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WHAT HAPPENED ON 25th January 2001?
24th January 2001
RUSSIAN JELLYFISH SMUGGLERS NABBED
Russian customs intercepted an unusual contraband on the border with China. Interfax news agency said two lorries taking scrap metal out of Russia were found to be carrying concealed seafood. Hidden under aluminium sheets were two and a half tonnes of sturgeon & nearly a tonne of salted jellyfish in barrels customs officials said. Smugglers stand to make vast profits because like many other species jellyfish are considered a nuisance in Russia & a delicacy in China.
25th January 2001
GERMANY QUESTIONS US "STAR WARS" PLANS
US plans for a National Missile Defence system which have drawn protests from Russia & China have now been publicly questioned by Germany. Defence Minister Rudolf Scharping told a German newspaper that it was "completely unclear" how much NMD would cost or how effective it would be. Mr Scharping said the US should consult the EU more on defence & take account of Russian anti-missile proposals. Russia opposes NMD as it goes against a 1972 treaty on limiting such systems.
25th January 2001
CONDOLENCES POUR IN AFTER INDIA QUAKE
Regional & world leaders have been sending messages of sympathy after an earthquake in India that is thought to have killed more than 1 000 people. Chinese leaders Zhu Rongji & Li Peng sent letters to their Indian opposite numbers. And Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf said he shared their grief. China & Pakistan have had repeated disputes & confrontations with India. New US President George W Bush also said he was saddened by the quake & offered to send aid if requested.
24th January 2001
AGENDA AT WESTMINSTER
Questions on Northern Ireland will be followed by Prime Minister's Question Time. Commons debates will be on job losses in manufacturing & the Government's public health agenda. Manufacturing in the north complementary medicine & defence medical services will also be debated. Peers will consider constitutional changes & support to disadvantaged young men.
25th January 2001
GERMANY QUESTIONS US "STAR WARS" PLANS
US plans for a National Missile Defence system which have drawn protests from Russia & China have now been publicly questioned by Germany. Defence Minister Rudolf Scharping told a German newspaper that it was "completely unclear" how much NMD would cost or how effective it would be. Mr Scharping said the US should consult the EU more on defence & take account of Russian anti-missile proposals. Russia opposes NMD as it goes against a 1972 treaty on limiting such systems.
25th January 2001
15 000 FEARED DEAD IN INDIAN EARTHQUAKE
Almost 15 000 people may have died in yesterday's earthquake in the western Indian state of Gujarat Defence Minister George Fernandes has said. The marshy coastal district of Kutch around the town of Bhuj is thought to contain 13 000 of those who died. Limited communication links to Bhuj have only just been restored. In Pakistan the newspaper Dawn has reported that 15 people were killed & about 108 wounded in the quake.
24th January 2001
BMW STAFF ACCEPT PAY DEAL TO BUILD MINI
Workers at BMW have voted to accept a new two-year pay deal. The staff at BMW's Cowley plant in Oxfordshire are to build the new Mini. The German firm had described the deal as the best in the UK motor industry for the past 12 months giving pay rises of at least 10% over two years. The deal involving more flexible shift patterns had previously been rejected by a narrow margin but union leaders urged workers to agree to it.
25th January 2001
GERMANY QUESTIONS US "STAR WARS" PLANS
US plans for a National Missile Defence system which have drawn protests from Russia & China have now been publicly questioned by Germany. Defence Minister Rudolf Scharping told a German newspaper that it was "completely unclear" how much NMD would cost or how effective it would be. Mr Scharping said the US should consult the EU more on defence & take account of Russian anti-missile proposals. Russia opposes NMD as it goes against a 1972 treaty on limiting such systems.
25th January 2001
FISCHER REPEATS EU INTEGRATION CALL
German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has repeated his call for deeper European integration during a speech to a London audience. But he made no mention of the ideas he put forward last year of a European government with an elected president. And he said integration would not mean abolition of the nation state. Mr Fischer was speaking after receiving an award from the British-German Forum for his contribution to the Euro debate
24th January 2001
CAR WORKERS IN EUROPE-WIDE PROTEST DAY
General Motors has been hit by a Europe-wide day of protest against plans to cut 3 000 jobs & shut its Vauxhall plant at Luton. An estimated 40 000 GM workers are taking action unions say including nearly 4 000 in Frankfurt Germany. Staff at the Vauxhall plant in Luton where 2 000 jobs will go when it shuts next year failed to turn up for duty. One union official said the atmosphere was like a "graveyard".
