03/02/2012 BBC World News

Egypt braced for more unrest after Friday prayers, as protesters vent

their fury over the fatal football riot.

Europe's biting cold snap claims at least 160 lives, as temperatures

plunged as low as minus 35 degrees. John Terry is stripped of the

England captaincy as he awaits trial for alleged racial abuse. The

twice as deadly as previously thought.

A new study suggests that malaria killed 1.25 million people in 2010.

The Energy Minister quitting the Government after learning that he

is being charged with trying to Hello and thank you for joining us.

Security forces in Egypt are preparing for further protests

after the authorities announced that more than 1400 people were

injured in clashes in Cairo on Thursday night. Two were killed in

the city of Suez as anger grows over the deaths of more than 70

football fans on Wednesday. This is a picture of Tahrir Square in Cairo,

where protesters have been staging another rally. This in solidarity

with the families of the victims from the rioting in Port Said. It

has created much criticism for the security forces. And as we have

seen in the course of the last 24 hours, considerable unrest, as so

many people have taken to the streets again to face the tear gas,

and on occasions the baton rounds fired by the police. Now the latest.

More open hostility in Tahrir Square. Demonstrators confront the

police outside the Interior Ministry. Now the wall that was

separating them has been partly dismantled. Overnight, protesters

went to work, removing the heavy concrete blocks. They had stayed on

the streets after a day of clashes with the security forces.

military must step down. We have had enough people getting killed

every day. I am a al-Ahly supporter and I blame the police for what

happened. Usually we get searched but this time nobody did. Other

parts of Egypt also saw angry crowds. In the city of Suez, at

least two people were shot and killed by police. This was the

reason for the outrage. The worst football violence ever seen in the

country took place in the northern city of Port Said on Wednesday.

Local fans at the al-Masry Club invaded the pitch, after winning

against the top Cairo side, al-Ahly. Meanwhile police stood by. Some

accuse them of deliberate negligence. Others say this was

just another bloody reminder of the lack of law and order. After a year

in power, they hold the military responsible. The calls once again

of for a faster transferred to a civilian Government. And with

Friday protests always a flashpoint, the pressure is mounting.

The sort of temperatures that you would find in the North Pole at

this time of year are now afflicting central and Eastern

Europe. Those temperatures dropping to as low as minus 35 degrees in

Poland and the same in Ukraine, where more than 100 people have

died because of the cold. We report on the struggle to survive this

bitter blast of winter. For these men, this was the only

way to try to keep warm when their vehicle broke down near Kiev.

Evidence everywhere in Ukraine of the continuing severity of this big

freeze across central and Eastern Europe. In the capital,

temperatures plunging to as low as minus 25 Celsius have not deterred

fisherman from going on to the frozen river in the hope of a catch

beneath the ice. Schools have been shut, and heated tents have been

provided for temporary accommodation for homeless people.

The Interior Ministry had recorded 37 more deaths, taking the total

for the week to over 100. 12 other people have been treated in

hospital for hypothermia and frostbite. Hospitals have been

urged not to discharge the homeless even after treatment has finished.

Temperatures have continued to plunge even more sharply in the

rural areas. This unemployed Phyllida tries to keep his home

warm with his wood stove. -- villager. It was zero degrees in

here, and minus 35 outside. In this remote area of North East and

hungry, another strategy for surviving the severe cold. Breaking

through the frozen earth to search for the spoil from an old coal mine

nearby that close down 20 years ago. We get by pretty miserably. A

bucket of cold is not enough for very long. If we did not have this

we would freeze to death in the House or we would not eat at all.

Tough winters, tougher than usual at the moment.

We should be prepared for more to come. Now the business.

Plenty. America's manufacturing sector has been contributing to the

Labour victory in the economy. The trend is expected to be confirmed

when the job report is released for January in a couple of hours. How

much difference will it make to the unemployment rate, which is at

8.5%? That is unacceptably high. We went to meet the manufacturing

training centre in New Jersey. The controls are all manual on the

traditional milling machine. If you visit the factory floor these days,

you will find equipment that looks different. That is because most of

them a computer controlled. What used to take an hour or two to

produce one part, can now be done with this in a fraction of the time.

Operators it means learning a whole new set of skills. -- for operators.

