BBC News. This is Mike Cooper President Nicolas Sarkozy has secured final approval by parliament for his controversial pension reforms. A national assembly has followed the Senate in voting to change the retirement age from 60 to 62. After the law was fast tracked through parliament to (try) to end a way of strikes and demonstrations. France’s Labor Minister is Eric Woerth. This was difficult to do and not necessarily popular. People don’t come to you and say:” Fantastic, I really want to work longer, thanks.” It a lot more complicated to now but we did it. Most people were (remarkably )united behind the president of the Republic and reproved that we can carry out reforms in France. The trade unions have called another day “a actional Thursday”. Shaloon Kaka of the general federation of labor union explained why. This bill is unfair, I don’t want to work until I’m 67 years old and I don’t want my son to be unemployed. That’s it, that’s why I am here. No way. It’s not legitimate. It’s not fair. They do they want, we know that this bill will be approved but democracy is not a () bunch given to people who do they want in between need an (election), it doesn’t work like that. The former President of Argentina, Nestor Kirchner, has died of a heart attack. Nestor Kirchner, the 60-year-old husband of the current president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, died suddenly in hospital. She took over from her husband as a president in 2007. After he’d overseen, the country’s recovery from a (severe) economic crisis. He’d been expected to stand for the presidency again. In Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez praised Mr. Kirchner as someone who fought for international justice. We have already announced three days of national mourning. I think the bells should chime in Venezuela and all of Latin America and all the places where they struggle for a world of equals, for a world of peace. A great man has died. A patriot has died. A great patriot.” The American Justice Department says a mad man has been (arrested) of an alleged plot to attack subway stations in the Washington area. It named him as Farooque Ahmed, a 34-year-old Pakistani American living in Virginia. Iain MacKenzie reports from Washington. According to the Department of Justice, Farooque Ahmed engaged in a six months reconnainassance exercise, taking photographs, making videos and drawing maps of possible (targets) on the DC metro. Among them was the underground station serving the Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. Defence Department. It’s alleged that Mr. Ahmed would regularly pass on the information to a contact ,who he believed worked for al-Qaeda. Although not officially confirmed, it’s likely that individual was in fact an FBI agent. Officials said members of the public were of no time at risk as long as forcement agencies were aware of (plot) from the beginning. This is Mike Cooper in London with World News from the BBC. Officials in Indonesia say an early warning system put in place after the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami six years ago wasn’t working when Monday’s tsunami struck the Mentawai Islands of Sumatra. An official said two devices that measure waves had been vandalized. More than 270 people were killed and another 400 missing. Meanwhile, survivors of Tuesday’s (volcanic) eruption in central Java are returning to their villages to find their homes destroyed by volcanic ash. More than 20 people died in the eruption. Armed men have killed at least 15 people at a car wash in Mexico. Most of the victims were young people who worked at the facility in the western coastal town of Tepic. A Mexican newspaper says the youngsters lived in a rehabilitation centre for drug (addicts). It’s the third shooting of this kind since last Friday when 14 were killed at a party in Ciudad Juarez. On Saturday, 14 people were shot died. The Rwandan hotel manager who’s efforts to save thousands of Tutsis during the rude genocide was portrayed in the film of “ Hotel Rwanda” ,has denied government allegation that he sending () to the main Rwandan opposition leader. In an interview with BBC, Paul Rusesabagina said the Rwandan President Paul Kagame was attempting to silence all his (critics). His plan is more than clear. He’s clearing all the bushes around him. He was to be the only leader without a position without anyone being a hotel of Tutsi all one day. (…) to what he says or does. The World Cup metal won by the England footballer Nobby Stiles as a member of the victorious 1966 national side has been brought at auction by his former club Manchester United. The price paid, nearly 300,000 dollars, is the (highest) so far for a World Cup winner’s medal. The small gold item will be put in the Manchester United Museum.