stimulate
domestic demand, and we are going to reduce our foreign trade surplus and our reliance on exports."
Rival groups of demonstrators gathered outside a Chinese-owned car factory in Birmingham that Mr Wen was visiting.
The authorities in Somalia have pardoned six foreigners convicted of bringing more than $3m into the country to
pay off
a pirate ransom. A spokesman for the transitional government said the men, from Britain, the United States and Kenya, had been freed for what he described as humanitarian reasons. The men were last week given sentences of up to 15 years in prison. The ransom money was
confiscate
d by the government.
Fifteen associates of the former President of Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo, have been charged with forming armed groups, economic crimes and undermining the state. Ivory Coast's new President Alassane Ouattara has promised to bring to justice those responsible for post-election violence, which left more than 3,000 people dead. From the main city Abidjan, John James reports.
These are the first official charges brought so far and include seven ministers from the Gbagbo government as well as the former governor of the West African central bank, who
allegedly
helped the former president access frozen state bank accounts.
Mr Gbagbo himself has yet to be charged and remains under house arrest in the north of the country.
The new government has promised to end