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Welcome to BBC World News. I'm Michelle Hussain.
President Bush has insisted that the United States will never run away from its responsibilities in Iraq.
He was giving his first public reaction to the killing of 16 American soldiers on Sunday.
In the latest incident in Baghdad, a series of powerful explosions took the city center and there were attacks in other cities.
But there has been some good news for the president.
The U.S. Senate has approved an $87.5 billion package for military operations and aid for Iraq and Afghanistan.
The wounded arriving at the U.S. base in Germany. This is the only glimpse the American public is allowed of yesterday's or any other casualties in Iraq.
The administration has banned the filming of returning coffins, drapes into stars and stripes.
An image that once saps the morale of the Vietnam generation.
But as their numbers mount, the unseen dead stalk the president wherever he campaigns for re-election.
Today he was at a crane factory in Alabama, ostensibly to talk about the resurgent economy.
But it is his reaction to events in Iraq that everyone wants to hear.
We mourn every loss. We honor every name. We grieve with every family.
And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.
Listen to the applause. Much of America still thinks that the war in the desert is this president's response to 9-11.
Even if Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with the hijackings.
America will never run.
America will do what is necessary to make our country more secure.
This morning the injured Americans arrive in Germany for treatment.
There was nothing good about this morning. These are the headlines that the White House never imagined six months after the toppling of the dictator.
From coast to coast the papers dish up the bad news.
51 percent now think that the president is mishandling Iraq.
On the campaign trail and on Capitol Hill, the Democrats are using the ongoing war as a battering ram.
We spoke to Senator Hillary Clinton after one of the many Iraq hearings.
The administration was still prepared that it did not go into this with the appropriate level of understanding.
That it ignored experts like those who were convened by the State Department to look at all of the issues that would be raised.
And that even still today as we saw in this hearing, they are not acting in a way that creates confidence and trust.
Forecast from Colorado, the banners are out to welcome home the soldiers who set out on their ill-fated journey yesterday.
Four will now return in cotton.
Matt Fry, BBC News, Washington.
More than 130 U.S. soldiers have now been killed in Iraq since President Bush declared an end to major combat operations six months ago.
The deaths of affected communities in every part of the country.
The deep south has always been a major recruiting ground for the U.S. military.
Sir Rakeem has been to Orangeburg in South Carolina to see how it's coping with the losses in Iraq.
In the land of cotton, far from America's cities, they're learning to fear the news from abroad.
This is Orangeburg County, South Carolina.
And the yellow ribbons are for the safe return of some of those soldiers in Iraq.
But with the attack on the helicopter, there is a sense of foreboding.
We want to pray for the soldiers that are on the sea fighting.
We want to lift up the friend, those that have lost loved ones.
This community has already paid a high price in Iraq.
Sergeant Anthony Thompson won't worship here. He was killed in Iraq a month ago.
This is a closely bound community, patriotic, but questions about the Iraq war are growing.
It doesn't matter how we got there, but I don't think we'll ever get out.
And for the next 10, 20, 50 years, I believe we'll be there, and I don't think we'll ever solve anything.
At the local newspaper, The Times and Democrat, they scan the news from Iraq with more than a professional interest.
For one of their staff, 27-year-old Larry Hardy is an Army reservist driving convoys in Iraq.
He's been gone nearly a year.
Larry Hardy's mother and siblings call to the newsroom regularly to see if there's any fresh news of him.
I must be so glad when this over and he's back over here. I really will.
Do you think it's worth it?
No. I don't.
Why not?
I don't know. It's any process. I really don't.
The declared purpose of the war was to protect America, but the casualties are eroding any certainty of a chance.
This is the home of the Mack family, a corner of the sleepy rural South.
President Vaughan Mack grew up here, aged 19, he died in Iraq.
Here, war, politics are translated into the most personal cost.
I'm going to miss him this Christmas because every Christmas, you know, my boy, he's together with a family,
I guess he's not going to be there to the table for Christmas this year. And that's okay, because I could, I'm adjusting to it, because I have to.
But they do believe here that Vaughan Mack died to protect his country.
We can't just let people walk over and it is a shame that so many young men have to die to protect ourselves.
This is a poor area and for many young people here, the army is the only way out, the route to a better future.
Now, if people in areas like this start to turn against the war in large numbers, George W. Bush will have a serious political problem.
Among the quiet graves of Orangeburg County, the headstones from other wars, a testament to a tradition of sacrifice.
But they also know their history here and they're beginning to ask where all of this will end.
Fergal Keene, BBC News, Orangeburg County, South Carolina.