This community centre aims to fill that skills gap. The factories

across America hiring, they cannot turn out trained workers fast

enough. The local companies that we are affiliated with of begging us

almost to get the young high-school students recruited into our

programme. The programme was developed with help from several

leading local manufacturers, including Sandvik, which makes

tools used in the metal and mining industry. At a time when more than

30 million Americans are unemployed, Sandvik project leader Joan

Mitchell says that the jobs are there for those with the right

training. As manufacturers, one of the main problems we have is that

there is not enough skilled talent to run these machines effectively.

Last week in my state of the union address, I laid out by blueprint

for an economy that is built to last. Barack Obama has been

trumpeting the revival in manufacturing, hoping that it will

help him to keep his job after the election in November. Since the

recession ended, manufacturers have added 3000 jobs, but it may not be

enough. Manufacturing is never going to be the key driver of job

growth in the USA. The service sector is just so much bigger that

that will always determined whether job growth is weak or strong.

Manufacturing is making a healthy contribution right now. That is

welcome news for students in this class. For many Americans still

looking for work, the jobs climate is not improving fast enough.

Some hope for news on Europe. The eurozone's service sector has grown

for the first time in four months but Spain and Italy have continued

to boast balls in activity. The Markit purchasing managers' index

was up to 50.4 from 48.8 in December. Any score under 50

represents the contraction. Joining me from Markit, their senior

economist Rob Dobson. Are you convinced by this? We seem to be

grasping at straws, in this doom- laden scenario. On its own it is

very positive to see this stabilisation of the eurozone

private sector economy as a whole. We saw this in the services numbers

and the manufacturing numbers released a couple of days ago. They

are both signalling stabilisation, not significant growth. This could

indicate that the eurozone might avoid falling back into recession

in the first quarter. But these figures are showing marginal growth

and indicators such as employers and the business, although rates

contraction is easing, there is still weakness within the eurozone

as a whole. How much is it depended upon Germany? That is the thing. In

these numbers we are very much seeing the two or three-speed

economy in the eurozone. Germany for some time has been out there,

ahead, and France is hanging around stable, at the stagnation point.

Italy and Spain, the peripheral countries, they are signalling that

they are still in the downturn. The rate of contraction did ease this

month, but they are still in contraction. Italy and Spain are

not as big as France and Germany but they will still make a

contribution to trends in GDP for that currency bloc. What about the

manufacturing sector? That is what they are emphasising in the United

States. It will not account for much more growth but it is being

harped on about by the politicians. What we saw with our manufacturing

numbers from a few days ago was a broadly similar picture. We saw

manufacturing coming back to the stabilisation point. But that is

focused on the stronger and larger nations. Those periphery nations

are doing particularly badly. The Greek manufacturing downturn, we

saw that showing signs of deepening in our figures, which given the

problems with Greece and its role in the eurozone debt crisis and

leading economic growth to come back to its country, that is

important in itself. Thank you. Now the markets. Where have they

got to? We saw a fairly positive view. Largely as a result of that

survey. We are also looking ahead to what is going on in the jobs

report this afternoon coming out in two hours from the United States.

Hopes hanging on the fact that we might get a better report. 150,000

jobs created in January, and the markets would like more than that,

because even with those jobs being created, the jobless rate of 8.5%

will not change. Thank you.

The English Football Association has decided to remove John Terry as

captain of the England team while he awaits trial on charges of

racial abuse. John Terry plays in the Premier League for Chelsea. He

is due to stand trial in July in connection with an incident

involving the defender Anton Ferdinand, who plays for Queens

Park Rangers. It is the second time he has lost the national captaincy.

We understand yesterday that the chairman of the Football

Association took soundings from the 14 man board. The majority of

opinion was that it would be better if the captaincy was removed from

John Terry while the allegations, which he strenuously denies, still

hang over him. That decision has been made this morning. John Terry

has been informed and he will no longer captain the England team.

The FA surely hopes that will calm everything down. We have the

European Championships coming up. All the speculation about John

Terry can go, but we have not heard from John Terry about how he feels.

Still to hear from John Terry on that. That was the aim of the FA,

to remove that issue as they go into a major tournament. They have

a go at the end of this month against the Netherlands and it

would have inevitably cropped up. - - they have a game. They have acted

today to remove that possibility. But there is no question of him not

being in the squad if selected on a player bases? That is not clear.

