The BBC has obtained exclusive footage of the aftermath of Pakistani air strikes against the Taliban in North Waziristan - but some say it's still protecting certain militants it has supported in the past.

Major General Asim Bajwa painted a clear picture.
"We are going after terrorists of all hue and colour," he told journalists at a briefing on the Pakistani army's operation against militant havens in North Waziristan.
Conjuring visions of the Stalingrad "kettle" in World War Two, he said Pakistani troops now had the whole area surrounded: "They cannot escape."
But many reports, as well as footage obtained by the BBC, suggest some militants at least got away and some shades of "terrorist" may still be safe.
This is the operation many inside and outside Pakistan say should have begun long ago, as North Waziristan was allowed to become a veritable warehouse for all brands of Islamic militancy.
It's from there that the Pakistani Taliban have been mounting their deadly suicide offensive for the past seven years, killing thousands of people across Pakistan.
The Pakistani Taliban are the chief target of Operation Zarb-e-Azb - named after the sword of the Prophet Muhammad.
But also thought to be in the army's crosshairs are al-Qaeda, and Uzbek militants who claimed to have carried out last month's deadly attack on Karachi airport.
As those devastating images flashed around the world, the operation in North Waziristan finally got the go-ahead after years of stalling.
The delay has done severe damage to Pakistan "both internally and internationally", says former army spokesman Maj-Gen Athar Abbas.
Hundreds of thousands of people have now been displaced from North Waziristan by the army offensive.
But there are also widespread reports many militants escaped, or were alerted beforehand - including members of the Haqqani network, blamed for a string of high-profile attacks in Afghanistan.
It's almost impossible to find out what is happening inside the tribal area now.
Difficult for outsiders to enter at any time, the army has barred all access.
But the BBC has obtained footage from a professional cameraman who got into North Waziristan with help from the Taliban, as the campaign began.
He spent a week travelling there, filming the aftermath of several Pakistani strikes - although he admits he was not allowed to record everything he saw.
We can't identify him for his own security.
At one point, he met a local Taliban commander who was escaping across the border to Afghanistan in his pick-up, just a short drive down the road.
But underlining fears of a potential backlash, the commander vowed to take revenge on Pakistan "until doomsday".
Militants were killed in some strikes, people in the border village of Gorbaz told the cameraman, but claimed civilians had perished too.
Uzbek militants had reportedly been using the same border area as a base.
The Pakistani army says it is only targeting "terrorist sanctuaries" and in his briefing Maj-Gen Bajwa said they had killed 376 "terrorists" so far.
He also released pictures of suspected bomb-making factories found by ground troops - which were churning out explosive devices for suicide attacks.
But pressed on the identities of those killed, he was less forthcoming. And what about "the Haqqanis", journalists asked.  Were they classified as "terrorists" too?
Many say the carnage of the past few years is the inevitable consequence of Pakistan co-opting militant groups to pursue its strategic goals.
It's the military's powerful intelligence agency, the ISI, who have overseen this policy - and the Haqqani network based in North Waziristan is widely seen as one of their best clients.
But unlike many other groups, it has stayed loyal.
Haqqani fighters are thought to be behind a string of high-profile attacks in Afghanistan on US and Indian targets - allegedly carried out with Pakistani backing.
And it was clear none of the officials at the briefing wanted to disavow them.   But "we don't want any terrorist, Haqqani or not Haqqani, on Pakistani soil", said Abdul Qadir Baloch, the minister responsible for the tribal areas.
So the message from North Waziristan seems to be that the hand that has been bitten is now biting back.
But not all militants will feel the same pain.


Broadcaster Paul Gambaccini has backed a 28-day limit on the use of police bail after telling MPs he was the victim of a "witch-hunt".

Mr Gambaccini was arrested on suspicion of historical sexual abuse and placed on bail for a year before the case against him was dropped in October.
He told a Commons committee that lost earnings and legal fees had cost him more than £200,000.
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) denied there was a "witch-hunt".
Home Secretary Theresa May announced in December that she was consulting on a 28-day bail limit in all but exceptional cases.
Giving evidence to the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, the former Radio 1 DJ said he believed he was used as human "fly paper" to encourage other people to come forward and make allegations against him.
He said he suspected his bail was repeatedly extended until the end of high-profile cases involving other celebrities because police did not want juries to hear a former Radio 1 DJ had been cleared of sexual wrongdoing.
Mr Gambaccini, who has since returned to work on BBC Radio 2 and 4, was arrested by detectives from Operation Yewtree - the police investigation into historic sex offences launched in the wake of the revelations about former DJ and TV presenter Jimmy Savile.
He said that he and other celebrities falsely accused of historical sex crimes had been the victim of a "witch-hunt" to divert attention from the failure of the authorities to deal with Savile while he was still alive.
"Someone whose identity we do not know, who I call the Wizard of Oz, the person sitting behind the curtain, pulling the levers, setting off smoke and light shows, decided 'I've got a great idea, let's have a witch-hunt, let's divert the attention of the public from the police who knew about but failed to stop Jimmy Savile in his lifetime and shine that spotlight instead on his contemporaries and we'll get perverts from show business in the 1970s and 1980s'," he said.
He said that by opening a website and phone line so that people could accuse celebrities of sexual offences "you are going to get some people who are responding to the offer of money and attention".
Mr Gambaccini was arrested on 29 October 2013 and police handed papers to the Crown Prosecution Service on 10 February 2014.
But it was not until 10 October 2014 that he was told no case was being brought against him, he said.
Mr Gambaccini told the committee that during that time his bail was extended on seven occasions with only "vague" explanations from police.
He said he gradually realised the dates often coincided with important developments in the Yewtree investigation.
Bail was extended on 2 May, when publicist Max Clifford was sentenced for historic indecent assaults, on 30 June, hours after the conviction of Rolf Harris, and on 12 September when former Stoke Mandeville doctor Michael Salmon appeared in court charged with rape, he said.
When his bail was extended to 15 September, he suspected a link to the trial of Dave Lee Travis, which was due to end on that date.
Mr Gambaccini said the BBC suspended him without pay immediately after his arrest became public and he was "shunned" by other employers.
Asked if he would support anonymity for those arrested, but not charged, over sexual allegations, Mr Gambaccini said: "Absolutely. I do realise that there are people of good faith who say people who have been arrested should be named because then people who have been victimised will come forward.
"These people of good faith don't realise that it isn't only people who have actually committed offences who are arrested and named - there are some innocent people in the mix."
He said he would "enthusiastically" support a 28-day bail limit, adding: "There is no possible excuse for further delay in leaving somebody out to dry.
"The only reason for the delay is to try to get somebody else to accuse you.
"It's not a proper use of the criminal justice system, it's the misuse of a power they happen to have for other reasons."
But DPP Alison Saunders - the most senior prosecutor in England and Wales - said the 28-day limit was "too short" because decisions on whether to press charges take substantially longer in a minority of cases, often involving fraud, corruption or historical sex offences.
She insisted that the CPS does not release the names of suspects before charge and stressed that a decision not to press charges is not a determination of innocence or guilt, but a judgment on whether there is sufficient evidence to secure a conviction.
Ms Saunders made clear she did not believe the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) owed Gambaccini an apology.
She also denied claims made by Conservative MP Michael Ellis that the bail the system was "broken" and told the committee: "We are not conducting a witch-hunt against anyone, be it journalists or celebrities."


A man who died after falling from cliffs on the west coast of Orkney was a crew member with an Edinburgh-based company, guiding a mini-bus group on a tour of the Highlands and islands.

The alarm was raised at about 14:15 on Monday after reports a man had fallen from cliffs at Yesnaby.
It is understood he was in his early 20s.
Haggis Adventures said it had made arrangements for everyone who was in the group to return to Edinburgh.
The company paid tribute to the RNLI, the Coastguard and police who responded to the emergency.
Following the incident, Police Scotland said there were no suspicious circumstances.


Chelsea captain John Terry will leave at the end of the season after more than two decades at Stamford Bridge.

The defender, 36, is the Blues' most decorated player, having won four Premier Leagues, five FA Cups and three League Cups. He also has Champions League and Europa League medals.
He has made 713 appearances since his debut in 1998 - 578 of them as captain.
"I feel I still have plenty to offer but understand that opportunities here will be limited for me," Terry said.
The centre-back, who has scored 66 goals for the club he joined as a 14-year-old, has made just four Premier League starts this season.
He is the club's third highest all-time appearance maker, behind Ron Harris and Peter Bonetti, and holds the club record for appearances as captain.
Terry, who made his debut for Chelsea as a 17-year-old in a 1998 League Cup match, has gone on to score 40 Premier League goals over 19 years.
He has played almost all of his career at Chelsea, other than six loan appearances for Nottingham Forest in 2000.
"I will always be a Blue and am desperate to end my final season as a Chelsea player with more silverware," said Terry, whose team have a four-point lead at the top of the Premier League.
"I've always been conscious that I depart at the right time, in the right way, and I feel that the end of this season is the right time for the club and I."
Terry is one of just five defenders to have won the PFA Player of the Year award.
He retired from international football in 2012 after winning 78 England caps and signed a one-year contract extension with the Blues in May 2016.
"I'm eager to carry on playing and so will be looking to continue with a new challenge," Terry added.
"Words cannot describe the love I have for our club and our amazing fans. You mean the world to me and I will never forget the incredible journey we've been on."
Chelsea director Marina Granovskaia said: "He will always be held in the highest regard by everybody at Stamford Bridge and we look forward to welcoming him back in the future."
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Terry made his debut as a 17-year-old against Aston Villa in the League Cup in October 1998, and scored his first goal for the club in an FA Cup sixth-round tie against Gillingham in 2000.
However, the following year Terry was one of four Chelsea players fined two weeks' wages by the club following their behaviour at a hotel in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in the United States.
He was integral to the Blues claiming both the Premier League title and the FA Cup in 2009-10, making more than 50 appearances as Chelsea became just the seventh club to do the double.
However, he was twice stripped of the England captaincy, before being banned for four matches and fined £220,000 for racially abusing QPR defender Anton Ferdinand.
He also missed the 2012 Champions League final, in which the Blues beat Bayern Munich on penalties, through suspension.
Terry scored four goals in 35 league games as Chelsea claimed the Premier League in 2014-15, but has found his playing time limited under Antonio Conte.
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Ten killings involving patients of a mental health trust will be reviewed after the conviction of a man who stabbed a motorist to death.

