BBC News with Nick Kelly. Five fighting vessels have been sent to oil pack foam in the gulf of Mexico, after an explosion on board. The plateform operated by the American company marine energy was (blazed) for several hours. Coast guards say all 13 workers on boat the wreck have been accounted for. It's not clear whether there has been an oil leak from the strick plateform.Rajesh Mirchandani reports. A Louisiana coast guard official confirmed oil ? has been spoted around the plateform where fire broke out. It's a thin film on the surface of the sea not a sleak about one and half (kilometers) long and 30 meters wide. But the official could not confirm the ? came from the burning rig. Earlier a spokesman for marina energy which own the facility said an initial fly over appears to show no spill. The plateform was not producing oil or gas at the time. Although 7 wells operated by the company nearby and oil can be stored on board. Coast gaurds in Canada say a tank carrying 9 million litters of diesel fuel has run aground in the north west (passage) in the Canadian ?. in attempt to be may reflood the vessel. Coast guards say no fuel is believed to things billed. Israeli and Palestinian have held their first direct negotiations nearly two years in Washington.American Middle East envoy Geoge Richael said the talks could be constructive and both sides has agreed to make a ? in the Middle East in two weeks. From the US state department. Kim Ghattas reports. Mohammad Abbas and Benjamin Netanyahu held a ?long meetinf with Hilary Clinton and Geoge Misheal with no (translators) or no taker in the room according to a senior American official.Negotiators from both sides then joining the meeting for half an hour before the two leaders sit down again alone in Mr Clinton's ? office. Goege Richea described the meeting as long and productive and said the relationshio between the two men was cogual and the mood (constructive). The American envoy said the logical next step was to reach a frame work of agreement that would then pave the way to a comprehensive treaty. The international cricket council has announced that three Pakistani cricketor had been (charged) under its anti-corruption code in the awake the match for scandal that ? follows of the game. The ICC said the three Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir have been notified of the charges and had been suspended from criket any level.James pills reports. The international crikets council statement announce the player suspension could hardly have been clear. We would not tolerate corruption in criket simple as that. said the ICC's chief executive Haroon Lorgat. The warding of charges has not yet been reviewed, although we are told so far is the very various. The player to have been given 14 days to response. The ICC (decision) came at the end of the day of fast moving event. It begun with an announcement that the three player have decided to withdraw for the rest it at all. World New from the BBC. International manetaty fund is to give Pakistan 450 million dollars in a emergency flood aid in the next few weeks and the world bank has also increased its funding by 100 million dollars. Pakistani authority said the floods affected 20 million people, but the money needed to help that must been vey slow to arrive. From Washington, here is Laura Trevelyan. As Pakistan struggles with the (impact) of the floods. The international monetary fund has stepped in to provide emergency aid. Government has been slow to pledge the money the United Nations says it is needed for the issuse relief efforts. Donors have been worried about their money following into the hand of the Pakistani Taliban. 490 million dollars is the yuan's target. only half of the money to help people in the longer term has been pledged. So the IMF's decision to give 450 million dollars to Pakistan's government is significant. Clushes have broke out again between demonstrators and police in the ? capital Mopotal. A day after protests (over-rising) prices left several people dead. A BBC correspondant in the city says use block road with burning tyres and other daberry. The government s+rmy of posible genoside in the Democratic Repubic of Congo prompting Rwanda to threnten to withdraw its troops from UN peacekeeping missions. The UN high commissioner for human righr.?says the final sersion next month would include comments from the country's concern. And the American fast food chain ? has agreed to take over the private ? phone ? is buying it for 3.2 billion dillars.(analysts) say? had been heardby highlevels of unemployement among the young man who make up its coal market. And that's the latest BBC News.