frank gardner, bbc news. >> more of the main news for year. more briefly, the u.k.nd france will sign new defense trees on it tuesday. the two countries are not likely to serve alongside each other and the same brigade. we're being told the level of cooperation plan is unprecedented. japan is protesting a visit by the russian president meet yet medvedyev -- dmitry medvedev. officials in tokyo at have described it as "regrettable. -- "regrettable." former british prime minister margaret thatcher has been discharged from hospital. she picked up and inflexion after -- an infection after a bout of flu. doctors have given her the all clear. the government in iraq says they had no choice but to use force. 52 died when police stormed the catholic church where worshipers were being held by a gunman. iraqi officials have declared the operation a success, despite the casualties. we have this from baghdad. >> the church service was turned into a violent nightmare. the gunmen, some wearing suicide vests, -- suicide stormed the church. they also set off a car bomb near by, causi