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BBC News with Joe Macintosh.
Hundreds of prisoners including Taliban militants have escaped from a prison in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar after insurgents blew up the main entrance of the building. The President of Kandahar Provincial Council said that the prison held about 1,500 inmates and that 15 policemen were killed in the attack. From Kabul, here's Martin Patience.
A truck bomb blew open the main entrance to Kandahar's prison and the force of the blast smashed windows across the city. Then a group of up to 30 Taliban insurgents stormed the building, killing several guards in the fighting. A senior Afghan official in Kandahar told the BBC that 350 Taliban insurgents had escaped in the raid. Some of these men are believed to be key figures in the movement who've been responsible for attacks against the Afghan government and NATO troops. Emergency rule has now been declared in Kandahar as the Afghan army and police work to recapture their escaped prisoners.
Governments in the European Union are exploring what to do following the Ireland's rejection of the Lisbon Treaty to reform the expanded EU. France and Germany have described the no vote in the Irish in the referendum as a serious blow and urged the EU to press ahead with the project. From Dublin, Jonny Dymond reports on the result.
The gap between those in favor and against was only six points, but this vote felt like a rout. Pretty much all of the Irelands establishment, the main political parties, the trade unions, business organizations and the mainstream media came out in favor of ratification. But the Irish supposedly amongst the most pro-EU of Europeans ignored them all. No campaigners declared it a great day for democracy. The humiliated Prime Minister Brian Cowen spoke of his disappointment and the need for time to consider what move to make next. He left the door open for a second vote.
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has denounced his political arch rival President Pervez Musharraf at a major rally held to demand the restoration of independent judiciary. During the late-night protest in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, Mr. Sharif told tens of thousands of lawyers and activists that President Musharraf must pay as he put it for his crimes. President Musharraf sacked about 60 judges last November under emergency rule. Barbara Plett who was at the demonstration explained why it was happening.
The point of this protest is to repeat their demands that the president go and that the judges come back, but more than that, I think, it's to show the new government the remaining of force to be reckoned with. This is the first time they put on one of these rallies since the new government was formed. That government has promised to bring the judges back and it didn't act it instead for a constitutional amendment to bring them back perhaps over a long period of time. They basically wanna send a message to the government that there is a constituency here, a pressure group, that will keep the government to its promise and it's very unhappy with the way things have developed.
World News from the BBC.
Now some news just in. The Japanese Meteorological Agency says a powerful earthquake measuring seven on the Richter scale has struck northern Japan. The tremor hit the island of Honshu. The quake rattled buildings in the capital Tokyo, some 500 kilometers from the tremor's epicenter. There are no reports of injuries.
A court in South Africa has banned trials by a private clinic of vitamin pills as a treatment for HIV/AIDS. The High Court in Cape Town ruled against a German physician, Matthias Rath, and an American doctor, David Rasnick, a former advisor to the South African President Thabo Mbeki. They were accused of profiteering by peddling unregistered vitamin pills among poor communities.
The American R&B star R. Kelly has been acquitted at his trial on child pornography charges in the city of Chicago. The prosecution had alleged he'd made an explicit videotape that showed him having sex with an underage girl who, they said, was only 13 at the time. Kelly, who is 41, and the girl, who is now a 23-year-old woman, both denied being the people on the video, but did not testify. Kelly's lawyer Marc Martin said he was glad the jury had not been influenced by the coverage of the trial.
"I'm not a big fan of the media. I think the, the media, you just can't believe everything that you read in the newspapers. The jurors here had a common sense and intelligence not to believe everything they read in the newspapers also."(Www.hxen.net)
The government in Argentina has demanded that truckers blocking some of the main highways put an end to their protest which has led to fuel shortages and threatened a food crisis in parts of the country. The Argentine Justice Minister Anibal Fernandez urged provincial governors to take legal action against the truckers. He said officials would not use violence but promised to clear the roads and to end the crisis. Despite an earlier deal involving some of the main transport federations, many hauliers refused to end their action meaning there's no grain to transport and hardly any work for truck drivers.
And that's the BBC News.
