this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. argentinianjoy — lionel messi leads his country into the world cup semi finals after a dramatic penalty shoot out against the netherlands. heartbreak for their south american rivals brazil — they are out, also after a penalty shoot out. croatia's win over brazil puts them into a second successive world cup semi final. russian opposition politician, ilya yashin, defiant in the face of an eight—and—a—half year sentence for commenting on the war in ukraine. rolling back regulation — britain's finance minister

announces a major overhaul of the financial services industry. following the arrest of the reichsburger coup plotters in germany, we have a special report on another group which rejects the legitimacy of the democratic government. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. argentina and croatia will meet in the first semi final at the world cup on tuesday. both countries came through their respective quarter finals on penalities. it means the netherlands and brazil are on their way home. tim allman watched the action. cheering and applause

this was not part of the plan. despair in rio dejaneiro after brazil crashed out of the world cup. you can see from the looks on theirfaces, everyone here expected their team to go a lot further than just the quarterfinals. translation: , , , translation: the guys played ve well, translation: the guys played very well. but _ translation: the guys played very well, but i _ translation: the guys played very well, but i think _ translation: the guys played very well, but i think they - very well, but i think they lacked passion. unfortunately it ended in penalties. this is very hard for us. it was a silly mistake, said this fan, everyone went forward, there was a counter attack and this unfortunate thing happened. h0??? unfortunate thing happened. how different things _ unfortunate thing happened. how different things look a little earlier when neymar put the brazilians ahead. this his 77th goalfor his brazilians ahead. this his 77th goal for his country, equalling the official record held by a someone called to make one. if brazil thought that was going to be that, they were wrong, petkovic equalising with three minutes to go. two penalties and brazilian fans may want to

look away now. their first kick was saved, their last one hit the post. croatia pulling off another upset in a world cup that has been full of them. europe one, south america now. but argentina were looking to change that. a first—half goal from molina putting them on their way. then a penalty from lionel messi doubled their advantage. two late goals from weghorst, one in the 11th minute of injury time, and we had a second penalty shoot—out of the day. this time, it was the europeans who came up short. martin is saving from virgil van short. martin is saving from virgilvan dijk and short. martin is saving from virgil van dijk and steven berghuis. it all came down to this, love tarot martin is scoring the decisive spot kick. gloria scenes for argentina. result�*s world cup dream may be over, but his is alive and

kicking —— brazil's world cup dream. so croatia into the semi finals for the second world cup in succession. wild celebrations across the country with even the prime ministerjoining in. this is a brilliant generation of croatian players, led by our captain luka modric, who has been playing in spain for more than ten years at real madrid, with an excellent trainer, zlatko dalic, and all the others where we had a subtle, i would say complementary new young players who fit in the core of the team that was already forged back in russia, four years ago. so, two world cups in a row to be again in the semifinals, with the perspective that we might again end up in the final, it is a fantastic feeling. the entire croatia and the croatian people at home and across the world are in a very special state of good mood today. they are indeed. for brazil, this was a devastating defeat — crashing out of a tournament

many believed they could win. here's katy watson in sao paolo. you can hear the band has started up, musicians who presumably have been booked to celebrate a win by brazil, going through to the semifinals, but now, if they have been booked, they might as well enjoy the party. you can see people sitting behind me, it is an unbelievable result for the brazilians, they were so convinced they were going to win this game and go through to the final. i have never seen such confidence from a nation. football means everything to brazilians. and especially after a difficult few years politically, with so much division, i was talking to one women who said that brazil comes together with football. it does not matter about class, race, politics or religion, that brazil comes together when there is a world cup. and in fact, they used to... they take the day off, nobody works because football matters so much. but instead, they are going to have to find another team to support. i was talking to one couple who said they will now be supporting croatia. they of course beat brazil, they are a good team to support, they say.

