. >> arias plan old fred goodwin. the man who sank a bank. the former chief executive of rbs has been stripped of his knighthood. it was the queen who honored him in 2004 for services to banking. it was her majesty who took the decision to this honor him. the announcement came at 5:00 on the website, reflecting the fact that the decision was made by the forfeiture committee. the most famous man to lose his knighthood was anthony blunt when it was revealed he was a soviet spy. he is one of just six to suffer this sanction. >> we have a special case of the world bank of scotland at symbolizing everything that went wrong. fred goodwin was in charge. i think appropriately he loses his knighthood. the folks of the current government, just to make sure we get back all the tax payer money. win was once the toast of the establishment. he built the royal bank of scotland into one of the world's largest banks. all of that changed when the bank crashed and he was forced out in october, 2008. >> i give an apology for all of the distrust that had been cau

. >>> fred goodwin has been stripped of his knighthood after leading the bank into near collapse duringhe financial crisis. >>> finally, it appears the virtual voice of the iphone 4s doesn't understand scottish. when asked how is the weather today, siree mistakenly hears how is the weather on labor day? you hope the iphone 5 will speak scottish. >>> carmelo reappears for the knicks and another top ten college upset in college basketball. the craziness and cliche that is super bowl media day. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> now that we're into february, will winter ever show up? it doesn't look like it tomorrow. your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." >>> in sports, this is supposed to be the year the new york knicks finally put all of the pieces together. but, instead, up until last night, they have been falling to pieces. here is fred roggin with an early look at all of your sports headlines. >>> good morning. the knicks need something to turn their season around. maybe the

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the story dominating the front page sincere fred goodwin the former -- being stripped of his knighthood because of the the collapse of the royal bank of scotland. and >> the indian government named the aviation company dassal to supply 126al fighter jets and a contract worth up to $20 billion. according to the chinese daily beijing may be ready to -- this following the failure against the world trade organization ruling. the outside china morning post reports on the country's increasing investment in africa and follows the latest $1.4 billion construction deal with the government of south sudan. thanks for watching "bbc world news." i'm david eades. these are the headlines. >> the bbc has seen a secret nato report which stays afghan taliban remains strong. and gets support from pakistan's intelligence service. mitt romney has won a clear victory in florida. and here's a story. scientists in the united states say they have taken first steps towards decoding brain waves and translating them into words. using a computer program to decode complex electrical signals, the research could just

fred goodwin can no longer be called sir because of his role of the collapse in the bank of 2008 which led to a taxpayer bailout. he joins a motley crew who have lost their honors in the past. that includes rocketer mugabe, the zimbabwe president, and a british double agent an thopny wlunt. >>> around half of what we thought they were going to get for facebook, no final share price will be set for a while. that's left the door open for facebook to invest more money if they see investor demand. the company has chosen five underwriters, morgan stanley will take the lead with goldman, bank of america, jpmorgan, the others. morgan stanley has led several high profile ipos, including groupon and zing ya. 100 billion, no one has explained that to me, christine. >> no one has explained that to me, either. 100 billion. i don't know what the calculations are, but it sounds lofty. >> the key thing there is -- and we'll get into this a little bit later, how they rate an active user as opposed to someone who has just opened an account. >> i'm just a big question mark on facebook right now. might s