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BBC world news, I'm Jerry Smate.
The Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said he's willing to attend the meeting of Arab heads of state to discuss resolving the conflict in the Middle East. He was referring to a decision by Arab leaders last week to renew a 5-year-old Saudi plan which offers peace with Israel if it withdraws from land captured in 1967. Speaking at a joint news conference with the visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Mr. Olmert said he wanted to hold talks with all Arab leaders including the King of Saudi Arabia.
"A meeting like that, where they could present their ideas and we could present our ideas, is a thing worth making an effort for, and I inform leaders of the Arab states at this festive opportunity that if the King of Saudi Arabia will initiate a meeting of moderate Arab states and will invite me and the chairman of the Palestinian Authority in order to present to us the Saudi ideas, we will be happy to hear them, we will be happy to voice our ideas. "
The United Nations Refugee Agency, the UNHCR, says 10, 000 people have fled the Somali capital Mogadishu in the last 3 days. On Thursday the interim government and Ethiopian troops launched a military offensive against insurgents, sparking the heaviest fighting in Somalia for months.
State television in Iran has broadcast new images of British sailors confessing to enter Iranian waters illegally. The network said the two were the commanders of the group of 15 arrested more than a week ago. One man was quoted as saying he understood why the Iranian people were so angry.
In America, the Republican Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, told Fox News that the current crisis could actually help the US in its pursuit to the imposition of further international sanctions over Iran's nuclear program.
"The Iranians, by their own behaviour, have done something that's been pretty challenging for everybody else, which is to unify virtually the entire world against them. Most of the Sunni Arab countries who are generally friendly with us, like the Egyptians, the Saudis, the Jordanians, are all appalled by Iran. The Iranians' own behaviour has made it more possible for us to get the kind of international cooperation that we need, in order to have sanctions that actually bite. "
Six American soldiers have been killed by an apparently coordinated set of roadside bombs in Iraq. Two were killed in an initial bombing southwest of the capital Baghdad. Four others died in a second blast as they responded to the first attack. The US armed forces in Iraq did not say precisely where the attacks happened. In southern Iraq, a British soldier died after being shot in the city of Basra.
Police in the Solomon Islands say a tsunami has caused damage to some towns and villages in areas near the site of an earthquake. So far there has been no reports of casualties, but a police spokesman said communication with many areas is poor.
World News from the BBC.
Negotiations on a major free trade agreement between the United States and South Korea have continued beyond a deadline the two sides set themselves for reaching a deal. Agriculture, textiles and cars are reported to be the contentious issues at the talks. Here is Brenda Marshall.
Negotiators from the US and South Korea have been working against the clock in Seoul to try to finalize this free trade agreement. It would be the biggest deal for the US since it signed the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement and would open up the highly protected South Korean market to its goods and services. For South Korea, it would mean preferential access to the world's biggest consumer market, giving Korean manufacturers an edge over their rivals in China and Japan.
A British resident who was held at Guantanamo Bay for nearly five years without trial has returned to England. Bisher al-Rawi, an Iraqi national, was accused of planning to set up a terrorist training camp, but insisted he was on a legitimate business trip. His lawyer, Zachary Katznelson, says his client's treatment by the US authorities had been harsh throughout his detention.
"Psychologically it's been tremendously difficult. He's been all alone in the six-foot by eight-foot cell, concrete cell, lights on twenty-four hours a day. And they haven't even said sorry. The fact is they took him from the cell to the plane to freedom. "
Some of the best known names in British and international journalism have joined in an appeal to demand the immediate release of the BBC correspondent Alan Johnston, who disappeared in Gaza three weeks ago and is believed to have been abducted. They include David Dimbleby, Sir David Frost, Sir Trevor McDonald, Jon Snow, and cnn's chief international correspondent Christian Amanpour. They are among the 300 people whose names appear in a full-page advertisement in today's edition of the British newspaper, The Guardian.
BBC World News.