but the mood is definitely heavy. my partner has just rocked up to a kids' party, he says it feels like they have double booked it with a funeral. it will take some hours, some days for that mood to left. much more on the world cup on our website. one of russia's leading opposition politicians has been jailed for speaking out about russian war crimes in ukraine. ilya yashin told his supporters not to worry about him as he was led away for his eight and a half year sentence. from moscow, steve rosenberg reports. handcuffed and locked inside a glass cage as if a dangerous criminal. but ilya yashin is a russian politician, a fierce critic of vladimir putin. he had been put on trial for talking publicly about evidence of russian atrocities in the ukrainian town of bucha. thejudge convicted him of spreading fake news about the russian army and sent him to prison

for eight—and—a—half years. "don't worry," he told his supporters, "it's ok." outside the courthouse, "freedom," they shout. but just a tiny few. perhaps this is why. eight years of prison is a lot. some people that murder someone may get less. so it's understandable why not many voices you hear now like yashin�*s one. the trial that has now ended here reflects the growing wave of repression in russia since vladimir putin invaded ukraine. the message from the kremlin to its critics, to its opponents, is clear — "stay silent." later, vladimir putin was asked for his reaction to the eight—and—a—half—year

prison sentence. "isn't that brutal?", asks the journalist. the president's reply... "casting doubt on the decision of a court is inappropriate." in a statement, ilya yashin said this — "strong leaders are calm and confident. only weak ones try to silence people." steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. president putin has said further prisoner swaps with america could be possible if the two countries can continue to reach a compromise. his comments came after the release of the american basketball player, brittney griner, in exchange for the convicted russian arms dealer, viktor bout. the athlete appears to be in good health after returning home from ten months detention in russia. she will now undergo medical checks in hospital in texas. a former minneapolis police officer who knelt on george floyd's back has been

sentenced to three—and—a—half years in prison. j alexander kueng pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second—degree manslaughter in october. george floyd, an unarmed black man, was killed by police in 2020 while lying prone and handcuffed. alexander kueng was one of four officers involved in the arrest, filmed by bystanders. george floyd's killing sparked global outrage and a wave of demonstrations against racial injustice and police use of force. police in bangladesh say two leaders of the main opposition party have been charged with inciting and planning attacks on the police, including the use of crude bombs. mirza fakhrul islam alamgir and mirza abbas, of the bangladesh nationalist party, appeared in court hours after they were detained. gunfire. a show of force on the streets of dhaka. a government long accused of

trying to silence its critics, clamping down on the opposition ahead of their mass protest, arresting hundreds. for these families, it is all too familiar. they say their relatives were also rounded up by security forces — brothers, sons, husbands and fathers, supporters of the opposition who have been missing for years, like this political organiser. this woman says her brother was abducted in 2013. she still wants answers. if they deny that law enforcement agency has not abducted them, who has abducted them? it also lies to them, the government, to find out, where are the citizens? we put her and other families' concerns to the foreign minister. he said un figures on enforced disappearances are not accurate. unfortunately, the un collected

those informations from some quarters who are politically motivated and they have a habit of magnifying things and they have a habit of doctoring information. we have spoken to families who say that their husbands or their brothers, their fathers, were taken away. are you saying they are not telling the truth? we would welcome them to come to us, tell their true story. bangladesh's prime minister sheikh hasina has dismissed accusations her government is responsible for human rights abuses. we have spoken to a number of people who have shared allegations of violence and intimidation by the security forces. many of them say they are too scared to go on camera for fear of reprisal. shafikul islam kajol�*s story is one reason why. he says he was tortured in an underground detention cell, handcuffed and blindfolded for more than 50 days before he was released.

