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>> and now, "bbc world news." >> hello and welcome to " newsday" on the bbc. >> here are the headlines. egypt's former prime minister kamal ganzouri is set to form a new government. the authorities insist the elections should go ahead. the arab league puts more pressure on syria to end the violence against its own people. >> arrests in trinidad and tobago has the prime minister claims that day assassination plot is foiled. india opens to world retailers but not everyone is happy. >> we're broadcasting to our viewers in america and around the world, this is "newsday."

we will start in egypt where state media reports that one of hose to embark's former prime ministers will form a new government. this will not placate the protest is to are asking for an end to military rule. authorities insisted that elections will be going ahead. >> this is a tense and wary truce. the security forces are strengthening the in forces around the interior ministry. this man would like to know who is going to pay for his newspaper kiosk, burned by rioters. they are thugs and anarchists. they don't want the country to

settle down. a passer-by interrupt to defend the demonstrators. she asks him, where is your dignity? you should fear god, he told her. people in cairo are feeling the pressure of a crisis that does not have an easy solution. the violence stopped for today at least. egypt possible on an explosive list of challenges has not gone away. they are cleaning up the mess but that does not clean up the fundamental political problems. there is no guarantee of security for the elections. longer term, there is the big question, who will run this country, civilians or the armed forces who have been in charge since 1952. the security forces are

everywhere at this end of the street. this -- these are perceived as allies. people have condemned the violence. he says, the military and police are protecting egypt. behind the wire is the interior ministry, a notorious torture center for the regime and unchanged. according to a journalist was held there on wednesday night, she says that she was sexually assaulted and both of her arms were broken. >> this kind of brutality is one of the catalyst for our revolution. that is why the egyptians began to rise up against those in the bark and howl we will continue

this revolution. -- this is why egyptians began to rise against 0 hosni mubarak and why we will continue this revolution. >> this party is backing the new prime minister designate and there are back in the election. the poll was to start a new era and it might make egypt's more divisions even more bitter. >> we will stay with the middle east because the arab league has given syria until 1:00 p.m. on friday to agree that an observer of mission will be allowed into the country. if they do not, is the group will begin imposing sanctions. the leader of the free assyrian army has said that the regime will fall soon.

>> the border between turkey on this side and syria, the country up on the brink of civil war. refugees slip across all of the time. among them, soldiers who rebelled against the government. even though they are under turkish protection now, they are not necessarily safe. there are seven camps in this area, many of the people who live in them have been here for several months. a senior syrian officer who defected lived here until late september. then he went out to do some shopping in a nearby town. somewhere around here he disappeared. the assumption is that agents of syrian intelligence were waiting

for him, grabbed him, and perhaps took him back over the border. most people think that he has been killed already. syrian refugees still come here to shop but they tend to be more wary. some do not want to show their faces on camera. they all seem to know about the disappearance of the colonel. the turkish police keep an eye on us as though in the and they let us go on filming. the turkish army makes it hard to contact the leader of the syrian rebels who has come across the border. he and all of the defecting soldiers are held in this one camp. while we were filming these pictures of the soldiers, the turkish army came and arrested us and a judge had to get us free. the only way that we could interview the colonel was by the internet. this was done very much at the

last minute and it was bizarre. we set up in a nearby farm yard and the chief of the army appeared. we assure everyone, he said, that the president of syria is finished. the syrian nation is determined to bring this dictator down. >> will it happen? >> god willing, god willing, very soon. the system is rotten to the core. it might look strong on the outside but at its heart it is weak. inside of syria, the free syrian army will be more and more important. it is not civil war there but it seems to be heading that way. >> the authorities in trinidad and tobago say they have uncovered a plot to assassinate the prime minister.

