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　　The general who seized power in a coup in Burkino Faso said he is ready to hand over to acivilian government as proposed by regional mdediators. General Gen Diendere, the Diendere'swhereabouts remain unclear. Reports that he had taken refuge at the home of a traditionalleader have been denied. More are from David Barfield. Latest report from Burkino Fasosuggested that the coup from the regular army are moving into the capital Ouagadougou, toreestablish the authority of the ousted civilian government. General Gen Diendere, who lead acoup by members of the elite presidential guard on Thursday, now appears to be concedingthat his position is untenable. He has apologized to the nation, and said he wants to aviodfurther bloodshed. Through the night, there have been communications involving the army, theguards, French diplomats and civilian leaders about how to bring about a peaceful end game.

　　Following revelations that the car maker Volks Wagon cheated in emissions test, the USgovernment says it will test diesel vehicles from all the manufacturers for similar violations. VW'sshare price dropped by about 20%, from Los Angeles, James Cook has more on the widerimpact on Volks Wagon. There is a potential in terms of financial difficulties for the company oflawsuits, becasue the whole point of these emmission standards is that they are desinged tokeep people safe, desiging to reduce the levels of polution and the atmosphere and you can seethe possibility of already healing about this in California of some kind of class action lawsuitagainst Volks Wagon because of this posibility that they contributed to higher emmissions.

　　Scot Walker, once one of the favourite to be nominated as the Republican candidate forpresident of US, has announced he is abandoning his campaign, and called for othercandidates to follow his lead. I encourage other Republican presidential candidates to considerdoing the same. So the voters can focus on limited number of candidates who can offer apositive, conservative, alternative to the current front runner. This is fundamentallyimportant to the future of the party, and more importantly to the future of our country. Mr.Walker who is the governor of the state of Wisconsin, did not name the current front runnerwho remains the M billionaire businessman Donald Trump.

　　A paraplegic man on death roll in Pakistan is due to be executed shortly despite pleas fromhuman rights organization that his hanging would constitute cruel and degrading treatment.Abdul Basit who was convicted of murder 6 years ago, is paralyzed from the waist down. Hecontracted tubercular meningitis in prison. The supreme court earlier rejected an appeal by hislawyers who said Basit was not able to stand on the gallows. Pakistan's human rightscommission has described the planned execution as shocking. World news from the BBC.

　　The US national security advisor Susan Rice has said Chinese cyber espionage for ecnomicgain is putting an innormal strain on US-China relations and has called for it to stop. She wasspeaking ahead of the first state visit to the US by the Chinese president Xi Jinping.

　　A senior official in Brazil's governing Workers Party and a top executive from the statecontroled oil corporation PetroBras have been sentenced to long prison terms for their role ina huge corruption scandal. One of them, the former Party treasurer, Joao Vaccari Neto is theclosest person yet to Brazil's president to be sentenced over the case. From Rio de Janeiro hereis Wyre Davies. These are the longest and the most significant sentences yet in a corruptionscandal that is undermining the stability and authority of President Rousseff's government.Several officials in some of Brazil's biggest construction firms have been arrested or charged inconnection with the long running scheme under which multi-million dollar bribes would pay topoliticians, middle man and managers in exchange for lucrative PetrolBras contracts at a timewhen the company was the driving force behind Brazil's economic boom.

　　President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela and his Columbian counterpart Juan Manuel Santoshave agreed to gradully reopen the border between their two countries as they worked to enda month long dispute about contraband goods. The crisis began when Venezuela closed theborder and launched a major anti-smuggling operation.

　　The former owner of an American peanut processing company has been sentenced to nearly 30years imprisonment for his role in a Salmonella outbreak that killed 9 people in 2008 and 2009.Stewart Parnell who was convicted last year of knowingly shiping contaminated peanut butterand faking the results of laboratory tests after the toxin was traced back to his Georgianpeanut factory.