the journalist says it was after he published an investigation into government officials. bangladesh's home minister says it is all untrue. translation: they asked me why i wrote the story. - i was tortured and interrogated for hours at a time. it was horrible. ahead of saturday's protest, a beefed up presence on the streets. bangladesh's government says the country is a beacon of democracy. what happens tomorrow will be another test of that promise. rajini vaidyanathan, bbc news. the british government has announced a major overhaul of the financial services industry, relaxing some of the safeguards imposed after the 2008 financial crisis. the chancellor, jeremy hunt, says the reforms will cut red tape and boost growth. but critics say his plan risks forgetting the lessons of the past. our business editor

simonjack reports. october 1986, the so—called big bang, widespread financial deregulation in the uk, which ushered in an era of buccaneering risk—taking free—wheeling. but in 2008, the wheels spectacularly came off. banks around the world went bust, requiring tens of billions of taxpayer—funded rescues. tough rules to stop that happening again are now being reviewed or binned. the banks have become much healthier financially since 2008. we've put in place a process so that financial issues can be resolved, which we didn't have before. but on that basis, we also want to make sure they can compete with other financial centres, whether it's the united states or asia. among 30 reforms announced today were plans to reconsider which banks really need to separate or ring—fence their retail operations from their riskier investment divisions, review rules on approving or punishing individual senior executives, which have delayed or scared off hires from abroad,

and these reforms come on top of measures already announced to scrap an eu—wide cap on bankers' bonuses and allow pension funds to invest more in long—term, harder—to—sell and therefore riskier assets to help fund the government's levelling—up projects. global banking chiefs said the uk needed to move with the times to compete with other financial centres. london should not in any way take for granted its kind of pre—eminence and its dominance. so any reform that is pro—growth, which looks at a vision for financial services overall and which makes the uk competitive, is very timely and very important. financial services make up 10% of the entire uk economy. it generates enough tax to pay for two—thirds of the nhs. it is an economic powerhouse, but as we found out 15 years ago, it can also be a financial wrecking ball. now, the banks here are much stronger than they were on the eve of that financial crisis. but there are many who think that rolling back regulation to boost growth is not without risk.

in fact, some argue it's precisely because financial services are so important to the uk that it needs tough regulation. we cannot afford another gamble with financial deregulation, because what will happen is that if it goes wrong, the city will still walk away with its profits and its bonuses. but yet again, it will be ordinary people and ordinary taxpayers who will have to pay the price. both the city and the government are convinced that not changing is the biggest risk to future growth of all. simon jack, bbc news. this is bbc news, a reminder of our headlines: argentina and croatia will meet in the semi—final of the football world cup in doha. both teams prevailed in penalty shootouts in matches against the netherlands and brazil. one of russia's most prominent opposition figures, ilya yashin, shows his defiance as he's jailed for eight—and—a—half years for spreading so—called "fake news" about the country's military. disgraced crypto boss

sam bankman—fried says he wants to start a new business to make enough money to pay back victims of the ftx collapse. speaking from the bahamas, the 30 —year—old faces multiple federal investigations into his running of the collapsed cryptocurrency company. more than a million people have potentially lost money and the former billionaire claims he too is close to being broke. 0ur cyber reporterjoe tidy reports from the bahamas. for weeks, this island paradise has been at the centre of one of the biggest financial scandals in history. at the centre of the centre, sam bankman—fried. but instead of hiding in his luxury apartment, he is on a mission to say sorry. look, ishould have been on top of this, it was a huge oversight. i made a lot of mistakes that are things i would give anything to be able to do over again. regardless of any apparent remorse, there is only really one question victims,

investigators and reporters want an answer to. were you incompetent or were you fraudulent? i didn't knowingly commit fraud, i don't think i committed fraud. i didn't want any of this to happen. i was certainly not nearly as competent as i thought i was. that is why we started ftx, to harness the possibility of this digital world. bankman—fried's ftx was a giant of the crypto currency industry. the exchange allowed people to trade their normal money for digital tokens like bitcoin. but last month, it was revealed ftx and bankman—fried's separate company, alameda research, were financially unstable. everything came crashing down, billions of dollars are now missing, more than a million people out of pocket. it is alleged that the alameda hedge fund was using ftx customer money that should have been secured. until very recently, this was the headquarters of a $32 billion ftx empire.

