Egyptian state television has aired a video of murdered Italian student Giulio Regeni, showing him being asked for money weeks before his death.

Footage shows the 28-year-old speaking to the head of a Cairo street vendors' union, who reported him to police a few weeks before he died.
Mr Regeni was in Egypt conducting postgraduate research into trade unions when he disappeared on 25 January 2016.
His tortured body was found in a ditch nine days later.
In the video the union head, Mohamed Abdallah, repeatedly requests payments from the student, who was studying at Cambridge University in the UK.
"My wife has a cancer operation, I will do anything as long as there is money in it," said Mr Abdallah.
Mr Regeni replied, in Arabic: "Mohamed, I cannot use the money because it is not my money. I cannot use it like that because I am an academic.
"I cannot tell the institution in Britain in the application that I want to use the money for personal reasons."
The student explained he would help Mr Abdallah to apply for a grant or workshop worth "10,000 pounds" for union activities but not for personal use.
Mr Abdallah said: "Is there no other way? A way with personal use?"
The foreign funding of civil society groups, including trade unions, is a contentious issue in Egypt.
The union leader has confirmed to news agency Reuters that it was him speaking in the video and he had recorded it himself, on his mobile phone, in early January last year.
He confirmed, as he has done before, that he later reported Mr Regeni to the police, believing him to be a spy. He told Reuters this was not retaliation for an unwillingness to give him money.
He also said the sum discussed was in British pound sterling, not Egyptian pounds.
His motivations for filming the conversation are not known.
Italian newspaper La Stampa said investigators in Rome believed he used filming equipment supplied by the Egyptian police.
Egyptian officials have denied any involvement in the student's death.
The local police probe into the killing was criticised last year after sometimes contradictory accounts were issued by the authorities.
No-one has been arrested over Mr Regeni's death, although in March Egyptian authorities said they had found a criminal gang responsible for his kidnapping and murder.
All the gang members were killed in a shoot-out, they said. The reports were branded "implausible" by academics who have criticised the Egyptian authorities.
Police initially suggested Mr Regeni had been killed in a road accident, and have since offered little information on the progress of their investigation.
On Sunday, Egypt agreed to allow Italian and German experts to retrieve and examine CCTV footage related to the murder.
They will try to view footage from a Cairo metro station, where Regeni is thought to have been last seen alive.
Egyptian prosecutors said they approved a request from Italy to send in experts, as well as data recovery experts from Germany.
In September, prosecutors said that Egyptian police investigated Mr Regeni shortly before his abduction, torture and murder, but the inquiry was dropped after concluding he posed no threat.


There is a postcode lottery for an essential surgical treatment for Parkinson's depending on which side of Scotland you live, a charity has said.

Parkinson's UK said people in the east of Scotland had to travel to England for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS).
But those in the west get it in Scotland.
A proposal to create a Scotland-wide service at the new Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow will be considered by NHS Scotland next month.
DBS involves inserting electrodes in the brain to reduce physical shaking.
It is often the last option for people who have very serious symptoms which cannot be controlled through medication alone.
It is offered to people with Parkinson's, "essential tremor" and dystonia, which is a rarer neurological disorder affecting movement.
While DBS is available in Glasgow, only patients who live in the west of Scotland are offered it.
Those in the east are offered appointments in England, and Parkinson's UK said these patients often struggle to get follow-up care.
It has called for equal access to the surgical treatment.
Katherine Crawford, the charity's director in Scotland, said: "Around 30 people with Parkinson's in Scotland would be likely to benefit from DBS surgery each year.
"The creation of a sustainable National Service in Glasgow would significantly improve access to the treatment for every suitable candidate in Scotland and provide a specialist centre that delivers improved outcomes for people with Parkinson's."
Les Macleod, 59, from Arran, said having DBS six years ago had given him his life back.
He added: "To put it very briefly, I was a goner - I'd lost lots of weight, I was practically housebound, and could barely make it out of my bed because of my Parkinson's.
"It's not a cure, but I can do so much more now. I'm so glad that my two daughters have been able to see me almost back to normal after years of being so unwell. I feel like I have been given a second chance at life."
Consultant neurologist Dr Ed Newman, who is a specialist in Parkinson's at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, said: "Deep Brain Stimulation can be a life changing procedure. Over the last 25 years, many thousands of people worldwide have had this surgery, and it is now established as an essential treatment option for selected patients with advanced Parkinson's disease or dystonia.
"The establishment of a single National Service in Scotland, run on similar lines to the 13 NHS DBS centres in England, would be a huge step forward in the care of patients with advanced Parkinson's disease and dystonia across Scotland."
The Scottish Tremor Society says the problem is that many of Scotland's neurosurgeons have retired and have been difficult to replace.
"We need to get people interested in neurosurgery," said Mary Ramsay.
"We need to get them to take the place of the people who have retired.  Then there wouldn't be a postcode lottery.  It's frustrating."
Mrs Ramsay, who lives in Inverness, has had Deep Brain Stimulation herself but still has to travel to Newcastle for appointments with a neurosurgeon.
A spokesman for the Scottish government said everyone in Scotland who is considered clinically appropriate for DBS treatment is able to access it.
He added: "DBS is a highly specialised, low volume treatment and so we need to ensure any services established are safe and sustainable.
"That is why the National Specialist Services Committee is in the process of considering an application to set up a comprehensive national Deep Brain Stimulation service for Scotland at the Institute of Neurological Sciences in Glasgow.
"The committee is due to make recommendations to the Scottish government within the next few months."


Ruthless Morton thumped Beith Juniors 6-0 at Bellsdale Park to reach the fourth round of the Scottish Cup.

Annan Athletic crashed out of the competition with a 4-0 hammering by Highland League Formartine United.
Stirling and Stranraer progressed at the expense of junior opponents, beating Wick Academy and East Kilbride respectively.
And Colin McMenamin's hat-trick ensured Stenhousemuir knocked out Forres Mechanics in their replay.
Championship side Morton gave their West of Scotland Super League Premier Division opponents no chance thanks to Thomas O'Ware's second-half brace along with goals from Ross Forbes, Michael Tidser, Jamie McDonagh and Jamie Lindsay.
A crowd of 1693 watched the Scottish Junior Cup champions bow out to an in-form Ton, who will play Falkirk at Cappielow in the fourth round.
"We played well today," said Morton boss Jim Duffy. "In the first 10 minutes we expected an onslaught and it wasn't quite an onslaught, but Beith certainly put us under a bit of pressure in the opening few minutes.
"We got the early goal and relaxed and played very well after that. It was a proper, old-fashioned Scottish Cup tie in a venue that was a strange environment because of the sloped pitch. You don't get too many pitches like that but the playing surface was very good.
"The most important thing today was winning and we managed to score a few goals which always gives the players confidence."
Beith manager John Millar admitted his side's professional opponents were a cut above.
"We were brilliant for the first 10 minutes but then we lost a cheap goal," he said.
"It's the best team I've seen close up playing against us. Before the game I was saying it would be interesting to see what the standard is, but that's just a step up. They're all athletes; they're a professional side.
"The fans were brilliant and cheered us coming off. Our big picture is the league and trying to retain our Scottish Junior Cup."
At North Lodge Park, League Two Annan slipped to a devastating defeat as Conor Gethins netted a second-half hat-trick for Formartine, and Scott Barbour was on target with their third.
Annan's League Two rivals Stirling progressed with a 2-0 home win over Wick Academy thanks to a close-range Blair Henderson effort and substitute Dylan Bikey's second-half addition.
League One Stranraer fought back from 1-0 down to rescue a late 2-1 win over East Kilbride.
Sean Winter's opener handed the Lowland League side the advantage but Willie Gibson bagged a 26th-minute penalty before a headed own goal from Adam Strachan put the Blues through.
Elsewhere, in Saturday's third-round replay - after the scores were level at 2-2 last weekend - McMenamin fired home a treble as League One's Stenhousemuir claimed a 3-1 defeat of Forres Mechanics.
Liam Baxter scored a consolation penalty consolation late on as both sides finished with 10 men after David Marsh was dismissed for the Warriors and Craig McGovern for Forres.


A man in his 30s has had part of his ear bitten off in a bar on Amelia Street in Belfast city centre.

It happened at about 23:50 BST on Sunday after a fight began on the dance floor.
The suspect is believed to have left in a taxi outside James Street South. He was with a female at the time.
He is described as being 5ft 7in (173cm) tall with short dark hair and a tattoo on his neck.
Police are appealing for anyone with information to come forward.


The advent of the assembly in 1999 meant Wales could go its own way and create its own, distinctive education system, rather than being an extension of the system in England.

