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FiveThe airline industry in the United States is showing some sings of recovery after a huge drop in passenger numbers in the wake of the September the 11th attacks. The decline in ticket sales led to 100 000 job losses and a 20 % cut in the number of flights. But now five of the six largest carriers have released figures showing gradual increases in each month since the attacks. Listening 3One NATO has acknowledged that its forces have failed to capture the former Bosnian-Serb leader and war-crime suspect, Radovan Karadic, for the second time in two days. A NATO statement said troops of the SFOR peacekeeping force sealed off a village in south-eastern Bosnia early this morning after receiving an intelligence report that Mr Karadic was there. However, a search operation by combined ground and air forces revealed nothing. Two President Putin of Russia says the planned deployment of American forces in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia is, in his words, no tragedy. Speaking in Kazakhstan, at a summit of former Soviet states, Mr Putting said that if an American military presence was possible in Central Asia, there is no reason why it shouldn’t be allowed in Georgia. Both areas form part of Moscow’s traditional sphere of influence. Three Cuban security forces have evicted from the Mexican embassy in Havana 21 Cubans who crashed a bus into the compound on Wednesday. Cuban authorities said they’d ignored several appeals to leave peacefully and their removal followed a request by the Mexican government. There is no word on the whereabouts of the 21 Cubans who were all trying to get visas for Mexico. Four After a tense debate, the lower house of parliament in Germany has approved a bill aimed at controlling immigration, while at the same time allowing highly skilled foreign workers into the country to meet specific needs in the labour market. The chancellor, Gerhard Shreder, made a last minute appeal to back the bill. FiveLeaders from Macedonia and more than 40 other countries are gathering in Brussels for and international donors’ conference which, they hope, will raise more than $200.000.000 for the conflict ravaged country. The conference follows the adoption by the Macedonian parliament of key provisions of the agreement which ended the conflict with Albanian rebels last year. The BBC correspondent in Belgrade sais there was international praise for Macedonia last week when the parliament approved a law guaranteeing the rebels amnesty from prosecution. Listening 4OneProsecutors in Indonesia have charged Tommy Suharto, the youngest son of the former president with murder. Tommy Suharto, who is already in detention, is accused of the murder last year of a Supreme Court judge, who’d sentenced him to 18 months in prison in a corruption case. The trial is expected to start before the end of this month. Tommy Suharto is also charged with the illegal position of weapons and evading justice. Two A fresh controversy has emerged in Mexico over the image of a 16th century Aztec Indian, Juan Diego, who said he had a vision of the virgin Marry at Guadalupe. The Mexican Roman Catholic Church’s official poster to promote the canonisation of Juan Diego in July portrays him with European features. Three One of Canada’s most prominent indigenous groups, the Haida, has began a legal battle over property rights to an oil-rich island on the Pacific coast where their ancestors have lived for thousands of years. The Haida Indians say they never signed a treaty with any government and so till own the Queen Shallot Islands. Legal observers say victory would change the way governments have to share natural resources with indigenous populations. The British Columbian government is expected later this year to lift a ban on gas and oil production in that area. Four The economy shrank for 3 consecutive quarters last year confirming that Japan is in one of its deepest and most prolonged recessions since the Second World War. A sharp decline in business investment was the biggest drag on growth in the final three months of last year. A slight increase in consumer spending was far short of what would be needed for a domestic recovery. But there are signs that the long slide in the world’s second largest economy is bottoming out. The stock market has gained more than twenty per cent in recent weeks. That’s partly because of a government crack down on short selling, or speculation on market falls by foreign brokers. Five The Sierra Leone rebel leader, Fudi Sanko, is appearing in court today to face murder and other charges. Mr Sanko had been held without trial since being arrested in 2000 after his Revolutionary Unite Front rebels defied a peace plan. On Friday president Ahmed Tiden Kaba ended the state of emergency in Sierra Leon under which Mr Sanko was being detained. The minister of Justice, Salomon Brewa, said he’ll ask the court to remand the rebel leader and seventy of his followers in custody until their trial. Listening 5One An organisation campaigning against the commercial exploitation of children has accused the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, of supporting the fast food industry. The group, Commercial Alert, sent an open letter to UNICEF after the fund refused to end its co-operation with the American fast food giant, McDonald’s. TwoSuspected Muslim rebels in the southern Philippines have beheaded two of the six hostages they abducted on Tuesday. The kidnappers are believed to be members of Abu Sajaf, a group of armed Muslims whom the United States regards as terrorists. John McLain reports from the Philippine capitol, Manila.
