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BBC News with John Jason.
The American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is making final diplomatic preparations ahead of the Middle East peace conference on Tuesday in the US city of Annapolis. Doctor Rice is meeting the Israeli and Palestinian negotiators for dinner in Washington in an attempt to agree a joint document to be presented at the conference. However, US officials say such an agreement is not critical as Sarah Morris reports from Washington.
The White House has been downplaying the possibility of a breakthrough in the Middle East peace process instead billing the gathering as a start to the negotiating phase between the Palestinians and Israelis. The Palestinian President Mahmound Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert are to meet first with President Bush for private talks before the conference starts. Delegations from other states in the region will attend but none from Iran. Hamas, the group that controlled Gaza, will not be represented either.
The leaders of Venezuela and Colombia accused each other of bad faith following the collapse of negotiations to free hostages held by a left-wing Colombian rebel group, the FARC. The Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Alvaro Uribe had lied about the reason for the failure of talks that Mr. Chavez had been holding with the FARC. Mr. Chavez said he was freezing relations between the two countries.
"I have put relations with Colombia in the freezer, because I've completely lost confidence with everyone in the Colombian government. I don't believe anyone in the government of Colombia, absolutely no one."
For his part, Mr. Uribe said Mr. Chavez wanted Colombians to become the victims of a government led, as he put it, by FARC terrorists, more of Mr. Uribe's comments from Jeremy McDermott in Colombia.
President Uribe wasted no time in responding to the onslaught from his Venezuelan counterpart. He accused the Venezuelan leader of not being instantly promoting peace in Colombia and insisted that Venezuela had expansionist plans that Colombia would resist. There was always going to be a risk involving the controversial Venezuelan leader that Mr. Uribe felt that if anyone would have any influence with the FARC, it was President Chavez. What he does has shown by the Farc's professed admiration for Mr. Chavez and his socialist Bolivarian revolution.
Brazilian police said at least eight people died during a football match when a concrete stand collapsed at a stadium in the city of Salvador da Bahia. The accident happened towards the end of a match between Vila Nova and Bahia when a number of other football supporters invaded the stand. Several other people were injured.
The former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sherriff has returned home from political exile, saying he's done so to help bring the country off dictatorship. Mr. Sherriff said the state of emergency imposed by President Pervez Musharraf three weeks ago was not conducive to free and fair elections. He said he and his supporters wanted democracy and nothing else. Boycotting the elections which are due in January remained an option.
World News from the BBC.
The former Vice President of South Africa Jacob Zuma has taken an early lead in the race to be the next president of the governing African National Congress. Over the weekend, Mr. Zuma won the support of party branches in five provinces, while his rival, the South African leader Thabo Mbeki secured a majority in four. Whoever leads the ANC is seen as a favorite in the South African presidential election in 2009.
An international think tank says there is a higher risk of an Arab insurgency in Darfur unless a new peace strategy is found. The International Crisis Group warned that the African Union and the United Nations needed to revise their strategy. Amber Henshaw reports from Sudan.
The situation on the ground in Darfur has changed radically over the last year according to the International Crisis Group, and not the better. In the report, it said the confrontations in Sudan's troubled western region had multiplied as the number of groups fighting has splintered. It said violence was increasing, humanitarian access was reduced and that a political settlement remained far off. The ICG said that a failure to respond appropriately would leave the international community as an unwitting accomplice to the seeds of Sudan's next civil war.
The French President Nicolas Sarkozy is due to formally begin his state visit to China today. He arrived in the country on Sunday and had dinner with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao in Beijing. Ahead of the talks, Mr. Sarkozy called on China to improve its record on the environment.
"I want to persuade them to play a full part in the fight against global warming where China can play a major role. It's not a question of asking China to give up its growth. We wouldn't agree to that ourselves, but rather to make the choice of sustainable development." The visit is expected to be dominated by business links between the two countries."
BBC News.
Glossary
bill verb
1) To present a statement of costs or charges to.
给…开帐单：提供公众花费的单据
2)To enter on a statement of costs or on a particularized list.
记入帐目：写帐单或登记目录表
3)To advertise or schedule by public notice or as part of a program.
做广告：用公共布告做广告或作为计划的一部分列入计划表
4)To declare or describe officially; proclaim:
宣布，公告：正式通告或描述；宣布：
a policy that was billed as an important departure for the administration.
