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>> and now, bbc world news. >> welcome to newsday on the bbc. >> here are the headlines. police and protesters clashed in egypt after the death of scores of football fans. hundreds were injured in cairo. comrade dubick and the killing field, the war crimes court sentenced them to 35 years to life in prison. >> rescuers in papua new guinea are continuing to search of the sunken ferry. more than 100 people are thought to be trapped inside the ship. >> and prince williams started toward duty in the falkland islands. it is viewed as a show of bravado. >> this is newsday.

>> to protesters have been killed in suez in northeastern egypt with clashes with police over the death of scores of football fans on wednesday. there have been renewed clashes in central cairo when police fired tear gas at demonstrators . >> tonight, the center of cairo has once again been turned into a battlefield. thousands of protesters have been attempting to storm the city's interior ministry. each time they have been forced back by barrages of tear gas and rubber bullets. hundreds have been injured.

the furious over the death of 74 young supporters. the thousands who fled into cairo today are clear who they think is to blame for the killing in ports i neeport said. >> they stole money from the people for 14 years and now they have gangsters and corruption. >> and this is what they accused the military regime of causing. at first, it looks like a simple and invasion. but it turned quickly violent. many of their fans were not so lucky. as riot police appeared to stand by and do nothing, the cairo fans were run down, beaten, bludgeoned, and stabbed. . the attacks sled to cairo.

thousands crammed the balcony's and platforms. we will have justice or death, they shout. outside, anxious parents await news of their children. my son has not answered his phone since yesterday, this woman weeps. please, i beg you, help me find my son. the government has moved quickly to open an investigation. this was the prosecutor arriving today. the blood smeared seats tell us of the brutality of the attacks. the piles of shoes show where bodies were crushed against a locked gate. this man saw it all happen. >> they were pushing us off of the high seeded section of the top of the stadium. those who fell died and none of the security tried to stop them. i was struck twice with a knife on my hand and my head. >> within hours of the attacks,

the ministry was shown on state television meeting with the shaken players and hoping to find the culprit. with the results of this investigation, each one will take his punishment and we will know why and who caused this tragedy. but such promises mean nothing to those who began ferrying their children today -- for those who began burying their children. i hope he sees his son like my son, this man says, dead. there is no evidence linking egypt's junta with yesterday's violence. investigations will do very little to change the belief of many here that the old men in uniform are somehow to blame. >> the clashes in the capital have continued through the night. a short time ago, ahmed told me what he could see from his room.

>> hi nancy -- i see that river bullet sarbanes shot and there are many injured -- i see that rubber bullets are being shot and there are many injured. >> why are the protesters blaming the security forces for what happened inside the stadium on wednesday? could it have been simply a football riot that produced tragic consequences? it is possible, is it not? >> they believe that it is not a normal incident. first of all, the attackers were allowed to go onto the field. and the riot police in the stadium stood neutral. normal incidents, the police are there to prevent people from getting into the field and

attacking the players. the police stood neutral. they stood watching what was going on. and they led to the attackers -- they left the attackers reach them. the emergency exits were closed. then there were left a whole hour being attacked with no security forces protecting them this is -- protecting them. this is not a normal incident. 73 people died. for a whole hour, there were beaten and tortured on the field. that does not seem normal to me. >> more critical events in cambodia. >> that is right. an appeals judge in cambodia has rejected a claim by the man who

ran a notorious cover rouge detention center that he is not responsible -- a notorious khmer rouge detention center that he is not responsible. he had appealed on the grounds that he was a junior official following orders. life imprisonment for him. you are at the courthouse. tell us what is the reaction there. >> you can hear people sucking in their breath and they did not sure exactly when the sentence was announced. they may have in the courtroom itself, but people were dreading that he may have been released by the appeals court. instead, they discounted every element of his appeal, admitted much of what the prosecution was searching for, and submitted the sentence of life in prison

that would give a deal of satisfaction to those who lived through the horrors of the khmer rouge. >> it is in much worse sentence than was expected. how will this outcome affect the other trials that are going on? >> the court rejected the comrades argument that he was not responsible for what happened in the detention center where 50,000 people were tortured and murdered on his watch. he said he was a junior official following orders. if he had not done that, he may have been killed himself. it does not shut the door on other investigations of officials of a similar rank, which many of these officials are extremely keen to see carry on.

