Southampton reached the EFL Cup final at Wembley with a fully deserved victory over two legs against Liverpool - crowned by Shane Long's late winner at Anfield.

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Claude Puel's side, defending a 1-0 lead from the first leg, should have put the tie out of Liverpool's reach inside the first 45 minutes but Dusan Tadic's close-range shot was blocked by keeper Loris Karius and captain Steve Davis blazed another great chance wildly over.
Liverpool raised the tempo in front of the Kop in the second half but Daniel Sturridge wasted their two best chances, Fraser Forster acrobatically hooked an Emre Can shot off the line and the hosts also had a late penalty appeal turned down when substitute Divock Origi tumbled under Jack Stephens' challenge.
But Southampton broke clear in the closing moments and Long finished convincingly from Josh Sims' pass to send them into the their first final in this competition since 1979, where they will meet either Manchester United or Hull City - a feat achieved without conceding a goal.
Southampton's date at Wembley on 26 February is a rich tribute to this brilliantly run club and their understated French manager Claude Puel.
Saints were vastly superior over two legs against Liverpool and, despite the home side's complaints about that late penalty claim, no-one could seriously begrudge them their victory.
And it was all done without their talisman and key defender Virgil van Dijk, out through injury. Southampton were dangerous on the break in the first half and then, when they needed to be, were superbly organised, disciplined and determined defensively before breaking for Republic of Ireland international Long to strike the killer blow.
Southampton have once more demonstrated their ability, as a club, to take the blows of key departures and still achieve.
They lost manager Ronald Koeman to Everton in the summer - as well as important components such as Victor Wanyama and Sadio Mane to Spurs and Liverpool respectively - and have carried on undisturbed with a Wembley appearance as their reward.
Liverpool's laboured performance was in stark contrast to the all-action attacking displays that briefly took them to the top of the Premier League earlier this season.
Jurgen Klopp's side looked jaded and have lost their way, with only one win in seven games this year, a third-round FA Cup replay victory at League Two Plymouth Argyle.
Liverpool look shorn of threat without £34m summer signing Mane, away at the Africa Cup of Nations with Senegal, and lacking an alternative plan when teams as disciplined as Swansea and Southampton have been in inflicting two successive home defeats.
Sturridge felt the frustration of Liverpool's supporters for a poor performance and two missed chances, while substitute Origi looks short of confidence.
Klopp's decision to play Can and Jordan Henderson together in midfield backfired badly and his decision to leave out Georginio Wijnaldum was questionable.
Southampton's players enjoyed every second of their celebrations with their fans in the Anfield Road end as they looked forward to the chance to win their second major trophy, following an FA Cup triumph over Manchester United at Wembley in 1976.
Saints had several anxious moments in the second half, especially when goalkeeper Forster dropped Can's shot behind him then recovered miraculously to claw it off the line as Sturridge closed in.
They also survived two penalty appeals - for handball against Long and that fall from Origi - but this was a glory night for Southampton and one they fully deserved.
BBC Radio 5 live pundit Mark Lawrenson: "Absolutely, totally and utterly deserved. They always, always carried that goal threat. They played with so much pace, so much directness. Over the two legs they have totally outplayed Liverpool. They thoroughly deserve the Wembley appearance."
Southampton manager Claude Puel: "It is fantastic for all the squad and a good reward for their hard work. It was difficult to find this opportunity to play a final at Wembley. In the two legs we deserved the win. We were fantastic in the first leg at home and tonight we had chances in the first half.
"In the second half it was difficult but now we go to Wembley, not just to participate but to win this cup. I have been there once, just to watch France beat England."
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: "They won both games, they deserved it. We did really well. We cannot create more chances than we did in the second half - we were dominant. It is difficult because you have to take risks but too many risks plays to their strengths.
"We had seven good chances. You have to score, and we didn't do, so we lost. I'm fine with the performance but not the result."
Liverpool host Championship side Wolves in the FA Cup fourth round on Saturday at 12:30 GMT, while Southampton travel to Arsenal in the same competition at 17:30.
Match ends, Liverpool 0, Southampton 1.
Second Half ends, Liverpool 0, Southampton 1.
Goal!  Liverpool 0, Southampton 1. Shane Long (Southampton) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Josh Sims following a fast break.
Corner,  Liverpool. Conceded by Jack Stephens.
Foul by Adam Lallana (Liverpool).
Oriol Romeu (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Liverpool. Georginio Wijnaldum replaces Philippe Coutinho.
Corner,  Liverpool. Conceded by Cédric Soares.
Foul by Jordan Henderson (Liverpool).
Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner,  Liverpool. Conceded by Oriol Romeu.
Substitution, Southampton. Josh Sims replaces Nathan Redmond.
Substitution, Liverpool. Divock Origi replaces Emre Can.
Attempt missed. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Adam Lallana.
Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Emre Can.
Corner,  Liverpool. Conceded by Jack Stephens.
Corner,  Liverpool. Conceded by Dusan Tadic.
Corner,  Southampton. Conceded by Dejan Lovren.
Attempt blocked. Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Southampton) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Nathan Redmond.
Attempt missed. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Roberto Firmino with a cross.
Attempt missed. Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Jordan Henderson with a cross.
Attempt missed. Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool) left footed shot from very close range is too high.
Substitution, Southampton. Pierre-Emile Højbjerg replaces James Ward-Prowse because of an injury.
Corner,  Liverpool. Conceded by Ryan Bertrand.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Emre Can with a cross.
Attempt saved. Emre Can (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Philippe Coutinho.
Attempt blocked. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Adam Lallana.
Corner,  Liverpool. Conceded by Maya Yoshida.
Foul by Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool).
Shane Long (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Southampton. Conceded by Roberto Firmino.
Second Half begins Liverpool 0, Southampton 0.
Substitution, Southampton. Shane Long replaces Jay Rodriguez because of an injury.
First Half ends, Liverpool 0, Southampton 0.
Attempt missed. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Dusan Tadic following a corner.
Corner,  Southampton. Conceded by Emre Can.
Attempt missed. Steven Davis (Southampton) left footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left.


Birmingham City club captain Paul Robinson has signed a new one-year player-coach contract with the Championship club.

The 37-year-old former Watford and West Bromwich Albion defender will spend more time working with the club's under-21 and under-18 sides.
Robinson was without a club when he came on a one-month trial in 2012.
But this new contract is his fifth for Blues as he continues to extend a career that now totals 736 appearances.
"We wanted Robbo to stay and we are delighted that he has re-signed," said Blues manager Gary Rowett.
"Gone are the days when he will be playing 50-odd games a season. We both know that. But he showed his value this season when he featured.
"I believe he he can still be influential in other areas, working with the under-21s, whilst still being available to play."
Former England Under-21 international Paul Robinson began his career with his home-town club Watford.
He first arrived in the Midlands when he was signed by Gary Megson for West Bromwich Albion in 2003.
After six years at The Hawthorns, a season-long loan move to Bolton Wanderers was made permanent in 2010.
But he was released two years later, finishing the season on loan with Leeds United, before joining Blues as a free agent in September 2012.
He has now made 145 appearances for Birmingham, scoring four times, three of them this season in the same eight-game hot streak, having previously gone almost two years without a goal.


Braintree sealed victory against 10-man Halifax who slipped to within a point of the National League relegation zone.

Kenny Davis found the net for Braintree after just 30 seconds when he tapped in after Simeon Akinola had hit the post.
The Shaymen were reduced to 10 men when Kevin Roberts fouled Alex Woodyard and picked up a second booking.
Michael Cheek made sure Braintree took away all three points when he rounded Sam Johnson after capitalising on Matty Brown's hesitation to score.


Attracting long-haul flights to Cardiff Airport is one of the aims for its bosses in the year ahead in a bid to boost passenger numbers.

The airport was bought by the Welsh government nearly two years ago after the number of people using it slumped to just over one million.
Since then the terminal building, its facilities, technology and transport links have been improved.
Now bosses are focusing on attracting more flights to more destinations.
In November the airport received a £3.5m commercial loan from the Welsh government to develop more routes and "improve choice for passengers".
Jason Thomas, chief of staff at Cardiff Airport, said they hoped to build on the recent announcement that Thomas Cook Airlines would fly from Cardiff to Orlando in Florida in August 2015 and in May the following year.
"Long-haul is one of the areas of focus for us," said Mr Thomas.
"We do have fantastic facilities for long-haul. We have a runway that can accommodate all types of aircraft.
"Wales is also a very strong brand overseas. We have to see inbound routes on these flights too and Wales is in a very good position for that."
He said he could not go into details about the routes and destinations being considered but added: "We're confident that there will be some announcements in the near future."
How the airport has been improved
He said staff were feeling "really positive going into the new year" after spending the last 18 months stopping the decline of passengers and improving the airport.
"The main thing for the airport is passenger numbers so our focus for the next 12 months - and we know it will be challenging - is to get more airlines and to help grow our existing airlines, who are our lifeblood."
The Welsh government bought Cardiff Airport in a a £52m deal in March 2013, saying it would not be operated by the government and would be managed "at arm's length" and "on a commercial basis".
In November, a Welsh government spokesman said the commercial loan of £3.5m to Cardiff Airport for the development of more routes "will be repaid over a period of up to 12 years".


The head of the UN's counter-terrorism committee has warned it is a question of "when, not if" terrorists use laptops to smuggle bombs on to planes.

