The ceremony will take place in Romania today to activate a key part of an American missiledefense system. It's designed to protect NATO countries in Europe from ballistic missileattack from Middle East. Jonathan Bill reports. America spent 800 million dollars on radar andintercept missiles hauls into the old Romanian air base. US officials say the system is configuredto deal with any threat from the Middle East and name Iran as a potential aggressor. Despitethe recent agreement with Tehran on its nuclear program,Iran is still developing its own ballisticmissiles. America and NATO insist it's not about Russia and could not be used against its longerrange intercontinental ballistic missiles. But Russia sees the missile defense shield does aprovocation and a violation of previous treaties.
More than half of the Brazilian senators, taking part in an all-night debate on whether toproceed for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, has said they would vote in favorof the move although the vote itself is still several hours away. It now seems all but certainthat she will be suspended from office today. Wyre Davies reports from Brasilia. Brazilianpoliticians love to talk, 81 Senators given 50 minutes each, equals more than 20 hours of thedebate. Attempts you could tell that a lot of time fell largely on deaf ears. After all, the chanceto impeach of president doesn’t come around very often. Dilma Rousseff faces formal chargesthat she illegally used state banks to conceal the size of the deficit, charges which shedismisses as baseless.
The Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who is attending an international anti-corruption summitin London today, has told the BBC that the illegal drug habit of West is the main driver ofcorruption in his country. He said his government was determined to address the issue, butit needed help. Earlier this week in unguarded comments caught on Cameron, the BritishPrimeMinister David Cameron described that Afghanistan and Nigeria as fantastically corrupt.But President Ghani said there were no heart feelings about these remarks. He was describingthe legacy of the past, a legacy in which many actors, many factors combined to produce oneof the most corrupt countries on earth. But that’s not the desire of our people, and I’m beenelected on a mandate to make transparency, accountability, rule of law the imperative.
Donald Trump appears to row back on his plan for a temporary ban on Muslims entering theUS if he becomes a president. In an interview with Fox news, he said it was just a suggestionthat he hadn’t been called for yet. He was responding to remarks by London’s new Muslimmayor Sadiq Khan. He rejected Mr. Trump’s suggestion that exception would be made for himto visit the US. BBC news.
The Japanese government has insisted that Tokyo successful bid to host the 2020 Olympicswas clean. The government spokesman denied the reports in Britain’s Guardian newspaper byclandestine payment of nearly 1.5 million dollars. The paper alleges that the sum was paid bythe Tokyo bid team into an account links to the son of the disgraced former world athleticschief Lamine Diack.
The World Health Organization says more than 80% of the world's urban resident is breezingpoor quality air. In a new report, the WHO says air pollution in cities increases the risk of lungcancer, asthma and other diseases and causes more than 3 million premature deaths a year.Delhi, Cairo and Dakar, top at list of the most polluted cities. Maria Naro of the WHO said Indiaand China face the biggest charges. We know that there are several cities in China, several citiesin India that they are very much and they area bove the levels of pollution recommended bythe air quality guidance in WHO and therefore I think these two countries, Indian and China,they need to do mass efforts because the situation at the moment is really bad for thepopulation.
The French government is facing a vote of no confidence in parliament today after it force to acontroversial bill designed to reform labor laws. Right wing opposition parties have called forthe vote a day after the government invoked a rare clause in the constitution to pushthrough the reforms. The opposition is thought to be around 40 votes short of a victory. Butthey expect some support from within President Francois Hollande's own socialist party.
The Japanese car maker Mitsubishi and Nissan have confirmed that they are discussing apossible financial deal as Mitsubishi struggles to recover from falsifying its fuel efficiencyfigures. Japanese media reports suggest Nissan will take a 1/3 stake in its rival to become thesingle largest shareholder. BBC news.
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