NEWS SNIPPETS

• A British television channel has been criticised as "irresponsible' for making a drama in which US President George Bush is assassinated. Death of a President, on More4, uses actors and computer effects to portray the president being shot dead during an anti-war rally in Chicago in 2007. The makers of the 90-minute film said they used the event to explore the effects of the war on terror on the US.

• Almost 800 Latin American journalists have been killed in 30 years, according to research by the Latin American Journalists Federation. The association notes that "the alliance between armed drug-traffickers associated with state, regional, provincial or local political powers, present the greatest risk to journalists in the region.'