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woman has been found at the home of the man who carried out a gun attack on a christmas market. a gunman linked to a far right group has gone on a shooting spree in florence, killing two. after months of demonstrations in a chinese village by land rights protesters, the authorities moved to seal off all points of access. welcome to "bbc world news." i'm david eades. also coming up in this program -- angela merkel on why the eurozone rescue deal is a good thing as she prepares to address. and norwegian celebrates 100 years since the first man reached the south pole. >> hello. police in the belgian city of

liege now say three people were killed in the christmas market on tuesday. more than 120 were taken to hospital. the gunman, nordine amrani, then shot himself. at a news conference just an hour or so ago, the public prosecutor, daniellee reynders, said he served three years in prison for possession of weapons. she added another woman, a cleaner, had been found shot dead in a shed owned by amrani. she said two heavy weapons with significant amounts of ammunition were also found in the shed. >> in 2008, we discovered a cannabis plantation in this shed. the investigators have discovered a body of a woman in that shed. in that shed, i found two arms, it two heavy weapons, and an

important stockpile of ammunition. >> that's the latest on the details. let's speak to a freelance journalist who was on the scene soon after the attacker threw his grenades into a bus shelter. thanks for joining us again. i just wonder what the mood really is like in liege today. >> i'm sorry. say again. >> i just wonder what the mood is like in liege today. >> well, you know, you can still see the fear along the roads. people can't expect this attack, so we are still panicking here. >> it does seem, just listening to the public prosecutor, as if there are a lot of questions to be asked of the police. >> well, we don't really know why this guy did that. we know that he has a view with

the police. we should have had an interview with police yesterday, but we don't really know why we did that. and also, we know that it was really a few months ago, he had a lot of sleep and he had some cannabis at home, so that's the question we don't have now. >> i'm going to leave it there. the line's not great, i have to say. thanks very much. just as we have pictures here from one of the scenes of vigil in liege of schoolchildren paying their respects, reflecting on what has been an extraordinary act of violence, so many people wounded, and those three people also killed least. should add there's a 75-year-old woman who was very badly hurt indeed. there were reports she had

died. in fact, she hasn't died, but she is in the hospital, very serious, as are another four others of the victims of this attack. well, it's not just been liege which is a european city in shock. the italian city of florence is going through something similar after a gunman shot dead two street vendors. the man is described as having links to a far-right group. he wounded three other people as well before then taking his own life. anna johnston sent us this report. >> murder in the streets of florence. the killer struck first in this piazza. he left two men dead and another badly wounded. this was a racist on a rampage, a white man targeting africans, immigrants from senegal. they were street vendors trying to scrape a living selling their wares to tourists. >> i heard some shots. i heard a shot. i turned around, and i saw

three guys over there. >> and soon afterwards, the gunman opened fire in another nearby market area. he wounded two more senegalese men, then shot himself as the police closed in. they named him as a 50-year-old man, described as a right-wing extremist. and in the new spread, dozens of the city's immigrants gathered, outraged at the bloodshed. >> we asked for some attention and justice. these things should not happen. we are here in order to integrate and want to be rejected. we cannot understand any longer what's happening. >> and many people in this beautiful renaissance city were shocked and ashamed by what had just happened in their midst. >> only thing we can do is to

show our sorrow, trying to show it with italians and other communities in order to say stop it. >> the city's mayor has declared florence to be in mourning. allan johnston, bbc news, rome. >> germany's chancellor, angela merkel, is to speak in a couple hours of time. she'll outline the virtues of the eurozone treaty, signed last week. our correspondent, steve evans, says if there are any questions, it's how the treaty can be applied. >> people are starting to look at how you get that deal, which would impose real discipline on all those countries involved. and in addition to that, there are questions in germany of what that would mean for the german parliament's ability to make its own laws, just as the assumption is the rule of the center from that treaty would largely go towards greece or

