BBC global health reporter Tulip Mazumdar shares her experiences from Ebola-stricken Sierra Leone, where UK aid workers will soon be joining the race to stem this deadly disease outbreak.

Today we're heading into a village just outside Freetown for what's called "community sensitisation". This is about telling people what Ebola is, how to spot it and how to stop it spreading.
We drive down a mud road into a valley where wooden and tin shacks line a small stream. It's a very poor area. We watch women washing clothes in the water, while men wash and shine their motorcycles further upstream.
Save the Children has trained dozens of local volunteers to help deliver important messages about Ebola to this community. Around 50 meet at the local health clinic (the home of a nurse who's converted half her house into a health centre).
When I arrive, they burst into song. "Welcome, Welcome, Welcome" they bellow out with huge smiles across their faces.
This village, thankfully, hasn't had any Ebola cases so far. But our team has to be very careful. Lots of people gather and there's plenty of jostling.
We have to be extra careful not to bump into anyone. Our biosecurity advisor Mac pulls at my backpack and gently removes me from an excited crowd.
This community is well informed about Ebola. The volunteers have been here before and are following up to see whether people are taking their advice. Children run over and show me how they wash their hands properly, rubbing in-between their fingers.
One woman shouts from her house: "DO NOT TOUCH DEAD BODIES". Her son follows with: "IF SOMEONE IS SICK, TAKE THEM TO HOSPITAL."
They are well drilled and it seems this crucial knowledge is helping keep Ebola away from this community, for now.
The community nurse Joyce asks for a photo with our team and her staff. We gather around, all the time everyone shouting and laughing: "No touching, no touching!"
It's midnight, and it's time to head back to the UK. We make the boat journey back from Freetown to Lunghi airport. Washing my hands with chlorine has almost become second nature now, as is standing in line waiting for my temperature to be checked.
The aircraft we board has come with passengers from Liberia. The pilot and the aircrew are all wearing latex gloves. So far, all exported cases from West Africa have arrived into other countries on planes like this one.
It's a sobering thought. My temperature is checked for a final time before I am allowed to board. 36.4C (97.5F).
It's been a tough trip. I've seen so much sadness and desperation, but I've also seen great resilience, dedication, kindness and bravery.
It's an early start today to begin editing the material we've gathered over the past few days. There are lots of different global and UK-based programmes across BBC News, on radio, TV and online, and we want to get the stories from the people we've spoken to out across as many of them as possible.
We set up our live position on the roof of our hotel. Trying to do live reporting from outside the hotel is much more risky because of how widespread Ebola has now become. We don't want crowds gathering around us. Our bio-security adviser, Mac, checks our location is safe, and we set up.
It's been so hectic these past few days, but as I'm getting ready for my first live broadcast, at 17:00 on the BBC News channel, I find a moment to look behind me and take in the incredible view of this beautiful city. I see lush forested hills curving around the gentle Atlantic ocean. The calm doesn't last long though as clouds gather and a storm brews.
After a few false starts and dropping off live programmes mid-sentence because of heavy rain and thunder, our satellite signal comes back, and we're off.
Then soon after 18:00, just as one of the BBC World presenters is about to introduce me live, my producer, Mark, runs over and tells me some terrible news. Francis Samuka, whom we watched being turned away from a treatment centre yesterday, has died. His family has called and told us he passed away at an isolation centre a few hours ago. His sister could barely speak when she was delivering the news, she was wailing with sorrow. My heart sinks... and then I hear the presenter in my earpiece saying: "Tulip, what's the latest?"
I explain what's happened, all the time thinking of Francis' bloodshot eyes and the look of despair I saw in him just the day before.
I am glad we were able to tell Francis Samuka's story. It's important people know this is happening on a daily basis across West Africa. It underlines why governments here and global aid agencies continue to plead for more international help, so patients like Francis can be treated, instead of being turned away.
We've been told about a small Italian non-governmental organisation called Emergency that has very recently set up a new treatment centre just outside the capital, so we're heading there today.
When we pull up, we see a carload of people looking angry and desperate. We stay close to our vehicle - keeping our distance - but shout over to them and ask what's wrong.
"My brother Francis is sick, and they won't take him at this centre. They say they are full. What are we supposed to do? We've been travelling from hospital to hospital all day and no-one will take him."
I peer into the car. Francis is sitting in the passenger seat staring into space. His eyes are red, and he has the hiccups - both are clear symptoms of Ebola. After almost an hour of pleading, the family eventually give up. The five of them pile back into their car and drive away. Everyone in that vehicle is now potentially at risk of catching Ebola.
When we enter the treatment centre, I feel the helplessness and frustration of that family and I demand to know why they didn't allow that potentially dying man inside. Surely they can do something for him. The centre's co-ordinator, Luca Rolla, tells me their priority has to be their staff and the patients they are already treating. He tells me that they cannot go over capacity or they risk everyone else inside the centre. One of their doctors has already contracted the virus and is now being treated in Germany.
It's an impossible choice for these medics, and my frustration quickly pales in comparison to theirs. Luca has taken the family's details and if a bed becomes free anywhere in or around Freetown, he will let them know.
Luca tells me, what's needed right now is more international medics and training of local medics, and more isolation centres. Until then - he says - he will have to continue turning patients away, knowing full well they risk going back into the community and infecting yet more people.
While we're filming, Luca's phone rings, he picks up, smiles and waves us over. He's just had some news that a bed has become available at another centre for the family he had to turn away. He calls them immediately and tells them to go straight there.
Then we see another glimmer of hope. Three young girls are sitting patiently on stools in matching purple sarongs - just beyond the orange protective gates. They have survived Ebola and are getting ready to go home.
Today we are filming at the country's main referral hospital - Connaught Hospital in central Freetown. As we enter, I see a woman in a purple and pink shirt lying on a bench, with her head in her hands. She looks extremely unwell. This area is where patients showing symptoms of Ebola come for help, but the help is limited.
This isn't a treatment centre; it's an isolation ward within the hospital. People have to travel many miles from here by ambulance to get proper supportive treatment. There are just 18 beds in this hospital, and they are all full.
The latest patient to arrive is a one-month-old baby. Ebola killed both his parents overnight. The chances are he is also infected and will die within days. All medics can do is feed him and hold him through protective suits. I am reminded of my trip to Guinea a couple of months back, when I was covering this outbreak. Back then, I watched the body of a four-month-old baby lowered into the ground. Ebola also killed his mother. It's heart-breaking to imagine the most likely outcome for this other tiny baby.
As we are leaving the hospital, a black truck pulls up. The burial team is here to remove two bodies and bury them in the nearby cemetery. We watch and then follow the makeshift hearse to these victims' final resting place.
A whole area is cordoned off just for suspected and confirmed Ebola victims. Walking into it is eerie and tragic. There are hundreds of graves, most dug very recently, with fresh mounds of mud on top of them. One or two have a cross or children's toys scattered on them. Most, though, are unmarked. What hits me is the sheer scale - 400 bodies buried here in a matter of weeks.
The burial team is efficient and almost jovial. I imagine it's the only way they can keep performing this grim task day in, day out. The cemetery supervisor, Abdul Rahman Parker, tells me he's been ostracised by his community - people are scared of him now because he handles the bodies of Ebola victims. But he says he doesn't care, and that Sierra Leone needs him to continue doing this job, even if its people don't realise it.
The day ends with the burial teams throwing their protective clothing - gloves, masks and body suits - into the last grave. It's starting to rain again. We remove our protective suits and put them in a yellow biohazard bag, which the burial team disposes of. We spray ourselves with disinfectant, and silently head back to our hotel.
It's pitch black when we arrive at Lunghi airport at 01:00 local time, and the rain is coming down heavily. The journey, which before this outbreak took six hours from London, has taken us 20 hours. No airline flies direct to Sierra Leone from the UK anymore, so we have two stopovers - one in Paris and one in Casablanca.
Not that we were in any doubt, but it doesn't take long to establish all is far from well in Sierra Leone.
Before we're allowed into the main terminal building, we are ushered towards two large red containers filled with chlorine. Everyone silently adheres to washing their hands before entering. We're immediately handed "health declaration" forms asking us - among other things - where we've travelled in the past eight weeks and whether we are suffering with fever, diarrhoea or vomiting.
We're also given a leaflet explaining what Ebola is and how it spreads. Disturbing animations show cartoon people squatting, passing blood in their urine and faeces. Similar posters are plastered all through the arrivals hall.
We pass through immigration - but before we are allowed to claim our baggage, men in gloves and white coats stop us again.
One of the men gives me a big, reassuring smile and then places a temperature gauge a few inches from my head. He says: "36.5 degrees: you can pass."
Our driver meets us at arrivals. I instinctively go to shake his hand and then immediately withdraw. He smiles and pats his chest instead - this is the new Sierra Leone handshake. "Welcome to Freetown," he says.
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Ribchester was an impressive winner of the Group One Lockinge Stakes at Newbury for owners Godolphin.

The 7-4 favourite, ridden by William Buick for trainer Richard Fahey, won by three and three-quarter lengths from Lightning Spear. Breton Rock was third.
It was a fourth Lockinge win in five seasons for Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin team.
Godolphin's intended pacemaker Toscanini broke slowly and Ribchester led all the way from the front.
Last year's 2,000 Guineas winner Galileo Gold appeared unsettled before the race and finished fifth.
Ribchester is expected to head to Royal Ascot in June and is about 7-4 favourite for the Queen Anne Stakes.
"I've got to say he's the best horse I've ever trained," said Fahey.
Buick, who received a five-day ban for a riding offence at York on Friday that rules him out of next month's Oaks and Derby at Epsom, said he had yet to decide whether to appeal.
BBC racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght
Ribchester is apt to run too 'freely', thereby using up too much energy too early, and consequently a stablemate was employed to ensure the pace and hopefully calm things down.
However, that pacemaker, Toscanini, had a slow start and Ribchester ended up leading most of the way, something that might have caused all kinds of dramas.
However, here he looked quite the old pro, winning readily.


