Obama aide Rahm Emanuel 'will run for Chicago mayor'

President Obama's chief of staff, Emanuel said Friday he will run for Chicago, leaving the mayor's aides said the sources.

The White House refused to confirm speculation, but said the president's staff will make an announcement on Friday.

Interview with the Associated Press news agency the two unnamed people close to Emanuel who confirmed his intention.

The assistant is not a secret, his desire to one day run the mayor.

Emanuel - who has a reputation for brashness - Chicago, Illinois on behalf of the Fifth District in Congress six years.

Emanuel tilt experts, to replace Richard M Daley, September 7 as the latter announced he would step down.

"He intends to run for mayor," one unnamed person told The Associated Press.

On Thursday, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Obama would make a personnel announcement on Friday, but he would not confirm Gibbs Emanuel leave.

When he was appointed chief of staff, some commentators drew attention to the reputation of Emmanuel on the wear resistance.

On Monday, Obama said: "I think the Ram will have to make decisions quickly, because running for mayor of Chicago is a serious business, I know it was his idea.".

Mr. Dai Li mayor of Chicago since 1989, the second longest city service, his father Richard J Daley.

Emanuel is not his desire one day, the mayor of Chicago, a secret.

"One day I want to run for mayor of Chicago, he said:" Earlier this year. "This has been my wish, even when I was in the House."

If Mr Emmanuel decided to leave the White House senior adviser to Peter Strauss has been inclined to replace, even if only temporarily on the basis of him.

Emanuel permanent replacements, including deputy national security adviser, Tom Donilon, assistant vice president and Ron Klain, former Senate majority leader or even Tom Daschle and John Podesta, former Clinton staff director.

Before any permanent replacement decision not to take after the November mid-term elections.

Ahmadinejad UN speech sparks walk-outs

Walked on the United States and other Western delegations in the General Assembly of the United Nations and 65 out of protest against the Iranian leader's speech.

Said Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, some saw the September 11 attacks on the United States as part of a U.S. conspiracy to protect Israel.

Ahmadinejad was speaking at the first day of the marathon for the United Nations for a week in the diplomatic headquarters in New York.

The United States denounced his remarks on the 2001 attacks, which killed nearly 3000 people, as "hateful and delusional."

He joined the U.S. delegation in its walk by representatives from 32 other countries - including all European Union countries, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and Costa Rica.

But it seems to discourage Mr. Ahmadinejad, by protest, and continued his attack on Zionism and Israel, and diplomatic correspondent says the BBC's Jonathan Marcus.
Capitalist 'failures'

The Iranian president's speech was part political satire, part sermon, our correspondent says - Offer a wide range of his world view in particular.

The president said he would host a conference on terrorism in 2011, and that it should be the year for nuclear disarmament.

Iran refused to repeat that it was seeking the ability to make nuclear weapons, Ahmadinejad said some members of the Security Council of the United Nations had "equated nuclear energy with nuclear bombs."

He also said Tehran would not submit to what he called unnecessary pressure from the IAEA of nuclear energy, and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Mr. Ahmadinejad's speech, only through the identification of what he called the failure of the existing world order and capitalism, he said, should be administered by a virtuous people in the world like the prophets.

Although he said that Iran was ready for a serious discussion with the United States state, our correspondent says that evidence of this speech there would be little for them to talk about.

Response to the letter, Mark Kornblau, a spokesman for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, told AFP news agency: "Instead of representing the aspirations and good faith of the Iranian people, and again after the selection of Mr. Ahmadinejad to spout conspiracy theories despicable and anti-slander-Semitism, which is also hateful and delusional because they are unpredictable. "

In the General Assembly of the United Nations, and leaders take to the stage to deliver speeches on the topic of their choice.

Iran has already endured four rounds of punitive economic sanctions are increasingly on the nuclear dispute.

Discuss the foreign ministers from countries including the United States, Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia on this issue at a meeting held on Wednesday, is also likely to be raised on the sidelines of the General Assembly.

Dozens of fringe meetings take place, correspondents say they are the most important work for this event.

Peacekeeping in Somalia, and a possible collapse in the Sudan, the conflict in Yemen, and climate change, UN reform is all set to feature in this small meetings.
'Hard facts'

Speaking shortly after UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched a diplomatic marathon on Thursday, urged U.S. President Barack Obama for the public to provide direct support to the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, which began on September 2.

He said those who yearn for an independent Palestinian state should not be trying to demolish Israel, and called on Israel to extend the cease building new settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Obama has accepted that many are still pessimistic about the peace process, with cynics saying the two sides trust each other too, and also internally divided, to establish a lasting peace.

"Some say that the gaps between the two sides is very large, and the possibility for talks to break a very large, and that after decades of failure, and peace is simply not possible."

But he called the U.S. president on his fellow leaders to consider the alternative.

"If no agreement is reached, the Palestinians will never know the pride and dignity that come with their own state. Israelis will never know certainty and security that comes with a sovereign neighbor and committed to stable coexistence.

"The hard facts of demography take hold, and will shed more blood. This holy land will remain a symbol of our differences, rather than our common humanity."

In his opening statement, Mr. Ban called on States to stand together in times of increasing challenges and uncertainty.

He said the United Nations has provided the moral compass for the world in which social inequalities were growing, with women and children bear the brunt.

He called for "a stronger United Nations for a better world" a.

Ban said the UN has adopted an ambitious plan for a more prosperous world free from poverty, and for a greener and more secure without nuclear weapons.

Blair laughs off claim he plagiarised Queen meeting

The laughter Tony Blair hints that it was stolen from the account of the public for his first meeting with the Queen of the movie version of the meeting.

Blair in his memoirs refers to the Queen said to him: "You are my prime minister and the tenth was the first Winston, and that was before you were born."

