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| BBC News with Iain Purdon |
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| The Obama administration has designated the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as an event of national significance, |
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| a move which allows it to draw on resources from across the country to deal with the leak. |
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| Mr Obama said everything possible was being done to tackle the problem. |
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| "The Department of Interior has announced that they will be sending SWAT teams to the Gulf to inspect all platforms and rigs. |
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| And I have ordered the secretaries of interior and Homeland Security to visit the site on Friday to ensure that BP and the entire US government is doing everything possible, |
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| not just to respond to this incident but also to determine its cause." |
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| A state of emergency has been declared in Louisiana whose coastline is the most threatened by the spill. |
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| As many as 5,000 barrels of oil a day may now be leaking into the sea after last week's explosion on a drilling rig which then sank. |
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| Britain's three main political leaders have confronted each other over the country's economic difficulties in the third and final televised debate before next week's general election. |
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| How to tackle the country's huge budget deficits was at the heart of some exchanges. |
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| Here is our political reporter Naomi Grimley. |
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| After a miserable 24 hours for Gordon Brown he used his opening statement to argue that being prime minister was tough. |
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| "I don't always get things right," he said, in a reference to his unguarded remarks about an elderly voter he met on Wednesday. |
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| But David Cameron called Mr Brown a desperate man and said the Conservatives were the only party to get the country out of its economic rots. |
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| As for Britain's third leader Nick Clegg, he criticized his opponents for their old-style politics, |
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| telling the audience the Liberal Democrats would do something different. |
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| Belgium has moved a step closer to becoming the first European country to ban Islamic full-face veils in public places. |
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| MPs approved the legislation which now goes to the senate. |
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| It can recommend changes but not overturn the new law. |
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| Parliament in France is due to debate a similar law later this year. From Brussels here is Dominic Hughes. |
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| Belgian members of parliament gave the new law their overwhelming backing, just two abstentions and no votes against. |
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| The law makes no direct reference to full-face veils like niqabs or burkas. |
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| Instead it bans clothing that hides someone's identity in public places like parks, buildings or on the street. |
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| Some MPs back the law on the grounds of security; others say the full-face veil is a symbol of the oppression of women. |
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| The Muslim executive of Belgium has criticized the new law arguing that it would lead to women who do wear the veil being trapped in their homes. |
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| Senators in the United States have begun a debate on the most sweeping financial reform since the 1930s. |
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| The legislation is designed to help avoid a repeat of the global crisis. |
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| The Democrats want to tighten controls over the financial services industry, but the opposition Republicans object to much of the new bill, in particular a plan for a consumer protection agency. |
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