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The UN Security Council has agreed to start work immediately on drawing up news anctionsagainst North Korea following its claim to have tested a hydrogen bomb. There is skepticismthat Pyongyang's latest nuclear test, the fourth in adecade, was powerful enough to have beena hydrogen device. From Washington,here is Aleem Maqbool.
“The White House says initial analysis is not consistent with the North Korean claims it testeda hydrogen bomb. Nevertheless, its condemnation of whatever nuclear test might have takenplace was unequivocal.The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting when members saidPyongyang had threatened world peace. The Council resolved to come up with strong measuresto deter North Korea in the future.”
The Governor of California Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency in response to amajor methane gas leak that has forced thousands of people from their homes on theoutskirts of Los Angeles. Peter Bowes reports from LA.
“Thenatural gas leak has been going on since October. It stems from a vast undergroundstorage field in Porter Ranch on the outskirts of Los Angeles.Local people have complainedabout headaches, nausea, vomiting and dizziness,although health officials have said the gas isnot toxic. According to the Southern California Gas Company which owns the storage facility,the leak has been traced to a steel pipeline more than 1,000 meters under the ground.”
The US Defense Department says that two Yemeni detainees held in its prison facility inGuantanamo have been transferred to Ghana. They are the first Guantanamo inmates to berelocated to Sub-Saharan Africa. Enn Buzby reports.
“The Pentagon said one detainee Khalid al-Dhuby was approved for release ten years ago andthe other Mahmud Umar Bin Atef in 2009. But they couldn't leave until a stable country wasfound to receive them. Although neither man has ever been charged with any crime, they aren'tallowed to return to Yemen. TheForeign Ministry in Ghana said it is the request of the USgovernment that it agrees to take in the men for a period of two years. It said their activitieswould be monitored.”
Officials in Libya say shelling by Islamic State militia of two main oil terminals has sparked firesthat have spread to giant storage tanks. Fires are said to be raging in Es Sider and Ras Lanufnear the city ofBenghazi. Libya's National Oil Company said ten security guards had been killedand forty injured since Monday.
The man accused of buying the guns used in the deadly shooting in San Bernadino in Californialast month has pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges. Fourteenpeople were killed in the attackon a social center by Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik. Enrique Marquez was a friend ofFarook and a Muslim convert.The FBI says he admitted planning other mass shootings withFarook, but never carried them out. He faces up to fifty years in prison if convicted.
Worldnews from the BBC.
Qatar has become the latest country to show its support for Saudi Arabia in its dispute withIran by withdrawing its ambassador to Tehran. Kuwait, Bahrain,Sudan and Djibouti have alreadycut or reduced their diplomatic ties with Iranin the continuing fallout from the Saudi'sexecution of a prominent Shiitecleric. This was followed by a violent protest against theSaudi Embassy in the Iranian capital.
The World Bank has said that there would be global economic growth this year,but it forecaststhat it would be modest and held back by weakness in many emerging economies. BragSchisger Ernzoger is one of the authors of the WorldBank report.
“This is the key risk to global growth in 2016, in our view, thata number of emerging markets,not just one, but a number of large emerging markets, slow at the same time. And weestimate, for example, that 1% decline in BRICS growth, with slow growth in other emergingmarkets by 0.8%, and possibly global growth by 0.4%.”
During its first full session in control of the Venezuelan Congress, the opposition has defiedthe Supreme Court swearing in three of its members suspended for alleged electionirregularities. The move gives the opposition atwo-thirds majority which could eventuallyclear the way for a referendum on whether the Socialist President Nicolas Maduro should remainin office.
The President of Haiti Michel Martelly has said his country's delayed presidential runoff electionwill now take place on January 24. It was postponed last month to allow investigations intoalleged vote rigging in October's first round, which gave the lead to the government backedcandidate.
The video streaming site Netflix says it's now available in nearly every country in the world. Thefirm announced it has switched on its service in 190 countries including India, but not China.
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