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BBC World News with Mike Cooper.
The Pakistani army says it's completing its operation to clear the Red Mosque in Islamabad of Islamist radicals and hopes to wind up by morning. During a day of heavy fighting, the leader of the militants, Abdul Rashid Ghazi, was one of at least fifty radicals killed as soldiers worked through the mosque room by room. A military spokesman, Major General Waheed Arshad, said the battle was continuing. “The objective of this operation is to clear the madrasah complex of all militants. The operation is still ongoing, It's not ended as yet. As far as hard-core militant is concerned, any militant who handles weapons and is fighting on the security forces is a militant and will be taken to task. There is no solid definition of a hard core militant and a soft core militant.”
President Bush has rejected calls to start withdrawing American troops from Iraq, saying that commanders must be given the chance to fully implement the military surge in Baghdad. The Senate is expected to begin voting soon on amendments to the military budget which could force cuts in American troop numbers. But the Republican Senator John McCain said the troop surge was slowly starting to produce results. “Make no mistake, violence in Baghdad remains at unacceptably high levels. Suicide bombers and other threats pose formidable challenges and other difficulties abound. Nevertheless, there appears to be overall movement in the right direction.”
Police in Baghdad say two Iraqis and one Filipino have been killed in an attack on the heavily fortified Green Zone which houses the Iraqi Parliament and a number of embassies and government buildings. The police say as many as thirty mortars and rockets were fired into the area. It's not known who the attackers were.
Police in London are launching a campaign against the growing practice of female genital mutilation. They're offering $40,000 for information leading to the first prosecution under a 2003 law banning the practice. Police say they want to highlight the problem before the summer holidays when it suspected many girls are taken abroad to be subjected to the procedure, mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa and several Middle Eastern countries. The head of Metropolitan police's child abuse investigation unit, detective chief superintendent Alastair Jefferey says the aim of the campaign is clear. “The strong message we want to get out is that this is not an attack on culture. It's not an attack on faith; it's an attack on child abuse.”
New research from scientists in Britain and Switzerland has again challenged the view of other researchers who say global warming is not man-made, but an entirely natural phenomenon caused by changes in activities of the sun. The BBC's correspondent on science says that some skeptics will continue to argue that global warming is not due to humans. But most climate scientists now say this argument doesn't stand up and that there are no longer any natural excuses.
World news from the BBC.
A jury in the United States has failed to reach unanimous verdict in the corruption case against the Canadian-born media tycoon Conrad Black. The twelve members of the jury asked the judge for advice after nine days of unsuccessful deliberations. Niosply reports.
Lord Black, former proprietor of the Daily Telegraph and three business associates are accused of defrauding shareholders in the Chicago-based company he ran. There are sixteen charges and four defendants. The jury have sent a note saying they can not agree a verdict on one or more of the charges. The judge has told them to keep trying to reach a verdict on all the charges.
A little known left wing guerilla group in Mexico has claimed responsibility for a series of recent attacks on oil pipelines. The People's Revolutionary Army has called for the release of two men from prison. It's been inactive for several years. No injuries were caused in the attacks but oil supplies were disrupted.
A Beverley Hills mansion has been put on sale for $165,000,000, making it perhaps the most expensive residential property ever in the United States. It was once owned by the former newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst who bought it in 1947 for $120,000. Peter Bowes reports.
The pink stucco estate is shaped like the letter H and is set on 2.5 hectares north of the famous Sunset Strip. It has three swimming pools, twenty nine bedrooms, a movie theatre and a nightclub. Over the years, the property's hosted many parties for the rich and famous, not to mention some of the most powerful figures in American life. The estate also featured in the film "the God Father".
Finally, the American town of Springfield, Vermont has been declared the official home of the Simpson's after an Internet vote by fans of this functional cartoon family. Spring Feel the Mount beat off competition from thirteen American towns of the same name by posting a video featuring Homer chasing a giant donut.
BBC News.
