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BBC News with Roy Lamar.
The Chinese authorities say that they can guarantee that the Olympic Games which open in Beijing on Friday will take place peacefully. The assurance follows an attack which killed 16 policemen in the northwestern province of Xinjiang. The International Olympic Committee said it believed everything possible was being done to ensure the safety of athletes and spectators. Daniel Griffith reports from Beijing.
With just three days to the Olympics, China is doing all it can to ease fears about security after the deadly attack in Xinjiang. A spokesman for the Beijing Olympics said China could guarantee a safe and peaceful Games. He said the authorities were prepared to deal with any threats during the Olympics. In recent weeks, China has put more than 100,000 extra security personnel on the streets of Beijing.
The former U. S. President Bill Clinton says his charitable foundation is increasingly finding that poorly developed health services rather than a shortage of money are the biggest obstacle to fighting HIV and AIDS in Africa. Speaking to the BBC in Mexico where he's attending a world AIDS conference, Mr. Clinton said antiretrovirus drugs were now widely available, but he said health systems were failing to provide the necessary care.
"You can get the universal treatment, the money is there now, if we spend it most effectively. But we don't have the healthier systems to reach out to people, get them tested, diagnose them in a timely fashion, get them on treatment and do the regular follow-up. That's increasingly in the last few years what our foundation has been focused on, what is the most cost-effective way to mobilize a national health system. (Www.hxen.net)
The government of Nepal and the UN World Food Programme have warned that hundreds of thousands of people in the country are facing severe food shortages. A new report says that efforts to get food to the most vulnerable people are being hampered by fuel shortages, strikes and bad weather which destroys crops. Charles Haviland reports from the western district of Achham.
Here and in much of western Nepal, many people are destitute. Food prices at the nearest market, a morning's walk away, have jumped up, the price of rice by up to 50% in a year, that of cooking oil by 30% in six months. The WFP and the government are feeding many, but some places are several days' walk from the nearest road, while vehicles are hampered by a severe fuel shortage nationwide. Many families can only cope by eating less, selling their meagre possessions or sending their menfolk to India to find work.
The leader of the governing African National Congress in South Africa Jacob Zuma is due to appear in court for a second day, as he seeks to have corruption and money-laundering charges against him thrown out. His lawyers are arguing that delays in bringing the case to court mean he will not get a fair trial. Mr. Zuma says he is the victim of a political conspiracy.
World News from the BBC.(www.hXen.com)
The British bank Northern Rock which came close to collapse last year as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis in the US has just announced losses of about one billion dollars, the trading figures of Northern Rock first since the bank was rescued by the British government in February. The bank has also reported faster than expected progress in repaying an emergency loan of nearly 50 billion dollars from the Bank of England.
An American woman, Bernann McKinney, has traveled to Seoul to collect, what South Korean scientists say, are the world's first commercially cloned dogs. Five puppies have been born to surrogate mothers three months after being cloned from skin cells taken from Mrs. McKinney's pit bull terrier, Booger, before he died. John Subworth reports from Seoul.
Booger was my partner and my friend, Bernann McKinney told reporters here in Seoul where she's come to collect the five identical copies of her pet dog. This isn’t the first time that scientists have cloned a dog, but the Korean team claims this is the first commercial success. They say they are now open for future bookings. Mrs. McKinney paid 50,000 dollars but as the technology improves, the price will drop.
International reporters found that almost half of the world's monkeys and apes are now threatened to extinction because of human activity. According the assessment for the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of endangered species, 48% of more than 600 species and sub-species of primate are at risk. The report blames forest clearance and the hunting of primates for meat for the species' decline.
In the United States, residents on the coasts of Texas and Louisiana are bracing for a tropical storm, which weather forecasters say could gain near hurricane-strength winds before making landfall on Tuesday. In Louisiana, the state governor has declared a statewide emergency.
BBC News.
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BBC News with Roy Lamar.
The Chinese authorities say that they can guarantee that the Olympic Games which open in Beijing on Friday will take place peacefully. The assurance follows an attack which killed 16 policemen in the northwestern province of Xinjiang. The International Olympic Committee said it believed everything possible was being done to ensure the safety of athletes and spectators. Daniel Griffith reports from Beijing.
With just three days to the Olympics, China is doing all it can to ease fears about security after the deadly attack in Xinjiang. A spokesman for the Beijing Olympics said China could guarantee a safe and peaceful Games. He said the authorities were prepared to deal with any threats during the Olympics. In recent weeks, China has put more than 100,000 extra security personnel on the streets of Beijing.
The former U. S. President Bill Clinton says his charitable foundation is increasingly finding that poorly developed health services rather than a shortage of money are the biggest obstacle to fighting HIV and AIDS in Africa. Speaking to the BBC in Mexico where he's attending a world AIDS conference, Mr. Clinton said antiretrovirus drugs were now widely available, but he said health systems were failing to provide the necessary care.
"You can get the universal treatment, the money is there now, if we spend it most effectively. But we don't have the healthier systems to reach out to people, get them tested, diagnose them in a timely fashion, get them on treatment and do the regular follow-up. That's increasingly in the last few years what our foundation has been focused on, what is the most cost-effective way to mobilize a national health system. (Www.hxen.net)
The government of Nepal and the UN World Food Programme have warned that hundreds of thousands of people in the country are facing severe food shortages. A new report says that efforts to get food to the most vulnerable people are being hampered by fuel shortages, strikes and bad weather which destroys crops. Charles Haviland reports from the western district of Achham.
Here and in much of western Nepal, many people are destitute. Food prices at the nearest market, a morning's walk away, have jumped up, the price of rice by up to 50% in a year, that of cooking oil by 30% in six months. The WFP and the government are feeding many, but some places are several days' walk from the nearest road, while vehicles are hampered by a severe fuel shortage nationwide. Many families can only cope by eating less, selling their meagre possessions or sending their menfolk to India to find work.
The leader of the governing African National Congress in South Africa Jacob Zuma is due to appear in court for a second day, as he seeks to have corruption and money-laundering charges against him thrown out. His lawyers are arguing that delays in bringing the case to court mean he will not get a fair trial. Mr. Zuma says he is the victim of a political conspiracy.
World News from the BBC.(www.hXen.com)
The British bank Northern Rock which came close to collapse last year as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis in the US has just announced losses of about one billion dollars, the trading figures of Northern Rock first since the bank was rescued by the British government in February. The bank has also reported faster than expected progress in repaying an emergency loan of nearly 50 billion dollars from the Bank of England.
An American woman, Bernann McKinney, has traveled to Seoul to collect, what South Korean scientists say, are the world's first commercially cloned dogs. Five puppies have been born to surrogate mothers three months after being cloned from skin cells taken from Mrs. McKinney's pit bull terrier, Booger, before he died. John Subworth reports from Seoul.
Booger was my partner and my friend, Bernann McKinney told reporters here in Seoul where she's come to collect the five identical copies of her pet dog. This isn’t the first time that scientists have cloned a dog, but the Korean team claims this is the first commercial success. They say they are now open for future bookings. Mrs. McKinney paid 50,000 dollars but as the technology improves, the price will drop.
International reporters found that almost half of the world's monkeys and apes are now threatened to extinction because of human activity. According the assessment for the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of endangered species, 48% of more than 600 species and sub-species of primate are at risk. The report blames forest clearance and the hunting of primates for meat for the species' decline.
In the United States, residents on the coasts of Texas and Louisiana are bracing for a tropical storm, which weather forecasters say could gain near hurricane-strength winds before making landfall on Tuesday. In Louisiana, the state governor has declared a statewide emergency.
BBC News.
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