The largest shipment of US brigades since the fall of the Soviet Union is arriving in northern Germany.

The first of the 87 tanks and 144 military vehicles were being unloaded in the port of Bremerhaven on Friday.
The equipment and 3,500 US troops are to be deployed along Nato's eastern frontier. The deployment aims to allay worries of potential Russian aggression in eastern Europe.
However, some fear the large number will exacerbate tensions with Moscow.
Leaders of the left-wing regional government of Brandenburg - one of the German states through which the American brigades will be transported over the next two weeks - have called for further talks with Russia.
The arrival of the equipment and troops marks the start of a new phase of the US's Operation Atlantic Resolve, which foresees the continuous presence of an American armoured brigade combat team in Europe on a nine-month rotational basis.
The new forces will gather first in Poland, then fan out across seven countries from Estonia to Bulgaria, while a headquarters unit will be stationed in Germany.
Other Nato members are also increasing their presence in eastern Europe, with Britain sending fighter jets to the Black Sea area, while a battalion of troops, tanks and light armour will deploy to Estonia in the spring, backed by French and Danish troops. Germany also plans to send troops and tanks to Lithuania.


On Tuesday, the Vote Leave campaign published the Department of Health figures, which show that the UK pays an average of £773m a year to other EU countries for the medical treatment of UK nationals, while it receives only £51m a year back for treating EU nationals here.

The campaign concluded that "health tourism from the EU has cost us billions".
This is not the case, because the figures show the amount the UK pays for having its citizens treated elsewhere in the EU, and is not the amount the UK spends treating the citizens of other EU countries.
But is the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign right when it says that ending the current system would force UK holidaymakers to pay the full cost of medical treatment when they fall ill or suffer an accident in an EU country? Would it leave them with a bill of £773m a year?
Treating UK holidaymakers when they get sick or have an accident in another EU country is only one part of the average figure of £773m a year. The sum also includes the cost of medical care for UK pensioners who live in another EU country, and the cost of treatments that the NHS funds for UK patients in other EU countries.
Citizens of all EU countries can get the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC), which entitles them to state-provided emergency medical treatment within the EU country they are visiting.
The treatment received is identical to the treatment the nationals of that country get. The EU country that provided the treatment can claim the cost of it from the home country of the patient. The EHIC covers Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Liechtenstein as well, even though they are not EU members.
The average annual figure of £773m also includes the money the UK pays to other EU countries for providing healthcare to UK pensioners who have retired there.
Under EU rules, each country is required to reimburse the healthcare costs of its pensioners residing in other EU countries. UK pensioners receive an S1 form when they leave the UK, which they then register with the local health authority in the EU country where they end up. The host EU country will provide them with healthcare that is identical to the provision that local pensioners receive, and can then ask the UK to reimburse the cost of the care provided.
There are a few other categories of citizens who may be entitled to an S1 form. Workers paying National Insurance contributions in the UK but working temporarily in another EU country would have their healthcare costs reimbursed by the UK.
The UK does not pay for the healthcare of UK citizens who retire to other EU countries before they reach retirement age, nor for those who worked and lived in the EU country where they retired and have therefore qualified for the pension of that country as well.
Would British holidaymakers have to pay for emergency medical treatment if the UK left the EU? That would not necessarily have to be the case.
The UK already has reciprocal deals with a number of countries, including Australia and New Zealand, under which visitors can receive free urgent treatment. It could agree similar deals with EU countries.
The situation becomes more complicated with the other healthcare rights of UK citizens in the EU, but the final outcome would depend on the post-Brexit deal negotiated.
Reality Check verdict: Not necessarily as the UK could agree reciprocal deals on emergency healthcare like the ones it already has with a number of non-EU countries around the world.
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A number of the new councils have been criticised by the NI Audit Office for not having conflict of interest policies in place after they were given responsibility for planning decisions.

A report also said £1.5m had to be written off when a plan to refurbish the Dundonald Ice Bowl was cancelled.
The redevelopment was proposed by Castlereagh Borough Council, which was merging with Lisburn City Council.
However, it transpired the new shadow council had not given its approval.


Hong Kong has rejected the asylum claims of a group who helped shelter US whistleblower Edward Snowden.

The asylum-seekers, from Sri Lanka and the Philippines, housed Mr Snowden for two weeks when he fled the US after leaking thousands of files.
A government spokesman said that there were no substantial grounds for believing that the claimants would face danger in their home countries.
The group, who are also seeking asylum in Canada, have 14 days to appeal.
The asylum-seekers - a Sri Lankan couple with two children, a Sri Lankan man and a Filipino mother with a daughter - were introduced to Edward Snowden by their lawyer, Robert Tibbo.
He brought him to their homes in 2013 just after the former National Security Agency contractor revealed he had leaked classified information to the press revealing widespread US government surveillance.
The identity of the group, who sheltered him for about two weeks, only became public shortly before the release of an Oliver Stone film about the whistleblower.
"We now have less than two weeks to submit appeals before the families are deported," Mr Tibbo said, calling the decision "completely unreasonable".
There are currently 8,956 asylum seekers in Hong Kong awaiting a decision on their case, according to the Immigration Department.
But the territory only recognised 72 people as refugees between 2009 and December 2016, the South China Morning Post reported in February.
Most spend years in limbo waiting for the government - which is not a signatory to the UN refugee convention, but considers claims for protection on the grounds that those sent home could be tortured - to process their case.
The lawyers for the asylum seekers believe they are being treated unfairly by the Hong Kong government.
The proof? They say the four adults all arrived in Hong Kong at different times, submitted their applications separately and made different claims. Their asylum cases had little in common.
Instead what unites them is that they all fed and sheltered Edward Snowden.
Their main lawyer, Robert Tibbo, told me the fact that all the cases were activated and decided at the same time suggested his clients were singled out because of their relationship with Mr Snowden.
Another one of their lawyers, Marc-Andre Sequin, said their cases had been expedited because their plight had drawn attention to the "embarrassing" way in which Hong Kong treated asylum seekers.
A spokesman for the Hong Kong government denied these accusations.
Marc-Andre Seguin, a Canadian lawyer representing the group in their Canadian application, told RTHK that "clearly there is targeting here and our clients have reason for concern".
Two of the Sri Lankan refugees say they are being illegally pursued by police from their own country who travelled to Hong Kong in late 2016. Sri Lankan police have denied the allegations.
In a statement, the government spokesman said claims the Immigration Department targeted "any particular claimants or categories of claimants is unfounded and not true".
"All claims are screened under the same procedures and requirements, and ImmD [the Immigration Department] has all along been handling each non-refoulement claim professionally in a fair, impartial and efficient manner."


The recent closure of Kids Company brought charities into the spotlight - for all the wrong reasons.

Now is a good time to take stock of the sector, both its problems and the benefits it brings.
There are more than 160,000 charities in the UK.
There are some enormous and well-known charities, such as the British Heart Foundation and British Red Cross, with incomes in the hundreds of millions.
But financial size is not the best way to assess the sector. To look in terms of figures is to miss the point.
The National Trust has a very large yearly income, and holds property of great economic value, but its real significance lies in its long-term contribution to the public good.
Equally, while large charities might have impressive balance sheets, there are countless numbers of small and dedicated organisations, running on shoestring budgets.
This is a vexed question. Charity has a technical legal meaning, the key to which is the legal concept of public benefit.
Unfortunately, public benefit has not been defined by Parliament.
So while many charities operate without controversy, for others there remains a serious disagreement as to whether their work can be described as beneficial.
There is, for example, an ongoing debate about whether independent schools, which have charitable status, contribute to national life or harmfully reproduce social division.
The same is true for religious organisations, and even for poverty charities.
Unfortunately, much of the judge-made law that might otherwise resolve these disputes is old, unclear and complex.
This, in turn, generates legal uncertainty - and work for lawyers.
Modern charity goes hand-in-hand with tax breaks.
Estimates vary, but at the low end, the value of tax relief to the charitable sector is said to be about Â£4.5bn.
That is money lost to government and other welfare purposes.
The state takes a hit because it values charity more than its own spending.
An organisation classed as charitable for tax purposes will not pay on profits from trading, nor on rental and investment income.
It will not pay capital gains tax, nor taxes upon the purchase of property.
Donations can also become tax free.
The Gift Aid scheme permits a charity to claim 25p on every Â£1 donated to it, so as to garner the income tax paid on that money.
With difficulty. Small charities might be run by volunteers who make up in dedication what they lack in knowledge of the rule book.
Inevitably, community grassroots organisations are less intensively regulated than professional outfits with a large and steady income.
England and Wales share a regulator, the Charity Commission, while Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own.
All regulators maintain charity registers, issue legal advice to charity trustees and take enforcement action where there is misconduct.
This is a thankless and difficult task. The number of charities is very large, few resources are available and the law is unclear in places.
Scandal is nothing new in charity. Throughout the 19th Century, concerns were raised about embezzlement and wasted funds.
However, the sector has suffered from a succession of recent bad news stories.
The Cup Trust, a large charity registered by the Charity Commission for England and Wales, was exposed for claiming far more in tax relief than it was spending on its charitable purposes.
Also, the death of Olive Cooke was reported earlier in the year.
Mrs Cooke supported numerous charities and at one point received 267 charity letters in one month, leading to suggestions being hounded for money had pushed her to kill herself.
But her family said, while the letters and phone calls had been intrusive, the charities were not to blame for Mrs Cooke's death.
Most dramatically, the recent closure of Kids Company has exposed the sector to sustained and troubling publicity.
No single identifiable problem unites the news stories, but it would still be wrong to ignore the malaise.
Charities evidently suffer from regulatory problems, particularly the lack of a workable definition of public benefit.
That might be the place to start. Clear law should provide charities with a critical standard to follow.
John Picton is from the Charity Law and Policy Unit at the University of Liverpool.


Free movement of people from the EU to the UK could be extended after Brexit, Theresa May has suggested.

