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The exile Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has called for an end to the violence in Tibet following days of demonstrations against Chinese rule. He said if the violence slipped out of control he might have to step down as the political leader of the Tibetan people. But he rejected accusations by the Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao, that he had organised the rioting in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. 

Asked by the BBC for his response to scenes of Tibetans attacking ethnic Chinese people and property, the Dalai Lama said it is wrong. His message to Tibetans he said was "Don't commit violence. Burning is violence. Killing is violence. We must live side by side with Chinese people." He described the recent events as a very very sad ____. The Dalai Lama rejected accusations made by China's Premier Wen Jiabao that he had organised the recent demonstrations, and said Chinese officials were welcome to come to investigate all his files and speeches. He called for an international investigation into the events in Tibet.

Reports from Lhasa said the authorities have been conducting house-to-house searches and arresting suspected protestors. Our BBC correspondent in Western China says he has seen long convoys of military vehicles heading over the mountains into Tibet.

Share prices have made up some of their losses in Asia and Europe after the latest turmoil on world markets. Here's our economic correspondent xxx.
The leading European markets, London, Frankfurt and Paris, are are up around 2%. They lost more than that on Monday but it is still a significant rebound. Asian markets also rose 1.5% in the case of Hong Kong and Tokyo. After the turmoil caused by the crises the American Investment Bank there stirs, investors are looking ahead now to a decisional intrest rates by the US Federal Reserve, in a few hours' time, just about all expect a cut. Meanwhile the US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has acknowledged the economy has turned down sharply, but he declined to label it "a recession". The troubled British bank Northern Rock which was taken under state control last month after investors withdrew their savings en masse, says it will cut its staff by around 1/3(a third) and close its operations in Denmark. The bank said it will complete the redundancies by 2011.

A Ukranian policeman with United Nation's police force in Kosovo has died of the injuries he has sustained in a battle of Monday to control Serb rioters.
Senior lieutenant xxx died of his injuries in hospital late last night. He was 25 years old. A spokesman for the United Nations in Kosovo told the BBC that he was injured by a hand grenade during fighting between international forces and Serb protestors in the divided town of Mitrovica. This is the first fatality as a result of Monday's clashes during which over 130 people were wounded. One Serb demonstrator is said to bee in a coma after being shot in the head.

NOTE

slip out of control
reject accusations => deny accusations => deny allegations

in the case of ... and ...
... commodity prices rose sharply in the case of oil and metals.
be taken under state control
en masse = all together

die of ...(eg. disease) => die from ...(eg. accident)
the injuries he has sustained => sustain ...(eg. serious/severe) injuries
be in a coma