The Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan says he doesn't intend to resign despite his government suffering a setback in elections for the upper house of parliament.

Exit polls suggest the coalition lost its majority in the polls. Projections give Mr Kan's Democratic Party about 47 seats and none to its much smaller ally. Analysts say the stage could be set for legislative deadlock. The Democratic Party

swept to

power last year, promising

fundamental

reforms, but its popularity has shrunk

due to

financial scandals and

perception

s of weak leadership.

President Obama has called on governments to re-double efforts to arrest those responsible for the war crimes at Srebrenica during the Bosnian conflict. The main suspect still

at large

is the Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic.

Mr Obama's call which echoed the Serbian President Boris Tadic came as thousands of mourners marked the 15th anniversary of the massacre by Bosnian Serb forces of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys.

Paddy Ashdown is the former international high representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina. He told the BBC it was now essential to bring Mr Mladic to justice at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.

"He is the last of the primary architects to arrest now in The Hague.

I'm pretty confident where he is. I think he's being protected by renegade elements, not under the state but renegade elements of the Serbian security services.