as it is, the way is open for those investigations to proceed now with more prosecutions ahead. the >> how has this whole trial been perceived by cambodians? we have seen a little trouble with the case. judges were publicly bickering a few weeks ago. [inaudible] >> apologies there. we seem to have lost him. in other news, about 120 people are feared trapped inside a ferry that sank off of the coast of pop and a guinea on sunday. -- off the coast of papua new guinea on sunday.

arsenate correspondent says that authorities believe that those trapped -- our correspondent says that the authorities believe that those trapped may not be allowed. >> it has been 24 hours since the ferry went down. there are ships on scene and helicopters looking for any chance of survivors making it through this. but the suggestion is that these people were trapped on the vessel and are not alive and the ship went down in rough weather 24 hours ago. the only survivors are talking about how awful it was trying to get off the vessel. then once they got off, they had to stay in the water until they were picked up. after 24 hours, this is very much a recovery operation ships are on the scene in case something good me come of it. >> you are watching news on the bbc live from singapore and london. the bbc gets exclusive access

to the new rolls royce singapore plant. >> drug dependency could be handed down from one generation to the next. >> let's have a look at the international newspaper headlines this friday. we will begin with the front page of the "south china morning post." there is news that china may be offering a helping hand. after meeting with the german chancellor, china's premier said that the country was looking at a deeper involvement in the european debt crisis. merger talks between the world's biggest commodities trading company glen court and the mining company that strata will create an $88 billion mining giant. "the independent" revisits the

issue of corporate bonuses. david cameron is under pressure to provide huge payouts to the banking industry. and good news for apple after a new survey claims that the ipad is now more popular than the pc. >> this is newsday on the bbc in singapore. >> in london, these are the headlines. police and protesters have clashed in egypt after the death of scores of football fans. hundreds have been injured in cairo. two protesters have been killed in suez. >> the khmer rouge detention center officer has had his sentence increased to live imprisonment by a war crimes court. second in the line of succession to the british throne, prince

william has arrived in the falkland islands to begin a six- week tour of duty in the -- as an air force search and rescue pilot. the 30th anniversary of the folklore is approaching -- of the falkland war is approaching. >> the part-time soldiers of the falkland island forces do not fear another invasion. officially, he is here as plain old flight lt. wales. that is not have the world sees it. the falkland islands is a restatement with a bond with britain. the falklands arnott spooked by

the rhetoric. -- are not spooked by the rhetoric. >> i have the capabilities to do that. >> the islanders are glad of this pit hms dauntless is one of the newest and most powerful chips in the -- ships in the fleet. britain says that it is a routine deployment, not an excavation. in buenos iris, a few dozen left-wing protesters aired their iny -- in one of cyru -- buenos aires, a few dozen left- wing protesters aired their

fury. the british bank was pelted with paint. the islanders defines is shaped by a memory. for them, it is a living vital thing that man came from 9,000 miles away to win back their right for self-determination and many of them die for it. >> that experience underpins britain's position, that whenever argentina is saying to these islands, the rights of the people here to choose their own destiny remains non-negotiable. port stanley is as british as fish and chips, sussex in the mid atlantic. no one here shares the view that prince william's arrival is just another deployment. to the islanders, it is a restatement of their bond with britain. >> he is a very important member of the royal family. it means a lot to the islanders that britain believes that he should be here working in our

defense. >> the falklands pas are forging ahead with oil exploration to the feria of argentina. but no one here care is much for argentine sensibilities. >> there is no doubt to the right of the falkland islands to explore for oil. >> what happened here made this distant and difficult place still more steadfast in its enduring britishness. >> rolls-royce will open a new half a billion dollar plant here in singapore later this month where the engine-maker will assemble its engine and manufacture the bentley. it will provide 0.5% to the country's gdp.