A portrait of one community that's been affected by the continuing losses in Iraq.
Let's get a view now from the Pentagon and join our correspondent there, Nick Charles.
Nick, that was just a glimpse of one town in South Carolina, but is it possible to get any sense of how morale in the military has been affected by the losses in Iraq?
Well, I think there is great concern about the whole issue of morale.
It's something that military commanders here always insist that they are looking at very carefully.
The mood around here, I have to say, in the light of the helicopter attack is that of, I suppose one could describe it as grim determination.
There's no sense here of any diminution of the significance of this as far as the personal losses are concerned.
At the same time, they are insisting that they are not going to be deflected by this as far as strategy is concerned.
The wider issue of morale is, of course, what impact this will have, particularly as the names of the victims in the helicopter incident become known and the communities themselves respond to that.
And more broadly, there is this wider concern about, albeit that they say the operational impact of all this is negligible,
the wider concern is what public support is going to be affected by what has happened, particularly in the last week or so.
Nick, how best then can the Pentagon try and deal with the possible changes in the public mood?
I mean, let's talk about handing over power to Iraqis.
I mean, that doesn't really remove the military from Iraq as targets, does it?
I think they will and have been saying that they are going to stick to the strategy as far as possible
to try to take the fight to the enemy in terms of going on the offensive with raids as well as bring more Iraqis into the equation.
The problem for the Pentagon and the administration as a whole, I think, at the moment is that people are looking for answers now.
They are looking for answers as to who precisely is behind the attacks and how precisely to deal with them.
And this is not going to be a quick and easy solution.
Even Donald Rumsfeld in public is saying that. The question is whether public opinion is going to accept that as a sufficient response for the moment, given the undoubted anxieties that exist.
Nick, just briefly, are we any closer at all to the issue, which obviously is more political than military, of getting other countries involved in Iraq?
Is that something the Pentagon is also pinning its hopes on?
I think they are still hoping for more countries to come along, to bolster the international effort.
But clearly the priority at the moment and where all the resources are being placed is on trying to get more Iraqis into the field more quickly.
And certainly in terms of, for example, getting a multinational division in to help replace Americans in the early part of next year,
I think that has gone away because of the difficulties in the negotiations.
So it is much more, I think, the issue of bringing Iraqis in now that is the priority.
Nick, for now, thanks very much. I'll take a second to correspond to that.
Now to the reaction across the Anglican Church to the consecration in the United States of its first openly gay bishop.
There's been strong criticism from Nigeria where Archbishop Peter Akinola says his group of Anglican leaders will not recognize the ministry of Bishop Gene Robinson,
the Archbishop of Canterbury who's the head of the Anglican Church worldwide,
so the present divisions are a matter of deep regret.
In Kenya, one bishop threatened to break off links between his diocese and the U.S. Episcopal Church.
He said he won't support homosexuality, primarily because it's a sin.
And the head of the Nigerian Anglican Church has warned that a state of impaired communion now exists between it and the U.S. Church.
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A defining moment for the Anglican Church, the consecration of its first openly gay bishop, Gene Robinson, in New Hampshire yesterday is certainly one of the most controversial.
If the homosexuals are the same people there, who can say that?
Nowhere more than in Africa where the Church is vehemently opposed to homosexuality and there's been talk of a split over the issue.
Opponents there say it's with profound sadness and pain that we have arrived at this moment.
We cannot and will not recognize the office or ministry of Canon Gene Robinson as bishop.
People cannot be practicing Christians who hang on habits and practices that the Bible describes as sinful, including homosexuality.
Oh yes.
The Church of England narrowly avoided this confrontation in the summer when Jeffrey John, a gay but celibate canon, was appointed bishop-elect of Reading.
He stood down after Anglicans in Nigeria threatened to break away.
So how to avoid a split and reconcile such fundamentally different views?
That's the challenge here for Lambeth Palace, the very heart of the Anglican Church.
They've asked tough questions like this before, just think back to the ordination of women.
But already this issue looks like being much more difficult to resolve.
The Archbishop of Wales is on the commission set up to examine how the Church might accommodate diverse views.
A liberal is concerned that the African Church hasn't thought through the implications of a risk in the Anglican communion.
My hope is that people will see that what holds us together as a communion far outweighs what separates us
and that whatever our differences, there is room for diversity and we should hang on in there together.
But while Gene Robinson begins his ministry immediately,
Church leaders around the world must wait a year before they get any guidance from the commission on how to reconcile their differences.
Anita McVeigh, BBC News.