ThreeA senior American government official has been touring the Jafna peninsula, the scene of two decades of conflict between the Sri Lankan army and separatist Tamil Tiger rebels. The US deputy Secretary of State, Richard Armatage, is the most senior American official to visit the island since the civil war began there in 1983. He’s called on the international community to push as forcefully as it can for a peaceful solution to the Sri Lankan conflict. A cease fire is now in force and peace talks are due to be held in Thailand next month. FourChina has announced new regulations on the export of missile technology. The foreign ministry said Beijing wanted to demonstrate its opposition to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The announcement coincided with the start of a visit to China by the American deputy Secretary of State, Richard Armotage. Washington has long expressed concern about Chinese weapons technology falling into the wrong hands and recently imposed sanctions on several Chinese companies which it accused of helping Iran to obtain weapons of mass destruction. Five Parliamentary leaders in Georgia have begun a meeting to discuss increasing the defence budget. The meeting comes after thousands of troops were sent into the Pakese gorge on the orders of the Georgian president, Edward Shevardnadze, to deal with what he called criminal elements and terrorists. The Russian military has denied carrying out bombing raids on Friday against Chechen gorillas which, Moscow say, have taken refuge in the gorge. A BBC correspondent in Moscow says Georgia is determined to show Russia it’s serious about dealing with the problem. Listening 6OneResidents in Ivory Coast’s second city Buakes say quiet has returned to the streets after fighting between rebels and government troops. A BBC correspondent in Buakes says it’s clear the rebels are still in control having held the city for more than two weeks. Earlier an army spokesman said the rebels had fled during a government offensive. But a rebel leader told reporters in Buakes that the government attack had been repelled. The Ivory Coast government launched its offensive on Sunday after failing to sign a ceasefire agreement. Two Medical staff in Indonesia have only been able to identify about thirty of those killed in the Bali attack. A Red Cross official said they might be able to identify another twenty-five bodies visually but the majority would require dental records or other specialist techniques. While many tourists have ended their holiday early to fly home some people are flying into Bali to hunt for lost relatives or friends. The United States has ordered non-emergency American personnel in Indonesia to leave and is urging any other U.S. citizens there to do the same. Three Five Japanese men and women who were abducted by North Korea almost a quarter of a century ago have arrived in Japan for a two-week visit. They were greeted by family members who were waiting with flowers and flags at the airport in Tokyo. The visitors from North Korea had to leave behind their children who, relatives say, are being kept as hostages by the Pion Yang government. The five were among thirteen Japanese nationals kidnapped and used to teach Japanese language and culture to North Korean spies. North Korea says eight of the detainees have since died but deny any were killed. Four The Brazilian Central Bank has sharply increased interest rates in an effort to stabilise the economy two weeks before the second round of voting in the presidential election. The bank said that the three percent rise, which takes the benchmark rate to 21 percent was needed because of the rapid devaluation of the Brazilian currency. The royal has lost around forty percent of is value this year because of investor fears that a victory for the Workers Party presidential candidate, Luis Cinasion Lulu Desova, could damage the economy. Five Eighteen of Europe’s top football clubs are meeting in Brussels today to discuss the spiralling cost threatening the financial future of the game. Among the topics, the high wages of star players and the falling revenue from the sale of television rights – a problem recently highlighted by the collapse of TV stations like ITV digital in Britain and Cash Media in Germany. The clubs taking part are likely to to agree to restrict players’ earnings possibly to about sixty percent of a club’s turn over. Listening 7One The Australian authorities have been trying to reassure sailors serving on ships