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Today's lead stories:
AWOL Israeli Soldier Opens Fire on Bus, Killing Four
Death Row Detainee from India's War on Terror Aquited
Left Split on Eve on Venezelan Local Elections
Iranians Wonder if Their New President Can Deliver
Mauritania's African Union Membership Suspended After Coup
Survivors of the Atomic Bombing of Japan Visit Los Alamos
Lab 60 Years Later
FSRN Headlines
British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced a strict package
of measure to expel and keep out anyone who teaches violence
or hatred in England.Blair said he will ignore human rights
laws as the situation in Britain has changed.
AUDIO CUT: Blair
In his proposal, Blair says he will deport anyone with association
to a violent group, he will extend the length of time to hold
suspects with out charge longer than the current 14 day time
limit, and he wants the power to close any place of worship
that preaches violence. Civil liberties groups and Islamic
leaders are alarmed at his proposals. The Liberal Democrats
said Blair will not gain their support for these proposals.
A trial began in Indonesia for U.S. gold mining giant Newmont
over charges they dumped toxic waste and polluted Buyat bay.
The trial of the Denver-based mining company and its president
Richard Ness opened in a district court in Indonesia's North
Sulawesi province. From Jakarta Meggy Margiyono reports.
The European Union presented Iran their package of incentives
to notre-start their nuclear program, after Iran has threatened
several times tore-start a major plant this week. Tony Cross
has more from Paris.
Brazil's president Lula De Silva has received more calls
for impeachment over a bribery scheme, but no evidence has
yet proved Lula's connection to scandal that has plagued Lula's
worker's party. Natalia Viana has morefrom Sao Paulo.
A senior official from the UN's food aid organization says
one out of three children in the military state fun state
of Myanmar are chronically malnourished or physically stunted.
From Bangkok, FSRN's Doualy Xaykaothau reports.
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AWOL Israeli Soldier Opens Fire on Bus, Killing
Four (3:05)
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has condemned the shooting
of four Israeli Arabs by a Jewish gunman on board a bus in
the north of Israel Thursday night as an act of terror. The
gunman wounded an additional 12 people before being killed
by a mob that surrounded the bus. As Irris Makler reports
from Jerusalem, the gunman, who was newly religious had deserted
from the Israeli Army because he opposed Israeli’s impending
Gaza withdrawal.
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Death Row Detainee from India's War on Terror Aquited
(1:55)
In December 2001, just two months after the 9/11 attacks,
gunmen attacked the Indian Parliament, leaving 14 people dead
including the 5 gunmen who carried out the attacks.. According
to both the Indian and US administrations, the attack was
considered the second attack in the “global calendar
of terrorism”. New Delhi claimed the assault was led
by Pakistan-based militants and was supported by Pakistan’s
intelligence agency - a charge Islamabad strongly denied.
According to Indian police and media, S.A.R. Geelani, a Kashmiri
Muslim Professor teaching in Delhi University was the master
mind behind the attack. But now, India’s Supreme Court
says he is an innocent man, and have acquitting him from death
row. Our correspondent Vinod K. Jose has the details.
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Left Split on Eve on Venezelan Local Elections
(3:39)
Venezuelans will head to the polls this Sunday to select
city council members. While president Hugo Chavez continues
to command widespread support among the population, Chavez's
party, the Fifth Republic Movement, or MVR for its Spanish
acronym, has been widely rejected as elitist and non-representative
of community interests. And, as reporters Yajaira Hernandez
and Jhonny Moreno report, community and local political groups
have formed alternative electoral alliances and parties to
contest the upcoming elections and wrest power away from the
MVR.
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Iranians Wonder if Their New President Can Deliver
(3:46)
Iran’s new conservative president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
will begin his new terms after being sworn in this weekend.
He succeeds former reformist president Mohammad Khatami, who
leaves office after two consecutive presidential terms. Ahmadinejad’s
two biggest challenges during his first months include Iran’s
nuclear program and reform movement, which started on May
23, the date of Khatami's victory. Saeedeh Jamshidi reports.
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Mauritania's African Union Membership Suspended After
Coup (3:22)
Mauritania’s membership in the African Union, or AU,
has been suspended as a result of the coup in that country
on Wednesday. The AU says the country must restore constitutional
order, and the coup, which took place in the country’s
capital of Nouakchott which the President was traveling, has
been condemned by the UN, France and the US. Ndiaga Seck reports.
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Survivors of the Atomic Bombing of Japan Visit Los
Alamos Lab 60 Years Later (3:48)
Today marks the eve of the 60th anniversary of the atomic
bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, and the second bombing of Nagasaki
three days later. To commemorate those days and to remember
the consequences of the blasts, two atomic bomb survivors
have come to Los Alamos National Laboratory to witness where
the nuclear bombs were created. As Leslie Clark reports, the
day was filled with sorrow and forgiveness.
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