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BBC News with Nick Kelly.
The
French and British Foreign Ministers Bernade Kouchner and David
Miliband are in the Rwandan capital Kigali on the second leg of their
diplomatic mission to try to find a way to end the violence in the
Democratic Republic of Congo. Thousands of civilians have been
displaced by rebel advance in the eastern town of Goma near the Rwandan
border and are living in desperate conditions. Congo accuses Rwanda of
backing the rebels. After talks in Kinshasa on Saturday with the
Congolese President, Mr. Miliband said there was a pressing need for
emergency relief to reach camps for people displaced by the conflict
with the establishment of a safe humanitarian corridor to Goma a
priority. He added that the contingent of 800 UN peacekeepers currently
in the city needed to be reinforced. The Under-Secretary-General of the
UN responsible for peacekeeping operations Alain Le Roy agreed the UN
force in Congo, MONUC (联合国驻刚果(金)特派团) needs more troops.
“/ MONUC has 16,000 troops, almost the figure that's they need to have in
Kosovo and you should know that Congo is 200 times bigger than Kosovo,
and our troops are clearly overstretched. We are in a process of
reconfiguring the mission, but we / still consider we need additional force.
The
Bolivian President Evo Morales has announced that he’s suspending the
operations in his country of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration,
the DEA. He did not say whether the DEA staff will be ordered to leave
the country as coca-growers have asked him to do. Mr. Morales accused
the agency of political spying and said they could not be trusted.
“They
were DEA agents who worked as political spies. They funded criminal
groups to attempt against the life of certain authorities, if not the
president himself. And it financed civilians to sabotage airport in
eastern Bolivia."
The DEA denies any wrongdoing or involvement in
Bolivian politics.
The
former Prime Minister of Thailand, Thaksin Shinawatra, has been
addressing tens of thousands of his supporters who gathered at a
stadium in the capital Bangkok. Speaking by telephone from his
self-imposed exile, Mr.Thaksin greeted them as people who love
democracy and regretted he could not be there in person. There was
tight security in Bangkok for the rally which entered to counter months
of demonstrations by opponents of the government, who say it’s unduly
influenced by Mr. Thaksin. He was sentenced to jail in his absence for
abuse of power, but still enjoys significant backing, particularly in
rural Thailand.
The
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has been holding talks with the Russian
leadership on his first visit to Moscow since the Soviet era. Both
countries are major oil and gas producers. And
Colonel Gaddafi said closer energy cooperation with Russia was
particular important. Correspondents say Russia is keen to
persuade Libya to back its plans for a cartel of gas-producing nations
similar in concept to the oil organization OPEC. It's also reported
that the two countries are negotiating a civilian nuclear cooperation
deal.
World News from the BBC.
As
the race to become president of the United States entered its final
three days, the two candidates are both campaigning in battlegrounds
usually considered to be Republican strongholds. Democratic Party
contender Barack Obama is leading the polls. But he told a rally in
Nevada that no one should believe for a second that the election was
over. Geoffrey Millard reports from Washington.
Barack
Obama is campaigning in Colorado today, a state that has voted Democrat
only once in the last 40 years. But like many other traditionally
Republican strongholds, it’s become a potential prize for Mr. Obama.
His Republican rival John McCain has been forced to spend the last
critical days of the race seeking support in areas he should have been
able to take for granted. He has been in Virginia, for instance,
another staunchly Republican state that, the polls show, could be
captured by the Democrats.
The
Swiss marine explorer and inventor, Jacques Piccard, has died at his home
on the edge of Lake Geneva at the age of 86. In 1960, Piccard and his
co-pilot took a submersible vessel developed by his father to the
bottom of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific. Their 11km descent
beneath the surface of the sea remains the deepest ever carried out.
Paul Legg reports.
The
historic dive attracted worldwide attention and some controversy among
marine biologists who disputed Piccard’s claims to have observed flat
fish and a new type of shrimp at the bottom of the ocean. In his later
years, Piccard became an outspoken critic of marine pollution and
over-fishing. He only retired from deep sea diving four years ago at
the age of 82.
And
the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has arrived in Saudi Arabia to
start a four-day visit to Arab Gulf states. Mr. Brown will be talking
to leaders in the oil-rich region about coordinating the response to
the global financial crisis. Mr. Brown said it was in the region’s best
interests to secure stable energy prices.
BBC News.
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