[02:24.00]Barbara Plett reports.
[02:25.32]The resolution eases a UN arms embargo imposed in 1992 as warlords battling for control of Somalia began a long civil war.
[02:34.04]Now Somalia is trying to establish its first functioning government after two decades of chaos
[02:38.88]and says that security forces need more weapons to consolidate gains in the fight against Islamist militants.
[02:44.29]So the Security Council has partially lifted the arms embargo for one year, allowing the authorities to buy light weapons.
[02:50.95]But recognising that the country is still very fragile, it kept a ban on heavy weapons and added new measures to monitor arms purchases.
[02:58.84]BBC News
[03:00.09]The US House of Representatives has passed a stop-gap bill
[03:04.33] that will keep the government operating as the White House grapples with spending cuts due to come into force automatically at the end of the month.
[03:11.95]The bill approved by the Republican-controlled House is designed to ease deep cuts across the defence department that came into effect last week.
[03:20.47]But Democrats hope to expand it to cover other departments when the bill goes to the Senate.
[03:25.68]The Supreme Administrative Court in Ukraine has ordered that the lawyer defending the former Prime Minister
[03:32.74]Yulia Tymoshenko should be stripped of the seat he has in parliament.