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BBC World News with Mike Cooper.

The US Senate has approved a bill that would set a deadline for the beginning of withdrawal of American forces from Iraq. The bill which had already been passed by the House of Representatives makes future war funding dependent on the first troops being pulled out from Iraq this autumn. The White House has confirmed President Bush would veto the measure. F. H. reports from Washington.
Congress is now in a collision course with the President. In the close vote fifty one to forty six largely along party lines, the senate has passed the controversial funding bill. This provides $124 billion for continuing in the war in Iraq on the condition that troops start withdrawing from Iraq at the beginning of October with a goal of completing a pull out by next April. President Bush has strongly rejected the timetable for withdrawal saying he would not accept surrender dates for the war. Ha has said the bill would tie the hands of military to priming them of means to succeed.

The NATO aligns has said it gravely concerns by Russian moves to suspend participation in the arms treaty limiting conventional forces in Europe. President Putin appeared to link his decision with American plans to put out elements of new missile defense system in Poland and Czech Republic. Here is our diplomatic correspondent Jenison M. “The NATO Secretary General / says the Russian announcement was met grave concern disappointment regret now that’s not quite diplomatic pull side, but certainly is a strong recalls what it seen as a really rather worrying in Russian’s stand. It shows dealing with Russian is going to be much difficult and that matters because Russian is member of Q. trying to bring peace to the Middle East and vitally Russian is a key player in efforts trying to persuade Iran to give up its plans to enrich Uranium.”

The official route of the Olympic torch for next year’s games in Beijing has run into a political controversy. The itineray would take the torch from Taiwan to Chinese territory of Macao and Hong Kong. Taiwan, which China regards as a breakaway province, has rejected that. S. J. reports.
Plans to bring the Olympic torch to Taiwan were always going to be controversial given the differences between China and Taiwan over the island status. With an hour of the route being announced, Taiwan’s Olympic committee had angrily rejected the arrangements. The chair of the committee issued a statement saying Beijing was trying to incorporate Taiwan into the domestic part of torch relay that belittling the island status.

Gunfire in mortar rounds have continue to echo with the streets of Somalia capital Mogadishu as Ethiopian troops and their Somalia allies try to drive the insurgents and militias from the city. The Somalia Prime Minister A. M. G. had earlier said most of the fighting has ended and it was now safe for resident to return. A local human rights group which monitors civilian casualties said nearly sixty people have been killed in fighting on Thursday.

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The Algeria armed forces say they have shot dead a leading figure in the North Africa branch of Al-Qaeda. The Algeria news agency said the suspect / was killed during a clash with the army on Thursday. S. was described as the coordinator and second in command of the group known as Al-Qaeda in the Islamic M.

A group of scientists says it discovered what caused the catastrophe bout global warming that took place 55 million years ago. The temperature rise caused mass distinction and subtropical temperature in the arctic. Writing in the journal science, the scientists say it was triggered by a massive volcanic eruption. A. explains.
Scientists have long known that 55 million years ago there was a big rise in atmospheric green house gases matched by an equally big rise in ocean temperatures. What they did not know was what caused it. Now a team scientists from Denmark United States claimed they found the real reason. They say massive volcanic eruptions and lava flows, the same volcanic activity which drove Europe and Greenland apart, heated up sediment the / organic matter and release some 2000 giga tons of carbon into the ocean and atmosphere. The result, global warming.

A power cutting in Columbia is affecting more than 60% of the country including the capital M. Traffic lights / out causing chaos on the roads and trading was / temporally suspended by the stock exchange in /. The authorities have ruled out a rebel attack since the blackout was caused by a technical failure.

The British astrophysicists C. Hawking has fulfilled his ambition to find out what it feels like to be weightless especially modifying plane carrying the professor whose / paralyzed by / neuron disease took out from Florida in the US and flew for more than an hour performing a series of dramatic dive over the Atlantic. Professor hawking in the crew was able to floating in zero gravity for periods up to thirty seconds.

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