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>> and now, "bbc world news." >> the fallout from egypt's football violence spread. protesters vent their fury on the forces. and there's criticism of the military government intensifying. welcome to gmt. takeseurope's big freeze a heavy toll. 100 people die in ukraine as temperatures plunged. bad news about malaria. it is even more lethal than scientists thought for adults as well as children. it's midday in london, 7:00 a.m.

in washington. to look like an afternoon in cairo, where you can see from live pictures, protesters have gathered again in tahrir square. they have declared friday to be a day of anger in response to the shocking violence at a football stadium in port said in a football stadium on wednesday which it's all over 70 people dead. criticism of the military rulers denounced and three protesters have been killed in clashes with police since the event. now the latest from cairo. >> more open hostility in tahrir square. demonstrators confront the police outside the interior ministry. now all that was separating them has been partly dismantled. overnight, protesters went to work removing the heavy concrete blocks. they stayed on the streets after a day of clashes with security forces.

>> the military must step down. we have had enough of people getting killed every day. >> i blamed the police or what happened. usually we get searched before entering the stadium, but not this time. >> other parts of egypt also saw angry crowds. in the city of suez at least two people were shot and killed by police. this was the reason for the outrage. the worst football violence ever seen in the country took place in the northern city of port said on wednesday. local fans of a club invaded the pits after winning against the top cairo side. police stood by. some accuse them of deliberate negligence. others say this was another bloody reminder at the lack of law-and-order. after a year in power they are holding the military

responsible. calls once again for a faster transfer to a civilian government. with friday's protests always a flashpoint, the pressure is mounting. bbc news reported from cairo. >> let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. snow and ice have blanketed much of europe in recent days. the big freeze on the continent is costing lives. it has caused more than 100 deaths in ukraine and dozens more in poland. snow have left more remote areas in eastern europe completely cut off. now a report on the struggle to survive the bitter blast of winter. >> for these men, this is the only way to try to keep warm when their vehicle broken-down near kiev. evidence everywhere in ukraine, continuing severity of the big freeze across central and eastern europe. in the capital, temperatures

plunging to as low as minus 25 celsius have not deterred fishermen from going on the frozen river with the hopes of a catch beneath the ice. schools have been closed and shops have begun to report food shortages. hundreds of tents have been provided temporarily for homeless people. the emergency ministry in ukraine recorded 38 more deaths bringing the total to the week to more than 100. more than 1200 other people being treated in hospitals for hypothermia and frostbite. hospitals have been urged not to discharge the homeless even after treatment is finished. temperatures have continued plunging even more sharply in the rural areas. this unemployed older try to keep his home warm with his words of. >> it was 0 degrees celsius in here this morning. -35 outside. >> in this remote area of

northeastern hungary, another strategy for surviving the severe cold. breaking through the frozen earth to search for the spoils of an old coal mine nearby, that was 20 years ago. >> we get by pretty miserably. a bucket of coal is not enough for long. if we did not have it, we would freeze to death or we would not eat at all. >> tough winters, unusual at the moment. bbc news reporting. >> ships and helicopters are continuing to search for more than 100 people still missing after a ferry sank off the northern coast of papua new guinea on thursday. 250 people rescued. fears the unaccounted may be trapped on board. it's not clear what caused the sinking. survivors said that it was hit by huge waves before it went down. a khmer rouge jailer who oversaw the deaths of 52,000 people in

cambodia has had his sentence increased to life. he said he was only following orders. the famine in somalia is now over. conditions have improved after their best harvest in 17 years and significant international aid. a third of the population still needs emergency support to survive. uk energy secretary chris huhne has resigned after he faces criminal prosecution for covering up a driving offense. he's a member of the liberal democrats, the junior partner in the london coalition government. his departure will mean a limited reshuffle. a personal, which now has a significant political ramifications. >> he was quick to make the

statement that everyone expected to appear. >> good morning. i have a short statement. the prosecution services decision today on. i am innocent of these charges. i intend to fight this in the courts. i'm confident that a jury will agree. as to avoid any distraction to my official duties or my trowel defense, i am standing down and resigning as energy and climate change secretary. >> is alleged cover-up had been a subject for investigation by ethics police for eight months. he and his former wife had an hour's notice of the decision that they will face prosecution. >> formally available evidence, increasingly new material has now been carefully considered. we have concluded that there is sufficient evidence to bring criminal charges against both

him and his wife for perverting. -- perverting justice. >> this was before he began parliament and began his rise to the capitol office. it happened when he was a member of the european parliament driving home in 2003. two years later he was elected to westminster where he soon became a liberal democrat treasury spokesman. in 2007 he narrowly lost a leadership election to nick clayton. -- nick clegg. in 2007 he said he was separated from his wife vicki. last year the newspapers said that he had asked someone close to take his points from the speeding offense after which the crown prosecution service asked police to investigate the allegations again. and shetion is whether

