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we offer expertise and tailored solutions for small businesses and major corporations. what can we do for you? >> and now, "bbc world news." >> hello. you're watching gmt on "bbc world news." i'm george al guya. our top stories, the ugly face of a beautiful game. an investigation reveals match-fixing on a scale not seen before. the result of so many of games in europe's top tournament are now in question. millions made bay crime syndicate in asia. >> a total of 45 club officials and players from more than 15 countries. >> bone of contention. british archaeologists say they

have found the remains of richard iii. we speak to the experts who say it's time to re-assess his reputation. >> man in the middle. richard cameron hosts talks between two countries. aaron is here with a look at the business news and jet another headache for spain's prime minister. >> george the pain in spain continues. more than 26 op unemployed and 5 million people who are very angry that the bloke right here. the country's prime minister who is now entangled in a corruption scandal. but will all this rattle the market confidence? it's 12:00 noon here in london.

7:00 a.m. in washington and 1:00 p.m. in the hague where officials say they have unearthed football match-fixing on a scale not seen before. the european police organization stays scam involves millions in bribeds and a crime syndicate based in asia. it results in some high-profile matches including the champions league. >> among the 380 or so suspicious matches identified in this case, they are qualification matches for the european league football championships, two u.a. champions league matches including one played in england and several top-flight matches in the european national league. in addition another 300 suspicious matches were identified outside europe in

africa, asia and south and central america. so this is match-fixing activity on a scale not seen before involving hundreds of criminals and corrupted officials and players affecting hundreds of matches and generating very large amounts of elicit profits. it is also the work of a sophisticated international crime syndicate. based in asia and working with criminal facilitators around europe. >> well, that gives you some idea of the scale we're talking about. we are joined from the bbc sports center. staggering revelations as we're hearing. what prompted this investigation, by the way? >> the sheer scale of what we heard this morning will shock football fans. fuve following this story, it

perhaps won't come as a surprise, because we know you have heard bits of this before. it started in germany when referee robert highwaysya was found to be rigging games. that investigation actually went to the courts and involved european gangsters and has been working its way through 2011. we've also had big scandals in greece, turkey, leagues on the fringes of europe but this morning's news is of a whole new scale and level. as you say there's 380 professional games in europe and 300 games elsewhere around the world going from world cup qualifiers, international friendlies, champions league games and lots and lots of games in european leagues particularly in switzerland and turkey. >> and pardon the pun but the ball must be in the yard of

those leagues? yes? well to be fair, they have been talking about this. the fifa president last week gave an interview to fifa.com who said this is a huge problem for football and they are taking it very seriously. saying the integrity is big, bigger than doping. so i know it's been on the radar of authorities but the two champions league games, particularly as one is played in england. we don't know the details yet because of the legal ramifications the investigation is ongoing but it brings it on a whole new seriousness level. >> u got a crime syndicate in asia. i mean this is cross continental. >> yes. the singapore angle alone is probably where the money

laundering has been going on and it's really hard to crack but we know the asian as i understand it cats have been looking to arrange games for a long time and you've got all the fixes, the guys on the ground in europe. it's been very, very hard to crack. we're talking about gangsters, people who will intimidate and serious profits. >> and think about it from the point of view of fans who pay good money and turning up for a thrilling football game and now there's not to be doubts. am i seeing a real game? >> yes. i could go on listing examples of these integrity problems the sports faces. it's the fan. no longer will he or she keep coming or buying the shirts and

tv subscriptions? it's an enormous problem. you have to believe what you see. >> thank you. >> let's catch up with other news now. a suicide bomber has killed four people in an attack on those who now support the government. they were collecting their salaries inside a building north of baghdad. at least 21 people were also injured in the attack. the assistant director of the ballet has been released from the hospital after an acid attack. he suffered serious damage to his eyesight and will fly germany for treatment and says he knows who is behind the attack but is waiting before they make an announcement. >> and a call for government to free their leaders.

