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[Homework]BBC 2010-04-22
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BBC News of Michael Poles.
Officials in charge of European airspace say air traffic across the continent should be back to almost 100% on Thursday. Airlines are continuing to restart services after almost a week of unprecedented paralysis caused by atmospheric ash of volcanic eruption in Iceland. Dom Huges has more.
Restrictions on flying remain in place in most northern parts of Europe. England in particular still seems to be affected by the cloud of volcanic ash. But further south planes have been flying again in and out of Europe's busiest airports, London's Heathrow, Paris's Charles de Gaulle and Frankfort. Eurocontrol, the air traffic control agency based in Brussels says of around 28,000 scheduled fleights, around 21,000 will go ahead. But such as the chaos caused by the long shutdown of European airspace, it will takes weeks before services are running normally again.
The French government has announced plans to introduce a bill next month to ban the wearing of the full face Islamic veil in public. The move is expected to affect about 2,000 women. President Nicolas Sarkozy has said the such garments oppress women and are not welcoming in France. The National Federation of Muslem in France said the planed legislation would transgress personal liberty, and the government's own legal advisor said the law could well be overturned in French or European courts.
The White House has welcomed an announcement from the American car company General Motors that it's repayed all of its government loans of 8.4 billion dollars as a bright spot on the road to the economic recovery. GM collapsed a year ago, file for bankrupt was kept fl by the government. Russel Pedno Reports.
The Chief Executive Ed Wotica said repaying all the outstanding loans years ahead of schedule is a sign that the plan for building a new GM is working. He also claimed it a real possibility that company will sell shares on the market by the end of the year. That would mean the Canadian and U.S. tax payers getting a return on the 50 billion dollars spent bailing the firm out. The U.S. government owns nearly 61% of GM while the Canadian government controls a stake of about 12%.
The White House, er, the another big U.S. car maker Kreisler now run by Italy's Fiat group said it will break even this year
A team of German reserchers says pledges made at the Copenhagen Climate Summit to contain greenhouse gas emissions are unlikely to help tackle the problem. The team concluded that many countries were pledging // rates of carbon cuts than they'd already been achieving. Our environment correspondent Richard Black has the details.
Analysts at the // Institute for Climate Impact Research have been through the various pledges made at the summit and conclude that they probably set the world on a course to at least three celsius of warming by the end of this century. That's likely to mean falling crop yields virtually everywhere in the world, hundreds of millions more people struggling for access to water, and serious damage to most coral reefs.
World News from the BBC.
Israeli military has deported a Palestinian from the west bank to Gaza. The first such case since it introduced controversial new system that critics say could see thousands expelled from the territory. The man was deported after being released from an Israeli jail. Rights groups say the news system gives the military the power to designate thousands of Palestinian as infiltrators.
The American space agency NASA has been showing the first spectacular images of the sun gathered by the new probe it launched in February. Officials in charge of the solar dynamics observatory, or SDO, said the probe was sending back the most detailed images of the sun's surface ever seen. These included a video of a flare erupting on the sun's surface. One of the scientists involved Dean Pasno said the observatory would increase knowledge about how the sun affects life on earth. SDO's first mission in the living with the star program is design to study the sun and how the sun affects us here on the earth. Most of these effects come from the magnetic field of the sun, and we are going to see today that that magnetic field is never the same twice. It's always changing.
Rescuers in the southern United States are searching for the dozen workers missing after an explosion and a fire on an American offshore oil rig. The accident on a semisubmersible drilling platform about 65 kilometers off the coast of Louisiana also left at least seven people injured. And the investigation is underway.
The president of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge has led tributes to his predecessor, Juan Antonio Samaranch who has died at the age of 89. Mr. Gogge discribed him as the architect of the strong and unified Olympic movements. Mr. Samaranch transformed the Olympic movement from the bankrupcy through // sponsorship deals, reforms that some critics said ran counter to Olympic Ideals.
And that' the BBC News.
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