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The Irish government has revealed how the Roman Catholic Church in Dublin covered up for decades the wide spreads sexual abuse of children by priests. A government inquiry found that the abuse continued into 2004 and accused government officials of helping with the cover up. Ruth McDonald reports from Dublin.
The Dublin diocese's reports bears neither the Catholic Church nor the Irish state. The report focuses on the representative sample of complaints made by 320 children against 46 priests over a 30-year period. It found that the church placed its own the reputation above the protection of children its care and said that state authorities facilitated the cover-up by allowing the church to operate outside the law. The current archbishop of Dublin / offered his sorrow and shame for what had happened to the victims and said no words would ever be sufficient.
The up-going head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohammed el-Baradei has expressed his frustration with Iran. What he said was its failure to cooperate with his investigation is whether to try to make a nuclear weapon. He told the agency's board meeting that a year of negotiation with Teheran had got nowhere.
That has been no movement under many issues of concern which need to be clarified for the agency to verify the exclusively peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program. It is now when over a year since the agency was last able to engage Iran in discussions above these outstanding issues where've effectively / in that end unless Iran engages fully with us.
European shares have tumbled with the news of Dubai maybe unable to pay its multi-billion dollar debts. The main share index in London suffered its biggest 1-day drops since March. It was even falls in France and Germany. Stephanie Flanders reports.
The tallest tower in the world, the biggest man-made island, the largest snow-dome in the middle of the desert, no scheme was too over the top if it help put the tiny Arab Emirate on the map. Visitors would've been forgiven for thinking it was built on oil, but international investors knew but Dubai didn't have much oil. The fancy projects were largely funded by debt. When boom turn to burst, they also knew the lead company Dubai world was finding it difficult to pay that debt back. Bank stocks felt shock in response of the news, between them there could have billions of dollars of stake in Dubai world.
The high court in London has ruled for 2 Caribbean registered investment funds of entitle to claim payment of a large debt owed by Liberia. The judgment could enable them to have Liberian assets in Britain ceased. The debts dates back more than 30 years when Liberia borrowed 6.5 million dollars from an American bank. But it's now for to be many times its original value.
This is the world news from the BBC.
The British Home Secretary Allen Johnson has refused to block the extradition to the United States of a British man who hacked into American military networks. The man, Gary McKinnon, has a Asperger syndrome, but Mr. Johnson said he didn't not consider Mr. Mckinnon's right will be infringed. Mr. McKinnon's lawyers argued that sending him to the US will have disastrous consequences for his health.
The authorities in Saudi Arabia said that more than 70 people have died as a result of floods following the heaviest rain fall in years. Most of those who killed were in or around the city of Jeddah where water swamped road and caused a number of buildings to collapse. Critics have accused the Saudi government of /.
The officials in Nigeria said president Umaru Yar'Adua who's in hospital in Suadi Arabia is suffering from a heart problem, but is responding well to the treatment. A government spokesman said the vice president / was handling some of the president's responsibilities in his absence.
Investigations are on the way in Washington how a couple managed to fooled White House security and gate crash President Obama's first state dinner. 300 guests attended the event on Tuesday in honor of the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. They included Michaele and Tareq Salahi. Paul Adams takes up the stories.
They certainly looked apart, he in Tuxedo, she in dazzling red / and photos posed it on her facebook page testified to an evening spent Robin shoulders with the great and the good. Michaele with 3 marine guards, Michaele with the president famously savage chief of staff round the manual and Michaele in a clinch with an obviously delighted vice president Joe Bidon. I was honored, Michaele writes, to be invited to attend the first day dinner hosted by President Obama. The only problem was, she wasn't and embarrassed secret services now scrambling to figure out just how she and her husband got in.
Paul Adams reporting and that's the BBC news.
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