These words are very similar to those used in the 2006 film from Oscar-winning Queen.

He suggested a scenario Peter Morgan Blair confuse reality with this film.

Mr. Morgan suggested that chose either to Blair's support the film version, or was "one trap and tonics and a lot of confusion between the scene in the movie with what actually happened."

Blair said he had not seen the film, however.

He said: "I hope that Peter Morgan being tongue in cheek, on this subject. I can not believe that she had written a movie without talking to someone," he told BBC Radio on May 2 Drivetime Simon.

He added, "I told this story many times, because I always thought it is quite a funny story."

He laughed and added: "Are you suggesting to me that it was stolen from the movie?

"I do not think it's terribly surprising because, as I said, the story is often told me so maybe someone heard and said to him, but that's what happened."

Obama defends opposition to tax cuts for rich Americans

And he defended Barack Obama's opposition to the extension of Bush-era tax cuts for wealthy Americans.

He said that the United States can not afford the $ 700bn (£ 452bn) in tax cuts "for folks who are already millionaires."

Obama made the remarks in the state of Ohio and the faltering U.S. economy appears to be the main issue in the elections held in November in the mid-term.

Republicans attacked Obama's economic management, while he criticized what he called the Democratic effort to block the creation of employment opportunities.

On Friday, the Labor Department said the United States economy lost 54000 jobs in July, with high rates of unemployment to 9.6%.

BBC's James Reynolds, in Washington, says that Obama knows that, whatever else he has achieved, and will be judged by his administration's record on the economy.

Republicans blame Obama to increase the deficit with the hundreds of billions of dollars to stimulate the economy without offering a promise of employment growth.

"People are wondering: Where are the jobs?" The leader of the House Republican John Boehner of Ohio before Obama's speech. The White House called "from" in touch with the American public.

'Rising again'

And the address is in college in Cleveland, second major economic speech this week, as an attempt to shed light on efforts in Congress which is controlled by the Democrats' to create jobs.

"The economy is growing again," he said.

"We have stabilized the financial markets, the private sector and create jobs for the past eight months, respectively, and there are nearly three million Americans who are working today because of the economic plan we have put in place."

But he admitted that the pace of growth had been "painfully slow".

"People feel frustrated and angry and concerned about the future," he said.

"I understand that. I also understand that in a political campaign, the easiest thing for the other side to do is ride this fear and anger all the way to election day."
Mocked the Republican plan

Obama devoted a large part of his speech to attack the policies of the Republican Party.

Referring by name to Mr. Bonner, and criticized Republican plans to extend the tax cuts in the Bush era of the American rich.

"With all the budget pressures our other - with all the talk about the Republican desire to reduce the deficit - it was us borrow 700bn over the next ten years to give a tax cut of about 100,000 dollars to people who are already millionaires," he said.

He scoffed at what he described as a Republican economic plan focuses on tax cuts for the rich and cuts in corporate organization.

"I realize that, and most Republicans in Congress is not to just about every policy has proposed since taking office," adding that the Republican minority believes "if it fails, they win."

"They may think that this will get them where they need to go in November but will not get our country where it needs to go on a long-term, and will not get us there."

Pakistan 'corruption' trio charged and suspended by ICC

The three were accused Pakistani cricket player on corruption charges with various crimes by the International Cricket Council).

Is assigned to Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif, Prince Muhammad questioned again by police over allegations he threw a deliberate lack of balls against England.

International Criminal Court charges of "illegal acts alleged" in testing the fourth Thursday in the Lord, and Friday.

Temporarily suspended, Trio now has 14 days to appeal the ruling.

It is alleged that the Prince of descriptor threw three balls, not at specific times in advance to facilitate betting coups after a "medium" and reportedly accepted £ 150,000 from a reporter undercover News of the World, which published the story on Sunday.

"We will not tolerate corruption in the game of cricket is also simple -," said Chief Executive Officer of International Chamber of Commerce Haroon Lorgat.

"We must be decisive with such things, and if it is proven that these crimes are punishable by severe penalties of up to a life ban.

"The International Criminal Court to do everything possible to maintain such conduct, we will stop at nothing to protect the safety and sports.

"Although we believe that the problem is not widespread, we must be ever vigilant.

"It is important, however, we do not pre-judge the guilt of these three players, and this is an independent court alone to decide."

It has become, and Asif Prince officially notified of the crimes alleged to have committed.

To find any player at the end of the day to be guilty of a crime under the law will be subject to sanctions set forth in the Anti-Corruption Law in the International Criminal Tribunal for the players and staff support for the player.

This may mean that adherence to ban the player for an indefinite period with the possibility, at the discretion of an independent tribunal, additional fines.

Details of when a court hearing is still to be finalized.

He said the BBC's sports editor David Bond action taken by the International Criminal Court, "" decisive and unexpected.

He added: "There is still an ongoing police investigation, and those players will return to Scotland Yard to re-interviewed by them [in] Friday, we can eventually get criminal charges.

"International Criminal Court clearly understood that the game of cricket's credibility is at stake with this issue as a whole, and they had to move quickly to save the reputation of the sport."

More details about the charges that are expected to be released at a news conference on Friday, the International Criminal Court, our correspondent says.

West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels has recently completed a ban for two years imposed by the ICC after the transfer of information to the team through a series of bets for a single day in India in January 2007, despite the fact that 29 years), denies any wrongdoing.

Earlier Thursday, Pakistan's High Commissioner Wajid Shamsul Hasan, the demands that would have been the News of the World video exposing the scandal, which allegedly made after the accident.

But the BBC has learned that the Metropolitan Police, who investigate alleged in the case and has been working side by side with the International Criminal Court, and we believe that the evidence is crucial for the video of the situation is authentic.