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BBC news with Jerry Smit.
The former Florida governor Jeb Bush has formallyannounced that he will seek the Republicannomination for the US presidency. At a rally in Miami,Mr. Bush, whose father and brother have both heldthe highest US office, vowed to fix the country, which he said was on a very bad course. Mr.Bush also criticized the Obama administration’s foreign policy.
"From the beginning, our president and his foreign policy team have been so eager to be thehistory-makers that they failed to be the peace-makers. This supposedly risked adverseadministration is also running a straight in the direction of the greatest risk of all, militaryinferiority. It will go on automatically until a president steps in to rebuild our arm forces andtake care of our troops and our veterans."
Kurdish fighters in northern Syria say they’ve taken control of the strategic border town ofTal Abyad from Islamic State jihadists. A Kurdish militia commander Dr. Huseyin Kocher saidsome IS fighters may soon be in the vicinity, but the fighting had now stopped.
“The city of Tal Abyad is in full control of Kurdish YPG forces, we took the city after fiercefighting, attacking it from all sides. The YPG has almost finished their operation inside the city.ISIS had a lot of casualties and many of them fled before we captured the city.”
Fighters from the Free Syrian Army were also involved in the assault on the town whichcommands the road from the Turkish border to the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa.
A family from northern England has appealed for help after three sisters and their nine childrenfail to return to Britain after going on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. They fear they may havetravelled to Syria where a close relative is believed to be fighting with extremists.
An Italian magazine has published a leaked draft of the pope’s encyclical on climate change. Init, Pope Francis put much of the blame for global warming on human activity and calls on allhumans, not just Roman Catholics, to prevent the destruction of the ecosystem before theend of the century. Pope Francis also calls for the establishment of a new political authority totackle pollution. Caroline Wyatt has more details.
"The draft letter of encyclical from the pope to Catholics around the world is entitled on thecare of the common home. The Vatican will release the final document on Thursday as plannedwhile the pope’s spokesman called the leaking of the draft 'a heinous act'. The letter has beenamong the writing and the Pope is said to be keen to set the tone for the debate of a UNsummit on climate change later this year in Paris. In the draft, the pope speaks of the urgentchallenge to protect our common home and ensure that development is sustainable."
World news from the BBC
The Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir has flown home from South Africa defying an attemptto bring him before the international criminal court on charges of genocide. Mr. Bashir, whohas been attending an African Union Summit, ignored a legal order instructing him to remain inSouth Africa while a judge considered the case.
There has been a series of suicide attacks in countries fighting Boko Haram jihadists in westernAfrica. At least 23 people were killed when two bombers blew themselves up in the Chadiancapital N’Djamena. And at least eight people died in a double suicide bombing in a Nigerian townof Potiskum.
The head of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi has warned that if Greece goes bankrupt,it will take the EU into uncharted waters. Mr Draghi urged all sides try to negotiate to end theGreek debt crisis to go the extra mile and said the ongoing crisis exposed the weaknesses ofthe currency union.
"The situation in Greece reminds us that the economic monetary union is an unfinishedconstruction as long as we don’t have all the tools in place to ensure that all Euro membersare economically, physically and financially sufficiently resilient. To complete the economic andmonetary union, we need to quantum leap towards a stronger, more efficient institutionalarchitecture."
Russia has warned dangerous consequences if the United States increases its militarypresence in Eastern European NATO countries. The Foreign Ministry said the plans to storeheavy weapons in the region could lead to a new military confrontation.
A white American woman who presented herself as black has stepped down from her role in theleading civil rights organization. Our BBC correspondent says the revelation of Rachel Dolezalhad altered her apparence and identity sparked a huge debate about race in the UnitedStates.
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