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>> the search for survivors stops as the cruise ship in italy it slips on its resting place. wikipedia goes off line to protect against new anti-piracy laws in the united states. there's a new famine morning for africa as charities say a slow response causes thousands of unnecessary deaths during drought. i am david eades. from prisoner to a parliamentary candidate. aung san suu kyi prepares for upcoming parliamentary elections. and a fresh twist in a fight peterson last month.

the italian cruise ship the costa concordia has shifted once again in its resting place and has forced another suspension in what would amount to the final rescue efforts. but i want to take you over to the pictures as they are coming into us. relatively calm, but that has not caused the crew ships from slipping into a certain degree. the message is loud and clear, nobody is going to go on the boat either looking for people or moving towards the first stages of salvage. the very first stage revolves around the oil still on the ship and pumping that out, which could take some weeks to conclude. there's no rescue effort going on at the moment. 24 people still missing. it is highly likely anyone else will be found alive. >> rescuers have been through almost all of the ship that

remains above the waterline. around 20 people are still missing. there are indications that the ship may have begun to slip. the rescue operation has been temporarily called off. the captain of the vessel has been accused of causing the crash, a claim that he denies. this is his wife returning to their home near naples, where her residence is now being held under house arrest. a recording of a call between the captain and a port official appears to suggest that captain left the vessel while passengers were still being rescued. his lawyer says the captain's actions after the crash helped to save hundreds of lives. the family of one of the missing from peru as come

to and tuscany. >> all we are asking is that the authorities and rescue teams don't lose any time, do everything they can to find my daughter alive. that is the reason we are here. we will not leave until we have found erica. >> this is still officially a rescue operation. but with every passing hour, hopes of finding survivors are fading. bbc news reporting. >> so many families looking and hoping. one of the missing is russell. he worked as a waiter on the acordia. his brother is on his way there to look for him. i spoke with him a short while ago. he was still on his white. i have been to all the hospitals and have checked everywhere for my brother. unfortunately, i have had no

luck yet. i hope that he is fine, like the german tourists. he might be on his way home. he's a very nice guy. people love him very much. everyone is praying for him. at the moment i am on the barge, 500 meters from the island. i see the ship in front of my eyes. you cannot believe how fast my heart is beating. that is very difficult. and i am very strong person. it's very difficult for me to break up. it is so cold. i am trying to see what the situation is.

>> kevin, we have a picture of russell, which we are showing as well. if anyone has seen him on the mainland, that might be of some help if they recognize him. rescue efforts, to all intents and purposes, are pretty much over. he would have to have gotten on shore by now to survive. >> i hope that there's more to come. the sea will be much rougher, so it will be difficult to carry on the search. so i hoope in these 48 hours but there could be some good results -- i hope. i pray for them that they are safe as well, the rescuers. they do their job well.

we should give them courage as well. >> his brother is still missing from the costa concordia. the on-line encyclopedia wikipedia has shot down its english-language website 24 hours as protestors are proposing new laws governing new laws in the united states. the legislation would allow the u.s. justice department to take action against web sites infringing copyrights, including advertisers and internet service providers. the proposed laws have the support of many in hollywood and the music industry and u.s. chamber of commerce, but opponents like wikipedia and google say that it amounts to internet censorship and would cripple free speech. >> if you hear that there's a great invention called the automobile and then two years later you find out the automobile is being used by bank robbers, the answer is not true ban automobiles, the answer is

to deal with that problem directly. >> that was jimmy wales, interesting analogy. why does wikipedia feel this is bad? >> it is part of a huge tidal wave of anger that desperate across silicon valley about the legislation. they feel this is a back door to censorship, by making them almost responsible for policing the internet. ends up linking to your web site that has pirated material or wikipedia has something that may contain copyrighted material, if they could be targeted. their freedom to go about their business could be impeded. there's a real feeling on that side of the argument that this is a threat to the whole way the open internet works. >> but on the other side of the other-- >> the page on the wikipedia says "imagine a world without

free knowledge." >> they have that on the web site any time you search for anything on their web site. the other side says you are vastly exaggerated the extent of these laws, but they will not apply that way, and that there's a real threat to hundreds of thousands of jobs in the u.s. in the creative industry from online piracy, which has not been policed. we have seen rupert murdoch on twitter accusing google of being friendly with the pirates and accusing president obama of going soft on the issues. we have seen a lot of money pouring in from hollywood and lobbying on the issue. equally, we have seen lobbying from silicon valley. it is a big battle about whether this law will reshape the internet in a bad way. >> thanks very much.

