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ew operation

he "top kill" operation involves pumping shredded golf balls and tyres, as well as thick mud, into the well in an atteplug it. It has been going on since Wednesday at a depth of 5,000ft (1.5km).

r Suttles said in Louisiana after monitoring the flow: "I don't think the amount of oil coming out has changed. Just batching it, we don't believe it's changed."

P had earlier said it would not know for sure if the "top kill" operation had worked until Sunday.

esident Barack Obama: Its an assault on the shores and our people

ut on Saturday he said he did not know if the operation would succeed, and added that the next option was already bepared.

his operation is called the lower-marine-riser-package cap.

involves an underwater robot using a saw to hack off the leaking pipe and place a cap over it.

r Suttles said: "If we have to go to it, we can do it as quickly as possible."

wo experts who spoke to Associated Press news agency, Prof Bob Bea, of the University of California at Berkeley, ic Smith of the Tulane Energy Institute, both said the results of the "top kill" did not look promising.

he BBC's Andy Gallacher, at Grand Isle beach in Louisiana, says people are growing increasingly impatient andcreasingly angry.

e says that for miles in either direction there are small, sticky tar balls and as the waves break against the sand, therefinite rainbow sheen.

ome fishermen have nailed up signs, our correspondent says, with one reading "BP, you ruined our futures and ourritage".

n Friday, President Obama toured oil-hit areas,ying the US would "do whatever it takes" tolp those affected.

e said the additional manpower would lay moreoms, clean beaches and monitor strickenldlife.

total of 20,000 people have already beenployed to contain and clean up the spill.

r Obama said he would take responsibility forolving this crisis", though he said BP would beld financially accountable for the "enormousmage".

m the president and the buck stops with me,"said.

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