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BBC news 2015-06-15

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Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott has refused to deny reports of border officials paid people smugglers to take boats full of asylum seekers back to Indonesia, and Indonesian police chief reportedly said that Australian officials paid 30,000 dollars to people smugglers to abort their journey. Jon Donnison reports. “When asked about the claims, Tony Albert would need confirm or deny, but said creative strategies were being used to stop asylum seeker boats. He said Australia had been successful of stopping boats by hawk or by craw, adding that he was proud of the county’s border protection authorities. Australian officials reportedly handed over 30,000 dollars to the crew of the boat carrying 65 asylum seekers off Indonesia’s remote Rote island. The Australian government has taken a tough line on asylum seekers and has been largely successful in stopping people reaching Australia shores.”

French prosecutors say a new investigation into the German Wing’s air disaster will decide whether man slaughter charges will be brought. It follows confirmation that several doctors who treated the copilot Andreas Lubitz and judged him unfit to fly. The doctors failed to tell Mr Lubitz's employers because of Germany strict patient confidentiality laws.

The British Prime Minister David Cameron has been warned that he will not be allowed to dismantle the European Union as he attends to renegotiate Britain’s terms of membership. After meetings in Brussels, the Finnish Premier said he was unwilling to enter what he called a carrot sell of treaty negotiations. Ben Wright reports. “Within the EU, there was clearly a desire to keep Britain in the club, but not at any price. There was a crucial summit in Brussels at the end of June where David Cameron will set out his plans in detail. Before that, he is trying to charm, cajole and explain why his new government has embarked down this renegotiation and referendum pass. Today, though, came a sense of the resistance he may face. The Prime Minister of Belgian dismiss the idea national parliaments could be given further details over EU legislation. The President of Romania said the free movement principle was essential.”

Nigeria and four of its neighbors have agreed to set up a joint military force to take on the Islamist militants of Boko Haram. The details were announced by a Nigerian defense spokesman Alio Ismail after leaders of the five countries met in the capital Abuja. “The heads of state and government approve the immediate deployment of the multinational junta task headquarters, giving a chart, by implementing its humans, the logistics and financial requirements.” The BBC’s Nigeria correspondent says the fact that the new Nigerian president Mohammed Buhari called the meeting a short notice is a sign that ending the insurgency is his top priority.

The United States has spent more than 2.5 billion dollars on the war against Islamic States since it began conducting air strikes in Iraq and Syria last August. The Pentagon has been spending more than 9 million dollars a day on the operation. World news from the BBC.

A judge in the United States has ruled that there is enough evidence to charge 2 police officers with shooting dead a 12-year old boy who was holding a replica gun. Temia Rice was killed in November when officers responded to a call saying that a young man was holding a gun in the playground in Ohio. Surveillant photage shows that the child reaching for the fake weapon and then been shot by one of the police.

The first ever European games get underway today in the capital of Azerbaijan Baku. The decision to award the in all group games to Azerbaijan, the only bidder, has been heavily criticized because of its poor human rights record. Campaigners say a number of foreign journalists have been prevented from attending the games. Our correspondent Rayhan Demytrie says the game has brought more international focus on Azerbaijan’s record. “In the past year, there’s been an uNPRecedented crackdown on human rights. Just give you a comparison. Three years ago, they’ve been hosting the Eurovision Song Contest, and back then civil society was quite active as they’ve been holding, also event just attracted attention to human rights. So this year, all of those people, human rights activist, journalist, lawyers, they are in jail.”

Brazilian Police say they’ve broken up an international criminal network accused of invading foreign exchange tariffs and laundering more than 800 million dollars. 11 people were detained, among them a former vice president of the state owned bank of Brazil. The police said the money was laundered in countries including Japan, Britain and Hong Kong. One of the elaborate schemes involve making illegal withdraws of cash in Venezuela in order to pay for fake tissues imports from Brazil.

One of wrestling’s most colorful stars Dusty Rhodes who called himself the American dream has died at the age of 69. Rohdes, whose real name was Virgil Rilley Runnels, had a long and glittering career which began in the late 1960s. And he was world heavy weight champions three times in one of the sport’s best known contests. That’s the latest BBC news.