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BBC 2007-10-30
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BBC news with Neil Nunes
The Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia Prince al-Faisal has warned that threats against Iran over its suspected nuclear program are counterproductive. Speaking as King Abdullah began a state visit to Britain, the minister told the BBC that any military action against Iran would destroy more than could be gained. He also criticized countries who, he said, turned a blind eye to Israel's weapons.
"You have to be consistent. You can't allow for exception. Double standards are what killed policy, and the double standard that was pursued in this proliferation issue will allow Israel to win a reactor that doesn't even have the excuse of providing electricity. It's just deadly weapon. It will start the proliferation program in the Middle East."
The authorities in Chad say they are to charge nine French nationals with abduction and fraud after they tried to fly 103 African children to France. Ahmat Daoud, who is a prosecutor in the city of Abeche, where the group was detained, said seven Spanish airline crew members and two Chadians would also be charged as accomplices. Speaking in Paris, the president of the United Nations Children's Fund in France Xxx said it was a terrible situation.
“It's sad, it's horrible that these little kids, four to five years old, who were taken away from their communities, perhaps even taken away from their families. If they were transported from Abeche and put on a plane to come to France, it's horrible. And what's also sad is the families, who I hope in most cases, were honest and were waiting for these kids to welcome them.”
President Bush has announced that the novelist Harper Lee will be awarded America's highest civilian honor, the presidential Medal of Freedom. Harper Lee's only major work, To Kill A Mockingbird, deals with racial injustice in the American south. Mr. Bush named seven other recipients of the medal. From Washington, here's Radish Merching Darney:
This year, Mr. Bush's list is an eclectic one. It includes Allen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman to be elected head of state in an African country, Liberia. Also honored is Oscar Elias Biscet, a Cuban human rights campaigner, who is serving twenty five years in prison in Havana for counter-revolutionary activities. And the American author Harper Lee is recognized, even though her only major novel "To Kill A Mockingbird" was written more than forty years ago, still it remains a classic of American literature.
The United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-Moon says it's unacceptable for Israel to take punitive measures against the entire population of the Gaza Strip. The Israelis have begun reducing supplies of diesel and petrol to the territory in response to continued rocket attacks on Israeli territory.
World news from the BBC
At least eleven people have died and several others are missing in the Dominican Republic after the Caribbean nation was battered by a tropical storm. Several parts of the country are without electricity and a number of communities have been cut off by mudslides and floodwaters. Tropical storm Noel brought heavy rain to the southern coast and the capital Santo Domingo. Emergency services are on high alert, and a number of towns are being evacuated.
Researchers say they have traced the predominant strain of the AIDS virus in the United States and Europe to the Caribbean country of Haiti. The authors of an American study say they believe the research provides conclusive proof that the strain was brought into the US in the late 1960s. Neil Boulder has this report:
HIV-1 group M subtype B, to give its technical name, is the strain of HIV which predominates in the United States, Europe, large parts of South America, Australia and Japan. Now scientists say they know where it came from. They examined archived blood samples from five early AIDS patients and analyzed genetic sequences from another 117 AIDS patients from around the world. With these data, they recreated a family tree for the virus, which they believe shows conclusively that the strain came to the US via Haiti in around 1969.
Pope Benedict has told a convention of Roman Catholic pharmacists they have the right of conscientious objection to refuse the dispensed medication which could lead to abortion or euthanasia. The Pope said claiming objective status would enable pharmacists not to, as he put it, collaborate in supplying products, which he said, clearly had immoral purposes. The Vatican has strongly criticized recent calls by some Italian politicians for regulatory approval of the medication known as the abortion pill. The pill is used to terminate and avoid unwanted pregnancies.
And that is the latest BBC news.
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BBC news with Neil Nunes
The Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia Prince al-Faisal has warned that threats against Iran over its suspected nuclear program are counterproductive. Speaking as King Abdullah began a state visit to Britain, the minister told the BBC that any military action against Iran would destroy more than could be gained. He also criticized countries who, he said, turned a blind eye to Israel's weapons.
"You have to be consistent. You can't allow for exception. Double standards are what killed policy, and the double standard that was pursued in this proliferation issue will allow Israel to win a reactor that doesn't even have the excuse of providing electricity. It's just deadly weapon. It will start the proliferation program in the Middle East."
The authorities in Chad say they are to charge nine French nationals with abduction and fraud after they tried to fly 103 African children to France. Ahmat Daoud, who is a prosecutor in the city of Abeche, where the group was detained, said seven Spanish airline crew members and two Chadians would also be charged as accomplices. Speaking in Paris, the president of the United Nations Children's Fund in France Xxx said it was a terrible situation.
“It's sad, it's horrible that these little kids, four to five years old, who were taken away from their communities, perhaps even taken away from their families. If they were transported from Abeche and put on a plane to come to France, it's horrible. And what's also sad is the families, who I hope in most cases, were honest and were waiting for these kids to welcome them.”
President Bush has announced that the novelist Harper Lee will be awarded America's highest civilian honor, the presidential Medal of Freedom. Harper Lee's only major work, To Kill A Mockingbird, deals with racial injustice in the American south. Mr. Bush named seven other recipients of the medal. From Washington, here's Radish Merching Darney:
This year, Mr. Bush's list is an eclectic one. It includes Allen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman to be elected head of state in an African country, Liberia. Also honored is Oscar Elias Biscet, a Cuban human rights campaigner, who is serving twenty five years in prison in Havana for counter-revolutionary activities. And the American author Harper Lee is recognized, even though her only major novel "To Kill A Mockingbird" was written more than forty years ago, still it remains a classic of American literature.
The United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-Moon says it's unacceptable for Israel to take punitive measures against the entire population of the Gaza Strip. The Israelis have begun reducing supplies of diesel and petrol to the territory in response to continued rocket attacks on Israeli territory.
World news from the BBC
At least eleven people have died and several others are missing in the Dominican Republic after the Caribbean nation was battered by a tropical storm. Several parts of the country are without electricity and a number of communities have been cut off by mudslides and floodwaters. Tropical storm Noel brought heavy rain to the southern coast and the capital Santo Domingo. Emergency services are on high alert, and a number of towns are being evacuated.
Researchers say they have traced the predominant strain of the AIDS virus in the United States and Europe to the Caribbean country of Haiti. The authors of an American study say they believe the research provides conclusive proof that the strain was brought into the US in the late 1960s. Neil Boulder has this report:
HIV-1 group M subtype B, to give its technical name, is the strain of HIV which predominates in the United States, Europe, large parts of South America, Australia and Japan. Now scientists say they know where it came from. They examined archived blood samples from five early AIDS patients and analyzed genetic sequences from another 117 AIDS patients from around the world. With these data, they recreated a family tree for the virus, which they believe shows conclusively that the strain came to the US via Haiti in around 1969.
Pope Benedict has told a convention of Roman Catholic pharmacists they have the right of conscientious objection to refuse the dispensed medication which could lead to abortion or euthanasia. The Pope said claiming objective status would enable pharmacists not to, as he put it, collaborate in supplying products, which he said, clearly had immoral purposes. The Vatican has strongly criticized recent calls by some Italian politicians for regulatory approval of the medication known as the abortion pill. The pill is used to terminate and avoid unwanted pregnancies.
And that is the latest BBC news.
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