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BBC World News with Johnson Wakly.

President Bush has exercised his right of veto and rejected the bill in congress that would tie funding for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan to a timetable for American troop withdrawal from Iraq. He said the bill put the views of politicians before that of the military and took no account of the situation on the ground. “It makes no sense to tell the enemy when you plan to start withdrawing. All the terrorists would have to do is mark their calendars and gather their strength and begin plotting how to overthrow the government and take control of the country of Iraq. I believe setting a deadline for withdrawal would demoralize Iraqi people, would encourage killers across the broader Middle East, and send a signal that America will not keep its commitments. “ The senate majority leader appealed Mr. Bush to recognize that he put US troops into a civil war in Iraq and that a change of course was needed.

As the constitutional crisis continues in Turkey, the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that he is going to ask parliament to call an earlier general election. His address followed an earlier ruling by the constitutional court annulling the first round of presidential election held last week in parliament. The issue was taken to the court by opposition politicians in a bid to stop the Foreign Minister Abdula Gule from becoming head of state. From Ankara, S. reports.

The government has seen its candidate for president blocked by the courts, but it comes straight back on the offensive. It now seems the presidential vote will be postponed until after a general election. All / is left confirmed is the date. So Prime Minister Erdogan has appeared on television to say his party will stop campaigning tomorrow. He said the AKP is not afraid to prove it’s still the most popular party in the land.

The Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has said the country’s natural resources are now in Venezuelan hands after completing a key stage in the nationalization of the country’s oil industry. Mr. Chavez told the rally that the operational takeover of the last remaining privately owned oil fields had taken place as planed. “At mid-night on the morning of May 1, just as we announced at the beginning of the year, we recall that the installations, they had been handed over by the Oil Petroleum of Venezuela and the former government to multinational companies. We have truly nationalized Venezuelan oil. We have nationalized our natural resources.”

Thousands of immigrant workers and activists have attended protest marches in cities across the United States demanding greater rights for illegal immigrants. The rallies have been held on the first anniversary of Huge Protests across the country which saw them more than a million, mostly Hispanic workers, staged unprecedented economic boycott by skipping work for a day.

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The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has appointed three special envoys for climate change. They are expected to help Mr. Ban with negotiations on global warming. Lorry Trevelyan reports from the United Nations.

Ban Ki-Moon has said before the threat posed by war is at least matched by the climate crisis. Now, he has appointed three figures who the UN says are prominent in international environmental affairs to help make a difference. They are Gro Harlem Brundtland, formerly Norway’s Prime Minister, the ex President of Chile Ricardo Lagos , and Han Seung-soo, a former Foreign Minister of South Korea. The trio will meet governments and others to see how the UN Sectary General can help make progress on climate change negotiations.

The socialist candidate in the French presidential election Seglene Royal has told supporters that victory by her right wing opponent Nicola Sarkez next Sunday could lead to civil strife and brutalization of public affairs. Speaking at big rally at a stadium in Pairs, Ms. Royal said she wanted a France where no one was excluded, where social justice could accompany economic efficiency.

The Palestinian Prime Minister Ismil Hania has said he is working hard to secure the release of Alan Johnston, the BBC correspondent who disappeared in the Gaza Strip seven weeks ago. It’s believed the journalist was abducted on his way home from work in Gaza City on the March 12. Speaking after meeting members of the European Parliament who are visiting Gaza, Mr. hania said it was important to the Palestinian government that Alan Johnston was freed. The European delegation raised the issue with Mr. Hania.

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