And thank you for downloading him he found a complete range of Houston not subsidies go to BBC world service.com/of costs him hello welcome to the latest global news recorded at 312 GMT on Thursday, 23 December Mrs. Fergus Nichol in London and in this edition president Obama chalks up another big win on Capitol Hill as the Senate ratified his new start treaty with Russia this training will enhance our leadership to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and seek the peace of world without also hope in adversity for supporters of political change in Ivory Coast railroad rather impatient to see if there was a second function efficiently so you absolutely have so. Very stormy and Bishop Gene Robinson on some of his less tolerant brethren in the endocrine church they are only believing with the church taught them for countless generations less than six weeks ago Pres. Obama was written off as a lame-duck tinea still together in this presidential tab is looking a lot for skin these days is latest big win on Capitol Hill came in the Senate with 13 Republicans crossed the floor to endorse a new nuclear arms treaty with Russia the latest incarnation of the strategic arms reduction treaty stopped will cut both the US and Russian arsenals of deployed warheads bombers and nuclear submarines it's been a high priority foreign policy target the president and he was clearly delighted this is the most significant arms control agreement in nearly 2 decades will make us safer and reduce our nuclear arsenals along with Russia with mistreating our inspectors will also be back on the ground at Russian nuclear basis so we will be able to trust but verify will continue to advance our relationship with Russia Ms. treaty will enhance our leadership to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and seek the peace of world without strong bipartisan vote in the Senate since powerful signal to the world that Republicans and Democrats stand together on behalf of our secure general West is vice president and director of government studies at the Brookings Institution it's a big deal because it's been very difficult last two years for the president to get Republican support on any legislation the fact that he was able to get so many Republicans to support this arms treaty with Russia is very significant release adjustment of predictions of institutional gridlock the people were making right after the November election were completely off Mark it's interesting I'll say I guess in that it makes what's pretty much a foreign news story into very much domestic politics to all politics are local in the United States area on the arms control treaty local and national click considerations have played a big role historically. The fact that the present was able to attract Republican support suggests the Republicans understood they cannot continue to be the party of no on every legislation they have to find some. To compromise with president Obama they understand that in an era of voter anger voters were the two parties to get things done but there is a sense I think that it is accountable to shed coming up in the new Congress in the new year is going to look different clearly and I wonder whether that rail polity will still apply away the Republicans again he get much hard and that is even in the Senate when they know they've got a tough Republican majority in the house things will get tougher for the president next year after January 3 through the more than 60 new Republican members of the house and 67 new Republicans in the Senate it would be challenging for the president to pursue his agenda but the one thing that we have seen over the last few weeks is Republicans don't want to always be the party of no and Democrats are worried about being labeled ultra-liberals or even socialist soak in that situation or our instruments for each party to find a few areas of common agreement on that specific policy areas that you can anticipate this kind of potential floor crossing in future if the Republicans indeed did not want to be seen as the party of no I expect there to be some bipartisanship on issues related to war funding in Afghanistan about an issue where some of Obama's liberal base is not happy with his war policy but yet there are some Republicans who actually do support the war effort so that we certainly should see some bipartisanship. There may be some domestic issues. And some speculation that on energy policy that could be an area where some Republicans summed up crowds could come together and fashion a compromise Darrell West in Washington if an election win and international recognition alone were enough to ensure the political power that I said what Tara would be sitting pretty in the presidential palace in Ivory Coast but he isn't instead he's become an internal political refugee pulled up in a hotel and at skits of Abidjan under UN protection and is the man everyone agrees lost that election known by both this and the presidential compound and refusing to leave Mr. what Tara support to say if you can't be persuaded to step down Mr. Bible should be forced to go appoint Julian Keenan puts the US deputy assistant sector state for African affairs William Fitzgerald I think you worship the point were really trying to avoid violent at all possible and I think that there are number of event taking place this week that they preclude having to resort to violence or forced to go with his Prime Minister Guillaume Zorro in any case over looking at today for instance the UN human rights commission in Geneva is examining in special session of the human rights situation in Cфte d'Ivoire the fact that the African members in particular called for the special session is pretty telling about how unified the Africans are the pressure that this will continue to put on president but go on former posted about abortion but tomorrow the review meeting of the West African monetary union by which all the Francophone seat for countries that there are of the other bank account I know that there are number of countries that are considering coming off the funding to the Bible government the regime finally a variety of courses in a court extraordinary summit of stable travel to Abuja on Christmas Eve to discuss whether the next step in removing Laurel Bible from the presidential palace in the charge of the government held over removed from his eye told concerning the Bible suggested some sold international