Matthew Daley, 35, stabbed Donald Lock 39 times on the A24 in Findon, after the 79-year-old ran into the back of his vehicle.
He was convicted of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
The court heard his family had pleaded with the NHS to section him prior to the murder.
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has apologised for its role and said it had commissioned a "thematic review" of 10 killings between 2011 and 2016 involving patients - including Daley - it had come into contact with.
The trust's chief executive Colm Donaghy said: "We decided there was a need to look to see whether lessons or common themes from the homicide emerged.
"The review of 10 cases is not to reopen those cases - it's to look at the themes."
During the trial, jurors were told Daley's mother pleaded with mental health experts to have her son sectioned.
She told the court the day she heard Mr Lock was killed was "the day that all your nightmares came true".
Mr Donaghy admitted the trust should have listened to those family pleas for help and said it had failed Daley.
"We should have carried out a formal assessment of a formal diagnosis for Matthew," he said.
"We had a diagnosis of Asperger's and what we should have done is had a formal diagnosis because he was also suffering from symptoms of psychosis.
"We should have also considered different ways potentially of treating Matthew. And finally we should have listened to the family more closely and taken action on some of the things they indicated."
"We failed in the care that we gave Matthew."
The mother of a former trust patient, who stabbed a woman to death seven years years ago, said the organisation should be "investigated and monitored long term".
The mental health trust apologised after an investigation found there were signs about the risks posed by Samuel Reid-Wentworth before he killed his victim in Littlehampton.
Angela Reid-Wentworth told BBC Sussex in an email: "When an organisation persistently and repeatedly fails then it comes from the top.
"There needs to be urgent legislation which makes health authorities and their professionals do their work properly and to be much more accountable."


London 2012 Olympic silver medallist Michael Jamieson has announced his retirement from swimming.

The 28-year-old Scot broke his own British record to finish second in the 200m breaststroke in 2012 but struggled with form thereafter.
Revealing the news via the Sunday Times, Jamieson talks of a brutal training regime that led to depression.
"There were weeks I couldn't go out," he said. "I was living on a diet of anti-depressants and sleeping pills."
He added: "I just kind of sat down and started asking questions, like 'What am I doing here? All I have to show for 20 years of work is a medal. What does that mean?'.
"Over time, I guess it got a bit deeper than that. 'Whose lives am I enriching by doing what I'm doing? What am I offering here as a person? Who's benefiting from me being here?'.
"When it got to that level, I knew I needed to get help. From that point, it just unravelled a bit."
After a series of shoulder injuries, Jamieson missed out on a medal at the 2013 World Championships.
Overtraining in preparation for the 2014 Commonwealth Games led to his heart being restarted and he was beaten by compatriot Ross Murdoch in his favoured event in Glasgow.
He failed to qualify for the World Championships in 2015 and missed out on selection for the 2016 Rio Olympics.
"My body just can't take the intensity any more," Jamieson told BBC Sport in April.


A man who chose to run 26 miles around a village green dressed as Elvis after missing out on a London Marathon spot has raised £1,500 for charity.

Simon Goldsmith, 41, ran 17 laps of Martlesham Heath, near Ipswich, Suffolk, on Sunday.
"It was certainly repetitive, I was verging on dizziness by the end," he said.
The money raised will go to the local St Elizabeth Hospice where both his parents spent their final weeks.
Mr Goldsmith, who grew up in Martlesham and now lives in neighbouring Little Bealings, does a "low budget" Elvis impersonation under the name Harry Isaac Presley.
In 2010, he raised money by holding a three-day Elvis singing marathon at a pub in Ufford.
He was the only person to run the full 26.2 miles (42.1km), which he billed as the "world's dullest marathon", but as the day went on he was joined by a number of well-wishers who did laps with him.
He completed the course, which finished with a lap around the local shopping centre, in 4 hours and 54 minutes.
"I didn't do as much training as I should have done and I found myself in some dark places, particularly around the halfway mark," said Mr Goldsmith.
"You passed the pub on each lap and you could smell the food and see the beer and that was tough, but there were plenty of people about and that cheered me up."
Following the fundraising success, he said he planned to do a similar event next year.


A number of ceremonies to mark the reinterment of Richard III in Leicester Cathedral are to be held in York.

Events on 26 March include a civic procession through the city, an address by the Lord Mayor and a special service at York Minster.
The remains of the king were found beneath a Leicester car park in 2012. He will be reinterred in the city's cathedral on 26 March.
Descendants of his family lost a legal challenge to have him reburied in York.
Richard III spent much of his youth in Yorkshire and during the reign of his brother, Edward IV, he governed the north of England on behalf of the King.
The Very Reverend Vivienne Faull, Dean of York Minster, said: "On the evening of the reinterment of King Richard III, it is right that the people of York and Yorkshire will have the opportunity to gather in the Minster to pray and to remember the death of the King at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485."
She said the service would include a prayer composed by the Dean of Leicester.
The events on the 26 March, organised by the Minster, City of York Council, the York Museums Trust and the University of York include:


Ireland's women won the World Twenty20 Qualifier final against Bangladesh in dramatic fashion, with Lucy O'Reilly getting a single from the final ball.

Ireland, who had already qualified for next year's tournament in India by making the decider, won by two wickets.
Bangladesh made 105-3 off their 20 overs, with Nigar Sultana top-scoring with 41 and Ciara Metcalfe taking 3-14.
Cecilia Joyce and Clare Shillington hit 24 off the first two overs and O'Reilly saw Ireland home to victory on 106-8.
The 16-year-old held her nerve to drive the ball to mid-on and pick up a single as rain fell and lightning flashed around the ground in Bangkok.
The drama intensified in the run-up to the final delivery of the match as, with the scores level, Bangladeshi bowler Salma Khatun attempted to run the non-striker out before she bowled the ball, with the umpires deciding after a long conversation that Laura Delany was not out.
With O'Reilly waiting patiently at the striker's end for a second attempt at the final ball there were anxious faces all round, but the youngster held her nerve.
Joyce (32) and Shillington (12) got Ireland off to a flying start but it was left to Delany (26 not out) and O'Reilly to finish off the game after wickets fell at regular intervals to leave Ireland eight wickets down with eight runs needed heading into the final over.
Metcalfe, the only Ireland player not required to bat, played a huge part in the win thanks to her contribution with the ball.
She took the only three wickets to fall in Bangladesh's innings, as Ireland's bowlers did well to limit boundaries.


A report into the future of Edinburgh's festivals said the city should collaborate with Glasgow to ensure it remains the world's leading festival city.

It said the two rival cities could offer complementary events which would draw more visitors to the wider area.
It also recommended improving accommodation and transport links.
However, it said the biggest challenge for the festivals, which are held in August. was funding.
The Thundering Hooves report said with public funding shrinking, the festivals' organisers needed to find new and innovative ways of raising cash.
Lady Susan Rice, Festivals Forum chairwoman, said: "Following the publication of the first Thundering Hooves, the results achieved to date are compelling testament to the power of ambition and collaboration.
"We're delighted to share Thundering Hooves 2.0, an important report which sets out the strategic plan and recommended actions for Festivals Forum to take forward during the next ten years.
"While much has been delivered already, this review and re-focus will ensure Edinburgh addresses key challenges and opportunities ensuring the Festival City retains its global competitive edge in the months and years to come."
The 12 festivals the city offers include the Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo and Edinburgh's Hogmanay.
The report noted that the festivals were "behind the curve" on digital innovation and risked being overtaken by others despite some important programmes and initiatives.
It said that Edinburgh's festivals should be a "digital phenomenon as well as a physical one" and needed to be leaders in the digital sphere as well as the festival sphere.
The report said that digital should be the next big area of growth in content distribution and audience development, across all festivals.
However, it said that developing the digital area would require significant city and national partnership and investment.
The report also recommended further developing international partnerships to give the nation a voice on the world stage.
On the issue of investment, it urged funders to maintain core and project funding while alternative funding models were considered, and encouraged the wider business community to invest in the festivals.
It also recommended ways for stakeholders to develop the Festivals Forum by adopting new terms of reference and responsibilities.
Richard Lewis, Edinburgh's festivals and events champion, said: "Our festivals are worth in excess of Â£261m to the Scottish economy.
"While recognising the financial constraints we currently have to deal with as a local authority, we need to work together with festival partners to support their ambitions and ensure our residents, visitors, businesses and educational institutions continue to benefit from them in the future.
"The partnership approach to the first study has clearly paid off and while progress has not been possible in every area, there is a solid foundation from which to work as we all aim to take the findings of the new Thundering Hooves 2.0 report forward."


The "sky is the limit" for British modern pentathlete Joe Choong after the 19-year-old finished 16th in his World Championship debut in Poland.