Jean-Paul Laborde spoke to reporters after officials decided not to ban laptops from aircraft cabins on flights to the US from EU countries.
Such a ban currently applies to flights from eight other countries.
Mr Laborde also said Islamic State (IS) fighters returning to Europe would be "more dangerous" than previous waves.
IS has been losing territory in Syria and Iraq, and Mr Laborde said these fighters, originally from Europe, would be hardened from years of war. He said several European countries believe the rate of fighters returning has increased by a third over the past year.
"On average, these people are much more committed, more experienced and more skilled," he said.
"In spite of the travel restrictions, you will have a number of foreign terrorist fighters which will probably slip through the borders and go back, come back to these countries, especially with smuggling networks."
However the number of new foreign recruits going to the region is thought to be down.
The number of foreign fighters flowing to IS-controlled regions dropped by 90% in the past year, the US secretary of state said recently.
Mr Laborde said he did not know whether IS had the capacity to carry out a laptop bomb attack, but he was sure that organised criminal groups could.
He told a reporter from the Spanish news agency Efe that it might be "one, two or three years" but might be aided by the internet now being available on some flights.
He said he had previously identified threats two years before they occurred.
Wednesday's meeting on the matter, between US and EU officials, was requested by EU officials after recent reports suggested US authorities had new information regarding laptop parts being turned into explosives.
Details of a specific threat have not been made public.
The US restrictions, introduced in March, apply to devices "larger than a smartphone" from the cabins of flights from Turkey, Morocco, Jordan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
The UK issued a similar ban on flights from six countries.
Steve Landells, a safety expert at the British Airline Pilots Association, said there was a greater risk of lithium battery fires if larger devices were kept in an aircraft's hold.


Nigeria's militant Islamist group Ansaru has proved to be a formidable threat during its short existence, using dynamite to penetrate heavily-fortified compounds and taking foreigners hostage - seven of whom it said it had killed on Saturday.

Ansaru was formed in January 2012, though it rose to prominence only about six months later through the release of a video in which it vowed to attack Westerners in defence of Muslims worldwide.
"For the first time, we are glad to announce to the public the formation of this group that has genuine basis," said a statement issued by the group in January 2012 and quoted in local media.
"We will have [a] dispassionate look into everything, to encourage what is good and see to its spread and to discourage evil and try to eliminate it."
Its full Arabic name, Jama'atu Ansarul Muslimina Fi Biladis Sudan, means: "Vanguards for the Protection of Muslims in Black Africa".
This suggests that it has a wider regional agenda, with the UK listing Ansaru as a "terrorist group" linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
Just two months after it was formed, the UK said the militant group had killed a Briton and an Italian taken hostage in the north-western state of Sokoto after a failed attempt to rescue them.
Then in December 2012, it abducted French national Francis Colump, 63, following an attack on a well-guarded compound in the northern town of Rimi, about 25km (15 miles) from Katsina city.
About 30 Ansaru gunmen used dynamite to force their way into the compound, seizing Mr Colump who, officials, said, was working on a wind power project.
It carried out a similar attack in February 2013, capturing seven foreign nationals from a housing compound owned by the Lebanese construction company Setraco.
It said the attack was to avenge "transgressions" by European nations in Mali and Afghanistan, where Western forces are battling Islamist insurgents.
On Saturday, it released a video saying it had killed the "Christian" hostages because the UK and Nigerian forces were planning an operation to rescue them - an allegation the UK denied.
It has also carried out attacks on Nigerian targets.
In January 2013, Ansaru said it had carried out an attack which killed two Nigerian soldiers as they prepared to deploy to Mali.
The group said it targeted the troops because the Nigerian military was joining the French-led military campaign to "demolish the Islamic empire of Mali".
French journal Jeune Afrique-L'Intelligent says Ansaru is led by the little-known Abu Ussamata al-Ansary.
It quoted a statement by him as saying that the Nigerian government was "incapable of defending Muslims in inter-religious violence with Christians".
The group also said it was fighting to reclaim "the lost dignity of Muslims of black Africa" and the creation of an Islamic caliphate from Niger to Cameroon and northern Nigeria.
Analysts believe it is an off-shoot of Boko Haram, which launched an insurgency in 2009 to create an Islamic state in Nigeria, rather than across the region.
"To some, the sect headed by Ansary is seen as one that will compliment the 'struggle' by the Boko Haram sect under Imam Abubakar Shekau but to many it is an indication that all is not well with the leadership of the Boko Haram sect and that there has been conflict about its ideology and its understanding of Islam," wrote journalist Tukur Mamu in Nigeria's Desert Herald newspaper last year.
"Hence, the decision to form a new group."
According to Nigeria's Standard newspaper, Ansaru has denounced Boko Haram's style of operation as "inhuman to the Muslim ummah [nation]", an apparent reference to killing of innocent Nigerians - Christian and Muslim - through bombings and assassinations.
"Islam forbids killing of innocent people, including non-Muslims. This is our belief and we stand for it," Mr al-Ansary said in the video released last year.
But Mr al-Ansary added that non-Muslims can be killed "in self-defence or if they attack Muslims", which seems to explain the killing of Nigerian soldiers to be deployed to Mali.
However, analysts say it does not justify the killing of civilian hostages - unless Ansaru holds them accountable for the actions of Western governments in countries such as Mali, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Analysts believe that Nigeria's government will find it more difficult to end the Islamist insurgency now that two groups are operating.
The government is said to be working with counter-terrorism experts from several countries - including the US and UK - in an attempt to neutralise the threat posed by Boko Haram and Ansaru, amid fears that they could worsen instability across West and central Africa.


A Madrid man is missing in London after he used his skateboard against one of the jihadists, who was stabbing a woman, Spanish media report.

Ignacio Echeverría, 39, saw the attack unfolding at London Bridge on Saturday night, and rushed to help the woman.
Friends with him at the time told his family what had happened.
Reports say Mr Echeverría is not listed among the dead. His sister has gone to London hospitals, but there is no news of him being among the injured.
In a message on Facebook his father Joaquín Echeverría urged members of the public to help find his son, posting details of Ignacio.
At least one other Spaniard is in a London hospital, lightly injured after the terror attack at London Bridge.
Reports say Ignacio Echeverría came upon the scene at London Bridge while cycling back from a park with two friends, with whom he had been skateboarding.
In a Facebook post, his father said: "They saw him lying on the floor on the sidewalk after defending someone with his skateboard."
Apparently Ignacio did not have ID on him at the time. The Spanish embassy and HSBC Bank, his employer in London, are helping to search for him.
On Saturday night three men rammed their van into pedestrians on London Bridge, then went on a stabbing rampage at nearby bars and restaurants, before police shot them dead.
They killed seven and wounded dozens more, of whom 21 are now critically ill in hospital.
The attack has been claimed by so-called Islamic State. At least one of the killers had shouted "this is for Allah!" during the attack, witnesses said.


A teacher who messaged two female pupils on social media has been banned from the classroom.

Paul Mansell was arrested after allegations of inappropriate contact first emerged in 2008, a professional conduct panel heard.
No further action was taken. In 2013, while teaching in Lichfield, it emerged Mr Mansell had exchanged messages on Snapchat with another pupil.
The panel issued a prohibition order after finding three allegations proved.
The National College for Teaching and Leadership hearing in Coventry was told Mr Mansell admitted exchanging messages with a girl in 2013 while teaching at Friary School in Lichfield.
He also admitted using the pseudonym "Steve Baker" to message the girl on Snapchat, which, the panel said, was to "conceal the fact" he was contacting her.
Mr Mansell further admitted exchanging messages on MSN with a second girl around 2007, around the time he was working at Perryfields High School, Oldbury, as part of a Graduate Teacher Programme.
Allegations of sending inappropriate images to the first pupil, and engaging in inappropriate physical contact with her, were not proved.
The panel said that Mr Mansell was a "competent teacher and well-regarded by his colleagues".
It added that while a prohibition order would be "potentially devastating" for Mr Mansell, "the reputation of the profession was more important".


Sports car maker McLaren Automotive has reported a three-fold rise in profits driven by more sales in Asia.

The company said pre-tax profits rose to £15m in 2014, up from £4.5m the previous year.
The British firm's rise in profits was helped by a 67% rise in sales to £475.5m, up from £285.4m the previous year.
It saw the biggest rise in Asia, where sales have increased by 80% over the past two years.
The company delivered 1,649 cars last year, and chief executive Mike Flewitt told the BBC that it was  aiming to increase production this year to 1,800 cars.
Mr Flewitt told BBC 5 Live that the US remains the company's biggest market, but Asia is growing fast and there is a big difference in the age of customers in the different markets.
In Asia, for example, many of those that buy a McLaren car are in their 20s and 30s.


A US aircraft attacked a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic in the Afghan city of Kunduz because of "human error", a US military inquiry said.