The prime minister said there would be an "implementation" phase once an exit deal had been struck, with business and governments needing a "period of time" to adjust to any new restrictions.
The government insists Brexit will give the UK greater control of its borders.
But Labour said Mrs May's comments showed she was trying to "downplay expectations".
BBC deputy political editor John Pienaar says the comments clearly left open the possibility of free movement continuing, at least temporarily.
Speaking to journalists during her visit to Jordan and Saudi Arabia, the PM was pressed on what would happen if there was a transitional phase after a Brexit deal is reached.
She said: "You've used the phrase transitional phase; I have used the phrase implementation period.
"Once we've got the deal, once we've agreed what the new relationship will be for the future, it will be necessary for there to be a period of time when businesses and governments are adjusting systems and so forth, depending on the nature of the deal - but a period of time when that deal will be implemented."
However, Mrs May said the government would still be in charge of its immigration policy.
"What is crucial for the British public, what was part of the vote that they took last year, was that they want to ensure that we have control of our borders and control of our immigration," she said.
"That's exactly what we will do when we come out of the European Union."
By John Pienaar, BBC deputy political editor
Nagging questions about the future after Brexit continue to follow the prime minister at home and abroad.
The shape of future immigration policy is high on the list. One key change, Mrs May said, would be that borders and immigration policy would be under British control.
That clearly left open the possibility of free movement continuing, at least temporarily.
She did not endorse talk in Brussels of a transitional period of maybe three years. But the tone of ministers discussing immigration policy has changed.
Suggestions of a sharp cut in EU migration after Brexit has given way to caveats and qualification.
The rhetoric and slogans of the EU referendum and its aftermath have passed - now Mrs May and her ministers are preparing the ground for the give-and-take and compromises involved in their mission to deliver success and stability outside the EU.
Mrs May was also asked about when she expected a new trade deal to be finalised with the EU, after European Council president Donald Tusk made clear one could only be agreed with non-members - meaning the UK would have to wait until after it had left.
She told Sky News: "There's obviously a legal situation in terms of how the EU can conduct trade negotiations.
"I'm clear that by the point at which we leave the EU, it's right that everybody should know what the future arrangements, the future relationship, that future partnership between us and the European Union will be.
"That's the sensible thing, it's the pragmatic way to look at this, and I believe that's what we will do."
Labour's Brexit spokesman, Paul Blomfield, said: "It is less than a week since the prime minister triggered Article 50, and it seems every day brings another broken promise.
"They need to spell out the transitional deal that will be in place, to stop the economy falling off a cliff edge without new agreements in two years' time."
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For nearly 75 years BBC staff at a sprawling stately home on the outskirts of Reading have been listening in to some of the world's most seismic events, from Nazi Germany's occupation of Europe to the death of Stalin and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Since 1943 Caversham Park has been the home of BBC Monitoring, whose offices still summarise news from 150 countries in 100 different languages for the BBC.
But after a Â£4m funding cut, the remaining journalists, academics and translators are to leave the country estate for new offices in London.
As the international newsgathering service enters a new chapter of its life, BBC News examines how Caversham Park shaped the news agenda in the mid-20th Century.
The monitoring service began at the outbreak of war with Germany in 1939, with its primary purpose to inform the War Office of propaganda by Nazi-controlled media outlets and the broadcasts of other Axis Powers.
It initially set up camp in shacks around Wood Norton, Worcestershire, but by 1943 the service had commandeered Caversham Park, which was at the time being used as a hospital.
The recorded history of the site goes back to the Domesday Book, when it was inhabited by relations of William the Conqueror, but by the 20th Century it was being used by the Catholic Oratorians as school. By 1941, the premises had been transferred to the BBC.
Monitoring staff at Caversham would transcribe and summarise 240 broadcasts into an 80,000-word document called the Daily Digest. This was swiftly delivered to London by war despatch drivers.
BBC Monitoring played a key role in tapping communications made by Hellschreiber (a kind of teleprinter) from Nazi Germany's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels to newspaper and radio networks. A site outside London was chosen in part because it was less likely to suffer bomb damage.
By the end of the war 1,000 people worked at Caversham Park helping to provide the War Office and BBC journalists with up-to-date information from Axis Power news agencies.
People of many nationalities worked at the monitoring station, including German-Jewish refugee Karl Lehmann, whose family fled Nazi rule.
He said: "It was a very sociable place to work, in fact staff would often come in on their off days and eat in the canteen, which greatly eased the effects of rationing.
"There was a library in the building, and the park - so a pleasant place to spend a day off. In fact the building was almost like a club and the service was like one big family - even though there were nearly 1,000 of us here in total, from monitors to engineers and editors.
"We were all totally united in the one aim of winning the war."
Shortly after the end of Word War Two the service halved to about 500 members of staff, and attentions were turned to the burgeoning threat of the Soviet Union. The service covered the Soviets' invasion of Hungary in 1956 and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961.
It played a key role in the Cold War, monitoring the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis as the USA and Soviet Union came close to nuclear conflict.
In 1962 President John F Kennedy told Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to dismantle Russian missile sites in Cuba or "face the consequences".
BBC Monitoring listened in to Khrushchev's response, which was broadcast on Moscow radio.
He said: "The Soviet government has ordered the dismantling of the bases and the despatch of the equipment to the USSR. I appreciate your assurance that the United States will not invade Cuba."
Monitoring contacted the White House through its US counterpart before Kennedy received Khrushchev's official response.
Author and journalist Michael Smith worked at Caversham Park initially as an engineer, and then as a journalist in the 1980s until 1990. He said: "I'm sure [BBC Monitoring] were part of it and important. At that stage their ability to know what was coming from Russia was tremendous."
He added: "We were able to report on global news without being on the front line; it really crossed the divide between news and intelligence-gathering.
"I remember being the duty editor and news of the fatwa on Salman Rushdie came through from [Iranian] radio. At that time no-one in England knew what a fatwa was."
BBC Monitoring still listens in on radio transmissions from around the world, as well as translating and analysing print journalism in 100 different languages, but the journalists and academics now have the added task of scouring the internet for news.
In 1991 the Berkshire-based listening post heard a live broadcast of Somali rebels taking over a government-run radio station in Mogadishu at the outbreak of the country's civil war.
Monitoring also analysed the fall of Gaddafi during the Libyan Civil War by listening to medium-wave radio signals and using satellites to watch TV broadcasters in the country.
Throughout World War Two and the Cold War, little was known of BBC Monitoring and it was heavily financed by the Ministry of Defence and Foreign Office, as well as the World Service.
But in 2010 during licence fee negotiations, it was decided that BBC Monitoring would be funded by licence fee-payers. Currently it employs 320 staff in all corners of the globe, but the one constant that has remained for nearly 75 years is its base in Reading.
For more than half of the 20th Century, staff at the idyllic country house eavesdropped on the world, but shortly that will be no more.
Mr Smith said: "It's a tremendous shame that we're getting rid of it."


When Rangers met Albion Rovers in the Ramsdens Cup early this season, the teams had just swapped leagues.

Rangers had effectively replaced the relegated Coatbridge outfit in the third tier of Scottish football.
But July's 4-0 win for Ally McCoist's under-strength team demonstrated a gulf in quality on the park, while the switch of venue to Livingston underlined the different realms in which these clubs operate.
Now these worlds collide again as they prepare to meet at Ibrox next month with a place in the Scottish Cup semi-finals at stake.
There may only be one division separating the sides but their respective campaigns make for a stark contrast.
Rangers are coasting at the top of League One, unbeaten and victorious in 22 of their 23 games. Albion Rovers are seventh in League Two, with 31 points from 23 games.
So, Rangers have picked up more than double the points on offer.
Albion Rovers experimented with a "pay what you can" scheme in January, with a crowd increase of 125% and gate receipts up 160%.
Supporters and visiting fans were asked to fork out what they could afford for a ticket, with a minimum £1 entry. The attendance for the 1-0 win over Montrose? 718.
The mean league crowd at Cliftonhill this season has been 420, so the Wee Rovers players might want to wear earplugs when they get to Ibrox - with 42,844 turning up on average this term.
So, Rangers have more than 100 times the home support.
Rangers have lifted the Scottish Cup on 33 occasions, the last of those triumphs coming in 2009.
Albion Rovers have never won it, although they did get to the final in 1920, losing out to Kilmarnock 3-2 in front of a 95,000 crowd at Celtic Park.
And how did they get there? Well, they beat Rangers in the semi-finals after a second replay.
The Rovers trophy room has plenty of room for expansion, with two title successes from Scotland's lowest tier to their name.
Rangers' silver polish bill is much higher, having celebrated 55 league-winning parties, 27 League Cups and a European Cup Winners' Cup as well as those Scottish Cup victories.
So, Rangers have won 58 times the number of trophies (sorry, the Lanarkshire Cup doesn't count).
Nicky Law, who scored twice in July's 4-0 win, earns more in his weekly wage packet than the whole of Rovers' part-time squad put together. The Ibrox salary bill is estimated at between £6m and £7m per annum.
Ally McCoist recently signed off on a 50% pay cut, reducing his earnings to £415,000 a year.
When Albion Rovers won promotion to Division Two via the play-offs in 2011, players were reported to be picking up £50-a-week.
So, Rangers spend a WHOLE LOT MORE.
Rangers are currently listed as second favourites for the Scottish Cup by the tournament's sponsors, with odds of 10/3. You can get 200/1 on Albion Rovers, who haven't been this far in the competition for 80 years.
The bookmakers are seldom wrong but football can always throw up a surprise.
After all, Rovers took care of Premiership Motherwell in the fourth round, thanks to a last-minute shot from Gary Phillips. And Philips was on target again as Stenhousemuir, from League One, were beaten 2-0 on Saturday.
Rangers swept aside Dunfermline to reach the last eight and knocked out Falkirk in the previous round but they have suffered a cup shock this season, losing after extra-time to Forfar in the League Cup.
July's head-to-head in Livingston was the first one in more than 30 years, with the last Scottish Cup clash between the sides ending 6-2 in Rangers' favour back in 1982.
The last time the teams met in the same league was in season 1948/49, with Rangers winning 4-1 and 3-1 in what was the highest of two divisions.
But, of course, Rovers can draw on that prolonged Scottish Cup semi-final from 1920 for inspiration and one solitary league success three years later.
The great Rocky Marciano was born in 1923 and Rovers will need to summon the strength and courage of the legendary boxer to stand any chance of going the distance at Ibrox.
Those in charge of the Albion Rovers website wrote on Saturday: "Match report to follow. We're off to the pub!"
In the event of a highly unlikely away win in the next round, that website may take a day or two to update...


