Many thousands in Yemen protests

1. April 2011 last updated at 13: 27 GMT huge rival demonstrations were again taken tens of thousands of people to the streets in Yemen in the Yemeni capital, as the country political crisis deepened.

Two rival demonstrations - to support are in the capital, Sana'a, Yemen, and against President Ali Abdullah Saleh held.

Representatives of the Government and the opposition are reportedly met have and agreed to avoid confrontation.

Protests in recent weeks have on President Saleh 32-year rule brought to the brink of collapse.

He is under increasing pressure both at home and abroad immediately resign.

The UK Foreign Office has called British, as soon as possible to leave Yemen, and warned against the "high possibility of violent demonstrations" on Friday.

Transfer of power

A BBC correspondent in Sana'a, Yemen says tens of thousands of demonstrators March in two different directions in the capital this morning.

President Saleh has offered in the year 2012 step down, but want to go the opposition now it

The opposition said it would be a million people on the streets.

Government hostile demonstrators gathered in the renamed "change square" near the University.

Supporters of the President gathered together in the city of Tahrir square, about 2 kilometers (km).

Mr Saleh addressed supporters, I would like to thank them.

"I pledge myself to the people, with my blood and everything I love, keep to victims", Mr Saleh said.

Reports say that the crowds started to disperse without incident.

Our correspondent says only a political agreement between the Government and opposition is but have stopped for now all talks solution to this crisis, and neither side is willing to back down.

President Saleh agreed to resign by January 2012 has, but the opposition called for his immediate departure.

Western diplomats in Sanaa said that they are pushing for a transfer of power, our correspondent reports.

An ally of the West, President Saleh as important in the war against terrorism and to fight against al-Qaeda in the country was seen for many years. Mr Saleh says that without him, al Qaeda could take still Yemen.

But increasingly, many people in the domestic and abroad view him as the most important source of instability, our correspondent adds.

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Real ruled from Spurs game trio

Ronaldo, Benzema and Marcelo would be certain starter against the Spurs suit

Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho says that Cristiano Ronaldo in the first leg of Champions League quarter-final draw against Tottenham will play next week.

The forward struggling with a hamstring injury and striker Karim Benzema has suffered a problem thigh and defender Marcelo has sore ribs.

Mourinho said the trio not available until 9 April when his team Athletic Bilbao play.

"This is what the reports that say the medical staff," said Mourinho.

"If they were available she would play [against sporting de Gijón]." Saturday's match is more decisive than next week against Tottenham, because the latter is the best of two.

"If we don't win the first, we still have a chance in the second."

Wenger could have forward against Tottenham at the Bernabeu.

"It received only more difficult if we lose points at home." La Liga lost when we lose [against Gijon]. If we lose on Tuesday we can win the following week.

"I can not rest or Bank players like [Mesut] Ozil, [Angel] di Maria or [Ricardo] Carvalho." "I can make no more changes."

Benzema and Marcelo received their injuries in the international application during the week - for France and Brazil, respectively - while Ronaldo, the 37 goals in all competitions in his second season at the Bernabeu, has missed Portugal's match against Finland.

But Mourinho has the earlier than expected return of striker Gonzalo Wenger increased following was back surgery.

Squad to face Gijon on Saturday, included for the first time he has presented since November was the striker Argentina in real.

"His recovery is a positive surprise, because we thought he can miss play of the season until the last 15 and it is important," added Mourinho.

"Even with the best estimate we would play again it as soon expect." "We are very happy."

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Japan nuclear zone with a view to long

April 1, 2011 last evacuated one of uncertain FutureThe updated evacuation of residents in the vicinity of Japan's earthquake of affected Fukushima nuclear plant to face 12:31 pm Japan's nuclear zone long-term, officials say.

Many of the tens of thousands of people evacuated from the area around the plant life in shelters.

The announcement came as high radiation for the first time in the groundwater in the vicinity of the plant's six reactors were detected.