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BBC World News with Mike Cooper.
The Pakistani army says it's completing its operation to clear the Red Mosque in Islamabad of Islamist radicals and hopes to wind up by morning. During a day of heavy fighting, the leader of the militants, Abdul Rashid Ghazi, was one of at least fifty radicals killed as soldiers worked through the mosque room by room. A military spokesman, Major General Waheed Arshad, said the battle was continuing. “The objective of this operation is to clear the madrasah complex of all militants. The operation is still ongoing, It's not ended as yet. As far as hard-core militant is concerned, any militant who handles weapons and is fighting on the security forces is a militant and will be taken to task. There is no solid definition of a hard core militant and a soft core militant.”
President Bush has rejected calls to start withdrawing American troops from Iraq, saying that commanders must be given the chance to fully implement the military surge in Baghdad. The Senate is expected to begin voting soon on amendments to the military budget which could force cuts in American troop numbers. But the Republican Senator John McCain said the troop surge was slowly starting to produce results. “Make no mistake, violence in Baghdad remains at unacceptably high levels. Suicide bombers and other threats pose formidable challenges and other difficulties abound. Nevertheless, there appears to be overall movement in the right direction.”
Police in Baghdad say two Iraqis and one Filipino have been killed in an attack on the heavily fortified Green Zone which houses the Iraqi Parliament and a number of embassies and government buildings. The police say as many as thirty mortars and rockets were fired into the area. It's not known who the attackers were.
Police in London are launching a campaign against the growing practice of female genital mutilation. They're offering $40,000 for information leading to the first prosecution under a 2003 law banning the practice. Police say they want to highlight the problem before the summer holidays when it suspected many girls are taken abroad to be subjected to the procedure, mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa and several Middle Eastern countries. The head of Metropolitan police's child abuse investigation unit, detective chief superintendent Alastair Jefferey says the aim of the campaign is clear. “The strong message we want to get out is that this is not an attack on culture. It's not an attack on faith; it's an attack on child abuse.”
New research from scientists in Britain and Switzerland has again challenged the view of other researchers who say global warming is not man-made, but an entirely natural phenomenon caused by changes in activities of the sun. The BBC's correspondent on science says that some skeptics will continue to argue that global warming is not due to humans. But most climate scientists now say this argument doesn't stand up and that there are no longer any natural excuses.
World news from the BBC.
A jury in the United States has failed to reach unanimous verdict in the corruption case against the Canadian-born media tycoon Conrad Black. The twelve members of the jury asked the judge for advice after nine days of unsuccessful deliberations. Niosply reports.
Lord Black, former proprietor of the Daily Telegraph and three business associates are accused of defrauding shareholders in the Chicago-based company he ran. There are sixteen charges and four defendants. The jury have sent a note saying they can not agree a verdict on one or more of the charges. The judge has told them to keep trying to reach a verdict on all the charges.
A little known left wing guerilla group in Mexico has claimed responsibility for a series of recent attacks on oil pipelines. The People's Revolutionary Army has called for the release of two men from prison. It's been inactive for several years. No injuries were caused in the attacks but oil supplies were disrupted.
A Beverley Hills mansion has been put on sale for $165,000,000, making it perhaps the most expensive residential property ever in the United States. It was once owned by the former newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst who bought it in 1947 for $120,000. Peter Bowes reports.
The pink stucco estate is shaped like the letter H and is set on 2.5 hectares north of the famous Sunset Strip. It has three swimming pools, twenty nine bedrooms, a movie theatre and a nightclub. Over the years, the property's hosted many parties for the rich and famous, not to mention some of the most powerful figures in American life. The estate also featured in the film "the God Father".
Finally, the American town of Springfield, Vermont has been declared the official home of the Simpson's after an Internet vote by fans of this functional cartoon family. Spring Feel the Mount beat off competition from thirteen American towns of the same name by posting a video featuring Homer chasing a giant donut.
BBC News.
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