Green entrepreneur Arthur Kay wants the red buses that have become a landmark of London to run on fuel generated by coffee waste.

He runs Biobean, a start-up which is gathering waste from coffee chains such as Costa and converting it into liquid fuel.
The firm is due to unveil a coffee-run bus in the capital in a few weeks.
In London, the need to get cleaner air is vital - the dense road network coupled with high buildings make it one of the most polluted places in the UK.
"We are going through a period of energy divergence where we are moving from a fossil-fuel based society to one that is increasingly diversified. Bio-fuel will be crucial to that," said Mr Kay.
The biochemical method by which oil is extracted from a pile of coffee grounds is patented but uses a process which evaporates the grounds via something known as hexane extraction.
It extracts around 15 to 20% of oil and the remaining mass is turned into bio-mass pellets which can be burnt as fuel in wood burners.
And, said Mr Kay, there is always a ready supply of ingredients.
"As long as people are still drinking coffee, there will be coffee waste.
"In the UK, people consume 500,000 tonnes of coffee each year, and if we could use all of it we could power a city such as Manchester," he said
Lots of countries are starting to see the benefits of  bio-fuel, which can be made out of anything from chocolate to sewage.
Sweden created some unwanted headlines a few years ago when it used the carcasses of rabbits - being culled due to over-population - to make fuel.
But before that, Sweden had a long history of using bio-fuels and in the capital, Stockholm, 15,000 cars - many of which are taxis - and 300 buses are now run on bio-gas.
Initially bio-fuel was created from ethanol - which is generated from Brazilian sugar cane - but following concerns in the mid 1990s that this was unsustainable because it was also a food source - the country focused more on bio-gas, made as a by-product of methane in sewage.
In order to increase the use of bio-fuel, it converted the city's own vehicles which encouraged petrol stations to introduce bio-fuel pumps.
"Now we are examining new ways to generate bio-gas from food waste," said Gustaf Landahl, head of Stockholm's smart cities project.
That includes providing households with different coloured bags to allow them to sort organic waste more easily.
"The city air quality is much better now but there are still some streets that have a problem," he said.
That is due in part to the rise in popularity of diesel cars in recent years and the use of studded tyres, popular in Sweden during the winter months, which can also release pollutants.
In 2009 the EU decided that by 2020, 10% of transport in member nations should be powered by renewable energy but since then there has been a backlash about how sustainable some of these sources are.
"There have been concerns about certain bio-fuels, such as ethanol which is generated from corn or rape-seed because they are also edible and so there is a conflict with using the crops for food," explained Dr Cecilia Mondelli, a lecturer for the Advanced Catalysis Engineering group at ETH Zurich.
Making such material at scale is also problematic because it requires land to grow, added Dr Mondelli.
As a result, more attention has been focused on bio-fuel that can be generated from waste products such as coffee grounds.
"Even if you use a waste, this does not ensure that its conversion process has a mild ecologic impact. One needs to take into account other aspects, mainly the energy and chemical auxiliaries required and the waste produced, to estimate the sustainability of the process in a meaningful manner," said Dr Mondelli.
She believes that bio-fuels will remain "a fraction of our future energy system" alongside other sources such as hydrogen, methanol and renewables such as solar.
Some cities are choosing more conventional routes to improving air quality with many pursuing policies that favour electric vehicles.
Beijing is the latest to announce plans to convert its fleet of 70,000 taxis to electric, starting this year at a cost of around 9 billion yuan.
Norway currently boasts the world's highest number of electric cars per capita and in March announced that electric or hybrid cars represented half of new registrations in the country so far this year. Sales of electric cars accounted for more than 17% of new vehicle registrations in January, and hybrid vehicles 33.8%.
Cars with combustion engines are heavily taxed in Norway while electric vehicles are exempt from almost all taxes. Owners also get free access to toll roads, ferries and parking at public car parks.
Back in London, car-maker Ford is partnering with Transport for London to pilot electric-only vans in the city.
The number of commercial vehicles has increased by 12% in cities as more and more people rely on fast deliveries of online goods.
"As cities grow, and London is growing by the equivalent of two full Tube trains every week, there will be a continuation of that trend," said Graham Hoare, Ford's chief engineer.
It forces city authorities to look for more innovative ways to reduce congestion and improve air quality.
Ford's trial will see 20 plug-in hybrid vans on the roads that will complete "the majority of drives" in electric mode, with a conventional engine available to take over on longer trips.
While electric trucks are not new, what makes this project more radical is the fact the firm will be geo-fencing London - effectively creating walls around the city, within which the vans must drive in full electric mode.
Telematics in the vans will allow engineers to reset this function if drivers are found to be emitting CO2 within the zone.
"It is not that we don't trust drivers," explained Mr Hoare. "It is more so we can guarantee the function of the vehicle in certain environments."


Three Russian athletes have been cleared to return to competition by the IAAF's doping review board.

Pole vaulter Anzhelika Sidorova, sprinter Kristina Sivkova and hammer thrower Aleksei Sokirskii all met the "exceptional eligibility criteria".
Russia's athletics federation remains suspended from international competition after claims of state-sponsored doping.
Sidorova, Sivkova and Sokirskii would compete as neutral athletes.
Their participation in competitions is still subject to approval by the organisers of individual events.
The three could compete in the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade and European Throwing Cup next month.
Long jumper Darya Klishina and sprinter Yulia Stepanova had previously been declared eligible and will remain so.
The IAAF has received 48 applications from Russian athletes to compete independently, 28 of which were endorsed by Russia's athletics federation.
In a statement, the IAAF said six applications had been declined, but did not give the names of the athletes in question.
Russian officials say they do not expect any more of their athletes to be cleared for the European Indoors as they expect the remaining rulings "no earlier than the middle of March".
IAAF president Lord Coe said: "The application process to compete internationally as neutral athletes is about our desire to support the hopes and aspirations of all clean athletes including Russian athletes who have been failed by their national system.
"While prioritising applications based upon the entry deadlines of the competitions concerned, the primary responsibility of the doping review board must always be to safeguard the integrity of competition."
Before last summer's Olympic Games in Rio, the governing body outlined "strict criteria" any Russian athletes must meet if they wanted to take part in the Games.
Only US-based Klishina was able to meet the criteria - and she entered as a neutral.


Mae Heddlu De Cymru wedi dweud eu bod bellach yn ymchwilio i achos o lofruddiaeth, yn dilyn marwolaeth dynes 59 oed.

Cafodd Janice Griffiths ei chludo i'r ysbyty yn dilyn ymosodiad yn Ffynnon Taf nos Lun, ond mae hi bellach wedi marw.
Mae dyn 22 oed wedi ei arestio, ac mae'n parhau i fod yn y ddalfa mewn uned iechyd meddwl ddiogel.
Dywedodd y Ditectif Brif Arolygydd, Ceri Hughes: "Mae hyn yn adeg hynod o drist i deulu Janice a chymuned Ffynnon Taf, ble roedd gan Janice lawer o ffrindiau.
"Hoffwn ddiolch i'r tystion wnaeth ymyrryd a gwneud popeth allen nhw, a'r staff meddygol weithiodd yn ddiflino i geisio achub Janice.
"Rydym yn cynnig cefnogaeth i deulu Janice ac mae gennym ni swyddogion heddlu ychwanegol yn y gymuned i dawelu meddyliau trigolion."


Scotland coach-in-waiting Shelley Kerr believes there has never been a better time to take over despite Tuesday's 5-0 defeat by Belgium.

The Scots, presently under Anna Signeul, were under strength because of injuries for the warm-up friendly ahead of his summer's Euro 2017 finals.
"The ranking positions we're increasing all the time and it really is in a good place," said Kerr.
"So let's see what the Euros bring for us and hopefully we can build on that."
Kerr, manager of Stirling University's men's team in the Scottish Lowland League, will inherit the national squad in June after Signeul ends her term in charge at the finals in the Netherlands.
And former Kilmarnock, Doncaster Rovers Belles, and Hibernian defender Kerr, who ended her playing career with Spartans in 2010, remains enthusiastic that Scottish women's football is heading in the right direction and the national team are currently 21st in the world rankings.
"The standard has certainly increased since I stopped playing, that's for sure," said the 47-year-old.
"They are more professional, they are better educated in terms of their whole holistic approach of becoming elite athletes and I think it's great so many of our national team players are playing in a professional environment."
Kerr managed women's teams at Kilmarnock, Hibs, Spartans, Scotland Under-19s and Arsenal before becoming the first woman to take control of a British senior men's team in 2014.
"The difference between female players and male players, it's the dynamics that are perhaps different, but we still have the aspirations of getting to the very, very top level, but it's all about hard work," said the Scot, whose current side lie fourth in the tier below the Scottish Professional Football League.
Kerr admitted that it would be "really challenging" to continue Scotland's rise up the world rankings but thought "it's a great time to take over" and that they were capable of progressing from a Euros group containing England, Portugal and Spain.
"It's an absolute honour, it's a privilege, I'm extremely proud," she said.
"As you can imagine, as a young kid growing up playing football, and especially as a young girl, I had dreams of representing my country and I was really fortunate to do that.
"But to actually get the opportunity to lead the women's national team is a dream come true for me."
Scottish FA performance director Malky Mackay said Kerr was the stand-out candidate to take over from Signeul, who is quitting to take over the Finnish national team.
"Anna and the team will plan for everything between now and going to the Euros and in the Euros, so Shelley will be going in a watching basis only," he explained.
"Shelley will concentrate on everything after the Euros."


