said it was "unacceptable" that Mr Mackay was not prepared to give the committee any scenario planning information in advance of the draft budget being published.
He added: "While the committee recognises that there is a need to maintain some flexibility in the timing of the budget process, there also needs to be a recognition that sufficient time is ordinarily allowed for robust parliamentary scrutiny."
Mr Crawford has now lodged a parliamentary motion calling for MSPs to debate the timetable, meaning members would get to vote on it - with no guarantee the minority government would win.
Mr Mackay defended the delay when questioned by the committee earlier in September.
He said: "Publishing an inaccurate budget would be the wrong thing to do. The starting position is about to change, and having such intense scrutiny on a budget that would be subject to so much change because of the variables would be the wrong approach."
The Scottish Conservatives welcomed the move, with committee member Murdo Fraser saying it was "essential" that parliament had "sufficient time to scrutinise the budget".
He added: "Under the SNP plans, this would have left just two weeks for the plans to be analysed, when usually there are two months for that.
"The SNP is now a minority government and can't simply force through what it wants. Today, Derek Mackay is learning that very lesson."
Scottish Labour also said it would be "completely unacceptable" for the government to delay all scrutiny until December.
MSP James Kelly said: "Derek Mackay has been unwilling to give MSPs any ballpark numbers. Given how vital this budget will be, that simply isn't good enough.
"The SNP have form for trying to dodge parliamentary scrutiny, they cannot repeat those tricks when it comes to the funding for Scotland's public services."
A Scottish government spokeswoman welcomed the committee's recognition that the Brexit vote and new powers "necessitates a later publication" of the budget.
She added that a number of committees "have already adapted their approach to budget scrutiny", and pointed to the ongoing review of the budget process.


Venezuela has issued new larger denomination banknotes in response to the country's soaring rate of inflation.

The three notes, ranging from 500 to 20,000-bolivars, have entered circulation with the aim of making paying for essentials easier.
Inflation in Venezuela is forecast to reach 1,600% this year.
Until now, the 100-bolivar note had been the country's largest, worth just three US cents on the black market.
The new bills are aimed at making transactions easier for Venezuelans, who have had to carry huge book-size wads of cash to pay for basic items.
However the new 20,000-bolivar note is still worth less than $6 (Â£5) on the black market, which Venezuelans frequently turn to if they are unable to purchase official-rate dollars.
On Monday, Venezuelans began queuing at banks and ATMs for the new notes.
"I think it is more of the same," said one man in Caracas.
"Effectively what we are doing is putting more money on the street, attracting more inflation."
In December, President Nicolas Maduro said the government was scrapping the 100-bolivar note in order to prevent smuggling.
He said the aim was to tackle gangs which hoard Venezuelan currency abroad, a move he has previously described as part of the "economic war" being waged against his government.
Venezuelans were given only 72 hours to deposit or change the 100-bolivar notes, leading to long queues at banks.
The move also led to protests and looting in parts of the country, with shops attacked and roads blocked.
The deadline was extended a number of times with the latest date for the withdrawal of the 100-bolivar note set for 20 February.


US First Lady Melania Trump has re-filed a legal case against UK newspaper Daily Mail, saying it cost her the "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to profit from her brand.

Mrs Trump could have formed "multi-million dollar business relationships" while she was "one of the most photographed women in the world", the suit said.
The Daily Mail had reported allegations that she once worked as an escort.
It later retracted its article.
Mrs Trump previously launched a legal case against the newspaper in Maryland, but it was dismissed after a judge decided the case should not be filed in the state.
Mrs Trump's lawyers have now re-filed the complaint in New York, where Mail Media Inc, which owns the Daily Mail, has offices.
Mrs Trump is seeking damages of $150m (Â£120m).
The defamatory Daily Mail article meant Mrs Trump's "brand has lost significant value", the complaint said.
Mrs Trump had the "opportunity... to launch a broad-based commercial brand in multiple product categories, each of which could have garnered multi-million dollar business relationships for a multi-year term during which [she] is one of the most photographed women in the world", it said.
The products categories would have included clothing, haircare and makeup, it added.
Issuing a retraction of the 20 August article, the Daily Mail said it "did not intend to state or suggest that these allegations are true, nor did it intend to state or suggest that Mrs Trump ever worked as an 'escort' or in the 'sex business'."
It has not commented on Tuesday's refiling of the lawsuit.
Mrs Trump also sued a US blogger, Wester Tarpley, for making similar allegations to the Daily Mail.
The lawsuit was settled on Tuesday after Mr Tarpley issued an apology and agreed to pay a "substantial sum as a settlement", her lawyers said.
The Trump family has faced questions about its business interests.
Mr Trump has been criticised for handing control of his business empire to his sons, rather than liquidating his business holdings to avoid any appearance of a conflict.
One watchdog has launched a lawsuit against Mr Trump, arguing that as he has not divested from his businesses, he is receiving cash and favours from foreign governments through guests at his hotels and real estate deals, in violation of the Constitution.
Mr Trump said the lawsuit was "without merit".


The US economy added 280,000 jobs in May, the US Labor Department has said.

The increase was more than analysts had expected and the biggest this year. Economists described it as "encouraging".
The jobless rate, which is based on a different survey, crept up to 5.5% from 5.4%, but this was explained by more people looking for jobs.
Average earnings rose 0.3% compared with the previous month, to $24.96 an hour.
This is a measure closely watched by policymakers as they assess when to start raising interest rates.
Consistently higher wages, as well as the improving jobs market, will add to the argument for a rate increase, which most observers currently expect to happen in September, rather than at its next meeting in June.
"More people working more hours and making more money is a very virtuous combination for growth," said Tom Simons from Jefferies.
"The May employment report is very encouraging."
The economy is expected to return to growth in the second quarter, after an unexpected contraction in the first three months of the year.
It shrank by 0.7% between January and March but that was seen by many as an aberration, largely caused by an exceptionally harsh winter and a West Coast ports strike that severely damaged exports.
The Labor Department also revised the jobs figures from March and April. March was revised up to 119,000 from 85,000, while April was revised a touch lower to 221,000 from 223,000.
It means that over the past three months, companies have added an average of 207,000 jobs.
"Job gains occurred in professional and business services, leisure and hospitality, and health care," the Labor Department said.
The US labour market continues to heal.
Jobs are being created and wages are rising. Even the slight increase in the unemployment rate can be seen as a positive sign - as more people are looking for work.
The labour participation rate - which counts those in employment or those who are looking - rose to 62.9%.
So is this jobs report strong enough to give the Federal Reserve - America's central bank - the green light to raise interest rates this year? They've been near zero for nearly seven years.
Certainly the International Monetary Fund would like the Fed to wait until next year, when there is more of a rebound in wages and inflation.
But after this Friday's jobs report, many on Wall Street now think the odds of a move in the second half of 2015 have just gone up.
On Thursday, the International Monetary Fund advised the Federal Reserve to hold off raising interest rates until next year.
"Only 24 hours later, the IMF's suggestion that the Fed should wait until 2016 looks very dated,'' said Paul Ashworth from Capital Economics.
"At this stage, this evident strength in the labour market probably isn't enough to persuade the Fed to hike rates by July, but it definitely makes a rate cut by September probable.''
Chris Williamson, chief economist at the research firm Markit agreed that Friday's figures "raised the likelihood" of a rate increase in September. But he added that the central bank would "be watching the data keenly in coming months to seek reassurance that the economy is not losing too much momentum, with eyes on the impact of the strong dollar in particular".
The US government welcomed the report, but said it would not be complacent.
"Although the job market has made considerable progress throughout this recovery, challenges remain for our economy and there is more work to do," a statement from the White House said.
This is a reasonably strong jobs report. There is less to the rise in unemployment than meets the eye. It reflects a reduction in the number counted as "not in the labour force".
That covers people not looking for work. If they start looking, they join the ranks of the unemployed and add to the jobless number, until they find work.
It's not unusual to get that kind of effect when things are going reasonably well. It can be a sign that people have started thinking it's worth making the effort to look for a job.
There was one slightly disappointing aspect to the report: an increase in the number of people working fewer hours than they want to.
Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen has in the past referred to the data on part time work as one reason for regarding the jobs market as not so strong as the headline unemployment rate suggests.
Still, an interest rate rise this year does now look a little more likely.


A game for tablets is being developed in Wales which parents can use to test their children's eyesight at home.

The Space Vision app gets children to tap increasing faint black and white squares on a grey background to make aliens pop up and make a noise.
Their ability to keep track of the squares can be used to screen for vision problems and developers hope it will ease the burden on the NHS.
The co-founder of Vision Games, said it was an "exciting prospect".
Luke Anderson started the company with Dr Stephanie Campbell with support from the Centre of Excellence in Mobile and Emerging Technologies at the University of South Wales.
Early tests picked up vision problems, such as lazy eye, in children as young as two.
Mr Anderson said: "We're living in a time where there's increased pressure on the health service and if you can get patients monitoring their own vision at home that takes stress off hospital systems."
The app, once publically available, would initially flag up any vision problems it identified to the user and advise them if they needed to make an appointment with a GP or optician.
In the long-run, Mr Anderson said the data could be synced with family GPs so doctors could access the information to make an assessment.
Mr Anderson, a consultant eye surgeon at Cwm Taf University Health Board, said the idea came from the "extremely difficult" experience of trying to assess children's eyesight using charts.
They often struggled to get young children to sit still, so developing a game children would take an interest in helps them gather more data.
Areas of vision tested include colour, motion, black on white and differentiating between shades of grey.
The app is about to undergo larger clinical tests after a small initial run, but Mr Anderson said if everything went to plan, it could be downloadable within 18 months.
Mr Anderson said getting children to sit still "was still a problem," adding: "But, looking at my children, the time when they're quiet is when they're sitting there on a tablet or a phone.
"So we just naturally took the science and tried to implement it on that platform. The use of technology for efficiency within the NHS is an exciting prospect."


