expulsion

. James Reynolds reports.

For Iran's diplomats in London, it was moving day. Staff and their families were driven to Heathrow Airport for their flight to Tehran. Inside the terminal, one man prayed, others pushed trolleys

stacked

with suitcases and boxes. It's not yet clear when Britain and Iran will reopen their embassies. For now, the two countries will have to find another way of communicating.

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned it'll take years to resolve the eurozone's debt crisis. She said that work had begun to create a fiscal union which would provide greater stability among countries using the euro. On Thursday, the French President Nicolas Sarkozy said France and Germany would seek a new European Union treaty to ensure greater economic integration. Hugh Schofield has this report from Paris.

Over the last 24 hours, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy have both separately spoken of the need for changes to the EU treaties in order to force governments in the eurozone to follow budget

orthodoxy

. It's not clear that the two leaders have exactly the same vision in mind when they talk of enforcement, but it does seem certain that at next week's European summit, the issue of treaty change will be very much on the agenda. Hugh Schofield

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The international court trying the former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic has agreed to cut the number of crimes he's facing in order to