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There was a rare suicide bombing in Afghanistan today. At least 12 people are dead and many more were wounded.
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I'm Jamie Robertson. The headlines.
Could the Arctic ice cap melt completely by the end of this century?
Angry protests in Tehran and Europe's moves to halt Tehran's nuclear program.
It's called the swindle of the century. Parmalet's former boss is in the dock for fraud.
And the French budget surprises economists with a rosy view of the economy.
The vast Arctic ice cap is shrinking so fast it could melt away completely before the end of the century.
These are the dire warnings from NASA scientists who say they're stunned by the findings.
They claim more ice on the North Pole is disappearing every year because of climate change.
BBC Science correspondent Kristi Magoti explains.
A vast frozen wilderness. But the climate here is changing.
And for the wildlife, that could be devastating.
Floating ice provides polar bears with a platform for hunting seals.
But new satellite data shows sea ice melting at a rate of 8 percent every decade.
This map shows how sea ice changes with the seasons spreading in the cold Arctic winter
and then decreasing in the summer months to a September low.
But this year, that's 500,000 square miles less than in the 1970s.
I'm flabbergasted, to be honest.
What we all typically see in the Arctic is we'll have a low sea ice year,
but we'll recover the next year, just natural variability.
But we're not. Every year, it's less and less sea ice.
So why is the melting ice in the Arctic so important?
It plays a crucial role in managing the sun's radiation.
The ice actually reflects much of it back into space.
But where the ice disappears, the darker ocean absorbs more of the sun's energy.
And this causes the planet to warm up further.
If it carries on like this, then the Arctic could be at an ice-free state by 2070
or possibly even faster than that.
And that will have implications for wildlife or the people that live up there.
We may be talking about having to relocate entire villages on the north coast of Alaska
and places in Canada.
So is this melting the result of man-made global warming or just part of a natural cycle?
The scientists who carried out the new work are convinced that human activity
is changing this polar landscape.
Christina Gurti, BBC News.
With talks due to begin on Monday on Turkey's accession to the EU,
there's still no agreement in Brussels over whether Ankara should be offered
full membership or something less.
The atmosphere was further sour today when the European Parliament demanded
and Turkey rejected a call for it to recognize as genocide
the killing of Armenians under Ottoman rule in 1915.
Although the demand is non-binding, some MEPs see it as a prerequisite
for Turkey's membership of the EU.
Turkey insists that the killings of Armenians were not systematic genocide.
BBC's Johnny Diamond says the row over whether the killing of Armenians was genocide
or not is a sign of deeper concerns.
Well, I don't think an awful lot will happen now as far as this issue is concerned.
The position of the European Parliament on the question of the alleged genocide
is well known, it's held this position for a long time.
Certainly the position of the Turkish government on the alleged genocide
is very well known.
I think it was pretty obvious that it was going to brush it aside.
Perhaps more important than the substance of any discussion over a genocide
or the lack of a genocide is the mood music that's coming out.
On top of the diplomatic ructions which are carrying on,
there is still no agreement between the member states
as to what the negotiations framework should be.
The European Parliament has started to go chilly.
I wouldn't say cold, but it is going chilly in parts on the whole idea of Turkish membership.
Now, it did vote in favour of Turkish membership today as it's voted in favour in the past,
but there are clearly parts of the Parliament which are very unhappy about Turkey's behaviour
and the negotiations process hasn't even started yet.
We're expecting the process to be long and painful, Johnny.
Everyone acknowledges that, but what are Turkey's expectations?
Well, this is one of the key problems, which is that Turkey looks upon the negotiations process as just that,
as a negotiation, as perhaps an area where there is give and take.
The Europeans look upon this really as where the EU lays down the law that Turkey has to accept,
and so there may well be a rather major clash of cultures.
It's also said by some diplomats, and there's some historical proof in this,
that Turkish negotiators are notoriously stubborn and often very successful in that stubbornness.
