That is awful... How could that many people watch the video and not do anything?
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That is awful... How could that many people watch the video and not do anything?
That's extremely stupid. They kill someone over chocolate? :no:
Thanks for the read.
Thanks for this.
BBC NewsQuote:
Voting has begun in what could be the most important day so far in the races to stand for US president.
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Democratic front-runner Barack Obama says rival Hillary Clinton may have to quit if he wins in Texas and Ohio. She says she will stay the course.
Contests in two smaller states also voting - Vermont and Rhode Island - may prove crucial in such a tight race.
On the Republican side, Senator John McCain - already comfortably ahead of his rivals - could seal the nomination.
But most attention is focused on the Democrats' battle.
For the Democrats, Texas is the biggest prize remaining, with 228 delegates to the nominating party convention in August up for grabs.
Voting there is proportional, meaning that Mrs Clinton needs landslide victories on Tuesday and beyond even to catch up with Mr Obama.
An opinion poll published as voting began gave Mrs Clinton a narrow lead in Texas - though within the poll's margin of error. It had the two candidates exactly level in Ohio.
"I feel really good about today," Mrs Clinton told early voters in Houston. "I think it's going to turn out well."
Mr Obama showed equal confidence.
"We know this has been an extraordinary election," he said. "We're working hard to do as well as we can."
Mr Obama has spent twice as much as Mrs Clinton on TV adverts in the state, including ones in Spanish. Hispanics account for about one in five eligible voters in Texas.
Since the nationwide Super Tuesday contests on 5 February, Mr Obama has won 11 states in succession and leads Mrs Clinton in the delegate count.
For the Democrats, a total of 370 delegates are at stake in the four races, which includes 67 delegates up for grabs in Texas caucuses, which begin after the day-long primary vote.
Mr Obama currently has 1,385 delegates to Mrs Clinton's 1,276, according to AP. A total of 2,025 is needed to secure the Democratic Party's nomination.
The New York senator and former first lady has played down suggestions that she is facing a make-or-break moment.
New Mexico's Democratic Governor Bill Richardson, an influential voice who used to be in the race himself, has suggested that whoever has the most delegates after Tuesday's votes should be the party nominee.
The BBC's Kevin Connolly, who is in the Ohio capital, Columbus, says the struggle between the two senators remains fierce and close, and it is far from certain that America will get the clear outcome from these latest battles that it craves.
The day's voting ends in Rhode Island at 0200 GMT on Wednesday.
Mrs Clinton has been focusing her attacks on Mr Obama's foreign policy and national security experience, echoing a campaign advert asking who would respond better to a national emergency in the middle of the night.
The advert says: "It's 3am and your children are safe and asleep, but there's a phone in the White House and it's ringing... who do you want answering the phone?"
Clinton's campaign ad
Mr Obama, senator for Illinois, has countered that with an advert questioning Mrs Clinton's judgement in supporting the invasion of Iraq from the start.
Meanwhile, Mr Obama denied on Monday that his campaign had privately assured Canada his criticism of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), widely opposed in economically depressed Ohio, was just for political show.
A leaked memo suggested Mr Obama's senior economic adviser, Austan Goolsbee, had given Canadian officials the impression that Mr Obama's criticism over the US free trade deal with Canada was "political positioning".
The dispute led Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to assure parliament that the memo leak was not an attempt to scupper Mr Obama's chances or to favour Mr McCain, who strongly backs Nafta.
On the Republican side, Senator McCain is expected to beat his rival Mike Huckabee in all four states.
Mr McCain currently has 1,014 delegates, according to the Associated Press news agency, while Mr Huckabee has 257. A total of 1,191 delegates is needed to claim the nomination at the party's national convention in September.
BBC NewsQuote:
Russian gas monopoly Gazprom has cut supplies of gas to Ukraine again, and said further cuts may follow in the wake of a dispute over debts.
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State-owned Gazprom cut supplies by a further 25% on Tuesday, following a 25% cut a day earlier - thereby cutting supplies by half.
Prior to the news, the EU called for an emergency internal meeting amid fears the row could hit European supplies.
Much of the gas Russia sells to Europe passes through pipelines in Ukraine.
Map of main European gas pipelines
The EU said the meeting would ensure "a fully coordinated EU response to the situation," adding "we look to both parties to ensure that gas supplies to the EU remain unaffected".
The news of the second cut was made after a 1700GMT deadline on Tuesday.
"If the Ukrainian side does not return to the negotiating table, I do not exclude a further reduction in supplies," Sergei Kupriyanov, a Gazprom spokesman, said on state television.
The dispute started after Russia said Ukraine had not paid its debts for previous deliveries, which Gazprom says totals $1.5bn (£770m).
But Ukraine maintains the payments have already been made.
Escalating crisis
Gazprom said it reduced supplies to Ukraine by 25% on Monday after talks broke down last week.
Monday's cut effectively ended supplies of gas directly from Russia, which make up a quarter of Ukraine's imports. The rest of Ukraine's imports comes from other states but travels through Russian pipelines.
Naftogaz, Ukraine's state gas company, earlier said it reserved the right to take "appropriate" action - and disrupt supplies to Europe that transit Ukraine - if Gazprom carried out the threatened additional cut.
But after the announcement, a spokesman said the firm had no plans for such a move at present thanks to warm weather and sufficient reserves.
European fears
Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov reassured European gas users on Tuesday that shipments of Russian gas would continue.
"Export deliveries via Ukrainian territory are carried out in full volume," he said.
European Commission spokesman Michele Cercone said: "They [Gazprom] reassured us that gas supplies to the European Union will not be affected.
A National Grid spokesperson said the UK did not rely on pipelines crossing Ukraine for its gas. "The UK doesn't get any of its gas direct from Russia," he said.
Kiev tension
A previous row between the two sides saw Russia cut gas to Ukraine in 2006. It also hit exports to Western Europe and affected diplomatic relations between Brussels and Moscow.
The BBC's Europe business correspondent Dominic Laurie says since that last crisis, a lot of work has been done to improve the relationship.
"Top officials meet often, and there's now an early warning system with Gazprom that alerts Brussels about dips in supplies at the Russian end," he said.
"The trouble is, the problems aren't there - but further west - in Ukraine. Kiev's energy relationship with Russia is the one that matters, and that just seems to be getting worse."
who ever watched the video are just as bad as the people who gang raped her..
they should be tortured and slowly killed for doing that to a woman
Whoever watched the video will go to hell. I'm surprised I never heard about this until now. This is a huge story. The people who posted it on the website are morons. If they didn't think they were going to get caught, then they had another thing coming.
Not like this was a surprise. It was absolutely obvious that he was going to take the leadership of the Republicans. I can't stand the Republicans though. I'm not American, but I'm very interested in this as the new leader of the United States can also effect Canada, in some ways. I'm a Democrat. Obama for President!Quote:
Source: CNN.com
(CNN) -- Sen. John McCain swept all four nominating contests on Tuesday to become the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
McCain won primaries in Texas, Ohio, Vermont and Rhode Island, giving him more than the 1,191 delegates needed to clinch the GOP nomination.
On the Democratic side, Sen. Hillary Clinton was projected to break Barack Obama's 12-contest winning streak with a victory in Rhode Island.
Obama was projected to take Vermont, but the contests in Ohio and Texas were too close to call.
:girlsigh: Everyone expected this, but the outcome of this election will sure affect everyone...