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The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned the visiting American Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that efforts to persuade Iran to stop developing nuclear weapons are not working. Mr Netanyahu said Iran believed the international community did not have the will to stop its nuclear program and that this must change because time was
running out
to resolve the issue peacefully.
In Russia, the trial of three women members of the protest group Pussy Riot has been briefly interrupted after one of them fell ill. The group's defense lawyer said that the woman, Mariya Alekhina, experienced a drop in her blood sugar levels. From Moscow, Daniel Sandford.
Pussy Riot's lawyer said that the journey from their prison cells to the courts takes three to four hours in each direction. With the court-sitting for 11 hours each day, that means the women barely have time to sleep in their cells before being brought back to court. Furthermore, they are not getting any proper meals. The prison service confirmed that the three women are only getting what they called dry rations. One of the defendants, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, complained they were barely conscious and had been up all night preparing statements for the court.
In an influential poll of film critics, the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Vertigo has for the first time replaced Orson Welles classic Citizen Kane as the best film ever made. The poll by the British Film Institute's magazine Sight & Sound has been carried out every ten years since 1952. The magazine's editor Nick James explained why the Welles film is no longer No.1.