portugal. there are now questions about whether that would be constitutionally doable within germany. so you're absolutely right. there are questions about the deal itself, let alone the british absence from it. but the deal itself about whether the thing can work and can be done in time. >> steve evans. angela merkel will be very pleased. news has just come in of the general secretary of the f.d.p., the coalition party with angela merkel's christian democrats, has resigned, somewhat unexpectedly, and that is seen as being linked to the eurozone rescue move, some question of a referendum. so more actions clearly there in germany. >> we've had enough reaction from them in the past on prices going up, down, supply, up, down. >> actually, today could be a

good day, because they're meeting as you and i speak. we're talking about the organization of the petroleum exporting countries. they're apparently going to set their target, their production limits really for the first time in three years, which is very important. they're also going to settle an argument over output levels, and apparently it's going to go in saudi arabia's favor. we got to remember that saudi arabia is the central banker basically of the oil market, and it's been pushing for keeping its levels sort of higher, its production levels higher. the big key thing for opec at the moment is it doesn't want to rattle or rock the boat in terms of the slowdown in global economy. it doesn't want to have high oil prices, because that will just hit these economies they're very worried about, the u.s. fed yesterday acknowledging the eurozone worries could certainly dent the u.s. economy, and so they'll be very much focused on the european slowdown and the eurozone crisis and try to keep levels high to keep those prices, at the moment they're hovering around $1 hundred to $109 a barrel.

we'll have more on that on the "world business report" coming up in about 20 minutes. >> ok, good. it's not as if there aren't really cracking stories around. >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, i know we've been focused on the eurozone and global economies, but the saga is olympus. by the skin of their teeth, they had external orders look over their accounts. they submitted their october with only a couple of hours to go before the deadline. there was a deadline set for olympus because they could have lost their place on the tokyo stock exchange, being delisted, which would have been crippling for the company. so they've looked at their books, these ex-trds orders, as they have a hole of $655 million, but this is off the back of the scandal, the biggest in japan's corporate history, $1.7 billion over 13 years. michael woodford, he's out, he's the c.e.o. that was ousted, the british c.e.o. that was ousted. he's talking to private institutional investors tomorrow to try to get his job back. that will be very important.

but i'll have more. i've been told to get off. we'll have more in 20 minutes' time. i'm going. sorry. >> you're always told to get off. stop talking. >> thanks, david. >> more of you in a moment. thanks a lot. now, i should say at least six people have died in a fire at a retirement home in the southern city of marseilles. the victims are all believed to be women. firefighters got the residents out of the building as quickly as they could. three are seriously listed in the hospital. another 10 are suffering from smoke inhalation. the fire is reported to have started in one room and swept through the third floor of the complex. a major standoff appears to be developing between villagers and the authorities in southern china. roads have been sealed off to the village of wukan in the province of guangdong, where local people have held a series of rallies in protest over land rights. the latest unrest was sparked by the reported death of one villager in police custody two days ago. our correspondent, michael bristow, is in beijing.

perhaps you can fill us in a bit, michael, on how this has all come to such a head. >> there's a longstanding village there, and it's a simple argument. the villagers say that over many years the authorities have taken bit by bit, land from around the village and used it, sold it off to developers, used it for redevelopment, earned money, and not given the villagers their proper compensation they deserve. that's the heart of this dispute. in september, just a few months ago, the villagers there staged a protest and went on the rampage, destroying some government offices. and this latest wave of protest have been going on over the last few days of the mass rally , perhaps thousands of people in this village in guangdong province. that seems to have been sparked

by the death of a village representative. he was arrested last week, taken into custody. three days later, he was dead. authorities say he died of a heart attack, but obviously villagers are very suspicious about the circumstances surrounding his death. so it's going to be very difficult for this situation to end peacefully. >> mike bristow, thank you very much. going to move on now. mike's here for the sport. it's all about luke donald. everything's been about luke donald, really, it feels in the last few weeks. >> the first player ever to do it on both tours, in america and in europe. >> that is amazing. >> topping the money list. it's incredible as he crisscrossed the atlantic. now he's off to the australian open. but at what cost? some, pundits saying, well, is this the reason you haven't won a major? because he's been playing so much golf on both tours, is

