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Burmese military government is facing growing international frustration over its slowness in accepting foreign assistance days after a cyclone devastated the south of the country. The senior American diplomat in Burma Shari Villarosa described conditions there as "horrendous". 100,000 people had died and almost all buildings had been destroyed. Kim Ghattas reports from Washington.

The US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged the Burmese authorities to allow the international community to help the people of Burma. She said this was not about politics, but about a humanitarian crisis. The US has offered three million dollars in assistance and has called on Burma's neighbors to use their influence to convince Burma to allow relief teams into the country. The US envoy to Burma Shari Villarosa said that the Burmese authorities were not blocking American aid out of retaliation for past US criticism, but because it was a paranoid regime, she said.

In Burma, wide areas of the southern area Irawaddy delta which bore the brunt of the cyclone remain underwater. Reports say the place is littered with dead bodies and bloated carcasses of cattle. A BBC correspondent in the delta says much of the region is hidden behind broken bridges and blocked roads. Survivors are desperate for food and shelter. While the government negotiates about visas, people are probably dying.

The American presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has insisted that she'll keep fighting for the Democratic Party's nomination despite disappointing results in the latest primaries. Senator Clinton was speaking at a campaign rally in West Virginia.

"I'm staying in this race until there's a nominee, and I obviously am going to work as hard as I can to become that nominee. That is what I've done, that's what I'm continuing to do. I believe that I am the stronger candidate against Senator McCain, and I believe I would be the best president among the three of us running. So we will continue to contest these elections and move forward."

But a shortage of donations has forced Mrs Clinton to lend her own campaign millions of dollars. And leading analysts say her attempt to beat Barack Obama to the nomination has run out of time and money.

The US military has confirmed that a former Guantanamo prisoner recently carried out a suicide attack in Iraq. A spokesman for the US force in Iraq told the BBC that they didn't know what had motivated Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi to blow himself up in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. From Washington, here is Adam Brooks.

Documents from Guantanamo Bay described al-Ajimi as a former Kuwaiti soldier who deserted in order to fight alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan. It was there he was captured by US forces. His lawyers say he denied involvement in terrorism. He was released in 2005. The Bush administration has long justified holding detainees at Guantanamo Bay for fear they will return to the battlefield as the US military post said.

Adam Brooks in Washington. World News from the BBC.

A senior South African election observer says current levels of political violence in Zimbabwe make a presidential run-off election impossible. Kingsley Mamabolo, who headed the South African contingent of the regional election observer mission, said evidence of torture and the burning of houses could not be ignored.

"We have seen it, that people in hospital, who say we've been tortured, to be thorny soul, you've seen the pictures yourselves. You've seen pictures of houses that are destroyed and so on. I think it's important, that is my acknowledgment that there is violence that people must do something about it."

Mr. Mamabolo said the South African President Thabo Mbeki had sent a team to Zimbabwe to investigate the scale of the violence and who was responsible.

The China Philharmonic Orchestra has performed for Pope Benedict to what's been called a landmark concert that could lead to a warming in relations between Beijing and the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI, a classical music lover, sat in an embroidered ivory and sat in chair in Vatican City, listened intently to Mozart's Requiem. China's officially atheist Communist Party cut ties with the Vatican in 1951 and relations have remained strained for decades.

Farmers in Argentina say there will be resuming protests against tax increases on food exports following the collapse of talks with the government. Farm leaders say they planned to prevent shipments of grain from leaving. Correspondents say a prolonged dispute could have an impact on international markets at time when food prices are already at record levels.

The President of football's world governing body FIFA Sir Blatter says the presence of two English teams in the final of the European Champions League highlights the need to limit the number of foreign players in every team. He says he'll ask this month's FIFA Congress to prepare for a worldwide limit of five foreign players in each starting line-up by 2012. The European football body UEFA said the current English success was only the latest cycle of dominance among different European countries that wasn't connected to foreign players.

BBC News.

cyclone :A violent, rotating windstorm..

旋风, 飓风, 暴风, 龙卷风

envoy :A representative of a government who is sent on a special diplomatic mission.外交使节, 特使

paranoid:Relating to, characteristic of, or affected with paranoia..类似妄想狂的

nominee:One who has been nominated to an office or for a candidacy.被提名的人, 被任命者

detainee:A person held in custody or confinement 被拘留者(多指政治犯等)

thorny:Painfully controversial; vexatious多刺的, 痛苦的

Philharmonic:adj.爱好音乐的 n.交响乐团

Orchestra:管弦乐队, 乐队演奏处

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