bound for the Gulf that vaccinations against anthrax are safe. At least eleven sailors have been sent home after refusing to have the injections because of fears they may have negative side effects. The Australian Navy has issued a memo to servicemen and women and their families, saying that medical advice is that there are no adverse health effects from the inoculations. Two The European Court of Human Rights has rejected a request by a French citizen to learn the identity of her anonymous mother. The case had been brought by Pascal Audievr whose mother had abandoned her at birth. French law allows women to give birth anonymously to unwanted babies who were then registered as born to X. Mrs Audievr had argued that the French government had violated her right to privacy and family life. Three Clashes between striking police officers and army troops in Bolivia have left at least ten people dead and more than fifty injured. The unrest forced the Bolivian president Gonzales Sanches de Losava to withdraw plans for an income tax increase at an attempt to restore calm. About half the country’s police had taken part in a protest against the twelve and a half percent tax. Four A South African president Tabu Umbeki has announce plans to help Iraq dismantle any weapons of mass distraction based on his county’s own experience of voluntary nuclear disarmament in the nineteen nineties. In his state-of-the-nation address to parliament in Cape Town, Mr Umbeki said the offer had already been passed on to Baghdad and the United Nations. He said South African experts were preparing to travel to Iraq. Five In June 2000 Kim Dej Jong won international acclaim for a visit to Pyong Yang and the first meeting between the leaders of the two Koreas. It was the centrepiece of what he called his sunshine policy of engagement with the communist state. But allegations later surfaced that president Kim had affectively bribed his northern counterpart to take part in the meeting. Kim Dej Jong has now broken his silence in a nationally televised apology to the nation. He did not admit the government had paid any money, but he said that Hunday business group had transferred a hundred and eighty six million dollars to the North with his approval. He apologised for the deep concern he caused to public and said he felt miserable. Listening 8OneScientists in the United States say they’re testing a new early warning system for natural phenomena such as tornados and earthquakes based on infrasound, a form of sound waves inaudible to the human ear. The waves are emitted by powerful events including volcanic eruptions and avalanches. They’re also produced in nuclear tests allowing the system to be used to help verify the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty. TwoThe Vatican says the Iraqi deputy Prime Minister, Tarik Asis, has pledged Baghdad’s cooperation with the United Nations over disarmament during a meeting with Pope Johan Paul in Rome. A statement from the Vatican said the Pope, an outspoken opponent of American plans for military action against Baghdad, had strongly urged Mr Asis to show concrete commitment. ThreeOpposition groups in Bolivia and the largest trade union confederation there have called for a general strike following clashes on Wednesday between protesters and troops which left at least fourteen people dead and dozens injured. The opposition and the confederation are demanding the resignation of Bolivian president Gonsales Sanches de Losava who was forced to cancel plans for an income tax increase following the unrest. FourThe results of the 2001 census published earlier today suggest population is ageing and in need of more health care. Nearly one in ten people in England and Wales reported being in poor health, and for the first time there are more unmarried than married households. Furthermore, it’s reported that thirty percent of us live alone. Well over seventy billion dollars’ worth of government spending is determined by data supplied by the census and it’s also a vital snapshot of British life. FiveA North Korean official has accused the United States of building up its forces along the border with South Korea in violation of demilitarisation agreements. Major Kim Kuan Kil said that tanks and other armoured vehicles had been seen in the area. The statement comes amidst worsening relations between the United States and North Korea over Pyong Yang’s resumption of its nuclear program. The United States said earlier it didn’t intend to ask the United Nations Security Council to impose immediate economic sanctions on North Korea over the nuclear issue. Listening 9OneCampaigners for the rights of children have welcomed an announcement by the computer software giant Microsoft that it’s closing most of its Internet chat-rooms. The company says it’s taking the action to protect young people from paedophiles and unsolicited e-mails many of which are pornographic. Our science correspondent, Richard Black, reports.