if you are stumped for information, and don't forget bbc.com. we have a web site with information on pretty much everything. aid workers in east africa were so slow to sound a warning over last year's famine in east africa that thousands of people died unnecessarily. that is the harsh assessment of two major posterity's. save the children and oxfam. it took them six months to act on eyewitness accounts and other reliable information. a region of west africa could also be facing a huge crisis of its own. our correspondent reports from jer. >> the mother and children waiting for treatment for

severe and attrition. this 11-month-old and showing progress. but many more children are at risk of severe malnutrition in this country and across the sahara at this time. this mother returns to her village nearby. pests did a lot of damage to crops in this region. one of the breadbaskets of the region supposedly. water seems more precious than usual. >> the harvest gave us 10% of the food that we need. my husband went to nigeria to work, but the money went quickly. i have to fetch water and wood and other things for us to get something to live on. >> there is grain on sale in a

nearby market in another town, but they cannot afford the rising price. this unit for malnourished children with medical complications is full, expecting now to be stretched further. " there's more than a half- million. we are waiting for worse consequences. >> that place is even more importance on reducing the chances that children will become acutely malnourished. aid workers say there is a window of a couple months to get more help to the most vulnerable in this country, to the children in particular. there's every likelihood the world will have another severe humanitarian crisis on its hands, that failing. >> more on that later in the program. i will be speaking with the head

of research at oxfam. stay with us for that. now the business news. a cool start with the business of jobs. the lack of jobs. britain being hit hard as well. >> pretty much mirroring what we have seen on the continent. we have had jobs numbers from the three months up until november of last year. the jobless increased by 118,000 in that particular period. that takes the jobless in the u.k. to 2.68 million. we have not seen that since the summer of 1994. the jobless rate is nearly 8.5 %. youth an employment also jumped by. 2,000 that takes thwe youth

jobless to the highest since 1992 when records began. with all of a tough austerity measures, if tough spending cuts, this does not bode well. well. >> a quick word on yahoo!, they through the mill at the moment. >> the founder has resigned from the board. this is a man that has been surrounded in controversy. upset shareholders when he rejected an offer by microsoft in 2008. yahoo shares are up 3.5% because they feel they have the old blood out of the way. more on that later. >> a lot of catching up to get back to where they were.

thanks a lot. you are watching bbc world news. plenty more still to come. sharia on the rise. the growing popularity of islamic law. more talks will take place between the greek government and private bondholders on wednesday to try to reach agreement on writing off up to half the country's debt. failure to strike a deal would be disastrous for greece and pretty bad for the global economy. >> the country has a tough negotiating to do this week. and there's a llot at stake. one lot the next $166 billion, the country must first agree to buy about $127 billion worth of debt. it is trying to make that happen by swapping current bonds with new ones. they have a 50% lower face value but can be paid back over longer-term.

negotiations between the government and bondholders' representatives were set to be on track last week, but they broke down on friday and the in -- that was over the interest rate to the new bonds would have. greece has to pay out more than $17 billion in bond redemptions in mid march. without a deal with the bondholders, there will be no second chissuance of bailout money and without that the country cannot pay its debt. if the country goes bankrupt, the market will be prone to chaos. that would be catastrophic for the global economy. bbc news. >> a smoke bomb has been thrown over the fence of the white house in washington. the incident happened as hundreds of protestors from the occupy movement gathered outside the gate. a spokesman for the secret service said there were no arrests, but the building was locked down for more than an

hour. president obama and his wife were not there at the time. if you want to have a view of any of our stores, get in touch with me. at my twitter address. i would love to hear from new. -- from yoiu. -- you. these are the headlines. a search for survivors of the cruise ship in italy is suspended as the vessel slips slightly. it's thought unlikely any more people will be found alive. wikipedia goes off line to protest against new anti-piracy laws in the united states. we will get some more on one of our main stories. a report by two leading aids charities into what they say was a slow response to last year's famine in east africa, costing thousands of lives unnecessarily. -- leading aid charities.