A man's body has been found in a lane near a busy street in Galashiels.

Police officers were called to the town's High Street at 12.20pm.
The area was cordoned off and an investigation was launched.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "The death is currently being treated as unexplained and inquiries are ongoing."


A US professor is proposing a new way to test whether artificial intelligence (AI) is on a par with that of humans.

Currently scientists use the Turing test - named after computer scientist Alan Turing - which evaluates whether an AI can convince a judge that it is human in a conversation.
Prof Mark Riedl, from the Georgia Institute of Technology, is proposing a new test.
It would ask a machine to create a convincing poem, story or painting.
Dubbed Lovelace 2.0 it is an iteration of a previous Lovelace Test, proposed in 2001.
Named after one of the first computer programmers, the original test required an AI to create something that it would be incapable of explaining how it was created.
Lovelace 2.0 develops that idea.
"For the test, the artificial agent passes if it develops a creative artefact from a subset of artistic genres deemed to require human-level intelligence and the artefact meets certain creative constraints given by a human evaluator," explained Prof Riedl.
The artefact could be painting, poetry, architectural design or a fictional story.
"Creativity is not unique to human intelligence, but it is one of the hallmarks of human intelligence," said Prof Riedl.
Algorithms have already created stories and paintings although according to Prof Riedl "no existing story generation system can pass the Lovelace 2.0 test".
Experts had mixed feelings about how good such a test would be.
Prof Alan Woodward, a computer expert from the University of Surrey thinks it could help make a key distinction.
"I think this new test shows that we all now recognise that humans are more than just very advanced machines, and that creativity is one of those features that separates us from computers - for now."
But David Wood, chairman of the London Futurists, is not convinced.
"It's a popular view that humans differ fundamentally from AIs because humans possess creativity whereas AIs only follow paths of strict rationality," he said.
"This is a comforting view, but I think it's wrong. There are already robots that manifest rudimentary emotional intelligence and computers can already write inspiring music."
The 65-year-old Turing test is successfully passed if a computer is mistaken for a human more than 30% of the time during a series of five-minute keyboard conversations.
Back in June a computer program called Eugene Goostman, which simulates a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy, was said to have passed the Turing test although some experts disputed the claims.


The UN's human rights commissioner has arrived in Sri Lanka on a fact-finding mission after the government said she could visit former conflict zones.

As part of her week-long visit, Navi Pillay is due to travel to former war zones in the north and east.
She is also expected to hold talks with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
The UN said at least 40,000 civilians, mainly Tamils, died in the final months of the conflict between the government and Tamil rebels, which ended in 2009.
Ms Pillay is also expected to hold meetings with members of the Tamil community.
The BBC's Imogen Foulkes, at the UN in Geneva, says Ms Pillay will not want to be seen taking sides on this trip, nor will she want to lend credibility to the government.
Ms Pillay told the BBC: "I've not come here to criticise. I've come to raise human rights concerns.
"I'm looking at the framework that was also developed by Sri Lanka. So if I raise a criticism, it's whether they comply with those standards."
Government forces are accused of shelling hospitals and refugee camps, but Sri Lanka has resisted international pressure to investigate the allegations.
Ms Pillay's visit comes as Canada has called for a boycott of a Commonwealth summit scheduled to take place in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo in November.
The UK and human rights groups have also raised concerns over whether Sri Lanka should host the meeting.
Suresh Premachandran, a lawmaker with the Tamil National Alliance, said: "We will take up with her the question of accountability, the issue of thousands of missing people, the militarisation of Tamil areas and the lack of political freedoms."
Over the last two years, the UN Human Rights Council has passed two resolutions ordering the Sri Lankan government to launch an independent investigation into what happened at the end of the war.
The government has criticised the UN over the resolutions and insisted it did not massacre civilians.
Former conflict zones in the north have, until recently, been off limits to foreign journalists, aid workers and UN staff.
Tamil Tiger rebels controlled as much as one-third of Sri Lanka at the height of their power.


After a first season in which they employed three managers, faced fan protests and escaped relegation by the skin of their teeth after battling the drop all season, Swansea's owners will be under no illusion about the task ahead.

American investors Steve Kaplan and Jason Levien, alongside remaining chairman Huw Jenkins, will have had little time for celebration at a 'Great Escape' engineered by manager Paul Clement, with Swansea defying the odds by being joint-bottom on New Year's Day, only to survive with a game to spare.
Paul Clement's younger brother Neil, a mainstay of the West Brom side who defied the history books in 2005 with their own Premier League renaissance, no longer holds the family bragging rights when it comes to stunning revivals.
However, for Swansea to avoid a similar season of struggle next term, they will need to address the challenges for a club with one of the smallest budgets in the richest league in the world.
Jenkins has already stated that Swansea will not 'overhaul' their playing squad, and having accrued 26 points from the second half of the campaign under Clement's watch, that view is perhaps prudent, if not the headline fans may have wished for.
But another campaign like this one will not be good enough, something the Swans hierarchy are happy to acknowledge.
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Having backed and then sacked Francesco Guidolin and then hired and fired Bob Bradley within 85 days, not to mention spending a record fee of £15m on striker Borja Baston - current ratio, £15m per goal - there can be little doubt Swansea made mistakes across the board this season, something chairman Jenkins agrees with.
"The last year has been very hard for a number of reasons, on and off the field," he told BBC Wales Sport.
"To get over the line and stay in the Premier League gives us a great opportunity to do things in the summer to push on. And Paul Clement having a full year here with us, I think that will also be key.
"Against all the odds he's kept us up and I'm delighted for him because he took a risk in coming here.
"He gives us a chance to re-organise again in the summer.
"Looking back, [there are things] we should have done differently, collectively.
"I think for everybody, with the changes in the shareholding, the changes in players and managers throughout the first half of the season, it didn't look good and it didn't create a good image for our football club.
"It was probably the lowest point and I concede on that.
"Over the last 15-years we've always been proud of what we've done and what we've achieved and we've tried to do things in the right way.
"And perhaps in the first six months of this season, that was a big let down and we lost a little bit of pride and belief in what we were doing.
"But we can't dwell on that and look back too much. We've put it right and we've got a great opportunity to add further and push forward with a strong squad for next season.
"With Paul Clement, I think we've gone back to the old Swansea way of putting the football first."
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For Swansea's fans rightly proud of their previous fan ownership and community club model, a lack of investment from the new owners would be unforgivable.
But chief operating officer Chris Pearlman says there should be no concern on that front, even though the club intend to remain debt-free.
"The objectives of Jason and Steve are simple: to do everything they can to make the best club possible, to stay in the Premier League and to finish as high as possible," Pearlman told BBC Wales Sport.
"That's the big picture and Premier League status in the number one focus, every move we make this summer will be with that end goal in mind for the club. They will put all available resources behind doing that.
"They've now first-hand got a sense of what the pressure is like when things aren't going well, and how important every decision they make is.
"The implications for not succeeding are massive. We've all learned quickly how intense everything is and we know in the Premier League the pressures are enormous.
"The owners won't recklessly pour debt into the club, which is important for supporters to know, we are debt-free and that is how we intend to continue operating.
"What we need to do is invest into the team but also look for new revenue streams to invest further. All the goals we have in mind are to allow us to invest more in the team."
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Pearlman reiterated the view that taking ownership of and expanding the Liberty Stadium remains a priority and says the Liberty's capacity of 20,520 is prohibitive.
"The first thing we need to do before we explore expanding, is to look for a way to gain more control of the stadium," he said.
Swansea council built the £27m stadium where Swansea and the Ospreys rugby team have played since 2005.
The Swans and the Ospreys currently pay rent to the Swansea Stadium Management Company (SSMC) - a partnership between the council and two clubs.
"The current agreement is a dated agreement between Swansea, the Ospreys and the city council," Pearlman said.
"Putting an expansion is very expensive and for us to do that, we need to make sure we have 100% control over the stadium.
"The conversations are progressing with both parties. It's not the easiest thing to get done, but ultimately it's in the best interest of all three parties for us to take over the ground.
"Assuming that happens, we will take a much closer look at expanding the stadium.
"We are missing out on a new generation of fans, because they can't come and watch us play."


Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova has returned to the practice court as she continues her comeback from a career-threatening hand injury.

The 27-year-old Czech suffered damage to tendons and nerves in her left hand when she was stabbed by an intruder at her home in Prostejov in December.
She posted a photo of her playing in Monaco on social media.
"I hope this picture makes you as happy as it makes me," the world number 15 wrote.
"I'm back on the tennis court, hitting with some proper balls."
Kvitova was initially expected to be out for at least six months, but last month said she has a "chance" of making the French Open, starting on 28 May.
She announced she has submitted her entry for Roland Garros, but may not be ready to play.


