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They said those who died were involved in smuggling weapons into Iraq from Iran. Hospital staff and police said there were women among the casualties. The Americans denied hitting civilians. Meanwhile, the Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki has held security talks with the government of neighboring Iran. Speaking during his flight there, Mr. Maliki explained what he hoped to achieve.
"The main objective of the visit is to strengthen bilateral ties within a general policy we've adopted for enhancing our trade and security ties with our regional neighbors so that they stand by Iraq in the face of terrorism challenges."
The organizers of the Olympic Games in Beijing have marked the start of the year-long countdown to the event with an elaborate ceremony in Tiananmen Square. The exact moment the Games will begin next August was greeted with a fireworks display and 10,000 guests were entertained by troops of dancers and musicians. Our correspondent Alex Capstick was at the ceremony and has this report.
The festivities here in Tiananmen Square were a display of China's skill in pouring off a meticulously planned celebration. It included traditional song and dance from people of all ethnic backgrounds in China, a spectacular fireworks display, all below the portrait of Chairman Mao in front of the Forbidden City. China's financial might and its endless supply of labor has ensured the state-of-the-art venues will be completed well ahead of schedule and many of them, especially the National Stadium known as "the Birds Nest", take the breath away.
The Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has pulled out of a tribal council in Afghanistan, aimed at combating Taliban and al-Qaeda sponsored militants. The gathering was due to start on Thursday, both President Musharraf and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan were expected to attend. Pakistan delegation will, instead, be led by the Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.
Officials in Pakistan say they've discontinued a vaccination program against polio in a tribal area near the Afghan border after health workers were attacked. A number of local Islamic clerics have campaigned against the polio vaccinations alleging they are part of a plot to sterilize Muslim children. Sanjay Dasgupta reports.
In Jimom in the tribal area of Bajaur a group of masked gunmen surrounded 12 health workers on Tuesday. They were beaten up and their equipment was smashed. The vaccination drive has now been suspended there. In nearby Swart, the program is going ahead because government officials managed to convince a local cleric MAL to abandon his virulent campaign against the vaccination drive. Even in tribal areas with the drive's progressing, it faces substantial opposition from local clerics.
You are listening to the World News coming to you from the BBC World Service in London.
The leaders of North and South Korea are to meet late this month in what would be only the second top-level meeting between the two halves of the divided peninsula. The summit will take place in the North Korean capital Pyongyang. The two sides had technically set a wall, but their first summit seven years ago led to growing cooperation.
A large ornate wooden cross has been laid in Butovo near Moscow as a monument that ten thousands of people who were shot there during the Stalin's purges of the 1930s. The cross has traveled from a monastery in northern Russia which Stalin turned into a prison camp as part of a 70th anniversary commemoration of the Stalinist terror. Our correspondent James Rodgers was at the ceremony at Butovo.
Russian orthodox nuns and priests led the procession to the new monument. The priests, bright yellow and orange vestments, shone in the summer sun. Even those colors couldn't drive away the shadow of death which still hangs over Butovo. Stalin Secret Police shot at least 20,000 people here. Some died for their religious faith and are now honored as martyrs. Others faced the firing squads simply because their neighbors had denounced them.
Prosecutors in Britain say a television documentary about alleged extremism at a mosque in the city of Birmingham completely distorted the views of some of the people featured in it. A lawyer for the prosecution service said interviews in the film shown on the commercial station Channel 4 were heavily edited to misrepresent what people said. Channel 4 defended the film, saying police had offered no evidence to support their allegations.
A Ukrainian man has been named as "the tallest man in the world" by the Guinness Book of Records. It says that the Ukrainian Leonid Stadnik who is 37 has been measured at 2.57 meters that makes him 20 centimeters taller than the previous titleholder BaoXixun of China.
Glossary:
state-of-the-art n./adj.
If you describe something as state-of-the-art, you mean that it is the best available because it has been made using the most modern techniques and technology.
take the breath away
If you say that something takes your breath away, you are emphasizing that it is extremely beautiful or surprising.
polio n.
abbreviation of poliomyelitis: 小儿麻痹症,脊髓灰质炎
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They said those who died were involved in smuggling weapons into Iraq from Iran. Hospital staff and police said there were women among the casualties. The Americans denied hitting civilians. Meanwhile, the Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki has held security talks with the government of neighboring Iran. Speaking during his flight there, Mr. Maliki explained what he hoped to achieve.