Scotland should create a new middle income tax band after greater powers are devolved to Holyrood next year, a commission set up by the Scottish Conservatives has suggested.

The commission said the move would prevent many "aspirational families" being drawn into the higher tax rate.
It suggested the new rate should be between the current 20% and 40% bands.
Its report also said taxes in Scotland should be lower than the rest of the UK "when affordable".
And it called for the council tax to be reformed to make it fairer.
The commission was headed by former CBI Scotland head Sir Iain McMillan, and was tasked with looking at how the Scottish Parliament could use new and existing powers to boost economic growth.
Its report recommended that the new "middle band" of income tax should be set at about 30%, and warned politicians against raising the upper rate of tax, which it said could "drive out wealth creators".
30%
Proposed Scottish 'middle band'
20% Basic rate | Up to £31,785
40% Higher rate | Up to £150,000
45% Additional rate | £150,000 +
The SNP said it favoured introducing a "more progressive" income tax regime when the Scottish Parliament is given greater flexibility in setting income tax rates from next year.
Scottish Labour has a firm commitment to raising the top rate from 45% to 50%, with the party saying the additional revenue would go towards tackling education inequality.
The Scottish Conservatives hope the issue of tax will help put clear water between itself and the other parties as they aim to replace Labour as the main opposition in the Scottish Parliament when voters go to the polls on 5 May.
The commission's report said that the "significant" new tax powers coming to the Scottish Parliament next year presented both "risks and opportunities" to the country.
Its key recommendations included:
Writing in the foreword to the report, Sir Iain said the Scottish Parliament had so far been largely "sheltered" by the Barnett Formula from the "tough political decisions that are necessary to balance the imposition of taxes on Scottish taxpayers on the one hand with public spending on the electorate's behalf on the other".
He added: "These days will come to an end in April 2017. From now on the debate in Scotland needs to include tax as well as matters concerned with spending."
Sir Iain said he hoped the report would "stimulate a rigorous debate on Scotland's international competitiveness and the contribution that competitive and fair taxes can make to improving Scotland's economy."
For now, Ruth Davidson says she agrees with the underlying thinking - that Scotland already faces disadvantages such as remoteness from big markets and should not add to those with higher tax.  For detail, we will have to hold fire for now.
The Liberal Democrats will similarly set out their thinking although Willie Rennie has talked of the need to invest in education.  The Greens say improved public services in Scotland cannot be funded without higher impositions, potentially affecting both income tax and council tax.
Labour has set out some early thinking, including a restored 50p upper rate for those earning more than £150,000 a year.
The SNP are looking at that but I hear one or two concerned questions behind the scenes. Would such a tax raise significant sums?  What if, within a continuing UK, top earners registered elsewhere to sidestep the Scottish rate?  What signal does it send about Scotland being open for business?
It is a conundrum for the SNP. As the governing party - and quite possibly the continuing governing party - they want nothing that jeopardises the economy of Scotland, particularly as future public services will be more dependent than ever on the buoyancy of that economy, given the new tax powers.
Equally, though, they want to match - more than match - the anti-austerity, pro-public services rhetoric of their Labour opponents.
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Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said the party would examine the commission's recommendations before setting out its plans ahead of the election.
She added: "The commission's central recommendation is that the tax burden should be no higher in Scotland than in the rest of the UK, and lower when affordable - and I back that 100%.
"We need to show that Scotland is open for business, so I and my team will do everything we can to ensure that the SNP does not use the new tax powers to take more money from the paypackets of hardworking Scots."
The committee's other members were business journalist Bill Jamieson, former PwC tax partner Rhona Irving, former Scottish Enterprise chief Jack Perry, ex-Barr Ltd chairman Anthony Rush, economist Dr Andrew Lilico and former UK government special adviser Paul Sinclair.
Responding to the report, Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said: "The Tories haven't really changed. They still favour tax cuts for the better off no matter what the consequences.
"Their plans on spending will have a devastating effect on education, the NHS, the police and other public services."
SNP MSP Kenneth Gibson said: "It is hugely hypocritical of the Tories to try to position themselves as being against tax rises - when the reality is they want to hike household bills by reintroducing taxes on the sick and on higher education, and a Tory council wants to hike council tax by an eye-watering 18%."
Scottish Labour reckoned the Tory plan was "unfunded and straight out of the 1980s".
MSP Jackie Baillie said: "With the SNP already planning half a billion pounds worth of cuts to local budgets for schools and childcare, these unfunded Tory plans will only pile on more cuts affecting our young people.
"The SNP and Labour are both committed to breaking Tory austerity, but only Scottish Labour has been bold enough to say what we would actually do differently. We would ask those earning more than £150,000 a year to pay a little bit more so we can invest in future generations"


Mystery still surrounds the deadly attack by Islamist militants on an African Union (AU) base in Somalia last Friday.

Residents of the south-western el-Ade town were the first to break the news, saying al-Shabab fighters arrived at dawn.
The raid began with an explosion by a suicide car bomber at the gates of the base after which dozens of gunmen followed, shooting as they went.
Eyewitnesses said dozens of Kenyan soldiers were killed while others ran away into the bush.
But this was not the version of events that was given by the Kenyan military.
The base on the outskirts of town is made up of two military camps - one housing the Somalia national army and the other for a contingent of Kenyan troops.
A few hours after the attack began, Col David Obonyo, the Kenya's defence force spokesman, insisted it was the Somali camp that had been hit - and that Kenyan troops had rushed to its defence.
However, a Somali government official disputed this and told the BBC that it was actually the Kenyan-manned section that was raided.
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In the days since the attack, there have been no reports of Somali military casualties and no indication that Somali soldiers were even present at the time of the attack.
Kenya's Chief of Defence Forces General Samson Mwathethe now says the attackers used three powerful car bombs at the entrances to the two adjacent camps.
A Somali general has told the BBC the Kenyan military had been warned of an impending al-Shabab attack. General Abas Ibrahim Gurey told the BBC "clear and reliable intelligence" had been passed on 45 days before the jihadist fighters struck.
Al-Shabab has always insisted that the Kenyans were their target, and claimed to have taken "complete control" of the camp and seized weapons and vehicles.
El-Ade residents said the fighters had hoisted their flags in the Kenyan section and were parading the bodies of the dead Kenyans, sending out media statements that 60 soldiers had been killed.
However, an official figure for those killed is still not known. The military is still investigating the incident and says it will even require DNA testing to identify the bodies of the Kenyan soldiers.
On Sunday, four injured Kenyan soldiers were airlifted to Nairobi for medical treatment, followed by another 16, who Col Obonyo said were mostly suffering from trauma.
Defence Minister Raychelle Omamo gave the first lead regarding numbers on Monday, saying the group affected by the attack was a "company-sized force", which could be anything between 80 and 250 men.
By then al-Shabab was saying it had killed 100 Kenyans.
The militant group, linked to al-Qaeda, said its figures had gone up as its fighters had pursued some of the soldiers who fled.
On Tuesday, a Somali official told the BBC that 13 Kenyan soldiers who had escaped during the raid had shown up in another town in the south-western Gedo region.
The men were said to have arrived on foot and appeared traumatised.
The official said they were in safe hands and would be handed over to the Kenyan contingent of the AU's military mission.
In response to Friday's attack, Kenyan military planes are said to be bombing in Gedo, although it is not clear who or what they are targeting.
Kenya's military chief General Samson Mwathethe said it was a delicate operation as al-Shabab was using the captured Kenyan soldiers as human shields.
The militants have added insult to injury by leading the way in the propaganda battle.
On Wednesday, the group released what it says are photos of the scene of the attack.
The images, which the BBC cannot independently verify, show damaged vehicles, abandoned caches of arms and gory pictures of dead soldiers in Kenya's army uniform.
The government had already said it would take legal action against anyone who shared photos of its dead soldiers.
Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery said this was necessary to avoid "amplifying the terrorist agenda through sharing of photos and sympathising with the terrorists".
And it held to its threat, charging a man on Tuesday accused of distributing such photos on the messaging service WhatsApp.
The Kenyan military says it will only release official figures when the ongoing search-and-rescue operation is complete and family members of the dead have been informed.
However, some of these relatives, who have flocked to military bases around Kenya to find out the fate of their loved ones, have complained that the military is keeping them in the dark.
Kenya contributes about 4,000 troops to the 22,000-strong AU force in Somalia.
President Kenyatta says the attack - the heaviest the Kenyans have suffered since their arrival in Somalia in 2011 - will not affect its mission and will only strengthen their resolve to achieve regional peace.
But the images that are likely to stick with Kenyans are those of four flag-draped coffins of dead soldiers who arrived in Nairobi on Monday night in the full view of the media.


Simona Halep battled back to beat Elina Svitolina 3-6 7-6 (8-6) 6-0 in the French Open quarter-finals.

Third seed Halep looked to be heading out after going a set and 5-1 down.
But the Romanian won five consecutive games and then saved match point to take it to a decider, which she finished off with ease.
Halep will play Karolina Pliskova in the last four, after the world number three beat Caroline Garcia 7-6 (7-3) 6-4 in Wednesday's other quarter-final.
Garcia, 23, was the last French hope remaining in both the men's and women's singles draw.
The world number 28 put up a decent fight to take the first set against second seed Pliskova to a tie-break, but the 2016 US Open finalist proved too strong.
Unseeded Latvian Jelena Ostapenko will take on Timea Bacsinszky in Thursday's other semi, meaning there will be a first-time Grand Slam women's singles champion crowned in Paris.
Fifth seed Svitolina looked set to become the first Ukrainian woman to make a semi-final in Grand Slam history, as she stormed ahead in the opening stages against Halep - a runner-up in Paris in 2014.
She allowed her opponent just four winners in the first set and was four games to the good in the second before the Romanian's remarkable turnaround.
Svitolina served for victory at 5-2 and 5-4 before wasting a match point at 6-5 in the tense tie-breaker.
"I don't know how I came back," said 25-year-old Halep, who won 12 of the last 13 games on Suzanne Lenglen Court and served out the match with an ace.
"She was playing tough, hard and strong. Maybe I was a little lucky but I didn't give up."
Pliskova, 25, will replace Angelique Kerber as the new world number one if she beats Halep to make Saturday's final.
"It was very tough. She played very well, we were both serving well," said Pliskova after reaching her first semi-final in Paris.
"She [Garcia] played a great tournament, even today, it was 50-50, it came down to about two points. I'm really glad I made it.
"I am very happy. Before the tournament I wasn't sure if I could play good tennis on clay."


Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has accused the US of seeking to undermine Iran's banks.

In a televised address marking Nowruz - the beginning of the Iranian new year - Mr Khamenei said the US was reneging on the West's nuclear deal with Iran.
The US imposed sanctions on Iranian companies and individuals in response to ballistic missile tests carried out after international sanctions were lifted as part of the deal.
Iran carried out more tests in March.
Iran says its missiles are for use solely as a conventional deterrent. It says it has ballistic missiles with a range of 2,000km (1,250 miles), which means they would be capable of reaching Israel and US military bases in the Middle East.
Ayatollah Khamenei was speaking in the religious city of Mashdad on the first day of the Iranian new year.
He said the US continued to use its position as a superpower to put pressure on Iran.
"Our banking transactions in all Western countries - and other countries affected by them - face problems." Mr Khamenei said, blaming the Americans for the problems faced by Iranian banks.
And he complained contenders for the US presidency who had "competed to vilify Iran in their speeches" - which was "a sign of hostility".
A boost to the economy is what Iranians most want from the deal on Tehran's nuclear programme last year.  The lifting of sanctions and the inking of international business deals could see that happen. But the benefits are unlikely to be felt by most Iranians for some time.
For President Hassan Rouhani, the deal was a personal victory. The recent surprise success of moderates at the polls has further bolstered his position.
But the dominant figure remains Ayatollah Khamenei. His New Year's message was more about resistance and self-reliance than international engagement, underlining the rifts that remain at the heart of Iran's political elite.


Iranians woke up to a new reality on Thursday after their capital, Tehran, suffered its deadliest militant attack in almost three decades.

Many have taken to social media to share their shock and offer condolences, and the hashtag #TehranAttacks has been trending on Twitter.
For Iranians under 30, who make up more than half of the population, it was a huge shock to see a suicide bomber and gunmen attack two of the most important buildings in Tehran - the parliament building and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic.
But for their parents' generation this will all seem very familiar.
In the first decade after the 1979 revolution, Tehran experienced frequent gun attacks, bombings and hijackings as groups opposed to Iran's new religious rulers waged a bloody campaign of violence with the aim of overthrowing them.
Thousands were killed, and many suffered life-changing injuries - including the current Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, who lost the use of his right arm following a bomb attack in 1981.
By the 1990s the violence had subsided - partly as a result of a crackdown on dissent and thousands of executions - but a major legacy of those times is a culture of very strict security in public buildings and airports enforced by the Revolutionary Guards across the country.
While there have been sporadic attacks by armed groups from Iran's restive Kurdish and Sunni minorities in remote parts of the country, Tehran and most other big cities have seen no major incidents for years.
Most Iranians have therefore become accustomed to relative peace and quiet, and to being insulated from the violence plaguing neighbouring countries.
But Wednesday's attacks, which have been claimed by the Sunni jihadist group Islamic State (IS), challenged those assumptions.
Many in Iran are asking how armed men managed to penetrate the several layers of security around the parliament complex, which is on a major road running through central Tehran.
It seems that the militants, some of whom dressed in the all-enveloping chadors worn by women, made it as far as the metal detectors at the entrance to the parliament building then opened fire at guards and other visitors before storming into the building and targeting people at random.
It is likely that, behind the scenes, the Revolutionary Guards responsible for the security of the building will now be reviewing procedures and asking if more could have been done to prevent what seems to have been a significant security failure.
But publicly, the authorities will seek to reassure people by playing down the attacks.
Ayatollah Khamenei dismissed the attackers as "terrorists fumbling with fire-crackers".
Coverage of the attacks on state television was relatively low-key and stressed how quickly the security forces dealt with the attackers.
Security was not noticeably tightened on the streets of Tehran on Thursday and the message from the country's leaders was that it was very much business as usual.
The challenge for the leaders domestically will be to stop more people questioning Iran's military involvement in the conflicts in Iraq and Syria.
Iranians have been repeatedly told that the mounting losses their country is suffering abroad are a sacrifice worth making in order to prevent attacks at home.
After Wednesday, for some people the assertion may no longer ring quite so true.
But supporters of the campaigns in Syria and Iraq have also been taking to social media to say the Tehran attacks show why they are necessary.
And some observers point out that the violence on the streets of Tehran could actually be used to justify stepping up the campaigns.
Revolutionary Guards commanders issued a strongly-worded statement promising to "avenge every drop of innocent blood spilt" in the attacks and noting that they happened soon after a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia's "backward leaders who support terrorists".
But is there a chance they could go beyond the rhetoric? Most observers believe it is unlikely that they would do anything to further escalate tensions with the Saudis.
President Hassan Rouhani, a moderate, also issued a message of defiance, saying the attacks would make Iranians more united in their determination to fight what he called "regional terrorism, extremism and violence".
But his opponents have sought to gain political advantage from the incident.
Supporters of Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline cleric who came second in last month's presidential election, said it was a consequence of Mr Rouhani weakening the country in his attempts to pursue better relations with the US and its Saudi allies.
Investigations into the attacks are continuing, and with several suspects now under arrest it is likely that more information will emerge in the coming days and weeks.
The authorities have already said the attackers were all Iranian citizens.
That could well lead to a crackdown on the country's Sunni minority communities, including the Baluchis, Kurds and Arabs.
Meanwhile in Tehran, as the funerals of the victims take place, the city's residents are thinking about security in a way they have not done for a long time.


The pound has continued to weaken against the euro, seeing its biggest one-day fall in almost three years, on continuing signs that the worst may be over for the eurozone economy.

At one point on Friday, sterling fell 1.8% against the single currency from a day earlier, the largest percentage fall recorded since May 2010.
This meant one pound was worth 1.1473 euros, the lowest since October 2011.
The pound has also been weakened by fears about the UK's AAA credit rating.
This follows after credit rating agency Fitch warned last month that the UK could lose the top rating if the government does not reduce its sovereign debt.
Continuing concerns about the UK economy, which contracted by 0.3% in the final quarter of 2012, have also hit sterling.
At the same time, the eurozone economy is showing more signs of slow recovery, helping to boost confidence in the euro.
Data on Friday showed that while contraction in the eurozone's manufacturing sector had continued in January, the rate of decline had slowed.
In later Friday exchanges, the pound recovered some ground against the euro to stand at 1.15000 euros, 1.5% lower than a day earlier.
The euro also rose strongly against the dollar, hitting a 14-month high, and a 33-month peak against Japan's yen.


Six men have been arrested by officers from the National Crime Agency investigating alleged match fixing in English football.

At least three footballers are reported to be among those held across the country, but the BBC understands that none is linked to professional clubs.
Sources have said the suspects include ex-Premier League player Delroy Facey.
The NCA said the focus of the operation was a suspected international illegal betting syndicate.
By Dan RoanBBC chief sports correspondent
International, invariably Asian, betting syndicates dispatch a fixer to search out semi-professional, non-league players in the lower tiers of English football who may be susceptible to bribes.
The players, once identified, are handed thousands of pounds in return for manipulating a game - from the number of goals scored to the number of yellow cards issued.
For the fix to work, the syndicate tends to need more than one player to be in on the scam.
The fixer, sat watching in the stands, waits for the signal from their co-conspirator on their pitch.
If the scam is to go ahead, the player on the syndicate's payroll deliberately gets a yellow card at the start of the match.
The fixer then calls his investors in Asia and tells them the fix is on. Bets are then placed.
It is thought the suspects are being held by police in the Midlands.
The NCA was launched this year to fight organised and serious crime.
It said it was working closely with the Gambling Commission and the Football Association.
A spokesman said: "This is an active investigation and we are unable to provide further detail at this time."
The FA said it has been made aware of the arrests.
In a statement, it said: "We have worked closely with the authorities in relation to these allegations. The FA will make no further comment at this time due to ongoing investigations."
"The Gambling Commission said it had provided advice, intelligence and expertise in supporting the investigation and continues to liaise with the NCA and FA."
The Crown Prosecution Service said it had liaised with the NCA during its investigation.
The arrests come after an undercover investigation by the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
It carries claims that a betting syndicate fixer from Singapore discussed the possibility of influencing the scores and outcomes of lower-league English games for Â£50,000 at a meeting in Manchester.
Police in Singapore told the BBC they have not been involved in the arrests.
According to the paper, the fixer claimed potential gamblers would make hundreds of thousands of pounds by using the inside information through bets placed on Asian-based websites.
He reportedly offered to target two football matches, saying he would tell players how many goals he needed to be scored.
He can be heard in a video claiming that he would pay a player Â£5,000 to take a yellow card at the start of a match as a signal that the result was likely to be fixed.
The Telegraph later reported that the man also said he could pay referees Â£20,000 to fix matches across Europe - although he did not specify whether that included Britain.
Sources have told the BBC that former Bolton Wanderers striker turned football agent, Delroy Facey, 33, was one of the six arrested.
He made 14 appearances for the then-Premier League Bolton between 2002-2004, before moving down the leagues, ending last season with Hereford United, who were relegated from the football league.
He started his career as a trainee at Huddersfield, before playing for the first team. After transferring to Bolton, his career became more that of a journeyman, with various transfers and loans to clubs including: Bradford City, Burnley, West Bromwich Albion, Hull City, Oldham Athletic, Tranmere Rovers, Rotherham United, Gillingham, Wycombe Wanderers, Notts County and Lincoln City.
The Football League said it had not been contacted by police about the investigation.
Football League chief executive Shaun Harvey said: "The threat of corruption is something that the Football League and the other football authorities treat with the utmost seriousness.
"The integrity of our matches and our competitions is the bedrock of the domestic game."
Journalist Declan Hill, author of the Insiders' Guide to Match Fixing, has been investigating the subject for years and says the way the crime is carried out has changed recently.
"We've now got a globalised sports corruption, where people are fixing the gambling markets in Asia and they're coming to European countries and then making very dubious deals with dodgy players and referees, and they literally have established networks of corruption right around the world," he said.
Soren Kragh Pedersen, from the European Union policy agency Europol, said the news was not unexpected.
"This is not a surprise because when we look around Europe it is practically everywhere and in some of the major leagues but, of course, also the minor divisions. We see it everywhere so it would be a surprise if you did not find it in England also," he said.
In February, Europol announced that it had found evidence of match fixing of some top international football games after conducting the biggest-ever investigation into match fixing in Europe.