there have been a dozen arrests made. >> we don't know who was behind it, who was plotting against the prime minister. what we do know is that a number of the security forces had a real concern for people. things have eased off in many people's minds because the curfew that had been in place had actually finished a few weeks ago. they thought maybe that the state emergency was due to expire. many people are concerned. >> india is beginning its very own retail revolution. >> that's right. wal-mart and tesco might be well

known around the world but they have never set up shop in india. that is about to change. large retail chains can go there now. this is expected to generate $450 billion each year. >> shoppers might be about to experience a retail revolution. for the moment, this is where they buy most of their daily goods, markets, local shops, all larger. that could be about to change. for the first time, large foreign supermarkets are set to sweep into the country. big chains like wal-mart have been waiting for this moment for a long time. in the and shoppers are thought to spend about $450 billion every year. the foreign retailers say that

consumers will benefit and the sector will get much needed investment and expertise. this has millions of small traders worried. they fear that the arrival of these larger chains could put them out of business. the government would like more foreign investment and they're likely to push ahead with reforms. >> three bombs have exploded in the southern iraqi city of basra killing 90 people. the explosion went through a busy market in the city center. many of the dead were policemen who had been called to the scene of the first blast. 23 bodies have been found bound and gagged in guadalajara, mexico. the bodies were found in the center of the city. and this is a drug trafficking base. the number of murders has been on the increase. there is little public appetite around the world for continuing

nuclear power. the survey of more than 20,000 people indicates that more than 2/3 of respondents are opposed to building new nuclear reactors. thailand is slowly recovering from the devastating floods. the water has receded in many areas and businesses are beginning to reopen. time to assess the cost of disaster and to keep this from happening again. more than 600 people died in the flooding. the special representative of the u.n. secretary general said that thailand will have to make a number of changes to prevent this kind of devastation in the future. >> i think that this is already very evident to the government and people. what has just happened here has happened in other countries in the world. this is the new normal.

the only effort that has been put into this will have to be reviewed and how do you deal with the potential for similar flooding or worse in the next decade. it will take a lot of critical review of infrastructure, the preparation, the early warning system, the metra logical services and significant investments. to engage in very practical and immediate action. >> you are watching "newsday close quaked -- watching "newsday" on the bbc. "harry potter" arthur j. k. rowling discusses the

journalists. the leaders of france and germany are proposing changes to the eu treaty in order to tighten control of the eurozone. french president sarkozy and the german chancellor merkel expressed their strong support for the italian interim prime minister after meeting him in strasbourg. >> on the franco-german border in a city synonymous with the idea of european unity, italy new prime minister joined the big two in the eurozone. they want to send a message to the markets that italy is in safe hands and has the full support of its allies. what is this new triumvirate going to do to try to prevent the eurozone crisis spinning out of control? >> faced with the gravity of the situation, we have told the prime minister that france and

germany during the next few days will propose some changes to the treaty to improve eurozone confidence. >> the idea of a treaty change will not be welcomed by everyone. many are focusing on trying to persuade germany to ease its opposition and allowing the eu to use its unlimited firepower to assist countries that are struggling with debt. plenty for mario monti to ponder as he embarks on turning the economy around. the eurozone needs him to deliver. >> we shared for our thoughts about the situation and we agreed that the eurozone is the priority. >> they will all meet again in rome and then there is another summit in a couple of weeks and

time is really beginning to run out. >> this is "newsday" on the bbc. >> these are the headlines. egypt's of former prime minister sets a new government as military rulers say elections should go ahead as planned. syria faces sanctions if they fail to allow an observer mission and and the violence against anti-government protesters. we have been traveling outside of the capital of egypt to see how the protests are affecting the rest of the country. >> there has not been much election campaigning because some suspended their campaigns,

others said they were boycotting the elections and there is some lack of clarity as to whether the elections will be held at all. they have all of the usual photographs being handed out. this is the candidate for this area. had you been doing much campaigning? >> i have always been campaigning, i have always been among the people. i am always here with the people. >> what are you telling the people? what can you do for them? >> normally what i do

