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2008-06-06

BBC News with Michael Poles.

The Zimbabwean authorities have ordered aid agencies to suspend all field operations until further notice. The Deputy Information Minister Bright Matonga said a number of aid organizations had been campaigning for the opposition in the run-off presidential elections at the end of the month. Earlier, the Zimbabwean police detained several British and American diplomats for a while who were investigating election violence in the countryside. Caroline Hawley reports from Johannesburg.

The Zimbabwean government had already restricted the operations of aid agencies. One of the largest groups, Care International, was forbidden to work after being accused of campaigning for the opposition. But now there is an order that all non-governmental organizations should stop all their field operations until further notice. In a country where millions rely on food aid, this is a decision with far-reaching consequences.

It's been the opening day of the trial at Guantanamo Bay of five leading al-Qaeda suspects arguably the highest-value al-Qaeda figures ever to fall into American hands. They faced the death penalty on charges of murder, conspiracy and terrorism for planning and aiding the airliner attacks 2001 on New York and Washington. One of the suspects, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind, said he wanted the death sentence so that he could become a martyr. Sakaria Binalshibh is the brother of one of the co-accused Ramzi Binalshibh.

"We were in a state of great anticipation and shock. We are not expecting this trial to be fair at all, because it all seems botched up. We have neared to no contact with the defense team. We met them in the last conference held in Sana on the Guantanamo prisoners. Lawyers were appointed and we are grateful to them. The defense team, however, has not been able to meet Ramzi."

The military and civilian heads of the United States Air Force have been dismissed following publication of a report into mistakes in the handling of nuclear weapons and their components. The Defense Secretary Robert Gates accepted the resignations of the Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne and the Chief of Staff General Michael Moseley. Kevin Connelly reports from Washington.

The United States Air Force found itself at the center of a string of uncomfortable news stories last year. In the most serious, a B-52 strategic bomber carried a load of nuclear weapons through American air space without the knowledge of the aircraft's crew. At about the same time, a consignment of ballistic missile fuses were sent to a Taiwanese customer, who'd ordered helicopter batteries. Mr. Gates saw the incidents as alarming rather than merely embarrassing, and said they drew attention to a failure of accountability in control, in what he called, the Air Force's most important mission, the stewardship of America's nuclear weapons.

The Turkish Constitutional Court has declared as invalid new legislation allowing Islamic headscarves to be worn in universities. The court said the new law violated Turkish secular Constitution. The main opposition party had asked the court to cancel the law.

World News from the BBC.

The food summit in Rome has finished with delegates saying they will try to double world food production by 2030. The United Nations summit was in response to soaring food prices which had sparked riots in a number of developing countries. Christian Fraser from Rome.

Soon after three days of intense negotiation comes a final declaration, agreed by 181 countries. There’s a renewed commitment to increase spending on Agriculture, the target to double food production by 2030 with the specific focus on helping small farmers in the developing world. But despite the language, the Italian said the final document had fallen well short of expectations. The fault line in the conference was what role bio-fuels had played in driving up food prices.

The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has accused the entire Sudanese government of being linked to crimes against humanity in Darfur. In a report to the UN Security Council, Luis Moreno-Ocampo said the Sudanese armed forces, judiciary and the intelligence services were all involved in crimes. The Sudanese government has responded angrily, accusing the court of undermining the peace process.

The new Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has warned that a further eastward expansion of NATO would damage relations with Russia for many years to come. Speaking in Germany on his first visit to the west since taking office, Mr. Medvedev also criticized plans for a missile defense shield and warned against foreign interference in the case of the jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Prosecutors in Russia have acknowledged that an Internet video showing Russian neo-Nazis murdering two dark-skinned men is genuine. It said one of the victims was from Dagestan in southern Russia. The clip shows the two men in a forest with a swastika flag behind them. One is then beheaded and the other shot in the head. A group calling itself the National Socialist Party of Russia has claimed responsibility.

And that's the latest BBC News.