The investigation found the crew of the AC-130 gunship mistook the clinic for a nearby government building that had been seized by Taliban fighters.
At least 30 civilians were killed in the 3 October attack, amid a campaign to retake Kunduz from Taliban forces.
MSF said the report demonstrates "gross negligence" by the US military.
The group said the incident constituted "violations of the rules of war" and reiterated calls for an "independent and impartial investigation into the attack".
Shortly after the incident, the medical charity disputed initial US justifications for the attack, which said US forces had struck the hospital because they had come under fire in the area.
The US military later admitted that the strike was a mistake and launched an investigation.
On Wednesday, the US commander in Afghanistan, Gen John Campbell, said the investigation had found that the attack on the hospital was "the direct result of avoidable human error, compounded by process and equipment failures".
He said that the crew of the AC-130 plane believed the building was a government compound, the NDS (or National Directorate of Security), which had been taken over by Taliban militants.
The report catalogues a perfect storm of errors, at every level of the operation.
The most extraordinary admission was that military personnel failed to pick up on indicators the aircraft crew was shelling the wrong building, even though the target co-ordinates it transmitted to headquarters were clearly those of the MSF hospital.
Gen Campbell said he had ordered immediate changes to address the failures, but the long and detailed list of mistakes will prompt questions as to how often wrong targets have been struck before - without a group like MSF to raise the red flag - and whether something like this could happen again.
This is especially the case as the general noted that fatigue and the high tempo of operations in Kunduz contributed to the tragedy.
The fact that the crew thought it was hitting a Taliban command centre explains MSF's contention that the operation was conducted with a purpose to kill and destroy.
But predictably the report does nothing to address its accusation of war crimes: a military spokesman refused to talk about laws of war, saying only that the operation had violated US rules of engagement.
What we know about what happened
The aircraft identified the building based on a visual description provided by Afghan forces, he said, and did not refer to co-ordinates provided by MSF that were included on a no-strike list.
"Tragically this misidentification continued throughout the remainder of the operation, even though there were some contradictory indicators," he said.
"This was a tragic mistake. US forces would never intentionally strike a hospital or other protected facilities."
The gunship fired 211 shells at the MSF compound over 25 minutes, the US military said.
MSF General Director Christopher Stokes said on Wednesday: "It appears that 30 people were killed and hundreds of thousands of people are being denied life-saving care in Kunduz simply because the MSF hospital was the closest large building to an open field and 'roughly matched' a description of an intended target."
An MSF report released earlier this month said its staff contacted US-led forces several times during the attack, saying they were being bombed.
Gen Campbell said other factors that contributed to the mistake included:
The US military said the troops involved in the attack had been suspended, and were awaiting disciplinary action.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday described the incident as a "painful demonstration of the cost of war".
"Such mistakes can and should be avoided," he said in a statement.
Saturday 3 October - Col Brian Tribus, spokesman for US Forces in Afghan
US forces conducted an airstrike in Kunduz city at 2:15am (local), Oct 3, against individuals threatening the force. The strike may have resulted in collateral damage to a nearby medical facility. This incident is under investigation.
Sunday 4 October - Pentagon press office
US forces conducted an airstrike in Kunduz city at 2:15am (local), Oct 3, against insurgents who were directly firing upon US service members advising and assisting Afghan Security Forces in the city of Kunduz. The strike was conducted in the vicinity of a Doctors Without Borders medical facility.
Monday 5 October - Gen John Campbell, US military chief in Afghanistan
We have now learned that on October 3, Afghan forces advised that they were taking fire from enemy positions and asked for air support from US forces. An airstrike was then called to eliminate the Taliban threat and several civilians were accidentally struck. This is different from the initial reports, which indicated that US forces were threatened and that the airstrike was called on their behalf.
Tuesday 6 October - Gen John Campbell to the Senate committee
On Saturday morning our forces provided close air support to Afghan forces at their request. To be clear the decision to provide aerial fires was a US decision, made within the US chain of command. A hospital was mistakenly struck. We would never intentionally target a protected medical facilityâ€¦ I assure you that the investigation will be thorough, objective and transparent.
Wednesday 25 November  - Gen John Campbell statement
The US strike upon the MSF Trauma Centre in Kunduz... was the direct result of human error, compounded by systems and procedural failures. The US forces directly involved in this incident did not know the targeted compound was the MSF Trauma Centre. The medical facility was misidentified as a target by US personnel who believed they were striking a different building several hundred meters away where there were reports of combatants.


A man has died and two other people were hurt after a man drove into a pedestrian area in Heidelberg, Germany.

The attacker, said to have been armed with a knife, was shot, injured and arrested by police in a brief standoff after fleeing the scene on foot.
His motives are unclear, but there are no indications this was a terrorist attack, police say.
In December an Islamist attacker drove a lorry into a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 people and injuring 49.
In Heidelberg the attacker, described by police as a 35-year-old German "without a migration background", drove what is thought to be a rental car into pedestrians in one of the city's central squares, injuring three people. One of them, a 73-year-old German man, later died in hospital.
The attacker then left the car but was tracked down, shot and seriously injured by police near an old swimming pool.
Police were unable to confirm local media reports that the attacker was mentally disturbed. He is thought to have acted alone.
The two injured people were a 32-year-old Austrian national and a 29-year-old Bosnian woman, police said. Their injuries are said to be minor and they have been discharged from hospital.


A Mexican photojournalist has been found dead along with four other people in a flat in Mexico City.

Ruben Espinosa, who worked for the investigative magazine Proceso, had recently moved to the city from the eastern state of Veracruz where he said he had been threatened and harassed.
Veracruz is considered one of the most dangerous Mexican states for journalists to work in.
They are often the targets of organised crime linked to drugs gangs.
Proceso said the killings were discovered in the Narvarte neighbourhood of Mexico City a day after Mr Espinosa's family lost contact with him.
The other four victims were all women. Three of them had lived in the apartment and the fourth was a domestic employee, the city prosecutor's office said.
Officials said identifications and cause of death were still being verified. However, Proceso said Mr Espinosa had suffered two gunshot wounds.
Many journalists under threat in Mexican states have taken refuge in the capital and the government has set up an agency to help protect them.
Free speech advocacy group Article 19 said Mr Espinosa was the first journalist to be killed while in exile in Mexico City.
It said his death marked a new level of violence against journalists in Mexico.
Earlier this year, the National Commission on Human Rights said 97 journalists had been killed in Mexico in connection with their work since 2010.


Dundee leapfrogged St Johnstone in the Scottish Premiership table with a dominant win at Dens Park.

Kane Hemmings slotted in the first on the rebound after Greg Stewart's shot was parried by goalkeeper Alan Mannus.
The on-form Dundee striker doubled his tally and the lead after Danny Swanson was caught in possession by Gary Harkins who played a neat through ball.
Greg Stewart hit the bar as the hosts continued to have the best of the game against lacklustre Saints.
Ten weeks had passed since St Jonstone had last recorded a win. That was eight games in all competitions, running adjacent to the Michael O'Halloran transfer saga.
O'Halloran is now a Rangers player but their luck has not changed. It is now nine in a row and just two points out of a possible 21.
They might be losing their grip on an astonishing record which sees them aiming for a fifth consecutive appearance in Europe.
Dens Park had been battered by rain up to kick-off time and the surface, patched up in places, threatened to cut up badly.
In truth, the players dealt well with the conditions and produced a match which flowed end to end with a series of chances, the best of which - in the first 15 minutes - fell to Dundee's player of the month Hemmings, who broke with a clear sight at goal, but could not hit the target.
But there was no denying him after Stewart's blasted shot had been stopped but spilled by Mannus, with Hemmings on hand to capitalise from just five yards out. It was predatory finishing.
Stewart and Hemmings, once a partnership at Cowdenbeath, were all over Saints and Perth goalkeeper Mannus had to look lively on a number of occasions with Dundee really sharp on the counter attack.
They even had a penalty claim denied when Steven Anderson challenged Rory Loy.  St Johnstone manager Tommy Wright was of the view Loy should have been booked for diving.
But his frustration went beyond that decision and his team's failings even had him punching the dugout at one point.
The rain was incessant for the 90 minutes and so too was the flow of the game. St Johnstone, despite an occasional flurry of defiance, were a shadow of their former selves and it was no shock when Dundee went two up.
Swanson was robbed by Harkins, who played a wonderful pass through to Hemmings. He was single minded about his finish as he broke into the box.
Dundee continued to dominate. Stewart rattled the bar, they were nerveless at the back and Harkins waltzed round opponents, the mud no obstacle to his dancing feet.
St Johnstone, meanwhile, who have had a confusing season, endured a night as miserable as the Tayside weather and even three second-half substitutions could not ignite a turn of fortune. To be honest there was little about them.
Only a late deflected Darnell Fisher shot caused Scott Bain any distress, but even then he pushed it over the bar.
But it would be wrong to dwell on their failings and ignore the rising fortunes of Dundee. Manager Paul Hartley talked pre-match of them flying under the radar.
Well, they are bang in the spotlight now.


A 19-year-old man has been jailed for life for planning a bomb attack that may have targeted an Elton John concert or Oxford Street in central London.

Haroon Syed, of west London, admitted preparing acts of terrorism after trying to source weapons including a suicide bomb and machine gun.
He was caught after approaching MI5 officers, who were posing as a fellow extremist, via social media.
Syed was sentenced to a minimum of 16 years and six months.
Last year, his brother was jailed for life for plotting to behead someone on Remembrance Sunday.
Judge Michael Topolski QC said Syed wanted to carry out "an act of mass murder" and therefore a discretionary life sentence was warranted.
Prosecutors say Syed's plans ranged from becoming a suicide bomber to staging a gun attack, and while he initially boasted of working with others, those people did not materialise.
Instead, over the summer of last year, he made increasingly urgent efforts to secure weaponry.
After he went online looking for help, a purported jihadist fighting overseas, known only as Abu Isa, introduced him to another extremist going by the name Abu Yusuf.
This second man was, in fact, a group of MI5 officers who were playing the role of a jihadist in what became weeks of social media chat with Syed.
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Duncan Penny QC, prosecuting, told the Old Bailey there was initially some "suspicion on both sides" before Abu Yusuf concluded that Syed was a "committed brother" he could deal with.
Syed then began talking about his aspirations and gave his contact a shopping list, saying he wanted "do martyrdom" after first causing "damage" with a machine gun.
"Can you get the gear?" asked Syed. "You will be involved right?
"Two things. Number one, machine gun and we need someone who can make a vest you know the dugma [button] one. So after some damage with machine gun then do itishadi [martyrdom] ... that's what I'm planning to do."
The undercover officer told Syed guns were expensive - but he might be able to get someone to build a bomb. Syed floated the idea of going to fight overseas with his new-found friend - but revealed his passport had been cancelled by the authorities.
He tried and failed twice to get fraudulent loans of thousands of pounds to cover the cost of firearms - and eventually agreed to meet his contact in a coffee shop in Slough, Berkshire, to finalise an alternative plan.
Over two meetings, he talked about his aspirations and then handed over Â£150, asking for a bomb packed with nails. The conversation was secretly recorded.
"I was thinking of Oxford Street," he told his contact. "If you put those things inside called nails, do you know what that is, nails? Those sharp things - lots of them inside.
"Good man, can't wait akhi [brother]. If I go to prison, I go to prison. If I die, I die, you understand? I have got to get to Jannah [heaven]."
The undercover officer later told Syed a "bomb-making brother" would have the device ready within days - and the suspect went online to narrow his list of targets.
His web searches included "packed places in London" and "Elton John, Hyde Park, 11 September" - a major concert hosted by BBC Radio 2 which also featured Status Quo and Madness.
Prosecutors say Syed's character had begun to change outwardly in late 2014, coinciding with the growing support among British extremists for the self-styled Islamic State group.
During the course of the investigation, detectives found his web searches jumped about as he tried to satisfy himself that an attack on civilians was theologically justifiable.
One of his last searches, a week before his arrest, was: "How can I stop being upset about the UK killing innocent Syrians and get on with my day?"
When counter-terrorist detectives arrested him in September and asked him for the password for his phone, he replied: "ISIS - you like that?"
Syed's was one of 18 terror plots to have been foiled since 2013.
Mitigating, Mark Summers QC said it was a "crude, ill-thought-out" plan made at the behest of others.
The court heard Syed had fallen under the influence of members of banned extremist group Al-Muhajiroun, and that he now publicly rejected his past beliefs and condemned the recent bomb attack in Manchester.
But Judge Topolski told Syed: "You were not lured, you were not enticed, you were not entrapped.
"You became, and in my judgement as shown by your online activities away from your contact with Abu Yusuf, deeply committed to the ideology of a brutal and barbaric organisation that sought to hijack and corrupt an ancient and venerable religion for its own purposes and you wanted to be part of it."
Deb Walsh, deputy head of the counter-terrorism division of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "Haroon Syed is clearly a danger to the public who was prepared to carry out indiscriminate attacks against innocent people.
"The compelling evidence presented by the CPS left him with no choice but to plead guilty."