TwoA South African Church leader’s spoken out against other African archbishops because of what he called their arrogance over the issue of homosexuality. The Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, Winston Enjongonkulu Undungani, accuses his colleagues of intolerance following the appointment in the United States of Jim Robinson, the first openly gay bishop. In an interview with a British newspaper Mr Undungani said there were other issues that should be priorities for the Anglican Church, such as world hunger, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and AIDS. ThreeThe Israeli leader, Ariel Sharon, is beginning a visit to India today for talks about strengthening military and political ties between the two countries. The four-day visit - the first by an Israeli prime minister since Israel and India established diplomatic ties eleven years ago - is expected to focus on the details of a billion-dollar contract for the sail of three Israeli early-warning radar systems to India, a move which has already angered India’s traditional rival Pakistan. FourThe Iranian foreign minister, Khamal Kharazi, has denied his country has the technology to produce nuclear weapons. Mr Kharazi said that Iran would not give up its uranium-enrichment program which it maintains for civilian purposes. Speaking in New York, he said his government was willing to negotiate a process of stricter inspections with the International Atomic Energy Agency, but the problem was that the Americans believe that was not enough. The IAEA has set a deadline of the end of October for Iran to prove that its nuclear program is peaceful. FiveThe authorities in Thailand have charged four Thais, allegedly member of the militant group Jammah Islamia, with plotting to bomb embassies and tourist spots. A state prosecutor has said they were accused of preparing to launch crimes within Thailand from abroad and seeking perpetrators to carry them out. Prosecutors are also Singapore to hand over one of its nationals for trial on similar charges. Listening 10 One France’s controversial law banning the wearing of Islamic headscarves and other religious symbols in state schools comes into force today. The scrapping of the law has been demanded by the kidnappers of two French journalists in Iraq, but the French government has refused. The BBC Paris correspondent says the demand has had the unintended consequence of uniting France against the hostage takers, making it much harder for radical French Muslim groups to protest against the new law. Two One of the world’s leading bodies for observing elections says the poor security situation in Afghanistan make it impossible to monitor properly the presidential election due in October. The Organisation for Security Co-operation in Europe, the OSCE, says Afghanistan is too dangerous for meaningful observation of the election. In a report obtained by the BBC, it also suggests that too much scrutiny of the election could undermine confidence in the process among Afghans. The newly formed Afghan group, the Foundation for Free and Fair Elections, says it’s still willing to monitor the elections. But its chairman, Muhamend Say Mayazi, says they can only visit a fraction of the polling stations. ThreeA ban on military style assault weapons in the Unites States is to lapse after being in force for the past ten years. The move means that ordinary citizens will be allowed to keep heavy assault weapons in their homes. The ban needed to be renewed by the next week but president Bush’s supporters in Congress refused to make time available for the vote and to extend it. Four Intense diplomatic efforts are under way to try to resolve the long running stand-off over nuclear issues on the Korean Peninsula. A senior member of the Chinese leadership, Lee Chang Chung, is in Pyongyang to try to persuade North Korea to return to multilateral talks aimed at ending its nuclear program. And in an unprecedented move Britain is sending a government minister, Bill Romall, to Pyongyang for talks. FiveA military tribunal in the United States has convicted an American soldier of trying to help Al-Kaida. It’s recommended that he be sentenced to life imprisonment. Ryan Anderson, a convert to Islam, serving in the US National Guard, was arrested in February as his tank unit was about to be sent to Iraq. Listening 11 One The American government has asked the judge to overturn the convictions of three Arab men who were tried in a major terrorism case in the United States last year. The US Justice Department said the prosecution have made serious errors in its handling of the case, including withholding information from defense lawyers. It’s said the three men who are Moroccans deserved a speedy new trial that would not include terrorism charges. Two An intensive campaign has begun in Northern Nigeria to immunize thirteen million children against polio in an attempt to halt the reemergence of the disease in the region. A quarter of a million health workers are visiting homes to immunize children missed in the first round of the campaign which began last month. Four Nigerian states banned polio vaccination last August after Islamic clerics said the vaccines