In the meantime, has begun a massive search, find the remains of which hit missing since the devastating tsunami.

Three weeks after the 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami, the actual number of those who died is not yet known.

More than 11,500 people are dead, but almost confirmed 16,500 remain unclear.

More than 100 Japanese and US military aircraft and 65 ships are finding all other facilities of scouring north eastern coast of the country.

Some 24,000 military personnel deal with, are the three-day air and sea operation of banks, which were largely submerged or remain under water, as the mouths of large rivers.

The BBC's Mark Worthington says a large three-day hunt for tsunami body is always in progress

Many coastal areas remain for Savior you try road or the disfigured remains of houses, ships, cars and trains give blocked not accessible.

Because of radiation concerns, the search includes not the 20 km (12 miles) evacuation zone to the Fukushima Daiichi plant, where it believed to 1,000 jobs will be.

Food contamination

More than 70,000 people within the exclusion zone in shelters moved.

More than 136,000 people, that in 20-30 km of the plant have life to leave or stay inside was encouraged by the authorities.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said that the evacuation would be "long term".

You read the most important story next reactor 1: damage to the core from cooling problems. Construction of holes of gas explosion. Radioactive water in the reactor and cellar, and ground waterreactor 2: found damage to the core from cooling problems. Construction of drilled; by gas explosion Containment of damage is suspected. High radioactive water reactor and adjacentreactor 3: tunnel detected damage to the core from cooling problems. Construction of drilled; by gas explosion Containment of damage possible. Spent fuel pond partly filled with water to low. Radioactive water in the reactor and Kellerreactor 4: recognized reactor shutdown before the quake. Fire and explosion in spent fuel pond. Water level partially restoredreactors 5 & 6: reactors down. Temperature of the spent fuel pools now after the rising HighIn a televised reduced, Prime Minister Naoto Kan he said "a long-term struggle in the work - one was prepared for", which he said would be obtained.

"At the current stage, we cannot say that the plant has been sufficiently stabilized has." But we are preparing for all types of situations and I am convinced that the plant can be stabilized.

"We say at this stage by can say if this is done, but we try our best," he said.

The authorities are against calls from the UN atomic Agency to extend the exclusion zone around the plant after it found at the village of Iitate, 40 km of safe radiation limits exceeded.

Highly radioactive water in the plant leak; for the first time, it was found 15 m under reactor 1 in groundwater.

Although it does not appear, caused an immediate problem, it is possible that it finally affect drinking water if concentrations were high enough.

Radioactive material discovered in the Sea close to the facility level rose sharply on Thursday with radioactive iodine 4,385 times reach the border.

In the latest twist, who has said much criticized the system, Tepco, operator, it will review all the data on the radiation from the plant leaked, citing errors in a computer program.

Called under the measurements in question one, was the ground water with radioactive iodine concentrations of 10,000 times standard, showed Government the nuclear safety agency said.

Sea water and air are concentrations of this week in the year under review.

Video of nuclear Tepco plant operator released shows the damage to the plant

Workers continue to try to cool four reactors with water fuel rods to stabilize. They are also the problem of dealing with highly radioactive run-off water that has accumulated in a tunnel.

TEPCO is also under fire after turned out there was a shortage of radiation monitors for workers.

Many of the monitors were destroyed in the tsunami, as Tepco a place assigned per person, per group of workers to had Japan's nuclear safety agency said.

"The Agency warned yesterday (Thursday), the exposure levels, manage extreme workers to do Tepco", said spokesman Hidehiko Nishiyama.

Radioactive material can be continuously, the country's leaking nuclear from the damaged plant and industrial (NISA) agency said.

The radiation that has stopped shipments of certain vegetables, dairy products and other foods from four nearby prefectures, has increased was to include beef, that said Department of health.

The Government insists, however, that contamination reaches no water or food levels, which would be harmful to the health of the people.

