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BBC World News with Matthew Axile.

The British Prime Minister Tony Blair has denied that any deal was done with Tehran to secure the freedom of the 15 British naval personnel detained by Iran in the Gulf nearly two weeks ago. When they arrived back in Britain, the 14 men and one woman were taken to a military base to meet friends and family and be debriefed. John David reports.

Mr. Blair's sober analyses of the 13-day diplomatic standoff with Iran contrast with the celebration surrounding the return of the 15 naval personnel. Mr. Blair said while there have been no side agreements or deals with Iran, new channels of communication had opened up. But there should be no misunderstanding about the basis on which they could be used. Mr. Blair said it was naive to believe that the British captives would have been released without a two-track approach, one at a bilateral level, the second the mobilization of international opposition to Iran.

The return of the naval personnel coincided with the deaths in Iraq of four British soldiers and an interpreter in a roadside bombing near Basra. Tony Blair said that while Britain rejoiced at the return of the 15 from Iran, it grieved for the dead soldiers in Iraq.

Police in London have charged three men with conspiracy in connection with the suicide bombings on the city's transport system in July 2005. The three who were arrested two weeks ago are accused of involvement in reconnaissance and planning for the attacks, which killed more than 50 people. Rob Watson reports.

The three men, all from the north of England, are the first to be charged in connection with the 7/7 attacks. The head of Britain's anti-terrorism police, Peter Clark, said he expected there would be further arrests, insisting he knew there were other people out there, who'd been involved. Mr. Clark also alleged witnesses were being intimidated from coming forward, which he said would have to stop.

The Ukrainian Prime Minisiter Viktor Yanukovych has called for international mediation to try to end the political crisis in Ukraine. He said he had asked the Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer to help resolve his dispute with President Yushchenko, who has issued an order disbanding Parliament and calling new elections. Mr.Yanukovych has challenged the president's move in Ukraine's constitutional court, but he said he had no intention of calling for the impeachment of Mr.Yushchenko.
"We are not considering the issue of impeaching him. My point of view is we should not aggravate the situation. We stand only for stabilization and against any attempts at destabilization."

The American investor Kirk Kerkorian has offered 4.5 billion dollars for the troubled Chrysler car firm. Like many big names in the US car industry, Chrysler has been making heavy losses, and its German-American parent company Daimler Chrysler wants to sell it off.

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Scientists and government officials are holding intense negotiations in Brussels ahead of the release tomorrow of a key report on the impact of global warming. The report by the UN intergovernmental panel on climate change is expected to warn of devastating consequences for millions of people, mainly in the poorer parts of the world. From Brussels, Rochard Harrabin reports.

Discussions rambled on in the panel, where government representatives cross-examine scientists to produce a consensus summary of their latest findings. The Delegates from America, India and China are subjecting the signs to particularly rigorous review. It's all highly significant because when this reports finished, it will go to the heads of the G8 plus five biggest developing nations, who will discuss climate change in June. The scarier the conclusion from tomorrow's report, the more pressure to cut pollution.

The New York based group Human Rights Watch says United States officials have been given access by Ethiopia to suspected Islamist militants from Somalia. Hundreds of Islamists fled across the border into Kenya, after Ethiopian forces invaded Somalia in December at the invitation of the transitional government, and ousted the Union of Islamic Courts militia then controlling the south.

Uganda's highest court has ruled that a law allowing married men to commit adultery but not women is unconstitutional. The court has instructed Parliament to change the adultery laws which it says a discriminatory towards women. The Ugandan constitution states that both genders should be treated equally under the law.

And one of the world's most endangered species, the Sumatran Striped rabbit, has been captured on film for only the third time ever. The animal lives only in rainforest on the Indonesian Island of Sumatra, two grainy pictures of the rabbit, which is pale with dark brown stripes and about the size of small cat, were taken by a remote camera installed in the Bukit Barisan National Park.

And that's all the latest World News.