Today old Russian businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky has resigned as head of Russia's largest oil company, Yukov.
In a statement Mr. Khodorkovsky said he was leaving to spare his workforce from the blow aimed at him and his partners.
He was jailed eight days ago on charges of fraud and tax evasion, sparking a crisis of business confidence and the resignation of President Putin's chief of staff.
I've been speaking to the Russia analyst Anatoly Levin.
I asked if President Putin is prepared to risk more invest affairs about Russia after the arrest of Mr. Khodorkovsky.
I don't think that he will take it that far.
I think that he has sent a warning by Mr. Khodorkovsky to the other oligarchs essentially to keep out of politics.
And I think that Khodorkovsky's resignation is probably part of a compromise with the Kremlin,
whereby Khodorkovsky will step down but he will not in the end be prosecuted.
And you'll have essentially a new deal between the Putin administration and the oligarchs.
So a new deal meaning more of Mr. Putin's associates in strong positions?
Well, a new deal which is essentially the deal that Putin made when he came to power,
which is you keep your property if you keep out of politics.
But if you challenge me, if you try to take over Russian political parties as Khodorkovsky did,
if you try to go back to the years of the 1990s when the oligarchs basically ran the Russian state,
then we will destroy you.
I think that is the outline of what Putin is aiming at.
But certainly not a renationalization of Russian business, no.
And do you think that the oligarchs of business elite will see the writing on the wall in the way that you've stated it
and do what Mr. Putin wants?
I think they probably will simply because that's precisely what most of them have been doing.
Khodorkovsky, like Kuczynski and Berezovsky before him, really stood out by the extent of his political ambitions.
The others have kept their heads down and in consequence have not had their heads chopped off.
This is BBC World, still to come on the programme.
The virus hit cruise ships that rekindled diplomatic tensions over Gibraltar.
More on that in a moment.
But first the business news with Tonya Beckett in New York.
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and the markets end the day up. The numbers are just ahead.
A quarter of America's top brokerages allow customers to illegally trade in mutual fund shares after hours.
That's the initial finding in a preliminary report by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Congress waded in and held its first hearing into the matter.
The scandal also claimed the job of Lawrence Lasser, which is executive of Putnam,
who has resigned after his company was accused of wrongdoing.
November trading in technology stocks got off to a flying start on Monday,
helped by news that global sales of semiconductor chips were growing at 6.5%.
The Semiconductor Industry Association has been giving upbeat reports for most of this year.
And an upbeat report also from the manufacturing sector.
The October report from the Institute for Supply Management was stronger than expected
and showed the pace of job layoffs is slowing.
It's the fourth month in a row that the ISM index has shown an expansion in manufacturing.
And now to those markets. Well, they got off to a flying start on Monday's trade by the close.
Now we're up to over half a percentage point, and the NASDAQ gained a short of two percentage points
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Meanwhile, the European market also moves well into positive territory.
You're watching BBC World. I'm Michelle Hussain. The main news once again.
On another day of attacks in Iraq, President Bush says the U.S. will not run away from its vital mission.
And African church leaders refuse to recognize the first openly gay Anglican bishop.
The former police envoy during the Balkan Wars, David Owen, has become the latest witness
to appear at the war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic.
Lord Owen spent many hours negotiating with Mr. Milosevic.
He told the court that the former president could have brought an early end to the war.
It's now nearly two years since the Milosevic trial began.
All rise. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former U.S. slave is now in session.
Day 263 of the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, the most important international war crimes trial in over 50 years.
Prosecutors argue Milosevic masterminded ethnic cleansing and genocide.
But today, Lord Owen, former chief negotiator in Bosnia, concluded this about the defendant.
President Milosevic, and no doubt Mr. Milosevic as he now is, is not fundamentally a racist.
I think he is a nationalist, but even that he wears very lightly. I think he's a pragmatist.
From the moment Mr. Milosevic was dramatically flown to the Hague, there have been frustrations for prosecutors.
Others have drawn in the territorial defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He's defending himself, often in long-winded fashion.
The testimony from over 200 witnesses has dragged on and on.
This British barrister is an official trial observer.
There are many big issues here. How evidence should be heard by the judges.
I think future trials will have judges very much more in control and dictating more what charges should be brought before them.
For now, this trial grinds on, slowed further by Milosevic's fragile health.
The end seems a long way off.
It's taken millions of dollars and 21 months to get this far in the Milosevic trial.
It probably won't be over until 2006.
Clearly this is not the ideal way of delivering justice, but there may be no alternative.
Stephen Sacker, BBC News, The Hague.
