Italy announces a state funeral for the hundreds of migrants who
died in the Lampedusa shipwreck tragedy.
Six workers at Japan’s crippled Fukishima
nuclear plant have been sprayed with radioactive water in the latest mishap there.
And at his Wednesday audience, Pope Francis says the Church is not an elite
but a home for all.
Good
evening, I’m _SH______.
LAMPEDUSA UPDATE (Cirillo)
Italy
is to hold a state funeral for the hundreds of migrants who died when their boat capsized
off the island of Lampedusa last week.
Prime Minister Enrico Letta made the
announcement today during a visit to Lampedusa along with the European Commission
President Jose Manuel Barroso.
At least 297, people, mostly from Eritrea
and Somalia, died in the shipwreck and divers are still recovering bodies from the
sunken boat.
Giulia Cirillo has more on this story.
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LAMPEDUSA
New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan says the migrant shipwreck disaster
off Lampedusa continues to bring tears to the eyes of Pope Francis. The Pope has repeatedly
spoken of the tragedy, with obvious pain and grief, ever since it happened last Thursday.
President of the United States Catholic Bishops Conference, Cardinal Dolan
led a small delegation of the USCCB leadership to Rome this week.
Cardinal
Dolan described their meeting with Pope Francis in the Vatican Monday as the “highlight”
of their visit and that the Pope displayed a “healthy curiosity” about the issues
the bishops’ conference is working on.
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That was Cardinal
Timothy Dolan of New York.
Among the other issues discussed in that meeting
with Pope Francis: Catholic schools, vocations and the Latino population in the U.S.
FUKISHIMA
LEAK (Wanklyn)
Six workers at Japan’s Fukishima nuclear plant have been
sprayed with radioactive water in the latest mishap at the crippled plant.
From
Tokyo, Alastair Wanklyn reports.
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The plant operator said workers were
replacing a pipe when they detached the wrong one and highly contaminated water sprayed
out. It drenched four people. Two other workers got soaked when they ran over to help.
The
spill continued for about an hour, during which time more than 8,000 litres drained
away.
In a separate incident earlier this week, a worker mistakenly switched
off a pump used to cool one of the reactors, although that error was reportedly rectified
without damage.
Responding to Wednesday's leak, Japan's nuclear regulator said...
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...it illustrates an ongoing problem: many of the 3,000 or so cleanup
workers are contract labourers, not specialists. Speaking to Japan's NHK broadcaster,
the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Authority, Shunichi Tanaka, said staff from
the company running the Fukushima plant should be more hands-on at the site.
Meanwhile,
Japan's government is apparently admitting that the cleanup remains fragile. Last
weekend, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he would welcome suggestions on how to deal
with the tens of thousands of litres of contaminated water building up every day,
apparently inviting the global nuclear industry to become more involved.
For
Vatican Radio, Alastair Wanklyn in Tokyo
MORLEY (Syria)
Egypt
has announced that the trial of the deposed President Mohamed Morsi on charges of
inciting the murder of protesters will start on November the 4th.
Nathan
Morley reports.
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POPE AUDIENCE (0’Kane)
At his
general audience Pope Francis said the Church is not an elite but a home for all where
unity and diversity live in harmony.
In greetings to pilgrims, the Pope called
on the faithful to pray for peace in the Middle East and remembered those who lost
their lives in the Lampedusa boat tragedy.
Lydia O’Kane reports
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PIUS
12TH ANNIV (Scarisbrick)
October 9th marks the anniversary
of the death of Pope Pius XII born Eugenio Pacelli. He was elected Pope just before
the start of the Second World War and passed away in 1958.
Despite documented
evidence to the contrary, his memory is often marred by criticism and accusations
in some quarters that he did not do enough to speak out against the persecution and
murder of over 6 million Jews during the Nazi Holocaust.
But how did the
press of the time react to Pope Pius, or Papa Pacelli as he was called in Italy?
Veronica
Scarisbrick reports....
NOBEL CHEMISTRY
This year’s Nobel
Prize in chemistry has gone to three scientists who were described as having “taken
the chemical experiment into cyberspace".
The scientists, all from the U.S.,
were awarded the prize for their pioneering work on computer programs that simulate
complex chemical processes and have revolutionized research in areas from drugs to
solar energy.