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BBC news with John Jason
The UN general assembly has overwhelmingly adopted a resolution criticizing the Security Council for failing to make the Syrian government hold its fires. The non-binding resolution also condemned Syria's increasing use of heavy weapons and urged a political transition. Only 12 nations voted against but they included Russia and China. Speaking after the vote, the Russian ambassador at UN, Vitaly Churkin, said the resolution was harmful and amounted to a serve support for the opposition.
The Russian delegation regrets the general assembly's adoption of the resolution which only exasperates these confrontational approaches to solving the Syrian crisis not helping in any way bring the parties to apply for a dialogue and looking for peaceful ways to resolve the crisis in the interests of the entire Syrian people. Behind of facade of the humanitarian rhetoric, the resolution hides a blatant support to the armed opposition which they are actively supporting, financing, giving the machinery than arming them. And this is being done by well known countries.
In Syria itself, reports from Damascus say government forces are conducting a new offensive against rebels. Eyewitnesses and activists in the Tadamon district of the capital say Syrian troops are using dozens of tanks and armored vehicles in the attack. The key battle for control of Syria's second city of Aleppo is also continuing.
The Pakistani Supreme Court has struck down a recently passed law which exempted top government officials from contempt of court charges. The five-member-bench said granting immunity to public office holders was against the constitution. Here is Orla Guerin.
This new law was coupled together by the government very rapidly in July. It would have extended protection against contempt of court proceedings as to senior officials. But frankly, the law was tailor made to do one thing. And that was to protect the new Prime Minister against suffering the fate of his predecessor, the previous Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was convicted of contempt of court by the Supreme Court in April, he had to be replaced. And now, his replacement could possibly suffer the same fate.
Official figures released in the United States show that more jobs were created in July than the any previous five months. The American economy added more than 160,000 jobs significantly more than the economists' were predicting. But despite the growth in new jobs, the overall unemployment rate rose slightly last month.
The American swimmer Michael Phelps has continued his record-breaking Olympic medal tally winning gold in the 100m butterfly. He has now won 21 medals in his Olympic career. At the Velodrome, British cyclists have lit the home crowd when the men's pursuit team and Victoria Pendleton both took gold. South Korea won its first gold medal at the fancying team event and saw its dominance in Olympic archery. Poland caused an upset to win the men's 85kg weightlifting gold.
World news from the BBC
A year after a riot erupted across the Britain, the mother of a man whose death sparked the disturbances, says she has still not received an apology from the police who shot him. Mark Duggan was killed when his taxi was intercepted by armed police investigating gang crime in northern London. Police have apologized for not keeping the family informed in the odds out of the shooting but not for the death itself.
A parent of an Asian teenager in Britain, Shafilea Ahmed, have each been jailed for at least 25 years after being found guilty of her murder nine years ago. The 17-year-old was killed at her home in northern Warrington because her father and mother thought that she brought shame on her family with her desire to lead a western as lifestyle. Nick Ravenscroft reports.
Standing in the dock, Iftichar Ahmed stared straight ahead as the guilty verdicts were delivered, next him his wife Farzana in white. For nine years, they've denied any involvement in their daughter's death. The main witness against the parents was the second eldest child, Alesha. The wall of silence which has been in place for years was finally breached when she told the police she had witnessed Mr. and Mrs. Ahmed suffocated Shafilea after another family raw.
Police in the Kenyan capital Nairobi say a grenade blast in the city has killed one person and wounded seven others including a child. A police official told the BBC the dead man was the person carrying the explosives but they are treating the incident as a suicide bomb attempt. The blast took place in a Somali dominated area of Eastleigh near an air force base. The blast comes on the eve of the visit of the American Secretary of State.
Rescue workers in northern Mexico are trying free five miners trapped in an underground coalmine. The owners of the mining Coahuila state said the men were cut off when 100 tones of coal in rock collapsed. One miner has already been rescued. The accident happened not far from El Progreso mine where seven members of the same family died in a methane gas blast last week.
BBC news.
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