23 September 2013 Last updated at 09:11 GMT
MONDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2013
Nairobi Westgate attack: Fresh gunfire inside complex
Heavy gunfire and explosions have been heard at the shopping centre in Nairobi where militants are said to be holding a number of hostages.
Sixty-nine people have been killed and more than 170 injured since the attack began in Kenya's capital on Saturday.
Between 10 and 15 attackers are still inside the Westgate shopping centre. The Somali al-Shabab movement has said it was behind the attack.
Reporters at the scene said there had been heavy and rapid bursts of fire.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced on Monday morning it was adjourning the trial of Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto on charges relating to violence following elections in 2007.
Israel sceptical about easing of pressure on Iran to halt nuclear programme
Jerusalem says Hassan Rouhani's conciliatory remarks are not enough: Iran must remove all enriched uranium from the country
Faced with a stream of conciliatory rhetoric from Iran's president,Hassan Rouhani, and a diplomatic overture to Tehran by Washington, Israeli officials are voicing scepticism and concern about a possible easing of western pressure on Iran to halt its nuclear programme.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu says he will make Iran the focus of a meeting next week with US President Barack Obama and a speech the next day at the UN general assembly, where he drew a red line on a cartoon bomb last year.
A statement from Netanyahu's office described the newly elected president's remarks about the peaceful aims of Iran's nuclear programme and his readiness to pursue diplomacy an exercise in media spin. "The true test is not Rouhani's words, but rather the deeds of the Iranian regime, which continues to aggressively advance its nuclear programme while Rouhani is giving interviews," said the response, issued on Thursday after an interview the Iranian president granted to the American network NBC.
Bangladesh clothing workers still exploited, five months after factory fire, Panorama investigation finds
The BBC documentary suggests that British retailers use factories that provide misleading records to their clients which hide workers' long hoursMONDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2013
Five months after the devastating fire that killed more than 1,100 clothes factory staff in Bangladesh, an investigation has found evidence of employers abusing workers’ rights.
The BBC’s Panorama programme found staff making clothes for the cut-price retailer Lidl, some reportedly working 19-hour days – and even being locked inside the factory. According to the investigation, in the past 10 months there have been more than 50 factory fires, with many workers killed because the gates have been locked and they have been unable to escape.
Panorama secretly filmed a security guard locking the front gate. One worker, who had earned around £2 for his 19-hour day, said he had to be back at the factory in four hours. “My feelings are bad and my health is too. In the last two weeks, approximately, it has been like this for eight nights,” he said.
Appointments by Pope Francis tie in with plan for ‘real’ reform
Announcements illustrate pontiff’s determination to bring about ‘effective change’ in the church
Paddy Agnew
Two days after a groundbreaking interview which many believe represents a break with 35 years of doctrinal intransigence from his predecessors, John Paul II and Benedict XVI, Pope Francis continued to ring the changes in the Holy See on Saturday.
The pope made a series of appointments that fit in with an already established pattern aimed at effecting what Francis in his interview called “real, effective change” in the church.
Archbishop Beniamino Stella was appointed prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, while Archbishop Lorenzo Baldiserri was named secretary general of the Synod of Bishops. These names, in themselves, may not mean much to the wider public but the significance is obvious.
Mogul Wang Jianlin plans to build world's biggest film studio in China
Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin announces plans to build a development in China with 20 studios — including what he touted would be the world's largest — and a permanent underwater stage.
By Barbara Demick
BEIJING — China's richest man, Wang Jianlin, announced plans Sunday to build what he is touting would be the world's largest movie studio.
An $8.2-billion project to be named the Oriental Movie Metropolis, the development is to consist of 20 studios and a permanent underwater stage. It is to be located an hour outside Qingdao, a coastal city with more than 8.7 million people.
Wang, 58, the son of a Red Army veteran, is the billionaire owner of Dalian Wanda Group Corp., which last year acquired movie theater chain AMC Entertainment Inc. He was ranked this month asChina's richest man by the Hurun Report, which publishes its findings in Forbes magazine.
Are land grabs an opportunity for Africa? |
We ask if land investments on the continent represent a solution to food insecurity or a new form of colonialism. |
From hopeless continent to investment darling of the world - are land investments in Africa an answer to worldwide food insecurity or a dangerous new form of colonialism?
This week on South2North, Redi talks to former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano, Nigerian politician and Oxfam trustee Nkoyo Toyo and Philippe Heilberg, a land investor from the US.
Escalating energy and food prices have triggered a global scramble for Africa's land and water resources. Eager to feed their growing populations, countries are buying up prime farmland in Africa at rock bottom prices. Land eight times the size of the UK has already been bought up by hungry investors.
Redi asks Chissano if this investment is a new scramble for Africa.
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