panel to the crisis Julian actually question but to be perfectly honest with you I would have to say sorry Mr. Baribeau know we've had a commission was appointed by the UN under the resolution a couple of years ago to certify the election to membershipis the special Rep. of the Sec. Gen. Mr. Choi went through with great detail about how in fact all of the mantra won the election by 54% a new commission is not going to change anything you think about this to the UN presence in Ivory Coast note that hasn't come up with far as I know I get up in Washington but I will say that were very impressed that Monday the Security Council voted 15 to 0 unanimous vote to extend themandate by six months cool this is about sending long clear message you would've sold by this time. That message just most people would've gotten the message you think when the African Union United Nations. E on his neighbors are telling him Mr. Bible it's time to go. Lady he apparently. But I just hope that we can avoid violent Cфte d'Ivoire has been through Civil War once the second we don't need another one he just left the faith reality and understand that he lost the election in Fitzgerald the view from Washington in other developments the World Bank is frozen loans to Cфte d'Ivoire will France has urged its citizens to leave the postelection stalemate continuing the UN decided to and left some journalists into Mr. what does that tell Southwest Africa correspondent, Sissy got on board the goal would have been found by noon. But it's usual access is denied by security forces loyal to Laurent backbone they sent several rocks on all sides of the hotel and we tried several times they would enslave him talk to you in handcuffs and on the delivery to reach what has become the headquarters about the Montana the man recognized by the international community to have won the election him and him and told their love the beastie to thousands of supporters is funding. And they don't seem to have to much to do but to see down in ways I frozen their overall verification see someone so fixes artificially so you something that happened so that it is very strong tell you posted is survival is not. But in our back. The British visit. While several other one was the unlawful lights in a room I was a settlement and but for the bountiful goodness as I was saying it was he was secure for you guys to what is in the Navy is so. It is a utility started on some of those is consistent with one of them as pleasant as us a thing as a rule public on Thursday thousands of downs 800 UN peacekeepers as you read holds out some deployed in front of the main entrance White zombie Nancy Goggins the UN troops as a mother I did in July but his Prime Minister human soul came to give us the latest she clearly wants an African force to step in placebo, Fidel E Escalona was the African Union has already been dictated by phone to his solution soon essential to encourage and support our work. I believe meanwhile he's counting it as a CD that way the long table has been arranged in the repeat and conditions ends and about two dozens of computers are available to Mr. with our staff, the Regenerate the Foreign Minister Larson with our I asked him whether he had much leverage given them their own bank was having its remained in place that I pay for this leave work at a see the time being of the Naval isolate the problem is a great tonight, so today Mr. bumble conflict is set on the donkey but long by how is her own ambitions and even the UK's CA: you African Union automatically informed that Mr. is not tomorrow is so they know about anyone, his name not be a common thing in the legal furnace 2001 SARS government spokesman of the Joshi believes that controlling the economy ease crucial in northern today: use the back was government is one of the key submission naturally because when the console is a fine and you know that the above couple of days always is the heart of the power is in the kinds of movies is one of the ways that we hold you control Mr. with our site seems pretty confident that soon their own bank will one be able to sign off any of the Freespending article. The commercial capital Abidjan one SARS man are up and running as if they were writing songs is hotel suddenly feels like a small state within the state, Sissy reporting from Ivory Coast that remember, Chapman Russian woman cost by tabloids everywhere is the sultry temptress of terror expulsion from America back in June along with nine others acting as a foreign agent well since returning to Russia she's been hailed as a hero and she spends nearly naked for a men's magazine and she's been a consultant for a bank latest incarnation is as a leader of the youth wing of Vladimir Putin's political party United Russia and wearing backpacks she addressed the convention of party loyalists and him and I would like that we link together the more positive, definitely need to make Russia a great traveler coming years meeting and trying to reconcile nation warily countries from any people fight for our glory and 99 when all this made more happy maybe we just been targeted by friends and change the country starting with ourselves be happy this was policy liked the speech wrapped up the year in which Russian spying's been in the news more than at any time since the Cold War recent spat between Moscow and London over alleged Russian spy seems to be escalating into tit-for-tat expulsions professor Peter Hennessy's next buzz on UK Russian relations and he spoke to Mt. Morris in his waiting one way but because of all the SAP global rumble they've always been that the Russian intelligence effort against the UK has never really felt had a little bit of it off the end of the Cold War of anything often offended by the mid-99. The intelligence operatives they had in London had reached again the height they did at the end of the Cold War that for the author David between 30 and 35 open in that the United Kingdom at the moment either in the Russian embassy or the trade mission seems pretty specific thing I will on one talk people occasionally one find somebody to find [the figure. They could scrutinize everyone knows how many there are so you can because then you can't take and keep watching everybody all the time of the Russians are different from the way you conduct the kingdom that they have people who would get stuff from ready for the open source. They indicated the or the FERC now is the rest of the season