BBC Northern Ireland has been linked with a move to the Sirocco site in east Belfast.

The broadcaster is planning to move from its current premises on Ormeau Avenue but has yet to decide on a location.
The property news service, Co-Star, said land agent Lambert Smith Hampton is now advising on the relocation.
It said the Sirocco site and a site near the new Ulster University campus have "emerged as early favourites".
Co-Star said that "market sources" have suggested that the BBC's need for studio space and parking for broadcast vehicles mean it will need a development site rather than refurbished space.
Sirocco is a 16-acre site beside the river Lagan.
The Carvill Group had planned to develop a hotel, supermarket and 2,400 apartments there before the property crash.
It ultimately ended up in the control of the Cerberus investment fund which recently sold it to an unnamed buyer.
The BBC has previously been linked with a move to Titanic Quarter or as part of the redevelopment of Great Victoria Street station.
Belfast City Council has said it would like the broadcaster to move close to Ulster University.
It has said land to the rear of Belfast Central Library, a site north of Great Patrick Street or the stalled Royal Exchange development could all be suitable.


Lee Miller's header three minutes into stoppage time earned Falkirk a point against a dogged Morton side.

Lee Kilday had put the visitors in front with only three minutes left when Ross Forbes floated in a free-kick and the substitute bundled the ball in.
It was an unlikely lead for Morton, whose defence had held firm under sustained Falkirk pressure.
But Miller's equaliser ensured the Bairns remain a point behind the Greenock outfit, in fifth place.
The first half was forgettable other than a Thomas O'Ware header that was cleared off the line by Falkirk's Luke Leahy.
Within seconds of the restart though, the home side came within the width of a post of going in front.
Leahy drove forward inside the Morton box but his left-foot drive crashed off the base of the post and was eventually cleared away.
Luca Gasparotto then had a goal-bound header cleared off the line and Tom Taiwo blasted an effort against his own player when it looked easier to score.
The Morton goal was leading a charmed life but at times Falkirk were guilty of over playing and chances were being frittered away.
When the visitors went in front late on it appeared Falkirk were heading for a third straight defeat.
But although Morton keeper Derek Gaston got a hand to Miller's header, he couldn't keep it out to ensure the Bairns earned a deserved point.
Falkirk boss Peter Houston: "I think on our second-half performance it would have been a travesty if we had not taken anything from the game.
"I thought Morton's only threat today was from Ross Forbes free-kicks. They are a good team in good form and we gave them opportunities as he (Forbes) has great delivery.
"But we have had two cleared off the line, we have hit the post twice and their keeper has had two good saves. It's a game where we should have had all three points."
Morton boss Jim Duffy: "Before the game we would have been happy with a point but when you lose a goal so late you are a bit gutted.
"I thought Falkirk deserved a point as they really put us under the cosh in the last 20 minutes. We thought we had seen it out but it wasn't to be.
"I think we need to get to the turn of the year and see how many points we have and then see if we are a top-six side or a bottom six team and then go from there. We are a competitive side who work really hard and we make it difficult for our opponents."
Match ends, Falkirk 1, Morton 1.
Second Half ends, Falkirk 1, Morton 1.
Goal!  Falkirk 1, Morton 1. Lee Miller (Falkirk) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. David McCracken (Falkirk) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Craig Sibbald (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ross Forbes (Morton).
Corner,  Falkirk. Conceded by Derek Gaston.
Attempt saved. Lee Miller (Falkirk) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner,  Falkirk. Conceded by Gavin Gunning.
Substitution, Morton. Michael Tidser replaces Jai Quitongo.
Goal!  Falkirk 0, Morton 1. Lee Kilday (Morton) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner.
Foul by Luke Leahy (Falkirk).
Gary Oliver (Morton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Falkirk. Robert McHugh replaces John Baird.
Aaron Muirhead (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jai Quitongo (Morton).
Corner,  Falkirk. Conceded by Derek Gaston.
Attempt saved. James Craigen (Falkirk) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Hand ball by John Baird (Falkirk).
Substitution, Falkirk. James Craigen replaces Tom Taiwo.
Hand ball by Gary Oliver (Morton).
Hand ball by Craig Sibbald (Falkirk).
Attempt missed. Mark Kerr (Falkirk) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Corner,  Morton. Conceded by Lee Miller.
Foul by Lee Miller (Falkirk).
Michael Doyle (Morton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner,  Falkirk. Conceded by Michael Doyle.
Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Aidan Nesbitt (Morton).
Corner,  Falkirk. Conceded by Michael Doyle.
Attempt missed. Tom Taiwo (Falkirk) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Foul by Lee Miller (Falkirk).
Michael Doyle (Morton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
David McCracken (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gary Oliver (Morton).
Substitution, Morton. Lee Kilday replaces Andy Murdoch.
Substitution, Morton. Aidan Nesbitt replaces Kudus Oyenuga.
Attempt missed. Luke Leahy (Falkirk) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Luke Leahy (Falkirk) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ross Forbes (Morton).


Spending cuts have moved BBC Wales's English language TV provision "closer to the cliff edge", according to the body that represents  audiences.

Audience Council Wales said there had been "no improvement" after its concern in 2014 at the "diminishing budget" for programmes reflecting Welsh life.
The comments appear in the the BBC Trust's Wales annual review.
BBC Cymru Wales director Rhodri Talfan Davies said a public debate during charter renewal was important.
About 900,000 people tuned into BBC Wales TV for at least 15 minutes each week.
This was a fall of 70,000 on the previous year, according to BBC Wales' management review for 2014/15, which was also published.
Despite the overall decline in audience figures, more than 800,000 viewers and listeners tuned into the BBC's coverage of the Dylan Thomas centenary.
BBC Wales Today remained the most popular English language programme, with an average of 293,000 viewers at 6.30pm, while Pobol y Cwm was the BBC's most popular programme on S4C with an average of 58,000 viewers
There was a fall in the BBC's audiences on S4C, with a weekly 15-minute reach of 131,000 viewers. The figure for 2013/14 was 155,000.
Digital growth in its Welsh language output saw its online services attract 89,000 weekly browsers during 2014/15, compared to 40,000 in 2013/14.
But there was a fall in the number of online visitors to its English language pages, with 3.48m weekly unique browsers in 2014/15 compared to 3.65m in 2013/14.
ACW scrutinises output on behalf of the corporation's governing body, the BBC Trust.
Mr Talfan Davies said it was "important" there was a public debate about the BBC's programming during the forthcoming review of the BBC's charter.
He identified four priorities as the process of charter review begins:
Reflecting on the past year, he added: "More than 800,000 people in Wales - and many millions across the UK - turned to BBC Wales for an extraordinary celebration of Dylan Thomas' life and work.
"It was BBC Wales' biggest ever season of cultural programming - and delivered a remarkable slate of output full of real passion and distinction across TV, radio and online."


US President Barack Obama has unveiled what he called "the biggest, most important step we have ever taken" in tackling climate change.

The aim of the revised Clean Power Plan is to cut greenhouse gas emissions from US power stations by nearly a third within 15 years.
The measures will place significant emphasis on wind and solar power and other renewable energy sources.
However, opponents in the energy industry have vowed to fight the plan.
"I'm convinced no challenge provides a greater threat to the future of the planet," Mr Obama said. "There is such a thing as being too late."
Those opponents say Mr Obama has declared "a war on coal". Power plants fired by coal provide more than a third of the US electricity supply.
The revised plan will aim to cut carbon emissions from the power sector by 32% by 2030, compared with 2005 levels.
"We are the first generation to feel the impacts of climate change, and the last generation to be able to do something about it," Mr Obama said. He likened the plan to taking 166 million cars off the road in terms of environmental impact. He called taking a stand against climate change a "moral obligation".
Mr Obama brushed off the notion that the plan is a "War on Coal" that will kill jobs and said he is reinvesting in areas of the US known as "coal country".
"Scaremonging" tactics will not work to stop the proposal, he said.
"If we don't do it nobody will. America leads the way forward... that's what this plan is about. This is our moment to get something right and get something right for our kids," he said.
The Clean Power Plan sets standards to reduce CO2  emissions by 32% from 2005 levels by 2030, which is 9% more than the proposed rules previously set forth by the Obama administration.
It sets carbon pollution reduction goals for power plants and requires states to implement plans to meet goals. States have until September 2016 to submit plans, but must comply by 2022.
Coal mining states such as Wyoming, West Virginia and Kentucky fear their economies would suffer and people would be laid off.
The Administration believes the plan will boost a major climate summit in Paris in December and encourage other countries to submit their own plans.
For more, read Breaking down the clean power plan
Each US state will have an emission-cutting goal assigned to it and must submit a proposal to the Environmental Protection Agency on how it will meet the target.
The BBC's Tom Bateman in Washington says President Obama will hope that Monday's announcement secures his legacy on climate change.
The measures, our correspondent says, would give the president the moral authority he needs to argue for global reductions in greenhouse gases at a major conference in Paris later this year.
However, several state governors are already saying they will simply ignore the plans.
In face of the criticism, the White House said the release of the plan was "the starting gun for an all-out climate push" by the president and his cabinet.
In a video released by the White House, Mr Obama said the new limits were backed up by decades of data showing that without action the world faced more extreme weather and escalating health problems.
"Climate change is not a problem for another generation. Not any more," Mr Obama said.
"My administration will release the final version of America's Clean Power Plan, the biggest, most important step we have ever taken to combat climate change."
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she would defend the plan if she was elected to replace Mr Obama.
"It will need defending. Because Republican doubters and defeatists - including every Republican candidate for president - won't offer any credible solution," she said.
"The truth is, they don't want one."
One Republican presidential candidate, Marco Rubio, said the plan would be "catastrophic," while another, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, said the plan was "irresponsible and over-reaching".
"The Supreme Court ruled, it's very clear that the EPA has the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, so regulation is inevitable and I think it's very irresponsible for the Republican leadership to go out there and say we don't have any solutions, this is all wrong, we don't believe in the science, so let's throw up our hands and do nothing," Heather Zichal, a former climate and energy adviser to the president and a key architect of the plan told the BBC's Matt McGrath.
"This will be an issue in the 2016 election and because the Democrats have a far more responsible policy position, it will allow them to prevail."
Correspondents say the emphasis on renewable energy sources marks a significant shift from the earlier version of the plan that sought to speed up a transition from coal-fired power to natural gas plants, which emit less carbon dioxide.
It is believed the revised plan will aim to keep the share of natural gas in US power generation at current levels.
Power stations are the largest source of greenhouse gases in the US and account for about one third of all such US emissions.
The big question for the president is how to ensure that these carefully crafted rules don't end up in the recycling bin of history.
The White House believes that by vesting the power to implement these changes in the hands of individual states, they are pulling the rug from Republican claims that this is another Washington imposed, big government boondoggle.
The president is calculating that the courts will uphold the rights of the EPA to regulate carbon emissions under the Clean Air Act, as they have done on a number of occasions in recent years.
He is also gambling that because of the uncertainty of the courts and the long lead time until the regulations bite, many Republican governors will grasp the nettle and accept the changes.
The president sees this plan as the cornerstone of his attempt to secure a global treaty on climate change in Paris at the end of the year. But he needs that conference to succeed almost as much as the beleaguered UN process needs him.
Getting a deal in the French capital may help "save the world" from the worst ravages of climate change. It would also make it very difficult for his successor to unravel the Clean Power Plan.


