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Soviet union coming apart, gorbachevjust happens to be the person at the top when that happened. iraq's president, barham salih, has addressed the nation after nearly 2a hours of violence that's left dozens dead and hundreds injured in the capital baghdad. mr salih said that he thought early elections could help resolve the high political tensions. iraq has had no functioning government since inconclusive elections last october. caroline hawley reports. in the centre of baghdad, a second day of deadly violence. here, a rocket—propelled grenade being fired. the worst fighting iraq has been in...

Iraq's president, barham saleh, has addressed the nation after nearly 2a hours of violence that's left dozens dead and hundreds injured in the capital baghdad. mr saleh said that he thought early elections could help resolve the high political tensions. iraq has had no functioning government since inconclusive elections last october. caroline hawley reports. in the centre of baghdad, a second day of deadly violence. here, a rocket—propelled grenade being fired. the worst fighting iraq has been in years. the country's political crisis erupted into street battles on monday. supporters of the p...

Warmth and compassion. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm monica miller in singapore. 0ur headlines... iraq's prime minister says he'll "vacate his post" if the complicated political situation in the country continues. on monday, there was an outbreak of violence in central baghdad after the shia cleric, moqtada al sadr, said he was resigning from iraqi politics, and his supporters stormed government buildings. iraq has had no functioning government since inconclusive elections last october — and the country's president says new elections may be the answer to the deadlock. caroline hawley repor...

Haiti. it is what the bahamian prime minister called a failed state and i believe that's pretty much recognized by just with everybody. right now haiti does not have a functioning government and without that there's no sense of safety to sort of put things in perspective, which is a suburb, a ghetto of port-au-prince. in the last month, 200 have been wounded or killed by gang violence. there's a growing sense in haiti without a functioning government, without protection and with the growing power of the gangs, which goes unchecked, that they have a choice, stay behind and potentially die or ri...

Doubts that the next president and government, whoever they may be, that is appointed in the coming days, will actually be able to resolve these problems. so where do we go from here? what you've just described is a country that has no functioning government, protest that may well continue, and an economy that is collapsing. where does that leave sri lanka? first of all, constitutionally, we're not even sure whether rajapaksa is still president. if he has resigned or will resign, as he said he would, when the current prime minister will resign and what the actual constitutional process will be...