to service the would be pretty labor-intensive so not all of them devoted to the penetration city's men. On Wednesday I gave that speech had set and the 10 member the social Council of the Russian young God youth. Luckily a worker killed in the fighting of 11. The pleasure in that way I can get them thinking that you have to send that glamorous woman. Who is dying to become a member between distinct in the case study she was trying to set the beginnings of a political career on my does any act and mother complained that because he been rumbled in the own job and the ability to find work away and feel that your woman of considerable resolve the present and they noted the magnified that when she came on legs it has would've Russia thought of. Even a day actually done much in the US and present, developing indications where they were only stopping the point about illegal is illegal sleeping until you need them to not automatically doing it all the time that blend into the community ready for the day when the method, through the deleted despite the changing nature of an connections between 12,000 is continuing to teach entirely human nature being what it is that every state want to keep other day out of the house of its activities in the knowledge and it is 90% of it roughly speaking you can get program. What's going on in 70 and open societies like and if the love you pay 10% of the intelligence services believe that the Bristol West bond the design. Content effects would other people try and protect very tightly so is it the Islamic gaming faith. But it will always be played out in some degree in the way that we see another technology is changing the techniques for penetration, penetration change the Islamic human nature that he be as long of the world and not the unpredictable places will go on is the second oldest profession. The intelligence the right Chapmans potential is as a Russian politician but the lack of built up but I think I think I would be pretty immune to the Jones of the propaganda wing of Mr. Putin offered that again I would do would not give my eighth background nationality professor Peter C the last few days with the BBC been taking a look at tolerance and asking what it means in different countries and cultures someone it could be said to face a great deal of intolerance of the last few years is Gene Robinson the first non-celibate gay clergyman in the Anglican Communion to become a bishop his consecration of the diocese of New Hampshire seven years ago broke Anglican church close to the point of schism now off to oldest time in the spotlight Bishop Robinson says he intends to take early retirement site was this class of being a gay bishop in a divided church that made him jump the stress is particularly from the death threats and so on which is continued to this day I have certainly been a part of the burden that I've born certainly is a small part and mostly I have felt his entire ministry in this opportunity to proclaim God's love for all of God's children to be a great blessing to me I understand that but I must honestly say it's a smallpox of the button because anybody who has this kind of onslaught from not just the media but from colleagues believe this in different parts of the world who have a different strand of belief or did they express a delay from the belief in the ways the most away down here it has weighed on me and the distress in the Anglican Communion has been a daily burden not that I have caused it you know I think when people are estranged it's a very difficult situation and it does cause me pain but at the same time God is doing a new thing with the church that is very exciting indeed and it seems to me that the American church is going about being Christlike in its ministry as it reaches out to the marginalized and those people who have would've been pushed aside for countless centuries by the prevailing culture, surprised to hear you highlighting the positive aspects bishop but I wonder whether you have found your church to be less torrent place than when you joined as a young man or quite the opposite the fighting that has gone on and certainly been in the open but let's remember that the church that I grew up in was one that could not countenance me and people like me being beloved children of God and indeed our church has embraced gay and lesbian bisexual and transgender people in ways that I would've thought impossible in my growing up with website interrupted this prophetic bits of your church have but that's emphatically have not had to talk to them unfortunately I can't make them talk to me the difficult thing about reconciliation is that it takes to play that game perhaps the most burdensome things about the last seven years has been the tendency for people to decide that they will absent themselves from places where people like me are it was one of the most distressing things about the Archbishop of Canterbury's exclusion of me at the Lambeth conference of bishops in 2008 because if you aren't at the same table if there is no opportunity for connection and then there is no way to reconciliation is when I think about that I took in the pew understand will empathize with or they simply so blinkered that kind of closing eyes putting their fingers in their ears again… I don't hear that part of the world the way I tend to stay sympathetic to my detractors is that first of all I remember that they are only believing with the church taught them for countless generations the second thing I try to do is to remember what Scripture is quite clear about which is that the opposite of love is not hate the opposite of love is fear at least if I have a chance to deal with those who disagree with me I tried to figure out what it is they are fearful of and then I try to speak to that so as to allay their fears and to convince them that they really have nothing to be fearful off from me to think it's fair to say bishop that you mentioned your exclusion from Columbus have you been a victim of intolerance high-profile victim I think tolerance is not the issue because tolerance and of itself is not enough it's not enough just to have someone be grudgingly allow your existence it seems to me that the gospel calls us to treat every human being as a child of God nothing short of that is acceptable to God just because I am poorly treated does not give me the right to lessen my my striving to accord them the kind of respect and love that God would