02/02/2012 BBC World News

An emergency session of Egypt's parliament in the aftermath of the

football match clashes in which more than 70 people died.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani will go to court over

his failure to reopen a corruption case against the president. A

rescue operation is underway after a ferry sinks off Papua New Guinea.

More than 100 people are missing. Welcome to BBC World News. Also in

this programme: India's Supreme Court cancels telecom licences,

amid an ongoing corruption scandal. And high prices for petrol. That's

bad news for many of us, but we'll be looking at how it is making

More than 70 people dead, another thousand or so injured, that's the

toll after clashes broke out between rival football fans in

Egypt. The violence in Port Said occurred as local fans poured onto

the pitch after their team beat the Cairo side, Al-ahly. The security

forces have been heavily criticised for failing to step in. A three day

period of mourning has been declared throughout the country. An

emergency session of Parliament is under way. There have been repeated

remarks about the inability of the security services to manage the

situation. Also a request for this not to be publicised but that was

overturned by Parliament. Supporters of the football club at

Ali -- Al Ali gathered during the night. They received some of the

bodies from the stadium. They angrily Barrett revenge for the

deaths. At an airbase, Field Marshal tan Tarry created some of

the players. He pledged to track down whoever was responsible.

the results of this investigation, each one will take his punishment.

We were no wife and who caused this tragedy. -- why. The deadly

violence broke carrot after the game. -- broke out. Supporters of

the Portslade team went on to the pitch. Some fans died after they

were stacked all clapped was that many were killed in a desperate

rush to leave the stadium. Many of the injured were taken to hospital

in private cars. Live television pictures showed the police in the

stadium hesitating, unsure what to do. Questions are being asked about

whether it was incompetence or worse. The Muslim Brotherhood,

Egypt's largest political force, have voiced what many Egyptians

believe - accusing remnants of the Mubarak regime to provoke chaos.

Our revolution is facing danger, serious danger. You are being voted

in so that you can protect the revolution. The fans played a heavy

political role in the last it in confronting the police and security

forces. Violence between football supporters is common in Egypt. The

police up under-strength, after being chased off the streets in the

revolution. Egypt is becoming a country that is very hard to govern.

Pakistan's Supreme Court says it will charge the Prime Minister,

Yousuf Raza Gilani with contempt for failing to reopen an old

corruption case against the President Asif Ali Zardari. The

Government has insisted that President Zardari has immunity from

prosecution while he is head of state. The BBC's Islamabad

correspondent Orla Guerin has more details on the case. It looks like

the Prime Minister will be in the DUP very soon. He did make the

previous appearance in January. At that time he relied heavily on the

argument that as head of state he enjoyed immunity. I'm sure he will

try to rely on that argument again in explaining to the court why he

did not follow orders. More than two years ago did the Supreme Court

tell the Government to take action. Particularly with the case against

the President. That goes back more than a decade. These charges work

in Switzerland. He and his wife were convicted back in 2003, of

laundering millions of dollars in kickbacks from Swiss companies.

They appealed and it was set aside on appeal. The case was grinding

through the Swiss legal mechanism but Pakistani authorities

instructed Swiss authorities to drop the case. It authorities here

said they wanted the case opened. There was an amnesty which will add

that case and thousands of others to be shelved. The Prime Minister

will have to explain why he did not follow that order. This crisis has

been brewing over the past few months. It could see the Prime

Minister out of office and the Government brought down. A ferry

carrying as many as 350 people has sunk off the eastern coast of Papua

New Guinea. More than 200 survivors have so far been rescued from the

sea. The operator of the ferry, Star Ships, says it lost contact

with the Rabaul Queen, seen here on a previous trip, after it sent a

distress signal between Lae and Kimbe West. Duncan Kennedy is

watching events from Sydney. No one seems to know how many people were

on the ship. Even at a figure of 300, it means that more than 80

people are missing, with darkness in the area. I spoke to the Mergers

the authorities asking them if the rescue operation would continue

into the darkness. -- emergency authorities. There has been at

least one aircraft with two more on the way. People I spoke to did not

know if they would operate at night was dug a major rescue operation,

encouraging news with more than 200 rescued. A lot of people

unaccounted for as a result of the sinking ferry. It is difficult to

know how this has happened. From the Prime Minister downwards, the

Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea said the cause of this was unknown.