Download Audio
BBC News with Joe Macintosh.
Hundreds of prisoners including Taliban militants have escaped from a prison in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar after insurgents blew up the main entrance of the building. The President of Kandahar Provincial Council said that the prison held about 1,500 inmates and that 15 policemen were killed in the attack. From Kabul, here's Martin Patience.
A truck bomb blew open the main entrance to Kandahar's prison and the force of the blast smashed windows across the city. Then a group of up to 30 Taliban insurgents stormed the building, killing several guards in the fighting. A senior Afghan official in Kandahar told the BBC that 350 Taliban insurgents had escaped in the raid. Some of these men are believed to be key figures in the movement who've been responsible for attacks against the Afghan government and NATO troops. Emergency rule has now been declared in Kandahar as the Afghan army and police work to recapture their escaped prisoners.
Governments in the European Union are exploring what to do following the Ireland's rejection of the Lisbon Treaty to reform the expanded EU. France and Germany have described the no vote in the Irish in the referendum as a serious blow and urged the EU to press ahead with the project. From Dublin, Jonny Dymond reports on the result.
The gap between those in favor and against was only six points, but this vote felt like a rout. Pretty much all of the Irelands establishment, the main political parties, the trade unions, business organizations and the mainstream media came out in favor of ratification. But the Irish supposedly amongst the most pro-EU of Europeans ignored them all. No campaigners declared it a great day for democracy. The humiliated Prime Minister Brian Cowen spoke of his disappointment and the need for time to consider what move to make next. He left the door open for a second vote.
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has denounced his political arch rival President Pervez Musharraf at a major rally held to demand the restoration of independent judiciary. During the late-night protest in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, Mr. Sharif told tens of thousands of lawyers and activists that President Musharraf must pay as he put it for his crimes. President Musharraf sacked about 60 judges last November under emergency rule. Barbara Plett who was at the demonstration explained why it was happening.
The point of this protest is to repeat their demands that the president go and that the judges come back, but more than that, I think, it's to show the new government the remaining of force to be reckoned with. This is the first time they put on one of these rallies since the new government was formed. That government has promised to bring the judges back and it didn't act it instead for a constitutional amendment to bring them back perhaps over a long period of time. They basically wanna send a message to the government that there is a constituency here, a pressure group, that will keep the government to its promise and it's very unhappy with the way things have developed.
World News from the BBC.
Now some news just in. The Japanese Meteorological Agency says a powerful earthquake measuring seven on the Richter scale has struck northern Japan. The tremor hit the island of Honshu. The quake rattled buildings in the capital Tokyo, some 500 kilometers from the tremor's epicenter. There are no reports of injuries.
A court in South Africa has banned trials by a private clinic of vitamin pills as a treatment for HIV/AIDS. The High Court in Cape Town ruled against a German physician, Matthias Rath, and an American doctor, David Rasnick, a former advisor to the South African President Thabo Mbeki. They were accused of profiteering by peddling unregistered vitamin pills among poor communities.
The American R&B star R. Kelly has been acquitted at his trial on child pornography charges in the city of Chicago. The prosecution had alleged he'd made an explicit videotape that showed him having sex with an underage girl who, they said, was only 13 at the time. Kelly, who is 41, and the girl, who is now a 23-year-old woman, both denied being the people on the video, but did not testify. Kelly's lawyer Marc Martin said he was glad the jury had not been influenced by the coverage of the trial.
"I'm not a big fan of the media. I think the, the media, you just can't believe everything that you read in the newspapers. The jurors here had a common sense and intelligence not to believe everything they read in the newspapers also."(Www.hxen.net)
The government in Argentina has demanded that truckers blocking some of the main highways put an end to their protest which has led to fuel shortages and threatened a food crisis in parts of the country. The Argentine Justice Minister Anibal Fernandez urged provincial governors to take legal action against the truckers. He said officials would not use violence but promised to clear the roads and to end the crisis. Despite an earlier deal involving some of the main transport federations, many hauliers refused to end their action meaning there's no grain to transport and hardly any work for truck drivers.
And that's the BBC News.
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