"The main objective of the visit is to strengthen bilateral ties within a general policy we've adopted for enhancing our trade and security ties with our regional neighbors so that they stand by Iraq in the face of terrorism challenges."
The organizers of the Olympic Games in Beijing have marked the start of the year-long countdown to the event with an elaborate ceremony in Tiananmen Square. The exact moment the Games will begin next August was greeted with a fireworks display and 10,000 guests were entertained by troops of dancers and musicians. Our correspondent Alex Capstick was at the ceremony and has this report.
The festivities here in Tiananmen Square were a display of China's skill in pouring off a meticulously planned celebration. It included traditional song and dance from people of all ethnic backgrounds in China, a spectacular fireworks display, all below the portrait of Chairman Mao in front of the Forbidden City. China's financial might and its endless supply of labor has ensured the state-of-the-art venues will be completed well ahead of schedule and many of them, especially the National Stadium known as "the Birds Nest", take the breath away.
The Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has pulled out of a tribal council in Afghanistan, aimed at combating Taliban and al-Qaeda sponsored militants. The gathering was due to start on Thursday, both President Musharraf and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan were expected to attend. Pakistan delegation will, instead, be led by the Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.
Officials in Pakistan say they've discontinued a vaccination program against polio in a tribal area near the Afghan border after health workers were attacked. A number of local Islamic clerics have campaigned against the polio vaccinations alleging they are part of a plot to sterilize Muslim children. Sanjay Dasgupta reports.
In Jimom in the tribal area of Bajaur a group of masked gunmen surrounded 12 health workers on Tuesday. They were beaten up and their equipment was smashed. The vaccination drive has now been suspended there. In nearby Swart, the program is going ahead because government officials managed to convince a local cleric MAL to abandon his virulent campaign against the vaccination drive. Even in tribal areas with the drive's progressing, it faces substantial opposition from local clerics.
You are listening to the World News coming to you from the BBC World Service in London.
The leaders of North and South Korea are to meet late this month in what would be only the second top-level meeting between the two halves of the divided peninsula. The summit will take place in the North Korean capital Pyongyang. The two sides had technically set a wall, but their first summit seven years ago led to growing cooperation.
A large ornate wooden cross has been laid in Butovo near Moscow as a monument that ten thousands of people who were shot there during the Stalin's purges of the 1930s. The cross has traveled from a monastery in northern Russia which Stalin turned into a prison camp as part of a 70th anniversary commemoration of the Stalinist terror. Our correspondent James Rodgers was at the ceremony at Butovo.
Russian orthodox nuns and priests led the procession to the new monument. The priests, bright yellow and orange vestments, shone in the summer sun. Even those colors couldn't drive away the shadow of death which still hangs over Butovo. Stalin Secret Police shot at least 20,000 people here. Some died for their religious faith and are now honored as martyrs. Others faced the firing squads simply because their neighbors had denounced them.
Prosecutors in Britain say a television documentary about alleged extremism at a mosque in the city of Birmingham completely distorted the views of some of the people featured in it. A lawyer for the prosecution service said interviews in the film shown on the commercial station Channel 4 were heavily edited to misrepresent what people said. Channel 4 defended the film, saying police had offered no evidence to support their allegations.
A Ukrainian man has been named as "the tallest man in the world" by the Guinness Book of Records. It says that the Ukrainian Leonid Stadnik who is 37 has been measured at 2.57 meters that makes him 20 centimeters taller than the previous titleholder BaoXixun of China.
Glossary:
state-of-the-art n./adj.
If you describe something as state-of-the-art, you mean that it is the best available because it has been made using the most modern techniques and technology.
take the breath away
If you say that something takes your breath away, you are emphasizing that it is extremely beautiful or surprising.
polio n.
abbreviation of poliomyelitis: 小儿麻痹症,脊髓灰质炎
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