And that is exactly what successive education ministers decided to do.
In the early years SAT tests were scrapped, as were school league tables, but I will look at those in another article.
Getting rid of league tables and SAT tests were about accountability, but the main changes to schools in Wales over the last 16 years have been about how and what our children are taught.
Pupils in Wales have a very different experience to their counterparts in England, something which only exists because of the assembly and Welsh government.
Perhaps the most radical change here is in the early years. Our three to seven-year-olds go through what is called the Foundation Phase.
Borrowed from Scandinavian countries, the idea is that children learn through play; that if you instil a love of education early on during their time in school, it will stay with them for life; if you give them a new way of developing their thinking, it is the best foundation as they grow older.
It is also based on a belief that children do not really begin to benefit from formal teaching until the age of six or seven.
But it didn't come cheap. The informal style called for more staff in the classroom (1:8 for three to five-year-olds and 1:15 for those aged five to seven) as well as changes to school buildings and playgrounds.
The initial cost was £170m but that has almost certainly increased.
But has it worked?
The official evaluation work carried out last year by Cardiff University was not the resounding pat-on-the-back many were hoping for.
Researchers concluded the policy has failed in one of its core aims; to reduce educational inequality between pupils from poorer families and those better off.
The review found attendance improved in schools where the Foundation Phase was introduced, but said the improvements "cannot be entirely conclusive".
A breakdown by subject showed the achievement gap between pupils eligible for free school meals and those who were not had remained relatively unchanged in English, worsened in maths and halved in science.
Another concrete difference in the education system here is the Welsh Baccalaureate, rolled out in 2007.
It is aimed at giving teenagers a broader post-16 education than more specialist A-level subjects.
As well as core subjects, such as maths and languages, students also get a chance to take part in work experience and voluntary placements.
In the past, many students said the course was not challenging enough and therefore a waste of time.
Recent research suggested university students who study the Welsh Baccalaureate are less likely to get higher degrees than those who did not.
Having said that, the report also said those who study the Bacc are more likely to get into top universities.
Last year it was changed quite a bit. Rather than a simple pass or fail, the Bacc is now graded like GCSE and A-level qualifications. It is also more closely tied in to other subjects; another criticism of the original Bacc.
So there have been big changes in how pupils are taught at the beginning and end of their time in compulsory education.
But there is also another big change on the way for schools in Wales. Last year a brand new curriculum was outlined which will be taught from 2021.
Dozens of schools are coming together to figure out exactly how it will work and what exactly should be taught in future.
We already know "digital competence" will play a far more central part in schools than it does now.
The man responsible for the changes said he does not see how the current GCSE and A-level qualifications could still be used for such a different curriculum.
So we could see a situation where Wales, like Scotland, has its own, distinct qualifications.
To what extent, then, can we say devolution has improved the lot of pupils in Wales?
I will look at standards in another article, but here is the problem; fundamental changes to education policies rarely lead to improvements overnight.
The Foundation Phase was introduced in all schools in 2008. So to fully appreciate if pupils who have had their entire time at school based on the Foundation Phase fare better at GCSE, we will have to wait until 2020, when pupils who started school in 2008 will sit their GCSEs.
A year later, the "new" curriculum will be rolled out in all schools.
Whatever the "success" or "failure" of the Foundation Phase, it will not necessarily be maintained because so much else will have changed in the meantime.
So while there can be no doubt devolution has had a big impact on our schools, the success of those changes are less clear.


A police officer "abused his position" to "satisfy his own sexual desires" over nine years, a court heard.

PC Chris Young who has been suspended from Nottinghamshire Police, faces seven counts of sexual misconduct.
James House, prosecuting, said the Hucknall-based officer targeted female witnesses in criminal investigations, some of whom were vulnerable.
The trial of Mr Young, 47, who denies the charges, is expected to last about two weeks.
Opening the trial at Derby Crown Court on Monday, Mr House told the jury that Mr Young, from Kirkby-in-Ashfield, would pick out women involved in investigations, flirt and compliment them before starting sexual relationships.
The court heard Mr Young would visit the women at home and work, often in police uniform and even while on duty.
"This case is about a police officer who used his position, his status, his knowledge and access to information to his own advantage to satisfy his own sexual desires," Mr House said.
"He targeted women he came into contact with during the course of his work. Some were vulnerable, others not so vulnerable but flattered by his advances and his position as a police officer."
Mr Young had relationships with seven women who cannot be named.
The prosecution said he behaved this way for nine years to "varying degrees of success".
"Some rebuffed him. Some had some sexual relations, others had repeated sexual liaisons with him," Mr House said.
"The prosecution say he abused his position of trust as a police officer."
Mr Young faces four counts of engaging in sexual activity with four women, two of behaving in a sexually inappropriate way and one of touching a woman's breast, all while acting as a police officer.
The case continues.


Plans have been submitted for a major £13m extension and upgrade to Dorset County Museum.

The project, due to be completed by 2020, aims to turn the 19th Century building in Dorchester into a "world-class contemporary museum".
Plans include new galleries, a learning centre, a library, and facilities including a cafe and shop.
The museum is to host the Natural History Museum's diplodocus skeleton replica which is touring next year.
Dippy on Tour, which will be in Dorchester from 10 February to 8 May, will be the last temporary exhibition to be hosted by Dorset County Museum before parts of the galleries are closed for the refurbishment.
The aim of the extension project is to put more of the museum's artefacts on display.
It is being funded by a £10m lottery grant, with the museum needing to raise the remaining £3m.
Founded in 1846, the museum holds the archive of novelist Thomas Hardy and numerous Jurassic Coast fossils.
Owned by the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, the museum is one of the oldest privately-owned attractions of its kind.
The Grade I listed Gothic-style building in High Street West was built to house the museum's collection, which has now grown to four million artefacts.


The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts is updating its image with a number of new achievement badges aimed at encouraging young women into science and technology.

My memories of the Girl Guides involve marshmallow toasting, tying knots and being assessed on my table-laying skills for a badge no doubt long-consigned to the archives.
Fast forward some 25 years and it's clear much as changed.
In an international organisation that liaises with Google and Microsoft among others, today's young guides are just as likely to be gathered round an engineering bench as a campfire.
Sixteen-year-old Catherine Young is on a mission to boost girls' interest in engineering and has found the Girl Guides a valuable platform for her campaign.
She surveyed girls aged 11-18 and found that 74% didn't have the opportunity to take the subject at school.
As part of the Girl Guide Scotland Action for Change project, she is lobbying MPs to make the subject more readily available across all UK schools.
"Having a national stage for my project has been incredible as this is something I'm very passionate about," she says.
"There is a huge lack of female engineers due to the subject not being available, or girls not knowing about it, and we need more females to bring new ideas that could solve Earth's biggest problems."
As the battle to engage girls with Stem subjects - science, technology, engineering and maths - extends beyond the classroom, attention is turning to the role this 106-year-old movement - a female version of the Boy Scouts Association - has to play in cultivating this interest.
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts has a presence in 146 countries and is busy forging links with tech companies and organisations across the globe.
For example, guides in Tanzania have hooked up with Techchix, a non-profit body that promotes science and engineering to girls at local secondary schools through mentoring programmes.
And in India, girls have teamed up with US-based artificial intelligence giant, Nvidia, to boost female employability in the tech sector.
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Piloted in the city of Pune, the Screen Girls project aims to deliver computer courses to 400 girls who have recently completed secondary school education. If successful, the project will be extended to other parts of the country.
"Every country will have different approaches and where there is success we will showcase it to the rest of the world," says Anita Tiessen, chief executive of the World Association of Girl Guides.
"In the US, for example, there has always been a very strong outdoors culture, so they introduce Stem activities in this way through robot camps and Stem field trips."
A forthcoming overhaul of achievement badges is likely to see Coding and Mechanics added to the list. Google is currently advising on the delivery of a new Web and App Design badge. In the UK, the main Stem-related badges are Science and Communicator.
Girlguiding UK's recent survey with Microsoft found that many members did not see technology as a potential career option, their views influenced by enduring gender stereotypes.
"It is a concern that many girls think of Stem as boys' subjects and don't identify any female role models in this area," says Angie Pitt, head of Girlguiding youth programmes.
"We have to think about what we can do to counter this, and the first thing is offering a space where they can learn about these subjects in a way that is fun, accessible and relevant to them - and doesn't feel like school or that they're being judged."
Projects with Rolls-Royce and BAE systems have led to the development of new "science investigator" and "engineering" badges - while cloud computing specialist Salesforce recently ran a weekend workshop for 200 guides in London.
Charlotte Finn, Salesforce's vice president of programs, says: "Aspects of the school curriculum are rooted in the past and are simply not pairing young people with the skills they need for today's jobs in technology.
"So it's important that organisations like us complement formal education by bringing these skills to the forefront."
Salesforce also helped develop a volunteer recruitment app for the US Girl Scouts.
Ellie Overland, senior lecturer in computing education at the UK's Manchester Metropolitan University, recently developed a Computing badge with 30 guides.
"I have a son in the Scouts and daughter in the Brownies and I noticed a difference in the technology-related badges on offer," she says.
"The Scouts badges seemed to get into the nitty-gritty of computing, while in the Guides the focus was more about online image and e-safety, so I felt it was important with this badge to drill deeper and include components on networks, data and algorithms."
While evolution is inevitable in an institution with a 100-plus year heritage, Ms Tiessen believes much of the progress in this area will be underpinned by the movement's core values of girl-led learning and leadership.
"In many countries around the world there are very few opportunities for girls to have that 'safe space' to develop their skills and leadership opportunities," she says.
"And with all the evidence pointing to girls holding back in more mixed environments, we are giving girls greater freedom to explore those things."
Ever since a small group of girls gate-crashed the first ever Scout rally in 1909 demanding "something for the girls", girl guides have been challenging the status quo.
More power to their elbows.


Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed victory in the referendum on granting him sweeping new powers, saying it was won by a clear majority.

