despite concessions from the egyptian vice-president, huge anti-government protests continue. this is the scene in cairo. thousand still there with keeping up the pressure on -- keeping up the pressure for reform. >> and in london, i am mike embley. welcome to "bbc world news," broadcast to our viewers on pbs in america, also around the globe. my name is mike embley. coming up later for you -- julian assange calls for his prosecutors to phase calls insemination in london. -- to face cross-examination in london. and a man who murdered his daughter because of her western lifestyle talks to the bbc in his prison cell.

and south africa cracks down on the poachers who slaughtered hundreds of animals every year. >> welcome to our special coverage of the continuing anti- government unrest in egypt. in cairo, this has been a remarkable day with the biggest show of anti-mubarak peeling no on the streets of the egyptian capitol. -- anti-mubarak feeling yet on the streets of the egyptian capitol. some are joining the grounds for the first time. there have been similar scenes outside cairo in alexandria and other cities. a few people are still there, and buying be there -- and by

being there, they are keeping up the pressure. all this despite more concessions by the government today. the egyptian vice president went on television this morning, promising a road map to constitutional reform and also no harassment of the protesters. there have been concerned about repercussions for those who have been taking part in the protests, also concerned about the work of journalists. a report is from our cairo correspondent. >> just when some thought it was all over, the egyptians and as the world once again. today in central cairo, more protestors than ever turn up to demand the departure of president mubarak. the government wants to give the impression that the protest is slowly fading away. this is the response to the demonstrators. tahrir square is behind me there. if the into hundred people are coming up that way.

along here are around the corner and around and around and up here and all along this road. really as far as the eye can see. what has inspired them is this interview carried on satellite tv last night. wael ghonim, a young googles executive, released by the government yesterday after being held by security forces for 12 days. he had a powerful message. >> first, i send my condolences to all who were killed. we do not want damage. do not focus your cameras on me. i am not a hero. the real euros are the youth behind this revolution. by god's will, we will clean up this rubbish. what's his words have inspired. -- >> his words have inspired. >> i think it will multiplied

the intentions here. >> as for the government, the vice president gave further details for constitutional reform being considered by those in power. >> the president emphasized the need of moving from broad guidelines to a clear road map with a set timetable that would allow egypt to achieve a peaceful and organized transfer of power within the mistakes of constitutional legitimacy. >> protests also continued in alexandria and other towns and villages across egypt. the heart of the movement is still here in tahrir square. the opposition are already considering what next. told of another massive demonstration on friday, continuing the ever-growing pressure on the egyptian government. bbc news, cairo. >> the protesters are continuing to call for the removal of president mubarak.

another of their demands, the lifting of the emergency laws in place the entire time of art has been in power. we know there has been a phone call between the u.s. vice- president and his egyptian counterpart. mr. biden is calling for the lifting of those emergency measures here. if that happens, that will be a huge boost to the protesters. technically gatherings like this should not be possible during a state of emergency. mike. >> do we know what it is that brought so many more out when it looked like it was coming down? >> it was a fascinating phenomenon. i think the appearance of wael ghonim, the google executive who led been detained for almost two weeks, was really a galvanizing moment. lots of people had not taken part in the protest yet, and

then came out on the streets. when i was in tahrir square earlier, you could see streams of people coming across the bridges, buying egyptian flags, and men, women, some people coming along with their families. a thing today has really showed this is a movement that can be sustained this will not be welcome news for the government. >> do people still feel under threat by the police, whether in uniform or not? do you and your team feel under threat as you move about? >> i think the far end press is in a better position than an egyptian -- the foreign press is in a better position than egyptian citizens. interestingly, the vice president, omar suleiman, did

say there would be an end to harassment. a lot of people do feel they have been monitored, and they would be worried that if all this comes u.n. and there might be repercussions for them. clearly, the government wants to reassure them. they still have work to do. >> michele there in khyber. thank you very much. just one more thing -- the vice president has admitted that the president rented a plane and paid for accommodations. his colleague, the foreign minister was still out for her resignation over her links to the ousted president. other news from around the globe. julian assange is a challenging his accusers to come to a british court to be cross- examined.

