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BBC News with Sue Montgomery.

World leaders attending the G8 summit in Germany have described an agreement to tackle climate change as a major step forward. The G8 leaders accepted the need to stop the rise in green house gas emissions and to make substantial cuts by the year 2050. Paul Adams reports from Heiligendamm.

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel called this a giant step forward. All members had agreed on the need for mandatory reductions in green house gases. She said she was particularly pleased that the process would continue to be conducted under the auspices of the UN. Tony Blair said the debate on climate change had been transformed in just two years. An agreement was now in place, he said, which would lead to a deal involving both the US and China with the aim of a substantial cut in green house gases, perhaps in the order of 50% by the middle of the century. Environmental campaigners are expressing a degree of relief. They want the summit to go further, but admit that real progress has been made.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested to President Bush at the G8 summit a possible way of defusing the row over American plans for a missile defense Shield in Europe. Mr. Putin’s suggestion was that Moscow and Washington could jointly use a radar station in Azerbaijan. Jonathon Bill reports from Heiligendamm.

George Bush and Vladimir Putin emerged from their meeting smiling at the cameras and calling each other by their first names. In their meeting, President Putin, who'd earlier threatened to point Russian nuclear missiles at Europe if the US went ahead with setting up its controversial defense shield in the Czech Republic and Poland, offered a way out. Speaking through an interpreter, he outlined a proposal to use a Russian radar base in the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan to detect any incoming missiles from so-called rogue states. US officials saw the Russian leader's offer as a proof that he recognized the potential threat from countries such as North Korea and Iran.

The President of Nigeria Umaru Yar'Adua has said he expects the G8 summit to result in an increased share of free trade to Africa. Speaking in the BBC interview, Mr. Yar'Adua said he also hoped for more international help in resolving African conflicts, especially in Somalia and the Sudanese region of Darfur. The United States has warned Sudan that it must accept the deployment of a joint African Union and United Nations force in Darfur, or face additional sanctions including the imposition of a no fly zone over the region. Speaking to the BBC, the US ambassador to the UN Al. M. H. warned that time was not on the side of the Sudanese government.

The Saudi Prince, said by a BBC program to have received about two billion dollars as part of a major British arms deal, has categorically denied doing anything wrong. In a statement / expressing what he called his dismay in shock, Prince Bandar bin Sultan said he had not been given any improper secret commissions.

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The future of a White House backed bill on immigration currently under discussion in the US senate has been thrown into doubt after senators rejected a provision to end the debate and proceed towards a vote. Republicans and some Democrats want more time to discuss amendments to the bill. James Coomarasamy reports from Washington.

After spending the past two weeks discussing in voting on a wide range of amendments, the senators have rejected a call from the majority leader Harry Reid to end that debate and vote on the legislation. The bill is a latest attempt by Congress to address the estimated twelve million undocumented workers living in the United States. It proposes strengthening border security, introducing a guest worker program and offering those in the America illegally the chance to gain their citizenship.

There has been wide spread criticism of the early release from jail of the American social idol. Paris Hilton after just three days of a forty five days sentence for driving while suspended. A Human Rights leader the reverend A. S. and a spokesman for police in Los Angeles where she was jailed accused officials of giving Miss Hilton preferential treatment. Steve Whitmore is a spokesman for the Los Angeles county sheriff's departments.
"After extensive consultation with medical personnel including doctors here at CRDF, it was determined that Paris Hilton would be reassigned to our community based alternatives to custodies alike electronic monitoring program. And what that means is this: she has been fettered with an ankle bracelet. And she has been sent home, and she would be confined to her home for the next forty days.

Scientists in / America have successfully transmitted electricity between two devices without the use of connecting cable. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sent electricity through the air from a power source to a light bulb placed two meters away.