He addressed a rally in Istanbul as the count neared completion. With more than 99% of ballots counted, "Yes" was on 51.35% and "No" on 48.65%.
Erdogan supporters say replacing the parliamentary system with an executive presidency will modernise the country.
The two main opposition parties are challenging the results.
The "Yes" vote, if confirmed, could also see Mr Erdogan remain in office until 2029.
Three people were shot dead near a polling station in the south-eastern province of Diyarbakir, reportedly during a dispute over how they were voting.
Supporters are streaming into the governing AK party's headquarters here in Ankara, car horns and campaign songs blaring - they are convinced the "Yes" side has won and that President Erdogan now has a mandate for the biggest political reform in Turkey's modern history.
The president has claimed victory but the opposition disputes it, complaining of massive irregularities with the voting, suggesting the state news agency manipulated results and vowing to challenge them with the supreme election board.
Turkey has shown itself more polarised than ever tonight. And if the protests gather steam, this could get ugly.
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They would represent the most sweeping programme of constitutional changes since Turkey became a republic almost a century ago.
The president would be given vastly enhanced powers to appoint cabinet ministers, issue decrees, choose senior judges and dissolve parliament.
The new system would scrap the role of prime minister and concentrate power in the hands of the president, placing all state bureaucracy under his control.
Mr Erdogan said the changes were needed to address Turkey's security challenges nine months after an attempted coup, and to avoid the fragile coalition governments of the past.
"This public vote is [about] a new governing system in Turkey, a choice about change and transition," he said after casting his vote in Istanbul.
The new system, he argued, would resemble those in France and the US and would bring calm in a time of turmoil marked by a Kurdish insurgency, Islamist militancy and conflict in neighbouring Syria, which has led to a huge refugee influx.
The referendum, the BBC's Mark Lowen reports, was effectively one on Mr Erdogan and the Turkey he has moulded in his image: fiercely nationalist and conservative.
The Republican People's Party (CHP) has demanded a recount of 60% of the votes.
Critics of the proposed changes fear the move would make the president's position too powerful, arguing that it would amount to one-man rule, without the checks and balances of other presidential systems.
They say his ability to retain ties to a political party - Mr Erdogan could resume leadership of the AK Party - would end any chance of impartiality.
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the CHP, told a rally in Ankara a "Yes" vote would endanger the country.
"We will put 80 million people... on a bus with no brakes," he said.
"No" supporters have complained of intimidation during the referendum campaign and that Turkey's highly regulated media has given them little coverage.
Many Turks already fear growing authoritarianism in their country, where tens of thousands of people have been arrested, and at least 100,000 sacked or suspended from their jobs, since a coup attempt last July.
The campaign unfolded under a state of emergency imposed in the wake of the failed putsch.
Mr Erdogan assumed the presidency, meant to be a largely ceremonial position, in 2014 after more than a decade as prime minister.
This once stable corner of the region has in recent years been convulsed by terror attacks and millions of refugees, mostly from Syria, have arrived.
At the same time, the middle class has ballooned and infrastructure has been modernised. Under Mr Erdogan, religious Turks have been empowered.
Relations with the EU, meanwhile, have deteriorated. Mr Erdogan sparred bitterly with European governments who banned rallies by his ministers in their countries during the referendum campaign. He called the bans "Nazi acts".
In one of his final rallies, he said a strong "Yes" vote would "be a lesson to the West".
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The draft states that the next presidential and parliamentary elections will be held on 3 November 2019.
The president would have a five-year tenure, for a maximum of two terms.


Essex chairman John Faragher is concerned a new T20 competition could eventually lead to an eight-team County Championship.

Counties voted in favour of a new eight-team city-based T20 competition to run alongside the current T20 Blast.
But Faragher said some counties have changed views since September's vote.
"The proposal, in my view as it stands, will seriously, seriously devalue county cricket and our own domestic T20 competition," Faragher told BBC Essex.
"I'm very much in favour of change in cricket and we have to do that, we have to engage with the next generation of cricket followers.
"But it must be the right kind of change, not for the sake of change and for the benefit of some of the bigger counties who will financially do very well out of this, probably better than the smaller counties."
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has been keen to introduce a new T20 event to rival the Indian Premier League and Australia's Big Bash League.
Faragher voted in favour of progressing discussion over a new tournament "subject to certain conditions", but now feels that the vote has been seen as a straight yes or no.
He previously revealed counties that do not host any games will receive somewhere in the region of £1.3m.
But he is worried that the changes could be to the serious detriment of the counties that will not have one of the T20 teams.
"I have a concern that if we were to go down this eight-team city-based route, we would end up possibly in the future having eight counties like state cricket in Australia," he continued.
"Then the other 'smaller' counties, the likes of us, Kent, Sussex, we would be pushed to one side and be made into minor counties."
Faragher revealed there will be a chairman's meeting at Lord's on 8 December to discuss the current situation with the ECB.
And Faragher has outlined an alternative proposal for the future of T20 cricket that he would be in favour of.
"One thing I'd like to see, which I think would be well received in the counties, would be to have a T20 competition based on promotion and relegation," he added.
"We are by nature a tribal nation. All of the counties have their own very powerful support and I think we would get a high level of support with a promotion and relegation T20 competition."


Striker Stuart Beavon has signed a new two-year contract with League Two side Coventry City.

The new deal sees the removal of a relegation release clause which was included when the 33-year-old joined the Sky Blues on an 18-month contract in January.
Manager Mark Robins told the club website that Beavon had impressed.
"Stuart is is a model professional with a tremendous attitude and can play a significant role," Robins added.
Beavon first made his mark in league football at Wycombe Wanderers and has also played for Preston North End and Burton Albion.


An investigation is under way after a woman was sexually assaulted near Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery.

Police Scotland said the 20-year-old woman was attacked at the rear of the gallery at about 20:00 on Monday.
Officers have taped off an area near a walkway in nearby Kelvingrove Park.
Police said there was no information available at this time about the condition of the woman or a description of her attacker.


A major US conservative forum has dropped Donald Trump as a speaker, saying it was unacceptable for him to suggest that a journalist was tough on him because she was menstruating.

Mr Trump said Megyn Kelly of Fox News "had blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever".
Ms Kelly had challenged him on remarks he made about women during a TV debate.
Amid the controversy it emerged that Mr Trump's top political adviser had left his campaign.
Mr Trump said he had sacked Roger Stone. But Mr Stone later tweeted that the Republican contender "didn't fire me - I fired Trump", adding that he disagreed with the "diversion" created by the comments about Ms Kelly.
Mr Trump was one of 10 Republican presidential candidates in a TV debate co-hosted by Ms Kelly on Thursday, which was watched by a record 24 million people.
Early on in the debate, Ms Kelly asked him why voters should elect a man who has called women "fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals".
Mr Trump joked that he only said that about TV personality Rosie O'Donnell before adding: "I don't have time for total political correctness."
After the debate, he took to Twitter to say Ms Kelly had "really bombed" and that she hadn't been "very good or professional".
Speaking on CNN, he said Ms Kelly was "a lightweight" and that he "couldn't care less about her", before making the comment about blood.
Conservative group RedState said Mr Trump was implying she was hormonal. Mr Trump later denied this in a tweet.
"Re Megyn Kelly quote: 'you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever' (NOSE)," he wrote.
A later statement from his campaign said "only a deviant" would think Mr Trump meant anything else.
Could this be the moment Donald Trump has finally gone too far?
The prediction has been made many times before, but his disinvitation from the RedState conference here in Atlanta shows that the grass-roots conservative movement may be joining the party establishment in turning against the real estate mogul.
On Friday morning RedState host Erick Erickson took the stage to explain his decision, saying he didn't want his daughter to be in the same room with Trump.
"It's not political correctness," he added, "it's common decency."
Talk in the hallways outside the conference echoed these concerns.
"It's a question whether he really was a Republican in the first place," said Casey Mattox, a lawyer from Washington, DC. "That, on top of the comments he's made that I think were really offensive, make it the right decision not to associate with him."
After his Saturday morning speech, presidential candidate Mike Huckabee defended Megyn Kelly, calling her a "remarkable woman" who shouldn't be tangled with.
There's an old saying that one ought not to pick fights with newspapers because they buy ink by the barrel.
A similar point could be made about challenging much-loved television news hosts who appear on air every day.
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In a statement, RedState chief and powerful conservative activist Erick Erickson said "there are even lines blunt talkers [...] should not cross".
"It is unfortunate to have to disinvite him. But I just don't want someone on stage who gets a hostile question from a lady and his first inclination is to imply it was hormonal," he added.
"There is no way to otherwise interpret Mr Trump's comment," he said.
Carly Fiorina, the only female Republican candidate, joined the criticism of Mr Trump, tweeting : "There. Is. No. Excuse" shortly after the CNN interview.
She then tweeted: "I stand with @megynkelly."
Mr Trump's campaign responded to RedState's move by saying it was "another example of weakness through being politically correct".
Mr Trump is ahead of the 16 other Republican candidates in several recent polls despite making several controversial remarks since launching his president campaign.


Asian stocks fell on Thursday following weak US economic data and a sharp selloff in US technology shares.

The Nasdaq fell 2.4% - its biggest drop since April 2014 - to 4,876 on concerns that technology and biotech stocks have become overvalued.
The Dow sank 1.6% and the broader S&P 500 slid 1.5% after US durable goods orders unexpectedly fell in February.
Japan's Nikkei 225 and the broader Topix both fell 0.9% while South Korea's benchmark Kospi shed 0.6%.
In Australia, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 fell 1.3% and is headed for its biggest fall in more than two weeks.
Over in China, the Shanghai Composite opened 0.5% in the red while Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 0.35%.
Oil prices have rallied during Asian trade after Saudi Arabia, a major oil exporter, and its allies began airstrikes in Yemen, raising concerns on the disruption of supplies in the Middle East.
Brent crude rose by more than 2%, approaching $60 (Â£40) a barrel in Tokyo.
West Texas Intermediate crude futures , the US benchmark, also rose to trade at $51.55 a barrel.
"With Saudi beginning to bomb targets in Yemen, in an attempt to defuse a coup by Shiite rebels, the geo-political risk quotient in the Middle East has ratcheted higher," Vishnu Varathan from Mizuho Bank wrote in a report.
"If the strike morphs into a full-blown confrontation involving Iran, then oil will surge alongside gold and the US dollar while US treasury yields may be set for a renewed drop."
Shares of Ozner Water International rose by more than 15% following a five-week long suspension.
The Chinese water purification company had been accused of making "false and misleading representations" over its profitability by short-seller Glaucus Research last month.
The allegations caused Ozner's shares to lose a fifth of its value before it was halted from trade.
On Wednesday, Ozner addressed Glaucus Research's claims as "unfounded allegations" in a detailed statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange.
"We will not tolerate what seems to be an outright malicious attack on the company for personal gains which harms the company's reputation and business prospects," it said.


The "dark web" services used by criminals will continue to evolve in an attempt to evade authorities, the UK's cybercrime boss has warned.

Last week, notorious drugs market place the Silk Road was shut down after a lengthy investigation.
Andy Archibald, interim head of the National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU), said officers identified individuals who were using the site.
But he said new methods were needed to keep up with the threat.
"[Online anonymity service] Tor evolves, and will resecure itself," Mr Archibald told the BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones.
"The success we've had may not necessarily mean that by the same routes and same approaches we can get into other criminal forums.
"We have to continually probe and identify those forums and then seek to infiltrate them and use other tools.
"It's not simply a case of because we were able to infiltrate Tor on this occasion that we'll be able to do it next time around as well."
Mr Archibald's comments came as the NCCU announced its first conviction. Twenty-seven-year-old Olukunle Babatunde received a five years and six month prison sentence.
The man, from Croydon, south London, pleaded guilty to using "phishing" scams in an attempt to defraud banks, financial institutions and their customers.


