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BBC news with Sue Montgomery.
President Obama is to go to Copenhagen early next month, for the start of the United Nations Climate Change Summit, and will propose major can'ts in greenhouse gas emissions. The White House said the targets would include a 30% emissions cut by 2025, rising to 83% by 2050. There's been growing pessimism about the ability of the summit to produce any substantial deal. M. Tyre reports.
Up until now, there were many speculations over whether President Barack Obama would attend the UN climate change conference. According to a White House Official, the president will arrive in Copenhagen for the start of the summit, and will then travel to the Norwegian's capital, Oslo, where he's due to collect the Nobel Peace Prize. \\ 65 heads of state and government will attend the conference, but unlike President Obama, most are expected to take part in during its final days. The head of the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat, Yvo de Boer, said the world was looking to the US to offer a goal for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and to offer money to help developing countries cope with climate change.
President Obama is to make a long-awaited announcement on Tuesday on America's strategy in Afghanistan. He will tell the American people how many extra troops he's decided to send there to fight the Taliban. Paul Adams reports.
The president's address on Tuesday will be one of the key moments of his first year in office. It's thought he'll commit in excess of 30,000 additional troops to fight in Afghanistan, and lay out how he intends in his words to finish the job. Mr. Obama hopes to be in office for two 4-year terms, and he says he wants to complete the Afghan mission before he steps down. Today his spokesman Robert Gibbs said the US would not remain in Afghanistan for another 8 or 9 years, adding that speeding up the training of Afghan security forces was imperative.
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has proposed a 10-month restriction on new residential building in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, in a move aiming to encourage the resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians. However, the restrictions0 will not apply in East Jerusalem, and the Palestinians have already made clear that limitation is not acceptable. The US Middle East Envoy, George Mitchell, said while Washington didn't accept the legitimacy of continued settlements, Israeli move was a positive one.
"While they fall short of full free, we believed that steps announced by the prime minister are significant, and could have substantial impact on the ground. For the first time ever, an Israeli government will stop housing approvals and all new construction of housing units."
Very heavy rainstorms have hump at the start of the annual pilgrimage-the Haj, in the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca. The authorities warned the estimated 3 million pilgrims to take care in the rain, which hasn't fallen so hard during the Haj in years.
BBC news.
Diplomats at the United States have stressed the need to protect civilians. Caught up in the UN-backed military campaign against Rwandan Hutu rebels in Eastern Congo, they were speaking after a closed door session of the Security Council, which was called to discuss report, suggesting that the UN-backed operation in Congo had failed.
The European chief of the American carmaker, General Motors, says most of the job losses planned for the company's troubled European unit Oppo will occur in Germany. Nick Reilly said about 9,000 jobs could go, but none of the four Oppo factories in Germany would close. Mr. Reilly said the future of Oppo's plan in Belgium was uncertain.
A court in Switzerland has approved a bail-out application from the film maker, Roman Polanski, who's facing possible extradition to the United States. More than 30 years ago, he pleaded guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl, but fled from America before being sentenced. He's being held in a Swiss jail after being arrested in Switzerland at the request of the United States. Imogen Folks reports from the Swiss capital Bern.
It's highly unusual for extradition subjects to be granted bail in Switzerland. Roman Polanski's first application was refused. This time, the film director offered almost 450 million dollars in bail money and the surrender of his passport. He will also have an electronic tag and live under vitual house arrest at his \\ in the Swiss\\. The court ruled these conditions should be enough to prevent him fleeing back to France.
Two of the ceremonial gods of the Tower of London, best known as beefeaters, have been dismissed. Following an investigation into allegations of bully to female colleague, Moira Cameron, who joined the Guards two years ago, was the first woman beefeater since they've formed more than 500 years ago.
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