Netanyahu warning on talks

Jerusalem - The Israeli Prime Minister, Mr Benjamin Netanyahu, said yesterday it would take "considerable stretching" for meetings in London next week to produce a breakthrough on long-promised Israeli West Bank troop withdrawals. "My optimism says I hope we will have an agreement in London. But my realism says that for that to happen there would need to be considerable stretching," Mr Netanyahu said at a press conference with the US Vice-President, Mr Al Gore.