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BBC news 2013-11-03

BBC News with Jonathan Izard

Pakistan has accused the United States of deliberately sabotaging its efforts to start peace talks with the Pakistani Taliban by killing their top commander in a drone strike. Reports say the militants have buried their leader Hakimullah Mehsud in a secret location in the tribal region of northwest Pakistan. Here is our world affair’s correspondent Rajesh Mirchandani.

When Pakistan’s prime minister Nawaz Sharif visited President Obama in Washington last week, the two leaders spoke of the resilience nature, the relationship between their countries. It’s been severely tested now. Mr. Sharif raised the issue of drone strikes during his visit yet despite Mr. Sharif’s demands for the US to stop using drones soon after he returned home from his visit America struck again and on the eve of dialogue with the Taliban. However pleased the Pakistani government may be that a vicious killer has been removed, it’s tempered by anger over how it was done.

The French foreign ministry has confirmed that two French journalists working for the broadcaster Radio France Internationale had been killed in northern Mali. The bodies of Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon were found after they’re been kidnapped by armed men in the town of Kidal. Mark Doyle reports from Bamako.

The two journalists were seized by four armed men after they’d interviewed a senior regional politician at his house in central Kidal. While informed sources in Kidal said the men bundled the two into a yellow or beige pickup truck as they left house then drove them at speed into the surrounding desert. The journalists’ employers, Radio France Internationale said they were reported to have been killed shortly afterwards on a desert track that leads eastwards out of Kidal. This incident took place in broad daylight very close to a base housing several hundred French soldiers and United Nations peacekeepers.