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BBC news 2012-07-26

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Clashes have continued throughout the day in Syria's second city Aleppo with more government and rebel forces on the way there. The rebels said thousands of government soldiers with tanks were heading to Aleppo from Idlib to try to oust opposition fighters. As the violence continues, Turkey has closed its border with Syria, but refugees will still be allowed to cross. Wyre Davies reports from Killis.

Here at one of Turkey's main border crossing to Syria, there's a growing sense of anxiety and foreboding at the increasing violence inside Syria. Turkey, once a close ally of Bashar al-Assad, has made it clear it can no longer support the leader who is prepared to kill his own people in such large numbers. Today, Turkey also formally closed all of its borders with Syria. Refugees will still be allowed into the numerous camps in Turkey. Today, one woman told me how she and her young daughter had escaped the aerial bombardment in Aleppo. There was so much bombing that people had to leave the dead where they fell, she said.

The US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has told members of Congress that he passed on his concerns about the possible manipulation of the key inter-bank lending rate to the British authorities more than four years ago. The revelation comes after Barclays Bank was fined more than $450m for attempting to fix the rate in its favor .

"We did the important and fully appropriate thing, which is to bring the attention not just to the people in Washington, but to the British, of the, not just the reports and the concerns that were broadly built on the market and the public domain, but also of the range of problems in the way this rate was designed that created that vulnerability. And so we gave, we brought those concerns to their attention and we felt – and I still believe this – that it was really gonna be on them to take responsibility for fixing this."

The North Korean woman's football team have walked off the pitch in their opening match of the London Olympics after the flag of South Korea was mistakenly displayed alongside players' names on a screen. The Olympic organizers have apologized and the match in the Scottish city of Glasgow is now underway. Lorna Gordon reports.

The flag faux pas happened shortly before the game was due to start. As the North Korean players were being introduced, a South Korean flag was displayed beside their names on a big screen in the stadium. The match against Colombia was delayed after the team walked off the pitch in protest. They were persuaded to return when the sides were announced again – this time with the North Korean flag correctly displayed alongside each player's face.

The head of the world Anti Doping Agency, David Howman, has said he believes as many as one in ten athletes of the Olympic Games could be drug cheats. Mr Howman's comments come on the day that the Moroccan middle-distance runner, Mariem Selsouli, has tested positive for a banned diuretic. She had been a favorite for the women's 1,500m gold medal. The athletes governing body has provisionally banned her from the London Olympics. Anti-doping investigations of the London Games will be the most vigorous in Olympic history.

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Heavy fighting is taking place around the eastern Congolese town of Goma. A BBC correspondent in the town says United Nations helicopter gunships are attacking rebels of the M23 movement, which the UN says has Rwandan support. Thousands of civilians are fleeing the fighting to seek sanctuary in Goma or around nearby UN bases.

A senior American official has warned that the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, could be prosecuted for war crimes because of his country's support for rebels fighting in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Stephen Rapp, who is head of the US Office of Global Criminal Justice, said President Kagame could be tried at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for aiding and abetting rebels. A recent United Nations report on the conflict in the eastern Congo accused Rwanda of providing rebel groups with weapons, ammunition and support.

The French car maker, Peugeot, has reported the loss of almost $993m. On the same day, the government announced a support plan for the country's auto industry. Peugeot is in the process of cutting 8,000 jobs. The chairman of Peugeot Citroen, Philippe Varin, said the results were affected by the economic situation in the west of Europe.

"Well, we have released our semester results. These results clearly are not good. And this is largely explained by the new situation on the European market. This new situation is a long-term one, and you know, it has led to a 25% decrease over five years on our markets. And even more so for us who are exposed to the South European market."

Venezuela has handed over a man accused of being a leading drug lord to the Colombian authorities. Diego Perez Henao was arrested in Venezuela last month. Colombian officials say he heads Los Rastrojos, a gang that's grown quickly in the country in recent years, exporting cocaine to the United States via Mexico. He was captured as he was trying to escape by speedboat on the river Masparro which borders his ranch .

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