several leaders of the islammy are being held on suspicion of committing war crimes during the war of independence in 1971. a bit of a change often pace now here in the u.k., ark ologists have been rewriting the final act of king richard iii. the remain of richard's last king to be killed in battle have been discovered at the site of a church. he reigned for only two years but one of england's famed villains. nicknamed and it's a remarkable ark logical discovery and could shed new light. >> richard iii was betrayed by

shakespeare as a hunch back tyrant who murdered his nephews to secure his right to rule. the remains of the church where he was buried were thought to be below the car park. a skeleton was discovered and the body had a curved spine and the body had war injuries. now ordinary careologists came to a remarkable conclusion. >> ladies and gentlemen, it is the academic conclusion of the university of lester that beyond doubt individual suffered in 2012 is indeed the last to -- in england. >> it was one of the most

remarkable ordinary care logical studies ine experts des work they did that led them to their conclusion and even revealed his death of two bose to the head. >> both of these injuries would have caused almost instant loss of consciousness and in the case of the larger wounds, the blade into the brain, the death would have been instan containsly. but both arms were the same. the king was compared to a decent of richard's sister and told bbc of his surprise discovering his lineage. many historians regard king

richard iii as a much maligned monarch and now at least his body can be give an royal burial. "bbc world news." >> let's catch up with the business news now. you have that figure 26% unemployment in spain with even my math i know that's more than one in four. >> it's a staggering number, george, and every time we get the spanish jobless numbers it just keeps edging higher. throw now into that mix the spanish prime minister caught up into this scandal and it's really shaking up the area remember he is traveling talking to prime ministers saying he is the man who can get things on track. needless to say the spanish leader right here is under some intense pressure because with unemployment at a staggering

26%, the embattled prime minister is at the center of these corruption allegations and the austerity-hit spanish have had enough. protesters are demanding he quit. police railroad angry at the claims that he and his party have been receiving secret payments from a big fund set up by big business. of course this is the latest scandal and they could destabilize markets that have recovered significantly in recent months and when we talk of the unemployment problems it's the 18-24-year-olds that have been hit the hardest. in fact more than 50%, 50% of young people are without a job. let's just have a listen to a couple of young spanish job seekers who pretty much highlight the misery and they say it's hopeless. >> this is bad. because in other countries youth unemployment is really low. it's the young people who have

to bring the country back up. >> older people also have the right to work but who is going to get us out of this situation? in the end it's going to be the young people and nowadays there are no opportunities anywhere. so this is going to end in blood. >> let's move on. >> asking you how good your mandarin is? but if you want to compete in the local economy you may want to brush up in one of the biggest economies. the u.k.'s next generation may not be able to compete on the global stage because there's not enough schools teaching mandarin chinese. the british council found only 3% of primary and 9% of secondary schools say their schools offer mandarin and china becoming the world's second biggest economy in 2011.

so why should we learn this language? some say you are guaranteed a job if you learn it. >> it's what the chinese call chinese rice bowl. if you learn mandarin, you're made for life. i can think of two or three lads i've interviewed in schools in london were literally the age of 17 fighting off u.k. customers. three or four or five fighting off job offers. 150,000 with french and 200 ,000-plus with mandarin. >> you probably can't see these from where you're sitting. tiny things. canadian pennies. say goodbye. tell you about this story. they are getting rid of them. there are 6 billion in circulation but today is the day they are gone. >> thank you. >> well, say with us here on

"bbc world news." still to come -- justin well by is confirmed as the new head of church in england and gay marriage will be the fist of his controversial issues he will have to deal with. it's one of the most watched sporting events in the world and this year super bowl wasn't a disappointment. the baltimore ravens won with a 34-31 victory over the san francisco 49ers but not before a power outage interrupted the game for over half an hour. >> what an absolute nail biter, a fantastic super bowl -- super bowl xli. the ravens led then the san francisco got it back down to just a two-point difference but the ravens held on and in between all of that, we had a power outage for more than 13 minutes. the lights went out.

it was dark inside the superdome and we wondered whether the game would restart and the ravens fans you can hear them. they are having so much fun enjoying this victory over the favorites, the 49ers. you can see them down there by the big screen jumping up and down. dancing. a merry tune. and they were nervous. they were nervous, weren't they? the ravens fans? >> yes. oh, they were. absolutely. because they know kaepernick could actually do it. but ray lewis and the defense came through and they won. so the championship, congratulations to them. >> and kaepernick actually did score a touchdown for the 49ers in the second half. and the tide was going with the 49ers. this super bowl will be remembered for ray lewis. 17 years an nfl player. this was his final game. he said he wanted to go out as a champion.