Donald Trump's election as the next US president, along with a Republican-controlled Congress, brings with it an avalanche of questions about the election itself - and about what happens next.

From health insurance to same-sex marriage, global warming and Obamacare - American citizens and people around the world want to know what the future will hold under the new administration. Here we tackle some of the questions being raised online and by BBC audiences.
Five days after the election, Mr Trump told US broadcaster CBS that he would deport or jail between two and three million illegal migrants initially. Those targeted would be migrants with criminal records, such as gang members and drug dealers.
Overall, there are about 11 million illegal immigrants in the US, and Mr Trump has published a 10-point plan on immigration which includes overturning amnesties introduced by President Barack Obama, strictly enforcing immigration laws and deporting those who do not have correct documents.
In the US, though, illegal immigrants do have a right to due process, so many more judges and prosecution lawyers will need to be appointed to practically make this happen and this could clog up the court system for years to come. Congress would need to approve funding for this process.
Mr Trump is expected to revoke President Obama's executive orders of 2014, which gave hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants temporary legal status and an indefinite reprieve from deportation. Executive orders allow presidents to introduce their own legally binding policies without Congressional approval.
Mr Trump has said that on his first day in office he will sign orders to speed up the removal of "criminal illegal immigrants", but that he will also end President Obama's non-enforcement policy and will detain people found illegally entering the US until they are deported. He has promised to increase the number of enforcement officers needed to accomplish this.
In its 2015 report, the Migration Policy Institute, a Washington-based non-partisan think-tank, said there were about 820,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records. Many of them had been arrested for crossing illegally into the US.
Meanwhile, a 2012 report by the non-partisan Congress Research Service think-tank said that only a small minority of all the unauthorised immigrants had committed violent crimes.
"All unauthorised aliens are potentially removable, indicated by crosshatches in the figure, but the majority of them have not been convicted of a crime and are therefore not classified as criminal aliens," the report said.
It did not provide an overall number of illegal immigrants in the US.
Even by the standards of billionaire businessmen, Donald Trump is an unusually litigious man who has been involved in thousands of lawsuits - both those he has launched and those he has defended - over the years.
The president-elect is currently facing 75 active lawsuits, according to an analysis by USA Today newspaper.
By far the most pressing - and potentially embarrassing for the newly elected leader - are several lawsuits launched over the now-defunct Trump University, which centre on former students claiming they were charged tens of thousands of dollars for courses that promised to unlock the secrets of real estate entrepreneurship - and didn't. Mr Trump denies the claims.
Because these were launched long before he assumed office, no presidential immunity statutes apply and Mr Trump will have to attend court when required.
Article II of the US Constitution states that the president "shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors"
If Mr Trump loses the case against him on Trump University that may leave him open to impeachment, some legal scholars suggest.
Christopher L Peterson, professor of Law at the University of Utah, argues that "fraud and racketeering are serious crimes that legally rise to the level of impeachable acts".
Beginning the process of impeachment requires a majority vote in the House of Representatives.  Whether the Republicans, who hold the majority of seats, would want to impeach their own president is another matter.
Mr Trump has not proposed reductions on Social Security.
The funding needed for Social Security is expected to balloon over the next decade, and it's unclear where the money to pay for it will come from without tax increases.
The Republican Party's official 2016 platform says: "Current retirees and those close to retirement can be assured of their benefits. Of the many reforms being proposed, all options should be considered to preserve Social Security."
However, Mr Trump has appointed Michael Korbey to his transitional team to head Social Security.
The Associated Press reports that "as a senior adviser to the Social Security Administration, Korbey was an advocate for the George W Bush administration's failed attempt to privatise Social Security".
Indiana Governor Mike Pence has described himself as "a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order".
The 57-year-old has been a loyal supporter of Mr Trump, but - at times - he has not been afraid to speak his own mind.
Prior to being named the business mogul's running mate in July, Mr Pence had criticised Mr Trump's proposed ban on Muslims entering the US as "offensive and unconstitutional".
And during his vice-presidential debate performance on 4 October, Mr Pence defended his own positions - not necessarily those of Mr Trump - when challenged.
Mr Pence has served as governor of Indiana since 2013, but he also has 12 years of legislative experience as a member of the US House of Representatives.
He is a favourite among social conservatives who boasts considerable experience in Washington.
Mr Pence had considered running for president in 2016.
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Donald Trump has said in interviews over several years that he is opposed to same-sex marriage, although he's also said he has attended a gay wedding.
He says the issue should be decided at state level, rather than nationally, and that he was unhappy with the 2015 Supreme Court ruling earlier this year that made same-sex marriage legal across the country. After that decision he appeared to agree that it was a "dead issue" and suggested that he didn't support attempts to overturn the ruling.
But earlier this year he told Fox News he would "strongly consider" appointing Supreme Court justices who would reverse it.
He has not made the issue a priority. His Vice President-elect, Mike Pence, is strongly opposed to gay marriage.
Election officials do not finalise the data until about two weeks after polling day. But the US Elections Project estimates that 128.8m Americans voted, out of 231.5m eligible voters - a turnout rate of 55.6%. In 2012, turnout was 58.6%, and in 2008 it was 62.2%.
Hillary Clinton looks set to win the popular vote by a narrow margin.
The latest count shows that Mrs Clinton won 60,981,118 votes, which amounted to 47.8% of the total, compared with Donald Trump's 60,350,241 votes, or 47.3%.
However, the system under which the US elects its president means that candidates need to win races in individual states to pick up "Electoral College" votes. As a result of victories in key "swing" states (those more likely to change hands between the two main parties) carrying large numbers of Electoral College votes, Mr Trump won 290 Electoral College votes - comfortably ahead of Mrs Clinton's 228. Two states, Michigan and New Hampshire, have not yet been declared.
Other candidates polled 6,260,817 votes.
To answer one of the most-asked questions on Google Trends - Donald Trump is 70 and Hillary Clinton is 69.
He will be inaugurated at noon on Friday, 20 January 2017. In the meantime he will name his team, develop policy positions, and have access to government briefings, including classified information on national security and military operations.
In an interview with The Hill website last year, Mr Trump appeared to scotch rumours that he would break with long tradition and not live in the presidential residence and principal workplace in Washington DC.
"Yes, I would live in the White House because it's the appropriate thing to do," he said. He went further, adding that he would "rarely leave the White House because there's so much work to be done".
Since Mr Trump won Tuesday's election, the Federal Aviation Administration has implemented flight restrictions over the area of his home on New York's Manhattan island that expire on 21 January, the day after his planned inauguration and expected move to the White House.
Apparently not. In an interview with CNN, Donald Trump's lawyer said the privately owned Trump Organization - a company with US and international holdings including hotels, golf courses and commercial and residential property - would be held in a "blind trust" run by Mr Trump's adult children, Donald Junior, Ivanka and Eric.
Whether such an arrangement constitutes a true blind trust that avoids conflicts of interest is being questioned by critics, as Mr Trump will still be aware of his business holdings and how policies might affect them, and direct relatives will be running them on a day-to-day basis.
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Donald Trump has made building a wall along the border to stop illegal immigration a refrain of his campaign.
In an interview on CBS Mr Trump has said "a wall is more appropriate" in some parts but "there could be some fencing".
A document on his website outlines how he would "make Mexico pay". It would begin on "day one" with amending money transfer rules so that no "alien" would be able to wire money out of the US without showing documents establishing their lawful presence in the country. Mexico has rejected his assertion that it will pay.
Given the expected cost and scale of the wall, the challenges of acquiring privately owned land along the border route to build it on, and Congressional backing from sceptical Republicans, many analysts think it will never be built. Instead, they expect an increase in border policing and tightening of immigration rules. Some Trump advisers have talked of a "virtual" or "technological" wall, though he has insisted it will be built.
Donald Trump has pledged to repeal the Affordable Healthcare Act, which he intends to scrap "very, very quickly".
However, Mr Trump has now said he is open to leaving intact key parts of President Barack Obama's healthcare bill.
He has said he will keep the ban on insurers denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.
He told the Wall Street Journal that he also favoured allowing young adults to be insured on their parents' policies.
BBC North America reporter Anthony Zurcher notes that: "the challenge for the president-elect is that the Obamacare features he praises - such as its mandate that insurers cover pre-existing medical conditions - are made possible by portions of the law he has condemned, like requiring all Americans to obtain insurance.
Keeping the law's carrots while abandoning its sticks could prove difficult.
Complicating the matter is that a "revise and reform" effort may not fly with Mr Trump's ardent supporters and the cadre of arch-conservative politicians in Congress, who want to tear up the law "root and branch".
Mr Trump often broke with Republican orthodoxy while campaigning and didn't pay a political price. He may learn that as president he won't get far without his party establishment's help."
A US president has the authority to launch a nuclear attack within minutes. The nuclear briefcase (or "football", as it's known) kept close to him at all times contains the codes he must use to authenticate his identity when ordering military commanders to carry out a nuclear strike. The Defence Secretary is also required to authenticate the codes, but does not have the authority to veto the decision. A complex system of people, procedures and technology then kicks into action to launch a nuclear attack.
The system is designed to allow the US president to respond to an imminent nuclear attack, with as little as 10 minutes warning. The briefcase also contains a "menu" of pre-planned strike options, targeting different parts of the world in different ways.