took his points to save him from driving ban and has he been covering this opt? this is what he said last year. >> all i wanta say is these i-- these allegations are not true. >> the legal talent and political immolation -- a legal challenge and political humiliation for this man. >> thousands across russia on saturday are expected to take to the streets to demand free and fair elections. the presidential vote is a month away. many are not happy with the lack of credible opponents to vladimir putin, a former president who expects to return to the kremlin. how widespread and how deep is the protest movement? james has sent this report from central russia. >> i have come to a basement

where secret plans are being drawn up from unauthorized protest march against what these people maintain was stolen parliamentary elections. russia, theyputin's say democracy does not go much farther than this room. this is how their last demonstration ended. pro-, authorities are taking some of the toughest measures in russia against the protest movement -- pro-kremlin authorities. one of the organizers has seen worse. he told me he had been tortured by two corrupt policeman and then driven in handcuffs off and dumps into this hole in a frozen river. he defeated his tormentors in the courts and is now taking on the system. >> if we leave things as they are, our country will once again turn into a giant prison, like it was in soviet times. >> but in a nearby town, a

polluted part of the chemical weapons program, political changes already in the air. despite the fact that soviet era factories have poisoned the city, it is the communist party which has just won the most votes in parliamentary elections here. this pension-era of former vladimir putin supporter told me why the russian prime minister had lost his vote. >> we wanted to show him and his party that they are not the only alternative, so they finally will listen to the people. >> is the kremlin listening? and how will it react? this weekend's marches are the next test. >> still ahead, the englund skipper john terry stripped of the captaincy while he awaits trial for alleged racist abuse.

time for look at some of the stories making front pages of newspapers around a world. let's start with the south china morning post. their reports on hopes for the future of cash strapped era with news that china may be offering a helping hand. after meeting with the german chancellor in beijing, the chinese primary said that his country was considering a deeper involvement in solving the european debt crisis. -- a chinese premier wen. merger talks between two mining giants would create an $88 billion commodities trading and mining powerhouse. a quick look at the independent spirit it revisits the issues of corporate bonuses. prime minister david cameron is under pressure for stopping huge payouts to be awarded in the rail and banking industries. and more good news for apple. a new survey claims the ipads is now more popular than they pc

-- than the pc. the headlines, egypt is braced for further unrest after friday prayers as protesters and fury over wednesday opposing deadly football riots. three people have been killed in the last 24 hours. more than 100 people have died in ukraine as the bitter cold snap tightens its grip across continental europe. time now for the business news. jamie has joined me. it's fair to say this is a glimmer of growth in the euro zone today. >> we'd jump upon any bit of good news coming from the euro zone thinking it could give us any kind of change. uniformly, most of the news coming from the euro zone is that. the service sector has gone from contracting to growth or very

small amount of growth, which makes something of a difference. however, in the euro zone there is a huge disparity. in germany it still seems to be growing fast. but in the periphery economies like italy and spain and portugal, greece, and ireland, a large difference between them and germany. figures coming out of the u.s. on jobs later today. expect to see 150,000 jobs being created over last month in the u.s. this is in stark contrast to the european figures. >> very positive to see this as been stabilization of the euro zone private-sector economy as a whole. we saw this in the manufacturing & service members. both of them are looking at stabilization, not signalling substantial growth. but they do mean there are hopes that maybe the euro zone could possibly avoid falling back into recession in the third quarter.

again, those figures showed marginal growth. contraction is easily, but demand is still very weak in the euro zone as a whole. pretty small growth. >> we know that lots of things need fixing in europe including the banking system. spain seems to be trying to get serious about that. >> yes. it has announced plans to get the banks to inject $50 billion worth of -- 50 billion euros worth of capital, i beg your pardon. they have 176 billion euros exposed to the property sector. 18% of the hold ttp. an extraordinary amount. they believe many of these exposures have not been written down and should be written down.

they believed there should be mergers going on. this is what one economist said. >> banks would rather not do it. i guess a of no other choice. credit needs to follow in spain especially to medium and small firms that are very credit- dependent. they will be trying to clean the balance sheets in the hopes that credit will be restored. >> as they bring down the value of properties in portfolios, it might bring down the value of property on the ground, which could create another spiral downward in spain. >> bubbles burst and. thank you very much. security council ambassadors at the united nations have again been not able to reach agreement on an arab league plan to end the crisis in syria. after another round of inconclusive talks they haverford a draft conclusion -- resolution directed to their home governments to try to move the process forward. our correspondent has more.

