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BBC 2007-10-24
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BBC news with Mike Cooper.
The American Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rise, has ordered a series of measures to regulate private security firms in Iraq. The regulations aimed at improving government oversight of private security contractors were drawn up by an independent panel set up after one of the companies Blackwater was accused of killing more than twelve Iraqi civilians. From Washington, our correspondent Jonathan Beale reports.
Condoleezza Rise has implemented some of the early recommendations put forward by the four-member panel. Blackwater, one of the contractors that provides diplomatic security, has been told to install video cameras in its vehicles. All Blackwater convoys, now, also include a member of the State Department's own diplomatic security staff. The latest recommendations are likely to focus on the coordination, oversight and accountability of private security contractors.
The Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has said his government will no longer allow the Turkish Kurd rebel group, the PKK, to operate in Iraq, and will shut down all its offices. The statement follows deadly attacks by the PKK on Turkish soil and intense international diplomacy to stop Turkish retaliation across the border. The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Ankara has a mandate to use its military if necessary.
Despite all of these developments and efforts, we have some expectation with respect to what is to be done about the terrorist organization in the north of Iraq. The Iraqi government must know that we can exercise this mandate which we have received from the Turkish parliament at any time.
The US military commander in Iraq, General David Patreaus says the United States is willing to resume discussions with the Iranians over Iraq. General Patreaus told the BBC that the level of violence in Iraq had continued to come down, partly because there had been fewer attacks from the Iranian-backed groups, and he said the Americans would like to see what could be accomplished through additional direct talks in a calm situation.
"I think that we will, in fact, offer to have some sub-ambassadorial level talks again in the weeks ahead. We would like to do that, we would like to see things calm, and to see what could be accomplished, in some additional direct talks, and again to see what Iran does in the way ahead."
United States Defense Secretary Robert Gates has made remarks about American plans to set up a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe that appears to be at odds with President Bush's determination to push ahead with the project. Speaking in the Czech Republic, where Washington plans to build a radar station, Mr. Gates said the US might delay activating its shield until there was a definite proof of a nuclear threat from Iran. Shortly afterwards, Mr. Bush insisted the Washington needed such a system to blunt a growing threat from Iran.
World news from the BBC.
Both Houses of the French Parliament have approved a new Immigration Bill which will authorize DNA testing for some foreigners who want to join their families in France. The plan's been hugely controversial, as Emma Jane Kirby reports from Paris.
After being narrowly adopted by the Lower House of Parliament, the controversial Immigration Bill has now been approved by the Upper House of Parliament, the Senate, meaning it may now become more difficult for some families to join their relatives in France. Although the bill has been much watered down, the most hotly contested part is still the introduction of DNA tests to prove that a visa applicant has a biological link to the person they‘d want to join. The tests will be voluntary and paid for by the French state.
Argentina's former President Fernando de la Rua has been accused of failing to prevent the deaths of five people killed during clashes between police and protestors in the capital Buenos Aires in 2001. Mr. de la Rua fled the government palace shortly after the killings took place, as the country was in the midst of a severe economic crisis. The Federal Judge said Mr. de la Rua had not, as he put it, use the tools as the head of a state to prevent the deaths. Lawyers for Mr. de la Rua say the accusations against him are politically motivated.
Authorities in California have ordered at least half a million people to evacuate their homes as several fast moving forest fires continue to rage out of control across the southern part of the state. The fires fanned by hot desert winds have destroyed hundreds of houses from north of St. Barbara to the Mexican border and devastated nearly 100,000 hectares of forest.
The leader of a prominent Darfur rebel group says it will not attend peace talks with the Sudanese government due to start in Libya on Saturday .Five other smaller Darfur groups are also refusing to attend, and BBC correspondent in Sudan said the chances of success of the talks are looking remote.
BBC news.
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BBC news with Mike Cooper.
The American Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rise, has ordered a series of measures to regulate private security firms in Iraq. The regulations aimed at improving government oversight of private security contractors were drawn up by an independent panel set up after one of the companies Blackwater was accused of killing more than twelve Iraqi civilians. From Washington, our correspondent Jonathan Beale reports.
Condoleezza Rise has implemented some of the early recommendations put forward by the four-member panel. Blackwater, one of the contractors that provides diplomatic security, has been told to install video cameras in its vehicles. All Blackwater convoys, now, also include a member of the State Department's own diplomatic security staff. The latest recommendations are likely to focus on the coordination, oversight and accountability of private security contractors.
The Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has said his government will no longer allow the Turkish Kurd rebel group, the PKK, to operate in Iraq, and will shut down all its offices. The statement follows deadly attacks by the PKK on Turkish soil and intense international diplomacy to stop Turkish retaliation across the border. The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Ankara has a mandate to use its military if necessary.
Despite all of these developments and efforts, we have some expectation with respect to what is to be done about the terrorist organization in the north of Iraq. The Iraqi government must know that we can exercise this mandate which we have received from the Turkish parliament at any time.
The US military commander in Iraq, General David Patreaus says the United States is willing to resume discussions with the Iranians over Iraq. General Patreaus told the BBC that the level of violence in Iraq had continued to come down, partly because there had been fewer attacks from the Iranian-backed groups, and he said the Americans would like to see what could be accomplished through additional direct talks in a calm situation.
"I think that we will, in fact, offer to have some sub-ambassadorial level talks again in the weeks ahead. We would like to do that, we would like to see things calm, and to see what could be accomplished, in some additional direct talks, and again to see what Iran does in the way ahead."
United States Defense Secretary Robert Gates has made remarks about American plans to set up a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe that appears to be at odds with President Bush's determination to push ahead with the project. Speaking in the Czech Republic, where Washington plans to build a radar station, Mr. Gates said the US might delay activating its shield until there was a definite proof of a nuclear threat from Iran. Shortly afterwards, Mr. Bush insisted the Washington needed such a system to blunt a growing threat from Iran.
World news from the BBC.
Both Houses of the French Parliament have approved a new Immigration Bill which will authorize DNA testing for some foreigners who want to join their families in France. The plan's been hugely controversial, as Emma Jane Kirby reports from Paris.
After being narrowly adopted by the Lower House of Parliament, the controversial Immigration Bill has now been approved by the Upper House of Parliament, the Senate, meaning it may now become more difficult for some families to join their relatives in France. Although the bill has been much watered down, the most hotly contested part is still the introduction of DNA tests to prove that a visa applicant has a biological link to the person they‘d want to join. The tests will be voluntary and paid for by the French state.
Argentina's former President Fernando de la Rua has been accused of failing to prevent the deaths of five people killed during clashes between police and protestors in the capital Buenos Aires in 2001. Mr. de la Rua fled the government palace shortly after the killings took place, as the country was in the midst of a severe economic crisis. The Federal Judge said Mr. de la Rua had not, as he put it, use the tools as the head of a state to prevent the deaths. Lawyers for Mr. de la Rua say the accusations against him are politically motivated.
Authorities in California have ordered at least half a million people to evacuate their homes as several fast moving forest fires continue to rage out of control across the southern part of the state. The fires fanned by hot desert winds have destroyed hundreds of houses from north of St. Barbara to the Mexican border and devastated nearly 100,000 hectares of forest.
The leader of a prominent Darfur rebel group says it will not attend peace talks with the Sudanese government due to start in Libya on Saturday .Five other smaller Darfur groups are also refusing to attend, and BBC correspondent in Sudan said the chances of success of the talks are looking remote.
BBC news.
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