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BBC news with Nick Kelly
A senior Iranian official has told President Assad that Syria is an essential part of the access of resistant against terrorism which Tehran won’t allow to be broken. The declaration came during a meeting in Damascus between the head of Iran’s supreme national security council Saeed Jalili and President Assad. But the American secretary of state Hillary Clinton has said that it’s now time to start planning the political transition of Syria for when President Assad’s regime falls. Jim Muir reports.
It’s nothing else. State television’s report on the talks between Bashar al-Assad and Saied Jalili put an end to rumours about the Syrian president’s health and where-abouts. He hadn’t been seen on TV for more than 2 weeks of upheavals and drama including the defection of his own prime minister. But there he was on screen, telling the Iranian national security chief that Syria was determined to purge the country of terrorists relentlessly. According to the official account, Mr. Jalili agreed that what was happening in Syria was not an internal affair, but a struggle between what he called the access of resistance and its regional and international enemies.
The judge in the United States has ruled that the man who shot and wounded the US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and killed 6 other people is mentally fit to stand trial . Jared Loughner, a 23 year old college drop-out, has said he will plead guilty . Jonny Dymond reports from Washington.
Jared Loughner’s shooting rampage stunned Americans. 6 people were killed when he sprayed bullets at the gathering in a super market car park. One of those killed was a 9-year-old girl. One of those gravely injured was an US congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords who was since retired on account of the injuries she sustained. Jared Loughner, a 23-year-old college drop-out, has been charged with murder but until today, was judged mentally incompetent to stand trial. He has been forcibly medicated to treat his psychosis and make him fit for trial. By changing his plea to guilty, it’s thought that he will avoid a death sentence instead facing life without parole.
On day 11 of the London Olympics, Algeria Taoufik Makhloufi has won the men’s 1,500 meters in the Olympics stadium. The men’s high jump has been won by Russia’s Ivan Ukhov, and Australia's Sally Pearson won the women’s 100m hurdles, setting a new Olympic record.
Here she get a good start tour as Kellie Wells, middle Dawn Harper, followed up by the Brasalian. The Australian is got a half meter lead. It's Sally Pearson of Australia. She's gonna forge ahead of the defending champion. Sally Pearson just got on the line. Gold for Australia, a new Olympic record, 12.35! In cycling, Great Britain's Chris Hoy won a record 6th gold medal.
World news from the BBC
Shares in the British Banks Standard Chartered have fallen sharply after financial regulators in New York, accused it of hiding more than 250 billion dollars in an illegal transaction with Iran. Standard Chartered denies the allegations. Shares in the bank dropped by more than 16% in London on Tuesday.
A province in Afghanistan is experiencing the second day of strikes on Tuesday as people continue their protest about growing insecurity, especially a recent surging kidnappings. Many shops and business in Huran remain closed.
The accomplished American’s composer Marvin Hamlisch has died. He was 68. He won many awards in his long career, including 3 Oscars and Pulitzer Prize as Wincent Dowd reports.
Marvin Hamlisch came from the middle class New York Jewish background, which has produced so many of the great Broadway song writers. After chorus line, he went on to a degree of success with shows such as They Are Playing Our Song and the Goodbye Girl. That theatre works sometimes overshadowed his films. He won 2 Oscars for The Way We Were in 1973 and the 3rd for adapting Scott Joplin's ragtime music for the Sting. In 1977, he co-wrote Nobody Does It Better for the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.
A tribute has been paid to the British pioneer radio astronomy Bernard Lovell who's died at age of 98. He was the founder of the Jodrell Bank radio telescope observatory. He is also pivotal in the development of radar system during the Second World War. But in later life Sir Bernard deplored the misapplication of technology by governments and the military.
It is worrying that during recent years, science has so often become the scapegoat for the evils of the world. Technology has been misapplied and not science itself which forever remains search for truth.
BBC News.
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