[01:54.92]Mr. Lula has strongly denied any knowledge of the scheme.
[01:57.79]Several senior members of his Workers’ Party have been given long prison sentences for their involvement.
[02:03.18]Five Americans and an Afghan doctor have been killed in a car bomb by a hospital in Zabul province in southern Afghanistan.
[02:10.70]Caroline Wyatt has the details.
[02:12.26]The suicide bomber blew up his car full of explosives between a convoy carrying the Afghan governor of Zabul province
[02:18.91]and his officials and a US military convoy which were passing one another by chance.
[02:23.34]The governor believes that his vehicle was intended target
[02:26.99]although three American soldiers and two US civilians were killed in the attack while the governor survived.
[02:32.99]The killings came on the same day that US general Martin Dempsey,
[02:36.36]chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff arrived in Afghanistan for a visit to see the level of training American troops will give to Afghan forces
[02:43.50]after Nato’s combat mission finishes by the end of 2014.
[02:47.24]The latest talks on Iran’s nuclear program have concluded without agreement after a two-day meeting in Kazakhstan between Iran and six world powers.
[02:54.70]The EU’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said both sides’ positions remained far apart.