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Jon Dennis

Newsdesk notes for Monday November 5

As Pakistani police clash with lawyers demonstrating against General Musharraf's state of emergency, Declan Walsh reports from Islamabad, where a crackdown on the media is under way.

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Today the Guardian publishes the Green List, which reports on the effectiveness of the FTSE 100 companies in reducing their carbon emissions. Murray Armstrong assesses the impact, one year on, of Sir Nicholas Stern's report on climate change to the Treasury. Forum for the Future advises the Guardian on sustainability. The director of its business programme, Sally Uren, says how the world's biggest companies are attempting to cut CO2. Mark Watts, who advises the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, on climate change, explains what a major city can do to reduce its carbon footprint.

In a Guardian America debate with Phillippe Sands QC, professor of law at University College London, John Bellinger, chief legal advisor at the US secretary of state, refuses to rule out waterboarding as an interrogation technique - even if it's applied to a US citizen by foreign intelligence services.

Spain's parliament has passed a law allowing the victims of the rightwing dictator General Franco to be exhumed. Many thousands lie unidentified in mass graves. The Observer's Peter Beaumont speaks to Laura Garcia Lorca, whose poet uncle Federico Garcia Lorca was murdered by a firing squad in 1936, and to journalist Emilio Silva, head of the Association for the Recovery of Historic Memory.

Steven Morris reports from Bath, where many believe one of the UK's first farmers' markets is under threat from proposals to expand the site.

Haroon Siddique's papers review finds Ozzy Osbourne in a state of distress.

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