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Julie Candler with the BBC news.
Saudi Arabia says it's severing all air traffic links andcommercial relations with Iran. The measures wereannounced by the Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir.
“We've decided to cut off all diplomatic relations with Iran. We will also be cutting off all airtraffic to and from Iran. We will be cutting off all commercial relations with Iran and we will havea travel ban against people traveling to Iran.”
The announcement comes amid extreme tension between the two countries following theSaudi execution of a dissident Shiite Muslim cleric Nemer al-Nemer.”
British intelligence sources have told the BBC they believe they've identified the main suspectto the latest propaganda video by the Islamic State group. He's been named Siddhartha Dharfrom east London. Frank Gardner has more details.
“Within hours of the latest Islamic State propaganda video being posted online, Britishintelligence agencies were working to establish the identity of the masked militant shownmurdering one of five bound captives in cold blood. There has been growing speculation itcould be Siddhartha Dhar,a British jihadist arrested in 2014 and who later jumped bail toappear in Syria holding his young son and a machine gun. A senior member of the bannedIslamist extremist group Almhar Jirun has told the BBC he has no doubt that the voice is thatof Mr. Dhar.”
The US Justice Department is suing the German carmaker Volkswagen which has admittedfitting emission cheating software to millions of vehicles. The lawsuit accused VW of causingexcessive pollution harming public health and cheating consumers. From Washington, here isJane O'Brien.
“The civil complaint is the latest episode in the scandal that is threatened to engulf what wasthe world's largest automaker until last year when the cheating allegations emerged. TheEnvironmental Protection Agency says thousands of tons of excess nitrogen oxide wereemitted from Volkswagen diesel cars as a result of software that activated pollution controlsonly when the vehicles were being tested. The lawsuit covers around half a million cars, but VWhas admitted installing the devices on 11 million. ”
Stock markets in the United States have closed down for the day by more than 1.5%. It's theDow&Jones's worst start to a new year since 2008. Share prices worldwide fell on Mondayprompted by weak economic figures from China. Andrew Walker reports.
“The slides started in China and it has spread to the great majority of financial markets. Theinitial fall was in part a response to news of a declining Chinese manufacturing output lastmonth which reinforced concerns about just how abruptly the country's economic growth isslowing. That's one of the biggest uncertainties hanging over the rest of the world. The moodamong international investors was also adversely affected by the latest political tensions thathave erupted in the Middle East.”
World news from the BBC.
President Obama has discussed his plans to tighten gun controls in the US with the attorneygeneral and the head of the FBI. After meeting them, Mr. Obama defended his proposal tobypass congress and announce new measures through a series of executive orders.
“We have tens of thousands of people every single year who were killed by guns. We havesuicides that are committed by firearms at a rate that far exceeds other countries. We have afrequency of mass shootings that far exceeds other countries in frequency, and although itis my strong belief that for us to get our complete arm around the problem, congress needs toact, what I asked my team to do is to see what more we could do.”
Twenty of the 30 presidential candidates in the Central African Republic are calling for the voteto be canceled alleging it was fraudulent. It was hoped that Wednesday's poll would helprestore peace to the country while thousands have died in the sectarian violence.
Germany says passport-free travel in Europe is at risk. The warning follows a decision byDenmark to tighten controls at its southern border with Germany to try to tackle the influx ofmigrants. The Danish prime minister said this was in response to similar measures taken bySweden. The German foreign ministry spokesman Martin Schafer says the European Union as awhole must strike a deal to protect the Schengen Agreement allowing freedom of movement.
The Spanish football giant Real Madrid has sacked their coach Rafa Benitez after just sevenmonths. He'll be replaced by Zinedine Zidane, a former France captain who's been coachingReal's B team, Real Madrid currently third in the league behind Atlético Madrid and arch rivalsBarcelona. Benitez has been under growing pressure since a four nil defeat to Barcelona inNovember.
BBC news.
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