BBC News with Zoe Diamond

The head of the International Monetary Fund says Greece has nothing to fear from the organization. At a news conference in Washington, Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the IMF was trying to provide Greece with the advice and resources necessary to help with its debt problem. Andrew Walker reports from Washington.

Mr Strauss-Kahn was responding to a Greek journalist who said the Greek public are demonizing the IMF that they fear things will be worse with IMF involvement. The agency has a reputation for requiring borrowing countries to make deep cuts in popular government spending programs. Mr Strauss-Kahn said the Greek people should think of the IMF as a cooperative organization where the countries of the world work together to help those in trouble by providing resources and advice on behalf of the international community.

Anti-government protest leaders in Thailand say they fear security forces will now move against their fortified encampment in the capital Bangkok. They expressed their concern after the Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva rejected a deal to resolve Thailand's long-standing political crisis. The red-shirted demonstrators who've occupied parts of Bangkok for weeks have said they'd call off their protests if Mr Abhisit dissolves parliament within 30 days.

The British government has confirmed that Britain has been ordered to pay back nearly 600 million dollars to Iran over a 1970s weapons' deal. The order came from an arbitration court in The Hague. Greg Morsbach reports.