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BBC news 2014-08-20

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Police in the US state Missouri has shot dead a young black man days after the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by police in Ferguson triggered violent unrest. The shooting took place close to where Michael Brown were killed 10 days ago. Here is Vergini Viginardon.

Police said officers were responding to a radio call in the St. Louis suburb when met with a suspect armed with knife. He was yearling and agitating and threatening, saying shoot me, kill me now. After the verbal command has failed, and when the suspect came within six feet of the officers, they opened fire. The victim who died in the scene has yet to be named. The police believed he was an African American man in his twenties. The identify of the officer is also yet to be released.

The Israeli air force has carried out strike against Gaza after three rockets were fired from there into Israel. The strike which reportedly killed a child and a woman came out before the latest ceasefire was due to end. Late on Monday Israeli and Palestinian delegates agreed to extend a five days truce in Gaza by 24 hours. Israel says its delegation has now been ordered home. The Israeli government spokesman Mark Regette accused Hamas of violating the agreement.

Today rockets' attack on the Israeli city of Beersheba is a grave and direct violation of the ceasefire that Hamas committed to. This is eleventh Hamas either rejected or violated. And it's clear that the ceasefire has to be a two-way straight. It's just Israel has to hold its fire. Hamas must hold its fire too.

Thousands of protestors have marched on Parliament in Pakistan, demanding the resignation of the Prime Minister Namath Shrive. They broke into barricade and entered the high security red zone in the capital Islamabad where troops have been deployed. The protestors are from two opposition groups in Pakistan led by the former Cricker star in Rancom and a cleric Tarherra Okadry.

Kurdish PeshMerga fighters in northern are in control of a strategic Mershal dam after a two-day battle to recapture it from Islamist State militants. Further south Iraqi government troops and militias began offensive to retake the town of Decrit. The BBC Jim Mirra is at Mershal dam.

Although the Peshmerga now fully controlled the dam, the scene is not so well tranquil, from not far away, the sounds of a combat. So with the fighting still so close to the dam, the campaign is clearly far from over. The Peshmerga with help from a few Iraqi special forces and American air strikes intend to push further west. But as the Iraqi government efforts further south to Tikrit is a slow and dangerous business, the ISIS fighters put up strong resistance and plant many roadside bombs.

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Air France says some of its flight crew are refusing to board planes bound for west African countries hit by the Ebola outbreak. The airlines fly regularly to Guinea, Nigeria and Serra Leone. The captain crew have been given the choice whether to fly. One of the union is calling for an immediate end to all fights to the countries affected by the disease. British airways and Emirates have suspended flights to the region. Ebola has so far killed more than 1,200 people in West Africa the worst ever recorded outbreak.

One of Britain's biggest banks Stander Charter has been fined $301 million by NewYork Banking Regulator for inadequate controls of money laundering. The regulator says the bank had failed to detect to acts of a large of transactions that could be high risk. Michelle Fleury reports from NewYork.

This is the second penalty the Stander Charter has paid to the NewYork department of financial service. Both are related to trade with country's black money with the United States. The British Bank says it puts working to fix this problem with the utmost urgency. As part of a settlement in 2012, an independent monitor was appointed to watch over its international dealings. That surveillance uncovered failings to identify risky transactions that could be part of money laundering. Michelle Fleury.

The Venezuelan authority say they have arrested 16 people and seized hundreds of tons of food and petrol since they launched an anti-smuggling operation on the border with neighboring Columbia. A week ago Venezuela deployed thousands of troops along the frontier and began closing all the crossing at night. The authorities said that before the restriction, up to 40% of goods in Venezuela subsidized for its domestic market were being smuggled into Columbia to be sold at much higher prices. The operation is due to end in mid September.

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