Peter Mawanga feels that it is high time the world was exposed to the riches of Malawian music.

10 May 2013 Last updated at 03:18 BST
While many of his countrymen play reggae or other musical styles borrowed from elsewhere, he and his band, the Amaravi Movement, make music inspired by traditional Malawian rhythms and instruments.
Known in his country as "the voice of the voiceless", Mawanga has a strong social conscience and is not afraid to speak out on behalf of the poor.
He ruffled feathers with his first hit Amakhala ku Blantyre which suggested that city dwellers who visit villages may not be as rich as they seem - they may have borrowed their fancy clothes.
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Up to £9m is to be made available to help support steelworkers hit by the latest round of job cuts at a plant in Scunthorpe.

Tata Steel announced on Tuesday it was shedding 900 jobs at its North Lincoln Road site.
The company has pledged £3m to help create jobs in the town and another £6m will be provided by the government.
Statutory redundancy costs are not included in the package and would fall to the firm to fund.
The Community union, which represents the majority of those affected, said the plans were "putting the cart before the horse."
"Although any support for steel communities is to be welcomed, there is still a consultation process to go through and no worker will be redundant until that is completed," said general secretary Roy Rickhuss.
"Community is focused on looking at the rationale behind the proposals and all possible alternatives that will save jobs. It will be challenging, but all parties should be focused on the consultation."
Karl Koehler, chief executive of Tata Steel's European operations, said it was a "challenging time" for employees.
"We are committed to doing everything in our power to support those impacted and... we will help create new jobs in the affected local communities."
The industry blamed cheap Chinese imports for a collapse in steel prices.
The axing of jobs at Scunthorpe comes just weeks after the announcement that Redcar's SSI steel plant is being mothballed, with the loss of 1,700 jobs.
A financial package of "up to £80m" is being provided by the government to support workers and local businesses.
Tata's funding package is being matched by the government, which is also providing a separate £3m fund to help retrain affected workers.
Business Secretary Sajid Javid said: "The government has no intention of simply standing aside whilst the steel industry faces global challenges on a scale unprecedented in recent years.
"We will do everything we can to help workers and to ensure a level playing field for the industry."
Ministers have asked Baroness Liz Redfern, leader of North Lincolnshire Council, to help co-ordinate the programmes.
Tata is providing an additional £1.5m to support job creation in steel communities in Lanarkshire, around its Dalzell site in Motherwell and Clydebridge site in Cambuslang.


England were denied just their second win over Germany after conceding two late goals to lose in the SheBelieves Cup in the United States.

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The Lionesses held a deserved half-time lead after Toni Duggan's flicked header from Alex Greenwood's right-wing cross.
Germany levelled when England defender Gilly Flaherty unluckily diverted a low cross past keeper Karen Bardsley.
The European champions nicked a barely-deserved win when Babett Peter coolly tucked in a controversial penalty.
England's second straight defeat at the new international tournament, which features four of the best five ranked teams in the world, ended their hopes of an unlikely triumph.
A narrow 1-0 defeat in their opener against hosts United States, the current world champions, left them with a difficult task to win the round-robin group competition.
But the World Cup bronze medallists looked set to keep their hopes alive as they led Germany until the 76th minute.
With most of the English players still in pre-season mode before the summer Women's Super League season, Germany's superior match fitness began to tell in the final stages.
However, that had little effect on the two slices of misfortune that took the game away from Mark Sampson's team.
England recorded their first win over Germany - at the 21st attempt - in last summer's World Cup third-place play-off, then followed it up with a hard-fought 0-0 draw in Duisburg in November.
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The Lionesses again showed they could compete for long periods against Germany, but they were undone by the decision to wrongly penalise Fara Williams, who was making her 150th international appearance.
Williams, who scored the winning penalty against Germany in the World Cup, appeared to win the ball from forward Alexandra Popp, who fell after kicking the England midfielder's foot.
"It is incredibly tough to take," Sampson told BBC Sport.
"Two games in a row we have stonewall penalties not given to us and a ridiculous penalty given against us. The officials aren't good enough.
"It is frustrating because there were lots of good things in that game for us but we haven't quite got over the line. The decision cost us."
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England play their final game against France, who are also winless after losing 1-0 to the US earlier on Sunday.
The teams battle to avoid finishing bottom of the group when they meet on Wednesday (22:00 GMT) in Boca Raton, Florida.
The match will be live on the BBC Red Button and BBC Sport website, with coverage starting at 21:50 GMT.
The US and Germany meet after the England game has finished to determine who will win the tournament.


Archaeological remains at wetland sites across the world could be at risk of being degraded and lost to environmental change, say scientists.

University of York researchers carried out experiments demonstrating how changing conditions in wetlands were destroying ancient organic material.
Their work focused on the Mesolithic site of Star Carr in North Yorkshire.
Concern about Star Carr was raised after excavations in 2006 to 2007 showed that materials had broken down.
The site, dated to about 9,000 BC, became famous precisely because of the preservation of material found buried deep in the peat when it was discovered in 1948.
Those discoveries included more than 20 red deer antler headdresses that were thought to be used in shamanic rituals. Other organic material, including fossils and pollen, allowed scientists to reconstruct the environment - building up a picture of Britain just after the end of the last Ice Age.
But the 2006 dig, by York and Manchester University researchers, revealed "jelly-like" demineralised bone samples and wood that was flattened and crumbly. This caused scientists to question whether such precious materials would be safe if they were left in situ.
Dr Kirsty High, lead researcher on the project, explained that environmental changes had altered the chemistry of the site.
"The main thing that preserves wetland sites is the lack of oxygen," she told BBC News. "At Star Carr, it is that the water table has dropped."
This has brought in oxygen, which has reacted with sulphur compounds in the peat to produce sulphuric acid and this "highly acidic environment" destroys previously preserved organic materials.
The researchers recreated this geochemistry in fermentation buckets in their laboratory. They buried bone and wood samples in separate buckets of sand, garden compost and Star Carr peat for a year, and found that the materials decayed very quickly in their "micro-wetland".
"If you had another site where the water table had dropped, the same thing could happen. Sulphur is present in a lot of different soils and mineral types," Dr High explained.
The scientist added that, fortunately, most of the important material was excavated from Star Carr between 2010 and 2013.
"We don't think it would survive much longer if it was left there," she said.
"But in the Vale of Pickering - the whole area - there is quite a lot of archaeology. And there are obviously a lot of other wetland areas in the UK that have a lot of archaeology like the Somerset Levels and the East Anglian Fens [that could be at risk]."
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A government scheme designed to boost the housing market could lead to a new price bubble, Business Secretary Vince Cable has warned.

The Lib Dem minister has called for a rethink of plans to provide government guarantees for low-deposit mortgages beginning in January.
He said there were already signs of "serious housing inflationary pressures" in parts of the country.
But Downing Street said the plan would remove "obstacles" to aspiring buyers.
The Help to Buy Scheme, announced in March's Budget, is designed to help first-time buyers get on the property ladder and enable existing homeowners to "trade up" to larger properties by giving banks greater confidence to lend.
Under the second phase of the scheme, the government will guarantee a proportion of the loan for purchases of up to Â£600,000 for those able to put down a deposit of between 5% and 20%.
The assistance, championed by Chancellor George Osborne, will be available for three years.
Some economists have questioned whether such a major government intervention in the mortgage market - on top of existing equity loans for first-time buyers - is justified, saying it may lead to an unsustainable increase in prices.
Recent indicators have suggested that prices are already increasing at their fastest rate for almost seven years - boosted by competitive mortgage rates and continuing imbalances of supply and demand.
Mr Cable told Sky News that ministers should "certainly think about how it [Help to Buy] should come into effect, indeed whether it should come into effect in the light of changing market conditions".
"We don't want a new housing bubble," he added.
"In many parts of the country it clearly isn't a problem. If you are in Northern Ireland or Wales or indeed the East Midlands you would wonder what all this is about,"
"But certainly in London and the South East, in the north-east of Scotland, in other areas, there are serious housing inflationary pressures."
The chief executive of Barclays, Antony Jenkins, has said he is concerned about the potential for a "property-driven boom" and although the Bank of England is monitoring the state of the market carefully, "these things can be difficult to control".
But No 10 said the scheme would go ahead as planned.
"We are faced with a situation - because of the fall in availability of 90 to 95% loan-to-value mortgages - where many first-time buyers are faced with a real obstacle to making a home of their own," a spokesman said.
"It is important we address this issue."
In an upbeat speech on the economy earlier in the week, Mr Osborne said 95% mortgages were not "weapons of mass financial destruction" but legitimate products that enabled those who could not save enough for a larger deposit to buy a home.
Mr Cable has suggested an "uncontrolled" rise in house prices is one of the risks to a sustainable long-term economic recovery but the Council of Mortgage Lenders has described the pace of housing activity - compared with pre-2007 boom levels - as "moderate".
Speaking at a CBI conference at Warwick University on Wednesday, Mr Cable said there were clear signs the economy was beginning to pick up but the upturn would only be "meaningful" when business had the confidence to increase levels of investment.
He also warned against complacency "generated by a few quarters of good economic data".
The CBI's director general, John Cridland, said there was "gathering momentum" in the economy but more needed to be done to correct the "profound economic imbalances which built up during the boom years", including developing a "coherent" industrial strategy.


Ricky Walden moved into the final of the Players Championship with a 6-3 win over Barry Hawkins in Manchester.