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Comet gives Saturn ring waves

March 31, 2011 last updated at 19:14 pm by Neil Bowdler science reporter, BBC News as a comet produces impact waves in a planet rings of TimeScientists say, the strange waves observed in the ring of Saturn and Jupiter have been caused by comets.

The waves, which the researchers say the waves are similar to corrugated iron, were both discovered the rings of Saturn and Jupiter's lesser-known rings.

The waves in Jupiter's rings are believed to by Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which struck the planet 1994 caused be. Information is published in two separate papers in the journal Science.

The researchers analysed images of Jupiter's rings taken from the Galileo spacecraft in 1996 and 2000 and the new horizons probe in 2007. You have us with images of Saturn's rings, by the spacecraft Cassini during 2009.

What they found were waves, which compare the researchers on the corrugated Tin Roof, which, when lit from a low angle, as alternating dark and light bands.

This wave formation was extends, ring of Saturn's entire C for thousands of miles found. It seemed watched part of a similar pattern earlier in the weaker D ring. Now, at least two separate spirals discovered Jupiter's rings.

They researchers believe that by dirt, most likely from a Comet, impact on the rings, and flip they were caused.

"The material passes through the ring and basically means that the entire ring to easily with respect to the planet equatorial plane be inclined, and then distorted it form spiral from this pattern," said Dr. Matthew Hedman at Cornell University in New York.

In the course of time, the cardboard was more tightly wound spiral, during the heavy planet rings again pulled into alignment. However, complete this process appreciate decades could take the researchers.

The team was then able, the rewind process using mathematical models to an estimated time of impact. For Saturn they 1983 at a point arrived, but still no possible candidate Comet have found.

With Jupiter, she discovered at least two spirals and so maybe two impact events. If they back them a the process for one of the spirals reached wound, the point in the year 1994, in the same year of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact.

Dr. Mark r. Showalter of SETI Institute in California, recalls the moment he and Dr. Hedman the importance of the date.

"" Matt and I were talking, say now wait a second date sounds a little something familiar and frankly we had to run on Wikipedia way to questions, "when Shoemaker-Levy 9 hit Jupiter?"and was the eureka moment when we had realized we a smoking gun "he told the BBC."

The second spiral led to an estimated impact event were caused in 1990, which the scientists can hypothesise by deposits from a previous close encounter with Shoemaker-Levy 9.

Images that also proposed more impact on Jupiter's rings could be occurred spacecraft of the new horizons in September 2001 and December 2003, but additional recognizers be necessary, confirm these results.

Leave an a scar of Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact with Jupiter

Dr. Showalter said waves like the studied in that new documents could give clues as to the frequency of such events of the outer solar system.

"Rings are Comet catcher", he says. "We probably already realized that comets make rings on a regular basis but we never realized before that everyone puts comets own signature in rings if it goes through and that the story in this spiral is recorded the pattern."

"Decades later, you can actually consider same ring, find this ripple pattern, and each of them then you know something about what the ring hit and when it did so."

The work, Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, Comet researcher at Queen's University of Belfast, commented: "the papers show exactly what you can do, if you work this beautiful space ship have observation of outer planets close up."

He said the gravitational forces of the giant planets were enough to tear apart fragile comets, create fields of garbage which seen causing the effects in ring systems.

Asteroid could be torn to, he said, but this was apart by tidal forces so-called rather at the Jupiter, close to the asteroid belt are seen.

He said the work would researchers the possibility to give to "how many times directly calculate objects the giant planets, we have fought to tie beat."

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Polar bear Knut died drowning, say experts

1. April 2011 last updated at 14: 29 GMT the four-year old bear died suddenly, at hundreds of German viewers polar bear Knut drowned he fell into a pool of water in its case after collapsing as a result of a brain swelling, experts said.

"Significant changes to the brain" had revealed signs of post-mortem studies in Berlin Zoo.

Senior veterinarians now say that these changes were probably caused by an infection caused the bear brain to thresholds.

