The Afghan president Hamid Karzai says he's suspending efforts to talk to the Afghan Taliban and will focus instead on dialogue with Pakistan in efforts to bring security to the country. Jill McGiving reports.

President Karzai told religious leaders in Kabul that if Afghanistan wanted to pursue peace talks, its only dialogue partner was Pakistan. He couldn't talk to the Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, he said, because he couldn’t be found and neither could the Taliban council. Therefore, he added, "we can not talk to anyone but to Pakistan". It's the clearest statement yet that the Afghan government may have abandoned its attempt to political dialogue with the Taliban. The recent murder of Afghanistan's main negotiator Burhanuddin Rabbani threw its policy into chaos.

The United Nations War Crime

tribunal

for Rwanda has convicted two former ministers for

complicity

in the 1999 genocide but it's freed two others. The two jailed ministers were each sentenced to 30 years in prison. Will Ross reports.

There are extradinary scenes in court that two former Rwandan ministers were sent to prison for 30 years whilst their cabinet colleagues celebrated being set free.

The Health Minister in 1994 Casimir Bizimungu and the Foreign Minister Jerome-Clement Bicamumpaka are amongst the most senior officials to be

acquitted

of genocide.

The judges ruled that Justin Mugenzi and Prosper Mugiraneza have been part of the government decision to remove the prefect to the city of Butarewho have opposed to the ethnically-driven killings.