BBC news 2011-07-27

BBC news 2011-07-27

[00:03.42]Police in Norway have begun releasing the names of the 76 people killed in Friday's bomb attack in Oslo and mass shooting on a nearby island.

[00:13.07]Earlier, the lawyer for the man who's admitted carrying out the attacks, Anders Behring Breivik, expressed doubts about his client's mental health. [00:21.19]From Oslo,Stephen Evans.

[00:23.28]The lawyer said his client was probably insane, though it wasn't certain that insanity would be his formal plea.

[00:29.79]He said his client regarded himself as taking part in a war. Breivik is now likely to be charged with an offence related to terrorism,

[00:38.66] Which will enable the court to impose a longer sentence than the current maximum for murder.

[00:43.49]The head of the country's intelligence service told the BBC they were also investigating links to other groups

[00:49.86]and whether Breivik may have left unexploded bombs elsewhere.

[00:53.56]President Obama has made an unannounced visit to the Norwegian ambassador's residence in Washington to pay his condolences over the killings in Norway.

[01:03.29]The president wrote in a condolences book that he was heartbroken at the tragic loss of so many young lives.

[01:09.86]The Moroccan army says 78 people were killed when a military transport plane crashed into a mountain in the south of the country,

[01:18.18] Just north of the disputed Western Sahara territory. Here's Norah Fahim in Rabat.

[01:23.52]The Hercules C-130 crashed this morning into a mountain near the town Guelmim, in the south of Morocco. [01:31.08]According to Morocco's official news agency, the MAP, the plane was carrying 81 people and only three have survived.

[01:38.78]The plane came from Dakhla and was heading towards Kinitra, a town right outside Morocco's capital Rabat.

[01:45.07]Some of the soldiers on board were due to meet King Mohammed this Saturday to celebrate his 12th year as king.

[01:52.62]The official Egyptian news agency says that the former President Hosni Mubarak is weak and refusing solid food.

[01:59.14]The report comes a week before he's due to stand trial, accused of ordering the killing of protesters. From Cairo,Jon Leyne.

[02:06.72]The report said Mr Mubarak's doctors would decide in the coming hours how to proceed as his current food intake was not enough to keep him alive.

[02:14.66]Opposition supporters are sceptical about reports on Hosni Mubarak's health.

[02:18.89]They believe the authorities are just trying to avoid him going on trial as scheduled next week. [02:24.54]At the same time, there does seem growing evidence that he is an increasingly enfeebled old man.

[02:29.93]A United Nations fact-finding mission in Libya

says the health service in the capital Tripoli is under growing strain

[02:37.07]As Nato's bombing campaign against Colonel Gaddafi continues.

[02:41.32]The UN mission says medical supplies including vaccines are running low and most foreign medical staff have left the city.

[02:48.55]It says some areas of Tripoli are experiencing electricity cuts. There are long queues at petrol stations,

[02:54.16]And Libyan oil experts say fuel stocks could run out in two weeks' time.

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[03:00.20]The Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has said he will ask parliament to amend the constitution so that presidents will serve a single longer term in office. [03:11.11]The Nigerian constitution currently limits presidents to two four-year terms.

[03:16.02]Mr Jona than has not said how long the new term should be, but he says the change will focus politicians

more on governance and less on re-election.

[03:25.04]The United States has suspended a $350m aid programme to Malawi because of concerns that the government there is becoming increasingly authoritarian. [03:35.46]The American aid package was intended to improve Malawi's electricity network, but it's dependent on a commitment to good governance.

[03:43.32]Recent suppression of anti-government protests has left 19 people dead in Malawi.

[03:48.80]Mexican officials say at least 17 people have been killed and another four injured in an armed clash in a prison in the northern city of Ciudad Juarez.

[03:58.22]A spokesman for the city's authorities told the BBC that one group of prisoners attacked inmates from a rival drug gang on Monday night,

[04:05.91]Using weapons they'd seized from guards.

[04:08.22]The Colombian salsa star Joe Arroyo has died at the age of 55 after being in hospital for nearly a month with lung and kidney problems.

[04:18.37]Arroyo, who's most famous for the hit La Rebelion, began singing in brothels in the Caribbean city of Cartagena at the age of eight.

[04:26.30]From Bogota, Arturo Wallace reports.

[04:28.98]For Colombians, he was simply the greatest, and it's difficult to imagine a single Latin American not having danced at least once to one of his many hits. [04:37.01]Alvaro Jose Arroyo Gonzalez - Joe Arroyo, El Joe - was a dominant figure of the salsa music scene between 1985 and 1995.

[04:45.21]And during his prolific career, 40 of his songs made it to the top of the Colombian charts.

[04:50.22]He was also the man who more clearly reclaimed the African heritage of Latin American tropical music both in his lyrics and rhythms.