Iceland's fishing minister has said the country would "never join the European Union" because the country is thriving outside.

The country applied to join the EU in 2009, but dropped the application last year.
A key factor, said Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson, was the desire to retain control over fishing grounds.
The nation now has one of the most modern and productive fishing industries in the world.
However, while bigger companies on the island are flourishing, the small-scale fleet is shrinking. Some fear traditional fishing methods may die out altogether.
In an office overlooking the factory floor of Visir Fisheries in Grindavik in south-western Iceland, computer-generated images of cod fillets glide across a computer screen.
This is one of the most advanced fish processing factories in the world. The workers tend to a machine that sizes up each fish and slices it with a laser-accurate water jet. It can produce one perfectly shaped fillet each second.
Manager Johann Helgason points at one of the pale shapes passing by on his screen. "That's a pin bone." The robot will make sure it goes back for the tiny offender - just a few millimetres long - to be removed.
"The standardisation of the portions is more or less perfect," Mr Helgason says. "It maximises the value of each single piece that goes through."
Many of these flawless fillets will end up being eaten in the UK. Iceland's biggest market is Europe and inside the EU the largest market is Britain.
All parts of the fish are used. "Our goal is to increase the value of those by-products," says Mr Helgason. "We are using biotechnology to try to find materials in the fish skin or the eye, or the head - like enzymes or collagen. We want to go more into pharmaceutical or food supplements."
This Â£30m factory is at the cutting-edge of fish processing. Would they be in this position if Iceland were within the EU? Mr Helgason is sceptical.
"We have full control of the industry here in Iceland. We decide the catch and the rules. This makes us very quick to react if something needs to change, which is why we are very competitive."
Iceland forms part of the European Economic Area along with Norway and Lichtenstein. They get market access for fewer obligations: Iceland has to take in 15-20% of EU rules into its own legal framework.
Mr Helgason does not feel that Visir would gain much from being in Europe. "We are completely independent. It's up to us who we want to deal with and what kind of relationship we have with each country. This gives us an advantage."
The fishing industry is based on a quota system.
To keep fish stocks sustainable and protect the marine ecosystem, scientists from the Icelandic Marine Research Institute continually monitor Icelandic waters and provide this data to the government.
This guidance is followed to help set limits on the amount of fish that can be caught.
As under the Common Fisheries Policy, this quota can be bought and sold.
The Fisheries Ministry is the most powerful department in the Icelandic government. Dressed in an impeccable suit Minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson sits at a polished circular table in his office overlooking Reykjavik harbour.
He is blunt.
"I would never join the European Union," he says. "There is a life outside it, as we have proven. We have one of the biggest and one of the strongest fisheries in the world that is sustainable without any subsidies from the state.
"We don't have to share this decision-making with anyone else. It would be difficult for Icelanders to control their economic and fisheries sector having the obligation to discuss it with 27 or 28 other countries."
The 10 biggest families in Iceland control 50-60% of the quota.
Gunnar Tomasson is director of another fishing giant: Thorfish. He stands on the harbour wall watching 25,000 tonnes of fish being unloaded from one of his ships after a five day-trip.
"Today the fishing stocks are sustainable and we are controlling them very well. But inside the European Union, it is totally the other way around. They are not controlling it; they are overfishing their stocks and they are even paying subsidies to their industry. We do not want to go into the European Union."
However, the fact that Iceland is in charge of its own fish stocks does not mean that all fishermen are happy with the system.
There is criticism of the centralisation of power: the fact that a large company can own a factory, own a vessel and also own the quota.
One industry insider who did not want to be named likens this to a "mafia".
Since 1984, the number of people working in the industry has gone down by half. Smaller boats are struggling - just as they are in the UK.
In Sandgerdi, Halldor Armannsson and his 80-year-old father heave a tub of frozen mackerel and squid from an ancient freezer hut across a cracked patio and into a rundown shed. The bait is hacked up and pressed down on hooks attached to long lines that will run behind their boat.
This family has been fishing these Arctic waters in this way for 400 years. Currently, their business supports five families.
Mr Armannsson could be better protected under European rules. Reforms to the Common Fisheries policy mean these businesses - with their sustainable fishing methods - should be prioritised when quota is handed out.
Mr Armannsson says: "The small fishermen are dying out. Three years ago, we had about 600 boats line- and hook-fishing. Now, we have just 200. The bigger boats buy the quota and once it is lost they can't get it back. The smaller fleet just can't compete."
He says that people have to move to where the large fish factories are and so fishing in the smaller Icelandic villages is dying out.
"The control of the fisheries is what I am afraid of. I don't see how the government is putting younger people into this industry."
However, the globalisation of the Icelandic fishing industry is picking up speed. The Asian market is growing. A delegation from China arrives to look around the Visir factory and moves on to inspect the scientific research vessel moored in Reykjavik harbour.
Hjortur Gislason who has reported on the fishing industry for decades says: "Of course, the quota system means that fishing rights accumulate into fewer hands, but when you want to run an industry that contributes to your economy then that's the way you do it. The fishing fleet is paying huge amounts of money to the state for fishing rights and this is contributing to the people in Iceland.
"There will never be peace in fisheries management because there is not enough for everybody."


The UK government should relax its clampdown on onshore wind subsidies, the Scottish government has demanded.

Ministers scrapped subsidies following complaints, mainly from England, about the impact of wind farms on the countryside.
But Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said that as 70% of planned wind farms are set for Scotland, it would be disproportionately affected.
The UK government said customers must get value for money.
The SNP have insisted wind farms are creating jobs and bringing cash benefits to Scottish people and councils.
The nationalists say there is widespread support in Scotland for their policies to expand wind power and to produce almost all energy from renewables.
In a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron, Ms Sturgeon said those firms which had spent millions of pounds planning new wind farms in Scotland should still be allowed to qualify for subsidies.
She quoted the CBI, which has urged a grace period for developers whose plans are already in the planning system.
She told Mr Cameron: "Given your party has traditionally prided itself on being supportive of business, it is concerning that you are taking such an anti-business approach on this issue."
She also warned that the subsidy cuts were undermining the UK's claims to be a world leader on climate change.
Ms Sturgeon said: "I wish to stress my concern about the implications of the policy for this year's crucial UN (climate) talks in Paris. So far this year you have spoken out on climate change, pledging 'to accelerate the transition to a competitive, energy efficient low carbon economy'.
"You also said 'It is in our national interest to act and ensure others act with us', and you have also spoken of the need to get the private sector involved.
"However, your government's decision to cut planned support for renewable energy sets an extremely bad example to other countries, will put at risk Scotland's renewable energy targets, and also runs counter to your manifesto commitment to cut emissions as cost-effectively as possible."
The UK government has been strongly criticised by industry experts for expressing a wish to save on people's energy bills, then jettisoning policies which would lead to that outcome.
The renewables industry has said it is suffering a stealth assault, with a drip-feed of policies.
Some environmentalists believe the government has launched a war on renewables because they threaten the profits of conventional fossil fuel firms.
Over the past few months, the Treasury has cut onshore wind subsidies; large-scale solar subsidy; the energy efficiency budget; small-scale solar subsidy; the obligation for new homes to be zero carbon; the escalating tax on polluting industry; and low vehicle excise duty on energy efficient cars. It has also introduced a tax on green energy.
The SNP letter also complained that with the threat of power shortages on the horizon, this was not a good time to be cutting investment in energy.
The UK government said a wholesale shake-up of confusing energy policies was needed to ensure that bill-payers get value for money and that bills are kept as low as possible.
A spokesman said: "The top priority is to combat climate change in the most cost-effective way. The government is determined to help industries and technologies stand on their own two feet, not encourage a reliance on public subsidies."


Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has declared his Muslim-majority country an Islamic republic, saying the move marks a break with the colonial past.

Mr Jammeh told state TV the proclamation was in line with Gambia's "religious identity and values".
He added that no dress code would be imposed and citizens of other faiths would be allowed to practise freely.
Some 90% of Gambians are Muslim. The former British colony's economy relies heavily on tourism.
However, relations with the West have soured recently.
The European Union temporarily withheld aid money to Gambia last year over its poor human rights record.
Mr Jammeh has been president of the tiny West African country for 21 years.
"As Muslims are the majority in the country, the Gambia cannot afford to continue the colonial legacy," Mr Jammeh told state TV, explaining his decision to proclaim an Islamic republic.
Other Islamic republics include Iran, Pakistan and - in Africa, Mauritania.
Mr Jammeh withdrew Gambia from the Commonwealth in 2013, describing the organisation as neo-colonial.
In 2007, he claimed to have found a herbal cure for Aids.


Opener Daniel Bell-Drummond unbeaten 80 steered Kent to a seven-wicket away victory over Derbyshire.

The hosts resumed on 9-3 and Wayne Madsen (37) and Neil Broom (18) steadied the ship with a stand of 45.
But Calum Haggett (4-15) and James Tredwell (4-45) then ran through them as they were all out for 94.
Kent eased to 176-3, led by Bell-Drummond, as Alex Blake wrapped up the win with three sixes off spinner Matt Critchley, the only balls he faced.
Bell-Drummond put on 54 with Adam Ball (23) and 52 with Sam Northeast (30), and a hit a six off Chesney Hughes as well as 10 fours in his 99-ball innings.
One ball after Sam Northeast fell for a 34-ball 30, Bell-Drummond smashed Chesney Hughes for six to leave Kent needing 17 to win.
And Alex Blake (18 not out) needed only three balls to do it, hitting three successive maximums off Matt Critchley.
It was Kent's second Championship victory of the season, while Derbyshire, who drew their first five games, are still looking for their first win of the Division Two campaign.


A Dumfries primary school has reopened after a sickness bug among a "high number" of pupils and staff forced its closure.

Calside Primary, which has a school roll of about 170, shut on Thursday.
Dumfries and Galloway Council said pupils and staff had been struck down by an illness with "symptoms similar to gastroenteritis".
Public Health Consultant Dr Nigel Calvert said such bugs could be highly infectious.
He said anyone with symptoms should stay away from school or their workplace until they were fully recovered.
"The standard public health is 48 hours after the last episode of either diarrhoea or vomiting," he said.
"So we would certainly encourage parents if their children have been sick or had diarrhoea over the weekend to keep them off school until they've had that clear 48 hours.
"It is very infectious and we want to try to avoid passing it to any other children."


Stock markets on Wall Street are closed on Monday for the US national Labor Day public holiday.

On Friday, all three leading indexes closed lower after the US unemployment rate fell to 5.1% last month, the lowest since April 2008.
The Dow Jones declined by 272.38 points, or 1.66%, to 16,102.38, while the S&P 500 dropped 29.91 points or 1.53% to 1,921.22.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq was down 49.58 points or 1.05% at 4,683.92.


Israeli police say they are investigating at least 30 public officials over alleged corruption.

A police spokeswoman said the suspected crimes included fraud, breach of trust and money laundering.
Police did not name the officials involved but Deputy Interior Minister Faina Kirshenbaum confirmed that she had been called in for questioning.
She denied any wrongdoing, telling Channel 2 TV that she had "no clue what the investigation is about".
Ms Kirshenbaum belongs to Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beteinu party.
In a statement, the party said it was being deliberately targeted ahead of the general election set for 17 March.
"We are certain of the innocence of those [suspected of wrongdoing]... and after the noise and media fervour dissipates, it will be found that there is nothing to support these publications apart from an effort to harm [the party], and it will fail," the statement said.
Police chief Yohanan Danino said the investigation had been going on for a year.
"The transition to an overt probe is a result of a consideration of the evidence and the readiness to make matters public," he said.
Police searched the homes and offices of suspects and confiscated computers and documents, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.
The March election - two years ahead of schedule - was announced this month after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sacked two senior coalition partners in his cabinet, accusing them of plotting against him.
The coalition has been fraught with tension, with ministers publically criticising Mr Netanyahu on a number of issues.


A new video captures the moment Philae, Europe's now-famous comet lander, first approached Comet 67P for its historic landing on 12 November last year.

Philae acquired a series of still images with its Rolis descent camera.
These pictures of the dusty, icy terrain were spaced 10 seconds apart, tracking the little probe's descent from a height of 67m down to just 9m.
Now, with the aid of visual effects, the Rolis sequence has been turned into a flowing, one-minute movie.
It is run in real-time, thus giving a good sense of what it would have been like to ride down to the comet's surface with Philae.
The European Space Agency (Esa) has released the movie to mark the one-year anniversary of the selection of the landing site, which was on the "head" of the duck-shaped comet.
Of course, as everyone now knows, Philae did not stay at this location - dubbed Agilkia - for very long.
After touching the surface, the lander immediately bounced away, travelling high over the comet for more than a kilometre, before finally coming to rest in a dark ditch.
Its whereabouts (this location has been called Abydos) is not known precisely, but scientists have a good hunch about where it is likely to be, to within a few metres.
This has not helped much, however, with their attempts to re-establish regular communications between Philae and its "mothership" Rosetta, which is still orbiting the comet.
After working for 60 hours following the landing on 12 November, the probe fell silent, unable to recharge its battery in its shadowed surroundings.
When lighting conditions improved with the change in seasons earlier this year, seven contacts with Philae were made. But these links were all too brief to restart any science observations on the surface of 67P.
Esa hopes to have better luck later in the year when Rosetta is able to move in close to the comet again. Currently, the relay satellite is standing off at a distance of several hundred km.
Going any closer risks running into the blizzard of dust and gas coming off Comet 67P, during this period when it is relatively close to the Sun. The dust storm would likely disrupt Rosetta's ability to navigate around the comet, potentially putting it in harm's way.
The visual effects in the descent movie were undertaken by Jakub Knapik of Platige Image; the Polish company also did the effects for Ambition, the promotional sci-fi short that Esa made in support of the Rosetta mission.
The accompanying music is an instrumental version of the track Saline by the English progressive rock band Frost*.


Wheelchair basketball player Phil Pratt has become the seventh Welsh member of Paralympics GB to win a medal in Rio.

The 22-year-old from Cardiff helped GB secure an 82-76 overtime win against Turkey in the bronze medal match, prompting an emotional response from the players and their fans.
The match was tied 65-65 at the end of normal time.
Earlier in the day T44 sprinter Laura Sugar reached the 100m final with a time of 13.59 seconds in her heat.
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UKIP leader Nigel Farage has insisted his party will win seats at next year's Welsh assembly election but has ruled out standing himself.

Speaking to BBC's Sunday Politics Wales, Mr Farage said Wales was now a "top priority" for the party.
He said: "The people who are standing for the assembly in Cardiff are not doing so as a protest movement.
"We're doing so with a positive frame of mind and... to do our very best for the people in Wales who elect us."
He added: "If that means becoming a constructive opposition, or if it did mean in some way helping in government, we'd be quite prepared to fulfil either role."
When asked if he would consider standing in the assembly election, he said: "It's a  lovely thought and great part of the world to live in.
"I think in some ways life would be more comfortable living in Wales than living on the edge of London as I am but unfortunately, I'll have to rule it out".
He also called for a return of grammar schools in Wales, saying: "We want to make sure that bright kids who come from poor backgrounds have the opportunity to do as well as kids that come from the richest families in Wales.
"You do that by giving people more opportunity through selective education."
"That  may seem very radical and it's not something that's been on the agenda in Wales for a very long time but it's the kind of thing that UKIP will be talking about".


Prince Harry has taken part in a traditional Maori Haka during his tour of New Zealand.

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The Haka means "fierce dance" and was traditionally performed by the Maoris before going into battle.
Nowadays the Haka is performed during special ceremonies.
The New Zealand rugby team also perform the special dance before all their international matches.
Prince Harry is currently on a week-long tour of New Zealand.


Four years ago, London's transport was hailed as a huge Olympic success story.