have me do Bishop Gene Robinson staying in the United States a massive storm system is sweeping its way east across the country leaving behind a trail of destruction record amounts of rain fell on Southern California homes were swept away by flash floods in Arizona and forecasters say it could eventually reach the East Coast registration done a report from LA one when asked that cold and rain of biblical proportions Los Angeles has received nearly half its new rainfall in just six days on Mountains Clay spotlight nearly half the means that his foreman since Friday bold and 200 homes in steep canyons had been evacuated against the threat of mudslides the upscale resorts of Laguna Beach is the latest of many areas to be flooded while parts of the famous Pacific Coast highway north of Malibu and enclose the storm system is been called the pineapple express because it brought moisture from the Pacific Islands of Hawaii now it's moving further across the US mainland find unoccupied homes were swept away in the flooded golf course in Arizona, warnings were also posted in Nevada and Utah one meteorologists predicted the storm could march once across the US even reaching Florida on the East Coast by Saturday I just mentioned Donnie reporting from Los Angeles profile should you go in protecting the language from outside influences while if you're the Chinese government down to seems to be as far as you can Beijing has banned newspapers publishers websites from using foreign words abbreviations and acronyms of the one they will raise the debt like his team – in other words using English words when you're speaking Chinese is James Kwan is with Harvard University's Department of linguistics at it. More and more product line from Hong Kong and Taiwan and the southern province of thing that can impart. And Shanghai and Beijing will especially with the sword depending on the dialect. Original by length 11 in the south coast more than the And North and the social dialect for the young people and youth of college more often than older people" was seeing creeping into the language well I think that in all having to do with Western technology endorsement and support things like NBA that kind of thing a lot of the young people know about that oh another thing is the acronym MBA management of business administration that sort of thing you mentioned technology we hear the word e-mail for example that drive exactly almost everybody has the phasing out the Amadeus of Chinese version of talking about the conversation everybody's justice is than asked about his case was inconsistent easy shortcut the people because they find these investors without advantages as you said that Windows was the digital technology orders in the case of the Renault Cantonese or Mandarin equivalents boldly. It just is I am in the order that the very first landed on Utah from English and then in Mandarin which represents the way most written documents about there are conscious effort to make some translation into into some return on then these are only done for the service of Mandarin Chinese but not Pacific NASAL 05X optical.just bother to even try to transmit another with I don't think there was anybody in the in Hong Kong for example that require the basic effort to try to play the mandolin version of the Lord e-mail into a Cantonese version of that Mandarin translation supported us what you think then disabilities and to ban the use of such words I can think of it all couple of reasons one is conservatism to try to keep the ship to a short. Chinese language none other similar reason might be to try to cultivate the some national pride. But I think they've also a more practical side, government point of view from the Ministry of education's point of view for example on comfort of those people who don't even touch you now those cool people, as an older generation, if they were to read the people's baby and then the people stated the e-mail and with all the younger son of an old grandson when children around they would give anything at all. Practical purpose that may be some real genuine no justification for James one from hot us finally evidence of the T new kind of human beings has been honest by archaeologists in Russia writing in the journal nature they said they found to us the finger from the species they called the Denny's offends hundreds of thousands of years ago they were widespread across Asia and later mixed with our species a spot of Goetsch explains the discovery could radically change our understanding of the man we've known for some time that our species coexisted with Neanderthals and the Wolf type of human nicknamed hobbit by scientists now DNA analysis of the tooth and fingerprint found in caves in southern Siberia shows that we also share the planet with another distinct kind of human that lived in a ship called the Dennis Simmons Prof. Chris Stringer of the natural history Museum in London said that the discovery was among the most important developments in our understanding of human devolution for some time what is going on is nothing short of sensational and because we go to separate the knee-jerk euthanasia evil for hundreds of thousands of years there and then contributed some of the TNI to specifically provide the Dennis of the distorted ultimate human that lived in Europe 600,000 years ago those that remained in Europe became Neanderthals as those that migrated to a ship a sort of followed a separate devolution depart to become the Dennis Simmons Dr Pepper's Fonte of the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig in Germany says that the discovery puts a new perspective on the history of humanity this is the first time that we have clear evidence that was another distinct form of humans around Wimbledon humans existed and went down to cause existed. This fascinating to me to think the last few tens of fossils of years is unique in our history and that there is no one on this planet have no close relatives with us anymore quite white with the only type of human tooth survived is unclear is likely to have something to do with us shortly off now species emerge from Africa more than 60,000 years ago that all other groups were wiped out of Goetsch winding up this edition of the BBC's global news podcast left wanting more Inox will have an updated edition ready for you to download later on Thursday but for now from Ed Joe and Fergus here in London thanks for listening and Houston Lake