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The Italian Senate has voted to expel the former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi fromparliament with immediate effect. Mr. Berlusconi who is 77 has been barred from public officebecause he has a criminal conviction for tax fraud. But the media mogul has alreadydeclared that he will not be leaving politics. Our correspondent in Rome Alan Johnston says acomeback cannot be ruled out.
He's absolutely defiant and in anybody's thought that he would go quietly.He intends tocontinue to lead his party from outside parliament.It attracted considerable support at the lastelection and will no doubt continue to do so,he is a very wealthy man,he has a lot of moneythat he can pour into his political projects,and he has a media empire behind him that can puthis message into countless Italian homes.
The European Commission says Britain must accept its freedom of movement rules if it wantsto stay in the EU single market. The commission's vice President Viviane Reding described thefreedom of movement of people in Europe as a non-negotiable right. She was responding toearlier comments on limiting the rights of migrant workers by the British Prime Minister DavidCameron. The commission's President Jose Manuel Barroso says he has emphasized to Mr.Cameron the UK's responsibilities.
Prime Minister Cameron called me yesterday informing me about the intentions he has on theseissues. And I had the occasion to underline to Prime Minister Cameron that free movement is afundamental treaty principle that must be upheld. At the same time I took good note thatthe United Kingdom wants to ensure that measures it plans to take respecting European law.
The military strongman who led last year's coup in Mali, General Amadou Sanogo has beenarrested in charge with murder and kidnapping. He was remanded in custody. Our Africa editorRichard Hamilton has more in this report.
General Sanogo was taken by force from his residence early in the day by a unit of soldierssent by the Ministry of Defense. He has repeatedly been called for questioning over the deathsof six soldiers during an army protest in September but fail to appear. Despite stepping downand handing control a civilian administration, the General remained a powerful force andmany believe he was calling the shots. The new President of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, isunder pressure to restore the state's authority over the military which overthrew theprevious presidents and plunge the country into chaos.
The Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has said that continued armed blockades of oil terminals inLibya have plunged the country into a financial (chaos) crisis. Mr. Zeidan told journalists inTripoli that as the result, Libya was now exporting less than a quarter of its oil productioncapacity.
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Part of a Football stadium in Brazil that has been built to host opening game of next year'sWorld Cup has collapsed killing at least two people. The stadium in Sao Paulo was due to becomplete by the end of the next month. The BBC's Gary Duffy who is in Sao Paulo says there isconcern pressure to finish on time contributed to the tragedy.
I think that's one of the questions of the investors will be asking whether the risks were taken,because the deadlines were so tighten, because it was this demand to get the work done intime. Now work in this particular stadium, the attack on Arena Corinthians here in Sao Paulowill now stop for three days as a mark of respect,that's another delay and of course Sao Paulois the only city where there are concerned about delays.
Residents of Dubai are celebrating their city has been chosen to host the world Expo tradeconvention in 2020, beating rival bids in Brazil, Turkey and Russia. Fireworks exploded of thesides of the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building after the result was announcing in Paris.Dubai will be the first in the Middle Eastern country to hold the Expo which takes place everyfive years.
There have been clashes between protesters and the police in several towns in Tunisia afterstrikes ended in violence. In the southern mining town of Gafsa, demonstrators tried to breakinto the governor's office before attacking the headquarters of the ruling Islamist partyEnnahda. In Siliana in the northwest, they burnt tyres and threw stones at the police who thentried to disperse them with tear gas.
An unusual suitcase shaped pavilion in the middle of Red Square in Moscow is to bedismantled. It's the size of five-storey block of flats more than 30-meters-long, and it's beenlife there as a publicity stunt by the French fashion house Louis Vuitton. Critics blame it'sblocking the views of St. Basil's Cathedral, Lenin's Mausoleum and the Kremlin.
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