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. . have disastrous results, similar to the bloody aftermath of the Vietnam war in Southeast Asia. We get this report from Jennet Brown in Washington. Mr. Bush warned that, as in Vietnam, the killing wouldn't stop and the price would be paid by millions of innocent civilians. He also said it would embolden al-Qaeda, who also invoked Vietnam as an example of America losing the will to fight an unpopular war. Mr. Bush's speech sets the stage for the crucial progress report from General David Petraeus, the US top commander in Iraq, and the ensuing battle with Congress over military funding.
An indefinite curfew is enforced in the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, and 5 other cities across the country, to try to stop violent clashes between police and students. Universities and colleges in the affected places have been ordered to close for unlimited period. The students have been demanding an end to emergency rule in Bangladesh which has been enforced since January, when the military-backed government came to power.
The World Health Organization has warned that infectious diseases are spreading geographically much faster than at any time in history. In its annual report the WHO says that in an increasingly interconnected world, the only way to combat the spread of disease is through cooperation and complete openness. "Countries should not attempt to conceal an outbreak," the organization says, "and virus samples and treatments must be shared."
The Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki has refused to sign into law a controversial media bill that would have allowed the courts to force journalists to reveal their sources. Mr. KIBAKI said the measures would have been a threat to the democratic gains Kenya has made in recent years. It will now be returned to Parliament. A freelance journalist in Nairobi, Anbroka Anbre, told the BBC that with a general election due to be held later this year, it was unlikely Parliament would risk trying to pass the bill again. "Some people in government are worried that maybe if we can not control the media, if we can't muzzle the media, the media may prove to be a problem ahead of the election. If they bring it back, the public reaction to this has been so strong, so forceful, that it would be naive of them to try to do at this time, when they are going into the next general election." Hundreds of Kenyan journalists demonstrated against the bill outside parliament last week.
Inflation in Zimbabwe has reached 7600%, the highest in the world. It's the first time the figure has been published in 3 months. Then it stood at 3700%.
World news from the BBC in London.
An 11-year-old boy has died after being shot outside a pub in Liverpool in north-west England. The police say they have no idea why he was targeted. Catherine Heartly has the details. The police say they believe the boy was walking home after playing football, when a teenager cycled past and fired at him. The 11-year-old who was about to start at secondary school is the latest and youngest victim of the spate of gun crime in Britain over the past few months. In London alone 6 teenagers have been shot dead since February, a total of 17 teenagers have been murdered in the capital since January.
The authorities in Texas have carried out the 400th execution there, since the state reintroduced the death penalty in 1982. The convicted man Johnny Ray-Connor was put to death by lethal injection for the murder of a shop assistant in 1998. European Union had called for the Texan authorities not to carry out the execution but its appeal was rejected.
Scientists say that a fossil find in Ethiopia indicates that humans and gorillas split from each other at least 2 million years earlier than previously believed. Anthropologists say the discovery of fossilized teeth, from a relative of the modern gorilla, could be a significant breakthrough in our understanding of the origin of humans. Our science reporter Matt McGrah has more details. Until now scientists understood that humans and gorillas separated from each other less than 8 million years ago. This was based on an analysis of DNA from both species. But these very rare fossilized teeth tell a different story. They are 10 millions years old, and the researchers believe they are from an ancestor of the modern gorilla. This would suggest that gorillas had become a separate species more than 10 million years ago, pushing back the date when humans went their separate ways by at least 2 million years.
BBC World News.
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. . have disastrous results, similar to the bloody aftermath of the Vietnam war in Southeast Asia. We get this report from Jennet Brown in Washington. Mr. Bush warned that, as in Vietnam, the killing wouldn't stop and the price would be paid by millions of innocent civilians. He also said it would embolden al-Qaeda, who also invoked Vietnam as an example of America losing the will to fight an unpopular war. Mr. Bush's speech sets the stage for the crucial progress report from General David Petraeus, the US top commander in Iraq, and the ensuing battle with Congress over military funding.
An indefinite curfew is enforced in the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, and 5 other cities across the country, to try to stop violent clashes between police and students. Universities and colleges in the affected places have been ordered to close for unlimited period. The students have been demanding an end to emergency rule in Bangladesh which has been enforced since January, when the military-backed government came to power.
The World Health Organization has warned that infectious diseases are spreading geographically much faster than at any time in history. In its annual report the WHO says that in an increasingly interconnected world, the only way to combat the spread of disease is through cooperation and complete openness. "Countries should not attempt to conceal an outbreak," the organization says, "and virus samples and treatments must be shared."
The Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki has refused to sign into law a controversial media bill that would have allowed the courts to force journalists to reveal their sources. Mr. KIBAKI said the measures would have been a threat to the democratic gains Kenya has made in recent years. It will now be returned to Parliament. A freelance journalist in Nairobi, Anbroka Anbre, told the BBC that with a general election due to be held later this year, it was unlikely Parliament would risk trying to pass the bill again. "Some people in government are worried that maybe if we can not control the media, if we can't muzzle the media, the media may prove to be a problem ahead of the election. If they bring it back, the public reaction to this has been so strong, so forceful, that it would be naive of them to try to do at this time, when they are going into the next general election." Hundreds of Kenyan journalists demonstrated against the bill outside parliament last week.
Inflation in Zimbabwe has reached 7600%, the highest in the world. It's the first time the figure has been published in 3 months. Then it stood at 3700%.
World news from the BBC in London.
An 11-year-old boy has died after being shot outside a pub in Liverpool in north-west England. The police say they have no idea why he was targeted. Catherine Heartly has the details. The police say they believe the boy was walking home after playing football, when a teenager cycled past and fired at him. The 11-year-old who was about to start at secondary school is the latest and youngest victim of the spate of gun crime in Britain over the past few months. In London alone 6 teenagers have been shot dead since February, a total of 17 teenagers have been murdered in the capital since January.
The authorities in Texas have carried out the 400th execution there, since the state reintroduced the death penalty in 1982. The convicted man Johnny Ray-Connor was put to death by lethal injection for the murder of a shop assistant in 1998. European Union had called for the Texan authorities not to carry out the execution but its appeal was rejected.
Scientists say that a fossil find in Ethiopia indicates that humans and gorillas split from each other at least 2 million years earlier than previously believed. Anthropologists say the discovery of fossilized teeth, from a relative of the modern gorilla, could be a significant breakthrough in our understanding of the origin of humans. Our science reporter Matt McGrah has more details. Until now scientists understood that humans and gorillas separated from each other less than 8 million years ago. This was based on an analysis of DNA from both species. But these very rare fossilized teeth tell a different story. They are 10 millions years old, and the researchers believe they are from an ancestor of the modern gorilla. This would suggest that gorillas had become a separate species more than 10 million years ago, pushing back the date when humans went their separate ways by at least 2 million years.
BBC World News.
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