can you outline what it is they have got so badly wrong? >> the system as a whole is risk averse. it waits until it is absolutely sure there is famine until it gets together big quantities of money. the problem is when you do that it wastes a lives and money. it is an expensive way of doing things. it's like waiting until your house burns down before doing anything. we have to make a decision to we take money away from haiti or pakistan and put it into art may turn into a disaster or may not turn into a disaster in the horn. aid agencies need to be willing to take more risks because it pays off in terms of human lives. >> it's good that you are taking part of the blame. how much of this comes down to the government of the countries themselves affected?

it is not something you want to cry out. >> it is no accident that often there is famine in regions that have been neglected by national governments. national governments have a first responsibility to invest in small farmers, to make sure their populations are secure. it has to be a partnership between the nations and they charities. >> let's move to west africa. there's another crisis. we are already in the world of famine fatigue at the moment. do you see the same thing happening here again? we are optimistic that we will start to get equipment and resources in place so that we will be ready. the big guns are acting quicker. the european humanitarian commissioner is there now and it

looks as though we might be a little better appeared. >> telling people that we made something not happen it is difficult for people to understand. >> if we do really well in west africa the government in east africa does well then people would say what were you present such a fuss about. and that would be a success for us. >> aung san suu kyi has registered as a parliamentary candidate, the first time she has tried for public office in burma. she was released from house arrest in november 2010. our reporter was with aung san suu kyi as she met her supporters after she registered. >> you can see hundreds of people trying to get a glimpse of aung san suu kyi.

[crowd noise, chanting] >> people are calling her mother, mother, mother. >> now a little boxing scandalous episode. >> the fight between amir kahn and petersen was supposed to be heard. but kahn's american team decided to pull out of the whole thing. they were not able to hear from the wba supervisor.

there was an unidentified man who was deemed to be mr. ahmeen who had been lurking behind the judge's during the fight. pictures suggest that he was handed the scorecard, which is not allowed. this seemed to be the next logical step, but they have pulled out. whether there's a rematch still going on behind the scenes, we don't know. peterson's caps says absolutely not. they say we will not go for a rematch. they will challenge the motion. the complicated and complex world of boxing. >> also, we have all sorts of potential for controversy. >> willis yesterday was very

critical of the guy who bowled very well yesterday. willis raised questions about when he bowled. steve rhodes, the director of has come out in the guy's defense, saying that he is a terrific bowler. he says it was nothing more than sour grapes. -- cricket. >> increasing numbers of british muslims are turning to islamic sharia law to settle civil disputes. the largest sharia body in britain as in the number of cases more than triple in the last five years.

a bill is due to be brought before parliament to try to regulate the practice of sharia law amid concerns of discrimination. now this report. >> at this industrial cleaning company, the market's key. that was present at it last year by an ownership dispute between the partners, all british moslems. -- partnership is key. >> it was very quick and was resolved in three months. it only cost a couple hundred pounds. imagine what it would have cost in the other courts. >> the largest sharia council in london, there are no judges or lawyers and no longer appeals. in each case usually a family or financial dispute is heard by a muslim scholar who makes his rulings based on islamic principles. but the councils have no legal

powers and cannot impose any punishment. it is simply down to people coming here to voluntarily. accept voluntarily. more and more people are turning to councils like this one in east london to sort out their problems the islamic way. we spoke with sharia bodies up and down the country who say their cases have more than tripled in the last few years with thousands of people turning to share real lia law. even british law firms are starting to tap into this growing market. this practice in london was one of the first open a sharia department. >> most of our clients are british muslims mostly under 50, who want to be muslim and also integrated into britain as a british citizens. so we give them solutions that work under the umbrella of english law and are compatible under islamic law. >> several muslim groups have

concerns about unregulated sharia courts and say the councils are nounjust toward women. >> women can not receive equal inheritance with men or have custody of children. the custody automatically goes to the father. >> concerns like this if have let the bill being introduced from parliament aimed at regulation of such bodies. if it passes, it could help iron out some increases in this booming parallel system. bbc news, london. >> back to the situation of the costa concordia. these are live pictures. the ship has shifted in the last few hours. that has stopped any search effort at all, particularly diverse expected to go below the surface. visibility in any case is terrible at this stage.

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