In a preamble that drew so much on nostalgia, there was another throwback, of sorts, in the dying minutes at Wembley on Friday night.

England, emboldened by their three-goal lead, knocked it about as if toying with the tired Scots. They passed and passed and passed and, all the while, the visitors chased and chased and chased. Forlornly.
The scene had an audible and visual backdrop. England supporters cried 'Ole!' and, in the air, they waved their white tee-shirts - a gift from the FA. Wembley basked in Scotland's hopelessness.
You wonder how many of the home crowd were around when Scotland lorded it in this place nearly 50 years ago, but there were echoes of that here.
There was nobody of Jim Baxter's class and no mocking keepy-uppy of that storied victory in 1967, but in those closing stages on Friday, the English message was the same as the Scottish one all those years ago - this is easy, oh so easy.
The Tartan Army could have closed their eyes to avoid it all, but there was no respite in the dark either.
No matter what you do, there is no escaping the fact that Scotland are now fifth in their World Cup group. Fifth - despite being seeded third - and on life support in terms of a shot at qualification.
Gordon Strachan said that the game was cruel on his players - "really cruel" - but it wasn't. Footballing cruelty is borne out of an unlucky break or a refereeing blunder, not from your own inability to convert the chances you create and your own shortcomings in dealing with the chances created by others.
How could Grant Hanley's first-half header, which threatened the floodlights more than Joe Hart's goal, be deemed cruel? How could Leigh Griffiths' terrible error of judgement in shooting, instead of playing in Robert Snodgrass, be presented as a hard luck story? How could James Forrest's weak shot, early in the second half, be considered an example of the Gods being against the Scots?
Cruel was not the word. And this game wasn't even the place where the damage was done.
Everything would not look so thunderously awful today had Scotland not been so bad in their two previous games. Had there been three points against Lithuania and even one point against Slovakia, people could have taken a 3-0 defeat against England on the chin and not folded in a heap.
As it is, another campaign has all but gone and this is a natural end for Strachan now. He refused to talk about his own position in the aftermath of Wembley, but it is untenable and surely he knows it.
People will indulge in fatalism. 'We don't have the players.' 'Changing the manager will make no difference.' 'It goes much deeper than one man.'
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Of course it does. It goes very deep. Scotland's demise as a nation - one which, for decades, produced a torrent of world-class players - is an epic story, a tale retold more often than The Mousetrap.
Have the debate (again) about the cause of all of this. Commission another blueprint. Get in the politicians and the sports management boffins if you like. Navel gaze to kingdom come.
Attempting to make things better in the future doesn't preclude you from trying to make things better in the present. Scotland needs a new manager.
Again the mantra goes that no man can conjure up a formidable set of centre-backs or the kind of predators in front of goal that were so absent on Friday. It's true, but the history of football is full of international managers who have inherited a failing squad and then hauled them forwards.
Strachan managed to do it himself for a short while. You don't have to look too far to find other examples.
Over in Dublin, Martin O'Neill inherited a Republic of Ireland squad that had, not long before, shipped nine goals in two qualifying games against Germany. They then dropped four points out of six against Scotland. O'Neill slowly turned things around.
The Republic went from losing 6-1 and 3-0 to Germany to beating them in what was the seminal moment of their Euro 2016 qualifying campaign. They then beat Italy at the Euro 2016 finals to make the knockout stage.
It's too easy to say that the Republic's players are much better than Scotland's. Better? Yes. Is there a big gulf? No. Or, at least, there shouldn't be.
O'Neill's management has made them mentally strong, thoroughly organised and harder to break down. In terms of entertainment and class, they're no oil painting, but they're efficient.
The Irish team that beat Italy in France had defenders from Blackburn Rovers, Derby County and Burnley - all Championship clubs at the time. Behind their lone striker, they had a three-man unit drawn from Derby, Ipswich Town and Norwich City.
They had Shane Long up front. Long is a good player, but O'Neill's Ireland were hardly a team of all the talents.
Travel further north and you find a prime example of a manager making a difference. Before Michael O'Neill took over Northern Ireland, they were a soft touch and were utterly irrelevant and largely ignored in European football.
In the campaign before his appointment - Euro 2012 - Northern Ireland won just two of their 10 games. They drew 1-1 with the Faroes and lost 4-1 to Estonia. Things were grim.
The things you are hearing now about Scotland just not having the players is precisely what they were saying in Northern Ireland five years ago. No players, no prospect of players, no hope of any manager being able to alter that.
The squad that O'Neill took to the last 16 of the Euros last summer had just five players who were performing most weeks in the Premier League. He had four from the Scottish Premiership, one from Melbourne City and the rest from the English Championship and English League One. His three goalkeepers came from Hamilton Accies, St Johnstone and Notts County and had a combined age of 109.
On Friday night, as Scotland were losing at Wembley, Northern Ireland moved into second place in their own qualifying group following a 4-0 victory over Azerbaijan in Belfast. Azerbaijan had beaten Norway at home and had got a 0-0 away to the Czech Republic, but Northern Ireland put them away with the minimum of fuss.
In his starting line-up, O'Neill had players from Fleetwood Town, Millwall, Norwich, Blackburn, Charlton Athletic and Brighton. On the bench, he had two from St Johnstone and one each from Rangers, Aberdeen, Ross County, Sunderland, Wigan Athletic, Shrewsbury Town, Rochdale, Burton Albion and Kerala Blasters in India.
O'Neill, who lives in Edinburgh, has done a magnificent job. He has made a little go a long, long way. With his assistant, Scotsman Austin MacPhee, they are doing what Scotland are failing to do - and they're doing it with meagre playing resources compared to the ones at Strachan's disposal.
Forget Wembley. Would O'Neill's team have failed to beat Lithuania at home? Would they have surrendered so meekly against Slovakia away?
Northern Ireland have made the most of what they have - and there is a lesson in that for Scotland.
If the curtain comes down on Strachan's reign, then O'Neill would be a good starting point in the search for a new manager. Would he take it? The time is fast approaching when Stewart Regan needs to start asking that question for himself.


US wildlife officials are investigating a spate of killings and mutilations of dolphins along the Gulf Coast over the past year.

A number of the mammals have washed ashore with bullet wounds, hacked-off fins and in one case a missing jaw.
One dolphin was found off Alabama with a screwdriver in its head over the summer, while another had its tail cut off, but survived.
Dolphins are protected by the 1972 Marine Mammal Protection Act.
Under the law, harming a dolphin can lead to fines of up to $10,000 and a prison term of one year.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) has appealed for people along the US Gulf Coast to watch out for dead or injured dolphins.
"There have been some obviously intentional cases," said Erin Fougeres, of Noaa.
She said some mutilations might have happened after the animals died, but that scientists would need to perform necropsies to learn more.
The Associated Press reports that three dolphins have been shot in Louisiana since 2011, and that three others have been found with fatal bullet wounds this year in Mississippi, the most recent one last week.
Moby Solangi, executive director of the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport, Mississippi, said: "They [dolphins] come close to the boats, so if you're out there, you'll see them riding the bows.
"And their curiosity and friendship brings them so close that they become targets and that's the unfortunate thing."
The attacks follow two bad years for the Gulf dolphin population: in 2010, a number of the mammals stranded themselves along the coast, possibly due to a cold winter.
The Deepwater Horizon fire and oil spill later that year contributed further to dolphin deaths. Scientists have recorded more than 700 such fatalities since February 2010.
Some have suggested a few angry fisherman might be responsible for the mutilations, given dolphins sometimes steal bait used by the boats.


Dominic West and Emily Watson have won Royal Television Society (RTS) Awards for their performances in ITV1's Appropriate Adult.

The pair won the best male and female actor prizes for their roles in the drama about serial killer Fred West.
BBC One's Luther was named best drama series, while Coronation Street won best soap and continuing drama.
Channel 4 won the most awards at the ceremony with 10, including two for its new comedy Fresh Meat.
West beat Daniel Rigby and John Simm for the their roles in Morecambe and Wise biopic Eric & Ernie and thriller Exile respectively.
The judges said he "shockingly, wittily and superbly captured the most horrific characteristic of a serial killer: his terrifying charm".
Watson was praised for her "incredibly skilled and extraordinary portrayal of an ordinary woman by an actor at the height of her powers".
She played Janet Leach, who sat in with West during his police interviews, assisting him and safeguarding his rights.
The actress beat This Is England '88 star Vicky McClure and Ruth Negga, who played Shirley Bassey in BBC drama Shirley.
'Profoundly moving'
Channel 4's Fresh Meat, which stars comedian Jack Whitehall, picked up best scripted comedy and best comedy writer for Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong.
The channel also won best drama serial for Top Boy, the popular factual and features prize for Hugh's Big Fish Fight with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and the best daytime programme for Deal Or No Deal Live.
Derren Brown - The Experiments also won best entertainment, while Mummifying Alan: Egypt's Last Secret was named best science and natural history.
Other awards saw wins for Gareth Malone who was named best presenter for his role in The Choir: Military Wives and Terry Pratchett: Choosing To Die, which won best single documentary.
The BBC Two show, which followed the best-selling author as he examined the case for assisted suicide, was described by the judges as "groundbreaking, revelatory and profoundly moving".
Russell Tovey and Sarah Solemani also won the comedy performance award for their roles in BBC Three comedy Him and Her.
Children's drama Tracy Beaker was also a winner, while CBBC's Newsround won best programme for their documentary on autism.
Special prizes were given out to ITV director of drama Laura Mackie, while veteran producer Beryl Vertue, whose credits include Sherlock and Men Behaving Badly, won the lifetime achievement award.