essentially it is i tell people what is happening in egypt, the crisis that we are in, and how we brought people out of the crisis. also explaining about the new electoral system. mainly, i am here all the time because i have strong connections with the people. what do you think that these will be different than the other elections in egypt? >> of course they will be free and fair because the judges and judiciary will be monitoring the elections and everyone will come with their id cards and it will be very systematic and there will not be any fraud. >> are all these people going to vote? >> it will be good elections? >> there it is, they say they're

going to vote, that is one very important ingredient in changing the culture. people coming out to vote because they believed in the process. >> here in the uk, j. k. rowling has been telling an inquiry that journalists used her children to get messages to her. she said that a letter had been put in her daughter's school back. earlier, the actress sienna miller said that she felt violated by treatment from photographers. what she has written books which have captivated millions of children around the world, yet for their arthur, j. k. rowling, her children are entitled to complete privacy. she told the inquiry what a battle that had been to achieve

that. on one occasion, a letter from a journalist was slipped into her daughter's school back. >> i felt such a sense of invasion. it is very difficult to say how angry i felt that my daughter's school was no longer a place of complete security from journalists. "she said she was driven out of one home by the media but the problems did not stop. >> there was two particularly bad areas where it was. after the birth of each of my subsequent children, for a week it was impossible for me to leave the house without being photographed. >> much of the media be paid

promptly and did excellent work, she said, but there was a section which did not. >> the attitude is it different and what is a matter. you are famous, you are asking for it. >> j. k. rowling told the inquiry that if you fought back, you can expect retribution. in the case of the actresses sienna miller, she faced physical danger. she faced daily pursued by photographers. at times, she said that it was terrifying. >> i was 21 and i was running down a dark street on my own with 10 big men chasing me. the fact that they had cameras in their hand meant that it was legal. when you take away the cameras,

you have a pack of men chasing a woman and you can see that as an intimidating situation. >> reporters understood her secrets. she could not understand it so she accused her family. >> there was one private piece of information that four people know about. i had been very careful to tell my mother, sister, and two of my closest friends. journalists said that they knew about this. yes, i accuse my family and people who would never dream about selling any information about me. >> in fact, her fund was being hacked. she was shown the notes from the news of the world investigator. this is what she found. >> dates referring to a very personal things in my life. all of the telephone numbers that i changed, the access numbers come out in numbers, my

passwords, the e-mail. >> from celebrities and private citizens alike have come similar allegations of often brutish behavior and bullying attitudes. some teams are starting to emerge, 1st that there is a section of the british media that has had very little consideration for the feelings and rights of people they're dealing with. the people are genuinely intimated about standing up to some british newspapers. >> and finally an end to goal lines in football. >> technology could be used as early as next season. if it works, then the loss would

be changed. >> over the line, or not. a simple question boat one that in glyn's world cup hopes hard last summer. -- a simple question, but one that hit england's world cup hopes hard last summer. the races on to stop incorrect decisions from being made. the football association is eager to see this adopted. >> it is possible to be in the premier league as early as 2013. these things will come with a cost. >> other sports have long embraced technology. the company is looking to fit

the criteria required by fifa. the inventor is recognizing the challenges that match officials face. >> the referee would see that from here and say it is over the line. the linesmen would say it is over the line. they should be looking directly across the line. the fifa director says that a whole of the ball must cover the whole of the line. >> this uses 24 cameras in the goal post to see if the ball has or has not crossed the goal line. if it has, the referee is sent a signal to his wrist watch and all this happens in one second meeting there is no delay. fans can look forward to the end of injustices' like this/

the results of the current test will be released in march but the final results will be in july of next year. >> finally, let's take you to india. a man has slapped the agriculture minister in the face to draw attention to corruption. you just saw the slap. he was shouting, you are all thieves. he was restrained and he pulled out a small knife which he brandished before he was escorted away by security. he continued and he said, don't you know why hit him? the common man is troubled. am i wrong? some have had their offices ransacked by angry citizens. >> you have been watching " newsday" on the bbc. >> thank you for your company.

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