[02:22.33]From the capital Athens, Mark Lowen reports.
[02:24.58]Until last week Greece was earning plaudits across the eurozone.
[02:29.60]Its government was holding together and the financial crisis seemed to be easing.
[02:34.35]But then the prime minister closed the national broadcaster here to save money.
[02:38.81]That infuriated his coalition partners who said they had not been consulted.
[02:43.60]Now the third party, Democratic Left, has withdrawn from the coalition, plunging Greece back into political turmoil.
[02:50.79]The government says it will stay together, but its majority is now just three.
[02:56.03]Mark Lowen reporting This is the World News from the BBC.
[03:00.12]Indonesia has said it’s unfair to blame the country for the smoke from forest fires that has caused smog levels to rise to dangerous levels in Singapore.
[03:09.61]A senior Indonesian official said fires had been spotted on land owned by 32 companies in the region--
[03:15.74]some of them based in Malaysia and Singapore.
[03:18.25]The North Korean envoy to the United Nations has blamed the United States for rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
[03:25.72]During a rare news conference, the North Korean UN ambassador Sin Son-ho said hostile relations with the United States could lead to a new war at any moment.
[03:34.67]He called for an end to economic sanctions and reiterated North Korea’s offer of wide-ranging senior-level talks with the US.