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BBC News with Roy Lamar. World oil prices have fallen below 60 dollars a barrel is seen as an indication that investors are worried that the recovery of the global economy may not be as strong as hoped and it comes as the recession in the US hit a new low with this years budget deficit now more than $1 trillion. Robin Smith reports. For all the signs of optimism from the international think tanks, therere still many conflicting signals about the state of the global economy and the prospect s for long-term recovery. The drop of more than a tenth in oil prices in recent days reinforce s this uncertainty as both cause and effect. The oil price shot up 40% from March to June, hitting 73 dollars a barrel. Now oil analysts are forecast ing the price to fall back to 55 dollars and to stay there until therere better signs of recovery in the global economy. Robin Smith. President Obama said that the allegations of allies of the US military in Afghanistan killed as many as 2, 000 Taliban prisoners had not been properly investigated. The killings took place in 2001 and are said to be overseen by the Afghan warlord, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, who fought alongside the US troops. John Donaldson reports from Washington. In 2001, General Dostum was a commander with Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, working with American forces in the fight against the Taliban. The allegations against him say he oversaw the suffocating of up to 2, 000 Taliban prisoners who have been transported in Northern Alliance container trucks. They were then apparently buried in mass graves. When asked about it in a television interview, President Obama stop short of calling for a formal investigation, but said he ’ d asked his security advisers to gather report of the facts. Five people have been killed in an attack by Nigeria militants on an oil depot in the main city Lagos. Its the