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BBC news with Mike Cooper.
Voters across the United States are choosing who they want to be the presidential candidates for the Republican and Democratic parties. 24 American states are holding primary elections on the day known as Super Tuesday. The Democratic race between senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is too close to call. But Senator John McCain is the front-runner in the Republican race. He spent the last hours campaigning in California, whose votes could decide the outcome of the Republican primary.
"This state will have a very, very important impact as we know on Super Tuesday. This is as close to a national primary as we've ever had. And California will have a huge impact, so I hope that everybody's been out to vote, if not, please get your neighbors, your friends, and even occasional enemy out to vote, if you would. It's very important."
But Mr. McCain has been beaten in the first state to declare West Virginia. That’s been won by Mike Huckabee. Meanwhile, the ABC television channel in the US is projecting that Barack Obama will win the Democratic Party nomination in the southern state of Georgia.
The American director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell has said the tribal areas of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan remain a sanctuary for Islamist terrorist activity. Mr. McConnell was speaking during the United States Intelligent Service’s annual assessment of security threats. During the same briefing, the CIA director Michael Hayden confirmed for the first time the names of three suspected al-Qaeda activists, who in 2002 and 2003 were subject to the interrogation technique of simulated drowning, known as water boarding.
It was used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. It was used on Abu Zubaydah and it was used on Nashiri. CIA has not used water boarding for almost 5 years. We used it against these three high value detainees because of the circumstances of the time. Very critical to those circumstances was the belief that additional catastrophic attacks against the homeland were imminent.
Further downbeat economic news from the US has led to falls on stock markets on both sides of the Atlantic. The main US markets drop by up to 3%. Earlier in the day, European markets saw sharper falls as Andrew Walker reports.
The Institute of Supply Management, an association of business professionals, surveyed managers across the US and its latest results for January found a very weak outlook for the service industries. For the first time since 2003, they suggested activity declining. One key measure was at its lowest level since 2001 when the US was in recession. Some economists say the survey suggested the US could well be in recession again now. But other data had been less gloomy. And one economist said the new survey is so out of line with other information that it's hard to know whether to believe it.
World news from the BBC.
At least 20 people have been killed and about 100 wounded in a grenade attack in the northern Somali port of Bosasso. Most of the casualties are said to have been Ethiopian immigrants. The motive for the attack is not clear, but the port is a gathering point for Somalis and Ethiopians seeking to flee the violence in both countries. Correspondents say the attack may be connected to the longstanding rivalry in the region between Somalia and Ethiopia.
Zimbabwe's former Finance Minister Simba Makoni has said he will challenge President Robert Mugabe as an independent in elections next month. Speaking at a news conference in Harare, Mr. Makoni blamed Mr. Mugabe for Zimbabwe's economic decline. Annual inflation is now 26000% and the unemployment rate 80%. Mr. Makoni is a senior member of the governing ZANU-PF Party and said he had brought support within ZANU-PF nationwide.
Following very extensive and intensive consultations with party members and activists countrywide and also with others outside the party, I have accepted the call and hereby advise the people of Zimbabwe that I offer myself as candidate for the office of President of Zimbabwe in the forthcoming elections.
The Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has consulted the speakers of both Houses of parliament as part of moves that are expected to lead to early elections. It's thought that the president will announce on Wednesday that he's dissolving parliament. The political crisis in Italy started last month when a small party dropped out of Romano Prodi's governing center left coalition.
The Indian guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who sprang to international prominence as the spiritual guide to the Beatles in the 1960s has died at his home in the Netherlands. He founded the transcendental meditation movement and introduced many in the West to Hindu religion at the height of the hippie movement.
BBC news.
Download Audio
BBC news with Mike Cooper.
Voters across the United States are choosing who they want to be the presidential candidates for the Republican and Democratic parties. 24 American states are holding primary elections on the day known as Super Tuesday. The Democratic race between senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is too close to call. But Senator John McCain is the front-runner in the Republican race. He spent the last hours campaigning in California, whose votes could decide the outcome of the Republican primary.
"This state will have a very, very important impact as we know on Super Tuesday. This is as close to a national primary as we've ever had. And California will have a huge impact, so I hope that everybody's been out to vote, if not, please get your neighbors, your friends, and even occasional enemy out to vote, if you would. It's very important."
But Mr. McCain has been beaten in the first state to declare West Virginia. That’s been won by Mike Huckabee. Meanwhile, the ABC television channel in the US is projecting that Barack Obama will win the Democratic Party nomination in the southern state of Georgia.
The American director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell has said the tribal areas of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan remain a sanctuary for Islamist terrorist activity. Mr. McConnell was speaking during the United States Intelligent Service’s annual assessment of security threats. During the same briefing, the CIA director Michael Hayden confirmed for the first time the names of three suspected al-Qaeda activists, who in 2002 and 2003 were subject to the interrogation technique of simulated drowning, known as water boarding.
It was used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. It was used on Abu Zubaydah and it was used on Nashiri. CIA has not used water boarding for almost 5 years. We used it against these three high value detainees because of the circumstances of the time. Very critical to those circumstances was the belief that additional catastrophic attacks against the homeland were imminent.
Further downbeat economic news from the US has led to falls on stock markets on both sides of the Atlantic. The main US markets drop by up to 3%. Earlier in the day, European markets saw sharper falls as Andrew Walker reports.
The Institute of Supply Management, an association of business professionals, surveyed managers across the US and its latest results for January found a very weak outlook for the service industries. For the first time since 2003, they suggested activity declining. One key measure was at its lowest level since 2001 when the US was in recession. Some economists say the survey suggested the US could well be in recession again now. But other data had been less gloomy. And one economist said the new survey is so out of line with other information that it's hard to know whether to believe it.
World news from the BBC.
At least 20 people have been killed and about 100 wounded in a grenade attack in the northern Somali port of Bosasso. Most of the casualties are said to have been Ethiopian immigrants. The motive for the attack is not clear, but the port is a gathering point for Somalis and Ethiopians seeking to flee the violence in both countries. Correspondents say the attack may be connected to the longstanding rivalry in the region between Somalia and Ethiopia.
Zimbabwe's former Finance Minister Simba Makoni has said he will challenge President Robert Mugabe as an independent in elections next month. Speaking at a news conference in Harare, Mr. Makoni blamed Mr. Mugabe for Zimbabwe's economic decline. Annual inflation is now 26000% and the unemployment rate 80%. Mr. Makoni is a senior member of the governing ZANU-PF Party and said he had brought support within ZANU-PF nationwide.
Following very extensive and intensive consultations with party members and activists countrywide and also with others outside the party, I have accepted the call and hereby advise the people of Zimbabwe that I offer myself as candidate for the office of President of Zimbabwe in the forthcoming elections.
The Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has consulted the speakers of both Houses of parliament as part of moves that are expected to lead to early elections. It's thought that the president will announce on Wednesday that he's dissolving parliament. The political crisis in Italy started last month when a small party dropped out of Romano Prodi's governing center left coalition.
The Indian guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who sprang to international prominence as the spiritual guide to the Beatles in the 1960s has died at his home in the Netherlands. He founded the transcendental meditation movement and introduced many in the West to Hindu religion at the height of the hippie movement.
BBC news.
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