World number 11 Walden took the first frame, and although Hawkins won the second with a 119 break, Walden moved into a 4-2 lead.
A clearance of 87 put Walden within one frame of victory, but second seed Hawkins cut his lead to 5-3.
Walden clinched the win on the pink in the ninth frame, and will play either Shaun Murphy or Mark Allen.


World Rally Championship driver Elfyn Evans will fight for a podium at Wales Rally GB and potentially for his future with his M-Sport team.

The 26-year-old finished a career-best second in his Ford Fiesta in the French round in October, his second podium of the season.
Evans is seventh in the Championship standings but his future is unclear.
"We will see what comes and will look with what happens next year afterwards," he said.
"There has been a lot of chat about it [my future], but really to be honest nothing has changed.
"At the beginning of the year I wasn't in a position with a contract for next year anyway.
"There has been a lot of speculation, I don't see how one rally can change everything, but for sure we want to do our best for myself and the team and it's the team's home event."
M-Sport managing director Malcolm Wilson has yet to make a decision on his drivers for next year, with Evans' current deal expiring at the end of 2015.
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But Wilson admitted that a good result in the Wales Rally GB will help the Welshhman when the team hold contract talks at the end of the World Rally Championship.
"I am not making a decision on drivers until after this event but in real terms if he has a great result here then that will help, but ultimately that's not going to be the final decision," said Wilson.
"There is a lot of other stuff going on that is related to the whole business, and that is why I have not been making  a decision, but it's not to say I am not  going to have Elfyn in the team next year,.
"But we have got so much other stuff going on behind the scenes and the programme being extended to extra events - it is how we work out the resources."
Dogellau-born Evans, alongside co-driver Daniel Barritt, took part in the ceremonial start in Llandudno on Thursday evening ahead of Friday's first stage.
The son of former British Rally champion Gwyndaf Evans is in his second WRC season and was fifth in last year's Wales Rally GB.
"It's been a bit of a mixed and difficult year for us but there's plenty of positives to draw from it as well," Evans added.
"We're hoping for the chance to come back and build on that next year.
"In terms of competitiveness and stage times we've come leaps and bounds but maybe the results don't quite reflect that for various reasons."
Evans is back in Wales for the final round of the World Rally Championships, which Frenchman Sebastien Ogier won for a third year running in September.
Ogier has tipped Evans and Northern Ireland's Kris Meeke to do well at Wales Rally GB, which starts in the forests of mid-Wales on Friday.
"It's always been a special event," Evans said.
"You can still enjoy it at the same time and it's a pretty strange feeling rallying at home after spending 12 rallies away all over the world.
"It feels good coming back to familiar stages and familiar conditions. We're sure to enjoy this weekend."


Part of the Settle-to-Carlisle rail line damaged by a 500,000-tonne landslip is scheduled to reopen on 31 March, it has been announced.

The stretch at Eden Brows, between Carlisle and Armathwaite, closed in February following heavy rain and Network Rail launched a Â£23m scheme to underpin the line.
Hundreds of concrete-filled steel piles are being driven into the bedrock.
Rail replacement buses are currently running between Carlisle and Appleby.
A steel, tunnel-like structure will sit beneath the railway, 230ft (70m) above the nearby River Eden, to provide a stable base across the damaged ground.
Two rows of high-strength piles in the sloping bedrock will form a corridor on which a 100 metre-long (328ft) concrete slab will provide a base for new tracks.
The popular tourist route usually carries about 1.3m passengers each year.
Paul Barnfield, regional director at rail firm Northern, said it had been a "difficult" time for its customers.


Fans of writer Truman Capote will have the chance to get their hands on an unusual and particularly macabre piece of memorabilia - his ashes.

The ashes were owned by Johnny Carson's ex-wife Joanne, who was one of Capote's closest friends and who died last year.
Capote, whose seminal books included In Cold Blood and Breakfast At Tiffany's, died in Carson's home in 1984.
After his death, Joanne received a portion of his ashes, which have been valued up to $6,000 (Â£4,500).
"[Joanne] often said the ashes brought her great comfort," according to Julien's Auctions, who will offer the macabre memorabilia for sale on 24 September.
Capote was a frequent guest on Johnny Carson's Tonight show, which led him to become "best buddies" with Joanne Carson, as she later described it.
He often lived and wrote at Carson's Los Angeles home until his death. Joanne told Vanity Fair in 2012: "He had a writing room in my house - he spent a lot of time here because it was a safe place and nobody could get to him."


A female osprey has returned to an RSPB Scotland reserve in the Highlands for its 14th season.

The migratory bird of prey nicknamed EJ is known for having drama-filled breeding seasons at Loch Garten near Grantown on Spey.
So eventful are some of EJ's stays that RSPB Scotland has come to describe them as a "soap opera".
With a little help from EastEnders' various plot twists, BBC News Scotland online looks at the feathered soap.
EJ has been a regular visitor to Loch Garten since 2003.
Her endurance - the bird flies more than 3,000 miles (4,828km) from West Africa to breed in Scotland - and determined and often tragic efforts to raise young has made her a favourite among the reserve's staff.
Julie Quirie, who works at the site's visitor centre, said of EJ's latest return: "I had just arrived at work for my first day of the season, threw open the flaps at the centre, and there, sitting on a branch, eating a fish was EJ. She had just arrived, having completed her epic flight from the far south.
"It may seem strange. But even after eight years working at Loch Garten, the return of the ospreys still brings a lump to my throat."
EJ has raised a total 23 chicks at Loch Garten, mainly with her regular partner, a male bird known as Odin.
Many of her chicks have successfully fledged.
But sadly, in 2008 and then in 2009, a young male and a young female she reared died after migrating from Scotland.
The male called Deshar died after he made what the RSPB described as a "navigational error" and he missed landfall in the Azores and carried on out to sea.
His sister, Nethy, died the following the year in Africa.
Shortly after laying eggs six years ago, EJ was forced to defend her nest against a rival female.
Reserve staff monitoring CCTV images watched anxiously as the eggs rolled around the nest as the pair scuffled.
EJ eventually managed to fight off the other bird, but during the same season feathers flew again when she had to ward off a kestrel, a pair of crossbill and a redstart interested in using her nest.
Before Odin, EJ's long-term mate was Henry.
But in 2009, staff at the reserve became concerned about VS, an older rogue male with a record for disrupting breeding seasons.
In that season of seven years ago, EJ returned to Loch Garten before Henry and mated with VS.
When Henry arrived he knew the eggs in the nest were not his and kicked them out, destroying the eggs.
Complex relationships have been a hallmark of the breeding seasons at Highlands reserve,
Back in 2007, EJ incubated two separate clutches to rival males but they all perished.
And there were similar problems last year.
Jess Tomes, of RSPB Scotland, said: "Last year was like something out of a soap opera at Loch Garten.
"Both EJ and Odin were present but we had an interloping male osprey visiting the nest attempting to ingratiate himself with EJ while Odin was away on hunting trips.
"The rival male actually kicked Odin and EJ's eggs from the nest! In the end things got so torrid that the birds failed to raise a family for the first time in years."
She added: "This year we are hoping for plainer sailing and a happy osprey family.
"With EJ back home our thoughts are turning to Odin. Will he reappear? Will other male ospreys try to get in on the act? Life is never dull at Loch Garten."
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A Japanese woman who murdered three lovers in a so-called "black widow" case faces execution after the Supreme Court rejected her final appeal.

Kanae Kijima, now 42, met the three men, aged 41, 53 and 80, online in the Tokyo area in 2009.
Motivated by financial gain, she poisoned them with carbon monoxide after giving them sleeping pills.
It could take years for the hanging of Kijima, who has married twice since being caught, to be carried out.
The death penalty is supported by the majority of the Japanese public.
Kijima burned charcoal briquettes to generate the carbon monoxide when poisoning the men. She killed all three within an eight-month period in 2009.
Her defence team had argued it was probable the men had taken their own lives.
The prosecution case was largely based on circumstantial evidence. Prosecutors said she killed the men so she would not have to pay back the money they had given her.
A court found her guilty in 2012 and the judge said there could be no room for leniency.
The sentence won overwhelming public support in a case that has generated massive interest. More than 1,000 people queued for fewer than 50 seats to hear the original verdict.
The Supreme Court has now backed the ruling that she killed Takao Terada, 53, Kenzo Ando, 80, and Yoshiyuki Oide, 41. An earlier appeal was thrown out by the High Court in 2014.
Kijima, who writes a blog from her detention centre, said in a post on Thursday: "I hope to see you again somewhere someday."
She has changed her surname to Doi while on death row.
In a similar case, 70-year-old Chisako Kakehi is awaiting trial for the alleged killing of several men.
The term "black widow" derives from the female spider that eats its partner after mating.


New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady will not continue to fight his four-match "Deflate-gate" ban.

The 38-year-old could have gone to the US Supreme Court after his bid to overturn the suspension was rejected by a United States appeals court.
But Brady announced on Facebook that he would "no longer proceed with the legal process."
He was punished by the NFL for his role in a scheme to deflate match balls to give his side an advantage.
Brady, who will miss the first four matches when the new season gets under way in September, denies he or the club did anything wrong during an NFL play-off game.
In his Facebook post, he said it had been a "challenging" 18 months but added he would work hard "to be the best player he can be" on his return to action in the autumn.
Brady was originally suspended in 2015 and was unsuccessful in his first appeal but the decision was later overturned by a federal court.
However this suspension was restored by the Court of Appeal in April after it was challenged by the NFL.


The 2014 National Eisteddfod is under way in Llanelli, the sixth time the town has hosted the event in its modern form.