Scottish Olympians in Rio are celebrating the country's best ever medal haul from an overseas Games.

Gold for cyclist Katie Archibald as part of Great Britain's women's team pursuit quartet and silver for swimmer Duncan Scott in the men's 4x100m medley relay on Saturday brought the Scots' medal tally to 10.
That surpassed the previous best of eight from the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, and justified the pre-Games prediction of Mike Whittingham, performance director for national agency Sportscotland, that "we can get 10".
Two more medals followed on Sunday when Andy Murray beat Juan Martin del Potro to retain his men's singles tennis title from 2012, and cyclist Callum Skinner took silver behind GB team-mate Jason Kenny in the men's sprint final.
That brought the Scottish tally to 12, including four golds.
One more medal in the final week of the Games would equal Scotland's best ever tally of 13 (including seven gold) that they contributed to Team GB's haul of 65 at London 2012.
There are 50 Scots - the largest ever contingent in a Great Britain team for an overseas Olympics, surpassing the previous record of 31 in Beijing in 2008 - competing in 15 of the 42 sports in Rio.
Heather Stanning (Rowing, women's pair).
Gordonstoun-educated Stanning, who lives in Lossiemouth, and partner Helen Glover were unbeaten in the women's pair since 2011, and led the final from start to finish to successfully defend their Olympic title.
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Callum Skinner (Cycling, team sprint)
Glasgow-born Skinner, 23, who started cycling at Meadowbank velodrome when his family moved to Edinburgh, was under pressure to justify his place in the men's sprint team but claimed a superb gold alongside Philip Hindes and Jason Kenny.
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Katie Archibald (Cycling, team pursuit)
Archibald, 22, from Milngavie, near Glasgow, joined Laura Trott, Joanna Rowsell-Shand and Elinor Barker to set a new world record as they beat the United States in the final.
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Andy Murray (Tennis, men's singles)
The two-time Wimbledon champion, 29, completed another memorable double when he became the first tennis player to win two Olympic singles titles with a thrilling four-set victory over Argentine Juan Martin del Potro.
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Stephen Milne, Duncan Scott, Dan Wallace, Robbie Renwick (Swimming, 4 x 200m freestyle relay)
Milne, 22, from the Perth City Swim Club, Edinburgh-born Wallace, 23, a member of the Warrender Baths Club, 19-year-old Scott and University of Stirling team-mate Renwick, 28 - who swam in the heat before James Guy took over for the final - finished strongly to claim silver behind the United States.
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David Florence (Canoeing - C2 double)
Aberdonian Florence, 34, and partner Richard Hounslow had to settle for silver for the second successive Games in the canoe double, a third for Florence after a C1 silver in Beijing in 2008.
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Mark Bennett & Mark Robertson (Rugby sevens)
Glasgow centre Bennett, 23, and Scotland sevens specialist Robertson, 31, both played key roles in a GB squad that squeezed past Japan and New Zealand in tense pool games before even tighter knock-out matches against Argentina and South Africa, only to be beaten 43-7 by favourites Fiji in the final.
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Katherine Grainger (Rowing, double sculls)
Glasgow-born Grainger, 40, became Britain's most decorated female Olympian by winning a fourth Olympics silver medal with Victoria Thornley in the double sculls, four years after striking gold in London.
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Polly Swann & Karen Bennett (Rowing, women's eight)
Edinburgh-born Bennett, 27, and 28-year-old Swann, raised and educated in the Scottish capital, helped Britain win a first Olympic medal in the women's eight, alongside Katie Greves, Melanie Wilson, Frances Houghton, Jessica Eddie, Olivia Carnegie-Brown and Zoe Lee.
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Duncan Scott (Swimming, 4x100m medley relay)
The Glasgow-born 19-year-old won his second silver of the Games, joining Adam Peaty, James Guy and Chris Walker-Hebborn in helping Britain to a sixth medal in the pool.
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Callum Skinner (Cycling, men's sprint)
The 23-year-old, already dubbed 'the new Chris Hoy' in some quarters, cemented his burgeoning reputation by reaching the final of the individual sprint, having already won gold in the team event, but had to play second fiddle to more experienced GB team-mate Jason Kenny.
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Sally Conway (Judo, women's -70kg)
Conway, 29, who won bronze for Scotland at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and trains at Judo Scotland's Edinburgh headquarters in Ratho, scored a single yuko to beat Austria's Bernadette Graf in the bronze medal match, after earlier beating world champion Gevrise Emane.
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A passenger on the flight forced to land at Somalia's Mogadishu airport after a large hole appeared in the fuselage has been confirmed missing by the airline.

Daallo Airlines had previously said that all the passengers had been accounted for.
It is thought that the man fell out of the hole, which appeared shortly after take-off from Mogadishu on Tuesday.
There have been fears that the damage to the flight was caused by a bomb.
But the exact cause is still not clear and Somalia is currently investigating what led the hole to appear on the Djibouti-bound Airbus 321.
Daallo Airlines head Mohamed Ibrahim Yasin Olad told the BBC Somali service that he hoped the investigation would be over soon so that his flights could resume but with tighter security at Mogadishu's airport.
He said that he has given the details to security officials investigating the incident.
Mohamed Hassan, a police officer in Balad, an agricultural town 30km (18 miles) north of Mogadishu, said residents had found the body of a man who might have fallen from the plane.
Security officials say two passengers were also hurt in the incident.
Serbian captain Vlatko Vodopivec said he and others were told the explosion was caused by a bomb, though civil aviation authority officials said they had found no evidence so far of a criminal act.
"It was my first bomb; I hope it will be the last,'' Mr Vodopivec said. He said the blast happened when the plane was at around 11,000ft (3,350m).
"It would have been much worse if we were higher," he added.
Daallo Airlines flies regularly from its base in Dubai to Somalia and Djibouti.
Somalia is battling militant Islamist group al-Shabab that has been carrying out deadly attacks in its quest to establish an Islamic state.


The future of the NHS remains a key issue in the run-up to the general election.