The captaincy has been removed, but Fabio Capello is very keen to

include John Terry. We will wait to see any reaction from Fabio Capello

and John Terry as the day goes on. This is BBC World News. More to

come, including: An exhibition of painting by wildlife rather than of

On Saturday, voter's right across Russia are expected to take to the

streets as they demand free and fair elections. The presidential

vote is just one month away. People are very unhappy about the lack of

credible opponents to Vladimir Putin. How widespread and deep is

that protest movement? We have gone I have come to the basement, where

secret plans are being drawn up for an unauthorised protest march

against what these people maintained to be stolen

parliamentary elections. They say that democracy does not go much

further than this room in Putin's Russia. This is how their last

demonstration ended. The authorities are taking some of the

toughest measures in Russia against the protest movements. One of the

organisers has seen worse. He told me how he was tortured by corrupt

policeman, then driven in handcuffs and dumped in this hole in the

frozen river. He defeated his tormentors in the court and now he

If we leave things as they are, our country will once again turn into a

giant prison like it was in Soviet times. But in a nearby town, the

polluted heart of the Soviet chemical weapons programme,

political change is already in the air. Despite the fact that Soviet

era factories poisoned this city, it's the Communist Party which has

just won the most votes in the parliamentary elections here. This

pensioner, a former Putin supporter, told me why he had just lost his

vote. It was a protest vote. We wanted to show Putin and his party

they're not the only option so they'll finally listen to the

people. But is the Kremlin listening? And

how will it react? This weekend's marchs are the next test.

The United Nations says that the famine in Somalia is now over. It

was officially declared last July. UN officials say conditions have

improved after the best harvest in seventeen years and and significant

international aid. But the UN is also warning that the situation

remains serious and could deteriorate. You're watching BBC

World News. The headlines: Egypt is braced for further unrest

after Friday prayers as protesters expressed anger over Wednesday's

deadly football riot. 200 people are now reported to have

died in Europe's bitter cold snap with forecasters warning the big

freeze will tighten its grip over the weekend.

Here in the UK, a senior government minister has resigned after being

told he'll be prosecuted over allegations that he lied to avoid a

driving ban for speeding. The Energy and Climate Change Secretary,

Chris Huhne, denies a claim that he persuaded his former wife to accept

penalty points on his behalf in 2003. Other Liberal Democrat

ministers within the coalition Government will now be reshuffled

to replace him. Joining me from London is our political

correspondent Rob Watson. This has finally come to a head. It sort of

sets off a chain reaction, doesn't it? It does indeed. To be fair,

this is hardly going to rock the coalition. Chris Huhne was one of

the most senior Liberal Democrats within the coalition. He's not

hugely well known publicly, and the coalition will survive. Of course,

there will have to be some balancing between the two halves of

the coalition to make sure about whoever his replacement will be.

don't know that yet then? We're not sure. We have strong hints. Again,

I think it will be someone who isn't a household name in Britain,

but it will be more about keeping the balance as it was.

resignation was pretty instant, wasn't it - all clearly understood,

I guess, that should the situation to go ahead and prosecute emerge,

he would step down. It's also something he strongly denies?

Absolutely. It is something of an extraordinary case because it

started off with something extremely minor - a speeding

offence in 2003, but he's now - and his ex-wife faced with an extremely

serious criminal charge, perverting the course of justice because the

allegation is although he was driving the speeding car, he asked

his wife to pick up the penalty point, but absolutely no doubt he

had to resign from the Government. One thing that's worth noting -

he's a nicety individual. He's again insisted on his innocence. He

doesn't look as though he's going to back way from that. There is no

presumption because of the nature of the coalition it will be a

member of his own party that preplaces him? I don't think there

is a doubt about that at all. This will be a reshuffle amongst the

Liberal Democrat minority within the coalition. I don't think it's

going to lead to some wider shape- up. I don't think you're going to

see huge numbers of Cabinet posts swapping hands. This will just be a

question of replacing him. Thank you very much.

Right. We're going to go on to the situation in Egypt now. Of course,

there's been considerable trouble overnight once again. The Health

Ministry talking about 1,400 people injured in the latest clashes. We

can get the very latest from our correspondent in Cairo - at the

point of which the number of protesters ga gathering after

Friday prayers is growing all the time. Yes, you can see behind me -

these are not the numbers we have seen certainly when some Friday

protests have been called, but we can see certainly people are

continuing to march from mosques where remembrances are taking place

to remember those killed in Wednesday night's violence. At the

moment, people are really congregating on that side of Tahrir

Square, close to the Interior Ministry. This has been the target

of angry clashes between police, who are guarding the Interior

Ministry and the people overnight, and there has been tear gas used.