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BBC News with John Jason.
The American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is making final diplomatic preparations ahead of the Middle East peace conference on Tuesday in the US city of Annapolis. Doctor Rice is meeting the Israeli and Palestinian negotiators for dinner in Washington in an attempt to agree a joint document to be presented at the conference. However, US officials say such an agreement is not critical as Sarah Morris reports from Washington.
The White House has been downplaying the possibility of a breakthrough in the Middle East peace process instead billing the gathering as a start to the negotiating phase between the Palestinians and Israelis. The Palestinian President Mahmound Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert are to meet first with President Bush for private talks before the conference starts. Delegations from other states in the region will attend but none from Iran. Hamas, the group that controlled Gaza, will not be represented either.
The leaders of Venezuela and Colombia accused each other of bad faith following the collapse of negotiations to free hostages held by a left-wing Colombian rebel group, the FARC. The Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Alvaro Uribe had lied about the reason for the failure of talks that Mr. Chavez had been holding with the FARC. Mr. Chavez said he was freezing relations between the two countries.
"I have put relations with Colombia in the freezer, because I've completely lost confidence with everyone in the Colombian government. I don't believe anyone in the government of Colombia, absolutely no one."
For his part, Mr. Uribe said Mr. Chavez wanted Colombians to become the victims of a government led, as he put it, by FARC terrorists, more of Mr. Uribe's comments from Jeremy McDermott in Colombia.
President Uribe wasted no time in responding to the onslaught from his Venezuelan counterpart. He accused the Venezuelan leader of not being instantly promoting peace in Colombia and insisted that Venezuela had expansionist plans that Colombia would resist. There was always going to be a risk involving the controversial Venezuelan leader that Mr. Uribe felt that if anyone would have any influence with the FARC, it was President Chavez. What he does has shown by the Farc's professed admiration for Mr. Chavez and his socialist Bolivarian revolution.
Brazilian police said at least eight people died during a football match when a concrete stand collapsed at a stadium in the city of Salvador da Bahia. The accident happened towards the end of a match between Vila Nova and Bahia when a number of other football supporters invaded the stand. Several other people were injured.
The former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sherriff has returned home from political exile, saying he's done so to help bring the country off dictatorship. Mr. Sherriff said the state of emergency imposed by President Pervez Musharraf three weeks ago was not conducive to free and fair elections. He said he and his supporters wanted democracy and nothing else. Boycotting the elections which are due in January remained an option.
World News from the BBC.
The former Vice President of South Africa Jacob Zuma has taken an early lead in the race to be the next president of the governing African National Congress. Over the weekend, Mr. Zuma won the support of party branches in five provinces, while his rival, the South African leader Thabo Mbeki secured a majority in four. Whoever leads the ANC is seen as a favorite in the South African presidential election in 2009.
An international think tank says there is a higher risk of an Arab insurgency in Darfur unless a new peace strategy is found. The International Crisis Group warned that the African Union and the United Nations needed to revise their strategy. Amber Henshaw reports from Sudan.
The situation on the ground in Darfur has changed radically over the last year according to the International Crisis Group, and not the better. In the report, it said the confrontations in Sudan's troubled western region had multiplied as the number of groups fighting has splintered. It said violence was increasing, humanitarian access was reduced and that a political settlement remained far off. The ICG said that a failure to respond appropriately would leave the international community as an unwitting accomplice to the seeds of Sudan's next civil war.
The French President Nicolas Sarkozy is due to formally begin his state visit to China today. He arrived in the country on Sunday and had dinner with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao in Beijing. Ahead of the talks, Mr. Sarkozy called on China to improve its record on the environment.
"I want to persuade them to play a full part in the fight against global warming where China can play a major role. It's not a question of asking China to give up its growth. We wouldn't agree to that ourselves, but rather to make the choice of sustainable development." The visit is expected to be dominated by business links between the two countries."
BBC News.
Glossary
bill verb
1) To present a statement of costs or charges to.
给…开帐单：提供公众花费的单据
2)To enter on a statement of costs or on a particularized list.
记入帐目：写帐单或登记目录表
3)To advertise or schedule by public notice or as part of a program.
做广告：用公共布告做广告或作为计划的一部分列入计划表
4)To declare or describe officially; proclaim:
宣布，公告：正式通告或描述；宣布：
a policy that was billed as an important departure for the administration.
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