Donald Trump's critics have questioned whether he has the temperament, and intellectual capacity, to weigh complex information under the pressure of a nuclear alert - and have also raised concerns about someone known for his temper having access to the nuclear codes.
His statements have given mixed messages on his approach, and he has stressed that "unpredictability" is important where military - including nuclear - options are involved.
In April he told NBC he would "be the last to use nuclear weapons" describing their use as "a horror".
"I will not be a happy trigger like some people might be, but I will never, ever rule it out," he said.
But a month earlier he said: "Somebody hits us within ISIS, you wouldn't fight back with a nuke?"
In March, Donald Trump said that abortions should be illegal and he supported "some form of punishment" for women who had them. However, he later backed down from this, saying the legality of abortions should be left up to individual states, with any criminal penalties being reserved for abortion providers.
Mr Trump has said that he supports an abortion ban exception in cases of "rape, incest and [danger to] the life of the mother". He has also said he opposes the use of Medicaid to cover abortions for low-income women, and that with a Republican-controlled Congress he is willing to make that a matter of law.
Most abortions in the US are carried out by clinics, with Planned Parenthood being one of the largest providers of the service. Mr Trump has promised to stop funding the organisation, which provides reproductive healthcare - including birth control measures - to women across the United States.
But Planned Parenthood, whose affiliates operate around 650 health centres nationwide, has vowed to continue its work, tweeting: "Planned Parenthood has been here for 100 years. One thing is clear we'll never back down & we'll never stop providing care for our patients."
Women with health insurance can currently obtain contraceptives for free under the Affordable Healthcare Act - known as Obamacare - which Donald Trump has vowed to dismantle.
According to Vox, he could exclude birth control from the programme simply by changing a definition, rather than as part of wider moves to overturn the act.
But Mr Trump has not said he plans to do this - or said whether he would include contraceptives in a scheme to replace Obamacare. He has said he backs access to contraceptives without a prescription.
There's also concern about Donald Trump's plan to cut Planned Parenthood's funding. He has said the money will be reallocated to other providers, but critics say these would not be able to fill the gap in provision.
Fears that birth control will become harder and more expensive to access have prompted a flurry of interest in long-term contraceptive implants known as IUDs. Women are advised to consult a doctor on contraceptive options.
Mr Trump has stated that he wants jobs to go to American workers first and that he wants to reduce the numbers of foreign workers admitted to the US.
Under his administration he says immigrants will be selected among other things on their ability to be financially self-sufficient and he has said people will be subject to "extreme vetting" and an "ideological test".
There has been no detail given on what this vetting and testing would involve and experts point out that the US immigration code already includes ideological tests and screens those attempting to enter the country.
Mr Trump also wants to temporarily suspend immigration from regions that 'export terrorism and where safe vetting cannot presently be ensured'.
Over the years Congress has granted wide powers to the president to change immigration rules and he could institute even greater background screening checks. However, there is debate about whether he could impose lower limits on the number of people who can immigrate or change current green card categories, without Congressional support.
According to US law the president does hold the authority to "suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens" if the group's entry "would be detrimental to the interests of the United States."  That can extend for as long as the president deems necessary.
After last year's mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, when 14 people were killed, Mr Trump issued a press release calling for a "total and complete shutdown" on Muslims entering the US "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on".
The statement attracted condemnation from around the globe and significantly from his Vice President-elect Mike Pence, who called the proposal "offensive and unconstitutional".
Over the months it appears Mr Trump may have abandoned his plan. In October, Mr Pence told journalists he no longer protested against the proposed ban "because it's not Donald Trump's position now".
After the election, the page on his website that set out the policy appeared to have been removed, replaced by a redirect to the site's main page. That raised questions about whether it was being dropped, but the page was later restored and the Trump campaign told the Washington Post it had been an error.
Mr Trump has expressed scepticism about the science behind climate change and wants to get the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement deal.  He says the deal is "bad for US business" and will allow "foreign bureaucrats control over how much energy we use".
In 2012, he tweeted that the concept of global warming was created by the Chinese to make US manufacturing non-competitive. But last January, he described that comment as a joke.
However, the Paris Agreement has been ratified and is already part of international law. While Mr Trump probably would easily find sufficient political backing to withdraw US support, the formal process to do this would take four years.
Since the election, delegates from 200 countries at the UN climate talks in Morocco have said they are prepared to move ahead with work on the Paris Agreement without the US.
The president-elect's foreign policy, expressed in his "America First" plan, states that it will always prioritise US interests, and that foreign allies should bear more of the cost of military action and defence.
Mr Trump has made it clear he intends to reassess US involvement in the Western military alliance Nato.
In an interview in July with the New York Times, he stated that in the face of a future attack from Russia, Nato members could only expect the US to defend them if they "have fulfilled their obligations to us" - an apparent breach of the alliance's mutual-defence treaty.
Following his election, European leaders have asked Mr Trump to clarify his position, while Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg reminded him that the treaty commitment was "something absolutely unconditioned".
Whether a compromise can be reached is, at present, not known.
Former US Assistant Secretary of State PJ Crowley told the BBC: "At some point, probably quite early on, Kim Jong-un will stand up (spreads arms wide) and say to President Trump: 'We're a nuclear power. What are you doing to do about it?' That will be a key test for President Trump."
Much of Donald Trump's foreign policy remain unclear.
In May, he did suggest that he would sit down with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to try to stop Pyongyang's nuclear programme, proposing a major shift in US policy toward the isolated nation by saying: "I would speak to him, I would have no problem speaking to him."
Pyongyang endorsed him and called him a "wise politician" and a "far-sighted candidate", and cheered his comments that South Korea should pay more for US troops to remain on its soil.
But following the election, North Korea has made it clear it does not intend to give up its nuclear weapons.
Addressing this question in the last few days, Graham Allison, one of the world's leading experts on nuclear proliferation and containment, said: "One of the many problems with Trump is that he has apparently not worked his way through any of the possible scenarios regarding a North Korean threat. Our commander-in-chief is the only person who stands between us and the possibility of getting blown to hell. Whether he would be impetuous, or impatient, or not know the material, we just don't know."
Mr Trump has also said he would be open to allowing Japan and South Korea to build their own nuclear arsenals for their protection against North Korea and China.
How might Trump deal with Kim Jong-un?
The US spends billions on Africa through aid and investment, but Donald Trump has said very little about how he intends to deal with the continent.
On foreign aid in general, he has said he would rather see money spent in the US. This raises concerns over the future of US aid schemes such as the Power Africa project, which aims to double the number of people with electricity across the continent and the Pepfar plan to tackle HIV/Aids.
His tough talk on so-called Islamic State, support for torture and anti-Muslim immigration statements all suggest a probable hard-line approach to security in North Africa, where US military involvement has increased in recent years.
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When the news of a possible Trump victory started to emerge, Canada's immigration website crashed, a phenomenon that was attributed to higher than normal level of traffic. There was also a surge of traffic to the New Zealand immigration website and the Google search "Australia immigration" hit a massive spike.
It is uncertain at this stage if this wave of interest by US citizens will result in people actually deciding to make the move to Canada or elsewhere.
However, while getting a travel visa to Canada would be straightforward for many Americans, moving permanently is a different issue.
Canada has several different immigration programmes and each has different application and eligibility requirements. According to specialist immigration lawyers, having a special skill or profession, joining immediate family members already living in Canada, or claiming political asylum as a "protected person" are the three main ways to make the move.
But for others, factors such as nationality, age, language ability, education and work experience will all be thoroughly scrutinised.
Canadians ready to welcome troubled Yanks
Unlike President Obama, Mr Trump supported Brexit and said in May that Britain would not be at the "back of the queue" for a trade deal outside the EU.
His trade adviser, Dan DiMicco, has said the president-elect wanted to to do a deal with the UK as soon as possible after Brexit but that doesn't mean he had a deal in mind that would necessarily be good for the UK.
Despite the so-called "special relationship", the UK gets no mention in the trade policy plans Mr Trump outlined to voters. He also stated clearly in his "America First" speech, that in both trade and foreign policy: "No country has ever prospered that failed to put its own interests first."
The impact of his policies at home on the American economy as a whole will resonate in the UK, and PM Theresa May will want to protect and grow the UK export market to the US which is currently worth around Â£3.5bn .
But Mr Trump is unpredictable and the UK is moving into unpredictable times.
In 2015, a petition was drawn up to, "Block Donald J Trump from UK entry" for hate speech. This was in response to a number of comments made by Mr Trump, particularly about Muslims.
The petition had over half a million signatures and was debated in parliament in January 2016. Although current Prime Minister Theresa May, who was the home secretary at the time, condemned Mr Trump's controversial remarks, she rejected the call to ban him from the UK.
Although there was a debate, there was no vote on the issue so there will be no direct action taken.
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Five Para-swimmers will make their senior Great Britain debuts in April's IPC Swimming Open European Championships.

