A major new arms control agreement which bans the use in stop // across the unions has been signed in the Irish capital, Dublin. More than 100 countries have agreed to ban / bombs, weapons that explode into tiny bomb lets. There have been blame for killing hundreds of civilians, often years after been used in vattle. Thomas /, the campaign across the / coalition, says this is a very important agreement.
This is an incredibly positive document. It's going to see a new nomb, a new stand of international behavior that we will say, across the / are unacceptable, that will be stimutized. And we will also say that the use of explosive forcing areas is also beginnings of the unacceptable for the international community. So it is curiously significant on community of the Irish, which have done a brilliant job for / to get a /.
Some of the major users of classic bombs, however, won't be signing. The US, Russia, China and Israel were absent from the Dublin meeting.
A Mexican governor said the army will be deployed on the streets of Mexico for at least another two years in the fight against the country's drug /. About 25 thousand troops have been involved in the battle with the cartels for more than a year. Dunkin Kennedy reports from the Mexico City. The government has never put a time / on the use of Mexico's regular army in the fight against the cartels. The army has been deployed for more than a year. Now, according to /, Mexico's / general, it will be at least another two years before the army can withdraw. Mr. Moral said he saw no quick end to the violence which has left 1400 people dead so far this year.
A former member of George Bush's inner circle has accused the president of relying on political propaganda rather than the truth to sell the war in Iraq to the American people. In a new memoir, Scott McClellan, a former White House press secretary, said President Bush rushed into an unecessary war. Jack Izzard reports.
Two years after he resigned, Mr. McClallen has written a stinging critic of the Bush ministration, accuse the president of "veering terribly off course and boarching the afterwards Hurricane Katrina". Perhaps most damning of all flaves of President Bush ran a political propaganda campaign to persuade the Americans' support on the // of president's personal qualities, charm, wit, and enormous political skill, with overall ABC visual attack on the ministration.
The first American court martial to arise from the killing of civilians in the north Iraqi city of / three years ago is underway in California. Lieutenant Andrew Grace is accused of striking justice. It's the first case to counter trial in the biggest US criminal prosecution involving civilian death in Iraq. It's alleged that 24 people were killed in 2005, in revenge from a rode-side bombing, in which an American marine died.
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Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has called on the Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to stand down. Mr Olmert is currently battling allegations of corruption. Mr. Barak said he could not remain as Prime Minister while also facing a police investigation.
Farmers' groups in Argentina have stepped up their protests agaist new export taxes, banning all exports of grain and beef for almost a week. It's the latest stipulation of a two-month conferentation with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, which has already caused riots and food shortages across Argentina. The farmers say that the tax increases are trippling them, but President Fernández insists the money is needed to register wealth to the poor.
A special assembly in Nepal has ventured to abolish the / after more than two century's in Nepal. King Birendra has now 15 days to leave his palace in central Kathmandu. The / decision was delayed for many hours while members of the assembly argued over an intric plan for a presidential system for the poll. There is no immediate reaction to the decision from the king himself.
Scientists in the United States have taught monkeys to control a robotic arm through electrodes planted in their brains. The researchers hope the research may vertually allow paralyzed visions to operate artificial lims with their minds. Here is our science reporter Paul /.
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh have built complex robotic arm conflicted with joints in / that is much like human hands. Then they ran tiny electrodes through the artificial lim planted in monkey's brains. Using food as rewards, scientists managed to train the monkeys to control the robotic arm using only the power of their minds. Within a few days, the animals are using the / to feed themselves with marshmellons, chunks of foods and other treats.
Our report was by Paul /, and it's the latest BBC news.
