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BBC World News with John Jason.
The Pakistani government says it's ordered a group of Islamist students at the Red Mosque in Islamabad to surrender their weapons. A curfew has been imposed at the mosque compound where officials say ten people have been killed during a day of violence between the students and Pakistani security forces. Barbara. Pleb. reports from Islamabad.
The trouble began when security forces tried to move a barricade up to the Mosque. The students responded and the skirmish rapidly escalated into gun battles. Students also set fire to a government building and stoned other offices. The government, until now, has been reluctant to storm the mosque even though the young vigilantes there have grown increasingly brazen in trying to impose their own brand of Islamic law. The authorities say they've been afraid of casualties among female students, afraid, too, that there are suicide bombers inside.
It's now become clear that all the people arrested in connection with the attempted car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow were working or had worked in Britain’s National Health Service. Most were doctors or medical students. All in all, eight people have been detained, seven in Britain and one, an Indian national in Australia. Those being held in Britain come from the Middle East and include an Iraqi and a Jordanian. Here is our defense and security correspondent Rob Watson.
That so many people are now in custody is largely thanks to the mobile phones found in the two cars in London that failed to explode. Although the police believe those responsible for planting those bombs are among those now in custody, nobody has yet been charged. There’s no doubt the investigation has made much progress, but these are still early days. The suspects are still being questioned and the security services are still piecing together their connections both internationally and in Britain.
The Brazilian authorities have freed more than a thousand people, held as slaves, on a sugarcane plantation in a remote area of the northern state of Para. A government inspector said the workers had been kept in degrading conditions without access to bathing facilities or anywhere to safely store food. He said the slaves slept in overcrowded and substandard accommodation.
Reports from Zimbabwe say shoppers have emptied supermarkets' food and basic goods after police started enforcing a government order for retailers to cut the cost of products by half. Corn meal, cooking oil, sugar, bread and milk are said to have virtually disappeared from stores. Our Southern Africa correspondent Peter Grester reports.
Across the country, there are reports that stores have been emptied of stock thanks largely to the government's order to halve prices. But shopkeepers and industries have been refusing to sell stock at a loss while anyone who can afford it has been hoarding whatever they can buy. But the government is still intent on enforcing the orders. Security forces have been raiding shops and arresting anyone violating the directive and Vice president Joseph Msika has said that the state will seize their businesses.
World news from the BBC.
President Bush has refused to rule out an eventual pardon for Lewis Scooter Libby. The White House say he was convicted of lying and obstructing inquiry into the leaking of the name of a CIA agent Valerie Plame. On Monday President Bush commuted Mr. Libby’s two-and-a-half-year sentence hours after a court turned down his appeal and ruled that he should go to prison immediately. Mrs. Plame’s husband, A former ambassador, Joe Wilson who has doubts about evidence used to justify the Iraq war were allegedly the reason behind the leak, said that Mr. Bush had undermined the basic principles of US justice.
“I believe / the President has utterly subverted the rule of law and the system of justice that has undergirded this country of ours for the past 220 years. I couldn’t give a rat’s patootie about the fate of Scooter Libby other than he was convicted by a jury of his peers. That sentence was reaffirmed by Court of Appeals yesterday. What I care about is the President of the United States has short-circuited our system of justice.
The Venezuelan president Hugo Chaves has warned the Brazilian and Paraguayan Parliaments that Venezuela will withdraw its request to join the South American Trading Bloc Mercosur unless they approve his country’s membership within the next three months. The move comes after President Chaves called the Brazilian parliament a parrot of Washington for criticizing a decision by him last month not to renew an opposition television channel’s license to broadcast. Brazil has called for President Chaves to apologize for the comments, something he has so far refused to do.
A collection of letters from some of the most famous names of the past five hundred years has been sold for more than seven million dollars by Christies in London. Among them was a love letter from Napoleon to his future wife Josephine apologizing for a furious row with her. It fetched more than half a million dollars five times the presale estimate. Another was from the English scientist Isaac Newton discussing gravity and the structure of the universe.
BBC World News.
