download

Now after the news reports around world from our own correspondent.

BBC world news with JM.

The United Nations Security Council has strongly condemned the suicide bomb attack on the Iraqi parliament on Thursday. One member of the parliament was killed in the explosion which occurred in the parliament's cafeteria within the heavily fortified green zone compound in Baghdad. From the United Nations in New York, LT reports.

The fifteen-member UN Security Council issued a statement condemning in the strongest terms what it called the terrorist attack targeting the democratic elected council of representatives. Terrorism constitutes one of the most serious threats to international peace and security, said the statement and any acts of terrorism are criminal and unjustifiable. All countries in the United Nations were reminded of their obligation to cooperate with the Iraqi authorities to bring the organizers and sponsors of such terrorist acts to justice.

With Nigerians going to the polls in nationwide elections in the few hours, there are concerns over security and regularity of polling. The head of European Union's Observer Mission MD told the BBC that very few observers have received their accreditation cards and would doubt so whether the voters have been registered correctly.

"We are seeing samples where \ faces were not in. Our people are looking clearly under the age of 18.So there are questions that the national observers they say we are blocked because accreditation cards were not delivered or very few, that means a lot of them, we were talking about ten to thirty thousand people might not be allowed to enter in the polling station."

Meanwhile there is heavy security in the northern city of Carnal after a living militant Islamic cleric S was shot dead on Friday.

The White House has said it expects the legal World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz to remain in his position despite being criticized by the executive board of the band for arranging a highly paid promotion for his girlfriend. Speaking at a news conference, the White House spokesperson DP said President Bush had full confidence in Mr. Wolfowitz.

President has full confidence and \ for what he has done, a remarkable job at the World Bank were they are working to lift people walk out of the poverty from around the world. He has apologized for the matter and his board is undergoing an internal review and we expect him to remain as the World Bank President.

A senior member of Somalia's transitional government has accused Ethiopian troops in the capital Mogadishu of committing genocide there. Its armed opposition to their presence is grown. The accusations came from HI, the former Somali warlord who is currently deputy Prime Minister of the transitional government but it becoming increasingly strange from it. Ethiopia dismissed Mr. ID's comments since the absolute fabrication.

This is the world news from the BBC.

The Democratic Party in the United States has responded with disbelief to admission by the Bush administration that it deleted important e-mails which might have shed light on the controversial dismissal of eight federal prosecutors last year. The chairman of the Senate juditial committee P asked the White House for a swift probe into the matter and said Congress would also investigate.

Police in Britain are assessing whether the exiled Russian billionaire B committed any offense when he appealed to call for the violent overthrow of the Russian President Virdamine Putine. Mr. B, who is based in London said force was needed to bring about a change of government in Moscow. A British government spokesman said Britain deplore any attempt to overthrow the head of the sovereign state and expected anyone living in this country to obey its rules.

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said the health of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro has continued to improve and he is informally taken back many of his official duties. President Castro temporally transferred the power to his brother nine months ago after undergoing intestinal surgery. From the Venezuela capital Caracas ,J.

His close friend and political ally Hugo Chavez has given the world occasional updates. They stayed in regular touch and Mr. Castro recently called him on his radio show when the two of them shared joke and spoke about their revolutionary ideas. President Chaves now says Mr. Castro has resumed some of his duties. He added that he is gaining strength everyday.

The Palestinian Prime Minister's spokesman GH says the security forces are continuing to work night-and-day for the release of the BBC correspondent in Gaza Anna Johnston. He has been missing for more than a month and he is presumed to have been kidnapped. Speaking throughout his Television, he suggested more information was reaching Palestinian officials.