Four-year old Knut died suddenly in the Zoo of hundreds. Large amounts of water were found in his lungs.

"We believe that this presence of infection must be already there months been for a long time... at least several weeks, possibly" Achim Gruber, Professor of veterinary medicine at the free University of Berlin's, said.

He added that although Knut in the water had fallen, it is likely that he would not have survived. A pathology team still looking for the exact cause of the disease in the coming weeks.

Knut was hand raised by Zoo Keepers, after formerly a circus bear his mother in East Germany.

Knut has generated more than EUR 5 million (￡ 4. 4 m, $7 million) in extra income for Berlin Zoo since its birth in a passion as Knutmania.

Reports that he may be stuffed and on display at the Berlin Museum of natural history, as part of an exhibition on climate change, have prompted some anger among his fans.

Reuters reported that a "stop the filling of Knut" demonstration at the Zoo on Saturday planned is.

Polar bears can live for 15 to 20 years in the wild and even longer in captivity.

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German Government sued by nuclear company

1. April 2011 last updated at 09:45 am not warranted close Biblis Nuclear power plant was, RWE said German energy giant RWE legal against the State of Hesse is steps to order to shut down a nuclear power plant for three months.

Soon after the earthquake and tsunami caused a nuclear emergency in Japan.

RWE said the reactors were safe, so the State had no reason to disturb his energy generating activities.

The company also said that the State of Hesse had it to Biblis Nuclear power plant to close any legal authority.

"After RWE legal interpretation, the Government has no reason to the legal basis according to paragraph 19 of nuclear law, measures," RWE said in a statement.

Biblis plant was shut down as part of an industry-wide moratorium after German Chancellor Angela Merkel ordered that additional security on Germany's seven oldest nuclear power plants is checked after the crisis in Japan.

The EU has agreed on "Stress Tests" all European nuclear facilities.

E.on, a competition to RWE, said that it would make not the decision in question.

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Mother imprisoned on bleach killing

1. April 2011 last updated at 15: 06 GMT, a mother arrested for killing her 12-year-old of autistic son by him drink bleach.

Ajit Singh Mahal was found dead at home in the family in barking, East London, in February.

Satpal Kaur Singh, 44, pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility. The young murder had denied you.

Kaur Singh, who also bleach drank on the day of the killing was jailed for seven years at the old Bailey.

Judge Peter Beaumont, the recorder of London, told her: "I know how difficult Ajit was to care for."

"You robbed her deteriorating mental health proper insight into what was wrong and built real obstacles between you and people and the agencies who have tried so hard to help you."

He continued: "they faced the prospect of Ajit way of them taken, but she killed him."

"You were, I believe that make a statement without taking into account of its interests."

Richard Whittam, QC, persecution, said: "This is a case of great tragedy."

Ajit "was dependent on his mother for all his needs," could not speak, so had trouble to communicate and had difficulty getting around in the open air.

The child was with Domestos only a few hours after Kaur Singh refused to cooperate with the Council staff meeting killed in his care.

Burn marks

When paramedics found him he was lying on a sofa, not breathe, with no pulse.

He had caustic burns to his mouth, Chin and neck.

Singh was treated with coal and milk for the bleach, the ones that had drunk you. She told a medic thought they had done about "this" for years.

Social workers in barking and Dagenham Council had concerns about Manchester-born Singh in the months before her son, killed, as the Court heard.

She want at the meeting of Council employees have appeared calm.

But hours later they rang to say 999: "I have killed just my son and I have tried to kill me."

A Council spokeswoman said: "Barking and Dagenham Council thought, especially with the family of Singh."

"The Council contributed to an independent review of the serious case review all details of this case and give lessons to address."

"Barking and Dagenham safeguarding children Board published the results of the, that independent verification in due course."

David Hislop, QC, defending, said: "this was a woman who loved her son too much." "The think that was it, because of their mental disorders held, that your mercy."

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