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BBC News with Zoe Diamond.

The former US Vice President Al Gore has said he hopes his Nobel Peace Prize for work on climate change will help to raise awareness of the problem. The White House was quick to affirm that it would not change its policy and skeptics have described the honor as political. For his part, Mr. Gore described the current situation as a planetary emergency and said a quick response was necessary.

"There's an old African proverb that says if you want to go quickly, go alone, if you want to go far, go together. We have to go far, quickly, and that means that we have to quickly find a way to change the world's consciousness about exactly what we are facing and why we have to work to solve it. I'm going back to work right now. This is just the beginning."

Russia has warned the United State that it will take steps to neutralize what it called the threat from a proposed US anti-missile system in Europe. Before talks in Moscow between the two sides ended acrimoniously, the US side rejected Russian appeals to halt the scheme, saying it was not directed at Russia. But that was rejected by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

"We believe that this cooperation has a great potential, er, in it, but the, a principle thing to which we do not agree today is the deployment of anti-missile defense elements, er, which have an anti-Russian character and as Mr. Gates himself recognized, there is a potential threat for us."

The Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez have inaugurated a new gas pipeline between their two countries intended to be the first step towards a vast network across South America. During the meeting, President Uribe also sought membership for Colombia in a South American Development Bank led by Venezuela.

Hundreds of police officers in riot gear in Mexico City have forcibly removed thousands of street vendors from her historic city center. The local government said around 15,000 traders had been cleared from the area. Will Grand has more.

There are an estimated 35,000 street venders in Mexico City selling everything from newspapers and cigarettes to football shirts and jewelry. More than 1,000 police officers removed illegal vendors from 87 Streets in the city centre. The incumbent Mayor, a left winger called Marcelo Ebrard has promised to deal with the illegal trade on several occasions. However, the traders say it's only temporary. They have promised to return to their pitches as soon as they can and warned the government against heavy-handed tactics.

More than 20 people have died in Haiti after several days of torrential rain caused flood in north of the capital. Hundreds of people have been made homeless and efforts are being made to evacuate people from dangerous areas.

World News from the BBC.

A court in the American state/ of Florida has acquitted eight people of the manslaughter of a black teenager who died after being beaten at a camp for juvenile offenders. Televised images of the assault on Martin Lee Anderson who was 14 caused public outcry. Vincent Down reports.

Video tape from the camp surveillance system shows the teenager being hit and dragged about by the guards. But giving testimony during the trial, two doctors told the court the death was attributable to an undiagnosed blood disorder which the instructors could not have known about. The defendants testified they had not attacked Anderson but had followed the rules at the camp designed to instill discipline into the juveniles sent there. The family are to receive five million dollars to settle civil claims.

The Dutch government is to ban the sale of hallucinogenic fungi known as magic mushrooms. The move follows a number of incidents involving tourists who have eaten them and one of which a French teenager was killed when she jumped from a bridge.

The first Malaysian astronaut in space has arrived at the International Space Station. Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor left earth on a Russian Soyuz spaceship two days ago. He travelled with another Russian and a US women astronaut Peggy Whitson. Peggy Whitson this was the moments the Soyuz docked.

"Approaching of contact, capture." And this view now shows of the newly arrived Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft docked to the nadir or earth fort facing a docking port."