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BBC news 2014-05-05

BBC News with Julie Candler.

The Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has spoken publicly for the first time about the abduction of more than 200 school girls in the northeast of the country three weeks ago. Mr. Jonathan promised to secure the release of those still held. From Abuja the head of the BBC's Hausa Service Mansur Liman has this assessment. “The president has not given any detail on what the government is doing. He said the government is doing its best and will continue to do its best. He said that the government has used aircrafts and helicopters in order to locate where these girls are, but they were not able to locate where they are. So, this is the problem now, I think Nigerians while looking before the broadcast to hear something new, whether there is a new operation or anything else but there isn't anything in the broadcast to suggest that the government is going to do something even more than what it has done before.”

South Sudanese government forces say they've captured the important rebel base of Nasir and fighting for control of the oil town of Bentiu in a big operation launched on Sunday. The offensive comes two days after South Sudan's President Salva Kiir told the American Secretary of State that he was prepared to hold direct peace talks with the rebel leader Riek Machar. Alastair Leithead reports from Bentiu. “The government troops fired into the bush to protect from ambush as they drove past the main entrance of the UN compound on the northern outskirts of Bentiu city. At the front came armed vehicles, then four by fours carrying heavy weapons. Then hundreds of men marched toward the city, which’s been held by the rebels for two weeks. When the rebels took the town, hundreds of people were massacred, many of them civilians because of which tribe they were from. The theory is the government troops and the militias supporting them will now want to revenge.”

At least three people have been killed and more than 60 wounded in two bomb attacks on buses in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. This report by Gladish en Jarogy. “One of the explosions occurred on a public service bus, the second explosion took place near the largest shopping mall in the area. Television images are showing a large red passenger bus with a large hole ripped out of its side, and a green bus with its roof inside buckles by the explosion. It's one month since the Kenyan government launched a security operation following a series of attacks and threats from al-Shabab militants who claimed responsibility for the Westgate shopping mall attack, which claimed over 60 lives in September last year.”

Ukrainian prosecutors say they did not authorize the release of more than 60 detainees freed in the city of Odessa after hundreds of pro-Russian activists attacked the police station. The prosecutor said the police had shown a blatant disregard for their duties. The city has been tense since Friday when more than 40 people died in clashes between rival demonstrators and ensuring fire with the Trade Union building.

World News from the BBC. In Northern Ireland, the leader of the nationalist Sinn Fein party Gerry Adams has been released from custody after several days of questioning in connection with a murder committed more than 40 years ago. He told a news conference in Belfast that he was innocent of any involvement in the abduction and murder of Jean McConville. “Let me be very clear, I'm innocent of any involvement in any conspiracy to abduct, kill or bury Ms. McConville. I have worked hard with others to have this injustice redressed and for the return of the bodies of others killed during the conflict and secretly buried by the IRA. And I'll continue to do so.” The arrest of Mr. Adams has strained sectarian relations in the province 17 years after a peace deal brought an end to most of the violence between the Protestant and Roman Catholic communities.

Syrian activists say clashes are continuing in the north of the country between two Islamist rebel factions. More than 60,000 people have fled their homes in recent days to escape fighting between the Nusra Front and a second al-Qaeda linked group, ISIS, which has been forced out of some parts of the city of Deir ez-Zor.

Police in Belgium have used water cannon to disperse a crowd, which have gathered in the capital Brussels in defiance of a ban on an anti-Semitic rally. The event, organized by a small right-wing group, also has been addressed by the controversial French comedian, Dieudonne, whose trademark gesture the Quenelle has been likened to a reverse Nazi salute. Several hundreds of people gathered in the suburb of Anderlecht in defiance of the ban.

Nine performers have been seriously injured during an act of circus in the US State of Rhode Island. An eyewitness said eight acrobats fell from a height of about eight meters when the aerial platform supporting them suddenly collapsed. A dancer on the ground was also hurt. A spokesman said 11 people in total have been taken to hospital. BBC News.