That is the view of the sport's performance director Jan Bartu, who on Friday saw saw GB's Samantha Murray claim the women's title.
Jamie Cooke, who recently returned to the sport after a break to complete his studies, came 20th.
"He [Choong] handled the pressure superbly," Bartu told BBC Sport.
"He produced his first clean round in the show jumping and that's a dream result for him."
Although pleased with the overall result, Choong admitted he was frustrated that he could not score more points during the opening fencing event - when he placed 27th out of 36 athletes.
"I was getting evens all of the way around, winning one and then losing another and it was just silly mistakes," Choong told BBC Sport.
"I know I'm young but it does annoy me that with five or six more hits I could have finished near the top - but apart from that I'm chuffed."
Cooke, 23, a World Cup winner in 2013, is the current holder of the modern pentathlon 200m freestyle world record of one minute 49.59 seconds.
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However, after taking nearly two months away from the British programme to complete his business communications degree at Bath Spa University, he was far from his best.
"Today was a bit of a disappointment," said Cooke.
"It has been a difficult year finishing university, but that's all out of the way now and I have two years to knuckle down ahead of the Rio Olympics."
The final day of the World Modern Pentathlon Championships in Poland will see Britain's Kate French and Joe Evans compete in the mixed relay event.


Most people in the UK start work in their early 20s and retire in their mid-60s, so what has prompted an eight-year-old girl and three men in their 80s and 90s to buck the trend?

Great grandfather Colin Leigh has been working at Asda's Coryton store in Cardiff for 11 years.
The till assistant is a firm favourite with customers and often has a queue of people waiting to be served by him. He even hands out sweets as they pass through his checkout.
Mr Leigh left school at 17 and completed national service with the RAF which saw him serve in Germany.
He spent his working life as a design engineer for various companies, starting at Gould's Foundry in Cardiff Bay and then for the likes of Currans and Fram Filters.
During his time at John Graham Engineering in Barry, Mr Leigh designed components for  Rolls Royce and Concorde.
"I've worked in so many places and I have always been happy in my jobs," he said.
He was still working part time in 2005, when a friend mentioned there were jobs going in Asda, which was close to his home in Taff's Well.
He applied and in his interview was asked to speak to the person next to him about their life.
"I wrote a full sheet of paper on the chap who was next to me," he said.
Impressed with his listening skills, management offered Mr Leigh the job, starting in customer service and then moving to the checkouts.
Mr Leigh's wife of 50 years, Pamela, died five years ago and he said his job "gave him a reason to get up in the morning" and "got him out of the house".
He said he was "not one to sit at home" and his favourite part of the job was meeting new people.
"I've got to know the customers, I love talking to them and giving them sweets.
"It's a special environment to work in, we're like a big family and they (Asda) bend over backwards for me."
He added his job at the supermarket kept him "busy and active," and giving advice to other workers he said: "If you like your job, do it. But if you don't like your job, you have to change it and find something you like".
Mr Leigh said he has no plans to retire anytime soon.
Reg Buttress began working for Sainsbury's in his hometown of Cwmbran, Torfaen, in 1981 after being made redundant aged 59.
He retired at 65, but was asked to return part-time just a few weeks later.
"I felt lost without a job," he said, and "I had to go back."
"It's a marvellous shop and I love meeting all the different people."
The great grandfather has held a number of jobs at the supermarket, from collecting trolleys and stacking shelves, to individually pricing items and greeting customers.
He started his working life at 13 at Hafodyrynys colliery, and when he got laid off he went to an unemployment office which told him there were no local jobs.
He then took a factory job in Birmingham, earning 14 shillings a week.
Mr Buttress recalls his father buying him a bike he used to cycle from his home in Pontypool to Birmingham.
"It took me two days and I stopped to sleep in a hedge," he said.
He returned to south Wales during the war when his accommodation was bombed.
He found work as a steam engine driver on the railways in Pontypool before the Beeching cuts, and later took a job at a Nylon factory before joining Sainsbury's.
Mr Buttress was married for 65 years, before his wife Gwendoline died two years ago.
He said he was planning a second attempt at retirement in September when he turns 94.
"I'm getting a bit slower," he said, and he is looking forward to spending more time in his garden and greenhouse.
World War Two veteran Bill Dudley is McDonalds' oldest employee in Europe.
He took a part-time job in customer care at his local restaurant in Mold, Flintshire, aged 81 and "hasn't looked back".
The great grandfather, of Connah's Quay, said he was "bored pottering around the house" and his wife "wouldn't let him help out with the gardening".
Mr Dudley served in the navy and worked as a train driver before becoming a taxi driver and, despite being in employment since he was 12, he said he "still loves going to work".
His managers have described him as "an extremely-valued member of the team" who is "loved by customers and staff alike".
At the other end of the age spectrum is Katya from Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire.
She began volunteering at an anti-poverty charity with her grandparents "as soon as she was able to walk".
And since then she has spent school holidays helping to sort food and clothes donations, as well as taking part in collections at local supermarkets.
But her favourite time of the year is the Christmas toy sort, when the charity gives donated gifts to more than 500 children in Pembrokeshire.
Katya said: "I like choosing stuff. I've got a very wise taste. With children my age, I know what they would like."
She enjoys volunteering saying she would "rather help people than go out and play with her friends".
Katya enjoys working with the people at the charity, especially her grandmother Tracy Olin, who is the charity's coordinator.
She said it made her "feel good that she was helping other people".
Katya added that she will continue to volunteer and "help people in need" and "might want grandma's job when she's old enough".
Mrs Olin said: "We love it when the young volunteers are here, because they're such fun and they have so much enthusiasm.
"Katya has learned to treat everyone with respect. She knows that some people have nothing and some people have lots, but they're all the same people."


Leicester City's success in the Premier League will be sustained, according to former owner Milan Mandaric.

The Foxes will win the title for the first time in their 132-year history if they beat Manchester United on Sunday.
Mandaric, 77, sold the then Championship club to Thai businessman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha in 2010.
"Knowing those people, they will go as high as possible," he told BBC Radio Leicester. "They're very ambitious people. They're not going to give up,"
Mandaric added that the club was "now in their blood" and they were part of something they "never dreamed of", adding: "It's not just the money any more."
Leicester have a seven-point lead over Tottenham at the top of the table and need just three points from their final three games to guarantee the title.
Alternatively, if Spurs lose one of their three matches, the Foxes, who started the season as 5,000-1 outsiders, will be crowned champions.
Under Mandaric's ownership, Leicester were relegated to League One in 2008 but returned to the second tier with Nigel Pearson as manager the following season.
The Serbian-American, who previously owned Portsmouth and Sheffield Wednesday, is now chairman of Slovenian side Olimpija Ljubljana.
"I don't think Leicester will be one of those one-offs," he added. "I think they'll continue and see what's possible. They're not going to let go."


A woman suffered severe burns to her face, neck and arms when she had acid thrown over her during a night out.

The 37-year-old was attacked outside the Turtle Bay bar and restaurant in Southampton's Guildhall Square at about 21:00 BST on Friday, police said.
An eyewitness said the male attacker, who fled towards Above Bar Street after the attack, appeared to know the woman.
Police described it as a "rare and isolated" attack. The victim was taken to Southampton General Hospital.
A fire crew was also sent to the scene to wash away the acid from the pavement.
Hampshire police is yet to release information about the woman's condition.
Adrian Rodgers, assistant general manager at Turtle Bay, helped give the woman first aid, which included rinsing the woman's face and mouth, before the ambulance arrived.
A statement from the company added: "The lady was not a customer of Turtle Bay, however, the manager on duty provided immediate assistance and emergency first aid whilst the emergency services were called.
"When they arrived they immediately took her to hospital to continue her treatment.
"We hope that she makes a full and speedy recovery from the incident."


It's a familiar tale from RBS: everything's shipshape and cruising along nicely through choppy economic waters, except for the very nasty smell emanating from the bilges and that slight listing to starboard.

After eight years of this, any loss of less than a billion ceases to have much impact. But for one quarter, from July to September, an attributable loss of £469m should still hurt.
Yet huge losses are priced in. The share price has fallen less than 1%. At less than 200p, it's below half the level of two years ago, and even further below breakeven point for its main shareholder, the UK government.
Behind the latest figures are restructuring costs. They're going up. The restructure to spin off Williams & Glyn gets messier and more entangled. You'll recall, surely, that's the division RBS has been required to sell by the European Commission as a condition for being allowed all that government bail-out.
It is taking a further £500m from the full-year bottom line. And after all the effort to split it from the rest of RBS, there's a heavy hint that a buyer might want to take only part of it. That could be Clydesdale Bank, but RBS also hinted at others who might still be in the frame.
Whoever it is, the sale isn't going to to be complete before the end of 2017, which is the deadline set by the European Commission.
Will there be a penalty for that? Will the Commission concede that RBS has done enough to re-shape itself by other means, and that improved competition in the UK banking sector is a bit less of a priority (as the Treasury seems to think)?
And how will this play with the (coincidental) Brexit negotiations? Could RBS use that to play the long game, and get out of the divestment? No, nobody knows the answers to any of these questions.
Then there's litigation and conduct, adding nearly £500m more third-quarter losses. By conduct, of course, they mean misconduct.
Setting out the results, you could sense Ross McEwan, the chief executive, tense as he used the careful legal wording ahead of the report into RBS's treatment of client companies in financial distress: not all customers treated as they should have been, but no evidence of companies being collapsed "artificially".
There's also the legal action over the £12bn rights issue in 2008, on which US litigants claim they were knowingly misled. An attempt to mediate a deal came to nothing in July. So that could still go to court next March, with a potential big pay-out to include in next year's accounts.
"Substantial additional charges and costs may be recognised in the coming quarters which would have an impact on the group's level of capital," warns the Royal.
Companies in trouble like to use the word "historic" about their "legacy" issues. So it is with RBS. But an interesting angle on its third-quarter results is that there is some noise that's more current.
Capital Resolution was due to carry a £1.5bn bill this year. That's now looking more like £2bn. RBS has had to account for impairments to its loan book from exposure to shipping companies, as well as the oil and gas sector, and mining. Those choppy waters, well beyond British shores, are having a new impact.
Ross McEwan warned at the start of 2016 that this year's accounts were going to be "noisy".  He wasn't kidding. These figures need earplugs.


