欧盟委员会7日说，欧盟的伽利略卫星导航系统将从2014年起投入运营。欧盟委员会当天宣布了伽利略卫星导航系统项目中3份合同的归属。欧盟委员会副主席塔亚尼在宣布上述决定时表示，无论从经济还是安全角度来说，伽利略卫星导航系统对欧洲十分重要，它将确保欧洲的“政治独立”。他说，该系统在技术上优于美国的全球定位系统，将为人们的出行提供更精确的定位，它在高原地区和高楼林立的城区的优势尤其明显。
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President Obama’s national security advisor James Jone says the Americans will be shocked by the founding of a white house inquiry into the intelligence failure led it up to the attempted Christmas day airliner bombing. From Washington here is Mark Mardell .
President Obama’s top security advisor general James Jone says the president is very concerned that American intelligence agency failed to make use of the information they had to stop the Detroit bomb plot boarding the plane bound for the states and failed to join the doc over fort hood，Maj. Nidal Hasan has been charged with shooting dead fellow soldiers in that incident. The President’s national security advisor added it was not theater，it was a loom. The president due to speak soon about this and make public the results of an investigation into what went wrong with the Detroit case. A report strict to sensitive material will be published and general Jone says people will be worried by what they read.
The united nation investigator Philip Sri Lankan says video footage which appears to show Sri Lankan troops shooting capture Tamil Tigers rebels is authentic. In the video naked rebels bond and blind filled a scene being shot in the head. When the video was released last year， Sri Lankan dismissed it as a fake，but mr Sri Lankan said that experts conclude it that the video was genuine and he called for a independent investigation into the killings.
“each of these experts subject the video tape to a very careful and thorough examination，and each of them conclude it that there was nothing to indicate that the video was a fake. My own interpretation of their conclusions is that they point very clearly to the authenticity of the video”
The American security firm Blackwater have raised a settlement in a series of lawsuit brought over a killing of Iraqi civilians. The amount of the settlement is not be disclosed. Blackwater which has since changed its name to Xe said it could not move on under new management. Jenner Bryon reports from Washington.
The lawsuits were seeking compensation for Iraqis killed in several shooting between 2006 and 2007,allegedly involving Blackwater contractors. One of the lawsuits accused the company’s founder Erik Prince of allowing a culture in which a heavily armed private army with allowed to roam the streets of Baghdad killing innocent civilians. Last week criminal charges against the individuals alleged involved were dropped when a judge said prosecutors had comprised the case and fair trail was not possible.
The US justice apartment said the two former employees of Blackwater have been charged in connection with the murder of Afghan citizens in Kabul. The suspect allegedly fired on two afghan men at a scene of road accident, they have said they acted in self defense.
World news from the BBC.
Medical staff in the Somalia capital Mogadishu say at least 12 people have been killed in clashes between Islamic soldiers and government pro government forces. Reports says the soldiers fired shells into the excite district which is controlled by the insurgents in response to a motor attack on the presidential palace.
The BBC has learned that two senior Burma officials have been sentenced to death for leaking details of secret government visit to Russia and north korea and of military tunnels that allegedly built in Burma by the North Korea. It is thought the tunnels now under construction are intended to house communications systems ，weapons factory and troops In the event of invasion.
The European union has announced that its satellite navigation system Galileo will start operating in 2014. Rescue workers will be the first to use it with other services road out over the following years. Mark Gregory reports.
The Galileo project is already way over budget in several years late. Two years ago it was nearly scraped，but now the first commercial contract has been announced. A clear signal that Europe alternative to the American GPS satellites locating net work will go ahead.
The German company OHB System will supply 14 satellites，the French group Arianespace will launch them into orbit，Starting in October 2012. it is Europe’s largest ever venture in space.
Construction company which building the Dubai say they are slowing down the pace of their work but they haven’t confirmed reports that is because of delay in payments from Dubai government. The authorities in Dubai said they will committed to meeting their financial obligation on the project and the work was on schedule. Last September Dubai said the estimated cost of building the metro has almost doubled to7.6 billion dollars.
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