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BBC news with Blerry Gogan.
A report for the United Nations on the global environment says the earth is heading for a catastrophe unless urgent action is taken. The study says the very survival of mankind could be in doubt if humans continue to live beyond their environmental means. The UN Environment Program's executive director Achim Steiner said there was not much time left to act.
you spent 30 years debating whether the global warming is occurrin. The cost of debating that phenomenon for 30 years is, now, so much higher than it would have been if we had acted earlier, and the other damage near us is that we are running out of time, we don not have the luxury of simply deferring these kinds of decisions to the next generation.
The French President Nicolas Sarkozy has unveiled a series of measures to protect the environment. After two days of talks with government, industry and campaign groups, Mr. Scarkozy said France will freeze the building of new motor-ways and airports, and invest more in the rail network. He also announced that the commercial cultivation of genetically modified crops would be suspended pending a new study.
This environmental conference that ends its first part today is calling for a revolution. A revolution in our way of thinking, deciding, a revolution in our behavior, in our policies, in our objectives and in the goal-posts we set.
A senior American diplomat Nicolas Burns has accused Russia and China of aiding and abetting Iran's military through arms sales and investments. As speaking to the BBC, Mr. Burns said he still hoped the UN Security Council would approve new sanctions against Iran which Washington accuses of supporting terrorism.
I think that the Russian government just stopped selling arms to Iran; the Chinese government just stopped investing in Iran, by now the No.1 trade partner with Iran. It is very difficult for countries to say that we were striking out on our own when they have got their own policies on the military side, aiding and abetting the Iranian government in strengthening its own military. We've told the Russians and Chinese, we don't think you were to sell arms to a country under United Nations' sanctions.
Russia's President Putin has asked why the US should, in his words, exacerbate the situation on Thursday by imposing further sanctions on Iran. The new US sanctions target the Revolutionary Guard Corps which is thought to control up to a third of Iran's economy.
Supporters of a resolution in the US congress to condemn the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey in 1915 as genocide have called on the House speaker Nancy Pelosi to delay the vote amid fears that it may fail. In a letter to Ms Pelosi, the four main sponsors of the resolution said they still believe, the majority of their colleagues would support the bill, but only if the timing was more favorable. Since the genocide resolution was introduced, Turkey has withdrawn its ambassador.
This is Blerry Gogan with the latest world news from the BBC.
The British-based energy giant BP has agreed to pay a huge sum to the United States government, a settlement for a string of serious offences. The settlement is worth more than a third of a billion dollars. It covers a crude oil leak in Alaska, a major explosion at a refinery in Texas which killed fifteen people two years ago, and violations of market regulations.
President Bush is in southern California where he has been seeing for himself the devastation from wildfires which have forced a million people from their homes. He flew over the affected area with the Californian governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Mr. Bush expressed his sympathy for those, he said, have suffered terrible losses. Mr. Schwarzenegger added the crisis was not over. "These fires are among the worst disasters in Californian history. We both understand that this would be a long process. I mean you are doing very well up to now, but this is not over."
There has been international condemnation of Israel's threat to impose temporary cuts in power supplies to the Palestinian Gaza Strip in retaliation for any further rocket attacks by militants across the border. John Holmes, the UN under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs.
The humanitarian situation there is dire, it's getting worse. The amount of goods we can get through is declining and power cuts just make that worse. This kind of collective punishment to the population because of the rockets is not appropriate. Of course, we understand Israel is concerned about the rockets and it is totally different they want to do something about that. But this kind of action, which has, in effect, on the whole population, on the ordinary people, in every kind of way, doesn't seem to us an appropriate response.
The four main rebel groups in Chad have signed, what's been described as a final piece of agreement, with the Chadian government. The deal is struck in the Libyan city of Sirte three weeks after a preliminary accord. The negotiations have been sponsored by Libya and Sudan, the agreement provides for an immediate ceasefire.
BBC news.
