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BBC News with Nick Kelly.
The New York Based group Human Rights Watch says the Burmese military is forcibly conscripting children as young as ten to make up for high desertion rates in the lack of adult recruits. Researches said senior generals were tolerating blatant recruitment of child soldiers at train and bus stations. Andrew Harding reports from Bangkok.
The report says boys as young as ten are being systemically recruited by the Burmese military. Middlemen are often used to trap the children on the streets, then sell them on to recruit centers. Burm has faced similar allegations before, but the new report by Human Rights Watch suggests that things maybe getting worse. More soldiers are deserting the army; officials have admitted as much. The recent crackdown against monks and protestors will almost certainly lower army morale even further.
The Iraqi authorities have taken steps to tighten controls on foreign security contractors operating in the country, following a recent shooting incident involving the American firm Blackwater, in which seventeen Iraqis were killed. Iraqi cabinet has proved a draft law which scraps immunity from prosecution the security firms have enjoyed since the US-led invasion in 2003. The draft law will bring foreign companies and their employees under Iraqi law. A spokesman for the Iraqi government Ali al-Dabbagh explained to the BBC why the tight controls on the contractors were needed.
We don't know anything about them, we don't know about they have been summed ahead, we don't know who is coming, who is entering, who is out, who is operating, what time the abasement they are holding. They cannot be immune from accountability, to be questionable about whatever they are doing here on the ground.
The French President Nicholas Sarkozy has condemned the alleged abduction last week of more than 100 African children by people working for the French charity Zoe's Ark. The charity workers were arrested in Eastern Chad as they try to put the children on a plane bound for Europe. Mr. Sarkozy said they had been wrong to do what they did, but the wives of one of those charged said all the charity wanted to do what to find a better life for Darfurian children. Mr. Sarkozy said he wanted to know why the charity had picked the children up and to what end.
I think they were wrong to do what they did. I spoke to President Deby on the phone. I assured him of the fact that we condemn these activities and that we are going to try to find agreement so that nobody loses faith in this case, and so that we find out the precise truth.
Some news just in. The Supreme Court in United States has blocked the execution by lethal injection of a prisoner in Mississippi. The court has granted a series of reprieves since it decided last month to consider the legality of this method of execution.
An Israeli air strike has killed four Hamas militants and injured several other people in the Gaza Strip. The target was a compound used by Hamas security forces.
World news from the BBC.
International relief organization has warned of unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in parts of Somalia. Ethiopian troops supporting the Somali transitional government have been trying to flush out insurgents and there has been an upsurge in fighting between militias. The unrest coincides with the resignation of Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi on Monday. Caroline Allen reports from the region.
The tone of this latest warning is alarming, aid agencies describing the violence as the worst they've see in months. A fresh bout of clashes in the Somali capital Mogadishu these past few days has sent tens of thousands of people fleeing from their homes. Many are heading to the town of Afgoye, west of Mogadishu, adding to the 1.5 million people who already need assistance in the war-torn countries.
The head of Merrill Lynch, one of the world's leading financial institutions, Stan O'Neal has stepped down after the group recently admitted it had suffered massive losses on loans to American home buyers with poor credit records. Mr. O'Neal's departure had been expected after the group announced last week that the investments related to the American housing market had lost the firm around 8 billion dollars.
One of Italy's most infamous mafia bosses, Raffaele Cutolo, has fathered a daughter more than two decades after being jailed without the right of conjugal visits. Mr. Cutolo, a former leader of the Neples-based camorra crime organization accomplished the feat after winning a legal battle to father a child through artificial insemination. Mr. Cutolo married his wife who is appropriately named Immacolata which means immaculate in prison in 1983.
And Brazil has been confirmed as the host of the Football World Cup in 2014. The president of football's world governing body FIFA, Joseph Blatter, confirmed the news at a ceremony in its headquarters in Zurich. Speaking from the ceremony, The Brazilian President hailed the decision as a cause for celebration.