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BBC world news, I'm Jerry Smate.
The Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said he's willing to attend the meeting of Arab heads of state to discuss resolving the conflict in the Middle East. He was referring to a decision by Arab leaders last week to renew a 5-year-old Saudi plan which offers peace with Israel if it withdraws from land captured in 1967. Speaking at a joint news conference with the visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Mr. Olmert said he wanted to hold talks with all Arab leaders including the King of Saudi Arabia.
"A meeting like that, where they could present their ideas and we could present our ideas, is a thing worth making an effort for, and I inform leaders of the Arab states at this festive opportunity that if the King of Saudi Arabia will initiate a meeting of moderate Arab states and will invite me and the chairman of the Palestinian Authority in order to present to us the Saudi ideas, we will be happy to hear them, we will be happy to voice our ideas. "
The United Nations Refugee Agency, the UNHCR, says 10, 000 people have fled the Somali capital Mogadishu in the last 3 days. On Thursday the interim government and Ethiopian troops launched a military offensive against insurgents, sparking the heaviest fighting in Somalia for months.
State television in Iran has broadcast new images of British sailors confessing to enter Iranian waters illegally. The network said the two were the commanders of the group of 15 arrested more than a week ago. One man was quoted as saying he understood why the Iranian people were so angry.
In America, the Republican Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, told Fox News that the current crisis could actually help the US in its pursuit to the imposition of further international sanctions over Iran's nuclear program.
"The Iranians, by their own behaviour, have done something that's been pretty challenging for everybody else, which is to unify virtually the entire world against them. Most of the Sunni Arab countries who are generally friendly with us, like the Egyptians, the Saudis, the Jordanians, are all appalled by Iran. The Iranians' own behaviour has made it more possible for us to get the kind of international cooperation that we need, in order to have sanctions that actually bite. "
Six American soldiers have been killed by an apparently coordinated set of roadside bombs in Iraq. Two were killed in an initial bombing southwest of the capital Baghdad. Four others died in a second blast as they responded to the first attack. The US armed forces in Iraq did not say precisely where the attacks happened. In southern Iraq, a British soldier died after being shot in the city of Basra.
Police in the Solomon Islands say a tsunami has caused damage to some towns and villages in areas near the site of an earthquake. So far there has been no reports of casualties, but a police spokesman said communication with many areas is poor.
World News from the BBC.
Negotiations on a major free trade agreement between the United States and South Korea have continued beyond a deadline the two sides set themselves for reaching a deal. Agriculture, textiles and cars are reported to be the contentious issues at the talks. Here is Brenda Marshall.
Negotiators from the US and South Korea have been working against the clock in Seoul to try to finalize this free trade agreement. It would be the biggest deal for the US since it signed the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement and would open up the highly protected South Korean market to its goods and services. For South Korea, it would mean preferential access to the world's biggest consumer market, giving Korean manufacturers an edge over their rivals in China and Japan.
A British resident who was held at Guantanamo Bay for nearly five years without trial has returned to England. Bisher al-Rawi, an Iraqi national, was accused of planning to set up a terrorist training camp, but insisted he was on a legitimate business trip. His lawyer, Zachary Katznelson, says his client's treatment by the US authorities had been harsh throughout his detention.
"Psychologically it's been tremendously difficult. He's been all alone in the six-foot by eight-foot cell, concrete cell, lights on twenty-four hours a day. And they haven't even said sorry. The fact is they took him from the cell to the plane to freedom. "
Some of the best known names in British and international journalism have joined in an appeal to demand the immediate release of the BBC correspondent Alan Johnston, who disappeared in Gaza three weeks ago and is believed to have been abducted. They include David Dimbleby, Sir David Frost, Sir Trevor McDonald, Jon Snow, and cnn's chief international correspondent Christian Amanpour. They are among the 300 people whose names appear in a full-page advertisement in today's edition of the British newspaper, The Guardian.
BBC World News.
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