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BBC World News with John Jason.
The Pakistani government says it's ordered a group of Islamist students at the Red Mosque in Islamabad to surrender their weapons. A curfew has been imposed at the mosque compound where officials say ten people have been killed during a day of violence between the students and Pakistani security forces. Barbara. Pleb. reports from Islamabad.
The trouble began when security forces tried to move a barricade up to the Mosque. The students responded and the skirmish rapidly escalated into gun battles. Students also set fire to a government building and stoned other offices. The government, until now, has been reluctant to storm the mosque even though the young vigilantes there have grown increasingly brazen in trying to impose their own brand of Islamic law. The authorities say they've been afraid of casualties among female students, afraid, too, that there are suicide bombers inside.
It's now become clear that all the people arrested in connection with the attempted car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow were working or had worked in Britain’s National Health Service. Most were doctors or medical students. All in all, eight people have been detained, seven in Britain and one, an Indian national in Australia. Those being held in Britain come from the Middle East and include an Iraqi and a Jordanian. Here is our defense and security correspondent Rob Watson.
That so many people are now in custody is largely thanks to the mobile phones found in the two cars in London that failed to explode. Although the police believe those responsible for planting those bombs are among those now in custody, nobody has yet been charged. There’s no doubt the investigation has made much progress, but these are still early days. The suspects are still being questioned and the security services are still piecing together their connections both internationally and in Britain.
The Brazilian authorities have freed more than a thousand people, held as slaves, on a sugarcane plantation in a remote area of the northern state of Para. A government inspector said the workers had been kept in degrading conditions without access to bathing facilities or anywhere to safely store food. He said the slaves slept in overcrowded and substandard accommodation.
Reports from Zimbabwe say shoppers have emptied supermarkets' food and basic goods after police started enforcing a government order for retailers to cut the cost of products by half. Corn meal, cooking oil, sugar, bread and milk are said to have virtually disappeared from stores. Our Southern Africa correspondent Peter Grester reports.
Across the country, there are reports that stores have been emptied of stock thanks largely to the government's order to halve prices. But shopkeepers and industries have been refusing to sell stock at a loss while anyone who can afford it has been hoarding whatever they can buy. But the government is still intent on enforcing the orders. Security forces have been raiding shops and arresting anyone violating the directive and Vice president Joseph Msika has said that the state will seize their businesses.
World news from the BBC.
President Bush has refused to rule out an eventual pardon for Lewis Scooter Libby. The White House say he was convicted of lying and obstructing inquiry into the leaking of the name of a CIA agent Valerie Plame. On Monday President Bush commuted Mr. Libby’s two-and-a-half-year sentence hours after a court turned down his appeal and ruled that he should go to prison immediately. Mrs. Plame’s husband, A former ambassador, Joe Wilson who has doubts about evidence used to justify the Iraq war were allegedly the reason behind the leak, said that Mr. Bush had undermined the basic principles of US justice.
“I believe / the President has utterly subverted the rule of law and the system of justice that has undergirded this country of ours for the past 220 years. I couldn’t give a rat’s patootie about the fate of Scooter Libby other than he was convicted by a jury of his peers. That sentence was reaffirmed by Court of Appeals yesterday. What I care about is the President of the United States has short-circuited our system of justice.
The Venezuelan president Hugo Chaves has warned the Brazilian and Paraguayan Parliaments that Venezuela will withdraw its request to join the South American Trading Bloc Mercosur unless they approve his country’s membership within the next three months. The move comes after President Chaves called the Brazilian parliament a parrot of Washington for criticizing a decision by him last month not to renew an opposition television channel’s license to broadcast. Brazil has called for President Chaves to apologize for the comments, something he has so far refused to do.
A collection of letters from some of the most famous names of the past five hundred years has been sold for more than seven million dollars by Christies in London. Among them was a love letter from Napoleon to his future wife Josephine apologizing for a furious row with her. It fetched more than half a million dollars five times the presale estimate. Another was from the English scientist Isaac Newton discussing gravity and the structure of the universe.
BBC World News.
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