BBC News with Jerry Smit
Sudan and South Sudan have moved closer to full-scale war with the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir saying he wants to liberate the people of South Sudan from their own government. His comments at a rally in Khartoum follow days of fighting on the border between the two countries. James Copnall reports from Khartoum.
President Omar al-Bashir said he had made a mistake by putting the Sudan People's Liberation Movement in power in Juba. This is a reference to the 2005 peace agreement, which resulted in the former rebel movement controlling South Sudan. The region then became an independent country last year. From now on, President Bashir told a fired-up crowd his main goal would be removing the SPLM from power.
"We tell the SPLM we either end up in Juba and take everything, or you end up in Khartoum and take everything," he said.
The United States and Nato have condemned the actions of US soldiers who posed in photographs with the mangled remains of suicide bombers in Afghanistan. The White House described the soldiers' conduct as "reprehensible" while the Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen promised a full investigation.
"These events took place apparently a couple of years ago. I consider them an isolated event. This event will be thoroughly investigated, and of course there will be taken necessary and appropriate steps to hold people to account."
The Los Angeles Times published the pictures taken by a US paratrooper in 2010 despite a Pentagon request not to.