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BBC World News with Jonathan Weekley.
The French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner says the world should prepare for the worst over Iran’s nuclear program, and the worst means war. Mr. Kouchner disclosed that a number of large French companies have been asked not to take on new work in Iran. He called on the European Union to consider sanctions against Iran beyond those already imposed by the United Nations' Security Council. Mr. Kouchner said an Iranian nuclear weapon would pose a real danger for the whole world.
“Our Iranian friends want to build a civil nuclear program, but everything they do seems to point to the contrary. That is why we're worried. We have decided during negotiations to impose sanctions beyond the remit of UN's sanctions. We must prepare for the worst, the worst is war.”
The Greek Prime Minster Costas Karamanlis has won Sunday’s general election. With more than half the votes counted, his New Democracy Party held a 4% lead over the main Socialist opposition PASOK. As Mr. Karamanlis claimed victory, PASOK’s leader George Papandreou admitted his party had lost. Mr. Karamanlis won despite coming under strong criticism over his government’s allegedly slow response to the wave of forest fires which killed sixty five people in Greece last month. However, his parliamentary majority is likely to be cut as both major parties lost support to smaller parties.
Thai investigators have been looking for evidence in the wreckage of a budget airliner that crashed in the southern resort of Phuket, killing more than eighty people. Forty people survived and some have described the flight's final terrifying moments as the plane attempts to land in driving wind and rain. Andrew Harding reports from Bangkok.
Survivors say the plane came down fast in a violent rain storm. It lurched across the runway of Phuket Airport, the fuselage started to break up then fires spread quickly throughout the wreckage. Passengers clambered through windows to escape thick smoke. Many were badly burned. More than eighty bodies are now lying in the makeshift morgue at the airport. At least five survivors are in a critical condition in local hospitals. Dozens more are injured. The plane was operated by a Thai budget airline, One-Two-Go. A full investigation will begin in the morning.
Police in Iraq say at least thirty people have been killed in attacks across the country, a day after al-Qaeda in Iraq announced a new offensive to coincide with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. A suicide bomber killed eight people at a cafe near the northern city of Kirkuk that was serving food during the Ramadan fasting hours. Fourteen people died in attacks on villages in Diyala province, most of them from a Sunni Arab tribe that had formed an alliance to fight al-Qaeda. And police in the capital Baghdad said nine civilians were killed in a shooting incident involving security contractors.
You are listening to the World News from the BBC.
The Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki is forming a new coalition to campaign for his reelection. The coalition includes the former governing party KANU which Mr. Kibaki defeated five years ago. From Nairobi, Karen Allen reports.
President Mwai Kibaki’s rare public address was a chance to end months of speculation about which party he would be using as a platform to fight for a second term in office. The seventy-five-year-old President who swept to power four years ago in a landslide victory announced that he was abandoning his old party and unveiled the creation of a new coalition which brings together a number of smaller parties. Named the Party of National Unity, the President said it would be an alliance that stands for accountability and good governance.
The former American football player O. J. Simpson who was / the center of a notorious murder case has again been arrested. Police in Las Vegas detained Simpson as part of an investigation into an alleged armed robbery of sports memorabilia, including some that once belonged to Simpson, from a Casino Hotel. He denies he did anything wrong. Alfred Beardsley, the memorabilia collector who accused O. J. Simpson of the robbery said that he'd thought at first it was a police raid.
“Somebody identified themselves as police officers when they came in and these guys acted like cops, looked like cops and they were big, and they were well dressed and they conducted themselves like police officers would do on a raid.”
Reports from the United States says that President Bush will shortly nominate a retired federal judge Michael Mukasey as his new Attorney General. Mr. Mukasey presided over a number of high profile terrorism trials and is regarded as a conservative. But it's thought he will prove acceptable to members of both parties in Congress which will have to approve him before he takes office. If he is confirmed, Mr. Mukasey will succeed Alberto Gonzales who resigned after Congress accused him of lying.
BBC World News.