Lewis White, Michael Jones, Rebecca Redfern, Ellie Robinson and Zara Mullooly are all in the 25-strong team.
Bethany Firth, Jonathan Fox and Steph Slater, who missed last summer's World Championships because of injury, return to the international scene.
The competition takes place from 30 April-8 May in Funchal, Madeira.
The GB team also includes Paralympic champions Ollie Hynd, Jessica-Jane Applegate and Josef Craig, as well as world champions Tully Kearney and Hannah Russell.
However, a number of GB swimmers, including Ellie Simmonds and Sascha Kindred, have not been included as the event comes straight after the Rio Paralympic trials, which take place in Glasgow from 23-27 April.
GB team: Josef Craig, James Crisp, Jonathan Fox, Thomas Hamer, Ollie Hynd, Michael Jones, Andrew Mullen, Scott Quin, Lewis White, Matthew Wylie, Jessica-Jane Applegate, Claire Cashmore, Bethany Firth, Charlotte Henshaw, Tully Kearney, Harriet Lee, Amy Marren, Stephanie Millward, Zara Mullooly, Rebecca Redfern, Eleanor Robinson, Susie Rodgers, Hannah Russell, Stephanie Slater, Alice Tai.


A person has reportedly been electrocuted on the Heads of the Valleys road near Merthyr Tydfil and taken to hospital.

The Welsh Ambulance Service said it received a 999 call at about 15:10 BST and the casualty was taken to Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil.
The road has shut in both directions following the incident between the Cefn Coed roundabout and B4276 Merthyr Road.
The person's condition is not yet known.
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BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson will be making a prediction for all 380 Premier League games this season against a variety of guests.

Lawro's opponent for this week's Premier League fixtures is comedian and actor Elis James.
James, who co-stars in the BBC Three sitcom Josh, is looking to improve on his showing when he took on Lawro last season and only scored 10 points - leaving him joint-bottom of the guest leaderboard.
He is a Swansea City fan and says: "This season so far has not been great for the Swans but it is only the end of September so we live in hope.
"I think we have got enough to stay up, but I will let you know in a couple of months."
You can make your own predictions now, compare them with those of Lawro and other fans, and try to take your team to the top of the leaderboard by playing the new BBC Sport Predictor game.
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
Last week, Lawro got six correct results, including one perfect score, from 10 Premier League matches. That gave him a total of 90 points.
He was beaten by world darts number one Michael van Gerwen, who got five correct results, but with two perfect scores, for a total of 110 points.
All kick-offs 15:00 BST unless otherwise stated.
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Elis' prediction: 2-2
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Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Elis' prediction: It feels very disloyal not to back my own team but Liverpool have been brilliant so far this season. I think we will give them a game though. 1-2
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Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Elis' prediction: Chelsea really need this. Hull do too, obviously, but I think Chelsea will have too much for them. 0-2
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Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Elis' prediction: 1-1
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Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Elis' prediction: I think this will be quite tight, but Bournemouth are on a bit of a roll. 1-2
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Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Elis' prediction: 0-1
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Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Elis' prediction: Surely United have got too much for Stoke. 3-0
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Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Elis' prediction: 1-1
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Lawro's prediction: 2-2
Elis' prediction: I'm going for a high-scoring thriller. 2-2
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Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Elis' prediction: 0-3
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Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Lawro's best score: 140 points (week three v Laura Trott)
Lawro's worst score: 30 points (week four v Dave Bautista)


Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has said it will stop production of its Defender model in 2015 because it will not meet new European laws on fuel emissions.

The last of the 4x4 models will roll off the production line at its plant in Solihull in the West Midlands in December 2015, it confirmed.
The model had evolved over 67 years of production but it could not be adapted to meet new emissions rules, JLR said.
It said no jobs would be lost and it was working on a replacement model.
The first model in the style of the Defender was introduced in 1948 and was modelled on a World War II Jeep.
It was not given the Defender name until the early 1990s, shortly after the launch of the Land Rover Discovery.
More than two million have been sold since the car first appeared, JLR said.
The firm said the decision to cease production was "mainly legislation based."
Plans by the European Council and Parliament to bring in stricter measures for new car emissions by 2020 meant there were "certain conditions the Defender just won't meet," the company said.
It said a replacement model for the Defender was being developed to be launched in 2016.
By Peter PlisnerBBC Midlands transport correspondent
The Defender is very much a part  of Land Rover's heritage but it does need to change.
Making the vehicle is pretty labour intensive and it is also not as mainstream as other Land Rover models.
The new Range Rover Sport, for instance, while still being an off-road vehicle is designed for a completely different and much more lucrative market.
The Defender has for a long time been the workhorse of the farmer, but these days Land Rover and Range Rover models are anything but.
Yes farmers still buy them, but desirability has propelled the brands into the premium market, somewhere the current Defender model just does not seem to fit anymore.
JLR's head of products, John Edwards, said the new model would be "instantly recognised" by people who drive the current vehicle but it "won't necessarily be cheap".
Editor of Auto Express magazine, Steve Fowler, said the Defender had taken on "iconic status" after being driven by members of the Royal Family and being featured in the latest James Bond film, Skyfall.
He said: "It's a very important market for Land Rover, one of its three pillars with the Range Rover and the Discovery.
"As we experienced with another iconic car, the Mini, it had a bit of a sabbatical before coming back and that's what I fully expect to happen with the Defender."
Frank King, from the Land Rover owners' club in Cannock, Staffordshire, said it was "disappointing news."
He said: "The silhouette still looks the same as it did 67 years ago, although its been upgraded and had new engines and whatever. It's a real shame to see it go."


Pupils should be taught in school how to avoid being sucked into gangs or exploited by older criminals, the children's commissioner has said.

Anne Longfield said personal, social, health and economics education (PSHE) lessons should help children spot when they are being targeted by gangs.
It follows reports children are being used by criminals as "money mules".
She said children looking for "a sense of belonging, fast money" or "glamour" were at risk.
Ms Longfield's research has found 46,000 children in England are involved in gangs.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live's Sunday Breakfast programme, the children's commissioner said children as young as 10 were being recruited into gangs that could be "extremely violent, usually intimidatory and sexually abusive, particularly towards girls".
"These are horrific situations that young people are getting themselves into."
Simon Dukes, chief executive of the fraud prevention organisation Cifas, said some were being persuaded to hand over access to their bank accounts to criminals for money laundering purposes.
He said criminals lure children in with apparent money-making opportunities on social media, and pass money through their accounts to disguise the sources of illicit funds.
"Criminals, of course, prey on the most vulnerable and they're preying on younger people because of their lack of knowledge, in particular, about what is effectively money laundering."
Ms Longfield said other young people were being used to transport drugs.
"Anecdotally, I'm told that middle-class children are often being targeted as well because they are less likely to be stopped.
"Children who are easier to intimidate, vulnerable in some way and often being bullied, those that are easier to control, are being picked on."
Earlier this year, the government announced that PSHE would be made compulsory in all state schools.
The government is currently consulting on what to include in the permanent curriculum, but as yet, there is no timetable for its introduction.
Ms Longfield said the "life skills lessons" should include information on the risks of becoming involved in gangs, an understanding of how gangs target children and help in building resilience to resist them.
Parents may not be aware of who their children are talking to via social media, so young people themselves need to be able to understand the difference between "genuine opportunities" and exploitative situations, she added.
"For younger children it will often be the draw of fast money - sometimes protection for themselves if they're fearful about their own wellbeing - but certainly also a sense of belonging, fast money, sometimes glamour...
"Life skills is something that the government has committed itself to do.
"Most schools at the moment do provide life skill lessons but they're often inconsistent and often they don't tackle some of these issues that are much harder to tackle."
The commissioner also called for police forces to work together to produce better data on the number of children targeted by gangs.
The PSHE Association, a national body working to improve PSHE education, said it supported the call for compulsory lessons to help young people understand "the specific risks of gang membership for individuals, families and communities".
A spokesman said a broad PSHE education "gives pupils the knowledge and skills to better understand peer influence, and helps them recognise and avoid exploitative relationships, online and offline".


Five police officers will not face criminal charges over the way they dealt with a man who broke his neck outside a nightclub, the BBC has been told.

Julian Cole, a sports science student, was left brain damaged and paralysed as a result of an incident in Bedford in 2013.
The case was referred to the Crown Prosecution Service last September.
Mr Cole's family have the right to have the decision reviewed.
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Bedfordshire Police said a gross misconduct hearing will now be held.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) previously said four of the officers face allegations relating to their "honesty and integrity".
Now aged 23, Mr Cole was injured during an incident involving bouncers and police outside the former Elements nightclub on Mill Street in May 2013.
The talented athlete and footballer broke his neck and suffered a severe injury to his spinal cord.
He now needs 24-hour care and his mother Claudia spends hours by his bedside in a nursing care home.
The case was referred to the  Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) by the IPCC.
A CPS spokesperson said: "CPS lawyers considered charges of misconduct in public office, perverting the course of justice and breaches of health and safety law.
"They have now concluded that there is insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction against any of the officers and no further action will be taken."
Bedfordshire Police said the gross misconduct hearing will be held in due course.
One officer has retired and the others could be sacked if the disciplinary charges are proved.
Temporary Dep Ch Con Mike Colbourne said: "Our thoughts remain with Julian Cole's family and friends, who have had to wait almost four years for this decision.
"It is disappointing the investigation by the IPCC took such a long time to get to this point, which has put added strain on Mr Cole's family and the officers involved."


Three people have died in fresh protests in Venezuela, this time in the central city of Valencia.

