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BBC News with Michael Poles.
President Obama has told the American people that they are beginning 2009 in the midst of an uNPRecedented crisis that calls for uNPRecedented action. In a five-minute radio and Internet speech that dealt only with the economy, Mr. Obama again called on Congress to pass his huge recovery plan quickly. He said that otherwise, a generation of potential would be lost. He said the plan, which he hopes will become law in a month, will create many jobs by investing in vitally-needed projects.
"It's a plan that will save or create three to four million jobs over the next few years, and one that recognizes both the paradox and the promise of this moment, the fact that there are millions of Americans trying to find work even as, all around the country, there's so much work to be done. "
The Vatican has strongly condemned President Obama's decision to restore US funding for family planning clinics around the world that perform abortions or give advice on them. The White House said the decision aligned the United States with other donor nations fighting poverty and HIV/AIDS, and promoting Planned Parenthood. The BBC's religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott reports.
The Vatican's criticism of President Obama's decision was couched in robust language. Monsignor Rino Fisichella interviewed in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera described it as disappointing, and another senior official said it dealt a harsh blow to people across the world who were fighting against what he described as the slaughter of the innocents. Critics say the ban hurt poor people who were affected when groups working on reproductive health and HIV were targeted because of their work on abortion. Mr. Obama said financial assistance for family planning had for too long been used as a political tool.
The BBC is standing firm over its refusal to broadcast a humanitarian appeal for Gaza. In a statement on the Internet, the BBC's Director-General Mark Thompson said the appeal by a number of charities ran the risk of reducing public confidence of the BBC's impartiality in its wider coverage of the story. But the International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander said people's ability to understand the issue shouldn't be underestimated.
"I think they can distinguish between support for humanitarian aid and perceived partiality in a conflict. What we are asking the BBC and another broadcasters to do is simply to publicize the means by which people can make donations to the British Red Cross, to Christian Aid, to Save the Children. I really struggle to see in the face of the immense human suffering of people in Gaza at the moment that this is in any way a credible argument."
A Congolese army commander says that nine Rwandan Hutu rebels have been killed during a joint operation with Rwandan forces in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. A BBC correspondent travelling north of the regional capital Goma have seen troops of both countries marching alongside soldiers from an anti-Hutu militia. The United Nations Mission in Congo says the Rwanda-Congo military operation is moving north and west of Goma.
World News from the BBC.
The President of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Salih, says he expects the repatriation in the next few months of more than 90 Yemeni nationals being held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay. President Obama announced on Thursday that he wanted the detention centre shut within a year. There are currently 250 prisoners there with Yemenis comprising the biggest single group. Yemen has already announced the setting-up of a rehabilitation center to help former inmates adjust to normal life.
Hundreds of illegal migrants have returned to a detention centre on the Italian island of Lampedusa after breaking out in protest at a new government policy of holding them there while their cases are processed. They joined the demonstration by townspeople against plans to open a second centre on the island. From Rome, Duncan Kennedy reports.
Forcing their way through a locked gate, at least 600 illegal migrants burst out of the camp. In the main town centre on Lampedusa, they waved banners and chanted the words "Freedom! Freedom!". The police say it was peaceful though at times tense. The migrants, mostly from Africa, are unhappy with government moves to open a second camp on the island and with conditions in the existing camp. The United Nations described those conditions as unbearable.(www.hxen.net)
Iraqi police and the US military say that American soldiers killed an Iraqi couple and wounded their eight-year-old daughter during a raid against suspected al-Qaeda members. A US military spokesman said troops opened fire and killed Hussein Ali al-Tikriti when he resisted arrest. He was said to have been a general in Saddam Hussein's army.
The former left-wing rebel movement in El Salvador has become the country's largest political party, 17 years after ending its insurgency against an American-backed government. Final results from last Saturday's election give the FMLN 35 seats in the National Assembly against 32 for its conservative rival.
And that brings it to the end of this bulletin of BBC News.