The Welsh-language cultural festival is expected to attract around 150,000 visitors to the Carmarthenshire area.
The town last held the nine-day August festival of music, dance, visual arts and original performances and other cultural events in 2000.
An opening gala took place on Friday evening.
The eisteddfod alternates between north and south Wales each year and Llanelli was chosen as host in 2012.
Fund-raising for the event locally has already smashed its Â£320,000 target, reaching Â£400,500.
Garry Nicholas, eisteddfod president and a local Llanelli resident added: "I believe this may be the largest total ever raised as a local fund, and it is a great credit to the people of Carmarthenshire and Wales."
Meanwhile, the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) has warned that local government reorganisation could have an impact on future funding for the Eisteddfod.
The Williams Commission, set up by the Welsh government, has recommended the 22 councils should be merged to between 10 and 12.
All local councils currently agree to contribute a set amount each, which is worth a total of Â£370,000 - or 9% - of the eisteddfod's annual income.
Dyfed Edwards, Gwynedd Council's leader and WLGA spokesman on the Welsh language, told BBC Wales any council mergers would require a new agreement.
"Certainly you would need a new contract, because there would be new councils," he said.
"At the moment we should not expect a reduction because we can spread the burden between 22 authorities. But I would say that there is a risk of losing that investment only if there is a campaign for more money."
Radio presenter Roy Noble, chair of the Welsh government's task force which looked at future funding for the eisteddfod, said he hoped the council grant would at least be maintained post reorganisation.
"We don't know which councils will be merged. I know it's a difficult time for all with services being cut but I hope that they will not use this as a reason to not pay their share."
Eisteddfod chief executive, Elfed Roberts, said the matter had not been discussed because everybody was "waiting to see what happens if reorganisation does happen".
He added: "I've got a lot of faith in the relationship which we have with the WLGA.
"It's based on trust, it's based on partnership and I suspect that we will have a discussion and we will come out of it still remaining friends."
This year's festival is taking place on a 35-acre (14 hectare) field or "maes" with the focus of cultural activities in a pink pavilion with six pointed towers.
One of the highlights is the annual chairing of the bard ceremony, when a unique chair, or throne, created by a local carpenter, is awarded for the best poem written in a traditional form of Welsh verse using a strict metre.
The gold medal for architecture is awarded on Saturday to Cardiff-based Loyn and Co for an environmentally-sustainable home in a remote part of Gower.
The judges called Stormy Castle a "spectacular architectural response to both the brief and the site".


A decision that a spelling mistake led to the collapse of an engineering firm can be appealed, a judge has ruled.

Companies House recorded Taylor & Sons as being wound up in 2009 when it was Taylor & Son in difficulty.
Former co-owner Philip Davison-Sebry, of Cardiff, is now at the centre of an £8.8m case against Companies House.
Last year's ruling said the error caused the company to go into administration but a High Court judge ruled on Wednesday it can be appealed.
In January 2015, Mr Justice Edis found Companies House owed a duty of care when entering a winding up order to take reasonable care to ensure it is not registered against the wrong company.
He said Taylor & Sons had proved the reason it went into liquidation was because of an error made by Companies House.
Now, government lawyers have been granted permission to challenge that decision in the Court of Appeal.
Taylor & Sons dated back to 1875 and more than 250 people lost their jobs when it went under.
The error was rectified within three days but in the mean time, the false information had spread online.
The company said word had already got around, resulting in orders being cancelled and credit facilities being withdrawn.
Paul Rees QC, for Companies House, argued the judge's decision set a dangerous precedent for the future, "opening the door" to similar claims.
Lady Justice Arden said: "Clearly this case has wide implications and there are compelling reasons why an appeal should be considered."
She described what happened to Taylor & Sons through no fault of its own as "most unfortunate".
No date was given for the full hearing of the appeal.


Ollie Hynd and Andrew Mullen won gold medals for Britain at the IPC Swimming European Championships in Madeira.

Hynd's win - in the SM8 200m individual medley - was his second of the event and came on a day Britain also took three silvers and two bronze medals.
"It's special to have claimed the title again," said the 21-year-old. "It's the third time in a row I have got the European title in that event."
Scot Mullen, 19, took gold in the S5 200m freestyle.
He said he was "pretty pleased", adding: "It's the second fastest time I have ever gone and I am sure I can go quicker this season."
Hynd also teamed up with Matt Wylie (S9), Josef Craig (S8) and Lewis White (S9) to finish second in the 34-point 4x100m freestyle relay, and there were silvers too for world champion Jessica-Jane Applegate in the S14 100m backstroke and Rebecca Redfern in the SB13 100m breaststroke.
Ellie Robinson and Claire Cashmore both set personal bests as they won bronze in the S6 100m freestyle and S9 100m butterfly respectively.
Zara Mullooly also swam a personal best in the S10 50m freestyle final but could only finish seventh.


A train drivers' union has lost a legal battle to overturn a court injunction preventing its members from striking over driver-only trains.

The High Court has barred Aslef from inducing Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) drivers to take industrial action.
Aslef had argued new trains on Gatwick and Southern services were less safe.
Mr Justice Supperstone said the injunction would last until claims Aslef had acted unlawfully had been analysed at a trial.
A date has been set for a hearing on 27 June.
GTR claimed the union had breached rules by already calling upon its members to participate in industrial action.
They also said the union had wrongly balloted drivers who would not be asked to drive the new trains.
Aslef disputed the claims and said the imposition of an injunction barring industrial action in the wake of a ballot would be "oppressive".
Mr Justice Supperstone rejected the union's complaint.
He said: "The potential disruption and inconvenience to the general public and damage likely to be caused by the industrial action significantly outweighs the suggested harm to the union."


A memorial to a Norfolk businessman and councillor has been unveiled.

A bench in Hunstanton has been dedicated to Richard Searle, chairman of Searle's Holiday Resort, who died in March aged 66.
The tribute is part of a Â£136,000 facelift at Seagate to provide new paving, lighting, trees, traditional seating and an information board.
Councillor Elizabeth Watson said: "We are delighted that it has been completed in time for the main season."
A further seat has been dedicated to the memory of Mr Searle's parents, Geoffrey and Margaret, who set up Searle's Sea Tours.
"Searle's has been influential in Hunstanton for many years, and their passion and dedication has helped to ensure that the town has continued to grow and develop and that visitors continue to visit each year," said Ms Watson.
The improvement scheme was officially opened by MP Henry Bellingham on Wednesday.


Ten years after a flagship scheme to redevelop Swansea city centre collapsed questions are still being asked about what can be done to improve Wales' second city.

Castle Quays was planned to be the biggest rebuilding project in the city centre since the three-day blitz during World War Two and make it a leading shopping destination fit for the 21st Century.
But after several false starts, issues over buying land, the developer and an anchor tenant pulling out, the plans - first mooted in 1994 - were scrapped in 2004.
Since then the respective ruling councils have struggled to find an alternative option, with the most recent falling through last year when the firm behind a planned Â£1bn transformation pulled out.
Today, the state of the city centre today is evident.
Empty shop units, major retailers leaving, and a feeling that it has fallen further behind other cities in the UK.
Some have launched a defence on the state of the city saying it is a trend affecting many city centres and point the finger at out-of-town retail outlets along with online shopping and the global financial crisis.
But when you look at the likes of Cardiff, Birmingham, Bristol and Liverpool, those cities have gone through major transformations in recent years and are thriving.
"Castle Quays was a hugely missed opportunity," said Lawrence Bailey, who was leader of Swansea council when the scheme collapsed.
"The plan was to put a third of the city centre under cover in a similar shopping mall to St David's in Cardiff.
"But Swansea has got a real battle on its hands now."
So much so, it seems, that the current ruling authority has drafted in experts to help take the city forward.
One of them is Prof Ken Maher, a leading Australian architect who has helped transform Sydney, which he said has also suffered from failed plans.
"Swansea has got great potential," said Prof Maher.
"It's had some challenges like many cities in the last few decades but it seems to me it has some great natural assets around the city, a close connection to the beach and it's got a city centre that needs revitalisation.
"The two cities (Swansea and Sydney) have the same challenges but there are parallels in what they face.
"Bringing life and safety back into the centre of the city is one of the principal challenges.
"Following that is a shift on the quality of public spaces in the city and then public transport. These are all interlinked in a way."
Prof Maher said a key aspect of Sydney's current 20-year plan was to have year by year targets and for developments to be sustainable.
So what next?
The group of experts held their first meeting on the way forward for Swansea last month.
And Swansea council leader Rob Stewart is honest about the challenge that lies ahead for all who are involved.
"Swansea has fallen way behind other cities and is punching well below its weight at the moment," he said.
"I don't want to replicate cities like Cardiff or Birmingham. We need to keep it different. The city centre is not as attractive as it should be.
"The amount of people living in the city centre is too low. We also don't have enough of the right quality, right size shops and office space in the city centre.
"When we build it has to be a much wider mix. The development should be an all day and all night development.
"I don't want to be the person that has created another plan. What's different this time is that we've got a city region in place and for that to be successful Swansea city has to be viable and successful."
Knocking down buildings to make way for new developments has already begun with part of the failed St David's shopping centre replaced with a temporary car park until a suitable replacement is found.
Those in charge know something needs to happen soon. What will 2015 bring?


Cheltenham Town midfielder Kyle Storer has been banned for four games after the club's appeal against the red card he received in Saturday's 0-0 draw with Mansfield in League Two was rejected.

The 29-year-old's 18th-minute dismissal was his second red card of the season.
The former Kidderminster man was also banned for the first eight games of this term, after an alleged bite on an opponent during the previous campaign.
Cheltenham are 18th in League Two, seven points above the relegation zone.


The European television rights for the Olympic Games have been awarded to Eurosport and its parent channel in a 1.3bn euros (Â£922m) deal.

