[01:07.43]Mr. Karzai said both the US and militants wanted to frighten people
[01:11.21] into believing there would be more violence in Afghanistan unless international forces remained.
[01:16.45]The American Defense Secretary, Chuck Hagel, who's in Kabul, denied the charge.
[01:21.22]"I told the president that it was not true, that the United States is unilaterally working with the Taliban or trying to negotiate anything.
[01:32.68]The fact is, any prospect for peace, for political settlements, that has to be led by the Afghan."
[01:41.88]Scientists say the earthquake in Japan in March 2011 was so big that its effects were felt at the edge of space.
[01:48.68]The earthquake caused a devastating tsunami which killed nearly 16,000 people.
[01:53.40]Writing in the journal "Geophysical Research Letters",
[01:56.51]the researchers said the earthquake emitted such a powerful ripple of sound that traces of it were picked up by the Goce satellite, 255 kilometers above earth.
[02:06.13]A fire in a block of apartments in Germany has killed eight members of a family of Turkish origin, a mother and her seven children.
[02:14.48]The blaze broke out on Sunday morning, in the town of Backnang near Stuttgart.
[02:18.76]Steve Evans reports from Berlin.
[02:20.68]The fire broke out in a flat in an old three-storey leather factory converted into apartments.