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BBC 2007-06-29
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BBC World News, I'm Leon Newence.
Senators in the United States have blocked an immigration bill sponsored by President Bush that could have led to twelve million illegal immigrants being granted US citizenship. The vote's being seen as a victory for conservatives in the Republican Party who regarded the bill as an amnesty for illegal migrants. More details now from Justin Webb who is in Washington.
When the dust of the Bush presidency has settled, this is likely to be the day that historians identify as the end of the enterprise at least in terms of domestic policy. Earlier this morning, President Bush was on the phone calling key senators and urging them to support the bill. His homeland security secretary Michael Chertoff and commerce secretary Carlos Gutierrez approached senators as they entered the chamber to vote, cajoling, pleading but all for not. It is a stunning political defeat for the President, leading to the possibility that floodgates will open,the further defeats, on for instance, the troop surge in Iraq.
The United States Supreme Court has ruled that American schools can no longer use race as a deciding factor in assigning places for pupils. Judges had been asked to consider two separate cases brought by white parents. The parents argued that their children were unfairly denied entry to schools of their choice because their entry would have exceeded the quota for non-black pupils. Pack Tard is in charge of allocating school places for Louisville which is one of the cases being considered by the Supreme Court. “This is a direct challenge about keeping our schools racially integrated. Being able to educate all of our children to high academic rigorous standards, and to prepare them to be sensitive to cultural, racial, ethnic differences so that they will better work together in the economic development of our community.”
Scientists in the United States say they have taken a big step towards producing life from scratch in the laboratory. Doctor Craig Venter, a pioneer in mapping the human genome says his team has successfully transplanted an entire genome from one species of bacterium to another.
“What's in this paper is the result of taking a native chromosome from one species that chromosome is transplanted, inserted through the cell wall, the cell membrane of a second species. And after several days of growth and cell divisions, the original chromosome of the cell disappears and we have cells containing only the transplanted chromosome.”
Egypt has outlawed all forms of female circumcision, just days after a twelve-year-old girl died while undergoing the procedure. The practice was banned initially 1997, but doctors had been allowed to operate in exceptional cases.
World news from the BBC.
A Libyan man who was jailed for life for blowing up an American passenger jet over the Scottish town of Lockerbie 1988 is to be allowed a second appeal. After a three-year review of the case of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, a Scottish commission says his conviction in 2001 for the murder of 270 people was unsafe. It said that while it found new evidence to imply his guilt. It also found evidence to imply his innocence.
The Greek government says fire fighters are facing an uNPRecedented challenge from 100 wild fires burning in central Greece after the most intense heat wave for more than a century. The flames are threatening electricity pylons that supply power to five million people living in and around the capital Athens. From there, Malcom Brubent has this report.
100 kilometers north of Athens, fire fighters have been prevented from advancing into a burning forest because of the risk from exploding mines laid during Greece's civil war sixty years ago. In central Greece, two volunteers were burned to death when they abandoned their truck. Some of the most picturesque parts of the country are being consumed by flames. Many of the fires began in quick succession and it's assumed that arsonists have been at work.
In opposite corner of Europe, there are warnings of further severe weather in parts of England where flooding has killed at least four people.
South African Trades Unions have called off a four-week-long public service strike which caused major disruption to hospitals and schools. The public service unions unanimously agreed to end the industrial action, but not all of the Unions involved have accepted the government's offer of a 7.5% pay rise. Some teaching unions will hold further talks with the government.
And that's the latest from BBC World Service News.
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BBC World News, I'm Leon Newence.
Senators in the United States have blocked an immigration bill sponsored by President Bush that could have led to twelve million illegal immigrants being granted US citizenship. The vote's being seen as a victory for conservatives in the Republican Party who regarded the bill as an amnesty for illegal migrants. More details now from Justin Webb who is in Washington.
When the dust of the Bush presidency has settled, this is likely to be the day that historians identify as the end of the enterprise at least in terms of domestic policy. Earlier this morning, President Bush was on the phone calling key senators and urging them to support the bill. His homeland security secretary Michael Chertoff and commerce secretary Carlos Gutierrez approached senators as they entered the chamber to vote, cajoling, pleading but all for not. It is a stunning political defeat for the President, leading to the possibility that floodgates will open,the further defeats, on for instance, the troop surge in Iraq.
The United States Supreme Court has ruled that American schools can no longer use race as a deciding factor in assigning places for pupils. Judges had been asked to consider two separate cases brought by white parents. The parents argued that their children were unfairly denied entry to schools of their choice because their entry would have exceeded the quota for non-black pupils. Pack Tard is in charge of allocating school places for Louisville which is one of the cases being considered by the Supreme Court. “This is a direct challenge about keeping our schools racially integrated. Being able to educate all of our children to high academic rigorous standards, and to prepare them to be sensitive to cultural, racial, ethnic differences so that they will better work together in the economic development of our community.”
Scientists in the United States say they have taken a big step towards producing life from scratch in the laboratory. Doctor Craig Venter, a pioneer in mapping the human genome says his team has successfully transplanted an entire genome from one species of bacterium to another.
“What's in this paper is the result of taking a native chromosome from one species that chromosome is transplanted, inserted through the cell wall, the cell membrane of a second species. And after several days of growth and cell divisions, the original chromosome of the cell disappears and we have cells containing only the transplanted chromosome.”
Egypt has outlawed all forms of female circumcision, just days after a twelve-year-old girl died while undergoing the procedure. The practice was banned initially 1997, but doctors had been allowed to operate in exceptional cases.
World news from the BBC.
A Libyan man who was jailed for life for blowing up an American passenger jet over the Scottish town of Lockerbie 1988 is to be allowed a second appeal. After a three-year review of the case of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, a Scottish commission says his conviction in 2001 for the murder of 270 people was unsafe. It said that while it found new evidence to imply his guilt. It also found evidence to imply his innocence.
The Greek government says fire fighters are facing an uNPRecedented challenge from 100 wild fires burning in central Greece after the most intense heat wave for more than a century. The flames are threatening electricity pylons that supply power to five million people living in and around the capital Athens. From there, Malcom Brubent has this report.
100 kilometers north of Athens, fire fighters have been prevented from advancing into a burning forest because of the risk from exploding mines laid during Greece's civil war sixty years ago. In central Greece, two volunteers were burned to death when they abandoned their truck. Some of the most picturesque parts of the country are being consumed by flames. Many of the fires began in quick succession and it's assumed that arsonists have been at work.
In opposite corner of Europe, there are warnings of further severe weather in parts of England where flooding has killed at least four people.
South African Trades Unions have called off a four-week-long public service strike which caused major disruption to hospitals and schools. The public service unions unanimously agreed to end the industrial action, but not all of the Unions involved have accepted the government's offer of a 7.5% pay rise. Some teaching unions will hold further talks with the government.
And that's the latest from BBC World Service News.
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