It means the BBC could lose coverage of the Games in the UK from 2022, although Eurosport's parent company Discovery may lease back some of the rights.
The European rights are currently split up, country by country.
The deal will be effective for most of Europe from 2018, and in France and the UK from 2022.
Discovery and Eurosport confirmed they will develop a new Olympic TV Channel across Europe.
Media watchdog Ofcom lists the Olympics as a category A event, which must have live coverage made available to free-to-air channels.
In a statement, Discovery said it was committed to broadcasting a minimum of 200 hours of the Olympic Games and 100 hours of the Olympic Winter Games on free-to-air television, during the games period.
Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee, said: "The revenue generated from this long-term partnership will be redistributed by the IOC across the Olympic Movement to support the development of sport around the world."
The BBC had in previous years been awarded the rights as part of a deal between the IOC and a group of public broadcasters across Europe.
If the BBC wants to broadcast the Olympics in future it will now have to negotiate with a rival broadcaster, Discovery.
The BBC said the Olympic Games remain "a priority" and that it has already secured the TV, radio and online rights to the next three Games in 2016, 2018 and 2020.
It will be "seeking further discussions with Discovery about the UK free-to-air rights to the 2022 and 2024 Olympic Games in due course".
"More than 90% of the UK population watched the BBC's coverage of London 2012 and it remains one of the most popular free-to-air, sporting events for UK viewers," the BBC said.
"It is not unprecedented for sports rights to be sold on a pan-territory basis, and the BBC has acquired other sports rights via sub-licensing deals with either agencies or broadcasters," it added.
In a conference call with the BBC, Mr Bach, said:  "Public broadcasters have played a significant role in spreading the Games and broadcasting the Games... (but) Eurosport has contributed a lot to this in the past.
"In Great Britain, BBC has the rights to 2020. There is ample time before 2022 and 2024 to have discussions with Discovery about their cooperation. This deal at the moment is not excluding anyone, but it is showing a new broader approach to Olympic broadcasting."
The first Olympics to be broadcast on the BBC came from London in 1948. Since then, it has broadcast the Games continuously since Rome 1960.
The 2016 Olympics will be held in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and the 2018 Winter Olympics will be Pyeongchang, South Korea, while 2020's event will take place in Tokyo, Japan.
The host city for the 2022 Winter Olympics will be announced at the end of July.


Irish police (An Garda Síochána) have said they are satisfied that the Garda Commissioner's computer devices are secure and were not compromised when she was deputy commissioner.

A senior garda officer told RTÉ News that he communicated with Nóirín O'Sullivan on official business through a commercial email account when she was deputy commissioner.
Gmail accounts are set up by the garda's IT section on official garda phones and iPads but should not be used for official business.
The senior officer told the Irish broadcaster that he sent Ms O'Sullivan an official report on at least one occasion.
The officer said on another occasion he received an email from Ms O'Sullivan from the same email address on a separate garda matter.
The Sunday Times first reported that Ms O'Sullivan had been using a private email account to send and receive official correspondence.
When Ms O'Sullivan was deputy commissioner in charge of operations, she was responsible for all crime and security matters as well as state security and intelligence.
RTÉ News said it had seen a print out of an email from 2013 when Ms O'Sullivan was deputy commissioner but said it did not appear to relate to any of these sensitive matters but to another area of garda policy.
When contacted by BBC News NI, a garda spokesperson said: "An Garda Síochána has strict security controls in relation to the use of and access to Garda IT systems.
"Devices issued to the commissioner are secured by secure connections and utilise strong encryption technologies.
"Access to the Pulse database on any Garda Síochána devices is segregated by secure containers which does not store any garda data on the device. This is coupled with strong users password policies and strong authentication."
The Pulse (Police Using Leading Systems Effectively) system used by Irish police is intended to store all the information available to the force and to track the progress of crime investigations.
The Department of Justice said it had nothing to add to the garda statement.
The Policing Authority said while it had not received any information from An Garda Síochána it would follow this up with the force and brief itself during the week.


London's key share index edged ahead on Thursday, led by BA-owner International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG), travel firm TUI and HSBC bank.

The FTSE 100 closed up by 14 points or nearly 0.2% at 7,248.10.
HSBC reported a 19% fall in first-quarter profits, but the drop was not as big as expected, and its shares ended 2.8% higher.
Fashion retailer Next saw the biggest decline, finishing 5.1% lower after it reported falling sales.
Shares in IAG had gained 2.97% by the end of trading, while TUI had risen by 2.92.%.
Shares in Shell were up nearly 0.5% after it reported a sharp rise in first-quarter profits, helped by higher oil prices.
Elsewhere though falling commodity prices hit shares in mining companies.
On the FTSE 250 copper miner KAZ Minerals ended as the worst performer, down 10%. Vedanta Resources dropped by 6.9%, and gold miner Hochschild Mining lost 3.8%.
The UK's fourth-largest supermarket chain, Morrisons, reported another quarter of healthy sales growth, but after a bright start to trading the shares fell back and finished 1.9% lower.
But the worst performing shares in the FTSE 100 were those of fashion retailer Next.
Rival Marks and Spencer also saw its shares shed 2.5%.
On the FTSE 250, shares in Ladbrokes Coral were down by 4.3% at the close after it reported a 2% drop in UK net revenues at its betting shops.
The bookmaker said tougher trading on the High Street had led to a 7% fall in bets made over the counter, although this had been offset to some extent by an increase in revenues from machines in its shops.
Revenues from online betting jumped 22%, helping total group revenue to rise 5%.
On the currency markets, the pound rose 0.4% against the dollar at $1.2921, but fell 0.4% against the euro to 1.1774 euros.
The price of a barrel of the benchmark Brent Crude oil fell to its lowest level since November - it was down 3.8% at $48.85. Brent crude prices tumbled 2.8% to $49.13.
Earlier the Kremlin said no decision had been made on whether Russia would extend oil cuts into the second half of 2017.


The ex-boyfriend of footballer Adam Johnson's sister has been jailed for abusing the disgraced player's victim on Facebook.

Steven Knox, 30, waged an online smear campaign against the teenager after the ex-England winger was convicted of engaging in sexual activity with her.
In a string of posts, he uploaded photos of the 15-year-old, branding her an "attention seeker" and a liar.
Knox, who has a child with Johnson's sister Faye, was jailed for 16 weeks.
On 3 March, a day after the former Sunderland player was convicted, Knox posted two photos of the girl on his publically-viewable Facebook profile, which had 3,000 friends.
He admitted harassing the girl and causing her alarm or distress by urging others to share the posts, despite police warnings to stop.
Jim Hope, prosecuting, said Knox had posted a pictures of pound notes, with a photo of the victim partially obscured by a football, and the comment: "Guess who this is."
"The prosecution case is that he is encouraging others to share pictures and as a consequence, revealing her identity further," he said.
Durham Police issued him with a harassment warning on 11 March, explaining that the girl, who has lifelong anonymity as a victim of a sex crime, must not be identified.
But on 21 March, a relative of the victim told her there were a further 12 images of her on Knox's Facebook page.
One post was shared almost 1,000 times by the time the victim saw it.
Sentencing him at Peterlee Magistrates' Court, District Judge Katrina Harrison said it was a "very troubling case".
"The bottom line seems to me that if people are allowed to get away with what he did in this particular case, it's pointless having the rule of law," she said.
In a victim impact statement, the schoolgirl said she felt the trial judge's promise of life-long anonymity had been ignored.
Richard Rogers, defending Knox, said: "He apologises profusely, through me, to the young lady and wishes it had never happened."
The judge also imposed an indefinite restraining order.
Johnson was jailed for six years in March for grooming and sexual activity.


A teacher from Chester performed a rendition of Ave Maria in a cave during a school trip.

18 February 2016 Last updated at 12:55 GMT
The acoustics in Llechwedd Slate Caverns in North Wales prompted Claire Palmer to sing to the group.
Cave guide, Storm Bate, recorded her performance.


Swansea City manager Paul Clement says he will have "a conversation" with Chelsea captain John Terry about the possibility of signing him.

Former England skipper Terry, 36, will leave the Premier League champions at the end of the season.
He captained Chelsea to an FA Cup and Premier League Double in Clement's first season as assistant to then manager Carlo Ancelotti in 2008-09.
"I don't know his thinking, whether he is going to carry on," Clement said.
"I will have a conversation with him. I've known him a long time."
Terry made his senior debut for Chelsea in 1998, and Sunday's home Premier League game against Sunderland could be his final appearance for the club.
"There's been talk in the media it could be his last game or that he will go on," Clement said.
"Whether that is here in the Premier League, or whether that is abroad, that is all unsure at the moment."
Swansea's Premier League rivals Bournemouth are also reported to be interested in signing Terry, should he carry on playing.
Meanwhile, former France and Chelsea midfielder Claude Makelele is to become a permanent part of Swansea's coaching staff.
The 44-year-old, brought in until the end of the season following Clement's appointment in January, is now set to sign a long-term deal.
"All the terms have been agreed, he just needs to sign," said Clement. "We are very happy Claude is gong to be staying on.
"He is very well-liked by all the staff and the players. He brings great experience of what it is like to play at a very high level.
"He and all my backroom staff have been fantastic."


Pop star Robbie Williams says he is "gutted" that BBC Radio 1 no longer plays his records.

"I'm very ambitious," he told BBC Radio 4's Mastertapes programme. "So when Radio 1 goes and is taken away from you, a huge bit of your arsenal goes."
"It's your main oxygen to get your stuff out there."
Radio 1 failed to put Williams' number one single Candy on their playlist last year, but his recent collaboration with Dizzee Rascal did make it on the air.
The star's new swing album, Swings Both Ways, is unlikely to be a fixture on the station.
Radio 1's breakfast DJ Nick Grimshaw previously said Williams, 39, was "not relevant" to his target audience of 15-29 year olds.
"I liked Take That when I was little, but I'm not little anymore," he told Five news.
"I don't know if he's now for a Radio 1 audience."
The station's music policy chief Nigel Harding has also said rock groups Green Day and Muse may have outgrown the station.
"The last Green Day project simply wasn't good enough," he told trade magazine Music Week.
Muse, meanwhile "are approaching a crossroads" - their last single was the first one not playlisted by Radio 1 in a decade.
"The door remains open to them but we'll have to think carefully about their next album."
'Over-sensitive'
Speaking to John Wilson, Williams admitted he was jealous of the younger pop stars who are guaranteed airplay, including One Direction's Harry Styles.
"He's talented, he's good looking. He could have it away," said Williams.
"And I'll be sat here saying 'damn him'.
But, he continued, "everybody who's anybody has been competitive and over-sensitive and a bit silly".
"Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase."
The Mastertapes series looks at a classic album in depth -  in this instance Life Thru A Lens, Williams' debut record.
Released in 1997, the album featured the hit singles Angels and Let Me Entertain You.
In the wide-ranging interview, he discussed how the album was recorded in the depths of the alcohol-fuelled depression that followed his exit from Take That.
Co-writer Guy Chambers recalled how Williams was often "too drunk to make it" to recording sessions.
"We were often trying to get him to do the vocal for Angels," he said. "That went on for weeks."
Williams also revealed that he could no longer take to the stage without a lyric sheet, after forgetting the words to Angels on a live edition of The X Factor in 2009.
"It caused a chink in the armour," he admitted.
The third series of Mastertapes will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November.
Other guests include David Crosby, discussing his solo debut If I Could Only Remember My Name, and Soul II Soul, on 1989's influential Club Classics Vol 1.
Edwyn Collins and Natalie Merchant also take part.
Recorded at the BBC's Maida Vale studios, each artist also plays live tracks from the album under discussion.
Mastertapes: Robbie Williams A-Side will be broadcast on Monday, 11 November at 23:00, the B-Side programme will follow on 12 November at 15:30.


