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WHAT HAPPENED ON 23th January 2001?
22nd January 2001
PINOCHET FACING CHILEAN INTERROGATION
Ex-Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is to be interrogated over alleged crimes committed during his years in power. Questioning by Judge Juan Guzman comes just over a week after medical tests aimed at assessing whether Pinochet is fit to stand trial. He is to be questioned on what he knew about a military squad which killed more than 70 political prisoners. The squad has become known in Chile as the caravan of death.
23th January 2001
FRENCH NO LONGER IMPORTANT IN TURKEY
Officials at Istanbul international airport say French businessmen can no longer use the fast-track VIP hall. The airport administration chief said only official guests of the Turkish government could now enjoy that perk. The move is a sign of Turkey's outrage over the French parliament vote to recognise as genocide the 1915 deaths of Armenians under the Ottoman empire. Turkey disputes the number of deaths and denies that the killings were part of a deliberate policy of genocide.
23th January 2001
DAMILOLA'S FATHER SLAMS "MORAL VALUES"
The father of murdered 10-year-old Damilola Taylor has told the BBC "moral values" in Britain need to change. Richard Taylor branded his son's killer's parents "irresponsible people" for not giving police any information. He also told Radio 4's Today programme he thought Damilola was stabbed to death in Peckham London in November for refusing to join a street gang. Tonight's BBC1's Crimewatch features a reconstruction of Damilola's movements.
22nd January 2001
FRENCHWOMAN HEADS FOR FINAL FRONTIER
A French woman astronaut is in training in Moscow for a mission on a Russian spacecraft which will take her up to the new International Space Station. Claudie Andre-Deshays will join the ten-day flight in October aboard a new module which will serve as an emergency escape craft for the new space station. She has already been up to the Russian Mir space station in August 1996. "I dreamed of becoming an astronaut as a child when I watched the first man landing on the Moon on TV " she said.
23th January 2001
FRENCH NO LONGER IMPORTANT IN TURKEY
Officials at Istanbul international airport say French businessmen can no longer use the fast-track VIP hall. The airport administration chief said only official guests of the Turkish government could now enjoy that perk. The move is a sign of Turkey's outrage over the French parliament vote to recognise as genocide the 1915 deaths of Armenians under the Ottoman empire. Turkey disputes the number of deaths and denies that the killings were part of a deliberate policy of genocide.
23th January 2001
EGG ON FACE IN FRANCE-TURKEY SPAT
Senior Turkish politicians threw eggs at the French embassy as part of a protest over French recognition of the Turkish "genocide" of Armenians. Anatolia news agency said the deputy leader of the BBP party had led a march to the embassy on Paris Street in Ankara and demonstrated outside. Party officials were held back from the embassy by police and left after they were stopped from throwing eggs. Turkey is now considering a draft law accusing France of genocide in Algeria.
22nd January 2001
DOUBT OVER SPIRITUAL MOVEMENT "SUICIDE"
Five members of the Falungong spiritual movement have set themselves alight in Tiananmen Square Beijing according to the official Chinese news agency. It said one had died & others had been taken to hospital. But a Hong Kong-based Falungong spokesman said the report was doubtful and suggested it was a government attempt to discredit the movement. Its protests have been peaceful until now the BBC Beijing correspondent said
23th January 2001
FRENCH NO LONGER IMPORTANT IN TURKEY
Officials at Istanbul international airport say French businessmen can no longer use the fast-track VIP hall. The airport administration chief said only official guests of the Turkish government could now enjoy that perk. The move is a sign of Turkey's outrage over the French parliament vote to recognise as genocide the 1915 deaths of Armenians under the Ottoman empire. Turkey disputes the number of deaths and denies that the killings were part of a deliberate policy of genocide.
23th January 2001
UGANDA TACKLES CHILD LABOUR PROBLEM
The government in Uganda is holding a conference to address the problem of the country's 3m child labourers. Ministers & union officials were told that orphans whose parents had died in the Aids epidemic were a potentially limitless supply of cheap labour. Labour minister Philemon Mateke said most of the exploited children were hidden away in illegal workshops. And many families send their children to work instead of school because they depend on the children to sustain them.
22nd January 2001
MUSEUM SET FOR MARATHON STAR WARS EVENT
British cinema-goers are to be given the chance to see all four Star Wars films in sequence for the first time. The National Museum of Photography Film & Television in Bradford West Yorkshire is expecting a sell-out for the nine-hour movie marathon. Bill Lawrence the museum's head of film said the Festival of the Force would be a "major film event". The screenings will take place at the museum on February 24 & 25.
23th January 2001
FRENCH NO LONGER IMPORTANT IN TURKEY
Officials at Istanbul international airport say French businessmen can no longer use the fast-track VIP hall. The airport administration chief said only official guests of the Turkish government could now enjoy that perk. The move is a sign of Turkey's outrage over the French parliament vote to recognise as genocide the 1915 deaths of Armenians under the Ottoman empire. Turkey disputes the number of deaths and denies that the killings were part of a deliberate policy of genocide.
23th January 2001
STAFF ACTION WOULD HIT SCHOOLS ` HEADS
Schools will have to send pupils home for part of the week if teachers carry out industrial action over staffing shortages headteachers have warned. New guidelines drawn up by the National Association of Headteachers say teachers should cover vacancies. But teachers' union the NASUWT has said it will ballot its London members on plans for a city-wide "no cover" action The NAHT said this would "hit the wrong target" and would damage schools.
22nd January 2001
KABILA BURIED IN HIGH-SECURITY FUNERAL
The funeral of Laurent Kabila the assassinated president of the Democratic Republic of Congo has taken place in the capital Kinshasa. Mr Kabila who was shot dead last week by a bodyguard was buried in a mausoleum at the Palace of the Nation in the country's parliament building. Security was tight with Angolan troops arriving amid fears of more unrest. Leading the mourners was Mr Kabila's son Joseph appointed acting president.
23th January 2001
FRENCH NO LONGER IMPORTANT IN TURKEY
Officials at Istanbul international airport say French businessmen can no longer use the fast-track VIP hall. The airport administration chief said only official guests of the Turkish government could now enjoy that perk. The move is a sign of Turkey's outrage over the French parliament vote to recognise as genocide the 1915 deaths of Armenians under the Ottoman empire. Turkey disputes the number of deaths and denies that the killings were part of a deliberate policy of genocide.
23th January 2001
WHITEHALL SECRECY UNNECESSARY ` REPORT
Government departments have been criticised for unnecessary secrecy in a report by the Parliamentary Ombudsman Michael Buckley. Information was wrongly withheld six times between April & December his report on eight MPs' complaints said. Some departments did not realise they should follow a Code of Practice when dealing with information requests. There could be "no excuse" as the code had existed for seven years he said.
