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the english football manager has resigned. the italian had been in dispute with employers after they removed john terry as the england captain without consulting him first. he publicly criticized that decision on terry. terry is facing charges of racially abusing another player. >> determined, his face betrayed capelli is fablio driven away. he was supposed to be the no- nonsense italian. instead he leads -- leaves having been the latest big name to fail in football's most impossible job and here is why. an exchange between ferdinand

and john thierry. thierr's trial has been delayed until july. they decided to strip him of the captain's sea now. >>ç this decision has been takn due to the high-profile nature. on and off the page and additional demands and requirements meeting in to and çduring this. >> he wasted little time in expressing his views telling italian television -- >>ç i did not agree at all with the decision. civil justice, not sports justice will rule whether he committed the crime he is accused of. i still think it is right that he should keep the captain's armband. >> following an hourlong meeting, bernstein issued the following statement on behalf of the fa. during today's meeting enter at

this time, he has conducted himself in an extremely professional manner. we have accepted his resignation to bring this is the right decision. we would like to thank him for his work with the england team and wish him every success in the future. >> it was dignified and in the end there was a handshakeç and fabio moves and theççy have to move on quickly. çthey have a game in three wees of the have to have someone in charge. >> early optimism evaporated with tensions running high as problems mounted in south africa. in the end it was the single story. defeat against germany in the second round prompting calls for him to resign then. he stayed but only because of the fa for not afraid -- afford to pay them off. english football has made little progress.

during that time, he has been paid almost 24 million pounds. a staggering amount which will lead to fresh questions about the way the football association has been run. >> capello wanted to make a stand and the fa wanted to and they could not agree. capello has decided to resign. a few months short of the championship, there will have to make a decision on who is next. >> capello has a reputation as someone who enjoys the finer things in life. he is not the first manager to fall afoul of the culture of the english game. >> i remember him speaking to bbc news and he said something everything loved. capello is a killer winner.

what have we learned in the three years she has been in charge about the england team and foreign managers managing english players? >> england experimented twice now with foreign managers. capello. ñ'ñs=janeither have managed to e england past the quarterfinals. sandwiched between those managers was steve mcclaren. he -- did they take the lead as far as i could go? fans seem to think they have this divine right to be the best in the world but maybe it comes to the pool of players. you can pick. and are english players as technically gifted and where as

spanish players, brazilian, german players? last weekend in the premier league, four english keepers in all those games. this is the kind of thing the next england manager will have to work with. >> if he had his way with the players and it would give everything for him, harry has that as well. all football fans are saying he should be manager. if he had been convicted no way could he be the next england manager. will he take the next job? >> you mentioned the fans come also the media and the players. when he was quitting earlier today saying redknapp to be manager. don't forget he is in the middle of the premier league battle. it would have thought maybe he would have finished the job now

staying till the end of the season. we have champion lee qualifications in the title. england plays netherlands in three weeks' time. he will be in place then. >> he is the favorite. thank you. the un secretary general ban ki- moon condemned what he called the -- appalling brutality in the city of homes. çwednesday's bombardment was te heaviest. this latest attackç came aftera day that president assad showed the of the russian foreign minister he was ready for dialogue. the residents are experiencing a different reality. our correspondents spent several days inside the city. >> it began at dawn. for fifth day, the bombardment.

some said it was the worst day of shelling. >> they roamed menacingly at the edges of those areas still holding out. people here are afraid the çregime intends a final push to crush the uprising. the casualties are mounting. undoubtedly most civilians. they had put their hopes in the un resolution. it was vetoed by russia and china. they are better. -- bitter about that. >> this was three years old. is this wha thçt the un waited,

until they kill all the children come kill all the women? >> homs is shuddered and terrified after many punishing days of this. hundreds of shells and mortar bombs have been fired at this place. >> god,, go. >> the one thing you hear over and over is they feel abandoned by the outside world. they have not been out to play since the of rising -- uprising began. their mothers in despair. the outside world will not help us, she says. god'sç vengeance will come down on the syrian president.

the kalashnikovs can do little against tanks. their hope their regime's forces will crumble from the inside. army's moral has collapsed. they know they're killing civilians and they want this bloodbath to stop. as the bodies pile up, the prevailing mood here is one of despair. people still trapped, and they believe no one is coming to help. bbc news, homs. >> paul has left homs and is in beirut. he described how people are dealing with shelling by government forces. >> there is little -- very little escape. we managed last night during a pause in the bombardment.

and manage to get out of syria this evening. last night we were the only people to get out and i saw on the way in medical supplies and blood donated by people in the villages which was held up. they could not get it in. we're told by people who are in homs it was the worst bombardment they had experienced. and that must have been pretty heavy. we found it each day of the past few days we were there hundreds or shilling -- shelling each state. >> you mentioned the blood. i was going to talk to about whether emergency services arc able to operate orç are they controlled by the government? >> it is a divided city and the big hospitals are outside those areas which defied the government at which support the uprising. we have fireplaces like that neighborhood we were staying in for a few very small, ill-

equipped field hospitals with brevin committed doctors but who are overstretched. geren mind with dozens of sq%ei+ to that dead, supplies are short. people are tired and there are some complicated surgery. we have seen some horrific injuries caused by artillery exploding. often those people are stabilized. >> we saw in your report members of the freeñr syrian army with their kalashnikov. i'm wondering if you're able to get an idea if there was a justification, they are facing an armed uprisingç of armed terrorists. >> you hear two things from the syrian government. the first of which is there is

no attack on homs or parts of homs. they are telling people to light fires on their rooftops. hundreds of mortar and shell impacts every day. we saw them coming in. the other argument is they are facing what official spokesmen described as armed gangs of criminals. they have to restore order. the argument in reply to that is they are defending their people and the government finds it hard to target them. shelling areas of the area. certainly we saw civilians bearing the brunt and damaged çover a wide area. >> crucial talks in greece over the new austerity program have ended with the issue of pension cuts. the prime minister's office

