discipline
d for allowing his soldiers to use a Palestinian as a human shield. A criminal investigation has also begun into the bombing of a house in Gaza in which more than 100 members of the same family were
taking shelter
.
The United States government is filing a lawsuit against the state of Arizona over its strict immigration law. Supporters of the law in Arizona, where illegal migrants may
account for
as much as 8% of the population, say the state was forced to act because the federal government had failed to do so. Kevin Connolly reports from Washington.
The Obama administration has described Arizona's decision to pass its own tough laws against illegal immigration as misguided. It's clearly
nervous
of the way the affair has forced one of the most
contentious
and uncomfortable issues in American public life back onto the national political agenda. Its attempt to
overturn
the law is based on a point of constitutional principle that immigration is a matter of the federal authorities and that individual states don't therefore have the right to legislate against it. It also argues that the Arizona law would result in the
harassment
of anyone who couldn't prove their immigration status when challenged to do so.
World News from the BBC.
The British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced an inquiry into allegations that Britain's security services were