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BBC World News with John Jason.

Six bomb attacks in Baghdad have killed more than 180 people and injured more than 200. It's the worst day of violence since the American-led security campaign began more than two months ago. The US Defense Secretary Robert Gates described the attacks as horrifying and blamed Al Qaeda. The heaviest loss of life came as a car bomb exploded in a mainly Shiite marketplace, killing at least 140 people. Iraq's ambassador to the United States Samir Sumaidaie described the attacks as desperate acts.
“The dead were not caused by the security plan, but were caused by terrorists and precisely because we were making progress, sectarian violence has come down and the terrorists are bent on reigniting sectarian violence. We are making progress on the ground. People are turning against Al Qaeda."

A United Nations report has accused the Sudanese government of flying weapons and heavy military equipment into the Darfur region in violation of UN Security Council resolutions. Report compiled by five experts says Sudan was using aircraft painted white to transport its weapons to make them look like UN planes. Laura Trevelyan reports from the UN in New York.
Sudan's envoy at the UN dismissed what he called the report's allegations as fabrications and said khartoum wanted an urgent investigation. Sudan has been raising objections to the deployment of a 20,000-strong UN and African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur. But on Monday the government did agree finally to let in 3,000 troops to help back up the overstretched African Union force. However, the US and the UK want to begin discussions on further sanctions against the Sudanese immediately.

The latest developments in the Darfur crisis follow a five-day visit to Sudan by the US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte. He also went to neighboring Chad before discussing the violence in Darfur with officials in Libya.

It's been disclosed the student who shot dead more than thirty people on an American college campus this week apparently stopped firing after killing his first two victims and recorded a video before going on to kill the rest. The student Cho Seung-Hui sent a video message to the American television network NBC on Monday morning from the University in Virginia where he killed thirty two people before committing suicide. From the campus of Virginia Tech, Mike Fry.
Just imagine the sequence of events, he kills two people, he walks perhaps quite calmly to his own hall of residence. There he writes a rambling four-page manifesto which he blames the world for his woes. He then takes some chains and puts some waxes. He then retools his gun, He gets out some more ammunition, and then he assembles his package and walks over to the campus post office, half a mile down the road from here and puts this parcel in the post.

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The UN's nuclear watchdog the IAEA has confirmed in a letter that / Iran has assembled more than 1300 centrifuges at its main nuclear plant and has started the process of enriching Uranium. The Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had previously announced that Iran had installed sufficient centrifuges to start producing nuclear fuel on an industrial scale. But the announcement was met with some skepticism by nuclear analysts. Bethany Bell reports from Vienna where the IAEA is based.
Diplomatic sources have confirmed to the BBC the contents of the confidential IAEA letter to Iranian officials. The document, a letter signed by the IAEA's Director General Olli Heinonen, said the agency took note of the information provided by Iran that it's running more than 1300 centrifuges, the machine is used to spin the gas into enriched Uranium.

A Christian pastor and two of his parishioners have been killed in Turkey in an attack on a religious publishing house. Police in the southeastern city of Malatya found the victims with their hands and feet tied behind their backs and their throats cut. One of the dead was a German citizen. The Turkish Interior Minister Abdulkadir Aksu condemned the attack.
"I really felt a great sorrow after this incident, I condemn this attack no matter what their aims were. We see this as a blow against peace, confidence, stability and tolerance. "

The Paris-based International Energy Agency is predicting that China will become the world's leading emitter of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide before the end of next year. The timescale is much shorter than previous estimates by the agency bringing forward the date when China's emissions would overtake those of the United States by as much as three years. The revised timescale has been brought about by the rapid growth of China's economy and its ever growing need for power.