we have spoken to a former senior employee of the company who worked here with sam bankman—fried. he is furious at how the ceo has handled the collapse, but also about what he is saying right now. he says you are lying, he says that you knew about it, and that it is impossible, he says, for you not to know that ftx's customer funds were being used on these big, risky bets for alameda research, and this is all, in his words, "a bold—faced lie and a cover—up." is that true? no. no, it is not. that doesn't change the fact, though, that it was a really bad mistake and that it hurt a lot of people. and, like, that is on me, one way or another. the former billionaire claims he is now close to being broke, but the 30—year—old's dream, if he can get through multiple federal investigations, is to start a new business. i think at the very least i have a duty to ftx's users to do right by them as best as i can.

you mean somehow make money and pay them back? i would give anything to be able to do that. so you want to get this clear and you want to start some sort of new venture that you can make lots of money to pay back ftx customers? if i could do that, that would be great. closer to home, locals are left angry. the american�*s bold promise to build a silicon valley of crypto have vanished. a big disappointment because a lot of people who locally had sold land and stuff to them... i mean, everything just went, you know. so, overnight everything hasjust gone? everything gone. first question, where - is the money coming from? nobody could ever. answer that question. where is the money coming from? in spite of the serious allegations, bankman—fried seems confident that investigators here and in the us won't find him guilty of fraud. even though jail time as possible, he says he tries

not to think about it. joe tidy, bbc news, in the bahamas. the "reichsburger" movement in germany was catapulted into the headlines this week, after 25 members and their aristocrat leader were arrested in co—ordinated raids by anti—terror police. accused of plotting to overthrow the government with violence, they're part of a growing number of people in germany who refuse to accept the country's post—war government as legitimate. jenny hill went to visit one such group, whose self—declared independent kingdom in the east of germany even has its own currency. deep in the german countryside, an invisible border. we're stepping into the self—proclaimed kingdom of germany, and i've come to meet the king. a sign on the door tells us we're now temporarily his subjects. peter i, as he likes to be known, has minted his own currency, made his own laws and recruited around

5,000 citizens. why? translation: the german system is fascism and satanism. _ people who are corrupt, criminal or willing to be used thrive in it, and those with an honest heart who want to change the world for the better, for the common good, don't have a chance. the kingdom is expanding, buying up land, building outposts. we visited one of its newest colonies. we're told about 30 people live here. they don't pay german taxes, won't send their children to school, plan their own health care system. and they don't observe german laws. benjamin, who speaks for the community, lives here with his young family. translation: if someone lives on german territory, _ of course he is subject to its laws. that's fine. but if someone has practically no connection to germany

and spends his life in the kingdom, then our laws apply. the people we have been speaking to are known as reichsburger, citizens of the reich. the name may sound familiar. just a few days ago, several reichsburger were arrested for allegedly planning the violent overthrow of the german government. the people we have met in the kingdom of germany say they have no violent intentions. nevertheless, the country's intelligence agencies say they do represent a threat because they peddle conspiracy theory and extremist ideology. not true, says the king. but he's found a new audience, those who deny covid, reject the vaccine, and he's planning a tv channel. many dismissed reichsburger. the kingdom of germany was a bit of a joke. germany is learning to take them seriously. jenny hill, bbc news, eibenstock.

international researchers have warned that dugongs, the aquatic mammals also known as sea cows, are on the brink of extinction. the international union for conversation of nature says the creatures are threatened by the loss of sea grass on which they graze, as well as the danger of being caught up in fishing nets or struck by boat propellers. scientists have also sounded alarm over the loss of other marine creatures, including exotic coral and shellfish. for more, i spoke to professor amanda vincent from the university of british columbia in canada. i think we need to be very aware that while plastics and pollution are definitely a concern for the ocean and something we must take seriously, but the biggest single threat to marine biodiversity is nonselective, poorly regulated fishing. so we need to get our fishing practices under control if we are to have healthy oceans. climate change, of course, is a major concern as well. the