A policeman and two other men were shot dead in separate incidents.
In Caracas, Venezuelan government supporters and opposition demonstrators took to the streets to hold rival marches.
The marches mark one month since the current protest movement began - on 12 February. Twenty-five people are now known to have died.
The opposition mayor of Valencia, Miguel Cocchiola, said that the city had seen several incidents of violence during the day.
A 42-year old man, Guillermo Sanchez, was painting his house when he was shot in the head by pro-government militias passing on motorbikes, said Mr Cocchiola.
Student Jesus Enrique Acosta, 20, was also killed in Valencia. Mr Cocchiola said Mr Acosta was also shot dead by the government groups, known as "colectivos".
The other victim was army captain Ernesto Bravo Bracho. The government said he was killed by "criminal terrorists".
Meanwhile, opposition demonstrators marched through the streets of eastern Caracas - an anti-government stronghold - denouncing police brutality and the economic crisis.
They called for the release of dozens of jailed activists.
At the end of the protests, activists threw stones and petrol bombs at the police, who responded with tear gas. Several people were injured.
There were demonstrations in several other Venezuelan cities.
Elsewhere in the capital, thousands of government supporters joined President Nicolas Maduro in a "march for peace".
Mr Maduro said this week that he had managed to defeat a plot to bring down his government.  saying a right-wing plot had been neutralised.
"Before Chavez no-one had anything we have now: access to public health, education and food," government supporter Marcos Alcayo told Reuters at the march.
Hugo Chavez died of cancer a year ago after more than 14 years in office.
A new presidential election was held last April. Mr Chavez's preferred successor, Mr Maduro, defeated opposition leader Henrique Capriles by a narrow margin.
One of the protest leaders, opposition legislator Maria Corina Machado, told the BBC's James Menendez that Venezuela was increasingly united behind the idea of regime change.
"A change of government as soon as possible: that is what we are proposing, very clearly," said Ms Corina.
But she denied that replacing a democratically elected government amounted to a coup: "We want to go forward, but in the umbrella of our constitution and by pacific means."
Mr Maduro says right-wing sectors in the United States, Venezuela and other countries in Latin America are behind a coup plot.
Last week Venezuela expelled the Panamanian ambassador and three other diplomats after accusing them of conspiring to bring down his government.
The protests started in the western states of Merida and Tachira at the beginning of February, with demonstrators asking for more security in the region.
Dozens of demonstrators were arrested.
Three people were shot dead in Caracas in renewed marches on 12 February demanding that students and other detained activists be freed.
The government and the opposition have traded accusations over the killings. Daily protests and frequent pro-government demonstrations have been held ever since.


Water levels at Lough Neagh are at a 30-year-high after heavy rain from storms Desmond, Eva and Frank.

David Porter of the Rivers Agency said levels at Lough Erne were also rising again after an initial fall off.
He said they were pumping water out of properties near Coalisland in County Tyrone.
Armagh Observatory said December had been the wettest on record at the institute.
It said the total amount of water recorded as falling was nearly 7.33 inches (18.61cm).
However, it said it was also the warmest December at Armagh since 1988.
Agriculture Minister Michelle O'Neill visited homes affected by flood water outside Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh, on Tuesday.
Ms O'Neill said it was "very evident" that for some residents the only suitable form of transport on some roads was a tractor.
She said the flooding was causing difficulties to everyday life and "massive challenges for those who live around Lough Erne, particularly in Fermanagh".
"What I wanted to do was to go out and reassure those people in rural Fermanagh that Rivers Agency are doing everything that they can," she said.
"I think that was very evident on the ground and people did accept that. "They accept that they live near Lough Erne and there's always going to be problems with the lough."
A number of roads in the county still remain closed.
Road closures in Northern Ireland
Among the properties Ms O'Neill visited was the home of Gary McManus, who has taken a week off work to care for his mother who is in her 80s, because her care assistants cannot access the property.
Derrytresk on the shores of Lough Neagh near Coalisland is also affected.
Jimmy Quinn said water has been pumped away from his house and his neighbour's since Boxing Day.
"You know you're in a bad way when you see the swans swimming past your window when you are watching Coronation Street," he added.
Ms O'Neill said a task force was set up in 2009 following severe flooding in the area near Lisnaskea.
"A lot of work was done in terms of raising roads," she added.
"Unfortunately I think that needs to be reviewed again, because some of those roads that were actually in fact risen, maybe by as much a metre at that time, are actually under water again."


Police Scotland will be ready to begin a process of changing its system for handling calls from June this year.

Ch Supt Alan Spiers said call handling would move from its control room in Dundee to its national service centre in central Scotland in that month.
The processes to close control rooms in Aberdeen and Inverness would take place from August to October, he said.
Highland Council has raised concerns about the loss of local knowledge once the Inverness service shuts.
Council leader Margaret Davidson said the local authority "was convinced that it was safer" that calls from within Highland, a region about the same size of Belgium, were handled locally.
Ch Supt Spiers told BBC Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme that Police Scotland acknowledged that were concerns about the restructuring.
But he said the current set-up of call handling was not "practical or sustainable" for a national force, and its change programme would be carried out with due regard to proper "governance, measures and independent assurances".
Control rooms in Inverness and Aberdeen were originally scheduled for closure in 2015.
However, that original closure plan was halted after an HM Inspector of Constabulary (HMIC) investigation began into a crash on the M9 in July which was not followed up by police for three days.
John Yuill and Lamara Bell died after the crash near Stirling.
In November, weaknesses in Police Scotland's roll-out of its new national call-handling system were highlighted in an HMIC report.
Derek Penman said the oversight of the project was inadequate and made 30 recommendations.
Ch Supt Spiers said the force was working through through those recommendations and would have this work completed by June.
He said: "They are at different stages of completion. We also said we would go much further than what the recommendations have said.
"We have also stated the remaining phases of our reform programme would only proceed when the police authority and HMIC were completely assured that staff, systems and procedures and processes were in place."


The head of RBS has warned that the sale of the UK government's stake in the bank could be delayed for at least two more years by the Brexit vote.

Chief executive Ross McEwan said the vote had been "a real hit to the bank" and would affect the government's sale of its remaining shares in the bank.
He said: "This will be a setback, let's be honest. I think at least a couple of years it will be pushed back."
RBS is still 73% owned by taxpayers after being bailed out eight years ago.
Speaking to LBC radio in London, Mr McEwan also reiterated that RBS would move its registered headquarters from Edinburgh, if Scotland votes to leave the UK in a second independence referendum.
But he added that it was effectively about "moving the plaque rather than any of our people".
RBS currently has 12,000 staff working north of the border.
After last month's EU referendum, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said a second independence vote was "highly likely".
Mr McEwan said it would be "interesting to see what Scotland do".
He said: "We'll work with the government up there. We've already had conversations with them about how you create certainty in these times. And we will be positioned to look after customers no matter what happens."
Mr McEwan said if Scotland was to vote for independence, there would have to be a split of the bank between customers in Scotland and those with its NatWest brand in the rest of the UK.
He indicated that the bank would be "ready with plans" should another independence referendum take place.
Mr McEwan said before the first referendum in 2014 that RBS would relocate its registered headquarters to London if Scotland voted to leave the UK.
He also said there was no intention to move operations or jobs.


Edinburgh scientists have identified a key molecule linked to kidney disease in people with diabetes.

Blocking the protein prevents kidney damage associated with diabetes in rats and mice, the study also found.
Edinburgh University scientists said the findings could lead to new therapies.
Diabetes results in high levels of blood sugar and affects 415 million people globally. It is the leading cause of kidney failure.
About 40% of people with diabetes eventually develop kidney disease.
The protein, called P2X7R, plays an important role in inflammation and the immune system and has previously been linked to kidney diseases not associated with diabetes.
This is the first time it has been shown to cause diabetic kidney disease.
The researchers found high P2X7R levels in kidney biopsies from people with diabetes, while it was almost undetectable in biopsies from people without diabetes.
Higher P2X7R was linked to poor kidney function and increased tissue scarring.
In follow-up experiments, mice lacking the gene that makes P2X7R did not develop kidney scarring in response to diabetes, suggesting that damage could be prevented, the scientists said.
The researchers also showed a drug that blocks P2X7R reduces high levels of infiltrating kidney macrophages, a hallmark of diabetic kidney disease, in diabetic rats.
The scientists have hailed this as a significant advance in the search for treatments.
Dr Robert Menzies, British Heart Foundation immediate fellow at Edinburgh University, said: "Diabetic kidney disease is reaching epidemic levels, but we are still searching for that blockbuster drug to help patients.
"This study is a major advance in understanding how kidney damage occurs in diabetes and where we might focus our efforts in finding a treatment.
"Our next studies are being designed to determine if the P2X7R-blocking drug, which is already known to be safe in humans, could reverse more severe kidney damage or even prevent it. These studies are a very encouraging move forward."
The study, carried out in collaboration with UCL and Imperial College London, was supported by the Medical Research Council and Kidney Research UK, with findings published in the journal EBioMedicine.
Elaine Davies, director of research operations at Kidney Research UK, said: "With diabetes representing the most significant risk factor for developing kidney disease, we welcome this important step forward in our understanding of the mechanism behind diabetic kidney disease.
"We look forward to hearing about how this study develops."


Bosnian prosecutors have urged Switzerland to hand over a former Bosnian Muslim commander arrested on 10 June - and not to send him to Serbia.

Naser Oric was detained in Geneva on an international arrest warrant issued by Belgrade, which now wants him extradited to face trial in Serbia.
Serbia says he was involved in the deaths of nine ethnic Serbs in 1992.
He commanded Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) troops in Srebrenica - scene of the worst massacre by Bosnian Serb forces.
The latest dispute between Bosnia and Serbia comes at a sensitive time.
On 11 July Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic is due to attend a commemoration in Srebrenica for the massacre victims. Nearly 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were killed there in 1995.
Mr Oric was acquitted of war crimes by a UN tribunal in 2008.
The Bosnian state prosecutor's office said it had asked Switzerland to hand him over so that he could face trial in his own country. The office said it would co-operate with Serbian prosecutors and would consider their allegations against him.