BBC news 2013-05-13 加文本

BBC news 2013-05-13

BBC News with Julie Candler

The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the deadly bombing of a Turkish border town on Saturday was intended to drag his country into the fighting in Syria. He told supporters that Turkey had to remain level-headed. Syria has denied being behind the two car bomb attacks in Reyhanli which killed 46 people. From Turkey, Wyre Davies.

A protest, tonight, in the Turkish city of Hardy calling on Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to resign over the car bomb attacks in Reyhanli. The Prime Minister is under pressure from his political opponents who say his support for those fighting the Assad's regime is dragging Turkey into Syria's conflict. The people of Reyhanli today began burying the 46 dead. Men, women and children were laid to rest, mostly local Turks but some Syiran refugees as well. The two car bombs ripped the heart at this market town which has absorbed thousands of refugees from across the border.

President Obama has praised Pakistan's election hailing, what he called, the historic transfer of civilian power. Without naming Nawaz Sharif, who said to become the Prime Minister, Mr Obama said the United States would work with the new Pakistani government as an equal partner. From Washington Jane O'Brien reports.

The US-Pakistan relationship has become increasingly troubled over the last few years, exacerbated by the war in Afghanistan, the rise of Islamic extreme