said discussions will continue so the deal would be completed. now to the indian ocean. the maldives being rocked by political turmoil. >> that's right. scuffles have broken out between police and supporters of the former president who was forced to step down earlier this week. it was the first democratically elected president. çthe bbc's and her north is in the maldives capital and filed this report. >> of the star of this week he was the president. he was looking pleased with himself as the rest -- arrived for his first news conference insisting he had not got it in a coup. >> do i look like someone who would bring about a could bataan? i think this is unfair -- an

unfair statement. >> the man who used to be his boss. supporters of the former president are treating him as a hero. the city had been forced from office at gunpoint. -- a they say he had been forced from office at gunpoint. >> it was a coup and the government is illegal. >> from the streets, frustration turned to anger. ç>> there supporters of the president. others [inaudible] suddenly the tension has risen and it is the beginnings of trouble. >> the clashes spread and the former president was arrested and injured. he said they were deliberately targeting him and other senior figures. soldiers and police in riot gear

sealed off much of the city center. in the main hospital, we found one of the former president's closest aides barely conscious. >> they said there would kill you. >> yes. >> the new government said it is the old one responsible for the violence accusing it of mounting an insurgency. for years since it came to this island paradise, the future of democracy in the maldives is suddenly looking shaky. >> you're watching "newsday". after two çdecades, scientists dig through a leak buried in the antarctic. a mystery in moscow. who is the street artist making his message known across the russian capital?

time now for an international newspaper review. we will begin with "the *." speculations that harry redknapp will become the manager. the west is leaving likable in a china shop over syria according to theç russians. international efforts are gathering pace. britain's prince harry will return to the front line in afghanistan as the co-pilot of an apache attack helicopter and will serve with the unit that has the highest kill rate of anyone serving. a visit to beijing by stephen harper in which both countries

signed off on a series of trade, energy, and investment agreements. this is "newsday". fabio capello quit after a row over his choice as capt. ñrmounting the heaviest bombardment so far. inflation has edged up in japan -- china. prices rose 4.5% compared to the same month last year and is higher than the rate in december which was 4.1%. the jump is mainly the result of chinese new year because traders tend to push prices higher in the weeks before the festivities. for more on this let's go live to beijing.

the 4 and 1/2% jump in prices in january was the first of set -- acceleration of inflation since july 2011. >> it is. the chinese government has been working hard over the last year or so to get inflation down. they have reached a high in the middle of last year and the chinese government introduce all kinds of measures to bring that down and to curb some -- the housing prices. the chinese government by governments across the world do not like inflation because their people do not like it. it reduces the amount of money they earned and their purchasing power. the have seen the chinese government has got a grip on inflation. these figures for january regardless of the fact it might have been caused because of the chinese beer, a reminder that have not quite tame that beast

just that. >> seems that the chinese may have a grip on prices but analysts are seeing -- saying that prices could rise againç with fuel prices being raised. >> feel -- fuel prices, commodity prices, those of the things that are a worry for the chinese government. it means they will act cautiously. there is a second trend running through the economy. that is there's lessç demand fr the outside world. europe is going to its own financial problems, the american economy is looking to edge out of a difficult time. that is reducing demand for chinese goods. that edges the economyç down ad would lead the government to put more money.

that could have an and -- in effect in inflation. there will stay in a holding pattern and see what happens before taking any decisive major çaction. >> thank you for that update. russian scientists have been drilling for decades. >> i know a man who can. there have been drilling down to a leak buried 4, bears under the league. it is believed to contain living organisms that have been hidden for 20 years -- 20 million years. >> on the surface it is the coldest place on earth. beneath that are to cut their more than 300 sub-glacial lakes. most have not frozen thanks to heat from the center of the years. but to delay, the russians have had to pierce through 3,000 meters a vice. the scientists said they have

made a breakthrough. reaching a lake six times the size of luxembourg. we do not know what the climate was all that time ago. what sort of bacteria existed then. how the genesis of what was happening. the answers could be there. ç>> theç scientists say they cannot take samples immediately because there is a risk they will be contaminated by the chemicals they use to drill. that is precisely the reason why environmentalists are skeptical. >> for seven weeks which can damage this and some of them connected with a polluted lake, as well as other stuff can get into this unique lake. >> the russians say they have the first to reach any of the sub-glacial lakes beating off competition from scientist trying to access another body of water.

it could take months for the russians to get their samples back to the laboratory. this is the only way to transport them to russia. çis by boat. >>ñr a mysterious 20-year-old street artist is held at by some as the russian [inaudible] there are more complicated works. he does protect his true identity very carefully and calls himself possible -- pavel 183. >> it was a visit to an art gallery like no other. the hike past abandoned trains and across rarely used railway tracks. what we found there among the spray-painted graffiti tags was work of a much higher quality. the artist is a kind of russian

[unintelligible] he chooses to remain anonymous, calling himself pavel 183. he calls this street art. >> what weç see everywhere aren the world now is in fact all this. street art is more interesting because it opens up more techniques than just picking on the wall. ♪ photographs his installations because many are transient, quickly disappearing into the urban environment. he often works with refines, filming himself as he goes. in this case using abandoned

concrete slabs to create a giant versions of one of russia's favorite chocolate bars. his art is very simple, very accessible. this is very beautiful. it has its own unique atmosphere. at this time of political discontent, his work reflects the mood of defiance. he is anti-putin but his work is about deeper problems in society. çabc news, moscow. >> you have been watching "newsday". fabio capello has resigned as of the -- as the football manager. rico is back with asia is this

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