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BBC World News with Irving Thomas.
Britain has described as completely unacceptable of the broadcasting on Iranian Television of pictures of the 15 British naval personnel captured last week. The only woman in the group Faye Turney was shown conceding that the party had trespassed into Iranian waters before being caught. Britain has consistently denied Iran's assertion that the navy personnel violated Iran's territorial waters. Our diplomatic correspondent Bretty Candel reports.
Earlier today Tony Blair said it was time to ratchet up the pressure. The ministry of defense accused Iran of changing its story about where the British sailors were seized, the foreign secretary announced a freeze on all bilateral dealings with Iran until they were released. Now Iran has offered the stakes too, releasing pictures of the captives, on what appears to be a private family letter from one of them. In response, Margaret Beckett tonight called the images and the release of the letter unacceptable and disappointing.
And some news just in, Iran is said to have offered to allow British officials to visit the 15 naval personnel who were captured in the Gulf last week and accused of trespassing in Iranian waters. The Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told the American Associated Press news agency that before such a meeting could take place Britain would have to admit that the violation of Iranian waters was a mistake.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has made a forceful appeal for Arab Unity describing the American military presence in Iraq is illegitimate and calling on the west to drop its financial embargo on the Palestinians. He was speaking in the Saudi capital Riyadh where Arab leaders are meeting to relaunch a plan for peace with Israel that they first endorsed five years ago. Correspondents say Saudi Arabia was seeking to show a measure of independence from its ally, the United States.
The United States has urged countries in southern Africa to call with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to account for it calls, his years of misrule. The State Department said Mr.Mugabe was engaged in an all-out campaign to intimidate the legitimate political opposition and countries in the region should make it clear that this was not acceptable. As President Mugabe was leaving for a meeting of the Southern African Development Community or SADC in Tanzania, police in Zimbabwe again detained the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai for a time. George Seba Seawe from the Movement for Democratic change said the arrest showed scorn for the meeting.
"The government no longer has respect for ordinary Zimbabwean citizens and now as they demonstrate they have no respect for SADC, because this happens as a backdrop to the SADC meeting which is happening today and tomorrow in Dar Es Salaam Tanzania."
The President of Guinea Lansana Conte has named a new government a month after appointing a new prime minister to end a series of strikes which brought the country to a standstill for several weeks. President Conte announced members of the new cabinet at a television broadcast after consultations with the Prime Minister Lansana Kouyate. More than 100 people were killed during unrest earlier this year.
World News from the BBC.
Police in northern Nigeria say almost 90 people are now known to have been killed when a petrol tank had caught fire while people were skipping up, leaking fuel. This is the latest in a series of similar accidents in Nigeria where petrol is precious despite its oil wealth. Alex Lasks reports from Lagos.
Police said the petrol tank had been trying to park when it overturned in a village in Codunus state. Local villagers gathered around with buckets and cans hoping to collect the leaking fuel. It's not clear if they tapped into the container or whether it was leaking from the accident that there was a spark from somewhere and the tanker blew up. The driver of this tanker said he pleaded with people to stay away because of the danger, but even after so many disasters people still feel it's worth the risk.
A new international study has cast doubt on the theory that modern mammals emerged immediately after the extinction of the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago. The report says they appear to have emerged from a period of global warming at least ten million years after the dinosaurs disappeared. Near Boglaw reports.
Up until now it has been widely believed that mammals were the big winners in the dinosaurs' demise. The new international study claims that the ancestors of most present-day mammals including those of humans in fact emerged only millions of years later. The scientists came to their conclusion after constructing the giant family tree for almost all living mammals. The tree shows that our ancestors emerged not from what they call a mass extinction event but from a later about of global warming in which plants flourished and mammals diversified in spectacular numbers.
Portugal has inaugurated, what it says, the world's most powerful solar energy plant as part of its efforts to reduce energy imports and cut greenhouse gases. The plant was built jointly by American and Portuguese companies. Officials say they expect the solar plant to produce enough energy to supply 8,000 homes.
BBC World News.
Vocabulary
Ratchet up: 逐步推动 vi. 如棘轮转动；逐步变动
【电信用户1】在线播放和下载
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Transcript
BBC World News with Irving Thomas.