alan little was in court. >> day two. julian assange continues his fight against the swedish prosecutor. he faces long odds. arrest warrants from a country like sweden is customarily granted almost automatically. his defense team has raised three main arguments. geoffrey robertson told the court that he would not get a fair trial because of briefcases and sweden are held in secret. that what he is alleged to have done in sweden would not be criminal in britain, and he is ready to cooperate with swedish officials in london. julian assange is also afraid that extradition will deliver him in the end to the united states where some public figures have faced for him to call -- for him to face the death

penalty. claire montgomery said montgomerymr. aassange -- assange repeatedly refused to testify in sweden. >> in britain, it is of vital tool in an increasingly- globalized fight against crime. the court will expect strong evidence the prosecution was militias or politically motivated or otherwise flawed. >> the defense called their witness, a retired swedish prosecutor. he told the court that he thought it quite peculiar the prosecutor had issued the arrest warrant without first hearing julian assange's version of events. but even he said he would

voluntarily returned to sweden to clear his name if he were the defendant. >> today, we saw what i spoke about earlier being opened up. what we have seen is protest abuse after protests abuse being revealed, for hours and hours. >> the hearing resumes on friday. bbc news, magistrates court. >> foreign reconstruction teams have been accused by the afghan president for impede in progress. president karzai says the teams were like a parallel system of government and will have to leave the country. the british government is to increase its levy on banks, making them pay $1.3 billion more than they expected this year. there is much anger over the size of bonuses being paid to bankers in britain. 18 were injured in a collision

between a lorry and of us. the bus skidded on the road before the impact, which you see here, was captured on video. there were no reports, amazingly, a serious injuries. a stormy day at the war crimes trial of the former liberian president, charles taylor. the judge refused to accept a leak documents as part of the closing argument. we have this from the hague. >> right at the start of proceedings, a testy exchange between the defense lawyer and the judges in the courtroom. >> it is our intention, but myself and mr. taylor, to leave court at this point. >> this trial has lasted three years, and the judges appeared in no mood to entertain further delays. >> if you continue to remain on your feet, and present council

for the prosecution from speaking, then i will be obliged to consider you are verging on the intense. >> at that point, he left the outside, he explained his actions. >> we have decided not to participate in these closing arguments because as far as we are concerned, it is a complete farce, given that the judges will not have the foundational information enclosed in a written submissions. >> that inside the court, the accused saddam of listening to the prosecution of's closing arguments. the prosecution said that he was directly responsible for the campaign of terror in sierra leone. he had been the key figure, the godfather. his ultimate objective was to pillage the country's resources. after the first break of the

morning, charles taylor failed thrift -- to return to court. >> i do not see him. >> the accused president committee is not in court. >> i will take it there for that he has deliberately violated that order and absented himself voluntarily. >> the prosecution carried on summing up their closing arguments, but without the accused or his lawyer in court, this trial has been thrown into uncertainty. bbc news, in the hague. >> do stay with us, if you can come up on "bbc world news." still to come for you -- portrait of gaza. ed meet the award winning german photographer who has documented the israeli-palestinian conflict for over two decades. first though, indonesia's's president has condemned the burning of two churches in central java. they were attacked not long

after a christian man was sale -- was sentenced to five years in jail for deliberately insulting islam. >> muslim protesters attacked a courthouse after the verdict was read. a christian man was given a jail sentence for spreading hatred about islam. some said he should have received in the death penalty instead. two churches was set on fire. -- were set on fire. a video of the attack over the weekend circulated on the internet. these men stormed the house, calling the people inside nonbelievers. these people are considered islamic deviance. the police are outnumbered. the rest of the footage is too graphic to show. human rights groups say the city approves the police did little

to prevent the death. the indonesian president has called for a full investigation into the incident. >> if the clash could have been prevented, it's the security forces or local authorities failed to prevented, and they, too, will be punished. >> a stern message, but one heard time and time again. they see violence against minorities continues to escalate. this has tarnished the country's reputation as a modern muslim nation. hardline french groups have become more and more vocal and the president has spent -- french groups have become more and more vocal and the president has been accused of caving in to their pressure. bbc news, jakarta. >> let's bring you up-to-date with our headlines on the "bbc world news."

hundreds of thousands of protesters have crammed tahrir square demanding president mubarak's resignation, despite concessions. the head of wikileaks has called for his prosecutors to come to london for cross-examination. his trial continues on friday. every year there are so-called honor killings around world. that is when a family murders one of its own members, usually female. one woman was killed by her father because she had become in his words "to western." and duncan kennedy reports. >> she died and a clash of cultures, from asian girl to a western woman. the transformation which cost her her life. this is her father, the man who killed her.

