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BBC news 2012-10-08

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The Libyan prime minister has been forced to step down after parliament rejected his second and final attempt to form a cabinet. Mustafa Abu Shagur was Libya’s first elected prime minister after the overthrow and killing of Mouammar Gadaffi last year. Rana Jawad reports from Tripoli.

In the end, it was the loss of the hands of the assembly that voted Dr. Abu Shagur as prime minister last month. His second and latest propose for nomination of his cabinet earned for no confidence vote from 125 members of the 200 member congress. Libya’s short left prime minister elected, Mr. Abu Shagur proposed an emergency cabinet list with a small number of ministries. He described the country as facing dangerous challenges. The latest events are likely to be seen by some as the result of party politics overshadowing the country’s need for a government to move it forward.

People in Venezuela are voting in a most hotly contested presidential election since President Hugo Chaves came to power 14 years ago. Mr. Chavez is seeking another 6-year-term to continue what he calls a socialist revolution. His main rival, Henrique Capriles, is backed by a broad coalition of opposition parties. Sara Granger is in the capital Caracas.

We went out this morning to polling stations and saw thousands of people waiting to vote and that some indications of how supporters on both sides feel it very important to go and have their say and made their decision. Because I think for the first time many people in the opposition feel as if they have a real chance of winning, a real chance of challenging Hugo Chaves and of course Chaves has many strong supporters who will felt it very important to try to maintain their president in power. So a lot, thanks to everybody, and overseeing that means much more likely there will be a high turnout.

The Turkish ministry has responded with artillery fire after a Syrian shell landed about 200m inside Turkey near a border village where 5 civilians were killed on Wednesday. Our correspondent James Reynolds visited Akcakale where the blast took place.

We’ve got a pattern in the last few days，5 straight days in a row. There’ve been mortars landing from Syria, of course one on Wednesday killed a family of 5. Since then they’ve landed in waste land or outside villages. But turkey decided that no matter irresponsible of its own artillery fire, that seemed to be the pattern of the mode. Motors coming on way artillery fire the other way. It doesn’t seem to be escalating beyond that, but I can’t stay in the town of Akcakale. There is extreme amount of tension and anger. I saw a Turkish armed vehicle facing the Syrian border. There were armed police chief driving around the town. To those people in that town in Turkey, this does fell like a frontline.

A car bomb has exploded near a police headquarters in the Syrian capital Damascus. At least one person was killed, several others were injured. Syrian State Television described the blast as a terrorist attack.

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The Pakistani politician Imran Khan has denounced the government’s role in failing to stop America’s drone attack in the country’s tribal areas. Speaking to thousands of his supporters in northwest Pakistan, Mr. Khan says the CIA’s drone campaign had killed hundreds of civilians and boosted Taliban militancy.

The Russian President Vladimir Putin has defended the 2-year prison sentences handed down to the members of the Punk band Pussy Riot. Mr. Putin spoke during a TV documentary screen on his 60th birthday. From Moscow, Daniel Sandrial reports.

The documentary was shown on NTV, the pro-Putin television channel owned by the state gas company Gazprom. It was mostly made up of a rare behind the scenes footage of president in his swimming pool, eating breakfast and riding in his official limousine. One of the interviews was conducted in mid-air on the gleaming wood paneled presidential jet. Vladimir Putin was asked about the jailing for 2 years of 3 women from the Punk group Pussy Riot. He said they wanted it and they got it and said the court had made the right decision.

A famous painting by the artist Mark Rothco has been defaced in an incident at … modern art gallery in London. A spokeswoman said a visitor applied a small amount of black pate to one of Rothco’s seagram murals. Rothco, a modernist born in Russia, is one of America’s most important post-war painters.

Football fans in Gaza have defied an order by the militant group Hamas not to watch the latest clash between 2 of the world’s finest football team, the Spanish giants Barcelona and Real Madrid. Hamas was angry that the match would be attended by Gilad Shalit, a former Israeli soldier held hostage by Hamas for five years before his release in a prisoner swap last year. But Spanish football is hugely popular in Gaza, and many thousands of fans watched the game as usual live on TV.