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This is the BBC in London, first the news in detail.
BBC news with Marian Marshal.
The former Columbian presidentia candidate Ingrid Batancout has been reunited with her family the day after she was rescued from six years of captivity at the hands of FARC rivals. Mrs. Batancout and fourteen fellow captives were freed by the Columbian forces close to the Venezuela border.
The Columbian government says it’s the beginning of the end of the FARC.
James Ingham reports from Bogota
Columbian president lvaro Uribe says he wants the hostage rescue to be a path towards peace. But he remains committed to fighting the guerrillas with force.
President Chvez said that he too yearns for a peaceful solution, but he wants the maotist guerrillas to be listened to and to play a role in the political future of the country. Ingrid Betancourt herself has thanked president Chavez and Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa for their mediation. But she's told them they must respect Columbian diplomacy.
Columbian has elected lvaro Uribe and not the FARC, she said.
From Columbian, Ingrid Betancourt is expected to fly to France, where she grew up, studied and raised her two children.
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Firstly in a sense that was infiltrated; secondly there was a break down in communication with leaders, a lack of coordination in their operations, a lack of logistics. In short, it is an organization that is finished."
with the French media covering her release virtually nonstop, Ingrid Betancout is expected to receive a lavish welcome.
Regular direct chater flights between the mainland China and Taiwan are starting today, the first of such service in more than 14 years. The flight will connect Beijing and four other major Chinese cities with Taiwan which has been preparing for a major influx of tourists that could stimulate its economy.
Karolin Clark reports from Taiwan.
The non-stop direct flights have been seen as another historic step of relations between the two sides. A total of 36 flights will be launched this weekend, connecting five major cities in China to six airports in Taiwan. More than 600 Chinese tourists would be traveling to Taiwan on week-long package trips. They’ll be given the red carpet treatments.
Their numbers are expected to rapidly increase since Beijing has said it would allow up to 3000 tourists a day to visit Taiwan from July 18th.
After a hearing lasting more than 6 hours, Turkey’s highest court has said that it will rule as soon as possible in the case closing down the country’s governing party. The BBC’s correspondent in Ankara says that the verdict is not expected to before August on whether the AK party which has its rule in political Islam should be disbaned and dozens of its members banned from politics. The prosecutor said that AK leaders wanted to impose Islamic law on Turkey but AK officials denied this.
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Ethiopia says its troops have killed at least 71 Islamist insurgents in fighting in central Somalia this week. In an arrest statement of its military operationl in Somalia, the Ethiopia defense military said among the dead were several leaders of the union of Islamic coups ...He didn’t mention how many Ethiopians were killed.
Zambia has denied report that president Levy Mwanawasa has died in hospital in France, when he was taken for treatment after a stroke. The Vice President Rupiah Banda said, that Mr. Mwanawasa‘s condition was stable.
Earlier, a south African radio station reported Mr.Mwanawasa has “dead”, quoting Zambian officials. President Mwanawasa was rushed to hospital on Monday after being taken ill at the African Union summit in Egypt and was later flown to Paris.
A judge in the United States has ordered the internet search company Google to hand over all the details of every vedios that every user has watched in its subsidiary You Tube.
The order was part of a copy right case brought by a American media giant Viacom
Rory Cafen Jones reports.
Viacom accuses You-tube of infringing its copyrights by allowing its users to post matierial from its program. Now a judge in the United States has ordered Google to hand over all its records. That include every detail that have been watched by any of You-tube’s millions of users around the world plus then the logging details for the site. Privacy campaign have attacked the ruling arguing that it threatened to expose deeply private informations about the viewing habits of You tube users.
At least five people were drowned in Slovenia after their kayaks broke up and they were sucked under water into a hydroelectric dam. Eight other people are still missing. Rescue workers think the boats sank after hitting the partially built dam on the Sava river. A member of parliament at a major city nearby is reported amongst the missing.