that why he hasn't won a major as yet? he dismisses that, saying he's certainly not going to tone down what he does and reduce his schedule. he's going to keep going on both tours. >> it's not as if he burns out and comes back. >> absolutely. he says he's not feeling tired or dragged down by playing too. he loves t. i think he feels he just has to be patient for a major win, and it will come eventually. >> do you wonder, you've got rory mcilroy, who came pretty close, won a major, utterly shattered at the end of the season. we've got luke donald, fresh as a daisy, where would you sooner be though? >> well, world number one stpwh it's hard to say. to win both money lists, that's pretty special. >> yeah. >> well, he's 34. he's got time. >> all right. mike, thanks very much. good to see you. to canada now, and this is a young -- well, these pictures are great. it's about a bear who took the

ride of his life, really, trading country life for the city. i'm going to show you why, because basically the bear hitched a lift on a rubbish truck and then found himself in central vancouver behind one of the most famous theaters in the city, in fact. he's sliding down there because he was eventually tranquilized and the police managed to get in there, lever him off, and they took him out again. no harm done, which is good news. you're watching "bbc world news" with me, david eades. plenty more still to get through, including another round of voting in parliamentary elections getting underway in egypt. can they consolidate their game? sexual harassment is a big issue across india, and it's back in the spotlight following the murder in mumbai of two young men who went to the defense of female friends who are being harassed by a group of men. >> some said -- sunset in

mumbai, and thousands are gathering on the beach to have a good time. but now there are growing concerns for the safety of women. indeed there is. this woman blends into the crowd, watching for suspicious behavior. she's an undercover police officer, part of a new patrol. her task -- to stop the harassment of women and arrest the men that do it. >> this continues, in plainsclothes, uniform. when we feel a woman being treated badly, we try and catch the offender, but usually they stop this approaching. >> but the most common form of harassment of women, often sexual in nature, and it takes place in public at beaches, even at train stations like

where i'm standing. women say they're vulnerable everywhere. >> i think it's happened to all the girls in some way or the other and they should be seriously punished. >> it's very bad, because when you're in a train and some guy is getting, it feels bad, because there's no one there. >> in october, ruben fernandez and keenan were killed when they went to the aid of their female friends who were being harassed in the street. keenan's father says the incident highlights the lack of safety for women in cities like mumbai. >> what about the future? what about the future or any girl, woman on their own? why can't somebody go and have their means, come out

peacefully? >> hundreds of people take part in a vigil to remember keenan and ruben and support a new zero tolerance campaign. the harassment of women is an age-old issue in india, one that many people know about and have even experienced. but now there's a growing push to make the streets safer for women. >> groups representing victims of the gas disaster have submitted a petition to the indian olympic association. it's over dow chemical's sponsorship of the london olympics. survivors hold they're responsible for the gas leak at a plant in 1984, which killed thousands of people. >> hello. i'm david eades with the headlines here at "bbc world news." police in the belgian city of liege say a woman has been found at the home of a man who

carried out a deadly gun and grenade attack. a gunman linked to a far-right group has gone on a shooting spree in the italian city of florence, killing two senegalese street salesmen. polling stations have opened in egypt again today for the latest round of elections, the second in a series of parliamentary polls, the first since the fall of hosni mubarak. it's already clear islamist parties are likely to be the largest single force in the new parliament. it means a new contest is opening up between the muslim brotherhood and the more hard-line group who have strict views of segregating men and women. jon leyne has this from cairo. >> as egypt begins to taste democracy, it's the is lamist parties who are on the move. they've stepped up campaigning after their success in the first round of elections. and now voting has moved to the

nile delta, fertile territory for their blend of religion and politics. >> this area is a classic islamist stronghold. they're expecting a clean sweep. the real battle is between two competing versions of islamism, the old-fashion the muslim brotherhood or the new kids on the block, the hard-line. >> in their increasingly slick campaigns, they stress their devotion to the fundamental tenets of islam. but they also want to show they're the best party to deliver healthcare and other essential services. egypt's liberals might be horrified, but out here in the villagers, we found the message is selling well. the candidate tells of his appeal is less about the implementation of sharia law, more about the contrast with years of corruption and cronyism.