As part of its Healthy Visions series, Radio 4 invited five leading practitioners and thinkers to share their prescriptions for the future of healthcare.
How does our approach need to change, if the National Health Service is to cope with future demand?
GP Dr Michael Dixon chairs the NHS Alliance, and advises the College of Medicine.
"Patients are the renewable energy resource of the health service. We've got to start seeing ourselves as the creators of health - individually and collectively - and not just passive recipients of whatever the professionals want to give us.
"We don't take health as seriously as disease. We focus too much on the operations on the hearts and limbs and eyes for diabetics many years down the road, or gastric banding for the overweight. We've got to start preventing those patients needing those interventions in the first place.
"I run what you might call a one-stop shop. So we've not only got conventional GP and community services, but also complementary services, a cafe, pharmacy and voluntary sector services.
"We concentrate on health in every sense, caring for patients when they need it, but enabling them to look after themselves and live better and happier lives whenever we can.  I'd like to reinvent the GP practice as a club where - with minor or self-limiting illnesses - we help each other to help ourselves, rather than use professional resources unnecessarily.
"No one expects their next door neighbour to be looking after their cancer or heart disease, but if we continue to spend as much NHS money as we do at present on things which could have been prevented, or don't actually need high tech input, then we will make the health service bankrupt and we won't have one tomorrow."
GP Dr Charles Alessi  is co-chairman of the National Association Of Primary Care, and a senior adviser to Public Health England.
"The current healthcare system is on the verge of a revolution that will make our current ways seem as quaint as the horse and cart.
"More and more patients are taking control of their health. Patients regularly come to my surgery with a sheaf of internet printouts revealing their diagnosis and their suggestions for treatment.
"We can utilise this willingness to create a better healthcare system for us all.
"Other forms of digital technology can also empower patients. For people who have a single long- term condition like diabetes, there are already smartphone apps which advise how to alter your insulin dosage, or even change your medication.
The final part of Healthy Visions will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Friday 3 April at 13:45 BST. You can listen to the rest of the series now on the Radio 4 website
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"In my vision, patients will carry their own medical records from practitioner to practitioner, demanding that care is carried out in convenient places such as pharmacies and supermarkets. Procedures like chemotherapy and dialysis will be delivered in the community or at home - not at a huge building we call a hospital.
"This may sound somewhat scary: next it'll be robots diagnosing and treating our illnesses. But the use of technology is to empower. It isn't to replace the doctor. It doesn't mean that face-to-face human interaction forged over the long-term is threatened. It is just different and more tailored to the individual.
"None of this will happen effortlessly. The change in the doctor - from the person in charge to an advocate and mentor through life-long illnesses - will not be easy. No doubt there will be resistance in places, and we will make some mistakes.
"But the days of the patient being subordinate to a great monolithic system are coming to an end."
Dame Carol Black is a former president of the Royal College of Physicians, and led two independent reviews for government about health in the workplace.
"We often think of the workplace as just where we go to do our job. But the workplace is more than that. It has the potential to be a place where you can improve your health. It can be a place to promote health - both physical and mental - and a place where you can improve well-being.
"There are good business cases now showing that investing in the health and well-being of staff is really investing in productivity, investing in being more profitable; and we've got lots of cases where we can show that. The business case has been proven.
"Good management requires that you listen to people. Even if you are a small company, there are many little things that don't require lots of money. You can take advantage of free smoking cessation classes. You can introduce a lunchtime walking club. You might have a yoga session at the end of the day.
"Our NHS is so busy dealing with people who are ill that it is very difficult to spend a lot of time and energy on prevention. As we're living longer, we're expected to work longer, so all of these things are an additional pressure, and it's really important for the workplace to play its part.
"Then I believe we will access our health service less, we will be healthier, and we will be a saving and a gain to the NHS."
Prof John Ashton is president of the Faculty of Public Health.
"I'm very interested in how we live as we get older. Health and housing are indivisible. They are also indivisible from living in a good, supportive neighbourhood.
"In 1948, when the health service was founded, the Department of Health was the Department of Health and Housing.
"How can we reconnect these two important areas to make it possible for people who are living longer to live a full life in the community?
"A new generation of better designed and more attractive homes for the elderly would provide a healthier living environment for many who currently live alone in homes that are too large and insufficiently adapted to their needs.
"A return to the 'almshouse' model would provide a supportive environment, free from the isolation and the mental health problems which loneliness can cause.
"It could also help alleviate the housing crisis for younger people trying to buy their first home.
"As we contemplate all those baby boomers reaching 85 in less than 20 years, we have time to plan and get it right.
"But it's time we got on with it."
Lord Crisp was chief executive of the NHS between 2000 and 2006. He is an independent member of the House of Lords, and co-chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health.
"The election of a new government is a great opportunity to change the direction and the mood for health provision in the UK.
"The World Health Organisation got it right when it said 'modern societies actively market unhealthy lifestyles'. We need to turn this round so we're creating healthy lifestyles.
"The NHS was a great coming together of everyone involved in health services to deliver healthcare to the whole population. We need all those parts of society that affect health to come together into a new compact. And we need to be explicit about this everywhere in the country.
"We need to release the NHS and the remarkable people in it to create a long-term plan for transition. There is already remarkable consensus about what needs to be done, and we need a transition fund to support development and the double running of services as changes are made.
"There's a wonderful African saying: 'health is made at home, hospital is for repairs'. Health is made at home, and in our communities.
"The NHS - with all the important services we all rely on - will only be sustainable if we all play our part in developing a health-creating society.
"We do know how to do it. It's time to act."
The final part of Healthy Visions will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Friday 3 April at 13:45 BST. You can listen to the rest of the series now on the BBC Radio 4 website.


Coleraine rower Richard Chambers will have to wait until Thursday for his double sculls Olympic semi-final to take place in Rio.

Wind and rain led to the postponement of Wednesday's scheduled programme which included the double sculls semi-finals.
Chambers and GB team-mate Will Fletcher finished second in their heat on Monday behind fastest qualifiers South Africa.
Irish brothers Gary and Paul O'Donovan have also made the semi-finals.
The Cork pair, the second fastest qualifiers, clocked 6:23.72 to finish ahead of Italy (6:24.10).
Fletcher and Chambers clocked the sixth fastest qualifying time of 6:25.62.
Chambers and his brother Peter were part of Britain's silver medal-winning lightweight fours crew at London 2012.
Peter Chambers' hopes of a second Olympic medal were dashed on Tuesday when the British lightweight fours failed to qualify for the final.


South African police have issued a "red alert" at the country's borders for Zimbabwe's First Lady Grace Mugabe, the police minister has said.

She is accused of hitting a 20-year-old woman over the head with an extension cord in a hotel room near Johannesburg.
Police expected Mrs Mugabe, 52, to turn herself in on Tuesday, but she failed to show up.
The first lady's whereabouts are not known but she is believed to still be in South Africa.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is now also in the country ahead of a southern African heads of state meeting due to start on Friday.
Mrs Mugabe has not commented on the allegation.
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Police Minister Fikile Mbalula said: "We, in terms of South African police, [have] already put tabs on the borders in relation to her leaving the country, so there is no question about that.
"So tabs have been put, a red alert has been put, so she is not somebody who has been running away."
On Wednesday, South Africa's police ministry said Zimbabwe's government had sought diplomatic immunity for Mrs Mugabe.
Meanwhile, South African lawyer Gerrie Nel, who successfully prosecuted Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, is supporting the woman making the allegation, Gabriella Engels.
Mr Nel is now working with the Afriforum group, which mainly lobbies for the rights of Afrikaners in South Africa.
Afriforum said if the police failed to act in the case then it would take up a private prosecution.
It also said that it would fight any move to grant Mrs Mugabe diplomatic immunity.
Ms Engels told the BBC that she was attacked by Mrs Mugabe who believed she knew the whereabouts of her son, Bellarmine.
"We kept telling her 'we do not know where he is... we haven't seen him for the night'... She cornered meâ€¦ and started beating the hell out of me.
"That's when she hit me with the plug and the extension cord. And I just remember being curled down on the floor with blood rushing down my face and down my neck.
"She hit us with so much hate."
Ms Engels has now laid an assault charge and added that she wants Grace Mugabe to "go to jail".
Farouk Chothia, BBC Africa
South Africa's government risks a public backlash if it lets Mrs Mugabe go scot-free.
This happened in 2015, when it failed to execute an international arrest warrant for Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir who was wanted by the International Criminal Court.
The government argued that he qualified for diplomatic immunity, but the country's judges disagreed. The government was then strongly criticised for undermining the rule of law.
It seems that ministers want to avoid a similar backlash and are therefore insisting that Mrs Mugabe must appear in court.
But by taking such an approach it risks a diplomatic row with Zimbabwe's government - a staunch ally whom it has resolutely defended over the years, despite international criticism of President Mugabe's human rights record.
So the two governments, including Mr Mugabe and his South African counterpart, Jacob Zuma, are bound to be in talks to resolve the crisis over the first lady.
One option being mentioned in the South African media is that Mrs Mugabe should plead guilty during a short court appearance, and pay a fine.
But it is unclear whether Mr and Mrs Mugabe - known for their uncompromising nature - will agree to this, especially after Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party said in a tweet on Tuesday that the first lady had been "attacked", contradicting her accuser's version of events.


This has been a stressful week in the camp they call the Jungle.

Difficult at the best of times for thousands of refugees and other migrants who crowd here, hoping to make it across the Channel from France to England, the camp turns into a mud bath when the winter rain pours down.
To make matters worse, residents and volunteers are now racing against time.
Earlier in the week, the authorities here announced that hundreds of shelters and tents ranged within 100m of a busy motorway would have to move.
This part of the camp has seen frequent clashes with the police, as migrants climb the motorway embankment, block traffic and attempt to board British trucks bound for the port.
It is not quite clear how pushing the Jungle back by 100m will stop any of this, but earlier this week, around 2,000 of the camp's estimated 5,000 residents (the number fluctuates) thought they had until Friday morning to comply.
"I was afraid dramatic things were going to happen," says Mohammed Balla, a well-spoken public health specialist from Sudan's troubled Darfur region, who attended a meeting at which the apparent deadline was set.
Amid fears of the imminent arrival of bulldozers and riot police armed with batons and CS gas, people started to move. Dozens of mostly British volunteers also arrived to help speed up the process.
It seems to be working but the authorities have pushed back the deadline until Monday.
"They want to reduce the size of the camp," says Philli Boyle, Calais manager for one of the most active volunteer groups, Help Refugees UK.
"We also hear that they want to make a no-man's land between the boundary of the camp and the motorway, for security reasons."
The area slated for demolition is now a hive of activity, as volunteers armed with jeeps and trailers arrive to haul some of the camp's more permanent shelters out of harm's way.
Made of timber and tarpaulin, these are not extravagant dwellings, but in a place of hardship and scant resources, no-one wants to lose them.
Anything useable - wooden palettes, mattresses and plastic sheeting - is loaded on to the trucks. But the muddy ground is littered with debris, while empty tents shudder and flap in a biting wind and rats scavenge in the filth.
The whole process, inevitably, is causing plenty of anger.
Relations between the local authorities and their unwanted guests have never been exactly cordial. Calais has wrestled with its migrant problem for decades, generally in vain.
When the government started to install brand new, gleaming white containers, with heating and enough space to accommodate 1,500 people, many of the Jungle's residents were suspicious.
The compound is fenced off from the rest of the camp, and those who move in will have to use a hand-scanning device to get in and out.
This has led to fears, apparently without justification, it is some kind of internment facility where fingerprints will be taken and migrants forced to register for asylum, robbing them of their chance to make it to the UK.
"They said you are allowed to go in and out at any time at all, but there's a fence," says Adam Mohammed al-Diko, who represents the camp's small Ghanaian community.
"And we don't have any experience of a door where you fingerprint your hand before you go in. We have never heard of this thing."
Adam blames the camp's large Afghan population for the Jungle's rapid expansion over the past six months, as well as for some of the violence that occasionally erupts between residents and the police.
But the uncertainty with which many view the new containers is typical of this long, difficult history, punctuated by short-term initiatives, forced evictions, occasional clashes and lots of mutual suspicion.
The city has frequently failed to explain its policies, leaving migrants bewildered and nervous.
After all, none of them want to be here anyway.
"We are not here to make fight with police, to harass police or to destroy anything here in Calais," says Mohammed Balla.
"We just came here to stay for a while and continue our journey to the final destination."
Mohammed says he cannot stay in France.
"Life is too short," he says. "How can I learn a new language in one or two years? It needs more than five or six years."
He says he needs to move fast.
"I want to save my life first and then have a normal life, form a family, find work and proceed on."
But for now, the main challenge is moving away from the road, before the bulldozers arrive.
Philli Boyle says she is confident that the camp will be ready by Monday.
"Because we've had a few days to get all the teams on the ground, to make a plan and work with the residents, it's been very smooth," she says.
"Which is the most important thing for everyone."


