United Nation Security Council is expected to vote late on Saturday on the resolution imposing sanctions on North Korea for carrying out what Pyongyang says was a nuclear test. Last minute discussions on the draft to continuing as the United States seeks to a later concerns of China and Russia. reports.
The United States wants the world to send an immediate forceful message. It wants to make it clear and no one certain terms that North Korea's development of nuclear weapons won't be tolerated. Japan, the key US ally in the region feels the same, but China and Russia see diplomacy not punishment as the way out of this crisis. They don't want to appeal action to be so severe. it closes the door to a possible resumption of nuclear talks in the future. The China especially whole episode isn't acute embarrassment, as North Korea's closest ally and archeitect of mutilateral talks, Beijing hopes to avoid this moment ever being reached.
Israeli militants have killed 6 Palestinian militants during a raid on the northern Gaza Strip. The clash came as * Israeli tank crossed into the Gaza Strip near refugee camp and were confronted by militants reportedly from the * Hamas. Palestinian security sources said four of the militants died when a tank hit the house. Israeli said all six were killed in an air strike. A spokesman from the Hamas-led Palestinian government * said it was dismayed by the international response to Israel's attacks.
Thousands of people have attended a ceremony in India with hundreds of low-caste * or * converted to body them The rally in the central town of * was one of the serious such masscre conversions being held across India in protest of the injustice of the traditional caste system. reports from Mumbai.
Trucks full of low-castes * arrived in the central Indian city not to participate in a rally. this was their chance to convert to boost them and escaped discrimination by abandoning the religion. The ceremony began with leaders fiving far-reaching speeches against the treatment of lower caste to the * gathered there. Many of them are expected to participate in a conversion ceremony that will take place later in the day. A similar ceremony has already taken place in the southern city of Hyderbad. Officially, caste's discrimination was out of law when Indian gained their independence in 1947. But many of the country's 118 million people attidude remain the same