It's the university application season - with the first wave of deadlines, including Oxford and Cambridge, coming this week.

The anxious process will have seen teenagers visiting university open days and worrying about personal statements on their application forms.
For some of the most competitive courses there are also interviews.
Oxford, keen to demystify its admissions process, has published the type of questions students might face.
"Interviews will be an entirely new experience for most students, and we know many prospective applicants are already worried about being in an unfamiliar place and being questioned by people they have not met," says director of admissions Samina Khan.
In an attempt to make it less intimidating the university has produced a video explaining how the interview works.
And it has published some sample questions - and suggestions for how students might have answered.
This was a question for a French course. Interviewer Helen Swift, from St Hilda's College, said:
"This is the sort of question that could emerge from a student's personal statement, where, in speaking about their engagement with literature and culture of the language they want to study, they state a keen interest in works (such as a novel, play or film) that are "political".
"We might start off by discussing the specific work that they cite (something that isn't included in their A-level syllabus), so they have chance to start off on something concrete and familiar, asking, for instance, "in what ways?", "why?", "why might someone not enjoy it for the same reason?".
"We'd then look to test the extent of their intellectual curiosity and capacities for critical engagement by broadening the questioning out to be more conceptually orientated and invite them to make comparisons between things that they've read/seen (in whatever language).
"So, in posing the overall question, 'What makes this political?' we'd want the candidate to start thinking about what one means in applying the label: what aspects of a work does it evoke? Is it a judgement about content or style? Could it be seen in and of itself a value judgement? How useful is it as a label?
"What if we said that all art is, in fact, political? What about cases where an author denies that their work is political, but critics assert that it is - is it purely a question of subjective interpretation?
"A strong candidate would show ready willingness and very good ability to engage and develop their ideas in conversation. It would be perfectly fine for someone to change their mind in the course of the discussion or come up with a thought that contradicted something they'd said before - we want people to think flexibly and be willing to consider different perspectives...
"Undoubtedly, the candidate would need to take a moment to think in the middle of all that - we expect that "ermmm", "ah", "oh", "well" will feature in someone's responses!"
This was a question for medicine. Interviewer Chris Norbury, from Queen's College, said:
"This is a typically open question, with no single 'correct' answer, which aims to stimulate the sort of discussion that might be encountered in a tutorial teaching session.
"The discussion could take any one of a number of directions, according to the candidate's interests. Some candidates will ask useful clarifying questions, such as, 'Where do these data come from, and how reliable are they?' or "What is the average life expectancy in these parts of the world?"
"Some candidates will seize on the idea that various aspects of the typical lifestyle in the UK are inherently unhealthy, which can make for an interesting discussion in itself. Others, especially if they appreciate that life expectancy in the Philippines is substantially lower than in the UK, will realise that other causes of death are more common in the developing world, and that this is the major factor that gives rise to the difference alluded to in the question.
"This probes selection criteria including problem-solving, critical thinking, intellectual curiosity, communication skills, ability to listen and compatibility with the tutorial format."
This was a question for philosophy, politics and economics, and interviewer Ian Phillips, from St Anne's College, said:
"Questions like this help draw out a candidate's ability to think carefully and precisely about a familiar concept, evaluating proposals, coming up with counter-examples, disentangling considerations, and being creative in proposing alternative approaches.
"Obviously the notion of blame is an important one in moral theory but insofar as blame is an emotional attitude it also brings in issues in the philosophy of mind. Debates about the nature of blame are going on right now in philosophy so the question is also partly a prompt for doing some philosophy together - which is exactly what we hope to achieve in a tutorial.
"With a question like this we're not looking for a right answer but instead whether the candidate can be creative in coming up with examples and suggestions, and can think critically and carefully through their implications...
"Good interviews will often generate all kinds of interesting and revealing discussions that show a candidate's ability for analytical thought: for example about self-blame, cases of blame where the blamer knew the blamed had done nothing wrong, and indeed cases of blaming something inanimate (such as a faulty printer or phone)."
This was a question for maths and interviewer Rebecca Cotton-Barratt, from Christ Church, said:
"This question tests whether you can do what mathematicians do, which is to abstract away all the unimportant information and use mathematics to represent what's going on.
"I'd initially ask the candidate what shape they think will be formed, and then ask them how they can test this hypothesis. They might initially try sketching the ladder at different stages - this is fine, but ultimately what we want is something that we can generalise and that is accurate (you can't be sure that your drawing is that accurate, particularly when you're making a sketch on a whiteboard and don't have a ruler).
"So eventually they will fall back on maths, and try to model the situation using equations. If they get stuck we would ask them what shape the ladder makes with the wall and floor, and they'll eventually spot that at each stage the ladder is forming a right-angled triangle.
"Some might then immediately leap to Pythagoras' Theorem and use that to find the answer (which is that it forms a quarter circle centred on the point where the floor meets the wall)."
This was a question for experimental psychology. Interviewer Kate Watkins of St Anne's College said:
"This is a question that really asks students to think about lots of different aspects of psychology, and we guide students when discussing it to think about both scientific factors such as maternal age (mothers are older when younger siblings are born - could that play a role?) and observational analysis about how birth order might affect behaviour and therefore performance on IQ tests.
"It's a great question because students begin from the point they are most comfortable with, and we gradually add more information to see how they respond: for example, noting that for example the pattern holds true even taking into account things like maternal age.
"This can lead them to think about what the dynamics of being an older sibling might be that produce such an effect - they might suggest that having more undivided parental attention in the years before a sibling comes along makes a difference, for example.
"Then we introduce the further proviso that the effect isn't observable in only children - there is something particular to being an older sibling that produces it. Eventually most students arrive at the conclusion that being an older sibling and having to teach a younger sibling certain skills and types of knowledge benefits their own cognitive skills (learning things twice, in effect).
"But there isn't really a "right" answer and we are always interested to hear new explanations that we haven't heard before."


Officers who police Scotland's railways are to be armed with Tasers in a bid to increase security on the network.

The British Transport Police said the move was a "proportionate response" in the face of a mounting terrorism threat.
Specially trained officers will begin carrying the stun weapons over the next few weeks.
It brings the Scottish force into line with their counterpart in England, where Tasers have been used since 2011.
The weapons are used to incapacitate suspects through the use of an electric current.
Temporary Assistant Chief Constable Alun Thomas said: "This decision is not based on specific intelligence of any criminal behaviour or imminent threat, but will allow us the option to deploy Taser devices where, in the course of their duty, an officer needs to protect the public or themselves by using force.
"The current threat to the UK from international terrorism remains 'severe', meaning an attack is highly likely.
"Recent terrorist attacks across the world are a stark reminder that the threat from terrorism is a genuine risk, and it is important that we keep our security measures and operational tactics under constant review."
Officers south of the border fired the Tasers eight times during 2015, according to a reply to recent Freedom of Information request to the force.
In one instance, police used a weapon against a man armed with a large knife - a move which "undoubtedly" prevented people from being hurt, according to Mr Thomas.
He said: "In our assessment, the introduction of Taser devices in Scotland is a proportionate response and provides an additional option for our officers to consider when confronted with a genuine threat to themselves or the public.
"By way of example, in December last year, police deployed a Taser device against a man armed with a large bladed knife, preventing him cutting the throat of stranger who he had targeted at random at Leytonstone station, east London.
"Undoubtedly the use of the Taser device in this incident prevented even further harm to the travelling public."
"We believe that the public in Scotland deserve the same level of protection as people elsewhere on the rail network."
British Transport Police said they reached the decision on Tasers following "detailed discussions" with Police Scotland.
Scottish Ministers have also been briefed.
The force refused to reveal how many officers would receive the training required to carry Tasers "for security reasons".
Ch Supt John McBride, divisional commander for the Scotland, said Taser use by officers would be monitored.
"Every time we unholster it, it will be subject to review," he told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme.
"It will be subject to internal review by our own specialists, but also we have agreed with the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner that where there is a discharge and serious incidents involving Taser then we will refer ourselves to the Pirc for them to review the circumstances of the case and if necessary carry out an investigation."


"Scores" of security staff and cleaners are set to disrupt London's Docklands Light Railway (DLR) service in a 48-hour strike over pay and conditions.

Members of the RMT union, from service company Interserve, will walk out at 05:30 BST on Wednesday for 48 hours.
The RMT said: "It involves safety-critical staff, so we expect to have an impact which will affect the running of the DLR."
Interserve said it had a contingency plan but was "disappointed".
A spokesman for the company said the strike had been called "without exhausting dispute resolution procedures".
The company said: "We will continue to work with the union to try and reach an agreement that is acceptable to everyone and have requested a meeting with the RMT and Acas to try and resolve matters.
"However, the RMT has, so far, failed to respond to our request."
The RMT (Rail, Maritime and Transport union) said it had held "numerous meetings with the company but they continue to duck the key issue" which was centred on its members not receiving pay increases which "maintain the differentials between grades".
General secretary of the union, Mick Cash, said: "It is about time that Interserve woke up and took note. The union will not sit back while core issues on pay and working conditions are left unresolved."
Transport for London is yet to respond to requests for a comment about the planned walk-out.


Chelsea were comprehensively beaten in the Super Cup as Radamel Falcao scored a hat-trick to inspire Atletico Madrid to victory in Monaco.