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BBC news with Blerry Gogan.
A report for the United Nations on the global environment says the earth is heading for a catastrophe unless urgent action is taken. The study says the very survival of mankind could be in doubt if humans continue to live beyond their environmental means. The UN Environment Program's executive director Achim Steiner said there was not much time left to act.
you spent 30 years debating whether the global warming is occurrin. The cost of debating that phenomenon for 30 years is, now, so much higher than it would have been if we had acted earlier, and the other damage near us is that we are running out of time, we don not have the luxury of simply deferring these kinds of decisions to the next generation.
The French President Nicolas Sarkozy has unveiled a series of measures to protect the environment. After two days of talks with government, industry and campaign groups, Mr. Scarkozy said France will freeze the building of new motor-ways and airports, and invest more in the rail network. He also announced that the commercial cultivation of genetically modified crops would be suspended pending a new study.
This environmental conference that ends its first part today is calling for a revolution. A revolution in our way of thinking, deciding, a revolution in our behavior, in our policies, in our objectives and in the goal-posts we set.
A senior American diplomat Nicolas Burns has accused Russia and China of aiding and abetting Iran's military through arms sales and investments. As speaking to the BBC, Mr. Burns said he still hoped the UN Security Council would approve new sanctions against Iran which Washington accuses of supporting terrorism.
I think that the Russian government just stopped selling arms to Iran; the Chinese government just stopped investing in Iran, by now the No.1 trade partner with Iran. It is very difficult for countries to say that we were striking out on our own when they have got their own policies on the military side, aiding and abetting the Iranian government in strengthening its own military. We've told the Russians and Chinese, we don't think you were to sell arms to a country under United Nations' sanctions.
Russia's President Putin has asked why the US should, in his words, exacerbate the situation on Thursday by imposing further sanctions on Iran. The new US sanctions target the Revolutionary Guard Corps which is thought to control up to a third of Iran's economy.
Supporters of a resolution in the US congress to condemn the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey in 1915 as genocide have called on the House speaker Nancy Pelosi to delay the vote amid fears that it may fail. In a letter to Ms Pelosi, the four main sponsors of the resolution said they still believe, the majority of their colleagues would support the bill, but only if the timing was more favorable. Since the genocide resolution was introduced, Turkey has withdrawn its ambassador.
This is Blerry Gogan with the latest world news from the BBC.
The British-based energy giant BP has agreed to pay a huge sum to the United States government, a settlement for a string of serious offences. The settlement is worth more than a third of a billion dollars. It covers a crude oil leak in Alaska, a major explosion at a refinery in Texas which killed fifteen people two years ago, and violations of market regulations.
President Bush is in southern California where he has been seeing for himself the devastation from wildfires which have forced a million people from their homes. He flew over the affected area with the Californian governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Mr. Bush expressed his sympathy for those, he said, have suffered terrible losses. Mr. Schwarzenegger added the crisis was not over. "These fires are among the worst disasters in Californian history. We both understand that this would be a long process. I mean you are doing very well up to now, but this is not over."
There has been international condemnation of Israel's threat to impose temporary cuts in power supplies to the Palestinian Gaza Strip in retaliation for any further rocket attacks by militants across the border. John Holmes, the UN under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs.
The humanitarian situation there is dire, it's getting worse. The amount of goods we can get through is declining and power cuts just make that worse. This kind of collective punishment to the population because of the rockets is not appropriate. Of course, we understand Israel is concerned about the rockets and it is totally different they want to do something about that. But this kind of action, which has, in effect, on the whole population, on the ordinary people, in every kind of way, doesn't seem to us an appropriate response.
The four main rebel groups in Chad have signed, what's been described as a final piece of agreement, with the Chadian government. The deal is struck in the Libyan city of Sirte three weeks after a preliminary accord. The negotiations have been sponsored by Libya and Sudan, the agreement provides for an immediate ceasefire.
BBC news.
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