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Hello, I'm Jonathan Izard with the BBC news.
Within the last few minutes, Greek MPs have approved a tough set of bailout conditionsimposed by the European Union. Brussels has said that the Parliament must accept its demandsbefore talks on a new rescue package for the Greek economy could begin. In the final appealfor a YES vote, the Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras repeated that he did not believe the measures,but that there were no alternatives to acceptance. He was given a standing ovation bysupporters, but many other MPs spoke out angrily against the EU package.
The US President Barack Obama has stressed that the deal reached on Tuesday over Iran’snuclear program presents an once-in-a-lifetime chance for a safer world. Under the agreement,strict limits will be imposed on Iran’s nuclear activities in return for the lifting of cripplingeconomic sanctions. Jon Sopel reports from Washington.
"Almost more striking than what President Obama said at his news conference about the Irandeal was the tune in which he said it. He came out swinging, confident in his argument, all thefact seemingly at his fingertips, came to make the case that on the central goal of stopping Iranobtaining a nuclear weapon, this agreement had to be supported. The president has said there’llbe a robust debate with the Congress. It looks like one he’s going to relish.”
Militia fighters in Yemen backed by Saudi-led airstrikes have driven Houthi rebels out of much ofthe southern city of Adem. The new offensive in support of the exiled president Abdu RabbuMansour Haddi was launched on Tuesday. Sebastian Asher reports.
"This has clearly been the biggest setback the Houthis have suffered since the Saudis began anair campaign against them in support of president Haddi in March. The success of the localmilitias in the new offensive may be due to the fact that they’ve received better arms recentlyfrom the Gulf supporters and being boosted by Saudi trained fighters. The Saudi-led coalitionhas also coordinated closely with them in its airstrikes. The Houthis have lost the airport, muchof the port and other key districts. But there are many other battle grounds in Yemen. Ademwas always a very long way from a Houthi's heartland in the north."
The Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has dismissed the leadership of the western region ofTranscarpathia after a weekend shootout that killed at least three people. David Stern is in Kiev.
"President Poroshenko made a surprise visit to Transcarpathia with an arm conflict took placeon Saturday. There, it was announced he was replacing the region’s governor, interior ministrychief and security head. It’s still unclear what sparked the shootout. What is known is thatmembers of the Right Sector volunteer battalion clashed with the police and the security detailof a local politician at a sports complex in the city of Mukachevo. Right Sector membersreportedly used automatic rifles, grenade launchers, and a hand-fed machine gun."
The French interior minister says four people have been arrested in connection with a plannedterrorist attack on a military site. The four who were arrested on Monday included a formersolider aged 23.
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An attempt by Mexico to open up its oil industry to foreign investors for the first time in 80years has fallen short to the government’s expectations that only two of 14 exploration blocksin the Gulf of Mexico were rewarded at an auction broadcast live on television. The governmenthad expected to sell out at least four blocks. Output has been declining for years in Mexico,which is the world’s tenth largest oil producer.
A US Congressional committee has begun investigating the American reproductive health groupPlanned Parenthood after a video surfaced in which one of its executives seems to benegotiating the sale of fetal body parts. Plant Parenthood denies selling fetal body parts forprofits. It said the undercover video circulated by anti-abortion groups was heavily editted tomisrepresent the group.
Spain has raised the legal minimum age for marriage to 16. Until now, Spanish teenagers agedfourteen could marry with the permission of a judge. Though the practice is becomingincreasingly rare with only five such marriages in the past year. The new law's intended toprevent false marriages and exploitations of teenagers by paedophiles.
High-definition images of the dwarf planet Pluto revealed that it has huge ice mountains andcanyons as big as anything on earth. The images captured by the US space agency NASA’s NewHorizon’s probe on Tuesday are the most detailed evertaken of Pluto. Our sciencecorrespondent Jonathan E was at mission control in L, Maryland to see the pictures coming.
"After yesterday’s dramatic flyby, there was high anticipation for this presentation. The firstpin sharp view of the enigmatic little planet at the edge of our solar system. The inviteduniversity audience was an informed one. But even they were drawn to a gasp and clapped atevery new image. The big surprise is how few the craters are seen, something you wouldexpected in old surfaces. This means this world may still be active, reshaping themselvesthrough some process that is yet to be explained."
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