Falcao struck a shot against the crossbar before beautifully dinking in his first past keeper Petr Cech.
He curled in a shot with Chelsea in disarray and ended a counter attack with a left-foot finish for his third.
Miranda slotted in a ruthless Atletico's fourth, while Gary Cahill lashed in a shot for the Blues.
In a match pitting European champions Chelsea against the Europa League winners, it was the latter who deservedly came out on top with Falcao in irresistible form.
The Colombian, who scored 24 La Liga goals and 12 in Europe last season, came into the game on the back of a hat-trick and quickly took advantage of a lethargic Chelsea defence.
"Well that was a lesson, absolute joke no fight, desire, passion, and a big reality check."
Having seen an early shot come back off the crossbar, he expertly lifted the ball over the on-rushing Cech when played through on goal.
A stunned Chelsea were being overrun and another incisive move ended with Falcao curling a left-foot shot into the top corner from just inside the box.
Roberto Di Matteo's side were exposed time and again, the scale of their defeat coming as a surprise given they had gone into the game leading the Premier League after three straight wins.
But Atletico had an intensity and urgency missing from Chelsea's play, and Falcao was again denied by the woodwork when he headed against the post.
However, he did not have long to wait to complete his hat-trick as Atletico countered, Chelsea backtracked and Falcao latched on to an Arda Turan pass before slotting past Cech.
Chelsea's lacklustre play was epitomised by their lazy response to a free-kick as Mario Suarez diverted the set-piece to Miranda, who steered home a shot.
Cahill scored a late goal for Chelsea but it did nothing to disguise the dominance of Atletico.
Chelsea manager Roberto Di Matteo:
"We had a very slow start and we conceded two goals within 20 minutes.
"We conceded too much space. It's something that's been a little bit of our game, to be hard to beat but tonight, that certainly wasn't the case.
"We never really got into the game, so that's the most disappointing aspect.
"We conceded a bit too much space to Atletico Madrid, especially a player like Falcao. You cannot give him space."
Atletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone:
"What Radamel is doing is indescribable.
"He's a lad that, whenever you set the bar high, he responds by going even higher.
"I've known him since he was young and he's always demanding. He thrives on pressure, he thrives on demands.
"Hopefully, we'll be able to enjoy him at Atletico for a long time."
Full Time   The referee blows for the end of the match.
David Luiz gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Belozoglu Emre. Mata Mario Suarez restarts play with the free kick.
Unfair challenge on Mata Mario Suarez by Fernando Torres results in a free kick. Direct free kick taken by Belozoglu Emre.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on David Luiz by Escudero Raul Garcia. Emboaba Oscar restarts play with the free kick.
Substitution      Ryan Bertrand on for Ashley Cole.
Mata Mario Suarez handles the ball and concedes a free kick. Direct free kick taken by Mikel.
Escudero Raul Garcia concedes a free kick for a foul on Mikel. Mikel takes the direct free kick.
Substitution      Radamel Falcao leaves the field to be replaced by Belozoglu Emre.
Kasmirski Filipe Luis produces a drilled left-footed shot from 12 yards. Save by Petr Cech.
Corner from the right by-line taken by Fernandez Gabi, Petr Cech makes a comfortable save.
Cristian Rodriguez fouled by Mikel, the ref awards a free kick. Free kick crossed right-footed by Fernandez Gabi from left channel, save made by Petr Cech.
Substitution      Daniel Sturridge replaces Juan Mata.
Substitution      Escudero Raul Garcia replaces Jorge Koke.
Juan Mata takes a shot from close in clearing the crossbar.
Diego Godin challenges Fernando Torres unfairly and gives away a free kick. Direct free kick taken by Mikel.
Assist by Frank Lampard.
Goal!  - Gary Cahill -    Chelsea 1 - 4 Atl Madrid        Gary Cahill fires in a goal from deep inside the penalty box low into the middle of the goal. Chelsea 1-4 Atletico Madrid.
Corner taken right-footed by Frank Lampard from the left by-line to the near post, Arda Turan manages to make a clearance. Juan Mata takes a shot. Mata Mario Suarez gets a block in. Corner taken by Frank Lampard from the right by-line,
Corner taken by Jorge Koke from the left by-line, clearance made by Mikel.
Drilled left-footed shot by Radamel Falcao. Ashley Cole gets a block in.
Unfair challenge on Gary Cahill by Radamel Falcao results in a free kick. Free kick taken by Gary Cahill.
Branislav Ivanovic challenges Mata Mario Suarez unfairly and gives away a free kick. The free kick is swung in right-footed by Jorge Koke, Petr Cech makes a save. Corner taken by Jorge Koke from the right by-line played to the near post, save by Petr Cech.
Effort from outside the box by Emboaba Oscar goes wide right of the target.
Fernandez Gabi gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Emboaba Oscar. Emboaba Oscar restarts play with the free kick.
Foul by Fernando Torres on Cristian Rodriguez, free kick awarded. Free kick taken by Kasmirski Filipe Luis.
Branislav Ivanovic gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Kasmirski Filipe Luis. Thibaut Courtois takes the free kick.
A cross is delivered by Branislav Ivanovic.
Assist by Mata Mario Suarez.
Goal!  - Joao Miranda -    Chelsea 0 - 4 Atl Madrid        Joao Miranda scores a goal from close range to the bottom right corner of the goal. Chelsea 0-4 Atletico Madrid.
Arda Turan takes a shot. Gary Cahill gets a block in. Foul by Fernando Torres on Torres Juanfran, free kick awarded. Free kick crossed right-footed by Jorge Koke.
A cross is delivered by Cristian Rodriguez.
The referee penalises Mata Mario Suarez for handball. Juan Mata takes the free kick.
Mikel gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Radamel Falcao. Diego Godin restarts play with the free kick.
Substitution      Lopez Adrian leaves the field to be replaced by Cristian Rodriguez.
Eden Hazard takes a shot. Save made by Thibaut Courtois.
Outswinging corner taken right-footed by Jorge Koke, Petr Cech makes a save.
Outswinging corner taken right-footed by Jorge Koke from the right by-line, Branislav Ivanovic makes a clearance.
Drilled right-footed shot by Mikel. Blocked by Fernandez Gabi.
Shot from outside the box by Fernando Torres misses to the left of the goal.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Juan Mata by Mata Mario Suarez. Juan Mata restarts play with the free kick.
Foul by Jorge Koke on Branislav Ivanovic, free kick awarded. Juan Mata restarts play with the free kick.
The referee gets the second half started.
Substitution      Emboaba Oscar on for Ramires.
Half Time    It is the end of the first-half.
Lopez Adrian is adjudged to have handled the ball. Gary Cahill takes the free kick.
Arda Turan provided the assist for the goal.
Goal!  - Radamel Falcao -    Chelsea 0 - 3 Atl Madrid        Radamel Falcao grabs a goal from inside the area low into the middle of the goal. Chelsea 0-3 Atletico Madrid.
Outswinging corner taken left-footed by Juan Mata from the left by-line, clearance by Diego Godin.
Radamel Falcao concedes a free kick for a foul on Mikel. Mikel takes the free kick.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Mikel on Mata Mario Suarez. Joao Miranda takes the free kick.
Eden Hazard fouled by Fernandez Gabi, the ref awards a free kick. Frank Lampard restarts play with the free kick.
The assistant referee signals for offside against Lopez Adrian.  Indirect free kick taken by Branislav Ivanovic.
Ramires takes a shot. Save by Thibaut Courtois.
The ball is crossed by Arda Turan, Lopez Adrian has an effort at goal. Radamel Falcao produces a header from close range which bounces off the post.
Eden Hazard fouled by Kasmirski Filipe Luis, the ref awards a free kick. Frank Lampard restarts play with the free kick.
Branislav Ivanovic delivers the ball, Joao Miranda makes a clearance.
Ramires takes a shot. Blocked by Kasmirski Filipe Luis.
Arda Turan challenges Ashley Cole unfairly and gives away a free kick. Juan Mata takes the direct free kick.
Fernando Torres gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Mata Mario Suarez. Fernandez Gabi delivers the ball from the free kick right-footed from right channel, save by Petr Cech.
Outswinging corner taken from the right by-line by Jorge Koke, Joao Miranda takes a shot. Save by Petr Cech.
Booking      Branislav Ivanovic goes into the book.
Fernandez Gabi takes a shot. Save by Petr Cech.
Unfair challenge on Eden Hazard by Torres Juanfran results in a free kick. Eden Hazard restarts play with the free kick.
The ball is delivered by Branislav Ivanovic.
A cross is delivered by Branislav Ivanovic, Torres Juanfran manages to make a clearance.
Ramires concedes a free kick for a foul on Joao Miranda. Free kick taken by Thibaut Courtois.
Frank Lampard takes a shot. Mata Mario Suarez gets a block in.
Jorge Koke provided the assist for the goal.
Goal!  - Radamel Falcao -    Chelsea 0 - 2 Atl Madrid        Radamel Falcao finds the back of the net with a goal from just inside the area to the top left corner of the goal. Chelsea 0-2 Atletico Madrid.
Foul by Kasmirski Filipe Luis on Juan Mata, free kick awarded. Eden Hazard crosses the ball in from the free kick, clearance made by Diego Godin. The ball is crossed by David Luiz. The official flags Ramires offside. Thibaut Courtois restarts play with the free kick.
The ball is delivered by Kasmirski Filipe Luis, Header from close range by Arda Turan misses to the right of the goal.
The referee blows for offside. Ashley Cole restarts play with the free kick.
Unfair challenge on Arda Turan by Mikel results in a free kick. Fernandez Gabi restarts play with the free kick.
Eden Hazard has a shot on goal from outside the box which misses right.
Frank Lampard produces a drilled right-footed shot from 25 yards. Joao Miranda gets a block in.
Ramires delivers the ball, Diego Godin makes a clearance.
Assist on the goal came from Lopez Adrian.
Goal!  - Radamel Falcao -    Chelsea 0 - 1 Atl Madrid        Radamel Falcao grabs a goal from inside the area to the bottom right corner of the goal. Chelsea 0-1 Atletico Madrid.
The ball is crossed by Lopez Adrian, Shot by Arda Turan. Save by Petr Cech. Branislav Ivanovic fouled by Lopez Adrian, the ref awards a free kick. Branislav Ivanovic takes the free kick.
Arda Turan has an effort from just inside the box that misses to the left of the goal.
Radamel Falcao takes a shot.
Shot from 25 yards from Lopez Adrian. Gary Cahill gets a block in.
Unfair challenge on Radamel Falcao by David Luiz results in a free kick. Joao Miranda restarts play with the free kick.
The ref blows the whistle to start the match.
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The north-south divide in education was a central theme in Ofsted's annual report for the second year in a row.

