BBC News with Zoe Diamond Britain has announced (strict) measures to curb banker’s bonus, there will be a one of 50 % (tacks) on all payments over 40,000 dollars. The move follows criticism of sizable bonus; banks are planning to pay well receiving government aid. And official of the British Bankers Association Angela Knight says she’s (concerning) by the decision. “Lending comes to the broad issues of paying bonus we’d already dealt with that. We put it into (regulation) that contracted bonus could be deferred for 2-3 years paid on consistency performance early and the majority of that bonus its earned would be paid in shares. So this is the last piece which is on discretion bonus and proud put together, it is well worth saying that we’ve gone further than any other of the major counties around the world. ” A British muslim man has been (convicted) by a court in London of conspiracy to murder in connection with plotting and bringing down the passenger jets. The man Adam Khatib was (accused) of working with Abdulla Ahmed Ali, he was (sentences) in September for plotting to bring down at least 7 flights using liquid explosives, two other men were convicted of lesser charges. Jackie Leonard has the details. Had exceed the plot would have been on the (scale) of the September 11attacks. Seven traslantic flights was been blow up in midair in a string of suicide attacks. Two months ago, a group of British Muslims was convicted of planning the attacks. Now two more men have been found (guilty) of helping them and another of possessing terrorism (materials). Adam Khatib was convicted of conspiracy to murder for helping to make the (bombs) which would be hidden inside drink bottles. One of the United States most senior general has told congress the situation in Afghanistan is likely to get worse before it gets better. General David Petraeus said the situation was similar to Iraq before the troops (assurgent) 2007. But General Petraeus warned progress in Afghanistan would probably be (slower) than it was in Iraq. “Violence likely will increase initially, particular in the spring as the weather improves. More over, as the Afghan government with international encouragement and assistant moves to combat corruption and abuses of power, the result likely will be increased for reporting on these problems and greater turmoil within the government as the Malian actors or identified in their placed. ” General Petraeus also said he hoped to coordination with Pakistani forces across the (border). A Pakistani born American citizen charged in connection with last year’s attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai has pleaded not guilty in his first court (appearance) in Chicago. United States authorities arrested the man David Coleman Headley in October over his alleged June in plotting attacks against Danish Newspaper. Mr. Headley is accused of receiving (training) from the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba. This is the World News from the BBC. Several thousand of Jewish settlers have been (protesting) outside the official residence of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against his decision to (freeze) the construction in West Bank settlements. The protesters accused Mr. Netanyahu of giving into US pressure over the 10-month hold on new residential building. Earlier the Israeli foreign minister said he believed the settlers had the right to define the freeze as long as they stayed within the law. Egypt has begun building a massive metal (offence) along with the tear from Gaza strip in an effort to cut cross border (smuggling). The project has been shrouded in secrecy but the intelligence has just told the BBC the wall would be 10 kilometers long and what is extended 18 meters under ground. Christian Fraser reports from Cairo. The weeks local farmers have notice more activities of the border, trees were been cut down. And very few of them were (ware) and the barrier was being built and that’s because this barrier has been hidden deepen on the ground. It’s made of super strands of steel but extends 18 meters below the (surface) where is told was manufactured in United States it’s fixed together in similar fashion to a jigsaw and it’s been tested to insure its bomb (proof). It can’t be cut and can’t be melted insured it’s in (penetrable). The Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki has removed the head of security forces in Bagdad following the devastating bomb attacks that killed more than 120 people on Tuesday. Reports say the security chief Abboud Qanbar will be replaced by his (deputy). The announcement came after renewed criticism of Mr. Qanbar over the bombings. The social net working website Face book has introduced new procedures to give its users more control over (private) information they posed on the internet and new software will never require users to (specify) who should be allowed to see a picture or a message. Our BBC correspondent says the moves in the preventing material reaching the (wrong) people.