not many sporting superstars have done it. pete sampras did it. "morning call" couldn't do it. ray lewis has done it. ray lewis has his second ring and the baltimore ravens go out as champions. >> i'm george al guya. the top stories this hour. a worldwide investigation into football match-fixing has found evidence hundreds of games including world cup qualifiers were rigged. scientists say a skeleton found under a car park in centralal england is almost certainly that of the 15th century king, richard iii. the british prime minister david cameron is hosting key talks on the afghan peace process involving the leaders of pakistan and afghanistan at his country retreat north of london. the talks are focusing on cross

border security and how to engage the table ineffective peace talks. the bbc's david looks at what all the leaders hope to gain from the summit. >> all three of these leaders have a stake in improving stability between afghanistan and pakistan. president karzai has long believed pakistan has been blocking their attempts at peace. afghanistan wants more including the former table leader. and david cameron wants stability as the british troops come home although president karzai announced a sour note saying they were leaving because perhaps they realized they had been fighting in the wrong place and that the province was more peaceful before the invasion and

pakistan increasingly believe the table are a threat to their stability until recently they saw the table as clients who would serve their interests. fighting in the border region has cost thousands of pakistani lives and the girl shot while going to school brought many together. britain's goal is convincing the two there's nothing fear between better relations. >> we've been try for 10 years to contain this threat and we've seen recently in africa is it's not containible and the alternative is a policy of engagement. we are now beginning to move towards engaging this threat. that's what these talks are about. >> alongside the military task of putting pressure on the table is now a desire to a political solution as well which means engaging the table

in constructive talks whether in the office in dahar which is waiting for them minor any other foreign. >> let's get reaction from afghanistan. our correspondent there, by electrical has warry. i'm not sure if you're aware but president karzai has given an interview in which he stays real problem for afghanistan was the interference of foreign powers as he put it. but he didn't say who he was talking about. >> well, this is nothing new. president karzai has been saying that quite a lot both in public and in private saying that the country's problem lies outside of afghanistan. sometimes he has been very specific pointing his finger at pakistan and other times blaming other neighbors but president karzai has been repeating one point again and again that the few fight against terrorism is not in afghan villages and that

international forces and community should go where sanctuaries and safe havens are and he usually means by that, pakistan. >> that's the point i wanted to come to. if he is talking about pakistan, it tells you how difficult these talks at david cameron's retreat are going to be because you've essentially got karzai accusing the other of interference. >> well, those officials traveling with karzai were telling us that pakistan has been taking some very positive steps, for example, the release of a senior table commander and the leader and said that afghanistan wants pakistan to hand over the number two for table leadership who they believe is still in pakistan and that pakistan should

facilitate that contact with senior table leaders who are, according to afghan officials residing inside pakistan. but nonetheless they were praising some of the recent steps that pakistan had taken. >> i guess we should say release those table figures precisely because then you're able to talk to them. but now, some of that, some of those things president karzai wants, it's really up to the pakistani intelligence service to deliver. i mean, is it clear that president za dari can deliver that? >> well, president karzai's ambassador and special envoy has been talking to all those in power in pakistan including the army and intelligence in the last few years and if you see the recent trip of the afghan defense minister to pakistan, the five-day trip,

and that is a step towards that relationship that the afghans are saying is changing and they are saying that more contact between afghan military and intelligence officials in pakistani intelligence officials would be providing more results in the future. >> all right. thank you very much. thank you. now, 18 million members of the anglican believers around the world are getting a new leader. the head of the church of england in a relatively low-key service at st. paul, he was a surprised choice to follow the man who left the post earlier in the year. >> appointed barely 18 months ago as bishop of caren becomes archbishop and the spiritual leader of some 18 million

around the world and some say the prospects are scary. he will be enthroned at kanter bauery cathedral as the other was years ago. in soaring music and colorful ritual. that's in stark contrast with today's largely dry legal ceremony senior bishops will sit using elaborate language and flowery titles to confirm him. the ceremony little changed for centuries was originally intended to prevent fraudulent claims to lucrative posts. >> in the middle ages you did not have photographs and could easily forge documents. so if somebody turned up and said i'm your new bishop and you need to give me the job, how would you know he was the right person? so the people had to say yes,

he really is the person we elected. >> give thanks to the lord, for he is gracious. >> today's legal ceremony will become part of a larger church service. to reflect the essentially religious nature of his new post. robert, "bbc world news." >> now, we like to keep your spirits up on gmt. and here's pictures i think will do it. preparations will start for one of the biggest parties on earth. dancers have begun arriving in rio de janeiro, this group that come from france, spain, italy america and britain will be representing a sam bayh school who want to show anyone no matter where they are from can learn the dance. come carnival time they will be performing in front of millions of people at rio's sum bayh drone. >> a reminder of our top story here on gmt.

wide-ranging football match-fixing has uncovered more than 380 suspicious matches both in europe and other parts of the world. that was our top story. do stay with us here on "bbc world news." there's plenty more to come. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding for this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers work hard to understand the industry you operate in, working to nurture

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