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BBC news 2014-07-17

BBC News with Neil Nunes.

The government in Libya has said it's considering asking for international help to end fighting between rival factions which is threatening to destabilize the country. At least one person died and 6 were injured in fighting between rival militia groups at the international airport near the capital Tripoli. The government said the air traffic control tower and other buildings had been destroyed and nearly all the planes on the ground were damaged. Rana Jawad is in Tripoli.

Here in the capital, we've basically seen a power struggle. That's been growing over the years and these groups have grown more powerful and that the fighting that we saw since Sunday is a wider struggle for power and it's a turf for a sanctuary and it's only gotten worse. And the significant shift in tone by the Libyan authorities at the moment is unclear. They may just be using it as a threat you know foreign forces intervening to gain some leverage with the various militias that they haven't been able to control or they may have reached a point where they see this as the only way out of their predicament.

Both Israel and the militant Palestinian group Hamas have said they will consider proposals for a ceasefire in Gaza put forward by Egypt under the plans of truce to end week of violence would come into effect on Tuesday morning. Egypt's foreign minister Sameh Shukri outlined the terms of the ceasefire proposal.

The proposed Egyptian initiative is base on these main elements: an immediate end of all hostile actions and the reopening of Israeli crossings to be followed by the implementation of a ceasefire after all parties have agreed to cease all hostilities.

The new parliament in Iraq is due to reconvene on Tuesday and try to form a new government with the foreign minister of the Kurdish region describing the country as a failed state. Kurdish MPs withdrew from Mr. Maliki's central government after he accused the Kurds of harboring extremists. (Shyama Kali) reports from Kurdistan.

Khalah Mustafabakah had no comments about describing Iraq as a failed state and was quick to blame Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. He said the only way forward was for the country to divide into 3 regions with Kurdistan as an independent state. He said the Kurds now shared bigger borders with the Islamist militant group ISIS than they did with the rest of Iraq. He was adamant whatever the Kurdish leadership was not negotiate with ISIS or what is known as the Islamic state. 

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BBC World News.

The Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon is in Haiti to discuss efforts to alleviate a cholera epidemic that has killed more than 8000 people. The outbreak has been linked to the UN’s own peacekeepers and the organization is facing three lawsuits. The UN has so far not accepted responsibility.

Pope Francis has added its voice for those calling for action to protect and care for tens of thousands of unaccompanied children migrating from central American to the United States. The pope said Central Africa and Mexico needed to inform the public of the dangers of the trip north. Will Grant reports from Mexico City.

As the debate on the issue of unaccompanied child migrants heats up, Pope Francis has now added his voice to those calling for action. Such a humanitarian emergency demand is the first urgent measure that these minors be protected and duly taken in, the Pope said in a letter read by Vatican's envoy to Mexico Christophe Pierre. Pope Francis called for the attention of international community to this challenge and for measures to be taken by the specific countries involved namely central American nations, Mexico and US.”

The United States is to sell Qatar Apache attack helicopters and Patriot and Javelin air defence weapons in a deal worth more than 11 billion dollars. A pentagon spokesman described Washington's relationship with the Gulf state as critically important in the region and the arms deal underscored their partnership. The US has a major airbase in Qatar.

Customs officials in the United States have seized a shipment of 67 live giant African land snails at Los Angeles International Airport. The eatable snails, each weighing nearly a kilo, arrived from Nigeria where they are considered a delicacy. The US bans their importation as they can carry parasites including one that can leads to meningitis.