story of dugongs really captures these two threats. as a global species, found any indo specific, they are vulnerable to extinction. we have known that, but the new evidence was that some of the fragmented populations around the indo—pacific are actually now terrible state. so we have these populations of these in east africa that is medically endangered and a population in new caledonia that is endangered. those are specific populations that one is that the species as a whole is very vulnerable. and so if we look, for example, in east africa, we find that it is primarily nonselective fishing that is putting the biggest pressure on the set ones. they are catching the set ones. they are catching the two one often inadvertently. in new caledonia, the biggest pressure is coaching and extraction. where will talk about pollution and the plastics, we need to be

very mindful that it is purely marriage fishing that is really causing the greatest concern. —— mismanaged fishing. it is playing out with respect to the sea grasses in particular. seagrass beds are the only flowering plants in the ocean and quite magnificent. they are really suffering enormously under climate change. so you get a degradation of those habitats through climate change and also of course through things like bottom trawl fishing gear whichjust things like bottom trawl fishing gear which just scrapes the bottom, gouging everything and destroying the seagrass. professor amanda vincent —— amanda vincent tell me a little more about to make one being under threat. a rare malayan tapir, a species which is related to both the horse and the rhinoceros, has been born at chester zoo in england. the female calf, named nessa, weighed nine kilograms and has a very unique coat of both spots and stripes. the zoo says the arrival

is highly significant as only 2,500 tapir�*s are said to remain across south east asia. it does look like this cold speu it does look like this cold spell is here to stay for the foreseeable future. we are likely to see further spells of rain, sleet and snow. some significant accumulations towards the second part of the weekend and one or two areas. we will start to see increasing amounts of freezing fog developing as the winds will turn lighter, particularly across england and wales. bitterly cold start to the weekend. as you can see from these temperatures, even more in a few spots, may be down to -9 in a few spots, may be down to —9 in places. watch out for ice first thing around northern and western coastal areas. it is your where we are likely to see the wintry showers continuing throughout the day. elsewhere, there will be a lot of wintry sunshine around. we could see this area of snow becoming heavier and more persistent

across the north—east. east of scotland through the day, some significant accumulations of snow, certainly over the grampians. temperatures range from freezing to around 4—5. another very cold day to come, temperatures below par for the time of year. through saturday night, it stays ac, northern and western areas where we have had this rubbish, this area also continues, drift south into southern scotland, particularly towards the border is up to the very far north and north—east of england. again, a widespread sharp frost across the uk. temperatures down to around —7 or —8 in a few places. in two sunday, we need to keep an eye on this weak area of low pressure, this is developing towards the south—east quadrant of england. that could develop thicker cloud and even some sleet and snow, particularly later in the day, which could affect parts of the south—east and east anglia. elsewhere, another bright day on sunday. however, areas start with some freezing fog could stay quite grey and very cold through the day.

parts of east wales, duns and eastern england. no higher than freezing here, elsewhere 1—4. for sunday evening and sunday night, we could see that area of sleet and snow affect the south—east, could see some significant accumulations in the south downs. there could be some disruption in places for monday morning across the south—east. stay tuned to the forecast as this might change. elsewhere, lacks a clear, another very cold night to come, wintry showers around coastal areas. you can see the upcoming week, it is remaining cold in all areas, temperatures below the seasonal average.

this is bbc news. the headlines... argentina are through to the last four of the football world cup after beating the netherlands in a penalty shoot—out. in the semi final they will face croatia, who knocked out the favourites brazil in another penalty shoot—out. croatia's win puts them into a second successive world cup semi final. a leading russian opposition politician has given a defiant response to an eight— and— a— half year prison sentence for comments related to the war in ukraine. ilya yashin was found guilty of spreading moscow claims is fake information, by discussing evidence of atrocities carried out by russian troops. the british finance minister, jeremy hunt, has announced a major overhaul of the financial services industry, aimed at reviving growth.

the changes include a relaxation of rules