What we have seen - there are actually some concrete blocks just

out of sight - a kind of wall which for the past few weeks has been

keeping protesters apart from the police around the Interior Ministry.

They started to dismamt this overnight block by block. It feels

from a distance as if Egypt is slipping into that very dangerous

febrile state again. Is that overstating it? Certainly, that's

how it has looked for the last couple of days. This violence at

the football stadium in Port Said which left more than 74 dead then

led to angry clashes not just here in Cairo, but also in other parts

of the country, for example, in the port city of Suez where opposition

protest hers a bad relationship with the police, where many people

were killed during the revolution last year. At least two people,

again, killed there overnight. But what's really got Egyptians angry

is, again, this sense of insecurity in the country, this idea that

people aren't safe as they go about their everyday activities. That's

certainly the feeling I am getting from a lot of people here in the

square. These protesters - many of them are football a fans who

support the club which was playing away to the Port Said team on

Wednesday. Most of the people who were killed came from this club.

Some of them were playing outside the football ground, which is just

a short distance away. They have come here now very angry with the

military. They hold the military in responsible after one year in power.

There still is no - people do not trust the police to keep law and

order in the country, and they hold them responsible. There is also a

lot of conspiracy theories around, perhaps these football fans were

allowed to be targeted because they were among revolutionary forces.

They provided some of the hard-core group of activists who have stayed

here in the square and continued protests against military rule.

Thank you very much indeed. Worldwide malaria deaths may be

much higher than previously estimated according to research

published in the British Medical Journal the Lancet. The scientists

say 1.2 million people died of Malibu in 20 so. That is a figure

which is literally double the estimates from the World Health

Organisation. The research also shows 42% of deaths from malaria

are in children under five and adults.

Our health correspondent has more details. We knew malaria was a huge

children particularly in sub- Saharan Africa particularly in

children. To find out the deaths may be twice what we have

previously estimated is terrible. What people are concentrating on

here is the methodology this group have used to try and, you know,

cholate these figures. Way out of kilter with what the World Health

Organisation says. As you say, 1.2 million deaths in 2010 compared to

650,000 deaths according to the WHO in the same year. What they have

looked at is data sets that have previously been looked at, built

some sophisticated computer modelling. They have also looked at

deaths in the past that have been wrongly attributed to deaths other

than malaria. It all sounds like pretty gloomy news for those who

think there may be an end to malaria. Yes, we have heard lots of

mixed messages about malaria over the course of the last few years.

Whilst some people are talking about eradication, a lot of people

are saying increasingly that's not possible. There is an underlying

message here in this data and also in the WHO's data which is we have

moved away from the peak. According to this new study, the number of

malaria deaths peaked in 2004 at 1.8 million. They're putting that

down to the work of international donors, organisations like the

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria and all the good work they

have been doing in terms of bed nets and health care.

A unique exhibition opened in London. It's showing works of art

painted by chimps and elephants. Is it art? David Sillito went to have

a look. So here it is - a new exhibition -

this painting - it's obviously a plant, isn't it? We can see the

leaves here, stems, flowers, and it was done by - an elephant. Yes,

that's a trunk. An elephant painted it with a little guidance via its

ear. The elephant holding the paintbrush

in its trunk and the handler, almost like a joystick, is tugging

ever so slightly in different directions. So the elephant can

feel the movement in its ear and do this? Exactly. It's an amazing show

of how sensitive and dexterous an elephant is. This was painted by

Bocari, a chimp. The exhibition is taking place in the Grand Museum of

Zoology. The question is if we accept that splodges and squiggles

made by humans are about, then why isn't this? These ape artists seem

to enjoy painting. They certainly let you know when they have had

enough. It is of course not new. In the '50s, Congo, the painting chimp,

was a TV star. It used to be a criticism of abstract art saying a

chimp could do it. 50 years on, Congo's work recently sold at

auction for $26,000. I wonder how much our next exhibit

could go for. How many prawns would you expect in a prawn cocktail? Now