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BBC 2007-09-24
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BBC news with Nick Kelly.
The United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rise has said key Arab nations including Syria will be invited to a major Middle East peace conference being planned for November. She was speaking after a meeting of the sponsors of the peace process known as the Quartet.
"All of the members of the Arab follow-up committee, we believe would be natural invitees for this meeting. It is extremely important, though, to note that the purpose of this meeting in supporting the Israelis and the Palestinians has to be a commitment to actually supporting a two-state solution and so since we believe that the Arab initiative in effect is intended to do that. It makes sense that the members of the follow-up committee would be nature participants."
The Quartet's envoy, the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair added that there was now momentum back in the peace process.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that Iran is not heading for armed conflict with the United States. In an American television interview, he said war was not in the offing. Mr. Ahmadinejad also said Iran had no need of nuclear weapons. Before leaving for New York where he is due to address the UN General Assembly, Mr. Ahmadinejad said he would offer Iran's solutions to world problems.
Iranian nation has clear and definite viewpoints and opinions regarding current developments in the world. Well, this is an opportunity for such viewpoints to be presented to the global public and be heard by the nations and decision makers of the world.
There's been a muted international reaction to the growing demonstrations against the military government in Burma, the head of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to which Burma belongs said member governments would do all they could to ensure the situation remain peaceful. An exiled Burmese activist Soe Aung said he was encouraged by the protests.
I think that people are getting bolder to get involved much more than the previous situation, and in our country, the monks are the highest moral authority of the society and when the monks take the leading role, you know, in the movement and then people would follow, you know, eventually.
Amnesty International says the world has largely ignored the plight of Iraq's refugees which it described as the fastest growing displacement crisis on the planet. The human rights group estimates that there are about 4.2 million displaced Iraqis, half from home or inside the country and most of the rest in Syria and Jordan. Amnesty described as staggering the fact that Britain forcibly returned more refugees to Iraq than any other European country. It says that it is one of the countries leading the 2003 invasion. It had a moral obligation to help Iraqis stranded abroad.
World News from the BBC.
International aid agency Oxfam has warned that it may have to pull out of the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur if the situation on the ground gets any more serious. The UN says nearly 100 vehicles have been hijacked since January this year and more than 100 staff have been taken hostage temporarily. Oxfam's country director Caroline Nursey says if violence against aid workers continued, it may end its project.
Scientists in Singapore say they've created a handheld device that can detect the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus within half an hour. The invention could boost defenses against any pandemic of the disease. For the details, Greg Kipling.
The new device is able to isolate, purify and amplify the viral material from a throat swab sample and then test it for bird flu. Conventional tests will have to be carried out in a laboratory, meaning it can often take days to get results. The Singapore team says their invention would enable testing to be carried out at the point of infection and at transport centers such as airports, speeding up results and making containing any outbreak much easier.
A senior official in Liberia says parliament has rejected a bill which would have frozen the assets and confiscated property belonging to the former President Charles Taylor and his associates. A spokesman for the House of Representative said the bill had been rejected because it was unconstitutional. Mr. Taylor's come in on trial at the International Court in Hague for alleged war crimes.
And the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon says continuing violence is keeping the UN out of parts of southern Afghanistan. In an address to an 18-nation meeting in New York on Sunday, Mr. Ban said the fighting with Taliban militants prevented the deployment of UN staff, which he said requires a reasonable level of security. He called the meeting to seek increased support for Afghan government and UN efforts to bring stability to the country.
BBC News.
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BBC news with Nick Kelly.
The United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rise has said key Arab nations including Syria will be invited to a major Middle East peace conference being planned for November. She was speaking after a meeting of the sponsors of the peace process known as the Quartet.
"All of the members of the Arab follow-up committee, we believe would be natural invitees for this meeting. It is extremely important, though, to note that the purpose of this meeting in supporting the Israelis and the Palestinians has to be a commitment to actually supporting a two-state solution and so since we believe that the Arab initiative in effect is intended to do that. It makes sense that the members of the follow-up committee would be nature participants."
The Quartet's envoy, the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair added that there was now momentum back in the peace process.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that Iran is not heading for armed conflict with the United States. In an American television interview, he said war was not in the offing. Mr. Ahmadinejad also said Iran had no need of nuclear weapons. Before leaving for New York where he is due to address the UN General Assembly, Mr. Ahmadinejad said he would offer Iran's solutions to world problems.
Iranian nation has clear and definite viewpoints and opinions regarding current developments in the world. Well, this is an opportunity for such viewpoints to be presented to the global public and be heard by the nations and decision makers of the world.
There's been a muted international reaction to the growing demonstrations against the military government in Burma, the head of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to which Burma belongs said member governments would do all they could to ensure the situation remain peaceful. An exiled Burmese activist Soe Aung said he was encouraged by the protests.
I think that people are getting bolder to get involved much more than the previous situation, and in our country, the monks are the highest moral authority of the society and when the monks take the leading role, you know, in the movement and then people would follow, you know, eventually.
Amnesty International says the world has largely ignored the plight of Iraq's refugees which it described as the fastest growing displacement crisis on the planet. The human rights group estimates that there are about 4.2 million displaced Iraqis, half from home or inside the country and most of the rest in Syria and Jordan. Amnesty described as staggering the fact that Britain forcibly returned more refugees to Iraq than any other European country. It says that it is one of the countries leading the 2003 invasion. It had a moral obligation to help Iraqis stranded abroad.
World News from the BBC.
International aid agency Oxfam has warned that it may have to pull out of the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur if the situation on the ground gets any more serious. The UN says nearly 100 vehicles have been hijacked since January this year and more than 100 staff have been taken hostage temporarily. Oxfam's country director Caroline Nursey says if violence against aid workers continued, it may end its project.
Scientists in Singapore say they've created a handheld device that can detect the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus within half an hour. The invention could boost defenses against any pandemic of the disease. For the details, Greg Kipling.
The new device is able to isolate, purify and amplify the viral material from a throat swab sample and then test it for bird flu. Conventional tests will have to be carried out in a laboratory, meaning it can often take days to get results. The Singapore team says their invention would enable testing to be carried out at the point of infection and at transport centers such as airports, speeding up results and making containing any outbreak much easier.
A senior official in Liberia says parliament has rejected a bill which would have frozen the assets and confiscated property belonging to the former President Charles Taylor and his associates. A spokesman for the House of Representative said the bill had been rejected because it was unconstitutional. Mr. Taylor's come in on trial at the International Court in Hague for alleged war crimes.
And the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon says continuing violence is keeping the UN out of parts of southern Afghanistan. In an address to an 18-nation meeting in New York on Sunday, Mr. Ban said the fighting with Taliban militants prevented the deployment of UN staff, which he said requires a reasonable level of security. He called the meeting to seek increased support for Afghan government and UN efforts to bring stability to the country.
BBC News.
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