Plans for the recapture of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, from the so-called Islamic State are fiendishly complicated.

Ethnic rivalries, as well as sectarian and religious sensitivities, will have to be respected if the offensive is not to go horribly wrong.
The Iraqi army which scattered and fled as IS fighters drove and rode into Mosul in 2014 was mocked as I.R.A.Q. or I Ran Away Quickly.
But the soldiers may have been running not only from IS.
The mostly Sunni Arabs of Mosul resented the domination of the central Baghdad government by Shia Muslims.
Junior ranks in the Iraqi army were afraid that they would be attacked by Sunni Arabs in Mosul as well as IS, taking revenge for the transformation of Iraq into what they perceived to be a Shia state.
For the same reason, IS in Mosul has enjoyed strong political and logistical support from former members of Saddam Hussein's Baathist armed forces, men who were summarily dismissed and who lost their livelihoods in the de-Baathification process after 2003.
The sectarian policies of the first elected prime minister Nouri Maliki may have led some Mosulites to welcome "Islamic State".
The Shia government in Baghdad had allowed the pendulum of political adjustment in Iraq to swing so far that the large Sunni minority felt downtrodden, marginalised, and collectively blamed for Saddam Hussein's cruelty towards the Shia majority.
But the new prime minister Haider al-Abadi - also Shia of course -  has worked hard to bring Sunnis back into the fold.
For example, he has funded and armed Sunni Arab tribal forces which are expected to play a prominent role in the imminent battle for Mosul.
The remaining residents, especially in the city centre, are more likely to welcome them than the mostly Shia Iraqi army, the irregular Shia "Popular Mobilisation Forces", or the Kurdish Peshmerga.
Meanwhile the remaining IS fighters have driven out, or massacred, the Christians, Yazidis and Kurds who used to live there.
Thousands of Sunni Arabs too have also left Mosul.
If they ever believed that IS was a potentially sympathetic group of Sunni co-religionists, they were quickly disabused as the conquerors of Mosul revealed themselves to be irrational psychopaths who, for example, force children to watch public executions.
Hundreds of thousands of people - possibly a million - are expected to flee Mosul ahead of the forthcoming battle.
As IS still occupies Tal Afar to the west and Hawija down the Tigris to the south, most fleeing families are likely to go east towards Irbil in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Extra pontoon bridges have been installed across two rivers on that route, and some refugee camps have been prepared.
But it's not clear if Iraqi Kurdistan can really cope with a mass exodus from Mosul, or with columns of refugees who may have IS fighters concealed among them.
Between 3,000 and 5,000 IS fighters remain in Mosul, the Pentagon says, while the number of Sunni Arab tribal fighters ready to fight them there and in nearby towns is estimated at between 7,000 and 10,000.
Approximately half of them have been trained by Turkish forces based at Bashiqa, a military camp between Mosul and the Turkish border.
There are also Turkish troops on the ground in northern Iraq - and some Turkish tanks too - thanks to an agreement with the Kurdish regional government; but not by agreement with the government in Baghdad.
This has led to a tetchy exchange between Baghdad and Ankara.
One of Turkey's objectives is to prevent consolidation of power by Kurds in this strongly Kurdish corner of the Middle East.
There are about 150,000 Kurdish Peshmerga fighters available for the recovery of Mosul, but only 2,500 trained and ready for battle.
The United States recently agreed to give the Peshmerga $415m (Â£340m) to pay their soldiers, and to buy fuel, food and ammunition.
They have also supplied some heavy weapons - but not enough, according to Iraqi Kurdish commanders.
There are also about 5,000 American forces in Iraq now, many of them from the 101st Airborne Division which occupied Mosul in 2003.
Others are believed to be special forces, many of them training and supporting thousands of Sunni tribal fighters.
Ten years ago, the Americans helped Sunni tribal leaders in Anbar province west of Baghdad form the 'Awakening' movement to defeat a previous incarnation of violent  fundamentalist Islam - al-Qaeda in Iraq.
After US troops mostly left Iraq, it was the failure of the Maliki government to continue supporting the Awakening which helped the self-styled Islamic State move in and and occupy key cities like Ramadi, Fallujah, Tikrit... and Mosul.


Two of the most prominent human rights organisations in the United States are about to launch a campaign for the presidential pardon of Edward Snowden.

The American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International are ready to launch the "Pardon Snowden" campaign.
They are urging President Barack Obama to act before he leaves office in January 2017.
The launch this week coincides with the release of an Oliver Stone biopic about the former NSA contractor.
The campaign group has created a website, pardonsnowden.org, though its content remains behind a password-protected login. The campaign has also registered social media accounts in preparation for the launch.
Mr Snowden, who is living in exile in Russia, is expected to speak by video link at the launch.
But on Monday the White House reiterated President Obama's position that Mr Snowden should face charges in the US because his leaks "damaged the United States".
Mr Snowden would be "treated fairly and consistent with the law" if he returned to the US, said White House spokesman Josh Earnest.
Amnesty International, one of the supporters of the new campaign, has repeatedly backed Mr Snowden since he released details of mass phone and internet surveillance by his former employer, the NSA.
They have said that no-one should be prosecuted for exposing human rights violations, which, they claimed, is what "indiscriminate mass surveillance of communications" amounts to.
The ACLU acts as Snowden's legal adviser, and has called him "a great American who deserves clemency for his patriotic acts".
The chances of Barack Obama pardoning Edward Snowden before he leaves office stand somewhere between zero and infinitesimal.
The head of an administration that aggressively prosecuted Chelsea Manning, that has shown little sympathy for government whistleblowers and leakers of all stripes, will not find last-stroke-of-midnight sympathy for a man who has caused endless headaches for the US intelligence community.
Yes, past presidents have made headlines with surprising moves before they exited the Oval Office. Bill Clinton aided big-money donor Marc Rich.
George HW Bush pardoned former Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger and others who were implicated in the Reagan-era Iran-Contra affair.
But Mr Obama owes Edward Snowden nothing - and the president would elicit a firestorm if he forgave a man that many Americans still view as a traitor and a spy who should only set foot on US soil again to stand trial.
Mr Snowden is the subject of a biographical film from acclaimed director Oliver Stone, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last week.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays the titular NSA contractor in Snowden, and the cast includes stars Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto and Shailene Woodley.
In a press conference, Gordon-Levitt - who met Snowden while preparing for the role - said he hoped the whistleblower might receive a presidential pardon.
"Mr Snowden would come back and face trial if he could get a fair trial," he said.
"Maybe the movie could help."
Director Oliver Stone, meanwhile, spoke about the government's "illegal" activity.
"This is a secret underworld and no-one in the NSA has come forward," Stone told a press conference on Saturday.
"It's a detective story - it goes into something we don't know. The government lies about it all the time and what they are doing is illegal - and they keep doing it.
"This is a very upsetting story but at the same time it's a drama - it's a great combination."


The UK and France have signed an agreement on new measures including a "control and command centre", to help alleviate the migrant crisis in Calais.

The centre will be jointly run by British and French police and will "relentlessly pursue" people-smuggling gangs, Home Secretary Theresa May said.
She also said she was "well aware" of the risk that Calais security would push illegal migrants elsewhere.
Meanwhile, a demonstration by migrants brought cars to a halt on a motorway.
The group was chanting "we are not animals" and "open the borders".
BBC reporter Amanda Kirton said police were sent to the motorway which overlooks the migrant camp known as the "Jungle" to disperse the crowd, and tear gas was used.
About 3,000 migrants are thought to be camped in Calais in the hope of crossing the Channel.
Mrs May said it had been a "difficult summer" with high levels of migrant activity and strike action in Calais, but joint efforts with the French government were working.
She said the new command centre would "relentlessly pursue and disrupt the callous criminal gangs that facilitate and profit from the smuggling of vulnerable people, often with total disregard for their lives".
The joint command centre, which will also incorporate the UK Border Force, will be led by two senior officers, one British and one French, each reporting to their own government.
Mrs May said France and the UK would also work with other EU states to try to ensure there were "fully functioning external borders and an asylum system that is resistant to abuse".
Her French counterpart, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, said asylum seekers should be welcomed "with dignity", but illegal immigrants would not be tolerated.
The joint deal also sets out other measures aimed at tackling the migrant crisis in Calais, including an extra 500 police from the UK and France.
It says there will be additional freight search teams, including sniffer dogs and UK-funded flights to return migrants to their home countries.
The UK will pay ??3.5m (five million euro) per year over two years towards the measures in the deal, and the Home Office said this was in addition to money previously pledged.
In July the UK announced ??2m for a secure zone in Calais for UK-bound lorries, and ??7m for other security measures. Last autumn the government pledged ??12m over three years.
The six-page joint declaration signed earlier says UK Border Force officers will continue visiting migrant camps to "correct any misapprehensions" about life in the UK and provide a "more dissuasive and realistic sense of life for illegal migrants" there.
Immigration minister James Brokenshire, who was also on the visit, said the aim was to convey the message that "the streets of the UK are not paved with gold".
During a tour of the Eurotunnel site in Coquelles, Mrs May said the UK had begun talks with Belgium and the Netherlands, as the UK was "very well aware of the possibility of displacement" of people trafficking to other places due to increased security at Calais.
Security at other northern French ports, such as Dunkirk, was being scrutinised, she added.
Read more: Why is there a crisis in Calais?


West Ham goalkeeper Adrian was so confident he would score his decisive penalty against Everton he decided he no longer needed his gloves.