Britain has described as completely unacceptable of the broadcasting on Iranian Television of pictures of the 15 British naval personnel captured last week. The only woman in the group Faye Turney was shown conceding that the party had trespassed into Iranian waters before being caught. Britain has consistently denied Iran's assertion that the navy personnel violated Iran's territorial waters. Our diplomatic correspondent Bretty Candel reports.
Earlier today Tony Blair said it was time to ratchet up the pressure. The ministry of defense accused Iran of changing its story about where the British sailors were seized, the foreign secretary announced a freeze on all bilateral dealings with Iran until they were released. Now Iran has offered the stakes too, releasing pictures of the captives, on what appears to be a private family letter from one of them. In response, Margaret Beckett tonight called the images and the release of the letter unacceptable and disappointing.
And some news just in, Iran is said to have offered to allow British officials to visit the 15 naval personnel who were captured in the Gulf last week and accused of trespassing in Iranian waters. The Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told the American Associated Press news agency that before such a meeting could take place Britain would have to admit that the violation of Iranian waters was a mistake.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has made a forceful appeal for Arab Unity describing the American military presence in Iraq is illegitimate and calling on the west to drop its financial embargo on the Palestinians. He was speaking in the Saudi capital Riyadh where Arab leaders are meeting to relaunch a plan for peace with Israel that they first endorsed five years ago. Correspondents say Saudi Arabia was seeking to show a measure of independence from its ally, the United States.
The United States has urged countries in southern Africa to call with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to account for it calls, his years of misrule. The State Department said Mr.Mugabe was engaged in an all-out campaign to intimidate the legitimate political opposition and countries in the region should make it clear that this was not acceptable. As President Mugabe was leaving for a meeting of the Southern African Development Community or SADC in Tanzania, police in Zimbabwe again detained the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai for a time. George Seba Seawe from the Movement for Democratic change said the arrest showed scorn for the meeting.
"The government no longer has respect for ordinary Zimbabwean citizens and now as they demonstrate they have no respect for SADC, because this happens as a backdrop to the SADC meeting which is happening today and tomorrow in Dar Es Salaam Tanzania."
The President of Guinea Lansana Conte has named a new government a month after appointing a new prime minister to end a series of strikes which brought the country to a standstill for several weeks. President Conte announced members of the new cabinet at a television broadcast after consultations with the Prime Minister Lansana Kouyate. More than 100 people were killed during unrest earlier this year.
World News from the BBC.
Police in northern Nigeria say almost 90 people are now known to have been killed when a petrol tank had caught fire while people were skipping up, leaking fuel. This is the latest in a series of similar accidents in Nigeria where petrol is precious despite its oil wealth. Alex Lasks reports from Lagos.
Police said the petrol tank had been trying to park when it overturned in a village in Codunus state. Local villagers gathered around with buckets and cans hoping to collect the leaking fuel. It's not clear if they tapped into the container or whether it was leaking from the accident that there was a spark from somewhere and the tanker blew up. The driver of this tanker said he pleaded with people to stay away because of the danger, but even after so many disasters people still feel it's worth the risk.
A new international study has cast doubt on the theory that modern mammals emerged immediately after the extinction of the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago. The report says they appear to have emerged from a period of global warming at least ten million years after the dinosaurs disappeared. Near Boglaw reports.
Up until now it has been widely believed that mammals were the big winners in the dinosaurs' demise. The new international study claims that the ancestors of most present-day mammals including those of humans in fact emerged only millions of years later. The scientists came to their conclusion after constructing the giant family tree for almost all living mammals. The tree shows that our ancestors emerged not from what they call a mass extinction event but from a later about of global warming in which plants flourished and mammals diversified in spectacular numbers.
Portugal has inaugurated, what it says, the world's most powerful solar energy plant as part of its efforts to reduce energy imports and cut greenhouse gases. The plant was built jointly by American and Portuguese companies. Officials say they expect the solar plant to produce enough energy to supply 8,000 homes.
BBC World News.
Vocabulary
Ratchet up: 逐步推动 vi. 如棘轮转动；逐步变动
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