Britain's Sir Bradley Wiggins failed in his bid to win the prestigious Paris-Roubaix one-day race as Germany's John Degenkolb sprinted to victory.

Wiggins finished 18th, in a bunch 31 seconds behind Degenkolb after a 151-mile race across northern France.
Riding in his final race for Team Sky, the Olympic and World time-trial champion tried to race clear 20 miles from the finish but he was caught.
Degenkolb won a six-man sprint in Roubaix's open-air velodrome.
"It is the race I've always dreamed of winning," said the Giant-Alpecin rider after becoming the first man since Ireland's Sean Kelly in 1986 to win the Milan-San Remo and Paris-Roubaix classics in the same year.
"This is unbelievable. My team was there all day to hold the situation under control until I could start. I was not afraid to fail and that was the key."
Despite failing to match the ninth-place finish he managed last year in the race last year, Wiggins was content with his final day in Team Sky colours.
"I am pretty happy. I didn't have one puncture, one crash, I was just pleased to come through it," he said.
"I was trying not to think about it, but there were so many people coming up to me in the race saying 'have a nice life' and stuff.
"It was really nice that all these guys that you have been bashing heads with through the years coming up to congratulate you on your career.
"I just kissed [Team Sky team principal] Dave on the forehead, told him we've gone through a lot together."
No British rider has ever won the notoriously tough race, which features 27 sections of cobbled roads and Wiggins had made it his big target for this season before leaving Team Sky to set up his own team.
It was a fitting finale for Wiggins, who was among the first riders to join Team Sky for its inaugural season in 2010.
The 34-year-old, who became the first Briton to win the Tour de France, in 2012, and also won the 2013 Tour of Britain, to add to his time-trial victories, was in contention in the closing stages.
He broke clear of the main bunch of riders on a cobbled section and formed an alliance with Stijn Vandenbergh and Zdenek Stybar of Etixx-Quick-Step and Jens Debusschere of Lotto Soudal.
However, the quartet was deemed too dangerous to be allowed to stay clear by the rest of the peloton which worked hard to catch them.
Several attacks followed in the closing stages before Belgian duo Greg van Avermaet, who rides for BMC, and Etixx-Quick-Step's Yves Lampaert broke free and were joined by Degenkolb.
The trio did not work well together though, with the Belgians fearing Degenkolb's sprint, and they were caught by several other riders before they entered the velodrome.
Degenkolb then kicked in on the final bend and raced clear to win from Stybar and Van Avermaet.
Luke Rowe, a Team Sky team-mate of Wiggins, was the first Briton home in eighth, 28 seconds behind the winner.
Geraint Thomas, who was Sky's other main rider, had a torrid day with a couple of early punctures before clipping a kerb and crashing.
Fellow Briton Adam Blythe had been among a nine-strong breakaway group early in the race, which was briefly thrown into chaos when a level-crossing barrier came down.
Several riders, against the race rules, rode around the gates before a policeman stepped in to stop them, seconds before a TGV rumbled past.
Paris-Roubaix result:
1.  John Degenkolb (Ger/Giant) 5hrs 49mins 51 secs
2.  Zdenek Stybar (Cze/Etixx-Quick-Step) Same time
3.  Greg Van Avermaet (Bel/BMC Racing)
4.  Lars Boom (Ned/Astana)
5.  Martin Elmiger (Swi/IAM Cycling)
6.  Jens Keukeleire (Bel/Orica)
7.  Yves Lampaert (Bel/Etixx - Quick-Step)        +7secs
8.  Luke Rowe (GB/Team Sky)             +28secs
9.  Jens Debusschere (Bel/Lotto)                  +29secs
10. Alexander Kristoff (Nor/Katusha)               +31secs


A Belarus official who carried a Russian flag into the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games has been banned from the competition.

The official violated the International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) ban on political gestures.
Belarus' neighbours Russia are banned from the Games following state-sponsored doping.
"A hero has appeared amongst us," said Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for Russia's Foreign Ministry.
"This is the person who showed solidarity with people who were disgracefully treated in an inhumane way in not being allowed to compete at the Paralympics," Zakharova told Interfax news agency.
The official, identified by Russian media as Andrei Fomochkin, has had his accreditation for Rio cancelled by the IPC.
IPC head of media Craig Spence said: "I'd like to thank the media for ensuring there was a picture of the individual on Twitter pretty quickly. We managed to locate that individual and confiscate the flag pretty much within 20 minutes of the flag being displayed.
"It's seen as a political protest because he carried a Russian flag when he's in the Belarus delegation, and when you've got the president of the Belarus National Paralympic Committee being so vocal in the media before these Games saying he disagreed with our decision, then it's a pretty easy conclusion that it was a political protest.
"We check all teams before they go out into the stadium at every single Games, so that flag was pretty well hidden on that person because all of the Belarus team was searched before they went out and the flag was somewhere on the person that we didn't notice."
Fomochkin has received support from Belarus for his gesture.
"This was the right thing," Dmitri Mironchik, press secretary for Belarus's Foreign Ministry, told RIA Novosti. "If we need to answer for these gestures, then we will answer."


A diary kept by President John F Kennedy as a young man travelling in Europe, revealing his fascination with Adolf Hitler, is up for auction.

Kennedy, then 28, predicted "Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived".
"He had in him the stuff of which legends are made," he continued.
Kennedy wrote the entry in the summer of 1945 after touring the German dictator's Bavarian mountain retreat.
It is thought by historians to be the only diary ever kept by the 35th US president.
The original copy will be auctioned for the first time on 26 April in Boston by longtime owner Deirdre Henderson, who worked as a research assistant for Kennedy while he was a US senator with White House ambitions.
He wrote that Hitler "had boundless ambition for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him".
The 61-page diary was kept by Kennedy around four months after Hitler committed suicide.
At the time, the young American was touring Europe as a newspaper reporter after finishing his military service aboard a ship in the Pacific Ocean.
Some two decades later Kennedy would address crowds in West Berlin as US president.
He gave Ms Henderson the diary in order to inform her of his views on foreign policy and national security, she said.
In a description of the auction, she wrote: "When JFK said that Hitler 'had in him the stuff of which legends are made', he was speaking to the mystery surrounding him, not the evil he demonstrated to the world."
"Nowhere in this diary, or in any of his writings, is there any indication of sympathy for Nazi crimes or cause," she continued.
The diary also contains JFK's thoughts about the British election and Winston Churchill, who Ms Henderson called his "idol".
The winning bid is expected to be around $200,000 (Â£160,000).


The "magnificent" beard of socialist thinker Friedrich Engels has inspired a climbing wall sculpture in Salford.

The 16ft (5m) beard statue - a "symbol of wisdom and learning" - will stand on the University of Salford's campus.
Arts company Engine, who are behind the piece, said the idea came from a 1980s plan to relocate an Eastern Bloc statue of the thinker to Manchester.
Engels, who wrote The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx, lived in the area from the 1840s onwards.
The sculpture will depict the nose and whiskers of the father of Marxist theory and be situated on the university's Peel Park campus in 2016,
It features a climbing wall at the front, stairs to the rear and a viewing platform at the top, from which climbers can admire the view across Salford.
Engine's Jai Redman said the work used Engels' "signature magnificent beard as a symbol of wisdom and learning", while the climbing aspect came from a desire to make it an "interactive piece".
"We're aren't interested in making 'a hero on horseback', [which is] something Engels would have been horrified by.
"Engels' Beard is a metaphor for how it is an effort and a struggle to pull ourselves out of ignorance [and] a direct representation of how all philosophers 'stand on the shoulders of giants'."
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica
He said Engels had been chosen as "a great socialist, thinker and a philosopher, a local historical figure and a champion of the working classes", who dealt with issues still "alive and real" today.
"There is a huge issue in Salford and Manchester, where wage inequality and mass poverty is being seen on levels not experienced here since Engels' time."
The idea had come from an "audacious" plan to relocate a statue of the thinker to nearby Castlefield Basin in the mid-1980s, which "attracted broad support, but failed to materialise when no suitable sculpture could be found", he said.
The plan was documented in former Hacienda DJ Dave Haslam's book, Manchester, England, where Redman first saw it.
He said that ever since, he had been waiting for "a good opportunity" to create the statue.
Haslam said the climbing wall was "bizarre and hilarious" but appropriate as "we should not be precious about Engels".
"Engels had a sense of fun. He used to go drinking in Manchester," he said.
"Landlords knew him and his friends, and he'd play jokes and get into scrapes."
The University of Salford's art curator Lindsay Taylor said she was "delighted that even before work has begun on Engels' Beard, it has engaged public imagination".
"All great art should provoke and encourage debate. It is entirely appropriate for the university as a place of learning to be involved with commissioning new art on educational subjects."
Engine said there were no plans to create an accompanying Karl Marx beard sculpture, but added they were "approaching authorities in Germany to perhaps site the other side of his face in Munich".


