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BBC world news with Sue Montgomery.

The president of Ukraine, Victor Yushchenko, has ordered parliament to be dissolved and new elections to be held next month. Mr. Yushchenko said the measures were necessary because parliament had violated the constitution. Members of parliament have voted to continue to work. Now the Defence Minister, speaking after an emergency government meeting, has said the army will obey the president. Helen Fox reports from Kiev.

The Defence Minister Anatoliy Hrytsenko said that the armed forces will follow the orders of the Commander in Chief, which is Ukraine's president. He made the statement during an emergency cabinet meeting, which was shown live on television. Mr. Hrytsenko is the only minister in the government loyal to the president as it is controlled by the Prime Minister. Earlier the Ukrainian president dissolved parliament because he claimed it was usurping power. But the ruling coalition in parliament said the president's order was illegal. Supporters of the prime minister are gathered outside parliament and supporters of the president have also been called out to demonstrate.

Environmental campaigners in the United States have described a Supreme Court ruling on greenhouse gas emissions as a watershed moment in the fight against global warming. The Court said the Bush Administration had offered no proper explanation for its refusal to regulate emissions from cars and trucks and should now do so. The main US environmental group, the Sierra Club, said the ruling was a rejection of the government's refusal to meet the challenges of global warming. Sierra Club's senior attorney, David Bookbinder, said the ruling was important in two ways.

First of all, it's going to allow the dozen states that have already adopted aggressive greenhouse gas limits for cars to go forward with those regulations. But more important than that is that this decision will probably spur Congress to create the national legislative solution that we've been waiting for, for many years.

There are fresh fears for the housing market in the United States after another mortgage lender offering loans to people with poor credit ratings filed for bankruptcy protection. The new Century Financial Corporation is the largest of more than two dozen such mortgage companies to be hit in recent months. It follows a sharp rise in the number of borrowers defaulting on their mortgage repayments.

The head of Iran's National Security Council has said Tehran does not want to put on trial the fifteen British naval personnel detained more than a week ago in the Gulf. Ali Larijani criticized what he said had been the harsh tone coming from London, but added that Tehran still hope to resolve the situation through diplomatic means. The British Foreign Office said it shared the desire for a diplomatic solution.

This is the World News from the BBC.

The African Union has called on the Sudanese government to speed up plans for a new peacekeeping force in the western region of Darfur. The head of the AU commission, Alpha Oumar Konare, said he was greatly concerned for the increasing number of attacks on the African peacekeepers in the region. From Khartoum, here is Johnny Fisher.

Twice AU soldiers have been attacked in areas supposedly controlled by rebels, who are part of last year's peace agreement. Seven men have died - the last five at the weekend. A statement from Alpha Oumar Konare, the head of the AU, said that he was greatly concerned by the attacks. "If the trend continued, " Mr. Konare said, "the peacekeeping operation would be in serious jeopardy. " Attempts to push through a three-phase plan for a joint AU-UN operation have been blocked by the Sudanese government.

Britain and Argentina have been marking the 25th anniversary of the outbreak of their war over the Falklands Islands. At a ceremony in the Southern Argentine city of Ushuaia, the country's Vice President Daniel Shioney said the Falklands known in Argentina as the Malvinas, remained Argentine. And he urged Britain to negotiate over the territory.

Once more we call on the United Kingdom to take heed of the international demands and renew the negotiations in the manner indicated by the United Nations in the clear and precise way laid down in Resolution 2065. Neither the war nor time has changed the reality. The Malvinas belong to Argentina. They always have, they always will.

Scientists say a method they have developed to convert blood from one group to another could mean the end of transfusion shortages. Writing in the journal Nature Biotechnology, researchers say they have identified an enzyme that can produce group O blood, the type that can be given to anyone.

BBC World News.