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BBC news 2015-08-06

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In a rare clash between the executive and the judiciary, the German Justice Minister has sacked the country's top prosecutor Harald Range over a controversial treason case. Rister Booker has the details. “The dispute between the government and Mr. Harald focuses on a blog called Netzpolitik which is alleged to have committed treason by publishing state secrets. This involves allegations about plans to step up the surveillance of online communications. Earlier in the day, Mr. Harald said he had been ordered to withdraw an independent expert who was due to decide if the documents were state secrets. He described this as intolerable. But the Justice Minister rejected this and said the prosecutor could no longer be trusted with his office.”

The security forces in South Sudan have shut down a radio station and a newspaper that supported a plan to end the country's civil war. The authorities forced Free voice South Sudan to go off air on Tuesday a day after closing the Citizen newspaper. International mediators have given President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar until mid-August to sign a peace agreement. President Obama accused the two men of squandering good will for the world's youngest nation.

A police helicopter has crashed in a remote jungle area of northwest Colombia killing 16 officers. They were involved in an operation to try to arrest one of the leaders of the Clan Usuga, a drug gang that operates in the region. Our America’s editor Leonardo Rocha has the details. “The area of dense forest for the crash took place known as Uraba Antioquia is a high doubt for Colombia's leftwing rebels and criminal gangs. When the crash was reported on Colombian media, rumors of an attack began to circulate. But the Colombian Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas told the report that the Black Hawk helicopter had probably crashed against a side of a mountain possibly due to low cloud cover.”

The US government says it is not considering a bailout program for Puerto Rico which missed a debt payment on Monday raising fears that the island won't be able to keep paying its creditors. The island, which is an American territory, has debts amounting to 72 billion dollars. A White House spokesman Josh Earnest gave this statement. "We believe Puerto Rico needs an orderly process to restructure its unsustainable liabilities. Unfortunately, Puerto Rico's significant financial challenges didn't begin overnight and this latest development set against the backdrop of ongoing broader economic challenges across the island."

The authorities in North Korea have released a video of a Canadian preacher in which he confesses committing crimes against the state. Reverend Hyeon Soo Lim was arrested in Pyongyang in February when on a regular visit to the country where he has helped to set up an orphanage. The film shows him apparently reading a script admitting defaming North Korea. World news from the BBC.

The Israeli authorities have for the first time placed a Jewish suspect in administrative detention in a fact jailing him without trial. They said Mordechai Meyer, an Israeli settler, was detained because of his involvement in violent activities and recent terrorist attacks. Administrative detention is normally applied to Palestinians. The move follows the death of an 18-month-old Palestinian child in an arson attack blamed on hard line Jewish nationalists.

There are reports that at least five American trained Syrian rebels have been captured by a rival group the al-Nusra Front which is linked to Al Qaeda. Al-Nusra was quoted as saying that its captives were from a US backed organization known as Division 30. It is the second time in a week that al-Nusra Front has made such a claim.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese in the American state of Milwaukee has agreed to pay 21 million dollars to more than 300 victims of sexual abuse by clergy. The settlement is designed to end a bankruptcy proceeding that’s lasted four years. And lawyer for some of the victims accused the church of treating the abused survivors harshly using tough legal tactics. 

Scientists in the United States say they have solved the riddle of why a large number of precariously balanced rocks located near the San Andreas fault line in California have never been toppled by earthquakes. Johansson Web explains. “Seismologists have cataloged the rocks in detail measuring how long they have stood and how much shaking would tip them over. They found that the rock stacks, some of which have balanced for 18000 years, must have withstood multiple major quakes. By modeling how this could have happened, the team produced a new description of how the San Andreas interacts with the neighboring San Jacinto fault. This interaction can cause quakes to peter out or to jump from one fault to the other.” BBC news.