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With the FA Cup third-round replay tied at 8-8 on spot-kicks, the Spaniard, 28, stepped up to send the hosts through.
"I didn't have nerves. I thought 'I'll take off my gloves, this game is over' and I struck the ball," he said.
The match had finished 2-2 after extra time and West Ham now travel to League One Bristol City in the fourth round.
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After taking the lead through Enner Valencia and having a man advantage when Aiden McGeady was sent off, the Hammers were pegged back by Everton when Kevin Mirallas struck a late free-kick.
Romelu Lukaku seemed to have sent the Toffees through with an extra-time strike, but substitute Carlton Cole scored two minutes after coming on to take the game to penalties at Upton Park.
Everton's Steven Naismith had his penalty saved before Stewart Downing had the first chance to win it for the hosts, only to see his weak effort blocked by Joel Robles.
However, Robles struck the crossbar before Adrian calmly converted the 20th penalty to settle the tie.
"I never took a penalty before - only in training for a joke, but not serious," added Adrian. "Never in my life had I struck one in an important game.
"I took my gloves off so quickly as I worried that the referee might blow his whistle and give me a yellow card for time-wasting.
"I have celebrated my saves before, but never scoring a goal. It was my first goal in my career and it's an amazing day."


The three-time Long Walk Hurdle winner Reve De Sivola has died after collapsing at Kelso on Saturday.

The Nick Williams-trained 12-year-old pulled up sharply before the final flight at the Edinburgh Gin Handicap Hurdle.
Before jockey James Reveley had a chance to dismount, the horse fell to the floor.
Course clerk Anthea Morshead said: "It was very sad, he suffered an internal bleed and collapsed and died."
Reve De Sivola won the Long Walk Hurdle at Ascot for three consecutive years between 2012 and 2014.
He also won the Challow Hurdle at Newbury as a novice, as well as the Champion Novice Hurdle at Punchestown, with career win and place prize-money of more than £600,000.


An Italian-born burglar who has lived in the UK for 63 years cannot be deported despite his "reprehensible" record, a court has ruled.

Benedetto Vassallo, 68, from Folkestone in Kent, arrived in the UK with his parents as a young child in 1952.
The home secretary attempted to have Vassallo - who retained his Italian citizenship - deported.
However, the Court of Appeal ruled he was of "low risk" of reoffending and called him a "home-grown criminal".
Vassallo was convicted of 68 offences, mainly burglary, while living in the UK.
During this time he married a British woman and had two children who were also British citizens.
In May 2012 he was sentenced to 29 months in prison for a burglary committed at the home of an elderly couple.
After this the home secretary decided to make a deportation order against Vassallo on the grounds that it was necessary "in the interests of public policy or public security".
An immigration tribunal ruled that deporting Vassallo was not justified under European immigration regulations.
The Home Office appealed, however, three judges - Lord Justice Richards, Lady Justice Macur and Mr Justice Cranston -  agreed he should not be deported.


India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has led thousands in a mass yoga programme in the capital, Delhi, on the first ever International Yoga Day.

Mr Modi did stretches, bends and breathing exercises with 35,000 school children, bureaucrats and soldiers.
Security was tight in the city with thousands of police and paramilitary deployed for Sunday morning's event.
Millions of others are expected to do yoga at similar events planned in hundreds of Indian cities and towns.
Mr Modi, a yoga enthusiast who says he practises the ancient Indian art daily, lobbied the United Nations to declare 21 June International Yoga Day.
Thousands of colourful mats were laid out on Rajpath - King's Avenue - where the main event was held.
Officials had earlier said the prime minister will attend the event and address the gathering, but not do yoga.
But Mr Modi surprised participants by joining in with the exercises.
Modi enlists yoga for 'brand India'
Authorities said 35,000 people attended the 35-minute yoga session on Rajpath, aimed at setting a new Guinness World Record for the largest yoga class at a single venue.
Guinness officials said they would announce the results in a few hours.
Yoga was also being performed on the Siachen glacier and the high seas, the defence ministry said.
The day is also being celebrated around the world and Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj says "tens of millions" will do yoga on Sunday.
Ms Swaraj herself will be in New York where she will attend the celebrations with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. In Times Square, 30,000 people are expected to do yoga.
But the day, being billed as one to promote "harmony and peace", has hit a controversial note with some Muslim organisations saying yoga is essentially a Hindu religious practice and is against Islam.
Many others say Mr Modi's Hindu nationalist government has an agenda in promoting the ancient Indian discipline.
However, the authorities deny the charge - they say participation in the yoga day is not mandatory and reports that Muslims are opposed to yoga are exaggerated.
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The Amazing World of Gumball was the big winner at the Children's Baftas where the TV show took home two awards.

The animated series about a cat named Gumball Watterson won best writer and best animation.
It brought the Cartoon Network series to an all-time total to eight Baftas - having won four times in both categories.
CBBC's Horrible Histories won best comedy for its special Shakespeare episode at Sunday night's ceremony.
It too has now won a total of eight Baftas.
Channel of the year was won by CBeebies, while Zootropolis won film of the year.
Peter Western, an animator and storyboard artist who worked on Who Framed Roger Rabbit? was presented with a special award for his contribution to children's media.
Other winners included actor Nick James, who won his first Bafta for his portrayal of Hank Zipzer in the CBBC show of the same name.
Comedian Iain Stirling took home his first Children's Bafta for his presenting role in The Dog Ate My Homework, also broadcast on CBBC.
Rapper Doc Brown hosted the ceremony, which took place at The Roundhouse in Camden, north London.
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A pregnant US teenager branded "immoral" by her school and barred from its graduation ceremony is to have her own event, organised by her parents.

Maddi Runkles, 18, who attends a small private Christian school in Maryland, has been told she is not welcome at the event, on 2 June, because she must be "accountable for her immorality".
Instead, her parents have decided to organise a special party for their daughter the following day.
The decision by the board of governors of the Heritage Academy, in Hagerstown, has drawn criticism on social media from those who say the school is showing no Christian compassion to the teenager.
"Heritage Academy has opportunity to demonstrate love & grace of Jesus. Instead choosing judgement & shame," tweeted @WineyKnitter.
Dawn McQueen-Shaw also reprimanded the school board for not allowing Ms Runkles to "walk", take part in the graduation ceremony, writing; "My Jesus would not prevent Maddi Runkles from walking, He would've walked with her! Unlike the board full of hypocrisy."
And "proud Christian" Ta Mika wrote: "The Bible says all fall short of god's glory. What happened to truth and grace?"
Ms Runkles, who had been president of the student council, is among the highest academic achievers in her year.
The teenager told CBS she had briefly considered having an abortion but "did the right thing" in deciding to keep her baby, a boy.
Various people lobbied on behalf of Ms Runkles, including her father, who eventually resigned as president of the school board over the matter.
'She was immoral'
Scott Runkles had still been on the board when his daughter was suspended for two days but stepped aside from being directly involved in the decision about her attendance at the graduation ceremony.
Mr Runkles, a bank vice-president, told the New York Times: "Typically, when somebody breaks a rule, you punish them at the time they break the rule.
"That way, the punishment is behind them, and they're moving forward with a clean slate.
"With Maddi, her punishment was set four months out.
"It's ruined her senior year."
Pupils at the school are expected to agree to a code of conduct that includes that "no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of the marriage commitment between a man and a woman".
Ms Runkles also had support from anti-abortion organisations, including Students for Life.
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In a statement, the school's head teacher, David R Hobbs, wrote: "Let me clarify some facts.
"Maddi is being disciplined, not because she's pregnant, but because she was immoral... her immorality is the original choice she made that began this situation."
Mr Hobbs denied he and the board were "harsh, cruel, hard-hearted men", adding that on the night of the graduation ceremony, he wanted "God to be glorified in a dignified manner".
Mr Runkles told the New York Times his family had arranged their own graduation party for his daughter on 3 June.
Ms Runkles says she will bring up her son, who is due in September, with the support of her parents.
She has refused to name the father but has said he does not attend Heritage Academy.
By Annie Flury, UGC and Social News Team


The Quebec City mosque that was the scene of a deadly shooting on Sunday has opened its doors for the first the since the attack.

In the Islamic centre, blood smeared the floor and walls and bullet holes could still be seen in the aftermath of the carnage.
Worshippers said they wanted to show the world the scene of the crime.
Alleged gunman Alexandre Bissonette, 27, has been charged with six counts of murder and five of attempted murder.
Mosque vice-president Mohamed Labidi, in an emotional news conference, said they were opening the mosque to show the consequences of hate and Islamophobia.
He said they had been "attacked in the heart of their community".
Mr Labadi also described the courage of one of the victims, Azzedine Soufiane, 57, who died trying to protect other worshippers as the gunman entered the mosque on Sunday during evening prayers.
"When he saw the attacker recharge his gun, he ran quickly to immobilise him," said Mr Labadi.
"But the attacker was quicker and shot him directly and he fell down here, he fell down here as a hero." He pointed to a patch of blood on the floor.
"Without his intervention, we would have more martyrs."
Mr Soufiane ran a halal butcher shop in the suburb of Sainte-Foy, down the street from the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre, and has been described as an important member of the local Muslim community.
The six worshippers who died were immigrants who had moved to Quebec to seek a better life.
The other victims were Khaled Belkacemi, 60, Abdelkrim Hassane, 41, Mamadou Tanou Barry, 42,  Ibrahima Barry, 39, and Aboubaker Thabti, 44.
The funerals for three, Mr Hassane, Mr Thabti and Mr Belkacemi, will be held in Montreal on Thursday and their bodies will be repatriated to their countries of origin.
In the wake of the deadly shooting, Quebecers and their political leaders rallied around the province's Muslim community, with thousands attending vigils to commemorate those killed and injured.


The Vatican treasurer, Cardinal George Pell, has returned to Australia as he prepares to defend himself against sexual assault charges.