Yvette Cooper has been urged to "show her passion for change" by a Welsh government minister backing her for the Labour leadership.

Public Services Minister Leighton Andrews said Labour needed a leader to win elections, not "return to the politics of the 1970s or 1950s".
Fellow ministers Vaughan Gething and Ken Skates support Andy Burnham, while three Labour AMs back Jeremy Corbyn.
No AMs have publicly come out in support of Liz Kendall.
First Minister Carwyn Jones has not named his preferred candidate, but has said veteran left-winger Mr Corbyn would be an "unusual choice" for the party.
On Wednesday, Mr Andrews said he understood the "romantic appeal of anti-austerity politics", but said Labour had to be able to win power to change things.
At the general election in May, Labour had "appeared both pro-austerity and economically incompetent, which was a hell of an achievement", he added.
"Labour must either be in the business of bringing change or else it is worthless," he said.
Declaring his support for Ms Cooper, Mr Andrews said Labour needed a leader "who looks and sounds different from the blokeish Westminster culture, who understands that the personal is political".
Mr Corbyn, who ended a two-day campaign visit to Wales with a rally in Cardiff on Tuesday, has more nominations from local parties in Wales and across the UK than any of the other three contenders.
But the only Welsh MP to nominate him - Huw Irranca-Davies - said he only did so to ensure a broad range of candidates, and that he intended to vote for Ms Cooper.
Mr Burnham has the backing of nine Welsh MPs and four AMs, while Ms Cooper has support from eight Welsh MPs and four AMs.
Ms Kendall is backed by five Welsh MPs but no AMs, while Mr Corbyn has support from three AMs.
The winner, to be chosen by a vote of Labour party members, will be named on 12 September.


Texas is down to its final dose of lethal injection drugs after the US state executed a man on Wednesday.

States across the country have seen their drug inventories dwindle after European manufacturers opposed to capital punishment have refused to sell the lethal concoctions.
Manuel Vasquez was the fourth Texas inmate executed this year. Six more executions are set in the coming weeks.
Vasquez, a gang member, was convicted of strangling a San Antonio woman.
The 46-year-old man died 17 minutes after the drug was administered.
The sister of his victim, 51-year-old Juanita Ybarra, was among witnesses watching through a window. Vasquez killed Ybarra in 1998 over a drug debt, police said.
Vasquez, in a final statement, told his family and friends he loved them and thanked "the Lord for his kind mercy, faithfulness and unconditional love".
"In Jesus' name I pray," he said, then told the warden: "I'm ready".
Amid a shortage of the deadly drugs and concerns after several botched executions, US states are looking for alternatives to lethal injections.
The Utah Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that would resume the use of firing squads to carry out the death penalty if lethal injections drugs are not available.
Arkansas is also considering allowing firing squads while Oklahoma could approve the use nitrogen gas to execute inmates.


A German federal court has upheld the conviction of Auschwitz death camp guard Oskar Groening, who admitted witnessing murders but not taking part.

The verdict overturns a 1969 ruling that being a staff member at Auschwitz was not enough to secure a conviction.
Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff said it was the biggest change in years.
Groening, 95, who was known as "the bookkeeper of Auschwitz", had appealed against a four-year jail term handed down for being accessory to murder.
"This is a very dramatic and significant change in German prosecution policy," Mr Zuroff, the head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Israel, told the BBC.
Germany's Federal Court of Justice (BGH) upheld the acquittal 47 years ago of an SS dentist at Auschwitz, arguing that working at the death camp or knowing about the mass murders was not sufficient proof of guilt.
For decades, thousands of ex-Nazis who took part in the Holocaust escaped conviction. Monday's ruling sets a precedent for pursuing suspects, now in their nineties, accused of serving in death camps.
Campaigners said the federal court's ruling also cleared the way for prosecutions of ex-members of the Nazi mobile death squads known as Einsatzgruppen, which operated in Eastern Europe.  They believe at least eight suspects could now be accused of murder because their membership of the death squads would be sufficient proof.
At the original trial in Lueneburg, presiding Judge Franz Kompisch said Groening was part of the "machinery of death", helping the camp function smoothly and also collecting money stolen from the victims to help the Nazi cause.
He sentenced him for being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 Jews even though there was no evidence of involvement in a specific killing.
Groening testified at that trial that he oversaw the collection of prisoners' belongings and ensured valuables and cash were separated to be sent to Berlin.
The turning point came in 2011, when former Ohio car factory worker John Demjanjuk became the first person convicted in Germany for serving as a death camp guard without any evidence of being involved in a specific killing.
But Demjanjuk, who always denied serving at the Sobibor camp, died in 2012 before his appeal could be heard, so the Federal Court of Justice did not at the time reverse its 1969 ruling.
Prosecutors will now have to decide whether Groening is in good enough health to serve the sentence.
'Book-keeper of Auschwitz'


Commemorations are being held to mark 100 years since the start of one of the bloodiest battles in history.

More than one million men were wounded or killed in the Battle of the Somme during World War One.
An overnight vigil was held at Scotland's National War Memorial in Edinburgh.
A whistle, which was sounded to lead men over the top, was blown by a Scots soldier to mark, to the minute, 100 years since the battle began.
Alan Hamilton blew a whistle used by his great uncle at 07:30 on Friday.
Service personnel and veterans groups were among those keeping a silent vigil throughout the night.
It is one of a series of similar events planned across the UK.
The Queen and Prince Philip will join the congregation at Westminster Abbey in London for an evening vigil.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry will attend evening events at the Thiepval Memorial in France, where 70,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers with no known grave are commemorated.
A two-minute silence was held on Friday morning.
The Somme offensive followed a week-long bombardment of enemy defences designed to allow allied troops to walk through the German lines.
The reality was very different, with 57,470 British soldiers killed or injured in the first day alone.
It lasted 141 days and hardly a family in Scotland was unaffected by the carnage.


A motorcyclist who died following an accident on Newport's Eastern Distributor Road has been named as 35-year-old Robert William Freeman from Bristol.

The A4810 between the Tesco Distribution Centre and Gwent Europark near Magor was closed after the incident at 01:45 GMT on Tuesday.
No other vehicle was involved, and an appeal has been made for witnesses.
Police said Mr Freeman's family is being supported by specialist officers.


Sixteen sports, 30 Olympic sessions, one dream honeymoon.

Kirsty and Matt Hardman may just be the Team GB super fans of the 2016 Olympic Games, after taking venue-hopping, event-watching and selfie-gathering to podium level.
The couple, from Fakenham in Norfolk, started planning an Olympic honeymoon when they got engaged in 2014.
While chasing Team GB around Rio, they have met medallists such as Andy Murray and Jessica Ennis-Hill - and they aren't done yet, as the hunt for tickets goes on for the two PE teachers.
"To sum up the experience, it has literally been the trip of a lifetime and the best possible honeymoon we could have ever wished for," said Kirsty, who married Matt a year ago after over four years together.
The couple have been to the opening ceremony, football, rowing, beach volleyball, basketball, tennis, gymnastics, track cycling, swimming, show jumping, BMX, canoe slalom, athletics, volleyball, diving, boxing, and rugby sevens.
"Being in the venue for all of these events was such incredible experiences and it felt great to be part of seeing history in the making," added Kirsty.
"We've met lots of GB athletes at the events and on the park and they have been very generous with their time, so grateful of the support and to see GB fans out here."
While some couples ask for white goods or crockery as wedding gifts, the Hardmans wanted to see Mo Farah win 10,000m gold and so instead sought help from loved ones in the shape of tickets, flights and accommodation.
So, was it worth it?
"Tokyo 2020, here we come," added Kirsty.


Welsh police working out in France have praised the behaviour of fans in Toulouse who watched Wales beat Russia 3-0 and top their Euro 2016 group.

No arrests were made as good-natured partying went on in the city until the sun rose on Tuesday morning.
Aaron Ramsey, Neil Taylor and Gareth Bale each found the net to take Wales through to the final 16.
The supporters' group is meeting Uefa officials to discuss ticketing issues for the next game in Paris in Saturday.
Wales are still waiting to learn which opponent they will face in the Parc des Princes stadium in the French capital.
Paul Corkery from the Football Supporters' Federation Cymru told BBC Wales that, at present, fans needed to have a voucher with their name on it to exchange for tickets in Paris and warned them not to buy vouchers off touts or other fans as they would not be able to exchange them.
He said: "The portal will reopen for tickets that are being returned, which is a difficult process in itself, especially over a few days.
"The problem we have is you'll get England fans now offering their vouchers to the Welsh fans, and unless the England fans can physically get to Paris and exchange their vouchers for tickets and then sell those tickets, that's fine, but a voucher is worthless until you exchange it for tickets.
"We are looking into it with Uefa. We're having a meeting with them today."
He asked fans looking for tickets to "sit tight" for a few days.
For those in Wales looking to go out to Paris on Saturday, Cardiff Airport said it was still working on plans for what they expected to be a busy weekend.
Cowbridge-based Strachan's Sports Travel said they were chartering a flight from Cardiff to Paris's Charles De Gaulle airport on Saturday and had sold 110 seats so far.
A spokesman told BBC Wales the size of the aircraft chosen would depend on the number of seats sold, with a planned departure time of 11:00 BST and return at 23:30 local time.
"We have more than one option for aircraft," he said.
"We're getting calls every two minutes."
Gullivers Sports Travel, the Football Association of Wales' official travel partner, are also offering bus travel only from Cardiff, Swansea and Wrexham.
Following the game, goal-scorer Bale said the performance was "the best I've ever been involved in since I've been here".
Social media lit up following their emphatic victory, with players, pundits and fans alike sharing their joy online.
Former Wales internationals Robbie Savage and John Hartson, both pundits at the Euros, posted a video of themselves in a taxi singing what has become the unofficial anthem of the tournament, "Don't Take Me Home".


