Archive - Jul 19, 2005

Date

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Tue, 07/19/2005 - 16:47

29:01 minutes (26.57 MB)

Headlines (6:41)
Brtian has successfully fast tracked tough anti-terror legislation through the government. The movement, led by Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, is expected to be law by the end of the year. Helen Kelly reports from London.

The Guardian newspaper reported that more than 2000 people, 200 of them scientists, have been blocked form doing post-graduate or post-doctoral work in chemistry, biotechnology, and microbiology in Great Britain. The Guardian received the information under a Freedom of Information Act in which security forces said the measure was a precaution against terrorism after the attacks on September 11, 2001.