Earlier ice-pick to a different emergency rescue worker who said it

could have been one of three causes - a bad weather, and overloaded

ferry or human error - or a combination of those. The weather

at the time was said to be bad but now it is much better. That is why

they have rescued so many people. They could not say why this might

have happened. Ferries in those areas are known to be overcrowded.

Whether it played a part in this particular accident, we do not know.

In London, Harry Redknapp has just arrived at court. He is continuing

to give evidence in his tax evasion trial. He is facing two cans of

cheating the public purse while he was manager of the football club.

What has Harry Redknapp had to deal with this morning? This is a two of

the session he is having giving evidence in the witness box. He is

now being cross-examined by the prosecutors, who allege that he

cheated the taxman out of money that he should have paid on a bonus

he was given, after the sale of Peter Crouch from sport -- from

Portsmouth, which made a considerable amount of profit for

the club and the chairman of the club. Mr Redknapp was asked about

that at the time for us of he said he saw the potential in Peter

Crouch but the chairman did not. There was disagreement between a

pair of them about the contract that Harry Redknapp had signed,

whether he should get a bonus of 5% or 10%. He told the prosecutor that,

in his understanding, or this bonus money was paid into a bank account

in Monaco. It had or would he have tax paid on air because it came

from the United States. -- it had already had tax paid on it. He said

there was another dispute over Eartha it -- a further amount of

money which he said he was owed. He said he did not chase the money and

asked for it to be given to the kids community football project.

That illustrates, he says, then he is not obsessed or greedy about

money. They both denied pecans they face. -- the counts. In India, the

Supreme Court has quashed 122 licences issued to telecoms

companies across the country back in 2008. The contracts to operate

second generation mobile phones were at the centre of one of the

country's biggest corruption scandals. The development affects

about 5% of mobile phone users but the regulator says the affected

subscribers can be transferred to other mobile operators. Nidhi Dutt

in Mumbai says the move leaves the industry in a confused state.

are looking at the complicated web, certainly when it comes to second-

generation mobile phones. We will be asking what happens to these

companies. Will the licences be reallocated all we optioned? In

terms of the infrastructure, will it be sold off or transferred to

other companies? A lot of questions have come out of it. They are

trying to keep customers confident that services will continue. That

is the bottom line at the moment. With corruption having such a huge

priority at the moment, what does this do for foreign investors

confidence in India? There are two ways of looking at this. The

Government is suggesting that the Supreme Court ruling really does

give foreign investors more confidence. It shows that India is

dealing with corruption in one of the biggest scandals. There may be

company still thinking it is not all sorted at we need more

assurances - some of the bigger names, some of the bigger ministers

- to be held to account for this. The keenly awaited details of

Facebook's plans to go public. The world's biggest social network firm

is looking to raise about $5 billion. The prospectus gives us an

insight into the workings of the company with details that have been

kept secret until now. It is finally here. Investors around the

world will soon be able to buy shares in Facebook, which will

probably start trading in the United States as soon as May. It is

planning to raise $5 billion from investors. It would put company --

the company on a par with giants like McDonald's and Amazon. With

this state as well come additional scrutiny from regulators and also

scrutiny over how Facebook used his private information for which it

has often been criticised. It does not seem to have put of users so

far. In paperwork they filed, it showed that 800 million users

around the world a logging in every month. On average they are spending

about seven hours locked into Facebook, talking to friends and

posting photos. The big question going forward will be whether

Facebook can retain that cachet, that pull, with all those millions

of users when they are under pressure from shareholders to be

profitable. -- A huge merger is brewing in the commodities industry.

