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BBC news with Zoe Diamond
One of the main opposition leaders in Pakistan Banizir Bhutto has welcomed the promise made by President Musharraf that elections will be held on schedule by early January. Ms. Bhutto called it a positive step, but she said the president had to go much further to defuse the political crisis engulfing Pakistan since he declared a state of emergency. A prominent human rights campaigner in Pakistan Asma Jahangir said it would be impossible to hold legitimate elections unless the state of emergency was lifted. "True democracy does not come through sham elections under military regime and what is declared is martial law. You can not have elections when there is no freedom of association, when there is no freedom of speech and the media is not free, and more importantly, when there is not a semblance of independent judiciary. "
There has been rioting in parts of Rome after a policeman shot dead a football fan in his car. Police described the death as tragic error. Hours later hundreds of protesting fans attacked police barracks in Rome, the home city of the dead fan. From Rome, here is Francis Canady.
Several hundred furious fans attacked the police station, torched a bus and blocked off a bridge near the city’s Olympic Stadium. In the clashes, scores of policemen were injured. The trigger for the fans’ anger was the accidental shooting dead by police of a Lazio supporter. Gabriele Sandri, a 26-year-old disc jockey was struck by a bullet from a policeman apparently trying to prevent scuffles between rival fans outside a motorway restaurant.
The Russian officials are searching for more than 20 sailors form different ships after a powerful storm in the Kerch strait between Russia and Ukraine caused havoc to vessels in the region .Four ships have already sunk, one of them a Russian tanker, broken in two, while at anchor, spilling more than 1,000 tons of fuel oil. Our Moscow correspondent Richard Galpin reports.
The ferocious storm with winds of more than 100 kilometers per hour whipped up waves of enormous destructive power. The Russian oil tanker was torn apart as it laid anchor in the strait of Kerch, which links the Sea Azov with the Black Sea. A Russian official told the BBC up to 2,000 tons of fuel oil have spilled out. The oil is heavy and sinking to the seabed. Government environmentalists said it could take years to clear up. At least two other ships with potentially hazardous cargos also sank.
The largest protestant paramilitary group in Northern Ireland, the Ulster Defence Association, has announced that it is standing down all act of service unit of its military wing from midnight tonight. The statement said all weapons would be put beyond use although not destroyed. Its military wing is thought to have killed some 400 people during the Northern Ireland conflict, but has observed a ceasefire in recent years.
World news from the the BBC.
Reports from Somalia say insurgents fired mortar rounds at the presidential palace in Mogadishu on Sunday, prompting an artillery duel with government forces in the heart of the capital. Meanwhile, Somali government troops and their Ethiopian allies closed down Mogadishu’s main market to search for insurgents thought to be hiding there after heavy fighting last week.
The American Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte in a visit to West Africa has urged the political leaders in the Ivory Coast to follow through a peace deal and hold elections. The agreement in March raised hopes of full resolution of the conflict which divided Ivory Coast between north and south, but key measures have yet to be implemented. Here is our West Africa correspondent Will Rose.
The peace deal signed a month ago brought the current Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo and former rebel leader Guillaume Soro into an unlikely partnership. But for some the progress towards elections since that agreement has been all too slow. The key steps, which still need to be taken, are the disarmament of militias, the reintegration of the army and the carrying-out of a controversial voter identification scheme.
A ceremony has been held in the town of Chimpay in southern Argentina to celebrate the first ever beatification of an indigenous Argentine. Ceferino Namuncura was training to become a priest when he died in 1905 at the age of eighteen. He has had a following among the country’s poor ever since and was credited with a miracle when a woman who praised him seven years ago was cured of uterus cancer.
The Egyptian authorities are to limit the number of visitors to the tomb of the boy Pharaoh Tutankhamun to 400 a day in order to preserve the site. Last week the body of Tutankhamun who ruled Egypt more than 3000 years ago was moved into a new climate-controlled case in this tomb in the Valley of the Kings, allowing huge numbers of visitors to see his face for the first time.