murdering his own daughter to uphold the honor of the family. >> i did not want to kill her. i wanted her to come back home. >> he refused -- she refused an arranged marriage, smokes, and had an italian boy friend. her father said she changed the family. >> i am a good father. my daughter was a very good daughter before. all of a sudden, she changed. >> he said he did not want her to live a western life. >> i did not want my daughter to be to free, having drugs on the streets. i did not want this thing to happen. >> her transition from a couple of her father's eye to the victim of this murderous rage is chronicled in a new book, a book that includes this is not just about differences between the

muslim and secular world. >> just trying to be a normal battalion teenager, this is the problem of the second generation -- italian teenager, this is the problem of the second generation. there is a conflict between cultures, and there is a conflict between generations, between parents and child. >> she ended up -- he ended up slitting her throat 28 times. he buried her in the back garden, his way of bringing her back into line, he says. i cannot think these killings are rare. it or not. the united nations believes every year 5000 girls are murdered by members of their own family, all in the name of honor. her father is serving 30 years in jail, still feeling e. shank them, but regretting the

destructive consequences of his action. funding kennedy, bbc news. >> now, how you capture the human cost of the war in gaza? that was the question one photographer asked as he took pictures for his book he read he has been documented the conflict for two decades. it is part of an exhibition in london. our correspondent went to meet him. >> pictures of devastation. these photographs were taken in gaza and early 2010. -- in early 2010. these are some of the people and places affected by the fighting between hamas and the israeli defense forces after a six- month cease fire broke down.

tell me about this photograph. >> this is a 16-year-old student. she was playing on the top floor of her home, together with her sister and two cousins. and a friend. there was of guided missile. her sister died. she lost both legs. after the shooting, the floor was pushed out. her father took this home. >> when an exhibition of these photographs is unveiled, the gunmen in motorcycle helmets broke into the exhibition and tried to damage the photographs.

it is not the first time they have caused controversy and it is not the last time he will be accused of having anti-semitic views. >> it is not anti-semitic photography. i basically went around and recorded. it is very effectual photography, you know. i want to create more beautiful pictures, you know. this is what happened. the people in the buildings and a photograph, i did not destroy them. -- the people and the buildings that i photograph, i did not destroy them. >> the u.n. record of the gaza

conflict can then be conduct on both sides of the war. it determined both sides had committed war crimes and israel had used disproportionate force, deliberately targeting civilians. bbc news. >> military officers from the two koreas met in the border to set the dates for defense stocks. it is the first meeting since the shelling of a south korean island in november. the state department and u.s. says it has discovered many contract workers at its embassies in the gulf and work for pay and living conditions. it also found workers from asia often have to pay recruitment fees of up to one year's salary to their employers. the u.s. investigation into

safety in toyota cars has been no problems with electronics and in these vehicles. the 2009 japanese -- and in 2009, the japanese firm has recalled 200,000 vehicles for problems as sticking a brake pedals and unintended acceleration. >> despite efforts to stamp it out, there have been more than 300 poaching incidents in south africa and in the past year. we have this from johannesburg. >> in south african bush, a rhino poacher stocks his prey. secretly coming he is being trapped. this may be a training exercise, but the scenario is very real. rhino poaching is on the increase coming in with its private security firms. this is what they are after.

more than 300 rhinos have been coached in the last year alone, killed for their horns >> it is a typical situation. we have the road to the west. it is approximately two kilometers. it is a perfect place. they could come back. i have a rhino chopped up. meet me at 6:00, 7:00. >> [singing] >> military training for all new recruits. they are increasingly armed. they have met with force three poachers. rhino poaching has increased nearly 20% of the past year. there are more sophisticated techniques. for the criminals, the rewards have increased, too. rhinos are more valuable than

gold. precious wildlife is under attack from human predators. conservation is the name of the game. with tourism worth more than 6 billion pounds a year, the authorities are clamping down hard. >> [unintelligible] we also have conflict cases, where there are a huge volume of-involved. >> the latest weapons you deter poachers. but they are stretched too far, and this creature remains under threat. bbc news. >> you will find much more on that and all the other news anytime you want it online at bbc.com/news. you can catch up with me and most of the team on twitter. i'm @bbcmikeembley. and you will see what is coming up on facebook. thank you for watching. come again.

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