BBC news with Kathy Clugston.
The president of Burma Thein Sein has told the BBC that he would accept the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as a future elected president if that was what the Burmese people wanted. Two days previously, Thein Sein had told the UN General Assembly that Burma's reforms were irreversible. Stephen Sarker reports from New York.
President U Thein Sein was for two decades a stalwart member of Burma's repressive military government. Now, he's become a remarkable champion of political reform. "The transition from dictatorship to democracy is the will of the people", he told me. I asked him if he would accept the leader of the opposition and former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi as a future elected president. "It all depends on the people", he said. "If the people accept her, I will have to accept her. We are working together."
The youngest prisoner detained by the United States at Guantanamo Bay has been sent to his native Canada to complete his sentence. Omar Khadr was 15 when he was wounded and captured in Afghanistan in 2002. He pleaded guilty to killing an American soldier and after being detained for 8 years at Guantanamo was found guilty by a US military tribunal of war crimes. Lee Carter reports from Toronto.
Omar Khadr arrived at a Canadian military base east of Toronto on Saturday morning and was quickly transferred to a maximum-security prison where he is expected to serve the last 6 years of an eight-year sentence. His return to Canada was part of a pre-trial plea deal agreed with American prosecutors in 2010. Under the agreement, Mr Khadr admitted killing the US soldier in a gunfire exchange near Khost in Afghanistan in 2002.