>> we are honest. we are not hypocrites. we are not liars. we just tell people what we believe. >> and for these women, ideology seems to be the least of their concerns. we will vote, said one, but you must deliver more services to this area. what we really need is a store house for cooking gas canisters. at their rallies, the muslim brotherhood are putting themselves forward as the moderate, pragmatic choice. >> the personal freedom of everybody is a call of our program. we are intention is to try to spread the values in the society by imposition. >> so the movement feared and commonized for years by egyptian liberals could soon be working with them to keep even more uncompromising islamists

from power. jon leyne, bbc news, cairo. >> iraq's prime minister, nouri al-maliki, is asking for american dollars instead of u.s. troops as forces prepare to pull out of the country. he called on american countries to invest in iraq. with a message the u.s. chamber of commerce in washington, the business is now at the forefront of iraq's future. >> we have lots of american corporations in iraq. however, we welcome more. these corporations have broken the blockade against iraq, and they have contributed greatly to iraqi development. however, we aspire to have more american corporations in order to fulfill the needs of the iraqi economy. >> nouri al-maliki there. we're just getting details from buckingham palace with regard to the queen's diamond jubilee next year. we're being told that there will be events to mark obviously 60 years of the queen's reign. the point is the members of the royal family will visit the 15

countries where the queen is head of state. obviously this young couple will be right up in the most attractive part of the royal family's commitments, i guess, the prince of wales and the duchess will go to australia, new zealand, and on their second tour, these two will be off to singapore, solomon islands. the queen and the duke of edinburgh, after all, it's her diamond jubilee, they intend to travel as widely as possible across england, scotland, wales, and northern ireland. i'm sure all familiar with the idea of the brain drain, the loss of talent from one country to another, where the opportunities for work are better. well, how about this? they're now talking about the brain gain for developing countries, as they see skilled professionals coming back to their home countries. in the latest in our special series on the young and

jobless, here's a young libyan american who tell us why she swapped the u.s. for a post-gaddafi libya. >> i was born and raised in america, and i'm 26 years old. i just came back to libya to try to live here. the economy's really bad in the u.s. it's really hard to find jobs in america, generally all over the states. being someone who speaks english is an advantage in itself here, because we're trying to bring people more globally connected, so that is an advantage in itself, and it's -- you feel like you can actually contribute here in a way that will make a huge difference. i think being libyan-american and having two nationalities as an advantage and disadvantage. definitely a huge advantage with traveling with my american passport and visa, but it's a disadvantage because i'm still seen as other in both places

kind of. so, like here in libya, i'm not seen as -- i'm not seen the same as libyans who were born and raised here, like my cousins, because i did not go through the same experiences they went through. everybody's had their eye on the deal for the past nine months, so there's a fact of investment of more companies, you know, as soon as it's stable, more companies wanting to invest in libya. there's they're such a rich country, and libians themselves are open to investment. everybody has high hopes for jobs here, and for starting up their n.g.o.'s and for for having that economic and creative freedom for the first time. for me personally, it's a fact of being able to start my own company and start my own business here. i'm in talks with a friend about starting our own fashion magazine here. and there's a project i want to do to involve libyan women. i think the whole idea of the american dream is instilled in me, but over the past two, three, four, five years,

american dream sort of become impossible in america, so it's like i'm exporting that here in libya. >> there we are. so times do change, don't they? now, talking about time. let's go back 100 years for you, as norwegianing are celebrating that moment when their explorer became the first person to reach the south pole. he didn't do it this way. this is the easy way, of course, by plane. a group did actually try to copa monday send in time for the anniversary. they fell behind, ended up having to get the plane to get there. the norwegian prime minister is ming those at the camping area on the world's southernmost resort, as they intend to call it. nice, warm tent for him, of course. they've got the lot, a far cry from the amundsen days. but a chance once again for norway to raise the flag on a great moment for one of their countrymen.

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