The claim: Sir Michael Wilshaw, England's chief inspector of schools, says there is a noticeable north-south divide when it comes to the rate at which schools are improving, giving children in the North poorer chances of educational success.
Reality Check verdict: There is evidence that the children in the North of England have less chance of educational success than children in the South of England at secondary level, but it is difficult to point to a single reason for this. There is a link between deprivation and poorer school results, but the most deprived areas of London have experienced dramatic improvements in schools in the past 20 years.
In an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Thursday, chief inspector of schools Sir Michael Wilshaw said that in northern England "children have less of a chance of educational success than children south of the Wash".
Delivering the report, he said the gap between the North and Midlands and the South was widening and now stood at 12 percentage points - in the North and Midlands, 72% of secondary schools were rated good or outstanding compared with 84% in the South.
This means there are 135,000 more secondary school children being taught in under-performing schools in the northern England and the Midlands than in the South.
According to Ofsted, there are more than twice as many secondary schools judged inadequate in the North and Midlands (98 schools or 6%) compared with 44 in the South and East (3%).
Sir Michael also said that of the 10 worst performing local authority areas, seven were in the North or Midlands and pupils in these regions were less likely to achieve the highest grades at GCSE.
The seven in the North and Midlands were:
The three in the South were:
The government says the proportion of good schools is increasing in every region.
It has certainly increased overall - the proportion of schools judged to be good or outstanding has increased by 12 percentage points since 2011.
But improvement is not happening at the same rate across the country, as is clear from the widening gap between the North and the South.
The Ofsted report says that in some parts of the North and Midlands, improvement over the past five years has "stagnated".
"In 2011, the North West was one of the stronger regions, but the proportion of pupils in good and outstanding schools is now just over three percentage points higher than five years ago," it says.
"This means there are only just over 3,000 more pupils in good and outstanding secondary schools in the region compared to an increase of over 90,000 pupils in London in the same period."
Some of this difference will be down to a declining pupil population, but according to Ofsted this does not account for it entirely.
A report from think tank the IPPR in 2015 found there was a north-south gap in GCSE attainment, in terms of the number of pupils achieving five or more GCSEs including English and maths.
On average, 55% of pupils in the North and Midlands achieved five good GCSEs compared with 59% in the South and East this year.
It's not as simple as just a north-south divide though - there are wide discrepancies in educational achievement across the country.
Coastal communities and more isolated areas of the country, whether in the North or South, have been flagged as areas of concern because of the poor educational achievement of their pupils in the past. And within regions, or even smaller local areas, there can be big differences.
For example, you can look at numbers of pupils getting the English Baccalaureate or EBacc - a performance measure for schools based on how many pupils get good grades in core "traditional" subjects such as English, maths, sciences, history and geography.
In outer London, 32% of pupils achieved the EBacc, compared with 22% in Yorkshire and the Humber.
On a more local level, Leeds had the lowest proportion of young people achieving the EBacc at just 4%, compared with 52%, the highest in the country, in Richmond Park.
But if you look to Bournemouth, you can see that in the Bournemouth West constituency, like in Leeds, 4% of pupils achieved the EBacc, while on the other side of town in Bournemouth East,  it was nine times higher at 36%.
Primary schools in the North and the South, however, have similar proportions of good and outstanding schools.
It is hard to say why this gap at secondary level in particular exists.
There is a well-documented link between deprivation and doing worse in school.
But London, home to some of the most deprived areas in the country and once also home to some of the worst schools, has experienced a dramatic turnaround in the quality of its schools.
Some have suggested it could be, in part, due to the positive effects of immigration, but the general consensus is there is no one single reason.
Rather, a general and collective focus on raising standards from the early years onwards has led to gradual improvements over time.
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A man has been given a police caution for illegally voting in the EU referendum at a Powys polling station.

The man, who has not been named, committed an offence of personation under election legislation when he pretended to be someone else to cast their vote.
Polling station staff knew the real person and recognised he was an imposter.
They reported the matter to Dyfed-Powys Police.
Det Con Robert Seymour, of the force's fraud team, said: "Members of the public must be aware that it is illegal to vote by pretending to be someone else, even if they've been asked to do it as a favour by the person they are pretending to be.
"Voters can always vote by proxy, which is different to the actions taken by the male on this occasion".


Russian President Vladimir Putin is travelling to Finland at a symbolic time: the country is celebrating its 100th year of independence from Russia.

And the visit will be rich in symbolism.
Mr Putin will join his Finnish counterpart, Sauli Niinisto on Thursday in the picturesque lakeside town of Savonlinna - an area with plenty of history dating back to the Russian empire.
The pair will take in a Tchaikovsky opera put on by Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre at a medieval castle, and go on a steam ship cruise on Lake Saimaa.
But despite the chummy optics, observers expect the pair to have honest conversations about prickly issues, including military tensions between Russia and the West in eastern Europe.
So where does Finland stand vis-Ã -vis its giant neighbour next door?
While Finland shares a 1,340km (830-mile) border with Russia, its present relationship with the country is vastly different from that of Moscow's neighbours in the Baltics and Eastern Europe that fret publicly about Mr Putin's agenda in the region after the annexation of Ukraine's Crimea in 2014.
Maintaining freedom from its powerful neighbour for a century has not been easy, and Finland has had to make sacrifices to survive.
It fought two wars against the Soviet Union between 1939 and 1944, and lost territory as a result.
During the Cold War, the somewhat derisive term "Finlandisation" was coined by West German scholars to describe how the northern European country adapted its policies to suit the Soviet Union while remaining officially neutral and keeping good ties with the West.
Finland played a difficult game during that period, acquiescing to the Soviet Union in many respects and not challenging it but maintaining its independence and political system.
Finlandisation is now commonly used to describe the situation when a small country allows its policies to be significantly influenced by a larger and more powerful neighbour.
But despite its namesake, the term does not apply to the Finland-Russia relationship of today. Analysts say Finland is friendly with Russia but remains hard-headed and realistic.
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While Finland is not a member of the Nato military alliance that has sent thousands of troops to eastern Europe to reassure Poland and the Baltic states, it has been a member of the European Union since 1995.
This clearly situates it well within the West, says Suvi Turtiainen, a journalist with the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper, who is currently researching Russian perceptions of Finnish independence.
She says perceptions that Finland somehow sits in the middle between Russia and the West are misguided.
"Finland has always supported the sanctions against Russia [imposed in the wake of the annexation of Crimea], even though it has had a significant effect on the Finnish economy and despite Russian tourism being really important in the eastern region," she says.
And it has been a close partner of Nato since the 1990s - sending troops to operations led by the alliance in the Balkans and Afghanistan, and maintaining a relationship that is now said to be as close as it can be without Finland officially joining as a member.
Yet at the same time "Finnish leaders and our current president want to keep dialogue with Russia, even through difficult times, and the dialogue is quite open and direct" including on the subject of Ukraine, says Ms Turtiainen.
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Indeed, President Niinisto told Russia's Tass news agency ahead of the visit that his communication with President Putin is "rather clear and frank", with the pair able to "discuss anything".
And there is a sense among Finnish people, that this balance - despite regional geo-political events - is working well.
A recent survey found that just 21% of Finns support joining Nato, while 51% oppose it, with the rest not giving an answer.
Finns will go to the polls next year to elect a new president but the Nato debate, while always present, will not be a major issue, says Markku Kangaspuro, a Russia expert at the University of Helsinki's Aleksanteri Institute.
"[The] wide consensus between leading politicians is that it is not timely to discuss this issue," he says. "Almost no one thinks it would [now] be time to apply as a member state."
The Finnish public, he says, despite being alarmed for a time over Russian actions in Ukraine, now appear satisfied with the status quo.
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One reason could be that the Kremlin has made clear that any move on Finland's part to join Nato could invite a strong Russian response.
"What do you think we will do in this situation? We moved our forces back [from the border], 1500km away. Will we keep our forces there?" President Putin told a news conference during a visit to Finland last July, according to Euronews.
"How they assure the safety and independence of their own country is the Finns' choice. Undoubtedly we appreciate Finland's neutral status."
Given widespread support for the existing state of affairs, Finland has not seen the same kind of political meddling that Russia has been accused of in many European states and the US, Mr Kangaspuro says.
"Russia probably doesn't have any serious need or reason to try to interfere in our politics because our relations are as good as they can be in this situation."


She starred on Dance Moms, takes centre stage in pop star Sia's music videos, and now Maddie Ziegler is making her way on to the big screen for new animated movie Ballerina.

16 December 2016 Last updated at 06:41 GMT
Maddie came into Newsround HQ to answer your questions about emojis, secret crushes, leaving Dance Moms, Sia and much more!
Jenny caught up with her before the release of her new movie, Ballerina, on 19 December.


Armchair travellers will be able to soak up the scenery of Snowdon the lazy way after Google Street View scaled the mountain.

Volunteers carrying backpacks holding Google's cameras walked around and to the summit of Wales' highest peak to capture 360-degree panoramic images.
They can now be viewed online, along with those from the highest peaks in England and Scotland.
Google said the pictures could help walkers plan ahead for their treks.
"These areas of outstanding natural beauty in Wales, England and Scotland can be viewed by anyone who is planning a specific visit, or for those who are simply interested in learning more about each peak, from the terrain and landscape, to the vegetation and views," Laurian Clemence of Google UK said.
As well as walking different routes to the summit of Snowdon, the Street View volunteers also trekked around the Snowdonia National park.
They took in popular beauty spots including Cadair Idris, Cwm Idwal, Mawddach Trail and LÃ´n Gwyrfai.
Liz Jenkins, Snowdonia National Park Authority's geography information services officer, said the images meant "the special qualities of Snowdonia can be viewed by everyone in the world".
Google usually sends out cars and trikes to gather the images used in its Street View maps.
But the company created the modified backpack, called a Trekker, to enable people to walk to remote locations and get the 360-degree images required.
The Trekker has already been used in the Grand Canyon and the world's tallest building, Burj Khalifa, and has mapped some of the UK's canals and rivers.