The 76-year-old cleric, a top adviser to Pope Francis, was photographed at Sydney Airport early on Monday. He had arrived from the Vatican via Singapore.
Police have said the accusations relate to alleged "historical" incidents.
Cardinal Pell, who has strongly denied any wrongdoing, is due to face a Melbourne court on 26 July.
Australia's most senior Catholic figure was granted a leave of absence from the Vatican to fight the charges.
He did not make any comment on arrival in Sydney, local media said.
Victoria Police said the accusations arose from "multiple complainants".
Last month, Cardinal Pell told a news conference at the Holy See that he would travel to Australia if his doctors permitted it.
"I'm looking forward finally to having my day in court," he said.
"I am innocent of these charges, they are false. The whole idea of sexual abuse is abhorrent to me."
Cardinal Pell is considered the third-ranking official in the Holy See.


A man has been arrested on suspicion of causing the death by careless driving of a 23-year-old whose body was found by the side of a road.

Chase Tate was found dead by the A1104 at Miles Cross Hill, Ulceby, on 7 January.
Lincolnshire Police said a 56-year-old man from the Peterborough area has been arrested and bailed in connection with Mr Tate's death.
He was arrested on suspicion of failing to stop after a road traffic collision.
A 21-year-old man who was arrested in January on suspicion of murder remains on police bail.
A post mortem examination revealed Mr Tate had suffered injuries consistent with a road traffic collision.


Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has warned that he could nationalise banks that refuse to finance agricultural projects backed by his government.

Mr Chavez said some leading banks were failing to comply with a legal requirement that at least 10% of their lending should support development.
"If you can't do it, give me the banks," he said.
The government has taken over several private banks in recent years over alleged irregularities.
Mr Chavez was speaking during his weekly radio and television programme, which was broadcast from Barinas state in Venezuela's central plains, an important farming and cattle-ranching region.
He named three banks in particular - Banesco, Banco Mercantil and Banco Provincial - and accused them of favouring loans to large landowners and businesses rather than small farmers.
"Banks of Venezuela, private and public, either you finance agricultural production or we will take measures. There is no alternative," he said.
"We will pay the owners what the banks cost and in two years we will recover the investment," he added.
Mr Chavez also said he would step up the expropriation of large estates to give land to small farmers.
The process of agricultural reform has given many of Venezuela's rural poor the chance to farm for themselves for the first time.
But critics - including large ranchers and farmers who have lost their land - say production has suffered as a result, putting pressure on food supplies and prices.
Mr Chavez - who has governed Venezuela for 13 years - is seeking re-election in October in order to deepen the socialist "revolution" in Venezuela.


Cellist Sol Gabetta has been given the prestigious job of opening this year's Proms season at London's Royal Albert Hall.

The 35-year-old Argentine will be performing Elgar's Concerto in E minor on 15 Jul, in her Proms debut.
Gabetta, who started learning the cello aged four, is already an internationally renowned cellist and has performed around the world.
She has collaborated with lauded conductors and won many high-profile awards, including a Gramophone Award and the Echo Klassik Preis - a German music prize - as well as having earned a Grammy nomination.
To mark her Proms concert, a short film has been made called Cello, which shows her playing the opening to the Elgar concerto while a digital light display flickers across the surface of her 300-year-old cello.
Here she tells the film's producer, Richard Slaney of 59 Productions, about her excitement ahead of the show and why the cello is a great instrument.
This is my first time playing at the Proms, so to be making my debut at the first night is quite a big thing for me. I'll be performing Elgar's Cello Concerto, which is a very important concerto for all cellists - but to play it in London, in front of an English audience, is very special.
You can imagine how big this feels in my head, knowing that I'm in front of a public that probably knows the piece even better than I do! Many in the audience will have listened to this piece maybe 100 times.
I'm very familiar with the Elgar concerto. The first time I recorded it, I performed it about 60 times in one year. But making this film was different - it was definitely my first time playing it like this.
As children, we learn how to perform. We learn how to prepare, psychologically and physically, to play for two hours without losing energy, but sometimes it's more difficult playing in front of cameras than it is to be on stage. And it was so strange to see the Proms printed on my cello like a photo!
It's very simple. The cello is the only instrument that has four voices like the ones you'd hear singing in a choir, or in a chord played on the piano. There are so many possibilities.
Many people talk about the cello having a human voice. But it can also be a very angry instrument, especially if you're playing the darkest, lowest strings. At the same time, it can also be extremely delicate - but never 'crying', like you sometimes hear with a violin.
Then there's the extreme projection - not only strong, but intense, with so many colours. There just aren't any other instruments in existence that have this kind of power. Of course you have the piano, but that's a completely different technique: more mechanical, and there's nothing mechanical about the cello.
It's a very natural element to work with, and it's sensitive too. If the weather is cold, your cello gets cold, and if it's too hot - well, he doesn't sweat, but you can feel that the projection of the sound is not as clear and as fast as it should be. I respect the instrument a lot. When he's not feeling well, I try to change the room or the factors that are making him unhappy.
Yes, of course!
Sol Gabetta was talking to Richard Slaney of 59 Productions. The opening night Prom concert is at 1900 BST on 15 July at the Royal Albert Hall, London.
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Five missing episodes from classic 1950s radio series Hancock's Half Hour are to be re-recorded and aired on BBC Radio 4 later this year.

The series - starring Tony Hancock and written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson - featured 103 episodes but 20 of the audio recordings are missing.
Five of the those scripts - chosen by Galton and Simpson - will now be re-recorded in front of a live audience.
They will air in November to celebrate Galton and Simpson's 60th anniversary.
The five episodes will feature Kevin R McNally, who appeared in the Pirates of the Caribbean films, as Hancock.
Other characters will be played by W1A and Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa actor Simon Greenall, Hugo and Hot Fuzz star Kevin Eldon and Sherlock actor Robin Sebastian.
Recording begins at the BBC Radio Theatre in London on Tuesday.
Hancock's Half Hour was an immediate critical and ratings success.
In 1956, Hancock's Half Hour was made into a TV series and both versions alternated until 1959.
The TV show remained faithful to the radio series, although only Sid James was retained from the cast.
The radio show wound down in 1959, while on television, Hancock was becoming concerned at the increasing popularity of his co-star James.
James played the man-on-the-street foil to Hancock's pompous character, with viewers often siding with James.
As a result, Hancock decided that following the 1960 series, James was to be dropped and the show would continue without him, re-titled simply Hancock.


England's Kell Brook successfully defended his IBF world welterweight title with a fourth-round victory over Romanian-born Jo Jo Dan in Sheffield.

Unbeaten Brook, 28, was fighting for the first time since he was stabbed in the leg while on holiday in Tenerife.
He dominated in his home town, flooring Dan four times before the Romanian failed to come out for the fifth round.
"I didn't think I would walk again, never mind box again. Now I'm here defending my title," said Brook.
"I've come from a council estate, now I'm world champion. I've come from the bottom and I'm at the top."
Dan, 33, had never been stopped in his previous 36 professional fights, but was sent to the canvas twice in the second round and twice more in the fourth before he was pulled out of the fight by his corner.
Brook, who has a perfect record of 34 wins from 34 bouts, was making the first defence of his world title since beating American Shawn Porter on points in California last August.
However, Brook's career looked to be over two weeks later when he was stabbed in the leg with a machete in what he called an "unprovoked attack".
"It was amazing to be able to walk to the ring again and this is where I belong," added Brook. "It was hard to hold it together. I didn't think I would box again, and I can't put into words what it means to defend my title."
Dan, born in Romania but based in Canada, was the mandatory contender but suffered only the third defeat of his 37-fight professional career.
Brook now hopes this win leads to an all-British bout with Amir Khan.
"If you're watching Amir Khan, then get in here with me. I know you're delicate around the whiskers," said Brook.
Promoter Eddie Hearn wants Brook to fight Khan at Wembley in June.
"There's a venue available on 13 June," said Hearn. "If Amir Khan is watching, give everyone what they want.
"He doesn't have an opponent and he is talking about fighting boxers lower than Kell. It's the biggest pay-day available and it's for a world title."


Salford Red Devils will let Rangi Chase, Harrison Hansen, Cory Paterson and Theo Fages leave the club at the end of the season.

England international Chase, 29, had been suspended pending an internal disciplinary investigation, but will now been given a free transfer.
Captain Hansen, 29, is also released while Salford owner Marwan Koukash says Paterson, 28, is moving to Leigh.
Half-back Fages had resigned from the club and will now be allowed to leave.
"We're very close with his advisers to reaching a deal and we want to wish him all the very best," Koukash said of 21-year-old Fages.
Salford secured their Super League status for next season with their win at Widnes and that will be the catalyst for their recruitment drive for next season, according to Koukash.
"Everything was on hold until we secured our position in Super League," he said. "Having done that now, it's a matter of finalising the deals.
"I have no doubt that there will be at least six to eight new arrivals."


A witness has told the High Court in Dublin that a police officer stripped naked in a house in Schull, County Cork, and asked her for sex.

