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Today's lead stories:
War Coverage – The Latest News
Turkish Border Delays
First Syrian Victims
British Protests Grow
US Anti-War Protests Continue
Slum Dwellers Protest War
War Coverage – The Latest News
As US troops are quickly advancing on Baghdad, the past
24 hours has seen the bloodiest fighting of the five-day US-led
war against Iraq. Deepa Fernandes reports.
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Turkish Border Delays
A US special envoy has failed to reach an agreement with
Turkey today over whether Turkish troops should go into Northern
Iraq. The US opposes any Turkish intervention, as Washington
says their presence in Northern Iraq could lead to friendly
fire incidents with U.S. forces and clashes with Iraqi Kurds.
This as over the weekend, Turkey steadily increased the number
of troops it has stationed a few miles inside Iraq, while
massing an additional 10,000 or so troops and heavy equipment
on the Turkish side of the border. Meanwhile hundreds of Turkish
and international journalists wait in the Turkish border town
of Silopi unable to report on the situation. Ezgi Saritas
is one of them. She files this report.
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First Syrian Victims
Yesterday the first Syrian victims of the war on Iraq were
reported as a US missile struck a Syrian bus on its way back
from Iraq to Syria. According to Syrian official news agency,
5 people have been killed, and 10 others wounded. Syria has
strongly opposed the US led war on Iraq fearing it would find
itself isolated in the region if Saddam Hussein was to be
ousted. Syrian president Bashar Al Assad has promised reforms
since he took power after his father's death in 1999. But
as Bob Dupont reports lack of liberty and human rights abuses
are still common.
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British Protests Grow
Saturday in London saw the largest wartime demonstration
in British history. It followed closely on the heels of the
largest demonstration in living memory last month which attracted
over a million people. The protests come despite the rising
support for Prime Minister Tony Blair who is now being seen
as a good statesman by some now that the war has started.
This as A British soldier has been killed in southern Iraq,
becoming the first known member of British ground forces to
die in combat since the war began. Anastasia Kershaw reports
from London.
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US Anti-War Protests Continue
Despite the beginning of the Bush Declared War on Iraq,
protesters from around the globe, refused to be shocked and
awed into either silence or support. In various forms they
came out in numbers to show their disapproval of the war now
underway in Iraq. Ian Forrest has the story.
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Slum Dwellers Protest War
And in India, a group calling itself The Radical Red is
mobilizing the slums and the poor villages in its anti-war
campaigning. Thousands of comrades are busy in a door-to-door,
slum-to-slum, village-to-village campaign. From New Delhi
in India, Our Correspondent Vinod K. Jose reports about why
people so poor and busy with their own daily struggle to survive
care about the US-lead war in Iraq.
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