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BBC World News with Nick Kelly.
President Bush has commuted a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence given to the former White House aide Lewis Scooter Libby. In a statement, Mr. Bush deemed Mr. Libby's sentence excessive and said the man and his family had suffered immensely. James Westhead reports from Washington.
Lewis Scooter Libby is the most senior administration official to be convicted of a crime for twenty years. In March, the former chief of staff to vice President Dick Cheney was sentenced to thirty months in jail. He was convicted of lying to authorities during an investigation into the leaking of the identity of a CIA agent, Valerie Plame. Today the US appeal court refused to allow him to stay free while he appealed against the sentence he was due to start within a fortnight. President Bush's abrupt decision to commute the sentence means he won't now go to jail. The convictions though stand. He will remain on parole and will still have to pay a fine of a quarter of a million dollars.
President Putin appears to have softened his opposition to American plans for a new missile defense system based in Europe. He suggested a more collaborative approach during informal talks with President Bush at the Bush family estate proposing inclusion of other European countries into the discussion about the missile system.
"In this case, there would be no need to place any more facilities in Europe. And if needs be, we are prepared to involve in this work not only the Gabalia radar which were rent from the Azerbaijanis. If necessary, we are prepared to modernize it. And if that is not enough, we would be prepared to engage in the system, also a newly-built radar early warning system in the south of Russia."
At least nine people have died in a suicide bomb attack on a tourist site in Yemen, seven of them Spanish nationals. The blast occurred in the northeastern province of Mareb. A Yemeni driver and the suicide bomber also died in the attack. Reports say a car bomb was driven into the site of an ancient temple the tourists were visiting. Haple Sala. sent this report from Cairo.
The suicide bomber is said to have driven into the ancient site and detonated his car next to a convoy carrying Spanish tourists. They were about to leave after touring a three-thousand-year-old temple believed to have been built for the Queen of Sheba. Unnamed Yemeni security officials are cited as saying, they suspect Al-Qaeda. They are quoted as saying the group had recently demanded the release of some of its militants jailed in Yemen and it had threatened unspecified actions.
A committee of British parliamentarians has warned that the armed forces are facing a serious shortage of manpower which could jeopardize their ability to do their job. The committee said the military was being overstretched by the deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan and that more and more servicemen and women were leaving, partly due to the pressures of long overseas tours of duty.
World news from the BBC.
The British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has said the government wants tighter security laws following the failed car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow. She confirmed that this could mean looking again at how long suspects can be held without charge. Meanwhile, there's been another arrest in connection with the failed attacks. Collin Blain reports from Glasgow.
It's been another day of intense police activity. Some of it focused on a hospital in Paisley, not far from Glasgow airport where Saturday's failed car bomb attack took place. The Royal Alexander Hospital, it's where one of the airport suspects, lies critically ill from his burns. It's also where another suspected plotter worked as a junior doctor. Police said the two arrests they've made last night were from the hospital's residential block which they've been searching today.
Researchers in Canada say that global warming is rapidly evaporating ancient Arctic ponds in a way that's likely to have a significant impact on wild life. The ponds found in the bleak Arctic region of Canada are often the only liquid water source for birds, insects and other organisms. Here is our environment reporter Mike Megrar.
In the bleak high Arctic region of Canada, ponds are often the only liquid water source for many species. As a consequence, the areas around these ponds are hot spots of bio-diversity. For twenty four years, Canadian scientists have been monitoring around forty of these ponds. Throughout the 1990s, they observed with growing alarm at decline in the water levels and increase in the concentration of salts as the water evaporated. By last year, some of the ponds which have survived for several thousand years were completely dry.
And finally, the emergency Palestinian government in the West Bank says Palestinian authority workers who are not followers of Hamas will be paid in full for the first time in eighteen months. The move follows the release by Israel of more than $100 million of frozen Palestinian Tax revenues.
BBC world news.
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BBC World News with Nick Kelly.
President Bush has commuted a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence given to the former White House aide Lewis Scooter Libby. In a statement, Mr. Bush deemed Mr. Libby's sentence excessive and said the man and his family had suffered immensely. James Westhead reports from Washington.
Lewis Scooter Libby is the most senior administration official to be convicted of a crime for twenty years. In March, the former chief of staff to vice President Dick Cheney was sentenced to thirty months in jail. He was convicted of lying to authorities during an investigation into the leaking of the identity of a CIA agent, Valerie Plame. Today the US appeal court refused to allow him to stay free while he appealed against the sentence he was due to start within a fortnight. President Bush's abrupt decision to commute the sentence means he won't now go to jail. The convictions though stand. He will remain on parole and will still have to pay a fine of a quarter of a million dollars.
President Putin appears to have softened his opposition to American plans for a new missile defense system based in Europe. He suggested a more collaborative approach during informal talks with President Bush at the Bush family estate proposing inclusion of other European countries into the discussion about the missile system.
"In this case, there would be no need to place any more facilities in Europe. And if needs be, we are prepared to involve in this work not only the Gabalia radar which were rent from the Azerbaijanis. If necessary, we are prepared to modernize it. And if that is not enough, we would be prepared to engage in the system, also a newly-built radar early warning system in the south of Russia."
At least nine people have died in a suicide bomb attack on a tourist site in Yemen, seven of them Spanish nationals. The blast occurred in the northeastern province of Mareb. A Yemeni driver and the suicide bomber also died in the attack. Reports say a car bomb was driven into the site of an ancient temple the tourists were visiting. Haple Sala. sent this report from Cairo.
The suicide bomber is said to have driven into the ancient site and detonated his car next to a convoy carrying Spanish tourists. They were about to leave after touring a three-thousand-year-old temple believed to have been built for the Queen of Sheba. Unnamed Yemeni security officials are cited as saying, they suspect Al-Qaeda. They are quoted as saying the group had recently demanded the release of some of its militants jailed in Yemen and it had threatened unspecified actions.
A committee of British parliamentarians has warned that the armed forces are facing a serious shortage of manpower which could jeopardize their ability to do their job. The committee said the military was being overstretched by the deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan and that more and more servicemen and women were leaving, partly due to the pressures of long overseas tours of duty.
World news from the BBC.
The British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has said the government wants tighter security laws following the failed car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow. She confirmed that this could mean looking again at how long suspects can be held without charge. Meanwhile, there's been another arrest in connection with the failed attacks. Collin Blain reports from Glasgow.
It's been another day of intense police activity. Some of it focused on a hospital in Paisley, not far from Glasgow airport where Saturday's failed car bomb attack took place. The Royal Alexander Hospital, it's where one of the airport suspects, lies critically ill from his burns. It's also where another suspected plotter worked as a junior doctor. Police said the two arrests they've made last night were from the hospital's residential block which they've been searching today.
Researchers in Canada say that global warming is rapidly evaporating ancient Arctic ponds in a way that's likely to have a significant impact on wild life. The ponds found in the bleak Arctic region of Canada are often the only liquid water source for birds, insects and other organisms. Here is our environment reporter Mike Megrar.
In the bleak high Arctic region of Canada, ponds are often the only liquid water source for many species. As a consequence, the areas around these ponds are hot spots of bio-diversity. For twenty four years, Canadian scientists have been monitoring around forty of these ponds. Throughout the 1990s, they observed with growing alarm at decline in the water levels and increase in the concentration of salts as the water evaporated. By last year, some of the ponds which have survived for several thousand years were completely dry.
And finally, the emergency Palestinian government in the West Bank says Palestinian authority workers who are not followers of Hamas will be paid in full for the first time in eighteen months. The move follows the release by Israel of more than $100 million of frozen Palestinian Tax revenues.
BBC world news.
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