Today in a global city, there are stations without trains and any semblance of reliability on Southern rail evaporated months ago.
Hour upon hour has been lost with commuters stuck on trains and what is most alarming is there seems very little chance of this mess being sorted out.
As the transport experts at London Reconnections have pointed out, this dispute has been compounded by many historic problems including a driver shortage, rolling stock issues and capacity at London Bridge.
The joke amongst Southern commuters is they won't notice any difference in service levels due to this week's strike.
And there doesn't seem to be much light at the end of the tunnel.
Two more unions, ASLEF & TSSA, are also balloting for strike action.
Politicians have called for the franchise contract to be taken away from Southern.
But the government now looks like it will front this strike out.
"We don't think it is as simple as changing the operator," a Department for Transport spokesman has said.
The crux of the dispute is the changes to the role of guards.
The company wants the driver to close the doors and dispatch the new trains using CCTV. It says that Driver Only Operation (DOO) has been used for many years, on parts of the network.
The union says expanding it is a safety issue. Others say the unions are protecting jobs.
But the new rotas for the guards changing roles are due to be introduced on 21 August.
That means the high levels of sickness we've seen are unlikely to drop and so the unreliability in the service will not improve.
One union official said to me in years working on the railways he'd never seen industrial relations as bad as they are at Southern.
This needs a negotiated settlement and at the moment both sides are locked in animosity and are entrenched.


Cambridge scientist Stephen Hawking is backing the Assisted Dying Bill which is being debated by peers on Friday.

The 72-year-old cosmologist said it was "discrimination against the disabled to deny them the right to kill themselves that able bodied people have."
He said safeguards would be needed to ensure the person truly wanted to die.
Lord Falconers's bill proposes allowing doctors to prescribe a lethal dose to terminally ill patients judged to have less than six months to live.
More than 130 peers have put their names down to speak.
The Bill would enable doctors to help patients die by prescribing a lethal dose of drugs.
Two physicians would have to certify that the patient was terminally ill and expected to die within six months.
Prof Hawking said it would be "wrong to despair and commit suicide, unless one is in great pain, but that is a matter of choice.
"We should not take away the freedom of the individual to choose to die."
But he admitted that he had once briefly tried to end his life when he had a tracheostomy - an operation to fit a breathing tube.
"I briefly tried to commit suicide by not breathing.  However, the reflex to breathe was too strong."
This interview with Prof Hawking is part of the wider coverage of the differing views on this issue running on BBC News this week in the run-up to the debate.


The new minister charged with navigating the UK's exit from the EU is due to talk to the first and deputy first ministers on Tuesday.

David Davis is expected to have a telephone conversation with both Arlene Foster and Martin McGuinness in the afternoon.
Prime Minister Theresa May met the Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon last week.
Mrs Foster said she was looking forward to talking to Mr Davis.
"I'll be speaking to him about Northern Ireland's direct involvement in these negotiations [about leaving the EU] and I look forward to having a conversation with the prime minister face to face as well," she said.
"We are in a new era, it is time to be innovative, it is time to be open and flexible which is what the prime minister was talking about when she was with the first minister of Scotland.
"So let's think about doing things in a different way. We don't have to do things in the way we did in the past and that's what the Brexit vote is about - something, new, something different, let's think about all of that."
However, Mr McGuinness said people in Northern Ireland were alarmed about the prospect of leaving the EU.
"I'm very connected to the business community, very connected to the community and voluntary sector, very connected to the universities and I can tell you that there is absolute alarm in all of those interest groups about where we're at.
"The uncertainty, the huge challenges that they see for themselves up the road, the withdrawal of huge sums of European funding for our society - all of these things have created huge concern and disquiet and alarm.
"If Arlene's not getting that message, I'm not sure what planet she's living on."
While the UK as a whole voted to leave the European Union by 52% to 48%, 56% of people in Northern Ireland voted to remain.
Following her meeting with Ms Sturgeon on Friday, the prime minister said she was willing to listen to options" on Scotland's future relationship with the EU.
Mrs May said: "I have already said that I won't be triggering Article 50 until I think that we have a UK approach and objectives for negotiations - I think it is important that we establish that before we trigger Article 50."


The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has promised to offer sanctuary for Syrian refugees at Lambeth Palace.

A spokesman for the archbishop said refugees would be welcome to a four-bedroom cottage at the palace, his official London residence.
Lambeth Palace said it was something he had been considering for "a while".
His gesture follows a similar move by the Catholic church after Pope Francis said two refugee families would move into Vatican housing.
A spokeswoman said the cottage, which is situated in the grounds of Lambeth Palace, is currently being redecorated and could provide room for a "family or two".
She said: "As a Christian who leads the Church of England it is something he feels absolutely passionate about.
"As the archbishop has said, Jesus was a refugee, and there are refugees here who are desperate for sanctuary from war-torn places and the archbishop is completely torn about their situation and wants to make a difference."
Meanwhile, the first of 20,000 Syrian refugees are expected to arrive in the UK in the coming days.
Prime Minister David Cameron said earlier in the month that the UK would be taking in that amount of refugees by the year 2020.
However the refugees will be taken from camps bordering Syria, and according to the Church Times the Most Rev Justin Welby argues that this neglects Christian refugees, who avoid the camps for fear of religious persecution.
The Church Times said the archbishop had met privately with the prime minister to discuss the issue.
Since January 2014 a total of 216 Syrian refugees have been taken into the UK under the government's Vulnerable People Relocation Scheme (VPRS).
Before that about 5,000 Syrians have been granted asylum in the UK in the last four years.


A reality TV show winner has been ordered to do 250 hours of unpaid work after posting abusive online messages about her then boyfriend's ex-partner.

Lucy Haughey, a Channel 4 Come Dine With Me winner, bombarded Sharon Low with messages for almost a year.
She was due to be sentenced earlier this month but the case was continued for the sheriff to ensure all abusive posts were removed from social media.
The 36-year-old admitted cyber-stalking Ms Low between June 2015 and May 2016.
Sheriff Linda Ruxton sentenced Haughey at Glasgow Sheriff Court after being told all comments had been taken off the internet.
She handed her a community payback order with the condition she must do 250 hours unpaid work within eight months, and granted a two-year non-harassment order.
The sheriff said: "I am satisfied that all postings concerning the complainer have now been removed from any social media sites.
"I made it absolutely clear on the last occasion that I regard this as a very serious offence.
"I said to you that your conduct was frankly wicked. You caused untold distress and misery to someone you did not even know, causing her embarrassment and public humiliation."
The two women had never met but Haughey, from Crosshill, Glasgow, repeatedly sent messages to Ms Low.
Haughey also admitted contacting Ms Low's mother by phone and calling Ms Low at her work and then hanging up.
Ms Low also received a text message which stated: "I know your secrets, all of them, leave us alone or it's all out there."
The victim closed down her Facebook account but received more messages to a new account she thought was anonymous.
One message included the words "watch your attitude, watch that high horse and watch your fake life on here, there's always someone watching who knows the truth".
Defence lawyer Paul McCue told an earlier hearing that Haughey was in an abusive relationship at the time and had been manipulated into making contact with Ms Low.
Mr McCue confirmed that Haughey had deactivated her Facebook account.


Chinese wine-tasters have won a taste test in France, in what organisers call "a thunderbolt in the wine world".

They came first out of 21 teams by identifying details of six white wines and six red wines without seeing the bottle or label.
The French team came second and the US team came third, while former champions Spain slipped into 10th place and the UK only managed 11th.
The Chinese competitors put their success down to knowledge and luck.
But they did say competition was fierce to get on the team.
China's wine industry has grown in recent years as the country has begun to devote an increasing amount of its land to vineyards. Last year it had 799,000 hectares (1.97 million acres) of land dedicated to growing grapes, second only to Spain worldwide.
In 2011, a Chinese winery beat a host of French rivals to collect an international gold medal for one of its wines.
The Chinese team that competed on Saturday at the Chateau du Galoupet, one of France's biggest wine estates, included Liu Chunxia, â€‹â€‹Tze Chien Chen, Xi Chen, Xianchen Ma and coach Alexander Brice Leboucq.
Their surprise win saw them perform best at identifying the 12 wines' countries of origin, grape varieties, vintages, producers and appellation (geographical areas).
Organisers from the French specialist magazine La Revue du vin de France wrote that the "astounding Chinese team" were "humble even in victory".
They "conceded that in blind tasting, 50% is knowledge and 50% is luck," the magazine continued.


Alex Scott's goal ensured FA Cup holders Arsenal opened their Women's Super League season with a 1-1 draw at Notts County.

Scott's England team-mate Jess Clarke gave the hosts a first-half lead in front of a 1,583 crowd at Meadow Lane.
The Gunners were poor before the break, but much better in the second half and may well have won the game after right-back Scott levelled.
In the night's other game, Birmingham fought out a 0-0 draw with Everton.
County were well worth their interval lead, but Arsenal were by far the more dangerous team after the interval.
Winger Clarke, playing up front in place of the absent Ellen White, went close with a couple of early long-range efforts.
And she coolly opened the scoring in the 27th minute, side-stepping two defenders before sliding a low 15-yard shot just inside the far post.
As Arsenal hit back, striker Kelly Smith sent an 18-yard effort over the bar.
But the Gunners looked flat until starting the second half brightly.
Japanese midfielder Yukari Kinga had a 49th minute header well saved by keeper Carly Telford.
And four minutes later, the scores were levelled when Scott drilled an 18-yard volley into the far corner of the net.
Smith was desperately unlucky not to give Arsenal the lead as her 72nd-minute free-kick hit the bar and bounced clear off the goal line.
Substitute Freda Ayisi then had a 12-yard shot headed off the line by central defender Sophie Bradley.
The Gunners could not force a winner, but will be boosted by their improved second-half display.
Three days before the first leg of their Champions League semi-final against Swedish team Tyreso, Birmingham had to scrap for a Super League point in front of 657 fans at their new Solihull ground.
Everton striker Nikita Parris had an early header saved by goalkeeper Rebecca Spencer.
Birmingham then had most of the first half but came no closer to scoring than Katie Wilkinson's 29th-minute shot that flew over the bar.
Two minutes after the break they almost went behind, Spencer brilliantly saving a close range Billie Murphy shot.
Danielle Turner then struck the post as the Toffees continued to look the sharper side in front of goal.
But eight minutes from time, Kirsty Linnett was inches from putting the home side in front, driving in a 30-yard shot that hit the bar.


