BBC Monitoring Headlines From Pan-Arab TV 1 August 05
The following is a selection of Pan-Arab TV headlines from bulletins broadcast at 0400 and 0500 gmt on 1 August
Al-Arabiya TV 0400 gmt: Sudanese Vice-President John Garang missing, presumed dead after leaving Uganda for Sudan in helicopter … Iran threatens to resume nuclear activities Monday, 1 August … Britain asks Tehran not to take unilateral steps in nuclear sphere … New Saudi ambassador to USA accuses Bin-Ladin of ordering supporters to launch attacks on Western targets in Saudi Arabia, says Saudi security are successfully dealing with terrorism threat … Syrian, Lebanese prime ministers conclude talks, commit their countries to build relations based on mutual respect … Armed elements open fire on convoy of Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi in Latifiyah, killing one guard, injuring three others … Seven killed, 12 injured in car explosion in Al-Hillah … Egypt stresses extraordinary summit at Sharm al-Shaykh not incompatible with Arab League system.
Al-Jazeera TV 0500 gmt: Fate of Sudanese Vice-President John Garang unknown after leaving Uganda for Sudan in helicopter … Imam Husayn brigades claim responsibility for attack on Ahmad Chalabi’s convoy in Latifiyah … Iraqi president calls on committee in charge of drawing up the constitution to complete its work on time … Iran decides to resume nuclear activities.
LBC TV 0500 gmt: Sudanese Vice-President John Garang killed in helicopter crash, UN official cited … SPLA source says Garang still missing … Syrian, Lebanese prime ministers conclude talks, to resume traffic movement between their countries … British government warns Iran against resuming nuclear activities … Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman says his country to resume activities to produce nuclear fuel today … Armed elements attack convoy of Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi in Latifiyah … Iraqi committee in charge of drawing up constitution decides to wind up work in mid-August … US ambassador to Iraq expresses support for political process in Iraq … Egyptian prime minister says no evidence found to implicate Al-Qa’idah in Sharm al-Shaykh, Taba attacks … Scotland Yard arrest six men, a woman in a house in Sussex.
Al-Alam TV 0500 gmt: Sudanese Vice-President John Garang killed in helicopter crash after leaving Uganda for Sudan … IAEA needs three days to call for emergency meeting on Iran’s eminent resumption of nuclear activities … Britain warns Iran against resuming uranium activities … Iran sets 1 August deadline for Europeans to present proposals on its nuclear file … Lebanese Hezbollah Secretary-General Huysan Nasrallah arrives in Tehran for talks … Syrian, Lebanese prime ministers stress need to re- activate relations between their countries … Washington preparing secret plant to reduce its forces in Iraq, Newsweek cited … Iraqi President Talabani calls on committee in charge of drawing up constitution to finish task mid-August … Iraqi National Assembly session adjourned over request to delay discussion of election system … Eleven Iraqis killed in US shelling of school in al- Anbar … Guardsman killed in attack on convoy of Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi in Al-Mahawil, south of Baghdad … PKK opens office in Kirkuk … People of Kirkuk suffer petrol, fuel shortages … Solidarity campaign with Shaykh Al-Mu’ayyad organized in Yemeni capital.