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BBC NEWS, with marry smull, the chairman and two senior executives of one of france's leading banks, Caisse d'Epar, have resigned over a multimillion dollar loss connected with the global financial crisis. the chairman, shameal, says the loss of some 800m dollars occured earlier this month as share markets crashed around the world. dunken butler has more. the news that french bank, Caisse d'Epar has lost millions of dollars in a trading scandal could not have come at a worse time for the country's reputation. the french gov't had already told its banks not to be rectless with their customers' money, but it seems that traders ignored the warnings and bet a huge sum of money in the hope that the stock market would rise just before the global financial crisis send share prices tumbling. the bank, which is mutually owned, looks after the savings of millions of ordinary french people and is supported by the gov't. the dutch gov't says it's injecting 13b dollars into the country's largest bank ING to shore up its finances. the move comes just after ING took over the assets of the failed icelandic bank Kulpting. Joe lantem reports. ten days ago, ING, the netherland's largest bank took over the assets of the failed icelandic bank, Kulpting, including 4b dollars in savings held in britain. in their statement at that time, ING said it was doing so from a position of strength with assets in excess of 1.8trillion dollars and 85m customers worldwide. now the bank is accepting a bailout from the dutch gov't of 13b dollars to shore up its accounts in what was described as a dramaticly changing environment. the former US secretary of state Colin Powell has endored the democratic presidential candidate burak obama, calling him a transitional figure. mr Powell, who served in president bush's first republican administration said both john mccain and burak obama will qualify to lead the country, but he believed mr. obama was better equipped to handle the current economical crisis. mr obama said he was honored to have Colin Powell's support. from washton, he is just in web. this is an important moment in the campaign. Colin Powell does not bring a state and he probably does not bring many additional supporters, but what he does do is solidify barak obama's appeal with the middle of the road voters who are worried about whether or not he has sufficient experience for the job. one interesting sideline to the powell endorement, he said one of the reasons he decided to make his choice was Sarah Palin's presence on the republican ticket, he said she was a very distinguished woman and she was to be admired, but, i don't believe she is ready to the president of the united states. meanwhile ads to barak obama say his election campaign raised a record 150m dollars from supporters in september, giving him far more resources than john mccain. mr obama's decision this year not to receive federal funding allows him to raise fund privately. you're listening to world news from the bbc. senior members of the iraq gov't have been reviewing the terms of the planned new security agreement with the United states. the review comes after the main shiite muslim grouping in. the iraqi coalition gov't said it wanted to make changes to the draft agreement, which cause for the complete withdrawl of the american troops from iraq by 2011. the plan is strongly opposed by the shiite faction led by the militant cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, and brought thousands of supporters onto the street of bagdad on saturday. greek police are investigating reports that officiers forced a man they were searching to strip off his trouses and underpants in the middle of a busy athens neighbourhood popular with immigrants. reports said the man appeared to be of asian or middle eastern appearance. a newspaper published photographs of the incident. as our correspondant makin bravent reports from athens. according to the athnos newspaper, the man who appears to be of asian or middle eastern extraction. he is ordered to drop his trousers and underwear in the middle of a street in broad daylight. the newspaper's headline reads: guantanamo images in the center of athens. the pictures were taken from the offices of a leftwing organization which campaigns on behalf of immigrants rights. its spokesman, Petros Constantinou, described the incident as a case of extreme racism. scientists studying Alzheimer's disease say they've found new evidence that the omega-6 fatty acid found in eggs and not vegetable oil could damage the memory function of the brain. writing in the journal nature and euro science, researchers in california said tests with mice showed that omega-6 interfered with the main brain and protects the bain from the effects of toxins. research is at an early stage. but bbc science correspondant says it raises the possiblity that changing diet in middle age could lower the risk of getting Alzheimer's, which usually affects all the people.
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