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BBC World News, I’m Neil Nuners.
Syria has joined the international condemnation of the killing of an anti-Syria member of parliament in Lebanon. The pro-western Lebanese government had accused Syria of being behind the bomb blast that killed the politician Antoine Ghanim and at least six other people in Beirut. The latest killing leaves the western-backed governing alliance with the majority of just two. The Telecommunications Minister M said it was aimed at limiting the anti-Syria majority in parliament.
“We lost a MP three months ago, we lost a minister seven months ago, we have been, since the assassination of Prime Minister Hariri, targeted one after the other, in order to deplete the majority and to impose a comeback of Syria over Lebanon.”
The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has warned that he will not attend a summit of European and African leaders later this year if the president of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is invited to the meeting. Writing in a British newspaper the Independent, Mr. Brown said President Mugabe's presence would undermine the European Union-Africa summit. Our political correspondent Robin Brands has more.
The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was anticipating the prospect of coming face-to-face with Zimbabwe’s president when leaders of Europe and Africa sit down in December, but now he has made it clear that will not happen. Writing in a British newspaper the Independent, he urges EU leaders not to lift the travel ban currently imposed on Robert Mugabe. The British Prime Minister said there is no freedom in Zimbabwe, adding "I believe that President Mugabe’s presence would undermine the summit, diverting attention from the important issues that need to be resolved."
The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged Israel to reconsider its decision to declare the Gaza strip a hostile entity. The Israelis say they reserve the right to reduce energy supplies to Gaza but Mr. Ban said cutting off vital supplies to civilians would violate international law. The Israeli Foreign Minister Spokesman Mark Regev says it’s a legal response to the rockets fired by Palestinian militants and he insists humanitarian supplies will not be affected
“We will do nothing to accentuate any sort of humanitarian hardship in Gaza. Our enemy is not the Palestinian people; our enemy is this regime which has an extremist and hateful agenda. But I think frankly every one understands that Israel can’t sit by idly, day after day, week after week while these rockets come into our cities, trying to kill our people.”
The European Union has proposed new rules on the ownership of energy companies which could reduce the influence of firms such as Gazprom of Russia. Under the rules, foreign energy suppliers would not be able to control EU energy transmission networks. Gazprom supplies a quarter of Europe's gas and would like to buy gas pipelines in Europe.
World News from the BBC.
The Bank of England has surprised investors by making $20 billion available to commercial banks in an effort to ease a credit crisis which saw a run in the British Bank Northern Rock. Days earlier, the governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King had said such a policy would be potentially disastrous.
The international campaign group Human Rights Watch has called on the United Nations to impose targeted sanctions on the Sudanese government if it continues what it calls indiscriminate attacks on civilians in Darfur. The UN has already imposed some sanctions including arms embargoes and travel bans on various militias and individuals implicated in the conflict.
One of the world’s most flamboyant and successful football managers Jose Mourinho is reported to have left the English Club Chelsea. There has been no official confirmation from Chelsea. The board of the club had been holding an emergency meeting later on Wednesday. Jonathon Legard has more.
Told tonight that he has texted some of the leading players of the club, among them, the captain John Terry. And one source has told me that he received a text from the Chelsea captain to say that Jose Mourinho has quit.There has been no official confirmation,no official word from the club so far. There was, we understand, a meeting tonight,an emergency board meeting but as I understand it,Jose Mourinho has quit Chelsea after a very distressing run for the club.
A human rights group in Cuba says two soldiers have been sentenced to life in prison for their role in a failed hijack attempt in May in which two people,one a senior Cuban military officer were killed. The group the Cuban Commission for Human Rights says three other men found guilty of involvement in the attempt to divert the flight from Havana to Miami received sentences of up to thirty years. There has been no official report of the case from Cuban authorities.
BBC World News.
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BBC World News, I’m Neil Nuners.
Syria has joined the international condemnation of the killing of an anti-Syria member of parliament in Lebanon. The pro-western Lebanese government had accused Syria of being behind the bomb blast that killed the politician Antoine Ghanim and at least six other people in Beirut. The latest killing leaves the western-backed governing alliance with the majority of just two. The Telecommunications Minister M said it was aimed at limiting the anti-Syria majority in parliament.
“We lost a MP three months ago, we lost a minister seven months ago, we have been, since the assassination of Prime Minister Hariri, targeted one after the other, in order to deplete the majority and to impose a comeback of Syria over Lebanon.”
The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has warned that he will not attend a summit of European and African leaders later this year if the president of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is invited to the meeting. Writing in a British newspaper the Independent, Mr. Brown said President Mugabe's presence would undermine the European Union-Africa summit. Our political correspondent Robin Brands has more.
The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was anticipating the prospect of coming face-to-face with Zimbabwe’s president when leaders of Europe and Africa sit down in December, but now he has made it clear that will not happen. Writing in a British newspaper the Independent, he urges EU leaders not to lift the travel ban currently imposed on Robert Mugabe. The British Prime Minister said there is no freedom in Zimbabwe, adding "I believe that President Mugabe’s presence would undermine the summit, diverting attention from the important issues that need to be resolved."
The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged Israel to reconsider its decision to declare the Gaza strip a hostile entity. The Israelis say they reserve the right to reduce energy supplies to Gaza but Mr. Ban said cutting off vital supplies to civilians would violate international law. The Israeli Foreign Minister Spokesman Mark Regev says it’s a legal response to the rockets fired by Palestinian militants and he insists humanitarian supplies will not be affected
“We will do nothing to accentuate any sort of humanitarian hardship in Gaza. Our enemy is not the Palestinian people; our enemy is this regime which has an extremist and hateful agenda. But I think frankly every one understands that Israel can’t sit by idly, day after day, week after week while these rockets come into our cities, trying to kill our people.”
The European Union has proposed new rules on the ownership of energy companies which could reduce the influence of firms such as Gazprom of Russia. Under the rules, foreign energy suppliers would not be able to control EU energy transmission networks. Gazprom supplies a quarter of Europe's gas and would like to buy gas pipelines in Europe.
World News from the BBC.
The Bank of England has surprised investors by making $20 billion available to commercial banks in an effort to ease a credit crisis which saw a run in the British Bank Northern Rock. Days earlier, the governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King had said such a policy would be potentially disastrous.
The international campaign group Human Rights Watch has called on the United Nations to impose targeted sanctions on the Sudanese government if it continues what it calls indiscriminate attacks on civilians in Darfur. The UN has already imposed some sanctions including arms embargoes and travel bans on various militias and individuals implicated in the conflict.
One of the world’s most flamboyant and successful football managers Jose Mourinho is reported to have left the English Club Chelsea. There has been no official confirmation from Chelsea. The board of the club had been holding an emergency meeting later on Wednesday. Jonathon Legard has more.
Told tonight that he has texted some of the leading players of the club, among them, the captain John Terry. And one source has told me that he received a text from the Chelsea captain to say that Jose Mourinho has quit.There has been no official confirmation,no official word from the club so far. There was, we understand, a meeting tonight,an emergency board meeting but as I understand it,Jose Mourinho has quit Chelsea after a very distressing run for the club.
A human rights group in Cuba says two soldiers have been sentenced to life in prison for their role in a failed hijack attempt in May in which two people,one a senior Cuban military officer were killed. The group the Cuban Commission for Human Rights says three other men found guilty of involvement in the attempt to divert the flight from Havana to Miami received sentences of up to thirty years. There has been no official report of the case from Cuban authorities.
BBC World News.
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