So there are a host of problems to come, but over the next five days the British presidency of the EU
has to get round this problem of quite what Turkey is being offered.
Is it being offered just full membership, which is the majority opinion,
or will they insert some alternative in, which is what Austria wants, to full membership,
which would make the Turks walk away from the negotiations without them even starting?
Angry protests have been staged outside the British embassy in Tehran
against international moves to halt Iran's nuclear programme.
Several people were injured in the scuffles while demonstrators calling for the expulsion of the ambassadors
through petrol bombs at the building.
So what's the cause? The BBC's Frances Harrison has been following the demonstration in Tehran.
Frances, tell us what happened.
Well, it started off fairly peacefully, although students did say that they wanted to do to the British embassy
what students in 1979 had done to the American embassy,
in other words, surge over the wall and take the diplomats hostage.
They described the British embassy as a den of spies, the same terminology used for the American embassy.
They talked about how they wanted to close the embassy down.
They called it the den of the old colonial fox.
They called for the expulsion of the ambassador.
And on the nuclear issue, they asked for Iran to leave the nuclear non-proliferation treaty,
a move which would seriously escalate the crisis.
They threw tomatoes, Molotov cocktails, stones.
The police tried to beat them back as they surged towards the gate.
And as you can see, several people were injured.
They burnt flags.
And the police had to use tear gas to move the crowds away.
And Frances, is this hardline mood amongst the students also being reflected amongst politicians and Parliament?
I think so. I think so, certainly amongst the press, for example.
Many of the hardline newspapers have been calling for the same sort of things.
They've been openly debating whether the British ambassador should be expelled or Iran should rethink its allegiance to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
And, of course, we have a bill that was presented in Parliament today, which may be some time before it's actually voted on,
but which calls for Iran to rethink its adherence, its implementation of what's known as the Additional Protocol,
a very important treaty which allows international inspectors access at short notice to nuclear sites in Iran.
So that's being threatened that that may not happen.
And inspectors are very concerned about that because it would make their work in Iran extremely difficult
if they didn't have those rights of short notice inspections.
Frances Harrison, thanks for the update from Tehran.
Six people have been killed by a female suicide bomber in northern Iraq.
More than 30 people were also wounded by the blast outside an army recruitment center in the town of Talafa.
A joint American and Iraqi military operation has just finished in the area with the detention of 500 alleged insurgents.
President Bush has warned that there will be an upsurge in violence in Iraq before next month's referendum on the draft Constitution.
The terrorists will fail. See, the Iraqis want to be free.
They proved that last January when over eight million citizens in the face of violence and threats voted.
The terrorists are going to fail this time.
But we can expect they'll do everything in their power to try to stop the march of freedom.
And our troops are ready for it.
Officials in Afghanistan say a suicide bomb attack has killed 12 people and wounded more than 20.
The bomb went off outside a military training center in Kabul.
U.S. soldiers, NATO peacekeepers and local police immediately blocked access to the site on the Jalalabad road.
Witnesses say the bomber drove up on a motorcycle as Afghan cadets and recruits were waiting to board buses on their way home.
Reports say the suicide bomber was in uniform.
For the second day running, hundreds of African migrants have tried to climb over the border fence dividing the Spanish enclave of Meir from Morocco.
The Spanish authorities are currently doubling the height of the barrier to prevent such incursions.
Forty migrants and five Spanish police officers were hurt in the clashes.
The migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa are hoping to enter the European Union.
Three hundred have now crossed into Meir.
The BBC's Katja Adler joins me now on the line from Madrid. Katja, tell us more about what happened.
Well, at this very moment, the Spanish authorities have sent the army in to try and reinforce that fence surrounding its North African enclave of Meir.
After up to a thousand Sub-Saharan Africans tried to storm their way through it over two nights, consecutive nights this week,
the double fence is essentially, as you say, a land frontier between the European Union and Africa.
And over the last few weeks, with this news coming in that the Spanish authorities want to double the height in the wall,
immigrants have been using increasingly desperate techniques to cross over.
