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BBC World News, I'm Michael *Pauls.
[1]The American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Israel where she's been holding late night talks with the Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. She'd earlier made a previously unannounced visit to Beirut where she held 2 hours of talks with the Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora on how to end the hostilities. Our State Department correspondent Jonathan Beale is traveling with Ms. Rice and sent this report.
Throughout her mission Condoleezza Rice has repeatedly stated that while a ceasefire is desirable, it should not be at any price. Speaking beside Israel's Foreign Minister, the US Secretary of State said that every peace had to be based on enduring principles. Tzipi Livni accused Hezbollah of wanting to set the region in flames. Both made clear that any agreement depended on the release of the captured Israeli soldiers and the disbanding and disarming of Hezbollah. But Doctor Rice would want to know how far Israel's prepared to go to reach its objectives. The US secretary of state went out of a way to appear even-handed. She said that this was very difficult time for Israeli, Lebanese and the Palestinian people. No one she said wanted to see innocent civilians harmed.
[2]The Americans have announced that ships and helicopters carrying aid would start arriving in Lebanon on Tuesday. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the Israeli bombardment in Lebanon. And during her visit to Beirut, the American secretary of state chants she was deeply concerned by their plights. The American say they are working with both Israel and Lebanon to open up what they're calling humanitarian corridors. The White House Spokesman Tony Snow said the United States was to send aid to Lebanon from Tuesday.
At the order of the president, humanitarian supplies will start arriving in Lebanon tomorrow by helicopter and by ship. We're working with Israel and Lebanon to open up humanitarian corridors. This is not a device designed to mute criticism. It is a move that it is designed in recognition of the fact the innocent men, women and children were being hurt and that's an awful thing.
[3]The United Nations top humanitarian official Jan Egeland had sharply criticized Hezbollah, calling on its militants to stop hiding like cowards among the civilian population. He said he'd heard Hezbollah was expressing pride that he had lost fewer of its fighters with civilians bearing the brunt of the fighting and said there should be no pride about more women and children being killed than armed men. Mr. Egeland told reporters in Cyprus that he was speaking out to allay the impression that he'd been critical only of Israel. Israeli army says heavy clashes took place during the day as its ground forces moved further into southern Lebanon. The Israelis said 2 of their soldiers were killed in the fighting as well as 2 pilots who died when their helicopter crashed. Israeli air strikes on Lebanon have also continued while Hezbollah fired more rockets into Israel.
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[4]European Union ministers have agreed to allow limited funding of research on stem cells from human embryos but not if a potential human being is destroyed as a result. The compromise aimed to address objections from Germany and 7 mainly Catholic countries who insisted that the EU should not pay for work entailing with destruction of potential human life. From Brussels Alex Krueger reports.
After a day of haranguing and horse-trading, EU ministers agreed the deal to continue funding human embryonic stem cell research. In order to receive funding projects, using embryonic stem cells must undergo a strict review process both at national and EU level. There will be no money for research aimed at human cloning for reproductive purposes or to modify genetic heritage. And the EU will not finance the procurement of stem cells, which involves destroying an embryo although once stem cells have been obtained. There is no block on funding they use in research.
[5]Thousands of people have taken part in protests in the Somali Capital Mogadishu against military intervention by neighboring Ethiopia. The demonstrators gathered at a rally in the capital, which has been under the control of an Islamist movement, the Union of Islamic Courts for the past 2 months. It accused Ethiopia of sending troops into Somalia to support the transitional government based in the central town of Baidoa. Our East African correspondent Peter G reports.
The protesters gathered in the stadium in Mogadishu in the latest show of opposition to the Ethiopian presence in the west of the country. At least 3, 000 demonstrators demanded that Addis Ababa pull its forces out or face a jihad. Ethiopia last week sent several thousand soldiers into Somalia to protect the weak transitional government based in Baidoa from Islamic militants. Islamic Courts Union now controls much of the country including Mogadishu where residents say security and stability is back for the first time in a decade.
Talks held in Sudan between the Islamic Courts Union and the transitional government which correspondents say has little authority outside Baidoa have been suspended.
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Vocabulary
brunt noun bear/take/suffer etc the brunt of something to receive the worst part of an attack, criticism, bad situation etc an industry that bore the brunt of the recession The car took the full brunt of the explosion.
allay verb [transitive] allay (somebody's) fear/concern/suspicion etc to make someone feel less afraid, worried etc The president made a statement to allay public anxiety
harangue verb ha‧rangue / həˈræŋ / [transitive] to speak in a loud angry way, often for a long time, in order to criticize someone or to persuade them that you are right harangue somebody about something He stood on the street corner, haranguing passers-by about the stupidity of the forthcoming war.
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