League Two strugglers Dagenham & Redbridge have signed Peterborough United forward Kyle Vassell on loan until 2 January.

The 22-year-old joined Peterborough from non-league Bishop's Stortford in November 2013 and had a loan spell at Oxford United last season.
Vassell has made seven appearances for Posh this season without scoring.
"Kyle will give us more competition for places up front," Daggers boss Wayne Burnett told the club website.
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Pupils in Powys are being told to use a Monopoly-style game to learn business skills.

The council hopes Business Battle's strategies, inspired by classic board games including Risk and Battleship, will help teach business skills.
It teaches the principles of manufacturing a product, releasing it into a crowded market and maintaining interest and profit with marketing.
Powys' trading standards is encouraging secondary schools to use it.


Mark Carney has said that inflation will rise on products such as food because of the fall in the value of the pound.

The governor of the Bank of England made clear that sterling's fall "helps the economy adjust".
However, he said it was "going to get difficult [for those on the lowest incomes] as we move from no inflation to some inflation".
He said that food would be the first to experience price rises.
More broadly, Mr Carney said goods and services would see higher inflation over the next "few years".
"It will show up," he said.
Mr Carney, who was speaking at a public roundtable with charities and other third sector organisations in Nottingham, said it was not the Bank's job to target the value of sterling but that "we are not indifferent to it, it matters to the conduct of monetary policy".
He said the Bank had to "weigh increased inflation against supporting the economy" with low interest rates.
The pound recovered most of the days losses against the dollar following his comments.
Yields on 10-year UK government bonds rose more than 10 basis points to 1.149% - their highest level since the Brexit vote - as investors bet the currency's recent falls would send inflation higher.
Earlier, Mr Carney said that the Bank of England was willing to see an "overshoot" of its 2% inflation target if it meant supporting economic growth and protecting jobs.
Between 400,000 and 500,000 jobs could have been at risk if the Bank had not taken action after the referendum, he said.
"We are willing to tolerate a bit of an overshoot [on inflation] to avoid unnecessary unemployment. We moved interest rates down to support the economy."
The Bank cut interest rates and provided more monetary stimulus in August after the vote to leave the European Union.
Mr Carney said long-term economic prosperity could not be guaranteed by the Bank: "We can mess it up, we can't make it. We provide the foundations, not the end."
With the fall in the value of sterling, some economists now predict that inflation will hit 3% by the end of next year as imports of products such as food and fuel become more expensive.
On the issue of inequality, Mr Carney said: "We care a lot about distribution. But we are not a political entity."
He said many people were still "scarred" by the financial crisis.
But he argued it was for the government to decide on policies to tackle issues such as globalisation, technological change and skills education.


The most Earth-like planet yet has been discovered, scientists report in the journal Science.

The rocky planet, Kepler 186f, is close to the size of Earth and has the potential to hold liquid water, which is critical for life, the team says.
Nestled in the Milky Way, it is part of a five-planet system that orbits around a cool dwarf star.
It was spotted by the Kepler telescope, which has found nearly 1,000 new worlds since its launch in 2009.
"This is the smallest planet we've found so far in the habitable zone," said Prof Stephen Kane, an astrophysicist from San Francisco State University, US.
Kepler 186f is about 500 light-years away from the Earth.
The researchers estimate that is a little bigger than our planet, with a radius that is about 10% larger than ours.
Because of its size, the team believes it is a rocky planet.
Prof Kane explained: "There seems to be a transition that occurs at about 1.5 times the Earth's radius, such that if the planet is larger, then it starts to develop a very substantial atmosphere very similar to what we see in the gas giant planets in our own Solar System.
"And so anything less than 1.5 is probably more like a rocky planet that we are familiar with."
Kepler 186f travels around a small and cool star. Of the five planets in the system, its orbit is furthest out and lasts about 130 days.
The team believes that it has the potential to hold water because with this orbital path it does not journey too close to its star for the liquid to boil away or so far out that it would freeze. Scientists call this region the "habitable zone".
Prof Kane said: "Even though it is orbiting a star which is very different from our Sun, the planet itself - both in terms of size and the amount of energy it is receiving from its star - is the most similar planet to our Earth that we've yet discovered.
"That is great news in terms of looking for planets which might actually be similar to the Earth, especially as the kind of star it does orbit - which is a very small star - are amongst the most common in the galaxy.
"And if all of these very common small stars have lots of terrestrial-sized planets in the habitable zone then that is very good news."
However, these small stars also tend to be more active than stars the size of the Sun.
So if Kepler 186f does have water - an essential ingredient for life - any potential organisms would be bombarded with solar flares and radiation.
The hunt for planets outside of our own Solar System has made remarkable advances in recent years.
The first was found just 20 years ago; now, nearly 2,000 have been spotted - many by the Kepler telescope.
However, a planet that is the same size as Earth, orbiting a star like the Sun, at the same distance has yet to be seen.
Such a find will almost certainly come with future technologies. The European Space Agency recently approved the development of an orbiting telescope called Plato, which will be tuned specifically to detect true Earth analogues.
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A man who died after suffering a chest wound has been named as Shkelzen Dauti.

The 21-year-old died in hospital after he was found in the road in Gilpin Close, Southampton in the early hours of Saturday.
Hampshire Constabulary said his death was being treated as suspicious and investigations into the circumstances are continuing.
The force said Mr Dauti, was better known as Genny, and was originally from Albania.
Detectives have urged anyone who knew or worked with him or knew his movements leading up the early hours of Saturday, to get in touch.
Det Chf Insp Ellie Hurd said: "It remains unclear at the current time as to how he came to be injured.
"We want to hear from anyone who can help us build a better understanding about Genny's life in Southampton."
No arrests have been made and a cordon remains in place in Gilpin Close, police said.


The city of Baltimore says it has reached a proposed $6.4 million (Â£4.2M) wrongful death settlement with the family of Freddie Gray.

Six Baltimore police officers face criminal charges for the death of Gray, who died of a critical spine injury while in police custody in April.
Riots, looting and violence shook the city in the days following the black 25-year-old's death.
The city will propose the settlement to its Board of Estimates on Wednesday.
Gray was in the back of a prisoner transport van when he was injured.
His death is of one of several involving black Americans and police which has spurred national debate, unrest and various social justice movements.
Baltimore police have admitted he was not secured by a seatbelt, as required by law, and he was denied medical attention while in the van.
The settlement would "resolve all civil claims related to the City of Baltimore, the Baltimore Police Department, individual Baltimore Police offers and any other persons or institutions who might be deemed responsible for the death of Mr Gray," according to a statement from Baltimore Mayor Stephanie-Rawlings Blake.
The payment does not resolve any "factual disputes" surrounding his death and does not admit liability or fault on the part of the city or the police department, the statement added.
It is not a judgement on the guilt or innocence of the officers facing trial, said Ms Rawlings-Blake.
The total payment being proposed for Gray's case is more than the total paid out by the city for more than 120 other lawsuits against the Baltimore Police Department since 2011, the Baltimore Sun newspaper reports.
The officers facing criminal charges ranging from false imprisonment to involuntary manslaughter have pleaded not guilty.
Dates for their trials have not been set yet.


People have been using Your Questions to ask us what they want to know about the West Midlands.

You wanted to know why parts of Leicestershire have a Coventry postcode.
You asked about the origins of some unusual street names in Shropshire.
And you were curious to find out why Longton in Stoke-on-Trent was known as "neck end". Here is how we got on answering your questions.
Shrewsbury has many narrow, cobbled and winding streets with names including Bear Steps, Fish Street and Grope Lane.
Historian Keith Pybus said he believed it could be because the town retains a lot of old alleys.
He said while the names of larger roads were renamed for big historical events and important people, the smaller ones preserved their medieval names.
Another historian, David Trumper, said the town once had more of these medieval names, such as Ox Lane, Corvisors Row and Pig Hill, but they have either been re-named or absorbed into other streets.
He also explained that Bear Steps was named after the Bear Inn pub, which used to be there and Fish Street was named after an open air fish market.
Meanwhile, Grope Lane got its name because it's where prostitutes used to gather - use your imagination on that one.
Places like Market Bosworth, Higham on the Hill and Congerstone in Leicestershire all have a CV13 postcode which stands for Coventry.
It can cause confusion over the whereabouts of local attractions, like Twycross Zoo, which has a CV9 postcode but is within the Leicestershire border.
Royal Mail said postcodes started in 1959 to ensure the accurate sorting, routing and delivery of post and do not necessarily reflect geographical boundaries.
The postcode for a street is determined by its nearest postal town, not the county it is in.  So as parts of west Leicestershire are closer to Coventry than Leicester, they have a CV postcode.
Royal Mail said organisations who use postcode data shouldn't solely rely on the post town and recommend using other ways to identify locations.
Longton is one of the six towns which make up Stoke-on-Trent.
Richard Cresswell, president of the Longton Chamber of Trade, said the nickname came about because Longton "rests" at the southernmost tip of the city.
Hence it's seen by some living there as at the "neck end" of Stoke-on-Trent.
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The city of Los Angeles in the United States has declared its growing problem of homelessness a public emergency.