They've been using ladders and what Spanish officials have described as military tactics.
In the latest incident, four hundred immigrants climbed the barrier and braved razor wire in groups to make it harder for them to be arrested and returned to Morocco.
As you say, forty of them were injured, though none seriously. One remains in hospital.
Despite clashes with border police, who were using riot gear today and yesterday, three hundred immigrants managed to enter Malia illegally this week alone.
So you've got the temporary accommodation centre there overflowing. More than five hundred immigrants are now being housed in army tents.
And what Spain wants to do by February next year is double the height of that border fence to higher than the Berlin Wall, they say.
Katya, thanks for updating us from Madrid.
The Russian government has taken another step towards retaking control of the country's lucrative energy supplies.
State-controlled Gazprom has agreed to buy a controlling stake in Russia's fourth-largest oil company, Sivnet.
The deal, worth around thirteen billion dollars, will significantly increase Gazprom's presence in the oil centre.
It will also increase the wealth of its billionaire owner, Roman Abramovich.
Mr Abramovich, who also owns London's Chelsea Football Club, is expected to make a huge profit.
Stay with us till the come on the programme.
Great pictures, the mysteries of the deep are revealed.
Giant squid are photographed alive for the first time ever.
The parents of the Brazilian man mistaken for a suicide bomber and shot dead by London police have visited the underground station where he died.
Jean Charles de Menezes' mother again called for the head of the Metropolitan Force to resign.
Mr de Menezes was shot dead in July, a day after a series of attempted bombings on the capital's transport system.
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Grief, anger and incomprehension.
Jean Charles' family visit the flat where he lived.
It was here on the morning of July the 22nd that he left for work, never to return.
Today they retraced his final steps, a grim journey through the suburbs of an unfamiliar city.
They say they want the police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, to resign.
We want the police involved in the case to be punished and arrested.
And the chief of police too, because he's guilty as well.
Jean Charles was 27. He came to London from Brazil to work as an electrician.
That morning he took the bus to the tube station, crossing this road unaware he was under surveillance.
Mistakenly identified as a suicide bomber, he was shot dead by armed police after boarding a train.
Arriving at Stockwell Station today, his family were taken down to the platform close to where he died.
Their sadness at losing a loved one is matched only by their desire for justice.
This visit is a deeply personal one, but it's acquired an undeniable political dimension.
Andy Tai reporting there.
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The UN wants to provide assistance to 300,000 people.
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One of Europe's biggest ever fraud trials has begun in Italy over the collapse of the Parmalat food empire.
The company's founder and 15 other bosses are accused of false auditing
after more than 16 billion dollars went missing from the firm's accounts.
From Rome, our correspondent Daniel Sanford reports.
It's the latest humiliation for one of Italy's greatest entrepreneurs.
Calisto Tanzi built Parmalat from nothing to a multinational business empire.
Today he went on trial for manipulating the company's share price
after a 14 billion euro hole was found in the company's accounts.
Parmalat is primarily a dairy products company.
The scandal came to light two years ago.
Since then investigators have been trying to unpick a complex web of bank accounts in a series of criminal trials.
Strangely, despite being at the center of a financial crisis, which is one of the biggest Italy's ever seen,
Parmalat's products are still available on shelves right across the country.
The company is still operating and there are plans to relist it on the stock market.
But the Parmalat scandal is still making waves in Italy's financial institutions.
One senior consultant says Italy's banks were partly to blame and must now reform.
New rules need to be injected to control the banking system, to avoid this scandal.
And these are not there. There is no revolution in the banking system in Italy.
The tragedy of Parmalat is that many of the losers were small investors who'd put money into the company as a safe bet.
They stand little chance of getting anything back in what one prosecutor called the swindle of the century.
Daniel Sanford reporting there from Rome.
Well Jamie joins us now with the International Business News. Jamie, a few surprises then in the French budget.
Yes, very optimistic surprises. Whether they are going to be proved correct is a different matter.