25th January 2001
GERMANY QUESTIONS US "STAR WARS" PLANS
US plans for a National Missile Defence system which have drawn protests from Russia & China have now been publicly questioned by Germany. Defence Minister Rudolf Scharping told a German newspaper that it was "completely unclear" how much NMD would cost or how effective it would be. Mr Scharping said the US should consult the EU more on defence & take account of Russian anti-missile proposals. Russia opposes NMD as it goes against a 1972 treaty on limiting such systems.
25th January 2001
FIRST MEMORIAL DAY TO MARK HOLOCAUST
Political & religious leaders are to attend a service to mark Britain's first Holocaust Memorial Day. It is being held exactly 56 years after Allied troops liberated the Auschwitz Nazi death camp at the end of WWII. Memorial days are also being marked in Germany Italy & Sweden. Tonight's service of remembrance is taking place at Methodist Central Hall in Westminster. It will be attended by survivors of the Holocaust.
24th January 2001
ARMY WARNS CAMPERS AGAINST DIGGING LOO
A new guide to camping on Dartmoor has been scrapped because the Army feared advice on going to the toilet could result in campers blowing themselves up The National Park Authority had advised digging a hole for disposal. In the past there has been live firing across the moor & the Army warned such digging might detonate a shell. The Dartmoor Preservation Association says it is a damning indictment of the dangers of military training.
25th January 2001
GERMANY QUESTIONS US "STAR WARS" PLANS
US plans for a National Missile Defence system which have drawn protests from Russia & China have now been publicly questioned by Germany. Defence Minister Rudolf Scharping told a German newspaper that it was "completely unclear" how much NMD would cost or how effective it would be. Mr Scharping said the US should consult the EU more on defence & take account of Russian anti-missile proposals. Russia opposes NMD as it goes against a 1972 treaty on limiting such systems.
25th January 2001
EMPTY PROMISES JIBE AFTER OAP CLIMBDOWN
Opposition parties insist pensioners have been offered empty promises by the Scottish Executive over long-term care. The Scottish National Party & the Conservatives are keeping up pressure after a climdown by minsiters. Labour's Tom McCabe outlined plans for free personal care ` just minutes ahead of an expected Holyrood defeat. Meanwhile Lib Dem Deputy First Minister Jim Wallace urged all MSPs to stick to their principles and stressed free care will be provided.
24th January 2001
FINGER TECHNIQUE POINTS THE WAY AHEAD
Surgeons in Aberdeen are studying a technique to "regrow" amputated fingers by stretching the bone. The Ilizarov method was first developed 50 years ago in Siberia & surgeons in the west began using it in the mid 1980s in leg lengthening procedures. Aberdeen Royal Infirmary's plastic surgery & orthopaedics departments will become the first in the UK to use the technique for hand surgery. A team of Russian specialists are to train the ARI surgeons.
25th January 2001
GERMANY QUESTIONS US "STAR WARS" PLANS
US plans for a National Missile Defence system which have drawn protests from Russia & China have now been publicly questioned by Germany. Defence Minister Rudolf Scharping told a German newspaper that it was "completely unclear" how much NMD would cost or how effective it would be. Mr Scharping said the US should consult the EU more on defence & take account of Russian anti-missile proposals. Russia opposes NMD as it goes against a 1972 treaty on limiting such systems.
25th January 2001
CAVIAR BANQUET FOR LUCKY RUSSIAN SWINE
Russian pigs have been feasting on five tonnes of confiscated caviar. The delicacy was seized from smugglers on the island of Sakhalin in Russia's Far Eastern region and declared unfit for human consumption. To save it from going to waste the caviar ` which consists of much-prized sturgeon roe ` was given to a pig farm. The hogs are reported to have tucked into their unexpected treat with considerable zeal.