Wales lock Luke Charteris is out of their Six Nations opener against Italy in Rome on Sunday as Bath team-mate Taulupe Faletau awaits a fitness test.

Faletau has been battling with a knee injury while Charteris has a fractured bone in his hand.
However, forwards coach Robin McBryde said both players are likely to be fit when Wales host England on Saturday, 11 February.
Coach Rob Howley will name his starting squad for the tournament on Thursday.
McBryde said: "Luke Charteris has picked up a slight fracture in his hand so he's been ruled out of this weekend, but hopefully he'll be fit for the following week."
Scarlets' Jake Ball, Newport Gwent Dragons' Cory Hill and Ospreys' James King and uncapped Rory Thornton are in contention to partner captain Alun Wyn Jones at lock against the Azzurri.
Faletau's fitness test will take place on Wednesday with Gloucester's Ross Moriarty a stronger contender to start in the middle of the back-row if the ex-Newport Gwent Dragon is ruled out.
McBryde was asked if 26-year-old Faletau was in contention to play in Rome.
He replied: "For this week? No, I think it will be too early this week."
McBryde believes the competition for second and back-row places is strong even with Charteris out and his expectation that Faletau will not go to Rome.
"Jake Ball was bitterly disappointed after the autumn with the injuries and illnesses etc," said McBryde.
"But he's gone back to the club and worked on his game and he's put in some telling performances for the Scarlets.
"And it's the same with Cory Hill and Rory Thornton - there's five [locks] there who are asking questions of each other."
If Faletau fails to come through his fitness test, McBryde says Wales have plenty of back-row options.
As well as Moriarty and the highly-experienced open-side flankers Sam Warburton and Justin Tipuric, uncapped duo Tom Young and Ollie Cracknell are making an impression in training, he said.
"Olly and Thomas are new faces in the back row and it keeps everybody on their toes," he added.
"We're in a healthy place at the moment whoever gets the nod I'm sure they'll perform on the day."


Beavers should be re-introduced to England to improve water supplies, prevent floods and tackle soil loss, a researcher says.

New results from a trial in Devon show muddy water entering a beaver wetland is three times cleaner when it leaves.
The farmers' union, NFU, warns that beavers brought back to Scotland have damaged fields and forestry.
But Prof Richard Brazier, who runs the Devon trial, says farmers should thank beavers for cleaning up farm pollution.
Unpublished preliminary results from his tests for Exeter University showed that a pair of beavers introduced six years ago have created 13 ponds on 183m of a stream.
The ponds trapped a total of 16 tonnes of carbon and one tonne of nitrogen - a fertiliser that in large quantities harms water supplies.
During heavy rains, water monitored entering the site has been thick with run-off soil from farm fields - but the soil and fertilisers have been filtered out of the water by the network of dams.
"We see quite a lot of soil erosion from agricultural land round here (near Okehampton)," he told BBC News.
"Our trial has shown that the beavers are able to dam our streams in a way that keeps soil in the headwaters of our catchment so it doesn't clog up rivers downstream and pollute our drinking and bathing waters.
"Farmers should be happy that beavers are solving some of the problems that intensive farming creates.
"If we bring beavers back it's just one tool we need to solve Britain's crisis of soil loss and diffuse agricultural pollution of waterways, but it's a useful tool."
He said beavers could also play a part in natural flood protection. "The public is currently paying people to build leaky dams to keep storm waters in the uplands," he said. "The beavers can do it free of charge and even build their own homes. They are busy as beavers. It's a no-brainer."
Another soil expert, Professor Jane Rickson from Cranfield University, is yet to be convinced about the multiple benefits of these hard-working, continental night workers.
She told BBC News any beaver dams must be "leaky" - so they don't hold back large volumes of water that might be released all at once in an extreme flood event.
She agreed that in some places the UK was suffering a crisis of soil loss, and said new policies were urgently needed.
But, she said, beavers might reduce the river channel, increasing the risk of flooding - or, in areas of poor cover, they might remove vegetation, expose soil and thus increase erosion.
A spokesperson from the Environment Agency was also lukewarm about beavers, saying: "Natural and hard flood defences both have an important role in keeping communities safe - though introducing beavers does not form part of our approach."
The authorities are wary of mass beaver re-colonisation of England, following the controversy over beaver re-introduction in Scotland - where they are now protected species after a trial by the Scottish government.
In Tayside, some land owners have angrily complained about beaver damage to commercial forests and fields, and others objected to the Â£2m cost of the trial.
The NFU's Mark Pope told BBC News that the right policies must be put in place for any widespread beaver re-introduction in England.
"The knowledge of the impacts beavers have had to farmland, riverbanks and flood defences in Scotland is concerning. We await the (formal) results of the Devon trial and will analyse the outcomes then," he said.
Prof Brazier said the benefits of beavers would become more clear over time.
Meanwhile, Mark Elliott from Devon Wildlife Trust told BBC News the two beavers in north Devon had massively improved the habitat for other wildlife.
He said: "They have been marvellous. In 2011 when we put the beavers in, we had 11 clumps of frogspawn in the wood; this year we had 681. Obviously that supports herons and grass snakes that are feeding on the frogs.
"We shouldn't be surprised - beavers were part of our landscape and so many creatures evolved alongside them."
Beavers were hunted to extinction in the UK for their pelts and for a gland near the anus which produces a secretion that was used in traditional medicine.
The Cornwall Wildlife Trust has joined with a farmer to bring back beavers in the hope of controlling storms flows into the flood-prone village of Ladock. They are trying to raise cash for the project through crowd-funding.
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Valtteri Bottas led Lewis Hamilton to a Mercedes one-two in second practice at the British Grand Prix but the Finn will receive a five-place grid penalty.

Bottas, who was quickest by just 0.047 seconds, has suffered the same gearbox problem that hit his team-mate at the Austrian Grand Prix last weekend.
Mercedes have changed the gearbox and, as it has not done the requisite six races, that means an automatic penalty.
The team say the problem is now "understood and contained".
It means the highest Bottas can line up for Sunday's race is sixth, even if he is fastest in qualifying on Saturday.
The 27-year-old was quickest in both practice sessions on Friday - although Hamilton set his fastest time on the slower 'soft' tyres because he had an off-track moment through the fast Becketts section on his qualifying simulation run on the super-soft tyres and then pitted to check for damage.
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Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen was third, 0.332secs behind Bottas, 0.128secs ahead of team-mate Sebastian Vettel.
The German is 20 points ahead of Hamilton in the championship after nine of 20 races heading into this weekend and Hamilton has made it clear he sees it as important to start clawing back some of that margin.
Hamilton would almost certainly have been quickest had he completed the lap on which he lost control at the final right-hander in Becketts - as many drivers did through the day.
He was on course to be about 0.3secs quicker than Bottas had he completed that lap.
And on the race-simulation runs later in the session, Hamilton was lap-for-lap about 0.2secs quicker than his team-mate - and the Mercedes had an advantage over the Ferrari.
"I definitely feel great," said Hamilton. "Driving around the track today has been incredible, seeing the fans, every time I go out I get to wave to the fans, and that is one of the greatest feelings when you see them and the response you get."
Red Bull had looked quick in the first session - splitting the Mercedes and Ferraris - but fell back slightly in the second session to be fifth and sixth, Max Verstappen ahead of Daniel Ricciardo.
Nico Hulkenberg impressed for Renault to set seventh fastest time, 11 places and 0.9secs ahead of team-mate Jolyon Palmer.
Felipe Massa's Williams was eighth, ahead of McLaren's Fernando Alonso, who is expected to have a new engine fitted overnight that will lead to the Spaniard starting from the back of the grid, and Force India's Esteban Ocon.
Raikkonen and Toro Rosso's Carlos Sainz were the other drivers to lose control at Becketts.
Raikkonen spun at the same place as Hamilton's incident, but managed to extricate the car from the gravel without any damage, while Sainz lost his car earlier in the sequence of bends and had a high-speed spin across the grass, losing a fair portion of the session as the car was cleaned up.


Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (Hial) has reported that its passenger numbers rose to a new record level last year.

It said it handled a total of 1,606,168 travellers during 2016, an increase of 154,375 passengers on the 2015 total of 1,451,792 passengers - a rise of 10.6%.
Hial operates sites in the Highlands, Western Isles, Orkney, Shetland, Argyll and Dundee Airport.
Inverness Airport is one of the busiest of its 11 airports.
Its connections to airports in London and continental Europe helped Inverness to achieve a figure of 796,854 passengers in 2016 - 118,171 more than in 2015.
However, Hial said passenger numbers declined at Wick John O'Groats and Stornoway in Lewis due to reduced demand from energy sector services to and from Aberdeen.
Campbeltown recorded a "narrow fall" in annual passenger numbers of 1.1%.
Hial managing director Inglis Lyon said: "We are delighted to report that the overall passenger numbers continue to rise.
"This clearly illustrates the value of our services to the communities they serve and proves there is strong demand for ever greater connectivity to and from the Highlands and Islands.
"Our regional airports have a key role to play in strengthening Scotland's economy and offering great choice for leisure and business passengers."
He added: "We will continue to invest in our airports, work in partnership with the airlines and destination airports, and further develop our customer service as we attract new business and look to cement our growth in the future."


A woman was injured in what police believe was a "targeted" robbery at a house in Inverness.

Money was stolen in the incident in Oldtown Road which happened at about 21:30 on Saturday.
Three men who may be able to assist officers with their inquiries have been sought by Police Scotland.
They were walking in the area at the time of the robbery and were wearing dark trousers and similar dark blue fleeces.
Police said the woman suffered minor injuries in the incident.
Det Insp Maggie Miller said: "We are appealing to the public for information in relation to this incident which will obviously be of concern to the local community.
"We believe that the incident may have been targeted and would appeal to anyone who saw anything unusual or suspicious in the area at the time to contact us.
"In particular we would like to trace three men who may be able to assist us with our inquiries.
"They would have been walking in the area at the time and are all described as wearing dark trousers and similar dark blue fleeces."