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BBC news 2012-10-01

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The commander of American forces in Afghanistan General John Allen says he's very angry about the sharp rise in attacks on his troops by their Afghan colleagues. He made his comments in an interview for the CBS 60 Minutes program.

"I'm mad as hell about them, to be honest with you. We're going to go after this. It reverberates everywhere across the United States. We're willing to sacrifice a lot for this campaign, but we're not willing to be murdered for it."

However, General Allen went on to insist that most Afghans supported the western military presence in their country.

General Allen was speaking as international forces in Afghistan investigated the death of another American serviceman. Two thousand US troops have now died since fighting began 11 years ago. A US civilian contractor and three Afghan soldiers were also killed in the incident in Wardak province. The shooting was initially blamed on a rogue Afghan soldier. But an ISAP spokesman Lieutenant General Adrian Bradshaw said that may be wrong.

"What was initially reported to have been a suspected insider attack is now understood possibly to have involved insurgent fire."

An angry crowd has turned on Somalis living in the Kenyan capital Nairobi after a grenade thrown into a Christian Sunday school killed one child and critically wounded several others. Gabriel Gatehouse is in Nairobi.

Retaliation was swift. No group or individual has admitted carrying out the attack. But as Kenyan troops battle Islamist militants in Somalia, this church bombing is blamed almost immediately on al-Shabab. Angers built over into violence as dozens of men attacked a nearby mosque. Police said 13 people were wounded but that order has been restored. The church is near a suburb of Nairobi called Eastleigh, also known as little Mogadishu where the majority of residents are Somali origin.

In Somalia itself, the Minister of Defence says the operation by Kenyan and Somali forces to capture the city of Kismayo is making good progress. He told the BBC that a strategic location has been seized including the port and airport. And the Somali troops were dug in around the city. He says special forces were gathering intelligence inside Kismayo .

A wave of car bombings and shootings across Iraq have killed at least 32 people and wounded more than 100. One of the worst attacks was in the town of Taji where four car bombs exploded in quick succession.  Rami Ruhayem reports from Baghdad.

Across Iraq, car bombs went off as army patrols drove by. And gunmen with silencers attacked army checkpoints. It started in and ROUND bAGHDAD but quickly spread outwards. The northern city of Mosul and the southern city of Kut were hit in addition to Kirkuk which borders the Kurdish region in the north. Civilians were among those killed and injured. But the aim of the attackers seems to have been to kill as many security personnel as possible wherever they could reach them.

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An Islamist group in Syria has published an online vedio which, it says, shows five captured Yemeni officers purportedly sent to Syria to help fight the rebels. The vedio shows indentity cards of the five men, one of whom appears to be a lieutenant colonel. A rights group in Yemen said they were army officers who had been studying at a military academy in Aleppo and whose families reported their missing last month.

Research into the effects of global warming suggests that the size of fish around the world could shrink dramatically over the next few decades. Warmer ocean temperatures could lead to hundreds of types of fish losing up to 1/4 of their body weight. Here's Matt McGrath  .

Although projections of global temperature rises show relatively small changes at the bottom of the oceans, the resulting impacts on fish body size are unexpectedly large, according to this research. As ocean temperatures increase, so do the body temperatures and metabolic rates of the fish. This means they use more oxygen to stay alive. And according to the researchers, they have less available for growth.

A third opposition activist has died in Venezuela following a shooting on Saturday one week before the closest-fought presidential election in a decade. Speaking at a rally in the capital Caracas, the opposition candidate Henrique Capriles demanded justices and called on his supporters to defeat violence. Venezuelan authorities say they've arrested a suspect in connection with the attack in Barinas, the home state of president Hugo Chavez.

The Ryder Cup golf tournament between Europe and United States is heading for a close finish after the European team mounted a spirited fight back on the final day. The holders, Europe, drew level by winning five of the first six matches at the Medinah Country Club outside Chicago. The world No. 1 Rory McIlroy won his match after arriving at the course only ten minutes before he was due to tee off after an apparent mix-up over times zones.

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