Download Audio
BBC News with Michael Poles.
President Obama has told the American people that they are beginning 2009 in the midst of an uNPRecedented crisis that calls for uNPRecedented action. In a five-minute radio and Internet speech that dealt only with the economy, Mr. Obama again called on Congress to pass his huge recovery plan quickly. He said that otherwise, a generation of potential would be lost. He said the plan, which he hopes will become law in a month, will create many jobs by investing in vitally-needed projects.
"It's a plan that will save or create three to four million jobs over the next few years, and one that recognizes both the paradox and the promise of this moment, the fact that there are millions of Americans trying to find work even as, all around the country, there's so much work to be done. "
The Vatican has strongly condemned President Obama's decision to restore US funding for family planning clinics around the world that perform abortions or give advice on them. The White House said the decision aligned the United States with other donor nations fighting poverty and HIV/AIDS, and promoting Planned Parenthood. The BBC's religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott reports.
The Vatican's criticism of President Obama's decision was couched in robust language. Monsignor Rino Fisichella interviewed in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera described it as disappointing, and another senior official said it dealt a harsh blow to people across the world who were fighting against what he described as the slaughter of the innocents. Critics say the ban hurt poor people who were affected when groups working on reproductive health and HIV were targeted because of their work on abortion. Mr. Obama said financial assistance for family planning had for too long been used as a political tool.
The BBC is standing firm over its refusal to broadcast a humanitarian appeal for Gaza. In a statement on the Internet, the BBC's Director-General Mark Thompson said the appeal by a number of charities ran the risk of reducing public confidence of the BBC's impartiality in its wider coverage of the story. But the International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander said people's ability to understand the issue shouldn't be underestimated.
"I think they can distinguish between support for humanitarian aid and perceived partiality in a conflict. What we are asking the BBC and another broadcasters to do is simply to publicize the means by which people can make donations to the British Red Cross, to Christian Aid, to Save the Children. I really struggle to see in the face of the immense human suffering of people in Gaza at the moment that this is in any way a credible argument."
A Congolese army commander says that nine Rwandan Hutu rebels have been killed during a joint operation with Rwandan forces in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. A BBC correspondent travelling north of the regional capital Goma have seen troops of both countries marching alongside soldiers from an anti-Hutu militia. The United Nations Mission in Congo says the Rwanda-Congo military operation is moving north and west of Goma.
World News from the BBC.
The President of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Salih, says he expects the repatriation in the next few months of more than 90 Yemeni nationals being held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay. President Obama announced on Thursday that he wanted the detention centre shut within a year. There are currently 250 prisoners there with Yemenis comprising the biggest single group. Yemen has already announced the setting-up of a rehabilitation center to help former inmates adjust to normal life.
Hundreds of illegal migrants have returned to a detention centre on the Italian island of Lampedusa after breaking out in protest at a new government policy of holding them there while their cases are processed. They joined the demonstration by townspeople against plans to open a second centre on the island. From Rome, Duncan Kennedy reports.
Forcing their way through a locked gate, at least 600 illegal migrants burst out of the camp. In the main town centre on Lampedusa, they waved banners and chanted the words "Freedom! Freedom!". The police say it was peaceful though at times tense. The migrants, mostly from Africa, are unhappy with government moves to open a second camp on the island and with conditions in the existing camp. The United Nations described those conditions as unbearable.(www.hxen.net)
Iraqi police and the US military say that American soldiers killed an Iraqi couple and wounded their eight-year-old daughter during a raid against suspected al-Qaeda members. A US military spokesman said troops opened fire and killed Hussein Ali al-Tikriti when he resisted arrest. He was said to have been a general in Saddam Hussein's army.
The former left-wing rebel movement in El Salvador has become the country's largest political party, 17 years after ending its insurgency against an American-backed government. Final results from last Saturday's election give the FMLN 35 seats in the National Assembly against 32 for its conservative rival.
And that brings it to the end of this bulletin of BBC News.
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