Voice from the VOA News Center in Washington. The US is pressing Israel to abandon the plan to expand settlements in east Jerusalem. The Associate Press quots unnamed Israeli officials say the US wants the country to cancel the construction project. Israel's ambasador to the United States has (warned) that US-Israeli relations had hit a 35-year low due to the disput about the housing plans in east -Jerusalem. Iraqi police say a car bomb has exploded on a busy street in the western city of Flujia and at least 7 people were killed and more than two dozens were wounded. Police say the bomb went off today near a military check-point as the group of day (labours) gathered to work nearby. Thailand's Prime Minister says his government will not give in as the demands of tens of thousands of anti-government protestors who want parliament dissolve. Speaking on National Television today Abhisit Vejjajiva said members of his coalition government agreed they would not bow to protestors's (demands). Some one 100 000 people have been demonstrating in the capital since Sunday. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband is in China on a three-day visit seeking to smooth the risk between Britian and China following British anger over the Copenhagen climate talks and China's (execution) of British citizen. Peter Sens reports from BeiJing. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband is seeking to reconcile differences with China. Like the US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg two weeks ago, David Miliband will also seek to push China to agree the sanctions against Iran. David Miliband says he and high-ranking Chinese leaders will be discussing how the UN Security Council can as he says address the real threaten that the Iranian nuclear program poses to international (stability) and security. "I think ? we have a strategic relationship with China. That means being a clear about the necessity of cooperation. The importance of two UN Security Council members working close together not hiding the area where we disagree but not our? to (secure) the area that we can do important joint work together." Most UN Security Council members back sanctions against Tehran for it's ? program except China which wants more diplomacy.Peter Sens for VOA news. BeiJing. Afghan authority say security forces have killed five militants to the planning to carry out suicide bombings in the country's east .Officials say Afghan forces attacked the five would be the (suicide) bombers today before the militants could reach their targets in the Bomao district Bakitic province. Modest investor surveys says the world's four toppest economies are well place to maintain their good credit status but risks are growing because of increasing debt. In the courtly report released today the private reading agency said the United States ,Germany , French and Britain remain well position to keep their top debt reading because their racial interest payment to government revenues is still (manageable). Two car bombs rocked the southern Nigerian city of Warri today as officials discussed an amnesty program for regional militants. Reports from the same scene say at least two people were wounded when the car bomb exploded about 30 minutes apart near the Delfer state government house where talks will being held about the amnesty program for Nigeria Delta militants. The main militant group of Nigeria's oil producing Niger Delta warned of the (explosions) in the e-mail sent to reporters just minutes before the first bomb went off. The United States government says it outrages by the killing of three people associated with US consulate in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez. Officials say a US (consulate) employee and her husband both US citizens were killed Saturday in a drive by shooting. The couple's baby was also in their vehicle injured. In another shooting the gunman killed the husband of a Mexican citizen employed the consulate. Two children were wounded in that accident, Officials say they believe drug cartels were behind the killings. French's opposition lift it's party dominated (regional) elections on Sunday. They are looking to extend their bandage next week to over president Nicola Sarcozy's conservatives in a second round of voting. Brief look at Wall Street. On Wall Street US Stock Indexes are down at this hour. I'm David De Forest VOA news.