BBC News with David Austin.
The President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiyev who is in hiding in the south of the country says he fears he will be killed if he returns to the capital Bishkek. Mr.Bakiyev fled the city after an uprising earlier this week and was speaking to a BBC correspondent at a secret location in the city of Jalalabad.
If I were to turn up in Bishkek today, I would not be safe. I would be killed or they would throw me into the crowd, saying this is the man who ordered the police to open fire. He is responsible for the bloodshed.
Iran says it's developed a new type of centrifuge which it says will be six times more efficient at enriching uranium than those currently in use. Unveiling one of the new machines at a ceremony celebrating what Iran calls a nuclear day, President Mahmud Ahmadinejad said no one could stop his country from producing peaceful nuclear energy. The BBC's Tehran correspondent says the new technology will worry the west as it could speed up Iran's ability to make a nuclear bomb.
The Islamist group in Somalia al-Shabab has closed down BBC radio relay stations in five cities in southern Somalia, including the capital Mogadishu. In addition, they have ordered the BBC partner station in Mogadishu ... not to broadcast BBC programmes. Here is our east Africa correspondent Peter Greste.
In a statement, al-Shabab said the BBC had been broadcasting the agenda of crusaders and colonialists against Muslims and ordered all the organization' transmitters to be shut down. The BBC has been broadcasting its services in Somali, Arabic and English across the country on a series of FM frequencies for at least a decade, and surveys suggest it is one of the most widely listened to news services in Somalia. In response, the head of the BBC Africa service Jerry Timmins said the organization speaks to all sides in the conflict, including al-Shabab and rejected any suggestion otherwise.