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BBC news 2012-09-16

BBC news with Iain Purdon.

Egypt has urged the United States to take steps to prevent any repeat of the offense caused by an internet film which mocked Islam sparking protest across the Arab world and beyond. The Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Kandil told the BBC that millions of people have been insulted and measures should be taken to prevent further incidents.

We need to work out something around this because you cannot be, you cannot wait and to see this happen again. You know these are small group number of people that they (are) doing irresponsible work, and then everybody is paying the price for these people's work. And we have to do whatever takes to stop this thing from happening again.

Sudan has rejected a request from the United States to allow a unit of American marines onto its territory to boost the security at the US embassy in Khartoum. Sudanese foreign minister told the state news agency that Sudan was capable of protecting all diplomatic missions itself. On Friday, crowds of people angered by the American made anti-Islam film attacked the embassies of Germany and Britain in Khartoum and forced their way onto the compound of the American embassy.

The security forces in South Sudan are investigating how they accidently shot at one of its own military vessels on the River Nile sinking it leaving at least ten soldiers dead. A spokesman for the South Sudanese army Colonel Philip Aguer said that the boat had travelled past a checkpoint at night. It failed to respond to a request to stop and was then fired on.

A South African bishop, Jo Seoka who has been mediating in the pay dispute of the Marikana mine, has told the BBC police tactics used on Saturday may make the situation worse. Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas canisters to disperse groups of strikers after officers raided hostels to search for weapons. The Anglican Bishop of Victoria says he is concerned the government tough response to striking workers may  spark an industrial revolt across the country's platinum mining region.

The workers are now angry. They have been provoked and they had no intention of being violent. They will commit to negotiations and therefore one can expect worse things to come.

A newspaper in the Republic of Ireland has reprinted topless photographs of the Duchess of Cambridge, wife of Prince Williams who is second in line to the British throne. The pictures were taken without her knowledge while she was on holiday in France. The spokeswoman for the British royal family said the Irish Daily Star could have no motivation for this action other than greed. The newspaper's part owner said they were severing  ties with the paper. And the editor which says it won't be publishing the photos in Britain is Garrote Morgan.

I have never seen a more canton droid case of breach of privacy in my entire life. It is ridiculous for the thing to publish these. I'm exasperated.

World news from the BBC.

Crowds of people in Spain and Portugal have taken part in big demonstrations against government austerity measures. Tens of thousands of people streamed through Madrid to protest against cuts they say are hurting Spaniards on modest incomes while sparing the wealthy. These participants in the rally led by two main unions accused the Spanish government of introducing cuts for mainly on the middle or lower classes while sparing the wealthy.

They are against what they are doing. The Spanish Prime Minister managed to do what no one has done before. He managed to unite Spain against him of course. 

The ethos are taken is in a downward spiral. There are no jobs. There is no industry here.

Tens of thousands of protesters have marched through the Russian capital Moscow in the first big opposition rally against President Putin for three months. They shouted anti-Putin slogans and demanded freedom for three women from the punk band Pussy Riot who were jailed in August for mocking the President in a song performed at Moscow's main cathedral. From Moscow, Daniel Sandford reports.

"Russia without Putin," they shouted, "and free our political prisoners". This is now the sixth huge march in Moscow in less than a year. The protests started after the parliamentary elections last December which were widely seen as fraudulent. There were fewer people on this march than the hundreds thousands also seen on the biggest ones. But the numbers were still significant.

The governing coalition in Ethiopia has elected the country's acting Prime Minister as its leader. Hailemariam Desalegn is now the chairman of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front. He was a deputy Prime Minister to Meles Zenawi who was Prime Minister for 21 years until his death last month.

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