Spain has reopened its border with the British colony of Gibraltar after sealing it for the first time in nearly two decades.
The reason was a cruise ship carrying passengers struck by a stomach infection which had docked in Gibraltar.
The border closure, which Britain described as unnecessary and disproportionate, left hundreds of workers and tourists stranded.
Most of the 506 passengers on board the Aurora have now recovered.
Taking down the barriers, opening up the border.
The people who've been stuck all day, finally on the move.
It's so late at night now and she was a little bit upset.
But, you know, confusing really.
I quite agree with what the Spanish people have done because you didn't know what the problem was on that boat.
The Aurora sailed in at sunrise, bringing with her the passengers turned away by grease.
During the cruise, almost 500 holidaymakers were hit by a stomach bug.
Unfortunately, somebody had come on board with the bug and it spread like wildfire.
If one person gets it and then they're touching it and they're not washing,
unfortunately there are some people on board who's hiding in the sea instead of the third.
And that was too much for Spain.
Citing concerns for public health, it closed the border for the first time in decades.
Spain is clearly trying to behave, or we seem to be behaving, as a player in what should or should not be allowed to happen in Gibraltar.
And we're not certainly not going to go along with that agenda.
We will just continue to make our own decisions sensibly through our own authorities on the basis of information and judgment.
I've got to go to Spain this morning.
The border closure meant thousands of people couldn't get to work.
Truckers like Andy Bray, trying to get to England, lost time and money.
My government's got ten vehicles down there which aren't working.
I have to boot on turnovers and stuff, not early.
With the sovereignty dispute ongoing, some here are convinced that political point scoring lay behind the closure of this frontier.
We felt that could not happen in the Europe of today.
They've done it. It means we cannot rely on them. We must be very careful.
It's been a long day on the rock.
The Aurora brought her own set of problems and sailed into a diplomatic row.
This evening she left, taking her passengers home to Britain.
That report from Peter Lane in Gibraltar.
After more than a year of difficult debate in Afghanistan, a draft constitution's been unveiled.
It called for a strong role for the president who will be elected directly by the Afghan people, not by members of parliament.
There'll be one vice president, two houses of parliament and no prime minister.
The constitution describes Afghanistan as an Islamic republic.
It'll be debated next month at the Loya Duga, a grand council before nationwide elections next year.
Here in Britain, the trial of the man charged with murdering two ten-year-old schoolgirls has begun.
The parents of Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells were in court as members of the jury were selected.
The accused is Ian Huntley, a school caretaker.
His former girlfriend Maxine Carr has been charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and assisting an offender.
Both deny the charges.
Still in Britain, a man who deliberately infected two women with the AIDS virus has been sentenced to eight years in prison.
In a landmark legal case, Mohamed Ito had been found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm.
A team of international observers has issued a damning assessment of Sunday's parliamentary election in Georgia.
With 25 percent of the results counted, there have been big losses for the pro-government bloc,
allied to President Eduard Cevagnati.
Its share has dropped sharply to around a quarter of the vote.
In Indonesia, at least 70 people have died in flash floods on the island of Sumatra,
after heavy rain of river-bursted banks near a tourist resort.
The beginning of the wet season has again brought tragedy to Indonesia.
The flash flood hit early on Monday morning after a night of heavy rain,
swelled the river Bajarak in northern Sumatra.
The area is popular with western tourists who come to see the orang-tangs in the nearby national forest
and stay in hostels on the river banks.
The flood brought down telephone lines in the area,
and local authorities are still trying to establish the true scale of the tragedy and the nationalities of those involved.
Fatal floods and landslides are a regular feature of the wet season in Indonesia,
but they are becoming more common and more deadly,
as population pressure and illegal logging strip the land of the cover which used to absorb much of the rains.
This year's rains follow a particularly dry period,
and environmentalists have been warning of correspondingly heavy floods.
Attempts to preserve the environment have been only partially successful.
Illegal logging is a lucrative business that enriches many of the country's most entrenched interests,
including the army and influential politicians.
Monday's flood is unlikely to be the last such tragedy.
Tim Johnson, BBC, Jakarta.
And before we go, a reminder of the main news.
President Bush, reacting to the latest deadly attacks in Iraq,
has said that the United States will never run away from its mission there.
He was making his first public comment after the killing of 16 American soldiers in an attack on a helicopter on Sunday.
And the U.S. Senate has approved an 87.5 billion dollar package for Iraq and Afghanistan.
It will go towards funding the continuing military operations and aid for the two countries.
And that's it from the newsroom for now. Goodbye.
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