Egypt’s state prosecutor has issued an arrest warrant for the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Badie and a number of other senior figures in the movement. They are accused of inciting violence near a military barracks in Cairo Monday that left more than 50 people dead-- the majority of them supporters of the ousted President Mohammed Morsi, who’s from the Brotherhood. The Islamists have rejected the accusation. Here’s Lyse Doucet.

For decades there has been a basically struggle between the Muslim Brotherhood and the military. They really do not trust each other and when you talk to people now about what happened when Mohammed Morsi was in power, it was clear that that kind of antagonism continued. But the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood top people are now being taken in for planning criminal acts on that day when it was the security forces that opened fire, it really gives a sense that this is a crackdown against the Muslim Brother even though the military and civilian authorities are denying that.

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A group of leading American retail chains have announced a programme to introduce stricter safety standards for garment workers in Bangladesh. The initiative follows the collapse of a clothing factory near Dhaka in April, which killed more than 1, 000 people. From Washington, Rajini Vaidyanathan has more.

A group of 17 leading stores, including Macy’s, Nordstrom, Gap and Wal-Mart, have drawn up plans for strict standards factories need to adhere to. In the next 12 months, all their plants will be inspected and workers will also be given better training-- all this to be implemented in partnership with an NGO. In a joint statement, the group said the existing safety record was unacceptable.