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BBC News with Neil Nunes.
The military authorities in Burma have begun arresting prominent opponents as part of efforts to prevent a ninth consecutive day of pro-democracy demonstrations. U Win Naing, a veteran democracy activist has been detained along with a popular Burmese film comedian Zaganar. Truckloads of soldiers and riot police are being deployed outside monasteries and pagodas in the largest city Rangoon. Andrew Harding has this report from Kuala Lumpur.
So far, the BBC has learned of two prominent Burmese arrested overnight. Zaganar is one of the country's most famous and most outspoken comedians. At the weekend, he and other local celebrities arranged a special meal for the protesting monks as a way of showing their support. Zaganar has spent years in prison before and was recently banned from appearing in public to satirize the authorities. Also detained overnight, the veteran democracy activist U Win Naing, aged 70. He has recently urged the military to seek compromise with the protestors in interviews with the BBC. He had also been attacked by what he said were government thugs during his regular attempt to deliver food donations to impoverished villages.
Leaders of the Anglican Church in the United States have agreed to halt the ordination of gay clergy and the blessing of same sex relationships in an attempt to keep their church inside the Anglican Communion. Many African churches threatened to leave the Communion after the ordination of the first openly gay bishop four years ago. The American Episcopal Church had been told to meet the conditions by this weekend or lose membership of the Communion. Here is our religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott.
Bishops of the Episcopal Church spent a tense six days in New Orleans in a meeting attended in part by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. Their agreement not to repeat their ordination of a gay bishop and to end the blessing in church of same sex relationships reflects a resolution by the Episcopal Church's ruling convention. However, there is no word yet on a further demand for a parallel church for traditionalists in America.
The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has defended his country's nuclear program and launched a scathing attack on what he termed "the monopolistic powers that dominate the international system". Addressing the UN General Assembly, President Ahmadinejad said the nuclear issue was now closed. Without explicitly mentioning the United States, he said some big powers believe they should sacrifice human rights for their own advancement.
"Unfortunately, human rights are being extensively violated by certain powers, especially by those who pretend to be their exclusive advocates. They use various pretexts to occupy sovereign states and cause insecurity and division, and then use the prevailing situation as an excuse to continue their occupation." Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaking at the UN.
World News from the BBC.
European agriculture ministers are expected to agree on Wednesday to proposals to increase the amount of agricultural land under cultivation. The European Commission wants to temporarily lift the existing requirement that farmers set aside land and let it lie fallow. The proposal for the coming year only follows sharply increased prices for many agricultural commodities such as wheat and corn. Here is our Europe correspondent Jonny Dymond.
Soaring cereal prices have prompted this move reversing a policy of more than a decade's standing. Poor harvests and strong demand had increased the price of maize by 50% and the price of wheat by almost 80%, so the European Commission is asking agriculture ministers to scrap the set-aside rule, a policy which forced and compensated farmers to leave 10% of their land fallow. The European Commission believes that scraping the rule for the coming year will have an impact on prices.
The International Charity Oxfam says it is concerned that a peacekeeping force planned for Chad and the Central African Republic may contain too many French troops to be seen as neutral. On Tuesday the United Nations Security Council approved a resolution sponsored by France to send 3,000 European Union troops to protect refugees from Darfur in two countries. Oxfam's program director in Chad told the BBC that if the EU force was primarily made of French troops, it would not be seen as neutral.
The World Bank has published a list of the best places in the world to do business. In the study of 178 countries called "Doing Business", Singapore is top followed by New Zealand and the United States. The World Bank said Egypt had made the most progress in cutting bureaucracy to make business easier, but that while India and China continued to make progress, they still failed to make the top 80 ranked countries.
And that's the latest from BBC News.
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BBC News with Neil Nunes.
The military authorities in Burma have begun arresting prominent opponents as part of efforts to prevent a ninth consecutive day of pro-democracy demonstrations. U Win Naing, a veteran democracy activist has been detained along with a popular Burmese film comedian Zaganar. Truckloads of soldiers and riot police are being deployed outside monasteries and pagodas in the largest city Rangoon. Andrew Harding has this report from Kuala Lumpur.
So far, the BBC has learned of two prominent Burmese arrested overnight. Zaganar is one of the country's most famous and most outspoken comedians. At the weekend, he and other local celebrities arranged a special meal for the protesting monks as a way of showing their support. Zaganar has spent years in prison before and was recently banned from appearing in public to satirize the authorities. Also detained overnight, the veteran democracy activist U Win Naing, aged 70. He has recently urged the military to seek compromise with the protestors in interviews with the BBC. He had also been attacked by what he said were government thugs during his regular attempt to deliver food donations to impoverished villages.
Leaders of the Anglican Church in the United States have agreed to halt the ordination of gay clergy and the blessing of same sex relationships in an attempt to keep their church inside the Anglican Communion. Many African churches threatened to leave the Communion after the ordination of the first openly gay bishop four years ago. The American Episcopal Church had been told to meet the conditions by this weekend or lose membership of the Communion. Here is our religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott.
Bishops of the Episcopal Church spent a tense six days in New Orleans in a meeting attended in part by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. Their agreement not to repeat their ordination of a gay bishop and to end the blessing in church of same sex relationships reflects a resolution by the Episcopal Church's ruling convention. However, there is no word yet on a further demand for a parallel church for traditionalists in America.
The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has defended his country's nuclear program and launched a scathing attack on what he termed "the monopolistic powers that dominate the international system". Addressing the UN General Assembly, President Ahmadinejad said the nuclear issue was now closed. Without explicitly mentioning the United States, he said some big powers believe they should sacrifice human rights for their own advancement.
"Unfortunately, human rights are being extensively violated by certain powers, especially by those who pretend to be their exclusive advocates. They use various pretexts to occupy sovereign states and cause insecurity and division, and then use the prevailing situation as an excuse to continue their occupation." Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaking at the UN.
World News from the BBC.
European agriculture ministers are expected to agree on Wednesday to proposals to increase the amount of agricultural land under cultivation. The European Commission wants to temporarily lift the existing requirement that farmers set aside land and let it lie fallow. The proposal for the coming year only follows sharply increased prices for many agricultural commodities such as wheat and corn. Here is our Europe correspondent Jonny Dymond.
Soaring cereal prices have prompted this move reversing a policy of more than a decade's standing. Poor harvests and strong demand had increased the price of maize by 50% and the price of wheat by almost 80%, so the European Commission is asking agriculture ministers to scrap the set-aside rule, a policy which forced and compensated farmers to leave 10% of their land fallow. The European Commission believes that scraping the rule for the coming year will have an impact on prices.
The International Charity Oxfam says it is concerned that a peacekeeping force planned for Chad and the Central African Republic may contain too many French troops to be seen as neutral. On Tuesday the United Nations Security Council approved a resolution sponsored by France to send 3,000 European Union troops to protect refugees from Darfur in two countries. Oxfam's program director in Chad told the BBC that if the EU force was primarily made of French troops, it would not be seen as neutral.
The World Bank has published a list of the best places in the world to do business. In the study of 178 countries called "Doing Business", Singapore is top followed by New Zealand and the United States. The World Bank said Egypt had made the most progress in cutting bureaucracy to make business easier, but that while India and China continued to make progress, they still failed to make the top 80 ranked countries.
And that's the latest from BBC News.
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