step down
as president, were attacking peacekeepers.
This is Michael Powles with the latest World News from the BBC.
A new report on the economic price of piracy suggests the costs to the world economy is up to $12bn each year with Somali pirates largely responsible. The study examined the cost of insurance, security and ransom payments. The biggest costs are believed to have come from having to
reroute
ships to avoid risky areas.
A debate in Britain over the issue of
undercover
reporters to
elicit
comments from members of parliament has
culminate
d in the governing Liberal Democrat coalition party lodging a complaint with the Press Complaints Commission. It relates to the Daily Telegraph newspaper secretly recording the views of leading Liberal Democrats. The party's president Tim Farron said the Telegraph's tactics needed to be looked at.
"The Press Complaints Commission's code
sets out
that, you know, undercover reporting, and such like in impermissible and extreme circumstances when it's clearly in the public interest where there's evidence that there's something to be uncovered. I am not convinced that sending people into an MP's surgery to come and entrap them, potentially if it can compromise the very important kind of confidential relationship between an MP and their constituents, it actually counts."
The Daily Telegraph maintains its actions