>> the russian envoy said it had been a roller-coaster of a day. the ambassadors from the security council met in an intense consultations for three hours or so and were not still able to agree on a resolution. the issuance date is an arab peace plan that calls for the president bashar al-assad to its powers to is deputy to oversee new elections. the syrian government has rejected that. for the security council to back the change would amount to an opposing regime change from the outside, says russia. western nations pushing the resolution did try to accommodate russian concerns and dropped the explicit transfer from the text, but that was not good enough. they drew up a new text in the end and sent it to their government to make the difficult decisions. the main sticking point is whether the security council should fully support the arab peace plan or simply note it. western and arab nations insist

on the former. russia much prefers the latter. the sponsors of the resolution have put it into a votes-ready format. that's apparently to pressure russia into agreeing to accepting it. but diplomats have said that negotiations cannot still continue -- can still continue, so the story is not over. >> thank you. worldwide malaria deaths may be much higher than previously thought. but according to research published in the british medical journal the lancet. scientists say that 1.2 million people died of malaria in 2010. that figure is double the estim. the research also shows that 42% of deaths from malaria are in children over five years old and in adults. that is much higher than previously thought. -- from the world health organization. internet is transforming our lives, but do we know enough about the dark. side of dark.

a world where criminals cannot be traced, where you can shop for illegal goods, and where customers go by code names. our reporters set out to shine a light on the internet shadows to discover just what you can buy online on. the. >> millions of shoppers have abandoned the streets in favor of online shopping. but just like in the real world, alongside the everyday goods available on the internet there's an online black market that has sprung up. getting on the dark web is straight forward. those that sell drugs are beyond normal searchers. you can get readily available software which makes the location of your computer virtually impossible to trace as lo -- as well as the web sites that they visit.

the first layer of secrecy is introduced. transactions are not linked to names, allowing people to buy and sell without being identified. using the downloaded software, we found web sites where class- a drugs, fake driver's licenses, and guns or on sale. we paid in bit-coins for dnc, an illegal hallucinogenic drug. when they were tested in a lab, there were found to be genuine drudges. the dark web uses software that bounces communications between a network around the world, which makes the location of your computer or website you have visited being traced almost impossible. >> we don't have enough courts, judges, or police to tackle the real skill of criminal behavior on the internet. what that means is increasingly we will have to look to

technical solutions, to the internet industry, to help civil society deal with this bill enormous problem that the web has created. >> there has been anti- government bloggers in china and protesters in the arab world. a fine line between individual freedom and protecting criminals who choose to exploit it. >> big sporting news in the last hour in london. the football association has stripped john terry of the captain syncope england football team. -- captaincy. the racial abuse two men in october during the premier league. this is deeply embarrassing and controversial. >> it is. the case opened against him this

week in london. the magistrate has put the case back to after the european championship, which will be held in poland and in the ukraine this summer. what that meant for the football association was john terry could be going into there. it was felt they were not comfortable with the position. they have confirmed that he will be removed from his position. >> this smacks of abandoning the basic principle of presumed innocence. >> has maintained his innocence and says he will fight this stewpans nail to the very end. he has not said anything directly in response to losing the captaincy. they have said they don't think any presumption of innocence or guilt is what this is, only that it's not a corporate p--

that is not appropriate for him to go forward as captain. >> is it some of the key players, who were black, were not happy with him going on as captain? >> nothing on record. there were forced to abandon the pre-matched handshakes regarding antoine ferdinand. they would not shake hands with john terry on that occasion. there's a degree of discomfort among the players. so now they're asking to remove that situation. >> england's next game, there will be so much scrutiny. is it possible john terry may not want to be picked? >> we will wait to see what he says. he is available to fabio that matter.

it remains to be seen how john terry feels about pulling on for england. >> thanks for joining us. cuba's oldest woman has made it to a landmark birthday. she is 127 years old, leading some to believe she is the oldest person in the world. she is never made it into the guinness book of world records because her birth date is recorded but somehow they don't dissatisfied about it. how does she feel about reaching this grand old age? sarah has been finding out. >> some people don't like birthdays after a certain age, but we think 127 is a pretty good excuse for party. rodriquez is such a local legend that even the school children turn out to celebrate. the great great grandmother is a living history book, born when this island was a spanish colony, long before fidel castro and the revolution. she says all seven younger

brothers have passed away, but she's still here, strong as. as outside the island, her age has never been confirmed, but cuba says scientific tests have proven the dates on your documents. her only son is 82. >> i never thought i would reach this age. >> she puts her long life down to a fresh country air and a balanced diet. perhaps it is catching. the number of cuban centenarians grows every year. to the oldest of them all, the ambition is to keep enjoying her life until she is 130, at least. bbc news, cuba. >> amazing. a reminder of our top stories. protesters are gathering in the egyptian capital cairo to express anger evidence of a 74 paul farance during wednesday during a football match. -- 74 people died.

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