The French Finance Minister Thierry Breton has unveiled his first budget since his appointment earlier this year.
And he's surprised economists by saying he would rein in the budget deficit to within European Union limits for the first time since 2001.
But it does depend upon strong growth.
Mr Breton told a parliamentary commission that he expected economic growth of between 2 and 2.5%.
As yet many analysts are saying that the target is too optimistic.
Mr Breton insisted the outlook for the French economy was improving despite the effect of high oil prices.
More bad news from the ailing Japanese electronics group Sanyo.
It is warning that it will sink even further into loss than previously feared.
The figure for the year looks set to be more than $1.2 billion as opposed to the $814 million which had been anticipated.
Now this means the pace of its 14,000 job cuts is now going to be accelerated.
It's going to stop production of DVD players and it will close several plants.
On those markets, down 10, down just a touch.
We've had some durable goods figures which is the volume of goods which have a shelf life of more than three years.
Hence the expression durable goods.
And they were actually quite optimistic.
They were quite positive.
And that picked the market up at the beginning of trade but it's fallen back just a touch now.
Looking at the European markets, they've actually done reasonably well today.
FTSE gaining almost 1% but DAX up about 1.3%.
That is the businesses.
Durable goods, Sanyo.
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New studies claim the Arctic ice cap has shrunk to its smallest ever size and may have slipped into irreversible decline.
Angry protests in Tehran, Europe's moves to halt Iran's nuclear program.
Now for centuries it's been a creature of legend.
Now one of the sea's most frightening predators has been captured alive on film for the first time.
Marine scientists discovered a giant squid up to eight meters long off the coast of Japan.
Palakos has the story and the pictures.
A real life monster from the deep.
After years of searching the first pictures of a living giant squid.
Its eyes are the size of dinner plates and its tentacles are so powerful they could rip someone apart.
An average person is just over one and a half meters tall.
The newly discovered squid is eight meters around 26 feet, the length of a bus.
But they can grow to 18 meters, the height of a five story building.
The creature was discovered by a Japanese scientist.
He first noticed that this giant tentacle had gripped onto his research vessel.
It was amazing he says.
We could actually touch the tentacle and it was sucking my fingers.
The giant squid is part of our myth and legend.
There are tales of them fighting with giant whales and capsizing entire sea vessels.
Now for the first time we know what these mysterious creatures are really like.
Until now scientists have only been able to examine dead remains.
But pictures of a living creature has given them new insights.
Some people have thought these animals are very inactive, they just drift around in the oceans.
Other people have thought they are highly active and will attack prey and swim very actively.
Now this video footage has shown that in fact the giant squid are very active animals.
These astonishing pictures show that the giant squid really is a fierce predator from the depths of our oceans.
Pallab Ghosh, BBC News.
Still to come, David will be here with all the sports news.
Chelsea and Liverpool prepare for their Champions League sequel.
Military observers from 24 countries have attended China's annual war games in Inner Mongolia.
Around 16,000 troops from the People's Liberation Army waged a mock battle at the sprawling Zhu Ruhai training base.
That's about 500 kilometres northeast of Beijing.
They say it's part of their move towards greater transparency.
Daniel Griffiths has more.
China putting its military might on show.
Army, Air Force and other troops taking part in war games in the dry grasslands of Inner Mongolia.
And this year a record number of foreign observers, sounding impressed by what they saw.
I think they did an outstanding job.
They hit the drop zone, their timing was spot on.
And they achieved the objective that their commander wanted them to achieve.
Around 16,000 troops are involved in the battlefield exercises.
Also hundreds of tanks and armoured vehicles, as well as artillery and airborne support.
And for a military often shrouded in secrecy, Chinese commanders seemed happy to display their armed forces potential.
It's activities like this that provide opportunities for China's army to coordinate with foreign armies in our efforts to keep world peace and promote human development.
Last month China and Russia carried out the first ever joint exercises between the two countries.
And make no mistake, politicians across Asia and in Washington are keeping a close eye on Beijing's growing military power.