BBC World News
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BBC News with Nick Kelly.
The New York Based group Human Rights Watch says the Burmese military is forcibly conscripting children as young as ten to make up for high desertion rates in the lack of adult recruits. Researches said senior generals were tolerating blatant recruitment of child soldiers at train and bus stations. Andrew Harding reports from Bangkok.
The report says boys as young as ten are being systemically recruited by the Burmese military. Middlemen are often used to trap the children on the streets, then sell them on to recruit centers. Burm has faced similar allegations before, but the new report by Human Rights Watch suggests that things maybe getting worse. More soldiers are deserting the army; officials have admitted as much. The recent crackdown against monks and protestors will almost certainly lower army morale even further.
The Iraqi authorities have taken steps to tighten controls on foreign security contractors operating in the country, following a recent shooting incident involving the American firm Blackwater, in which seventeen Iraqis were killed. Iraqi cabinet has proved a draft law which scraps immunity from prosecution the security firms have enjoyed since the US-led invasion in 2003. The draft law will bring foreign companies and their employees under Iraqi law. A spokesman for the Iraqi government Ali al-Dabbagh explained to the BBC why the tight controls on the contractors were needed.
We don't know anything about them, we don't know about they have been summed ahead, we don't know who is coming, who is entering, who is out, who is operating, what time the abasement they are holding. They cannot be immune from accountability, to be questionable about whatever they are doing here on the ground.
The French President Nicholas Sarkozy has condemned the alleged abduction last week of more than 100 African children by people working for the French charity Zoe's Ark. The charity workers were arrested in Eastern Chad as they try to put the children on a plane bound for Europe. Mr. Sarkozy said they had been wrong to do what they did, but the wives of one of those charged said all the charity wanted to do what to find a better life for Darfurian children. Mr. Sarkozy said he wanted to know why the charity had picked the children up and to what end.
I think they were wrong to do what they did. I spoke to President Deby on the phone. I assured him of the fact that we condemn these activities and that we are going to try to find agreement so that nobody loses faith in this case, and so that we find out the precise truth.
Some news just in. The Supreme Court in United States has blocked the execution by lethal injection of a prisoner in Mississippi. The court has granted a series of reprieves since it decided last month to consider the legality of this method of execution.
An Israeli air strike has killed four Hamas militants and injured several other people in the Gaza Strip. The target was a compound used by Hamas security forces.
World news from the BBC.
International relief organization has warned of unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in parts of Somalia. Ethiopian troops supporting the Somali transitional government have been trying to flush out insurgents and there has been an upsurge in fighting between militias. The unrest coincides with the resignation of Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi on Monday. Caroline Allen reports from the region.
The tone of this latest warning is alarming, aid agencies describing the violence as the worst they've see in months. A fresh bout of clashes in the Somali capital Mogadishu these past few days has sent tens of thousands of people fleeing from their homes. Many are heading to the town of Afgoye, west of Mogadishu, adding to the 1.5 million people who already need assistance in the war-torn countries.
The head of Merrill Lynch, one of the world's leading financial institutions, Stan O'Neal has stepped down after the group recently admitted it had suffered massive losses on loans to American home buyers with poor credit records. Mr. O'Neal's departure had been expected after the group announced last week that the investments related to the American housing market had lost the firm around 8 billion dollars.
One of Italy's most infamous mafia bosses, Raffaele Cutolo, has fathered a daughter more than two decades after being jailed without the right of conjugal visits. Mr. Cutolo, a former leader of the Neples-based camorra crime organization accomplished the feat after winning a legal battle to father a child through artificial insemination. Mr. Cutolo married his wife who is appropriately named Immacolata which means immaculate in prison in 1983.
And Brazil has been confirmed as the host of the Football World Cup in 2014. The president of football's world governing body FIFA, Joseph Blatter, confirmed the news at a ceremony in its headquarters in Zurich. Speaking from the ceremony, The Brazilian President hailed the decision as a cause for celebration.
BBC World News
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