Glencore and Xstrata have confirmed that they are in talks to combine,

creating a firm worth more than $80 billion. A deal could be announced

as soon as Tuesday when Xstrata announces results although the

companies warned that is not a certainty. Xtrata shares are up 12%.

The electronics giant, Sony, has reported worse than expected losses.

The company said production was affected by the floods in Thailand

and said that it was hit by the strong yen as well. Sony was a

leading force in the electronics industry in the 1980s and 90s but

analysts say it's been overtaken by A mixed day on the markets. There

but Ajit Singh-Mahal is down a touch. -- at the FT-SE is down a

touch. We are seeing the euro coming off against the dollar a bit

China is considering greater involvement in the EU bail-out fund.

The President had a joint press conference with Angela Merkel.

Earlier, Angela Merkel persuaded Chinese leaders to persuade Iran to

give a pics Euros -- nuclear programme. Just how important to

the German economy is Chinese trade? Our correspondent has been

finding out. Germany needs China. The Chinese

new rich by German cars. Its businesses by machinery for

factories. This big air cargo firm shows how Chinese trade affects

German profits. When China produces, this place buzzers. China is the

customer which kept the German economy ticking a long while other

European economies are strong bull -- stumble. You see volumes

increasing close to Chinese new year. With their holiday season,

when the factories are not running, you see a decline in volumes all of

the world. That is what we will see this year as well. Raw-material are

what Germany really craves. Metal prices are going through the roof.

Germany, like every industrial company, badly needs what is called

rare earth, those rare, essential elements which go into electronics.

There is a high need for that metal and China is the owner of 90 % of

that for what is produced all over the world. The Chinese embassy here

in Berlin, is one of the biggest buildings in the city. It exudes

importance. But it is an uneasy relationship. Some German

businesses think all they are doing is tooling up Chinese factories all

the better for Chinese industry, to come back and compete at very low

cost, in German markets. In China, there are signs of German companies

everywhere. China wants more. Chancellor Merkel has arrived in

Beijing with a political shopping list as well. She wants China to

reduce its imports of Iranian oil. Her bargaining ship is German

You are watching BBC World News. These are the headlines: A right at

a football match in Egypt has killed 74 people at least and left

hundreds more injured. A three-day period of national mourning has

been declared. Pakistan's Prime Minister, Yousaf

Raza Gilani, will face charges over his failure to reopen a corruption

case against the President. This coming Saturday, tens of

thousands of Muscovites are expected to march through the

Russian capital to demand honest elections and to keep the pressure

up on Vladimir Putin, just a month ahead of the presidential election.

Further afield, beyond Moscow, there are fewer signs of public

protest, much more support for Mr Putin. Our correspondent Steve

Rosenberg has been to the heartland of Russia to find out what people

are thinking there. In this town, every day looks like

Armageddon. This is a town which never stops burning. Churning out

iron and steel around the clock. The snow here is black from

pollution. But people's lives depend on the factories and its --

it is instability which they fear most. This man has worked at the

local mythological plant for 50 years. He set up a workers'

committee to back Vladimir Putin for President. The protests in

Moscow, don't reflect the mood of Russia, Yevgeny says. Working

people do not want revolution, we want stability. That is why we

support Putin. At the tank factory up the road,

they pledged their loyalty to Mr Putin live on TV. This worker

offered to come to Moscow with his mates to take on the anti-

government protesters. Yevgeny and the metal workers are not marching

on Moscow. But today, they are taking the train to the regional

capital, Ekaterinburg. There, they joined the thousands of other

workers from across the Wall mountains, at a pro Putin rally.

There are no white ribbons, the trademark of Putin's critics. The

symbol here is the worker's glove. This rally is a direct response to

the young and middle-class Russians in Moscow who have been protesting

against the government. It is an attempt to show them away from the

capital, Russia's working class still has faith in Vladimir Putin.

