provoke

d violent protests. The BBC's Gavin Hewitt reports on Italian reaction.

They seem more accepting at the moment, the Italian people. And certainly the atmosphere here is not similar to Greece at the moment. Yes, public sector wages are going to be frozen; there will also be cuts to some health services, but I think at the moment people recognise that this is a necessary price that has to be paid. One

essential

difference: the political parties here have united behind these austerity measures; in Greece, the government had to sort of force them through with a very narrow majority.

Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga says it will open a new Kenyan camp to refugees fleeing the drought and conflict in Somalia. Work there was suspended this year as the Kenyan government had

been wary of

encouraging an exodus from Somalia. Mr Odinga made the announcement during a visit to the nearby Dadaab camp, which is struggling to cope with 380,000 people. Kevin Mwachiro reports.

Thursday's announcement that the Ifo extension camp can now be opened could not come at a better time. Currently over 1,300 refugees are streaming (in) daily into Kenya from war-torn Somalia.

After spending the day touring various sections of the camp, Prime Minister Raila Odinga noted that the conditions that the refugees were living under were unacceptable. The new camp has a capacity to

accommodate

up to 80,000 refugees. Work had previously begun on the camp but was stopped earlier this year by the Kenyan government, who had cited security concerns as one of the reasons for the closure.