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Hello I am Julia Cantler with the BBC news.
The head of World Athletics Sabastian Coe says thesports governing body faces a long road before it willbe trusted again. He was speaking after a report bythe World Anti-doping agency said corruption wasembedded in the IAAF.
If we do not resolve, there are no tomorrows for athletics. And I know we are at crossroads,and it is a very very serious situation. The issue that we now have to confront is what is itthat we need to put in place and some of that is already on the way. That means we neverreturn to this horror show again.
The Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a new investigation into the kidnappingof more than 200 school girls by Boko Haram Islamists nearly two years ago. The teenagerswere seized from their dormitories in the northeastern town of Chibok, attracting internationalcondemnation. Martin Patients reports from Abuja.
President Muhammadu Buhari says that invesigation will examine the circumstances that lead tothe kidnapping and the government's response from aftermath. But more than a year and halflater, it's unlikely the investigation will produce any fresh leads on what happened to the girls.The announcement followed a meeting between the president and the students' families. Thepresident who was not in power when the girls were kidnapped, told the families he was doingall he could to find their daughters.
Saudi Arabia's foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir says he hopes talks between the Syriangovernment and rebel groups will go ahead in ten days' time, in spite of tensions between hiscountry and Iran. The Syrian government has strong Iranian backing, while key rival groups aresupported by the Saudis.
We hope that their talks will begin on 25th, so we can launch the process. The talks will bebetween Syrians and Syrians. We will not be at the table, nor will Iran. We are commited to theprocess, the transition process in Syria, we are committed to the what is called now theVienna process, the Geneva principles, and the principles enshrined in the UN Security Councilresolutions in spite of our differences with Iran.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said starvation is being used as a weaponof war in the Syrian conflict, and that all sides are committing unconscionable abuse.
Let me be clear, the use of starvation as a weapon of war is a war crime. All sides includingSyrian government, which has the primary responsibility to protect Syrians, are committingthis and other atrocious acts, prohibited under international humanitarian law. France, Britainand the US have requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to demand thelifting of seiges of towns in which hundreds of thousands of people are trapped, and to allowaid deliveries.
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Macedonia's president Nikola Gruevski says he will resign on Friday ahead of early elections thatare due to be held in April. His departure is part of a deal brokered by the European Union toend months of political crisis. Mr. Gruevski came under pressure to step down when theopposition released phone tap recordings of judges, diplomats and journalists.
The worldwide Anglican church has suspended the Episcopal church in North America from fullparticipation in matters of doctrine for recognizing gay marriages. Anglican leaders meeting inCanterbury, said marriage was a union between a man and a woman, and the Episcopal churchhad fundementally departed from the faith held by the majority of Anglicans. Caroline Winereports.
The resolution which was leaked tonight shows that the majority of primates agreed byrecognizing same sex marriage, the Episcopal church in the US, departed fundamentally fromthe faith and teaching of the Anglican communion, causing, on the primates term, deep pain.The most majority of primates reaffirmed that marriage was between a man and a woman. Asa result, for three years, Episcopal church can no longer represent communion on inter-faithbodies, nor take part in internal decision making on doctrine within the Anglican communion.
Officials in Brazil say a fire at a cargo warehouse have spread a plume of smoke and toxicchemicals over the country's biggest port Santos. The company that owns the building, said thecontainers were full of acid and infectant, which they think came into contact with rain watercausing a reaction. The cargo terminal and nearby houses had been evacuated. The localmayor had appealed to residents to stay inside with their windows closed.
The Mexican authorities have seized a number of exotic birds at a ranch linked to JoaquinGuzmán, the country's most notorious drugs lord, who was recaptured last week after sixmonths on the run. The animals included peacocks, macaws, cockatoos, and severalendangered species.
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