[01:11.54]The British foreign secretary William Hague said the British government had concerns over reports of large numbers of voters
[01:17.66]being turned away from polling stations and the high number of extra ballot papers that were printed.
[01:23.38]A month after the Egyptian military deposed the elected president Mohamed Morsi,
[01:29.14]senior American and European Union diplomats are holding talks in Cairo with leaders of the interim government and the Muslim Brotherhood opposition.
[01:36.75]Yolande Knell reports
[01:39.45]Exactly one month after Egypt’s first democratically elected Islamist president was removed from office,
[01:45.83]international mediation efforts are increasing to try to mend the damaging deep political division in the country.
[01:52.82]Just hours after meeting members of Mr. Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood and its political party,
[01:58.49]the US deputy Secretary of State William Burns sat down for talks with the Egyptian foreign minister Nabil Fahmy.
[02:05.09]They were joined by the European Union’s envoy Bernardino Leon.
[02:09.06]Few official details have been given but the hope is clearly to prevent further violence and bloodshed.
[02:15.10]Hassan Rouhani has been formally endorsed as Iran’s new president at a ceremony in Teheran.
[02:21.52]He would take the oath of office in the Iranian parliament on Sunday.