Daniel Griffiths, BBC News, Beijing.
A lawyer for the South African mining magnate Brett Kebbell, who was shot dead on Tuesday, says he appears to have been deliberately targeted.
Mr Kebbell was recently forced to step down as chief executive of three mining firms after they ran into financial difficulties.
Police are investigating whether he was the victim of a random hijacking.
David joins us now with the sports news. A busy time in the Champions League.
If you don't like football, this is not your night.
But before we look ahead to tonight, let's just quickly recap on last night.
Because the big surprise was FC Tunnes' remarkable first win in the competition proper.
The Swiss part-timers joined the likes of Bayern Munich, Juventus, Barcelona and Manchester United as last night's winners.
They can't even play on their own regular stadium because it hasn't passed safety tests.
Nevertheless, they beat Sparta Prague with a goal two minutes from time.
As a result, they're now second in Group B behind Arsenal, who won at Ajax.
Among Wednesday's eight ties, Real Madrid play Olympiacos, having remember been soundly beaten by Lyon two weeks ago.
Now, that result led to calls for the coach, Vondrilli Luxemburgo, to be sacked.
Although it is true his team has found a bit of form of late in La Liga.
The highlight, though, surely must be at Anfield where reigning champions Liverpool take on English rivals Chelsea,
who remember were knocked out by Liverpool in the 70s last season.
However, Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho says tonight, not about revenge.
If the ticket office at Anfield looks quiet, there's only one reason for that.
This match has been sold out for weeks.
Liverpool are the last side to have beaten Chelsea thanks to a controversial goal from Louis Garcia
in the semi-finals of last season's Champions League.
Now, in the same competition, they're looking for a similar result.
We have a better team, they have also new players, and they are in a good moment.
They are winning all the games and OK, we think that it will be difficult.
But we have two important things.
The first one is our confidence and the second one our supporters.
Chelsea have little to prove in the Premier League, but while they're here at Anfield,
they may want to come and visit the museum because this is where they'll see the European Cup.
Time and a Premier League title haven't healed the pain of that European defeat for Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho.
He still insisted Louis Garcia's shot hadn't crossed the line and that Liverpool's triumph didn't make them the best in Europe.
Many times the Champions League winner is not the best team in Europe.
And I was Champions League winner and I keep saying the same.
Did you think Liverpool were the best team in Europe?
No.
Liverpool have the chance to prove him wrong in what promises to be one of the matches of the season.
James Monroe, BBC News.
To quieter waters now, the America's Cup is concluding its 2005 racing season this week in Trapani, Sicily.
Now the usually quiet water from there has been completely transformed into a real buzz of activity
as the 12 America's Cup teams embark on Acts 8 and 9 of the Louis Vuitton Cup.
Organisers have plotted the two race courses to the north and west of the town within view of spectators on the shore.
The teams arrived last week after a long nautical journey from the previous Acts in Malmo.
Team Alinghi still the dominant force so far.
But hot on their tail, the American entry BMW Oracle, followed by the Italians Luna Rossa and Emirates Team New Zealand.
They were all separated by just one point.
On to baseball finally and a David Ortiz double RBI in the fifth inning ensured the Boston Red Sox beat Toronto Blue Jays 3-1.
Ortiz score with his second of the game and the win now means the Red Sox are in a tie for top spot with the Yankees in the American League East.
Now with just six games left in the regular season, the winners of this division won't be decided until the two teams meet in a season ending three game series in Boston.
Which should be great. That's it.
David, thank you.
You can get more details about the news stories in this program by logging on to bbcnews.com.
You'll find more analysis on the melting of the Arctic ice cap.
There are details of the American research showing that the ice surrounding the North Pole has shrunk by a third.
And that's happened in the last 10 years.
The site including links to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, background analysis on global warming and satellite images of the ice in the polar region.
Scientists are fearing that the North Pole's ice cap could disappear within 80 years.
All those details at bbcnews.com.
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