City officials say they will commit $100m (£65m) to tackle the problem.
An estimated 26,000 people live on the city's streets, 12% more than two years ago.
Experts say high rents, low wages and unemployment are to blame for the rise. Officials admit that the present policy amounts to little more than moving the problem around the city.
The plan was announced by Mayor Eric Garcetti, who is heading the city's bid to host the 2024 Olympics.
Tents and tarpaulins can now be seen clustered on pavements across the city - and far beyond the central Skid Row district, historically a magnet for the city's homeless.
"Every single day we come to work, we see folks lying on this grass, a symbol of our city's intense crisis," Mayor Garcetti, a Democrat, said at a news conference.
"The city has pushed this problem from neighbourhood to neighbourhood for too long."
According to one recent report, 13,000 people in Los Angeles County become homeless each month.
Homelessness means sleeping outside or in an emergency shelter or transitional housing program.
A lack of affordable housing, poverty (due to lack of jobs and declining public assistance), a lack of affordable health care, domestic violence, mental illness and addiction are all factors in homelessness.
Homelessness is declining nationwide, but the picture remains mixed, with some states and cities dramatically bucking that trend.
The decline is attributed to the economic recovery in the US - most notably the fall in unemployment figures.
From 2013 to 2014, the national rate of homelessness fell to 18.3 homeless people per 10,000 people in the general population (0.18%), but the rate in individual states ranged from 120 in Washington DC to seven in Mississippi.
Sources: National Alliance to End Homelessness, National Coalition for the Homeless, US Census
The mayor and seven other elected officials declared the situation an emergency on Tuesday, saying they would find $100m in the 2016 budget to devote to addressing the problem.
The money still has to be approved by the city council.
It might be used to increase the provision of homeless shelters, use public facilities such as schools and parks as emergency housing and facilitate the construction of affordable housing, officials suggested.
A further $13m of unexpected income in this year's budget will also be earmarked to alleviate homelessness.
But critics point out that it is unclear where the $100m would come from and say a plan previously announced by the mayor on homelessness has yet to be enacted.
Gary Blasi, a UCLA professor and homelessness expert, told media outlets the plan was a positive step for a government which has focussed until now on trying to clamp down on homeless encampments.
But he said previous grand schemes had "never made it off paper" and pointed out that given the scale of the problem, $100m did not amount to much.
The problem, experts say, stems from rising housing costs and an unequal economic recovery - a problem mirrored in other cities such as San Francisco and New York.


Syrian forces with their Lebanese Hezbollah allies are carrying out a major offensive against rebels holding the strategically important town of Zabadani, state TV says.

Zabadani, north-west of the capital, Damascus, is the last significant town held by Sunni Muslim rebels in an area close to the Lebanese border.
Hezbollah's al-Manar TV showed large clouds of smoke from explosions caused by artillery and air strikes.
Reports say civilians have fled.
The rebels remaining in the town are thought to have been reinforced by hundreds of fighters who fled hills on the nearby Lebanese border. They were ejected from the hills by Hezbollah, a Shia Muslim force.
Attempts to negotiate a peaceful outcome to the conflict in Zabadani failed, al-Manar reported.
The battle for the town had been looming for some days, the BBC's Jim Muir reports from Lebanon.
Zabadani is strategically placed near the main highway linking Damascus to Beirut and rebel control there has long been a thorn in the Syrian government's side, our correspondent adds.
State TV quoted a Syrian army source as saying its forces were "making headway on several fronts" and the rebels had suffered heavy casualties.
Reports of fighting for Zabadani come after more clashes on Thursday and Friday in the northern city of Aleppo.
Syrian forces carried out air strikes in response to a rebel assault on several government-held areas. The state news agency Sana said the attack had been repelled and 100 rebels killed.
The rebels have driven government forces out of several areas in the countryside to the north of the city in recent months. They have also taken almost all of the neighbouring province of Idlib.
The uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began in March 2011 and since then more than 230,000 people are believed to have been killed.
Some 11.5 million others - more than half of the country's population - have fled their homes.
The uprising includes Western-backed rebels and several Islamist fighting groups. Islamic State militants control large parts of north-eastern Syria and western Iraq.


An armed officer who Tasered a man found killing a woman in a hostel has told an inquest the attack was "the most horrendous thing" he had seen.

Matthew Williams attacked Cerys Yemm, 22, at the Sirhowy Arms Hotel in Argoed on 6 November 2014.
PC Alan Cotterell said Williams "looked possessed" when he confronted him in the hotel room after a 999 call.
Williams was Tasered four times, the officer claimed. He was arrested and later died.
The Taser-trained officer told the Newport inquest he recognised Williams' name when it was given over the radio.
PC Cotterell said: "I have never been more scared in my entire life.
"I spoke to him but he was looking possessed. There was an angry sort of look and his eyes were almost all black."
PC Cotterell said he had dealt with Williams a few times previously, the first being in 2012 when Williams was Tasered by another officer and it had not worked.
He understood firearms officers were engaged to use deadly force if required, he said, adding there had been a discussion about whether the Taser-trained officers should go into the room or just "contain" the scene and wait for the firearms officers.
PC Cotterell said he knew Williams was a "rather large, violent male" and shouted at him that he was armed and should move away from Ms Yemm's body.
But Williams lay on the floor "snarling and growling" as he refused to listen.
The PC then decided to fire his Taser at Williams, holding it for seven seconds instead of the usual five-second blast.
Williams started to try and get up again "lifting up the officers as if we weren't even there".
PC Cotterell said: "In my opinion he was trying to get to his feet to carry on the attack.
"He would've caused further damage to Miss Yemm and we would've been struggling to restrain and contain him."
Three more Taser shots were fired - one hitting him between the eyes. Williams was then arrested at the scene and later died.
Earlier, Raymond Miles, who let police into Williams' room during the attack, told the jury he thought officers' actions were justified.
Mr Miles described hearing "thumping and grunting" inside the room and said he was fearful "something truly awful" was happening.
The husband of the Caerphilly county hostel's owner told the jury he opened the door to let officers in, after asking "if they were ready".
He described seeing Williams on top of Ms Yemm, saying it was "clear that Cerys was dead" and that Williams was still attacking her face with "his hands on her eyes or in her mouth".
Mr Miles agreed police needed to restrain Williams and needed to use force to do it and said he did not believe officers used too much.
The inquest continues.


A man who was not qualified to drive and had no insurance has admitted causing the death of his friend by careless driving.

William McIntyre, 28, had "partied" all day with 25-year-old John Wilson before the crash on Great Western Road, Glasgow, on 26 January 2014.
Glasgow Sheriff Court heard he lost control of the car, which hit a tree. Mr Wilson died at the scene.
Sentence on McIntyre was deferred until a later date.
The court heard that McIntyre, from Drumchapel, Glasgow, and Mr Wilson, had been going for cigarettes when the crash happened.
McIntyre held only a provisional driving licence which he had obtained eight days earlier.
The tree which the car struck crushed the passenger area of the car, including the window and roof.
When emergency services arrived they saw that Mr Wilson had been killed and McIntyre was unconscious in the driver's seat.
He was taken to the Western Infirmary, and while there, under the Road Traffic Act, a blood sample was taken from him while unconscious.
He was in a critical condition for several days.
Police spoke to him on 25 February and asked him about the crash but he said he had no recollection.
He also refused for the blood sample taken from him to be analysed for alcohol or drugs.
Father-of-three McIntyre, who has more than 20 previous convictions, pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving, driving without insurance and refusing to give permission for a specimen of blood to be analysed.


Multiple world enduro champion David Knight could race alongside John McGuinness on the track next season.

Knight met up with the Jackson racing team in Spain this week for testing, with a view to helping them during the Endurance World Championship (EWC).
Team manager Alan Jackson said the move was sparked after a change in the EWC calendar meant a round in Portugal will clash with the TT races.
Knight, 36, said the chance to work with the team is a "great opportunity".
The Jackson racing team includes 23-time TT winner John McGuinness, fellow Manx rider Conor Cummins and Steve Mercer.
Knight continued: "It is a very strong line-up so maybe I can assist them this season."
Alan Jackson said the calendar change has left the team with a logistical headache to get equipment from the Isle of Man to Portugal.
He said: "Obviously John and Conor's race priorities will fall with the TT races and we understand.
"But we need a contingency and may require an additional rider. If that could be David I would be confident that we are giving Jackson Racing the best opportunity."


There are concerns that dogs are being used to poach deer in Cumbria.

Poachers usually use search-lights and rifles, but The South Lakes Deer Management Group said it was becoming more common to use specially-trained lurchers to hunt.
In the past year the remains of 17 deer, thought to have been killed by dogs, have been found within a three-mile radius of the village of Rusland.
The management group condemned the poaching as "despicably cruel".
It is also concerned that venison is being sold via the black market despite it containing dog bite marks and with no checks for disease or contamination.
'Hit and miss'
A spokesperson for the group said: "The continuing use of despicably cruel methods by poachers is an affront to our native deer and to those people who live and work in the countryside where the deer are to be found.
"We understand that deer numbers need to be controlled, to ensure a healthy and balanced deer population - but every time a poacher takes a deer without regard to age, gender or condition of the animal, that balance is much more difficult to achieve."
Paul Harris, from Operation Samurai, the Cumbria Police anti-poaching operation said that it was not easy to catch those responsible.
He said:  "We're just patrolling hoping to stop someone who's a likely target.  It's very much hit and miss though."


Two people have been rescued from a top floor flat in the Scottish Borders after a fire broke out.

Scottish Fire and Rescue Service were called to the flat in Beech Avenue, Galashiels, at about 03:30 on Saturday.
The fire is believed to have started in the kitchen.
Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus guided a man and a woman from the flat. The couple were treated by an ambulance crew at the scene.


Ex-football coach Barry Bennell has appeared in court charged with a further 14 counts of sexual abuse.

The charges, which include indecent assault and serious sexual assault, involve four boys who were aged between 11 and 14 at the time.
The former Crewe Alexandra youth coach now faces a total of 55 charges, relating to alleged offences between 1979 and 1991.
The 63-year-old denied all accusations during previous court appearances.
He appeared via video link for the hearing at South Cheshire Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, speaking only to confirm his name, age and that he understood the charges.
He was remanded in custody and will appear at Liverpool Crown Court on 17 July.
Mr Bennell coached a number of junior teams in north-west England and the Midlands, some with associations to Manchester City and Stoke City.