But the crowd here was smaller than organisers had promised. And some

of what we saw seemed stage-managed. This photographer was trying to get

as many people as possible to pose with the same vote for Putin sign.

One worker I spoke to, who asked to remain anonymous, said his work

mates only travelled to the rally because they were offered extra

days off work and free train tickets. So just how popular really

is Vladimir Putin in Russia's industrial heartland? He will win

votes here but more perhaps out of a fear of change than any real

belief that a President Putin can make life better.

Some news coming into us from Egypt, as we know, the Egyptian parliament

is in session. It is an emergency session to discuss the deaths of at

least 70 football fans in. Said last night. Up to 1,000 were

injured as well. The Prime Minister has announced that the Governor of

Port Said has been removed from his post. The security chief has also

been removed from his post, as has the Egyptian Football Association

head. Those are the announcements, the decision made by the Prime

Minister in Parliament during the course of this particular session,

with the security services in particular being condemned pretty

much roundly for their inadequate response for the aggression and

violence which broke out in Port Said.

The man known as the godfather of Dutch crime has vowed to stay in

Amsterdam after he was freed from prison in the Netherlands. Willem

Holleeder's biggest crime has recently been turned into a film.

There is even a Hollywood version in the making.

A fictional adaptation of a real- life crime. Now the man who

unwittingly inspired this movie has been released, Willem Holleeder is

recognised as one of the most powerful and influential figures in

the Dutch underworld. As far as crime fiction goes, apparently he

makes the perfect criminal. He has this aura around him of being

almost untouchable. We are attracted by people who do things

like that. One way or another, we think they are exciting. Away from

Amsterdam's tourist friendly surface, the city hides a dark and

murky past. During the late 1970s and 80s, criminal gangs around this

streets, extortion, money- laundering and crime was big

business. It was one single crime which made Willem Holleeder's gang

one of the most notorious in Dutch history. This is the abandoned

warehouse where they imprisoned the beer magnate Freddy Heineken in his

car. In the film there is a scene with a mock execution. They put a

gun to the head of Heineken and it clicked but there was no bullet in

it. He said that did not happen. They chained him to walk in a dark

cell and the guys had to fear for their life every day and night.

Eventually, after three weeks in captivity, the two hostages were

rescued by police. Most of Willem Holleeder's colleagues have been

locked up, killed or fled the country. For some, it is safe on

the inside than it is out here. We all know how tough the past year

has been on the global economy. US and European debt crisis, there has

been the tsunami in Japan to make things worse and of course, the

political turbulence of the Arab Spring. All of which have served to

push up oil prices back to over $100 a barrel. But squeezes most of

the world, except for the Gulf # the best things in life are free

but you can give them to the birds and bees, I want money.

Spending in this part of the world as a national pastime, where

British shopping in one of the biggest malls, or a multi-million

dollar penthouse in the world's tallest tower. For those with deep

pockets, there is plenty of temptation. One man who knows a

thing or two about spending his caddie. He designs Rolls Royces to

the personal tastes of Abu Dhabi's elite. This one has a camel themed

interior. From inside, when you open the door, you see the same

colour combination. He heads up the biggest selling bespoke department

in the world for Rolls Royce. Interested? It comes with a price

tag of nearly half a million dollars. Rolls-Royces are not the

average car, even here in the Gulf, but people here still have money.

Oil has soared to over $100 a barrel and oil exporters are

reaping the benefits which is filtering down to the people. This

region has the highest concentration of wealth the and

super-rich households in the world and that number is still growing.

We see growth in the number of individuals. In the Middle East, it

is over 10 % in respect to individuals. But as more than any

region in the world, other than Africa. It is a higher growth rate

than Asia. Usually, when oil prices rise, that is translated into

higher spending by governments at home and abroad, but with so much

political turmoil going on in this region's backyard, spending is

focusing on it locally. The authorities in Serbia say more

than 11,000 villagers are trapped by eight blizzards as a cold spell