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BBC News with Sue Montgomery.
President Obama is to go to Copenhagen early next month, for the start of United Nations Climate Summit and will propose major cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. The White House said the targets would include a 30% emissions cut by 2025 rising to 83% by 2050. This has been growing pessimism about the ability of the summit to produce any substantial deal. / reports.
Up until now there was some speculation 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 capital Oslo where he is due to collect the Nobel peace prize. At least 65 heads of state and government will attend the conference but unlike Mr Obama, most are expected to take part during its final days. The head of the United Nations Climate Change secretariat Yvo de Boer said the world was looking to US to offer a goal for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and to offer money to help developing nations cope with global warming.
President Obama is to make a long awaited announcement on Tuesday on American 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 will commit in excess of 30,000 additional troops to the 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 four-year terms and he wants to complete the Afghan mission before he steps down. Today his spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said the US will not remain in Afghanistan for another 8 to 9 years, adding that speeding up the training of Afghan security forces was imperative.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed a ten-month restriction on new residential building in Jewish settlements in West Bank, in a move aim to encourage the resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians. However, the restrictions will not apply in East Jerusalem and the Palestinians have already made clear that limitation is not acceptable. The US Mid 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 a full freeze. We believe the steps announced by the Prime Minster 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.
Rare heavy rain storms have hampered the start of annual Muslim pilgrimage the Hajj in this the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca. The authorities warned the estimated three million pilgrims to take care in the rain which hasn’t fallen so hard during the hajj in years.
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Diplomats at the United Nations have stressed the needs to protect civilians. / and the UN backed military campaign against Rwandan HUTU rivals in Eastern Congo. There was speaking after a close door session of the Security Council which was called to discuss a report suggesting that the UN backed operation in Congo had failed.
The European chief of the American car maker General Motors says most of the job losses planed for the company’s troubled European unit, Opel, will occur in Germany, / about 9000 jobs would go,. But none of the four Opel factories in Germany will close. Mr Reilly said the future of Opel’s plan in Belgium, was uncertain.
A court in Switzerland has approved a bail application from the film director Roman Polanski who is facing possible extradition to the Untied States. More than 30 years ago, he pleaded guilty to having sex with a 13 year-old girl but flew from America before being sentenced. He’s been held in a Swiss jail since September after being arrested in Switzerland at the request of the United States. Imogen Foulkes reports from the Swiss capital Bern.
It’s highly unusually for extradition subjects to be grabbed in bail in Switzerland. Roman Polanski’s first application was refused. This time, the film director offered almost 4.5 million dollars in bail money and the surrender of his passport. He will also have an electronic tack and live under virtual house arrest at his chalet in the Swiss Alps. the court ruled these conditions should be enough to prevent him fleeing back into France.
Two of the ceremonial guards at the Tower of London best known as Beefeaters have been dismissed following an investigation into allegations that they bullied a female colleague. Moira Cameron who joined the guards two years ago was the first woman Beefeater since they were formed more than 500 years ago.
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