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BBC news 2014-07-13

The BBC World Service, the world’s radio station.

Welcome to assignment on the BBC World Service with me Yond Hakim. This week we had a journalist undercover in the Boko Haram's stronghold of northeast Nigeria in the city of Maiduguri. “Whoever is working as a journalist in Maiduguri is taking a great deal of risk. It’s difficult to get there. The airport has been closed since December last year and there’s virtually only one road that leads to Maiduguri. You don’t know when or where you’ll be blocked by Boko Haram's soldiers. And once they block you, they have no mercy. They’ll slaughter you like a sheep.” We also hear allegations of unjustified detention and brutality by Nigeria security forces.

There’re no reports of Israeli fatalities. From Gaza, here is Yoland Knell. “The streets now in Gaza city are completely empty. Nobody at all is out on the street. It has been a very noisy night here, a lot of shelling by naval forces. Israeli military says that it hit more than 100 targets since midnight local time. In that time as well, it says there were 5 rockets that hit Israel fired by militants in Gaza and further 7 they were intercepted by its Iron Dome defense system. Of course here at the moment, there’s a lot of concern about the increasing number of civilians killed.” United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned that the situation in Gaza could quickly get out of control. He is due to brief an emergency meeting with the UN Security Council on the crisis later today.

Iraq has warned the Unite Nations that Sunni militants have seized nuclear materials used by scientists in the city of Mosul. Nick Bryant reports. “The nuclear materials were seized at Mosul university by ISIS rebels according to a letter sent to Ban Ki-moon by Iraqi’s UN ambassador. Some 40 kilograms of uranium compounds were taken which we being used for scientific research. The letter warned that despite the limited men involved, the material could be used in the manufacture of weapons of mass destruction and enable, what it calls, terrorist groups with sufficient expertise to deploy them either separately or in combination with other materials to carry out attacks.”

The Indian government has promised to bring back higher growth to the world’s third largest economy, saying Indians were exasperated after two years of economic slowdown. It’s the first budget since the Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a landslide victory two months ago. From deli, Sanjoy Majumder reports. “Presenting as a maiden budget, India’s new Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said his government had inherited a challenging situation and needed to cut spending while taken steps to revive economic growth. Mr. Jaitley raised caps on foreign investment in key sectors, such as defense and insurance. He also announced increase spending on building India’s infrastructure, including roads, ports, power generation and gas pipelines. But in the move showed to disappoint millions of middle class voters, the Finance Minster said there would be no change in personal income tax rates.