倫敦萬人遊行抗議公投脫歐

　　7月6日BBC聽力：倫敦萬人遊行抗議公投脫歐

　　Nine Italians and seven Japanese nationals were among the 20 killed in an Islamist attack on acafe in Bangladesh on Friday night. Militants stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery cafe in Dhakaand held staff and customers hostage for about 12 hours before army commandos launched arescue operation. Jill McGivering reports. Through the night police tried to negotiate with themilitants, but in the end commandos stormed the cafe, where late on Friday about eight youngmen armed with guns and knives opened fire on diners and then took hostages. It's anupmarket European-style cafe in a district popular with foreigners. Many of the dead wereItalian and Japanese. The mass murder of foreigners is unprecedented in Bangladesh. The so-called Islamic State group said it was behind the attack.

　　Police in southern Bangladesh say a Hindu priest is fighting for his life in hospital after he wasstabbed overnight on Friday by unknown assailants. The attack comes a day after anotherpriest was hacked to death, the latest attack by suspected Islamist militants.

　　The new leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan has said his group would consider negotiating apeace settlement if the government in Kabul sever its links with western backers. WaheedMassoud reports. In his first 'Eid message' the Taliban's newly appointed leader MullahHaibatullah Akhundzada has said the group did not want a monoply on power, but emphasisedthe Kabul government must sever its links to its western backers as a preliminary step towardsnegotiating a peace settlement based on Sharia law. His predecessors Mullah Omar and MullahAkhtar Mansoor had also not totally rejected peace talks with the Afghan government. But theyhad insisted that foreign forces leave Afghanistan and Sharia law form the basis of any futureconstitution.

　　Tens of thousands have been protesting in central London against Britain's decision to leavethe EU. One organiser said protestors hoped to stop the government from triggering artical 50,which begins the formal process of withdrawing from the EU. While Brexit was backed by amajority of the electorate, voters in the capital strongly supported the Remain campaign, andsome want a rerun. It's fairly evident that their result doesn't reflect the entire population. Ithink there seem to be a vast number of people who on the basis of the result and what'shappened since are evidently feeling that they've made the wrong decision. They weren't fullyinformed. We voted to remain. But I'm shocked at how many people who have turned aroundand say that if voters were going to look like this, we're going to be doing this.

　　A mosque in northern Myanmar has been burnt to the ground by a rioters mob wielding knives,sticks and other weapons. The attack in Hpakant in Kachin state follows similar violence againsta mosque in central Myanmar last week. You're listening to World News from the BBC.

　　With about half the votes counted in the Australian general election, results so far suggest avery close contest. There are indications of swing towards the opposition Labor Party,putting at risk the majority of the ruling coalition government. The current Prime Minister,Liberal Party leader, Malcolm Turnbull called the early election after independents in the senatecontinued to block the government's legislative agenda.

　　Reports from Syria say that government shelling and air strikes have killed at least 25 people inthe rebel-held town of Jayrud, northeast of Damascus. The attack came a day after Islamistrebels captured and killed a Syrian airforce pilot in the area. Our Middle East analyst AlanJohnston reports. Reports from Jayrud say there were dozens of air and artillery strikes. Theplaces hit included a school and a residential area, and several medical workers are said to beamong the dead. On Friday a government pilot was forced to bail out of his warplane andparachute to the ground near Jayrud. He was captured by Islamist militants and soon put todeath. The army described this as an appalling crime and promised that those responsiblewould be punished.

　　The most senior executives at Iran's National Development Fund have been forced to resignfollowing revelations over how much they were paid. The head of the fund was reportedlyrecieving more than 60 times the national minimum wage. Correspondents say Sayyed SafdarHosseini, who was handpicked by the moderate President Hassan Rouhani, has been targetedby Iran's conservative media.

　　Data released by the Bank of Greece shows that nearly half a million people have left thecountry since the global financial crisis of 2008. Many are thought to have sought betteropportunities in countries including Germany and the United Arab Emirates. Unemployment inGreece remains at about 25% and is even higher among young people. BBC News

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