A building which was briefly home to an aircraft company founded by author Neville Shute is to be demolished.

Councillors were told the building, Reynard's Garage on Piccadilly, was in a dangerous state of repair and at risk of collapse.
Built as a trolley bus depot in the 1920s, it was leased by Shute, whose investors included aviator Amy Johnson, in 1931 for his Airspeed Ltd factory.
The decision was opposed by the city's Civic Trust and the Green Party.
Airspeed Ltd moved its base to Portsmouth in 1933 and since then the building has been used as a garage and was home to a laser game but has been derelict since the mid-1990s.
Attempts to have the building listed have failed.
Historic England said its Art Deco detailing had been damaged by decay and the use of render.
It also judged there was no significant physical evidence of its links with Airspeed and the development of the aviation industry in the 1930s.


Britain should provide sanctuary to 50,000 Syrian refugees, Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has said.

The estimated Â£4.3bn cost of the initiative would be paid back over time by the taxes paid by those who settle in Britain, he said.
The government said it would accept 20,000 Syrian refugees by 2020 - but Labour said the figure was inadequate and urged ministers to do more.
Mr Farron claimed the UK had "taken a pitiful number of people".
The Lib Dem leader said ministers had only accepted refugees "under extreme pressure".
"For all that we focus on Brexit, and lots of other things as well, the biggest humanitarian crisis facing our continent is still going on and Britain is turning its back and pretending it's not happening," he said.
"If you show confidence in people and give them sanctuary they become very loyal citizens.
"We are only talking about 50,000 people. We are talking about doing what is right."
The move, along with reopening the programme to settle lone child refugees, will be fully costed in the Lib Dem manifesto, Mr Farron said.
The Lib Dem leader, visiting a refugee charity in Gloucestershire on Thursday, said the numbers of new arrivals would be absorbed over five years.
In 2015, former Conservative prime minister David Cameron said the UK had a "moral responsibility" to take in 20,000 refugees living in camps bordering Syria.


BBC director general Lord Hall has said the BBC gender pay gap across the organisation is 10%, compared with an 18% gap across the UK as a whole.

His comments came as the BBC published for the first time the pay of stars earning Â£150,000 and more.
The figures reveal that about two-thirds of stars earning more than Â£150,000 are male, compared to one-third female, according to the BBC annual report.
The top seven earners in the list of the BBC's 96 best-paid stars are all male.
The pay gap is the percentage difference between average hourly earnings for men and women.
Across the UK men earned 18.1% more than women in April 2016 according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This figure is calculated on a 1% sample of employees' jobs. It takes the median for men and women, which is the figure at the mid-point of the range of earnings.
The pay gap isn't the same as equal pay. Equal pay - that men and women doing the same job should be paid the same - has been a legal requirement for 47 years.
As the following graph shows, the gap between men and women's earning for both full and part-time work has fallen from 27.5% in 1997 to 18.1% in 2016. If you only look at full-time workers the pay gap drops to 9.4%. For part-time workers the pay gap favours women, who now earn 6% more than men.
The numbers do not tell the whole story.
The list does not distinguish between people who are paid for doing multiple jobs within the BBC and those who are paid for just one.
The figures only include what the BBC pays its talent directly. So if a presenter is paid by an independent production company or by the BBC's commercial arm, this is not included.
Questioned by Mishal Husain on Radio 4's Today programme, director general Lord Hall said that, compared with an 18% gap in pay between genders across the UK, the BBC pay gap across the corporation was 10%, which will be audited in the autumn.
The BBC press office said that covered full and part-time employees. Reality Check asked for the part-time figures but the press office said that was all it had in terms of breakdown at the moment.
The ONS provides some pay gap data for groups of occupations based on their annual earnings survey.
The following graph shows the gender pay gap by major occupation groups.
According to ONS definitions, elementary occupations require "a minimum general level of education". This category includes farm and postal workers, cleaners and security guards.
Skilled trades include jobs requiring a "substantial period of training", such as landscape gardeners, vehicle mechanics and TV engineers.
Associate professionals and technical occupations include jobs such as civil engineers technicians, paramedics and youth workers.
It is possible to look at jobs within these broad groups. For instance, the pay gap for the category "journalists, newspaper and periodical editors", which includes broadcast journalists, is 7.1%.
Likewise, for "artistic, media and literary occupations", which includes presenters, actors, producers and directors but also professions such as dancers and choreographers, the gap is just 2.7%.
Another way to look at the pay gap is by industry sector rather than by occupation. This shows that for the programming and broadcasting sector, looking at employees' hourly pay, the gender pay gap is 9.4%.
The 10% figure quoted by Lord Hall covers everyone employed by the BBC, so will include a wide range of jobs including technical staff, journalists, human resources and marketing.
By April 2018, all companies with 250 or more employees will have to publish figures showing average pay for men and women including any bonuses. This will reveal how widespread the gender pay gap is and will enable comparisons with other companies.
Meanwhile, Lord Hall has made a commitment to closing the pay gap in the BBC altogether. "I have said that by 2020 we will have equality between men and women on air and we will have the pay gap sorted out."
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The UN Security Council has authorised the deployment of a UN police force to Burundi to try to quell violence and human rights abuses in the country.

The council backed a French-drafted resolution to send up to 228 police for an initial period of a year.
Burundi earlier said it would accept no more than 50 police officers.
More than 400 people have been killed in unrest since President Pierre Nkurunziza said he would run for a third term in office last April.
More than 200,000 people have fled their homes.
"Given an increase in violence and tension the Security Council must have eyes and ears on the ground to predict and ensure that the worst does not occur in Burundi," said French UN Ambassador Francois Delattre.
"This is a strong act of preventative diplomacy," he added.
The government of Burundi earlier warned it would agree to no more than 50 UN police officers.
Diplomats are now negotiating how to implement the UN Security Council's resolution.
Although both Burundi's opposition and government forces are ethnically mixed, some fear that the violence could descend into a repeat of the genocidal killings which the country has previously experienced.
President Nkurunziza is the former leader of a Hutu rebel group which battled a Tutsi-dominated army for many years until he came to power in 2005 as part of a peace deal.


A man has been arrested in the Republic of Ireland after police found three guns suspected to have been used in a shooting at a Dublin hotel last month.

David Byrne was shot dead when gunmen opened fire at a boxing weigh-in event at the Regency Hotel on 5 February.
On Wednesday, three AK 47 rifles were discovered when armed officers stopped a car near Slane in County Meath.
The arrested man is from County Donegal and he is also understood to have links to dissident republicanism.
Irish broadcaster RTÃ‰ said the guns were now being examined to establish if they were used in the Dublin shooting.
A police (Garda) spokesman confirmed that a 39-year-old man had been detained in County Meath on Wednesday under the Offences Against the State Act.
However, he said no further information about the arrested was available for "operational reasons".


MPs are launching a parliamentary inquiry into the "growing phenomenon of fake news".

The Culture, Media and Sport Committee said it would investigate concerns about the public being swayed by propaganda and untruths.
The inquiry will examine the sources of fake news, how it is spread and its impact on democracy.
Claims that voters in the US election were influenced by fake news spurred the inquiry, the committee said.
Damian Collins, the committee chairman, said the rise of propaganda and fabrications is "a threat to democracy and undermines confidence in the media in general".
"Just as major tech companies have accepted they have a social responsibility to combat piracy online and the illegal sharing of content, they also need to help address the spreading of fake news on social media platforms," he said.
"Consumers should also be given new tools to help them assess the origin and likely veracity of news stories they read online.
"The committee will be investigating these issues as well as looking into the sources of fake news, what motivates people to spread it and how it has been used around elections and other important political debates."
The MPs want to investigate whether the way advertising is bought, sold and placed online has encouraged the growth of fake news.
They also want to address the responsibility of search engines and social media to stop spreading it.
The way that fake news affects people's understanding of the world and their trust in traditional journalism will also be examined, as will the issue of whether different demographic groups respond to made-up stories in different ways.
New research suggests that online hoaxes and propaganda may have only had limited impact in the US presidential election, however.
According to a study by two US economists, fake news which favoured Donald Trump was shared 30 million times in the three months before the election, four times more than false stories favouring Hillary Clinton.
But the authors said that only half of people who saw a false story believed it, and even the most widely circulated hoaxes were seen by only a fraction of voters.
The cross-party Commons committee is seeking written submissions from interested parties by the start of March and is expected to hold hearings in due course.
Labour launched its own investigation into fake news earlier this month, led by former shadow culture secretary Michael Dugher. He warned that his party needed to be wary of misinformation coming from the left as well as the right.


Slaughtneil  beat Kilcoo 0-12 to 0-9 in Sunday's Ulster Club Football Championship final.

It means the Derry club have completed a remarkable treble of provincial football, hurling and camogie titles.
Slaughtneil saw off a determined second-half fight back by the Down champions to secure the Ulster crown for the second time in three years.
"There was pressure on us, and to get over the line is unbelievable," said dual star Chrissy McKaigue.
"It is hard to put it into words, it has been an unbelievable year.
"We knew we might not have this opportunity again, so we wanted to do it so badly.
"We have high standards and high expectations, and we knew Kilcoo would represent an incredible task."
Kilcoo manager Paul McIver said his players were devastated to have come so close to a first provincial crown.
"The boys have put in so much effort over the last five years, and to come within a kick of the ball to win the Ulster is hard for us.
"We were in a good position but those last five minutes before half-time were gut-wrenching and we found ourselves four points behind.
"But this club will be back - they deserve their Ulster Championship. We will be top of the pile at some stage."
The sides were locked on five points each in the first half, but the Derry champions landed points through Christopher Bradley, Chrissy McKaigue, Shane McGuigan and Cormac O'Doherty to be 0-9 to 0-5 up at the interval.
Kilcoo, Down winners for five years in a row, replied with three on the bounce by Ceilin Doherty, Daragh O'Hanlon and Martin Devlin to reduce the deficit to just one.
Mickey Moran's Slaughtneil, though, kept their noses in front to clinch a second provincial triumph in three years.
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