contained drugs which would make Muslim women infertile. Three The Prosecutors in Argentina say they plan to appeal against the acquittal of all five men accused of involvement in a bomb attack on a Jewish center in Buenos Aires ten year ago in which eighty five people were killed. A court said the men were cleared owing to a lack of evidence. Relatives of the victims rejected the ruling. Theyg called for a demonstration today to protest against the court decision. Four Nepal is observing a day of National mourning for the twelve Nepalese workers who were killed by their Islamic militant captors in Iraq. Government offices, schools, colleges and businesses are closed and the Nepalese national flag is flying at half mast on public buildings. On Wednesday, the authorities imposed an indefinite curfew after angry crowds attacked a mosque in the capitol Katmandu and the offices of some Middle Eastern air lines. Five Chinese tour groups will be able to visit almost thirty European countries from today. Until now they’ve been admitted only if they applied as business delegations. Under a new agreement between China and the European Union a Chinese will be able to buy a tour to Europe from approved Chinese travel agents. European countries are looking forward to embracing a lucrative new tourist market, and the BBC correspondent in Shanghai says the Chinese media have beet whetting the appetite of potential travelers by showing pictures of gondola rides in Venice for example but also warning of possible snags mentioning the danger of pickpockets. Listening 12 One A team of archaeologists has set out a revolutionary theory at a conference in Britain arguing that the first inhabitants of the American continent were seafarers from Australia, of the Melanesian Islands of the Pacific and not migrants from Asia it as has long been supposed. The team said studies of the sculls of a tribe who died out in the Mexican region of lower California two hundred years ago suggest that they were related to the Australian Aborigines and were not of Asian or native American descent. Two An Australian rock band called Regurgitater has been locked into a recording studio build of glass in the heart of Melbourne. The band will spend three weeks in the glass bubble recording a new album and, as they put it, showing the world how a creative process works. Three The former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milochevic has denounced what he called the unscrupulous lies about him at the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague. He was beginning a presentation of this defence against charges of genocide and war crimes. Mr Milochevich’s case has been postponed five times because of his poor health. Four The Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, has presented a time table to speed up his plan for the controversial evacuation of Jewish settlements from the Gaza strip. He gave the details at a meeting of members of Parliament of his Li Khud Party. The Party’s wider membership has already rejected the plan but Mr Sharon is insisting he’ll go ahead. FiveThe French foreign minister, Michel Barnier, is having talks in Amman with his Jordanian counterpart on ways to secure the release of two French journalists being held hostage in Iraq. The Jordanian foreign minister has already said his country is ready to use its contacts with the Iraqi tribal leaders to try to resolve the crisis. Listening 13 One The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime – the UNODC – says South American drug traffickers have started to use West African countries and their coastal waters and a conduit for their drug-smuggling operations. The Head of the UNODC in the region, Antonio Matsiteri, told the BBC that the lack of law enforcement in some West African countries was the main attraction for the traffickers who were seeking areas where impunity could be bought. Two The Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, has invited the Arab leaders to attend a summit next week. He said there were worrying developments in the Arab world, including the situation in Iraq and with the Palestinians. Correspondents said the venue for the summit, in Sharm-el-Sheik, was apparently chosen as a sign of government resolve, following the bombings in the Red Sea resort last Saturday in which eighty eight people died. Three The government of Indonesia has confirmed that it will not carry out a mass killing of poultry to try to prevent the spread of bird flew. It says it cannot afford to pay for this as well as the cost of compensating farmers and will instead carry out a selective culling of animals. But the World Health Organisation recommend killing all animals in affected areas. Four Four hundred Uzbeks who fled into neighbouring Kirghizstan to escape political violence in May have arrived in Romania where they’ll stay temporarily before they are resettled in other countries. The group includes fourteen people who were released from detention in Kirghizstan. FiveIndian police have clashed for a second day with workers and their