[02:56.65]World News from the BBC
[02:59.70]The environmental group Greenpeace says 29 of its activists have been held at gun point by armed Russian men believed to be members of the Russian security service,
[03:10.28]the FSB who stormed their ship in international waters.
[03:13.57]The activists’ vessel has been taken part in a protest against drilling by Gasprom in the Arctic Ocean.
[03:19.07]Daniel Sandford reports.
[03:20.92]“The Greenpeace protest began when four people try to board Gasprom’s Prirazlomnaya drilling rig,
[03:27.50]the Russian coast guard immediately detained two activists who managed to get on to the side of the platform.
[03:33.12]All the other activists returned to their ship, the Arctic Sunrise.
[03:36.76]But helicopters flew to the Arctic Sunrise and around 15 armed men in balaclavas abseiled onto the deck.
[03:44.19]One of the activists on the ship told the BBC that the armed men were holding 29 of them in the galley while the captain was being detained on the bridge.”
[03:53.20]The Mexican authorities say almost 100 people have been killed by two hurricanes that hit the country earlier in the week.
[04:00.32]The Pacific coast has been battered by Hurricane Manuel while Mexico's Gulf coast has been hit by Hurricane Ingrid.
[04:07.69]A court in Texas has overturned the conviction of Tom DeLay, who was once one of the most powerful politicians in the United States.