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There are reports of serious rioting in Tibet's main city Lhasa. Large groups of people have been targeting symbols of Chinese influences, some of the worst violence in Tibet for twenty years. The official Chinese news agency says there've been injuries. A business woman from Lhasa contacted by the BBC's Chinese Service said the situation was terrible and she was afraid to go out. Here's our Beijing correspondent Daniel Grifts.
An eyewitness told the BBC there has been widespread rioting throughout the day in the old Tibetan court of the city. Large groups of Tibetans have been smashing up shops and cars, attacking anything of Chinese influence. A thick pall of smoke is now reported to be hanging over the city. The U.S. Embassy in Beijing says that American citizens in Tibet have reported hearing gunfire. According local people in Lhasa there is a heavy police presence on the streets. The demonstrations highlight many Tibetan's opposition to Chinese rule and are likely to put China's record in Tibet under the spotlight ahead of the Olympic Games this August.

A short time ago, one of the Dalailama's representatives in Europe xxx told the BBC he had heard reports that Chinese military vehicles went in central Lhasa.
Shots are being fired at the peaceful demonstrators so that is very worrying and therefore I appeal to the international community and media to come to the timely rescue of the Tibetan people and Tibetan nation.

Iran's chief election official says turnout so far in the parliamentary elections has been higher than in previous polls. xxx has said that if the trend continued, turnout would reach what he called a maxium. xxx reports from Tehran.
The bigger election battle seems to be over not who will win but how many people will vote. With many reformists disqualified for un-Islamic behaviour, the conservatives are almost guaranteed victory. But the government are keen for a big turnout to endorse them and the system. One of the first people to vote, the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, urged his fellow Iranians to go the the polls. And even before the polls have closed the official in charge of elections has said the turnout has been glorious and higher than in previous parliamentary elections.

Ethnic Serbs have stormed UN's house in northern Kosovo and taken it over after daily protests outside the building.
The three-storey court building in northern Mitrovica was stormed by several hundreds Serb protestors at around 8:30 on Friday morning. They forced aside Polish and Ukraine police on guard duty outside the court. The blue UN flag was torn down and the Serbian flag crested in its place. The head of the UN mission in Kosovo, Joachim Ruecker, telephoned the Serbian Minister for Kosovo Slobodan Samardzic in Belgrade to complain and later issued a statement, describing the seizure of the court as unacceptable.

NOTE

terrible situation => tense situation
smash up = destroy
a thick pall of smoke + hang over the city
report hearing ... / seeing ...
There is a heavy ...(eg. security/armed/troop/police) presence ...
under the spotlight
come to the timely rescue of ...

be disqualified for ...
un-Islamic behaviour = ~ conduct
be keen for ...
go to the polls

storm = suddenly attack
protestor = protester = demonstrator