families from a motorcycle factory in a suburb of Delhi. Television showed live pictures of women chasing and beating police officers in protest and police actions on the previous day against striking workers of Honda’s Indian subsidiary. Indian MPs have complained in Parliament about the police tactics. On Monday television showed police using canes to hit hundreds of workers. Listening 14 One European Union fisheries’ ministers have reached a compromised deal to reduce the amount of fish caught in European waters next year after three days of negotiations in Brussels. They agreed a 5% reduction in the number of days cod trawlers will be allowed at see. The British Fishery Minister, Jim Night, told the BBC that significant efforts were being made to preserve cod stocks. Two The separatist movement in the Idonesian province of Ache says it’s now officially disbanded it’s military wing after twenty-six years. The move is in line with the peace agreement signed in August promising more autonomy for the region and a bigger reduction in the deployment of troops in return for the disarmament of the rebels. The BBC correspondent said it was the devastating impact of the Indian Ocean tsunami on the province a year ago that helped secure a peace settlement. Three The Egyptian president, Hosni Mumarak, has addressed the new Arab parliament which has been meeting for the first time today in Cairo. He said the body had been set up in response to wish in the Arab world for more democratic reform, and he hoped it would lead to more cooperation among Arab states. But the parliament which is made up of four representatives from each of the Arab Leagues’ twenty-two members will have no legislative powers. Four New evidence has emerged that bird flue has begun to develop a resistance to the main drug used to combat it. In a report in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers say that drug-resistance strains of the virus developed in two Vietnamese girls who died despite being given a currently recommended dose of the anti-viral drug Tami Flu. Medical experts say the latest research is worrying. Five A court in Kuwait has sentenced to death six Islamic militants with alleged links to Alkaida. Three of them are Kuwaiti nationals, the other three are described as stateless Arabs. They were among about thirty people captured after gun battles with the security forces last January. The Kuwaiti police said some had confessed to planning suicide attacks against the United State’s military targets and other Western interest in Kuwait. Their lawyers said they were tortured into confessing. Listening 15One The Arabic television station Al Jasira has shown a video tape of three people, all Christian peace campaigners from the West, who were held hostage in Iraq. Their voices cannot be heard on the tape which carries the date February the 28th. Al Jasira said the men were appealing to their governments to work for their release. In a statement the British government again demanded the immediate release of the four peace activists – two Canadians, an American, and a Briton who disappeared in Iraq in November. Two Health authorities in Britain and India have come under pressure to act against the illegal abortion of female foetuses. A senior Indian gynaecologist, Dr Punit Bedi, says increasing numbers of Britain-Asian women are travelling to India to have abortions if they find they’re expecting baby girls. Dr Bedi said he believed women were being referred to clinics in India by doctors in Britain. Research published in the medical journal The Lancet last month said that bout half a million unborn females are aborted in India every year. Three Members of the Oil Exporters Group, OPOEC, are meeting are meeting in Vienna to consider whether to change production quotas. One member, Venezuela, has called for a cut of half a million barrels a day. But the BBC economics correspondent says that with prices already well over sixty dollars a barrel on world markets there seems to be little support for such a move among other OPEC countries. Four An Italian Culture Ministry says it’s reached the deal under which the Metropolitan Museum in New York will return antiquities which, Italy says, were Illegally taken out of the country after 1939. An Italian law passed that year bans the export of antique art without government permission. The antiquities include a vase from the sixth century BC which is regarded as one of the most priced treasures of its kind. As part of the agreement, Italy will supply art works to the New York museum as long term loans. Five About three thousand demonstrators have marched through the Kenyan capitol, Nairobi, to protest about the police raid last week on the premises of the Standard Media Group. The protest was organised by the opposition Orange Democratic Movement which is demanding the resignation of the Internal Security minister. The media group was briefly shut down following the raid in which hooded policemen ceased equipment and burned thousands of newspapers. 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