World news from the BBC.
State media in China say police have confiscated 27 million (drug capsules) on suspicion that they were made from (industrial waste). They say 80 production lines have been closed and scores of people detained. The capsules are said to have been made from industrial gelatine containing potentially toxic levels of chromium and retrieved from discarded leather.
The formula One Grand Prix in Bahrain has past on without incident despite concerns of the opposition might try to disrupt it. The race was won the (reining) world champions Sebastian Vettel. Caroline Holy reports.
Caroline Holy: “The red line is go on three, four, five lines. When they go out, we will be racing and that we will…”
Despite all the controversy, despite the protests, the show went ahead without (disruption). It was the tightest security ever seen at a Grand Prix. The Bahrain authority succeeded in keeping demonstrators away from the (heavily-guarded) circuit. Elsewhere though, tyres were burned in protests and the opposition is reporting injuries caused by security forces firing bird shot. Hosting the Grand Prix was build by the authorities as an event to unify the island. But with one protestor died, others wounded, the Formula One drivers leave behind the island that is (bitterly divided) ever."
The Sri Lankan government has ordered the remove of a mosque form an area. It says it’s sacred to the country’s Buddhist majority. The Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne said the (mosque) in the town of Dambulla would be relocated. Officials said it was being expanded illegally but Muslim leaders disputed this.
At least nine people have been injured in Argentina at a clash between (rival sections) of a trade union group. Police says two armed men burst in to the offices of a construction worker’s union in Buenos Aires. The men thought to belong to a rival section of the same union opened fire on the people there, leaving one man (paralyzed) and eight more with wounds to their legs.
BBC news.
