on maggienh Center in Washington. US President Barack Obama has accepted the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize with the (acknowledgement) that he is only at beginning of his (labours) on the world stage. I receive this honor with deep gratitude and great (humanity), sword the speaks to our high desperations, the fraud, the cruelty, and hardship of our world. We are not the prisoners of our fate. At the world ceremony today in Oslo, Mr. Obama said his accomplishments are (slight) compare to previous Noble Laureate such as King Junior and Nelson Mandela. The first year US President acknowledges the (irony) of his accepting the Nobel Peace Prize as he prepares to send an additional 30,000 US troops to Afghanistan. President Barack Obama said he acknowledge the hard truth of war will never be (eradicated) in our life time. As international negotiators continue climate change talks in Copenhagen, they are watching another European capital Brussels, where European leaders are meeting today on Friday to prepare, or rather to (firm up) their global warming policy. Lisa Bryan has more from Paris. The year end summit of European Union leaders is expected to (tackle) a number of issues, including international banking supervision and Afghanistan, the climate change is expected to top the (agenda). European has stated our likely to agree on the dollar for short term aid for developing countries to (cope with) the climate change. The European Commission, the EU's executive arm has called on the bloc to collectively year make up about three billion dollars yearly in (assistance) between 2010 and 2012. So far, Britain and Sweden have announced short term (pledges) which are voluntary. Most members have not. Gison Anderson, head of the EU climate in energy policy at the environment group WWF says it's important that pledges the amount to new money, rather than simply we (shuffling) existing aid. And he says Europe must agree on a long term aid to poor nations. Lisa Bryan for VOA News , Paris. US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is in Iraq for a (previously) unannounced visit. The Pentagon spokesman says Gates are expected to meet with Iraqi President Jalal Talibani and Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki as well as senior US military commanders. Mr. Gates told Afghan military commanders the United States intends to be their partner for a long term to come and say at the end of the visit to Afghanistan, Gates said the United States will (fulfill) its commitment ending that relationship with Afghanistan as one forged in blood. Pakistani officials say five American men (arrested) in Pakistan this week are being questioned over alleged (links) to extremists groups. Pakistani police say the men were detained during a raid on the home of local leader of the band military group S A Muhanmud in S P province. Investigators say security forces seized (laptops) and maps during the raid. Officials in Pakistan said the men wanted to take part in a (holy) war. India is expected to eventually request extradition of an American citizen charging in Chicago with alleged (involvement) in planning last year's terrorism attack on Mumbai. VOA correspondent Steve Helmen reports. Indian government officials say they have expected and pleaded (investigation) in four to six weeks that will lead the charges being fired against David Comen Hedlee. He pleaded not (guilty) Wednesday in US federal court to charges involving conspiracy in last year’s terror attack in Mumbai which killed more than 160 people. Hedlee, the sun of the Pakistani father and a American mother, faces 12 (criminal) counts in the United States, including charges he conducts surveillance of the key to target, struck by terrorists in Mumbai. A spokesman for the Indian Exterior Affair Ministry says the American case against Hedlee exposes a wider (conspiracy) in Pakistan and puts the honesty on Islambad to follow those leads to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure on its soil. Steve Helmen VOA News, New Delhi. Philippine authorities say gunmen are holding 57 people hostage at a school in the southern island of Mindi now. Officials say they tried to (initially) seized 75 people when they raided the remote elementary school in AD province Thursday. Negotiators later secured to (release) of a 17 school children and one woman talks are ongoing to get the others freed. Brief look at market on Wall Street, US stock indexes are down at this hour. I'm David DeForest VOA News. More news on the internet at voanews.com