Medical researchers hope a new bank storing tissue from patients will give them a clearer insight into pancreatic cancer.

This complex illness has the worst 10-year survival rate of any cancer, with most patients being told they may have less than a year to live.
The bank will collect samples from six hospitals in England and Wales.
The charity that funded it hopes there will eventually be better treatments and earlier diagnosis.
There are 8,875 cases of pancreatic cancer a year in the UK, with almost the same number of people dying from it annually.
Just 1% of sufferers are alive 10 years after diagnosis - a survival rate that is unchanged in 40 years.
Researchers now hope they will be able to improve this dismal picture.
Barts Cancer Institute has praised the "vision and determination" of the Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund (PCRF), which raised Â£2m to fund the bank.
Samples will be collected from consenting patients at six hospitals - in Swansea, Leicester, Oxford and Southampton and Barts and the Royal Free in London.
The tissue will help scientists study genetic changes in the cancerous cells.
The bank will store actual tumour samples - as well as blood, saliva and urine in which proteins indicating cancer can be found - from about 1,000 patients a year.
The aim is to be able to detect cases more quickly.
Prof Hemant Kocher, from Barts Cancer Institute, told me: "Surgery is possible in only about 10-15% of patients with pancreas cancer at the moment.
"We hope this tissue bank will help us develop diagnostic tests so that more patients can have surgery.
"If diagnosed early enough, they can have surgery.
"It is about the only thing that can give a long-term cure for these patients.
"Pancreatic cancer is a complex disease, with a number of alterations in the cancer cells and the cells surrounding the cancer.
"And it's a deep-seated organ, so tissue isn't always available.
"This means research has really been set back."
The PCRF's founder, Maggie Blanks, said: "A nationally co-ordinated tissue bank will not only ensure that more samples become available to researchers, but that these are quality controlled to provide a much better basis for the very best research to be carried out."
Carol Hayes, from Basildon, was among the first patients to donate tissue to the bank, during a gruelling seven-hour operation last year.
So far, she is clear of pancreatic cancer, though she still needs six-monthly check-ups.
Ms Hayes said: "It was the only thing I could give back to say thank you and to try and help, because I was borderline lucky.
"Maybe another couple of months down the line, I wouldn't have been able to have the op.
"They said I was borderline, and so many with pancreatic cancer aren't.
"I saw my enemy, the tumour, on a scan.
"It's like I put it in a box and handed it over - so someone could do good with it."
Adrian Morrish's wife, Noreen, died from pancreatic cancer within a year of being diagnosed, at a time when they should have been planning their golden wedding anniversary.
He said: "It was a terrible period because I was watching somebody who'd had a very active life go downhill very fast.
"It was an appalling year.
"It was a nightmare when the chemotherapy stopped working.
"It was extremely hard for all the family - they lost their mother and grandmother.
"I realise now what an appalling disease it is, with a minimal survival rate.
"That's why it's so important research projects continue."


A world record attempt for the most Tommy Cooper impressionists at one venue has been held in Caerphilly on Saturday.

The "Fez-tival" - named after the entertainer's famous hat - aimed to encourage a new generation of comedians and magicians.
It took place at the castle in the town where the comedian, who died in 1984, was born.
There is currently no such world record.
Cooper died of a heart attack during a TV show in 1984, ending a career built around magic routines which went wrong.
The Tommy Cooper Society was set up in Caerphilly in 2002 and raised £45,000 for a statue of the comedian to be erected opposite the town's castle.
It is hoped Saturday's gathering will become an annual event.


A person has been charged with the manslaughter of a woman who died several days after she is thought to have been assaulted.

Police believe Kelly Machin, 34, was assaulted on 23 August. She was treated at hospital but later discharged.
However, the ambulance service found her dead from internal bleeding in her Leicester home on Monday.
A woman, aged 28, from Leicester has been charged and will appear before the city's Magistrates' Court on Friday.
A 45-year-old woman and a 47-year-old man remain in police custody on suspicion of murder.
A post-mortem examination on Tuesday revealed Ms Machin died as a result of significant blood loss.
A 31-year-old woman has been released on police bail pending further inquiries.


A war of words has erupted between ex-Leeds United managing director David Haigh and his former employer, private equity group GFH Capital.

Mr Haigh has been accused of fraud by the Dubai-based group and is currently in custody while authorities decide whether to pursue a criminal case.
Speaking from his cell, he told the BBC he would reveal "damaging allegations" about the group's financial conduct.
GFH Capital said it could not comment on "general accusations".
Mr Haigh, 36, was employed by GFH when it purchased Leeds United in December 2012 but resigned as an employee following the club's takeover in April.
Speaking exclusively from the Dubai police cell, he claimed one allegation about GFH concerned the run-up to the purchase of Leeds United from Ken Bates for more than Â£17m in December 2012.
A GFH Capital spokesman said: "GFH cannot and will not comment on such general allegations, and is concerned about Mr Haigh's protestations of being unable to engage with the claim against him while apparently being able to brief the media at will."
The allegations were contained in a dossier compiled by Mr Haigh "about GFH's professional conduct and practices", according to a statement released on his behalf by UK-based spokesman Ian Monk.
"David shared its full contents with two senior figures at GFH in Bahrain who are thus aware of what it contains," Mr Monk added.
Mr Haigh is accused of profiting from falsified invoices worth about Â£3m while at GFH Capital and prosecutors are investigating whether to press criminal charges.
Mr Haigh returned to Dubai last month believing he was about to discuss a job offer with his former employer - only to be handed over to the police. He has now been detained, without charge, for more than a month.
Dubai law states that if someone is suspected of cheating, a breach of trust or fraud they can be detained for as long as necessary, based on the complexities of the investigation.
In his interview with the BBC, Mr Haigh was softly spoken but appeared extremely anxious.
He said he felt "trapped", not by the UAE's legal system - with which he has no complaints - but by the lack of resources in the cell.
The former managing director is one of about 40 detainees, all of whom are denied access to pens and have to share a single payphone.
Mr Haigh said he was allowed very little time with his legal team in order to mount a defence and was particularly exasperated about his bail of about Â£3.5m - an amount he said he did not have.
GFH Capital said it had no control over the criminal investigation being carried out by the Dubai authorities.
Mr Haigh told the BBC he underwent stomach surgery in the UK before flying to Dubai and remains in lots of pain and unable to eat solid foods.
One of his teeth is also causing him pain and he says he has to take medication to sleep.
He continues to deny all of the charges but told the BBC he regretted "signing blank cheques" and allowing others to act on his behalf, prompted by his hectic travel schedule while working at GFH Capital.
GFH Capital has previously categorically denied that it, or its lawyers, have behaved in any way inappropriately.
The private equity company said it had absolute confidence in the legal systems of both Dubai and the UK, which are investigating the civil and criminal claims against Mr Haigh.


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The Court of Appeal has upheld judges' right to jail the most serious offenders in England and Wales for the rest of their lives.