Marie Farrell made the claims in a case where former journalist Ian Bailey is suing the Irish state for wrongful arrest.
Mr Bailey, 57, a former journalist from Manchester, denies any involvement in the killing of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier and was never charged.
He moved to Ireland 23 years ago.
Ms Toscan Du Plantier, a 39-year-old film producer, was found beaten to death on a hillside near her remote holiday home in west Cork on 23 December 1996.
The court previously heard Ms Farrell claim the police officer asked her to change her description of a man she saw in Schull in the days before the murder of Ms Toscan Du Plantier.
She said she was told by Det Garda Jim Fitzgerald that they needed to "do something to tidy up" the file for the DPP because the description did not fit.
On Wednesday,  Ms Farrell said that Det Fitzgerald had called to a house she was cleaning in Schull and she went upstairs.
She said when she returned downstairs, he was standing in one of the bedrooms and had stripped naked and asked her for sex.
She said that she swore at him and ordered him out of the house.
She said the incident with Det Fitzgerald happened in the summer of either 1997 or 1998, but that she did not tell anyone until years later.
Ms Farrell denied telling lies, in exchanges with the counsel for the state.
She said she had seen a growth low down on Det Fitzgerald's stomach. "How would I know that was there if I had not seen him naked?"
Ms Farrell said she had only told her husband about this and then told a solicitor about it in recent weeks. She said she did not want to tell anyone about it.
The senior counsel for the state said Ms Farrell was "no shrinking violet when it came to making allegations of extraordinary lewd behaviour by gardaÃ [police]".
He said the incident would be denied by Det Fitzgerald as would another incident she referred to last week involving an encounter with Det Sgt Maurice Walsh in the toilets of a golf club.
Ms Farrell claimed Det Sgt Walsh exposed himself to her and said he was turned on by fitting up Mr Bailey.
The case continues.


The Scottish government's top law officer has argued that Holyrood should be consulted before the UK can begin the formal process of leaving the EU.

The Lord Advocate, James Wolffe, was addressing the Supreme Court as it considers the historic Brexit legal challenge for a third day.
He said devolved administrations were affected by Brexit and should be given a voice before Article 50 is triggered.
His UK government counterpart argued on Tuesday that it was not necessary.
The UK government wants to start the process for leaving the European Union by using existing ministerial powers - the royal prerogative.
It is appealing against a High Court ruling that MPs must be given a vote before Article 50 can be invoked.
The Lord Advocate was given permission to intervene in the case on behalf of the Scottish government, which believes that the distinct Scottish legal system and constitutional traditions mean it is important that the country has a say.
The Scottish government accepts that Holyrood does not have a veto over Brexit, but believes there is a convention enshrined in the most recent Scotland Act in terms of legislative consent.
Mr Wolffe told the court that leaving the European Union would bring about "significant change on the legislative competence of the Scottish parliament and the legislative competence of the Scottish government".
He said: "Ultimately the approach I invite the court to take reflects the proper institutional roles of the UK parliament and the Scottish parliament, in a context where the Scottish parliament has wide legislative competence and the effect of withdrawal from EU would be significant with regard to devolved matters.
"In that context it is constitutionally relevant and significant to know whether the Scottish parliament consents to those effects. It is then for the UK Parliament to decide, in light of the views of the devolved administration, to decide what to do."
The Lord Advocate based part of his argument on the "Sewel convention" of legislative consent, which was later included in the Scotland Act and sets out where Holyrood should be consulted on legislation affecting devolved areas.
The judges questioned whether the convention could be applied as a legal requirement.
The Lord Advocate argued that Sewel is put down in legislation as "part of the law of the land" and should be respected.
The judges also questioned whether the Sewel convention had any impact on the issue before the court, but Mr Wolffe insisted it entitled the devolved administrations to have a voice.
He will continue his submission on Thursday morning.
Addressing the Supreme Court on Tuesday, the UK government's Attorney General for Scotland, Lord Keen, said the Scottish government's case was "fatally undermined" by the fact it does not have powers over foreign affairs.
Lord Keen also said it was "perfectly clear" that the royal prerogative applies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as well as England and its use is a matter for the UK government.
With specific reference to Scotland, he said: "There appears to be clear legal authority for the proposition that there is no material distinction between the foreign affairs prerogative as between Scotland and England."
He added: "All foreign relations and foreign affairs, in particular all our relationships with the EU, are not within the competence of the devolved legislators.
"There is no means by which you can suggest the exercise of the foreign affairs prerogative is in any way impinged or qualified by devolution legislation."
The Welsh government and the Attorney General for Northern Ireland have also intervened in the case, with the Supreme Court judges expected to deliver its verdict in January.


Hosts England were denied bronze as Ireland recovered from going behind to win 4-2 and claim their first ever medal at the EuroHockey Championships.

Shane O'Donoghue sealed victory with a penalty stroke in the final five seconds after England led twice through Harry Martin and Adam Dixon.
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O'Donoghue and Alan Sothern levelled before Eugene Magee put underdogs Ireland in front.
Netherlands beat Germany 6-1 in the gold medal match.
England captain Barry Middleton said his side was punished for not taking their chances.
He added: "We are devastated. We put a lot into the tournament and to come away with nothing is very disappointing.
"We must learn from our mistakes and we know how much hard work we will have to put into the Rio Olympics to achieve the results we want."
Ireland's man of the match Paul Gleghorne said: "We are mixing it with the top teams in the world, teams we aspire to be like and to compete with.
"It is absolutely brilliant to get a bronze. We are delighted."
Ireland, 14 in the world rankings, stunned fifth-rated England by scoring with three of their first four shots.
Despite forcing six short corners, having 16 shots and 68% possession, England were unable to make their pressure tell.


Michael Dunlop set the quickest time in qualifying at the 2016 Festival of Motorcycling for a third night in a row in the Isle of Man.

The Northern Irish racer posted a lap of 123.650mph on his Classic Suzuki XR69 - in the best conditions of the week so far.
Michael Rutter, Ivan Lintin and Dean Harrison and James Hillier all posted laps in excess of 122mph.
Practice will continue on Thursday, with the start of racing on Saturday.
Bruce Anstey completed his first practice lap of the week (113.776mph) in the Lightweight class to sit just one second off Ian Lougher's fastest lap.
Following a red flag incident at Creg ny Baa and a short delay, Conor Cummins posted the quickest lap of the Classic TT session (107.199mph).
Dunlop also topped the Junior Classic timesheets with a lap of 102.082mph.
Isle of Man rider Andrew Dudgeon continued to set the pace in Manx Grand Prix qualification, the Ramsey man posting a time of 117.824mph on the GSX-R Suzuki he will ride in both the Junior and Senior MGP races.
Fellow Manx rider Michael Evans topped the MGP Newcomers A leaderboard with 112.591mph.
Due to a lack of practice time, Manx Grand Prix competitors will have practice on Thursday.
In the Newcomers A session three riders - Andrew Cuthbert (Sarah's), Shaun Wynne (Creg Ny Baa) and James Hinchcliffe (Graham's) - were to taken to hospital after separate crashes.
Michael Dunlop - 123.650mph
Ian Lougher - 113.893mph
John McGuinness - 107.199
Michael Dunlop - 102.082mph
Andrew Dudgeon - 117.824mph


French President Francois Hollande has suggested Russia could face war crimes charges over its bombardment of Syria's second city Aleppo.

Mr Hollande told French TV this could take place in the International Criminal Court (ICC).
He also said he might refuse to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is due to visit France next week.
Last week Russia vetoed a Franco-Spanish UN Security Council resolution calling for an end to the bombing.
Moscow has repeatedly denied attacking civilians, and said it targets terrorist groups in Syria.
Neither Russia nor Syria is a member of the International Criminal Court.
"These are people who today are the victims of war crimes. Those that commit these acts will have to face up to their responsibility, including in the ICC," Mr Hollande told TMC.
"If I do receive him [Mr Putin], I will tell him that it is unacceptable. It could also seriously affect Russia's image," the French president added.
Mr Hollande's call for Russia to be prosecuted came as Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said France was working to find a way for the ICC prosecutor to launch an investigation into attacks on rebel-held eastern Aleppo.
Last week US Secretary of State John Kerry also called for war crimes charges, saying Russian and Syrian government attacks on hospitals were "beyond the accidental" and part of a deliberate strategy.
It is designed to prosecute and bring to justice those responsible for the worst crimes - genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
So far only African defendants have been put on trial.
A number of important countries seem determined not to submit to its jurisdiction of the ICC. Some have not even signed the treaty, such as the US, China, India, Pakistan, Indonesia and Turkey.
Others, including Egypt, Iran, Israel and Russia, have signed but remain dubious and have not ratified.
It is unlikely that alleged crimes against humanity in those states will be prosecuted.
Read more: What does the International Criminal Court do?


China's latest crackdown on those attempting to skirt state censorship controls has seen it warn e-commerce platforms over the sale of illegal virtual private networks (VPNs).

Five websites, including shopping giant Alibaba, have been asked to remove vendors that sell VPNs.
It is the latest in a series of measures from the Chinese government to maintain strict control over content.
Apple has previously been asked to remove VPN apps.
A virtual private network (VPN) uses servers abroad to provide a secure link to the internet. It allows users in China to access parts of the outside world like Facebook, Gmail or YouTube, all of which are blocked in the country.
China's cyber-regulator the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has ordered the websites to carry out immediate "self-examination and correction".
"The CAC has ordered these five sites to immediately carry out a comprehensive clean-up of harmful information, close corresponding illegal account.. and submit a rectification report by a deadline," the regulator said in a statement.
Authorities in China have already taken down popular celebrity gossip social media accounts and extended restrictions on what news can be produced and distributed by online platforms.
As well as clamping down on dozens of local VPNs, the authorities have ordered Apple and other app stores to remove foreign VPN apps that allow users to access websites censored by the Chinese government.


A woman has been left with a head injury after a lorry crashed into a house on Eastern Avenue in Ilford, east London.

The lorry smashed into the building at about 13:00 BST.
London Fire Brigade said it received reports of the lorry first colliding with a car. The lorry driver was initially trapped inside.
BBC reporter Jason Kaye, said: "The cab of the lorry is completely embedded inside the front room of the house."
He added: "A crane inside the lorry has damaged the brickwork on the first floor."
A woman who lives in the house has been taken to hospital with a head injury for assessment, police said.
A section of the A12 has been closed in both directions from the Redbridge Roundabout.


