Turkey says it's
pressing ahead
with plans for two new nuclear plants, including one that might use Japanese technology.World News from the BBC
Arab Gulf states have sent security forces into neighbouring Bahrain to help the ruling family there deal with the growing Shia-led protest movement. The deployment is part of a regional cooperation agreement. James Robbins reports.
Witnesses have described seeing about 150 Saudi Arabian armoured troop carriers and other vehicles entering Bahrain over the causeway that links the two Gulf kingdoms. A Saudi official said about 1,000 troops had been deployed. This is the first time that any Arab government has called for outside military help during the current wave of protests sweeping the region.
Bahrain's Shia Muslim majority has long complained of discrimination and
dominance
by the Sunni minority, including the ruling royal family. Bahrain's
predominantly
Sunni neighbours are clearly nervous about their own position.
Opposition forces in Libya say they have come under heavy attack by troops loyal to Colonel Gaddafi in the key eastern town of Ajdabiya. The town is the last big population centre before the main rebel city Benghazi. The latest fighting comes after the opposition said its fighters had pushed back government soldiers who captured the oil town of Brega on Sunday.
The French car maker Renault has apologised to three senior managers it sacked after wrongly accusing them of industrial espionage. Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.