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BBC news with Zoe Diamond
One of the main opposition leaders in Pakistan Banizir Bhutto has welcomed the promise made by President Musharraf that elections will be held on schedule by early January. Ms. Bhutto called it a positive step, but she said the president had to go much further to defuse the political crisis engulfing Pakistan since he declared a state of emergency. A prominent human rights campaigner in Pakistan Asma Jahangir said it would be impossible to hold legitimate elections unless the state of emergency was lifted. "True democracy does not come through sham elections under military regime and what is declared is martial law. You can not have elections when there is no freedom of association, when there is no freedom of speech and the media is not free, and more importantly, when there is not a semblance of independent judiciary. "
There has been rioting in parts of Rome after a policeman shot dead a football fan in his car. Police described the death as tragic error. Hours later hundreds of protesting fans attacked police barracks in Rome, the home city of the dead fan. From Rome, here is Francis Canady.
Several hundred furious fans attacked the police station, torched a bus and blocked off a bridge near the city’s Olympic Stadium. In the clashes, scores of policemen were injured. The trigger for the fans’ anger was the accidental shooting dead by police of a Lazio supporter. Gabriele Sandri, a 26-year-old disc jockey was struck by a bullet from a policeman apparently trying to prevent scuffles between rival fans outside a motorway restaurant.
The Russian officials are searching for more than 20 sailors form different ships after a powerful storm in the Kerch strait between Russia and Ukraine caused havoc to vessels in the region .Four ships have already sunk, one of them a Russian tanker, broken in two, while at anchor, spilling more than 1,000 tons of fuel oil. Our Moscow correspondent Richard Galpin reports.
The ferocious storm with winds of more than 100 kilometers per hour whipped up waves of enormous destructive power. The Russian oil tanker was torn apart as it laid anchor in the strait of Kerch, which links the Sea Azov with the Black Sea. A Russian official told the BBC up to 2,000 tons of fuel oil have spilled out. The oil is heavy and sinking to the seabed. Government environmentalists said it could take years to clear up. At least two other ships with potentially hazardous cargos also sank.
The largest protestant paramilitary group in Northern Ireland, the Ulster Defence Association, has announced that it is standing down all act of service unit of its military wing from midnight tonight. The statement said all weapons would be put beyond use although not destroyed. Its military wing is thought to have killed some 400 people during the Northern Ireland conflict, but has observed a ceasefire in recent years.
World news from the the BBC.
Reports from Somalia say insurgents fired mortar rounds at the presidential palace in Mogadishu on Sunday, prompting an artillery duel with government forces in the heart of the capital. Meanwhile, Somali government troops and their Ethiopian allies closed down Mogadishu’s main market to search for insurgents thought to be hiding there after heavy fighting last week.
The American Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte in a visit to West Africa has urged the political leaders in the Ivory Coast to follow through a peace deal and hold elections. The agreement in March raised hopes of full resolution of the conflict which divided Ivory Coast between north and south, but key measures have yet to be implemented. Here is our West Africa correspondent Will Rose.
The peace deal signed a month ago brought the current Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo and former rebel leader Guillaume Soro into an unlikely partnership. But for some the progress towards elections since that agreement has been all too slow. The key steps, which still need to be taken, are the disarmament of militias, the reintegration of the army and the carrying-out of a controversial voter identification scheme.
A ceremony has been held in the town of Chimpay in southern Argentina to celebrate the first ever beatification of an indigenous Argentine. Ceferino Namuncura was training to become a priest when he died in 1905 at the age of eighteen. He has had a following among the country’s poor ever since and was credited with a miracle when a woman who praised him seven years ago was cured of uterus cancer.
The Egyptian authorities are to limit the number of visitors to the tomb of the boy Pharaoh Tutankhamun to 400 a day in order to preserve the site. Last week the body of Tutankhamun who ruled Egypt more than 3000 years ago was moved into a new climate-controlled case in this tomb in the Valley of the Kings, allowing huge numbers of visitors to see his face for the first time.
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