Arsenal cannot "outgun" their big-spending rivals in the transfer market, says chief executive Ivan Gazidis.

The club have made one major signing this summer, buying Granit Xhaka from Borussia Monchengladbach for £35m.
"We can't afford to outgun competitors that have far more money. We have to be very careful, very selective," Gazidis told the New York Times.
The 51-year-old reiterated his support for manager Arsene Wenger, denying it is based on a "sense of nostalgia".
Wenger has overseen 20 consecutive top-four finishes in the Premier League, but the last of his three league titles came in 2004. Some supporters protested at the end of last season, calling for a change in manager.
The Frenchman insisted that the club would "add what we missed" during the transfer window to close the 10-point gap to champions Leicester, but his pursuit of France forward Alexandre Lacazette so far has been frustrated with Lyon turning down a £29.3m offer.
Arsenal were the only club in Europe's top five leagues not to buy an outfield player in last season's summer transfer window. Goalkeeper Petr Cech, signed for £10m, was the only arrival, despite the club having almost £200m in cash reserves.
But Gazidis - who spoke of "an escalation in our financial firepower" in 2013 - claims that the Premier League's large and relatively evenly-shared television deal means money is less decisive than it was.
"The constraints within the Premier League are less and less about pure finances. More relatively important become things like how well you identify players, how well you develop players, what kind of sports science you have, your analytics, your psychology," he added.
"All of these support areas around what we do increasingly become bigger differentiators."


Grants of up to £100,000 are to be made available to support business in West Yorkshire hit by flooding over Christmas.

The West Yorkshire Combined Authority has agreed a total business flood recovery fund of £5m.
It said grants could include cash to repair or buy new equipment, pay to restore flood-hit premises or help with relocation costs.
The fund will be managed by the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership.
The money will come from the area's regional growth fund allocation from the government for 2016/17.
The city region area covers the 10 local authority areas of Barnsley, Bradford, Calderdale, Craven, Harrogate, Kirklees, Leeds, Selby, Wakefield and York.
It is believed around 2,000 businesses were damaged by the flooding in December.
Peter Box, chair of the combined authority, said: "I know how devastating it has been for many small and medium businesses and the knock-on effect for those companies that are suppliers or customers of those flood-hit firms."
Mr Box said he accepted the money would only "scratch the surface" and said the combined authority would continue to press for continuing support for flood prevention measures from the government.
He said the grants, which would range from £5,000 to £100,000, would be in addition to financial support already offered for flood clean-up costs by local authorities.


It's been called the last mile, the last, most difficult stretch of scaling the highest peak, even the last chance.

As hard as it is, nobody wants to be the first to walk away from the best hope in many years to secure a long-term deal with Iran on its nuclear programme.
A readiness to call it quits is still a tactic - and a genuine threat - in the negotiators' toolbox.
But, after a year-and-a-half of intensive negotiations, as well as significant progress, the Iran deal is now seen, by many, as "too big to fail".
"We've come so far that to just drop all this work..." sighed one negotiator whose voice trailed off as he admitted he had not left Vienna's luxurious Palais Coburg hotel for weeks aside from occasional one-day dashes to his capital.
Monday is now a new deadline after a third extension in two weeks. Exhausted negotiators, now talking around the clock,  struggle to strike a balance between brushing off another missed mark in the calendar, while still insisting this process is not open-ended.
A deal to put an Iranian nuclear weapon out of reach for nearly a decade in exchange for a lifting of sanctions is, by all accounts, closer than it has ever been before. But a document said to run to more than 80 pages is exceedingly complex, and controversial. No-one can risk a misstep or misunderstanding in what could be the final stretch.
"We want a deal that stands the test of time," announced US Secretary of State John Kerry when he let the world's press know on Thursday that the last self-imposed deadline of 9 July - a US Congressional deadline - would not be met. He made it clear "we still have difficult issues to resolve".
Such is the sensitivity of a process, with many critics in many capitals, that missing another deadline is seen as a positive.  Negotiators point to another delay as proof that they are not desperate, and won't be rushed into a "bad deal".
Now, with all foreign ministers set to sit around the table again, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius called it the "last 100 metres of the marathon".
"Now that everything is on the table, the moment has come to decide," he declared to journalists manning a thicket of cameras and microphones in place, day and night, behind a metal barrier.
The world's media wait and watch for any and every public statement, personal snippets, or chance sightings on the elegantly sculpted white balconies high above the cobblestones.
Other negotiators have been making similar comments for days, which underlines that some of the toughest decisions now are essentially political ones.
One of the most difficult disputes appears to deal with conventional, not nuclear weapons - the arms embargo enshrined in the UN Security Council Resolutions on Iranian sanctions adopted in 2006.
Iran argues that ending the ban is central to its quest to end its pariah status in the region and restore its national pride.
But the P5+1 is clearly divided. Western countries, mindful of significant regional tensions, have opposed lifting a ban which would allow Tehran to buy and sell arms.
"We have always said this would one of the most sensitive issues," said one senior Western diplomat last week.
Russia and China are known to back Iran's view that the embargo should now end. Russia's foreign ministry even spelled it out in a tweet: "#Lavrov: The arms embargo on Iran must be one of the first sanctions to be lifted."
The emergence of two blocs on a crucial matter led a senior Iranian official to complain that "our friends spend more time co-ordinating their positions than negotiating with us".
"Every country has their own red lines," he told journalists.
This issue, which suddenly reared its head at this late stage, could be a deal breaker in the US Congress which will review any agreement that emerges.
Perhaps not surprisingly, in this high-stakes diplomacy emotions are running high too.
"There was no slamming of doors but it was a very heated exchange of views," was how one senior Western diplomat described some tough exchanges last week over sanctions.
Then there was a much publicised incident between the EU's foreign policy chief and Iran's foreign minister with Federica Mogherini suggesting they may as well go home to which Javad Zarif quickly retorted "don't threaten an Iranian".
A quip from Russia's Sergei Lavrov "or a Russian" then took a bit of heat out of the moment. All sides later made light of it while #don'tthreatenanIranian took on a life of its own on social media.
There was another buzz among journalists when Mr Zarif posted a cryptic tweet which included the phrase "mark my words, you can't change horses in the middle of a stream".
When he then appeared in his white shirt on his white balcony high above the press pack, but close enough to be heard, journalists shouted out "what did you mean?" and received an even more cryptic response.
Later that night, that bit of what journalists now call balcony diplomacy was replaced by an old fashioned face to face briefing with an Iranian official. He spoke with barely concealed bitterness of some "changes of position and multiple positions" at what wasn't the "11th hour, but the 13th or 14th".
Someday, the full story of what has gone on behind tightly closed doors will be told but now the proverbial "first draft of history" is relying on a not always reliable thin stream of background briefings, public statements and shared confidences.
What did John Kerry hear from President Obama in last Wednesday's teleconference? Iranian officials say a very useful proposal that had been on the table was pulled back. "Nonsense," says one US official.
These could be the last hours of Vienna's place in this process.  Weary journalists are watching balcony movements, scrutinising tweets, responding sceptically to every statement which speaks of progress, and mulling over leaks from inside which strike a more pessimistic note.
A deal is now "within reach" but no-one can say with any certainty if, and when, they will reach it.


West Indies fast bowler Miguel Cummins proved Worcestershire's matchwinner as they beat Sussex by 11 runs in another thrilling finish at Hove.

Less than three weeks on from a tense two-wicket win over Northants, Steve Rhodes' side edged another nailbiter.
Resuming on 13-1, an away win seemed a formality at 113-6 before Chris Jordan and David Wiese shared a 114-run stand.
But, when Sussex needed only a further 45, Cummins (5-82) returned to the attack to take the final four wickets.
With Wiese left stranded on 70 that left Cummins, who had taken 7-84 in the first innings, with a career-best 12-wicket match haul.
The visitors were also indebted to Brett D'Oliveira, who ran out Ollie Robinson for 42 off the last ball before lunch with a brilliant piece of fielding at point before then taking a stunning catch for the ninth wicket, Danny Briggs.
Worcestershire's fifth win of the season edges them above Sussex into third, both sides now being 19 points behind second-placed Kent, whose final game is at home to Division Two champions Essex.
Rhodes' side finish their season at home to Derbyshire at New Road next week, while Sussex visit Bristol to face Gloucestershire.
Cummins (12-166) was one of two bowlers to take 10 wickets or more in the match, Steve Magoffin (5-38 and 5-32) having done the same for Sussex, for whom England all-rounder Jordan hit two half centuries (57* and 50).
Earlier in the morning, Worcestershire vice-captain Joe Leach (3-70) had ripped through the Sussex top order to reach 60 Championship wickets for the season.
David Wiese told BBC Sussex:
"The game did ebb and flow throughout. We were kind of down and out when Ollie Robinson was run out just before lunch and we were 113-6.
"CJ and I decided there was no point going into our shells. We wanted to be positive because, if you hung about, you'd eventually get knocked over.
"We put pressure on their bowlers and went through stages when we could score quickly. We complimented each other well and, all of a sudden, it looked like we might win.
"But they took two really good catches and Miguel Cummins kept coming in hard at the end. It was a terrific game. It's just a shame we couldn't get over the line."
Worcestershire director of cricket Steve Rhodes:
"It's a shame one side had to lose and I genuinely mean that. It was a great game and a fantastic advert for Championship cricket.
"I was pleased with the way we stuck at it because when Chris Jordan and David Wiese were batting together I thought that might be it for us - it looked like being the crucial stand.
"But Miguel Cummins has come back and won it for us. To take 12 wickets and keep running in hard as he did was a mighty fine effort.
"Brett D'Oliveira made a big contribution with the run out of Ollie Robinson and the catch to get Danny Briggs out. Sometimes his head drops but he doesn't need to because he is such a good fielder."