The court increased a 40-year tariff to a whole-life tariff for murderer Ian McLoughlin, whose trial judge had said he was unable to pass such a sentence.
It also dismissed an appeal by murderer Lee Newell that his whole-life order had been "manifestly excessive".
The European Court of Human Rights had ruled such terms breached human rights.
In July, the European court said that while it accepted whole life orders could be justified, there should nevertheless be some way of having imprisonment reviewed after 25 years.
Tuesday's Court of Appeal ruling was welcomed by the attorney general, the justice secretary and the shadow justice secretary.
Sentencing in a number of high-profile criminal cases - including the terms to be handed out to soldier Lee Rigby's murderers - had been put on hold pending the judgement.
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By Clive ColemanLegal correspondent, BBC News
Today's judgement is pretty stark.  On the critical issue of whether whole-life terms were "reducible" and offered prisoners some "hope" and "possibility" of release in exceptional circumstances, the Court of Appeal flatly disagreed with the Grand Chamber of the ECHR.
The nub of the argument concerned the only current means under domestic law for a whole-life term to be reduced.  It can only happen if the justice secretary is satisfied that exceptional circumstances exist which can justify a prisoner's release on compassionate grounds.
Existing guidance specifies that the prisoner should be suffering from a terminal illness and that death is likely to occur very shortly. The ECHR thought it was unclear whether the justice secretary would apply this restrictive policy. It didn't regard release purely to die in a hospice or at home as sufficient to represent a "prospect of release", and so represented a breach of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The Court of Appeal disagreed.  It explained that the justice secretary cannot be restrictive, must take into account all exceptional circumstances relevant to the release of the prisoner on compassionate grounds, and must interpret "compassionate grounds" in accordance with human rights law.  The court concluded that meant that the law in England and Wales was clear and did offer both "hope" and the "possibility" of release.
The UK courts have disagreed with Strasbourg before, but rarely in such a clear and unvarnished way.  Under the Human Rights Act domestic courts are bound to "take into account" ECHR rulings.  Some believe that means, ultimately, "must follow". Today's ruling perhaps marks the start of a far more robust dialogue between the ECHR and our domestic courts.
Under current law, whole-life tariffs can be given for "exceptionally" serious offences. They prevent offenders from ever being eligible for a parole review or release, unless at the discretion of the justice secretary.
In July the ECHR ruled whole-life sentences had to have the possibility of release and, to be compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights, there should be some way of having a sentence reviewed after 25 years.
That ruling followed a successful appeal by convicted murderers Jeremy Bamber, Douglas Vinter and Peter Moore.
In the latest Court of Appeal ruling, the panel of five judges found that the Strasbourg court had been wrong when it reached a conclusion that the law of England and Wales did not clearly provide the possibility that a whole-life prison term could ever be reduced.
They said a power of review arose if there were "exceptional circumstances" whereby the offender could appeal to the secretary of state.
"In our judgement the law of England and Wales therefore does provide to an offender 'hope' or the 'possibility' of release in exceptional circumstances which render the just punishment originally imposed no longer justifiable," Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas said.
Lord Thomas said some crimes were "so heinous" that Parliament was entitled to allow whole-life orders "entirely compatibly"  with the European Convention on Human Rights.
"Judges should therefore continue as they have done to impose whole-life orders in those rare and exceptional cases," he said.
Newell's lawyers had challenged his whole-life order for murdering child killer Subhan Anwar while already in prison for another killing. Lord Thomas dismissed the appeal, saying the murder had been "premeditated and involved the use of an improvised weapon".
Ian McLoughlin killed Graham Buck, 66, in Hertfordshire in 2012, while on prison day-release from another murder sentence. Mr Buck had gone to the aid of a neighbour who was being burgled.
Ruling on the McLoughlin case, the Court of Appeal said the sentencing judge had been "in error" in thinking he did not have the power to make a whole-life order in the wake of the Strasbourg court's ruling.
Lord Thomas said the seriousness of the case - which had been referred to the Court of Appeal by Attorney General Dominic Grieve - was "exceptionally high" and 40 years was unduly lenient.
Reacting to Tuesday's ruling, Mr Grieve said he was "pleased".
He said he had not thought the Strasbourg court said anything "which prevented our courts from handing down whole-life terms in the most serious cases".
"Today's judgement gives the clarity our judges need when they are considering sentencing cases like this in the future," he said.
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling also welcomed the decision as upholding the law that the UK Parliament had passed.
Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan said: "Judges should be able to lock up for life those guilty of the most horrible crimes and it was a Labour government that gave them this power.
"We now need the government to make a considered response to the Strasbourg judgement and Labour is willing to work with ministers to get the right result."
However, Simon Creighton, solicitor for convicted murderer Douglas Vinter, called the decision "troubling" and said it was "fundamental" that prison sentences had "some form of rehabilitation and redemption" built in.  His client was "not expecting" to be released but wanted "something to work towards", he added.
There are currently 53 prisoners on whole-life terms in England and Wales, including Moors Murderer Ian Brady and serial killer Rosemary West.
In December the judge in the Lee Rigby murder trial said he would wait for the decision by the Court of Appeal before passing sentence on Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, who were convicted in December of killing Fusilier Rigby in Woolwich, south-east London, in May last year.
The killers will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on 26 February at 14:00 GMT, a Judicial Office spokeswoman has confirmed.


Britain's Vicky Holland claimed her first World Triathlon Series win on her return from injury in Cape Town.

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Holland, who won bronze for England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, sat out the first three races of the season.
But the 29-year-old clocked one hour 49 minutes 51 seconds to finish ahead of American Katie Zaferes and Switzerland's Nicola Spirig.
Fellow Briton Helen Jenkins, also making her season debut, was fifth and Emma Pallant 10th.
Zaferes now leads the overall women's rankings ahead of fellow American Gwen Jorgensen, who sat out the race in Cape Town after three consecutive victories this season.
The men's race is on Sunday at 14:00 BST, and Britain's Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee is set to make his return from injury.
His brother Jonny finished top of the podium in the Gold Coast and Auckland.


The case of a migrant woman who sought an abortion in Australia is "extraordinary", the Australian Human Rights Commission's head has said.

Gillian Triggs told Australia's ABC the versions of events given by different parties "simply don't add up".
The Somali migrant at Australia's detention camp in Nauru says she became pregnant as a result of being raped.
Australia says she changed her mind when she was allowed into the country last week, but she denies this.
The 23-year-old woman - identified by her pseudonym Abyan - was sent back to the Pacific island of Nauru on Friday.
Under Australia's asylum policy, any undocumented migrants trying to reach the country by boat are intercepted and held in centres on Nauru and Manus Island, Papua New Guinea.
In an interview to ABC TV's Lateline programme, Ms Triggs said: "It's extraordinary that she was expected to reach a decision in such a short space of time and when the answer wasn't given immediately she's literally air lifted back to Nauru."
Ms Triggs described the migrant as "obviously very distressed" and the one who "really needs counselling and a safe environment".
She added that the versions of events given by Abyan's statement and comments by Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton "simply don't add up".
The migrant was flown to Sydney after requesting an abortion, which is not legal in Nauru in most circumstances.
But on Friday night, she was unexpectedly returned to Nauru, alarming her lawyers and rights groups.
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said on Saturday that after seeing doctors, she had "decided not to proceed with the termination".
But in a handwritten note released to the Australian media on Monday, Abyan denied this.
"I have been very sick. I have never said that I did not want a termination. I never saw a doctor. I saw a nurse at the clinic but there was no counselling," the note read.
Abyan said she never saw a doctor, or had any counselling, and and that she was seen by a nurse with no translator present.
"Please help me," the statement said.
Her lawyer, George Newhouse, has said she wanted more time to make the decision, and has accused the government of deporting her before he could seek an injunction blocking it.
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On Monday, Mr Dutton insisted on ABC Radio that the woman had been seen several times by medical and counselling staff, with interpreters on most occasions, and had reached her own decision.
He said he would not allow for women in such a situation to be treated as "political pawns" by opponents of Australia's immigration policy, saying some of the allegations being made were "patently incorrect, if not fabricated".
"I'm very, very concerned about the privacy of this lady, but I'm dragged into this debate to clear up what I think is a political motivation by some of the advocates."
Last week, Mr Dutton said that refugees and asylum seekers on Nauru were asking for medical care in Australia in order to try to have their refugee claims processed on the mainland.
He described the behaviour as a "racket".
The Australian government says its asylum policy deters people traffickers but there has been been criticism of the conditions at the camps.
In September, a report by a senate committee found conditions on Nauru were not "appropriate or safe". It said allegations of rape and abuse should be investigated.


Laura Robson failed to build on her best win since wrist surgery two years ago as she lost in the second round of qualifying for the WTA clay court event in Stuttgart.

Robson beat world number 117 Klara Koukalova in the first round but fell 6-2 6-2 to Oceane Dodin, ranked 151.
Robson, 22, returned from 17 months out in June but had a relapse and did not play until Indian Wells last month.
The former British number one has slipped to 465 in the world.
She will use her protected ranking of 58 to gain direct entry into the French Open main draw in May.
British number one Johanna Konta, the world number 22, is in the main draw in Stuttgart and will play Anna-Lena Friedsam in the first round.


On Wednesday, South Carolina's House of Representatives spent 13 hours debating whether or not to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the state's capitol in Columbia.

Some Republicans had attempted to delay a final vote by introducing amendments to the bill, which was introduced after nine black churchgoers were killed in Charleston by a gunman who had posed with the flag.
That opposition provoked fierce argument on both sides of the house and culminated in an emotional speech by one of the Republicans backing the motion.
Despite Jenny Horne's ancestry - she happens to be a descendant of Jefferson Davis, the man who led the Confederacy during the Civil War - she was furious that her colleagues couldn't come to an agreement.
With no notes, she began by saying: "The people of Charleston deserve immediate and swift removal of that flag from these grounds."
Then, struggling to hold back tears, she raised her voice: "I can not believe that we do not have the heart in this body to do something meaningful such as take a symbol of hate off these grounds on Friday."
Scuppering the bill would "be adding insult to injury" for the widow and children of her colleague Senator Clementa Pinckney, one of the nine killed in the attack, she added.
In the four-minute interjection by Ms Horne, a 42-year-old lawyer, she sought to cut through arguments about heritage made by opponents of the bill.
"I'm sorry. I have heard enough about heritage. I have a heritage. I am a life-long South Carolinian. I am a descendant of Jefferson Davis, OK?" she said.
"But that does not matter. It's not about Jenny Horne. It's about the people of South Carolina who have demanded that this symbol of hate come off the statehouse grounds."
Speaking to the Washington Post on Thursday, Ms Horne said the bill's backers had been losing the vote before she got up to speak.
"It was going south. If what I did changed the course of the debate, and I do believe it did, then it needed to be done. Because that flag needed to come down a long time ago," she told the newspaper.
"It wasn't easy. It wasn't without emotion. But I'm so proud of my colleagues for doing the right thing. The Confederate flag is coming down," she later tweeted.
In response, one Twitter user replied: "Visceral, moving, great speech. Courage in action. Thank you thank you thank you."