26-year-old kenneth cole had always wanted to be an engineer at the rolls-royce plant in singapore. it is the first step toward his dream. right there, he writes construction for colleagues. >> hi first learned about engineering from my dad. he is a semiconducting engineer. because of him, i have always had an interest in engineering. when i heard that rolls-royce would be in singapore, it made me choose aerospace engineering. >> kenneth is not the only one. at full capacity, this $550 million plant in singapore will employ 1000 more like him. alongside the darby operation in u.k., this will only be the second place in the world to

assemble large engines for aircraft. the reason it is here is to aid rolls-royce's many asian airline clients. i am standing in this vast area. as you can say, it is about three football fields in length. this is the assembly area for all of rolls-royce's large engines. while fully operational, this plant in singapore will be able to produce one engine and day for two hundred 50 engines a year, roughly half of -- for 250 engines a year, roughly half of rolls-royce's production. >> technology, training, having a workforce that is pulled through and it pipeline of people that can cater for the

technical level that we need, it is available here. we are developing new technology for repair. we're developing new mcteer -- new technologies in materials, electronics, and having in ecosystem in singapore that allows that will benefit our company and the region. >> testing the trent 900, the engine that powers the largest commercial plane. but it was one of those that exploded in mid-air on a quantum fight in 2010. the incident has not shaken confidence. at least not in this region. two of the three airlines that ordered a-380's following that incident were asian. it is those same asian clients that rolls-royce is counting on to fill at least half of their order books in the next decade. the chinese government keeps a

tight control in the publishing and importation of books, especially those that it deems with sensitive subject. but trading chinese-language books is thriving. the taiwanese president called for closer cooperation between publishers and authors across the taiwan strait. >> taiwan ships all sorts of goods. from high tech gadgets to fish. but it kidnap -- but it still cannot export books to china. this one about the secrets of the chinese communist party are banned in china, but are easily sold in taiwan. students make a point of visiting bookstores when in taiwan's just to pick up titles banned in china.

taiwan is one of the biggest industries for publishing chinese-language books. and publishers, such as this one, are eager to tap into the 1.3 billion readers in china. he wants to see a breakthrough in this issue in upcoming talks in beijing. many people doubt that they can convince china to ease censorship. >> diplomats at the united nations say that russia has threatened to veto a u.n. security council resolution aimed at stopping the bloodshed in syria on friday. >> the russian envoy said that it had been a roller coaster of a day. the ambassadors from the security council met in intense consultations for three hours to four hours and were unable to agree on a syria resolution. the issue at stake is an arab peace plan that calls for the president to yield power to his deputy who would then oversee

the political transition to new elections. the syrian parent has rejected that. the russians say that for the un council to enact it would require outside support. in the and, they drop a new text and sent it to their government to make a difficult decision. the main sticking point is whether the human counselor should support the arab peace plan or should it be noted -- the un council should support the arab peace plan. the sponsor of the resolution has put it into a vote-ready format. but diplomats have said that negotiations can continue so the story is not over yet. >> finally a question -- is drug

addiction hereditary? medical experts a step closer to one of the most difficult questions in addiction treatment. the answer is yes. >> it is one of the great scourges of the modern world. addiction to drugs. but what determines who gets poked? new research offers an answer. a study focused on addicts and their siblings, like sophia and her sister teresa, brought together in the same troubled family. they described how one state clean and the other did not. >> the people we were hanging around with, the influences, it was not getting into the crack. >> i just already knew early on in my life that there were

certain things i wanted to do and to achieve. >> the study involves scanning 50 addicts and their siblings. theresa for her sisters' sake. >> cover your head now. >> the west to see if there were biological clues to addiction in the brain. what is revealed by this research is potentially very useful. if the siblings of attics and the addicts themselves share some similar abnormalcy patterns in their brains. the scan shows how this works. the yellow areas indicate weaker self control into advocates and their siblings. so how do siblings avoid addiction? >> those who cannot have an addiction problems, they can tell us how to overcome these problems. how they managed self control in

daily life. >> sophia and theresa were tested for self control. they share abnormalities in their brains, but turned out so differently. the long-term goal is to make use of that knowledge, but it will not be easy. >> we do not believe that we will prevent all addiction, but this is a step in identifying people who are at risk. at this stage, it does not really give us any answers as to how we do that. >> immediate benefits are not likely, but having a clear idea of who is most vulnerable could help steer them away from a life of addiction. >> you have been watching newsday from the bbc in singapore. >> i am in london. thank you for your company. i will be back in a couple of minutes with the latest news headlines. for the moment, thank you indeed for your company. bye-bye.

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