BBC News with Sue Montgomery
The United Nations nuclear energy agency, the IAEA, says it's
increasingly
concerned that Iran is
working on
a nuclear weapons programme. In a report, the IAEA says it has new evidence about Iran's work with highly enriched uranium,
suitable
for bombs. Kerry Skyring reports from Vienna.
The International Atomic Energy Agency says it continues to receive new information on activities in Iran related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile. That information, it says, has been
acquire
d from many of its member states and through its own efforts. Iran continues to deny the allegations and says its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful. However, in the same report, the IAEA says Iran has begun installing machines for creating highly enriched uranium at an underground site near the holy city of Qom.
President Obama has
scrap
ped proposals to tighten rules on air pollution. He ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to
shelve
the plans to reduce concentrations of ozone from factories and power companies - one of the main contributors to smog. From Washington, Marcus George.
It's an unexpected U-turn for President Obama that
underscore
s how sensitive he is about America's economic woes. The Environmental Protection Agency had
put forward
the measures to help prevent thousands of premature deaths from heart and lung disease, and save billions of dollars in health costs. Industry groups and Republicans have welcomed the decision, saying the new standards would have been a further burden on the US economy, but it's been criticised by environmentalists and some Democrats, who accuse the president of caving in under Republican pressure.