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BBC World News with Jonathan Weekley.
The French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner says the world should prepare for the worst over Iran’s nuclear program, and the worst means war. Mr. Kouchner disclosed that a number of large French companies have been asked not to take on new work in Iran. He called on the European Union to consider sanctions against Iran beyond those already imposed by the United Nations' Security Council. Mr. Kouchner said an Iranian nuclear weapon would pose a real danger for the whole world.
“Our Iranian friends want to build a civil nuclear program, but everything they do seems to point to the contrary. That is why we're worried. We have decided during negotiations to impose sanctions beyond the remit of UN's sanctions. We must prepare for the worst, the worst is war.”
The Greek Prime Minster Costas Karamanlis has won Sunday’s general election. With more than half the votes counted, his New Democracy Party held a 4% lead over the main Socialist opposition PASOK. As Mr. Karamanlis claimed victory, PASOK’s leader George Papandreou admitted his party had lost. Mr. Karamanlis won despite coming under strong criticism over his government’s allegedly slow response to the wave of forest fires which killed sixty five people in Greece last month. However, his parliamentary majority is likely to be cut as both major parties lost support to smaller parties.
Thai investigators have been looking for evidence in the wreckage of a budget airliner that crashed in the southern resort of Phuket, killing more than eighty people. Forty people survived and some have described the flight's final terrifying moments as the plane attempts to land in driving wind and rain. Andrew Harding reports from Bangkok.
Survivors say the plane came down fast in a violent rain storm. It lurched across the runway of Phuket Airport, the fuselage started to break up then fires spread quickly throughout the wreckage. Passengers clambered through windows to escape thick smoke. Many were badly burned. More than eighty bodies are now lying in the makeshift morgue at the airport. At least five survivors are in a critical condition in local hospitals. Dozens more are injured. The plane was operated by a Thai budget airline, One-Two-Go. A full investigation will begin in the morning.
Police in Iraq say at least thirty people have been killed in attacks across the country, a day after al-Qaeda in Iraq announced a new offensive to coincide with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. A suicide bomber killed eight people at a cafe near the northern city of Kirkuk that was serving food during the Ramadan fasting hours. Fourteen people died in attacks on villages in Diyala province, most of them from a Sunni Arab tribe that had formed an alliance to fight al-Qaeda. And police in the capital Baghdad said nine civilians were killed in a shooting incident involving security contractors.
You are listening to the World News from the BBC.
The Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki is forming a new coalition to campaign for his reelection. The coalition includes the former governing party KANU which Mr. Kibaki defeated five years ago. From Nairobi, Karen Allen reports.
President Mwai Kibaki’s rare public address was a chance to end months of speculation about which party he would be using as a platform to fight for a second term in office. The seventy-five-year-old President who swept to power four years ago in a landslide victory announced that he was abandoning his old party and unveiled the creation of a new coalition which brings together a number of smaller parties. Named the Party of National Unity, the President said it would be an alliance that stands for accountability and good governance.
The former American football player O. J. Simpson who was / the center of a notorious murder case has again been arrested. Police in Las Vegas detained Simpson as part of an investigation into an alleged armed robbery of sports memorabilia, including some that once belonged to Simpson, from a Casino Hotel. He denies he did anything wrong. Alfred Beardsley, the memorabilia collector who accused O. J. Simpson of the robbery said that he'd thought at first it was a police raid.
“Somebody identified themselves as police officers when they came in and these guys acted like cops, looked like cops and they were big, and they were well dressed and they conducted themselves like police officers would do on a raid.”
Reports from the United States says that President Bush will shortly nominate a retired federal judge Michael Mukasey as his new Attorney General. Mr. Mukasey presided over a number of high profile terrorism trials and is regarded as a conservative. But it's thought he will prove acceptable to members of both parties in Congress which will have to approve him before he takes office. If he is confirmed, Mr. Mukasey will succeed Alberto Gonzales who resigned after Congress accused him of lying.
BBC World News.
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