BBC News with David Legg. The Israeli government has (approved) plans for the construction of 900 new houses in occupied east Jerusalem. An Israeli official said the expansion of the Gilo settlements would probably start in several years' time. The Obama administration has expressed (dismay) of the move which comes despite its efforts to get Israel to (halt) settlement building. Paul Adams reports from Washington. “For the second time in two months, the Obama administration has spoken out on settlements. Early in September, the White House said it regretted reports that Israel plan to approve new construction in the West Bank. This time both the White House and State Department said they were “dismayed” by the news about Gilo. Robert Gibbs, the White House spokesman, said the decision to expand Gilo would make it more difficult for the administration to (re-launch peace talks). He added that the US objects to other Israeli practices in Jerusalem, including what he called ’a continuing pattern of (evictions) and (demolitions) of Pakistan homes'.” The leaders of Rwandan militia have been arrested in Germany for crimes allegedly committed in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ignace Murwanashyaka, the president of the FDLR, his (deputy), were held on suspicion of terrorism and crimes against humanity. The FDLR fled to Congo after the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Rwanda's Foreign Minister Rosemary Museminali told the BBC that her government would seek the men's (extradition). “Murwanashyaka and his college are the ones now fueling the war that has been in the eastern Congo. They continue to cause war and cause all the suffering. And indeed all these insecurity that we have been seeing around has ...in…people...Congolese. So yes we welcome the fact that they have been arrested. We urge that these people are transferred to Rwanda they're ...” The Spanish trawler hijacked by pirates last month off the Somali coast has been released. Spain's Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero said the boat the Alakrana had now sailed and its crew were safe. Reports quote the Somali pirates as saying they were paid a ransom of several million dollars. But Mr. Zapatero refused to confirm the (ransom) payment. “We did what we had to do. The government worked and is working and will work within the law of course, and in cooperation with the ship owner and with all the families who were in a very difficult situation. Let's be cautious. Let's be responsible .Two more ships have been attacked near Somalia.” President Obama has set up a new task force to investigate financial crimes. The US Attorney General said the task force will be (relentless) in its aim of preventing another (financial meltdown). Regulators have been severely criticized of missing one of the biggest frauds in history, the 65-billion-dollar investment scheme run by Bernard Madoff. World news from the BBC. The head of the Taliban in Pakistan's northwest Swat district who was reported to have died following an airstrike in July has told the BBC that he's now in Afghanistan. Maulana Fazlullah made a phone call to Abdul Hai Kakar of the BBC Urdu service in Karachi who says he's sure that the man he talked to was the Taliban commander. “I have talked to him so many times, eight, nine times. Then I met him two times. So I know his life. So that's why I say he is Maulana Fazlullah.” Maulana Fazlullah has led the Taliban attempt to (impose) a former Shariah law in Swat before the Pakistani army retook the area in a major offensive. He warned that the Taliban would soon (launch a private attack) against the army at Swat. The head of the armed forces of Iran has (accused Saudi Arabia of) killing Shiite Muslims in Yemen. General /Hassan Firouzabadi said the Saudi action (amounted to )“state of terrorism” and it was very dangerous for Islam in the region. Al-Houthi Shiite rebels based in northern Yemen said Saudi forces hit a Yemeni village and bombing raids against the rebels. Saudi Arabia blames Iran a share of state for supporting the (rebels). African leaders meeting in Ethiopia said they've agreed on how much money to demand as compensation for the impact of climate change. But they said they're keeping the figure secret ahead of next month's international talks in Copenhagen. Meles Zenawi is Ethiopia's Prime Minister. “The key point for Africa is adaptation that is (compensation) for the damage caused by the developed countries to the prospects of growing in Africa and other poor countries. Here again, we have identified a number of key points (with regards) to (institutional mechanism) for delivery of this money, with regards to the quantity of that money and quality of that money.” Our BBC correspondent in Addis Ababa says the amount is expected to be tens of billions of dollars. Study showed that African nations are the least responsible for (carbon emissions). But they will suffer the most.