06/12/2012 BBC World News

Tanks outside President Morsi's residence in Cairo, after the worst

night of violence in months between his supporters and protestors it is

hope verses heartbreak in the Philippines after rescuers search

for those missing after Typhoon Bopha. The Duchess of Cambridge has

lefted hospital after being treated for acute morning sickness. Coming

up on the programme: We have the late e on a former Thai Prime

Minister charged with murder after clashes in 2010n which a soldier

was shot by -- in which a man was Thanks for joining us. The Egyptian

army has deployed tanks and armoured vehicles outside the

Presidential Palace, this, after a night of fierce clashes. The Health

Ministry say there are at least five people who have been killed in

the clashes. More than 600 have been injured.

The political temperature has been steadily rising in Egypt. On

Wednesday it reached boiling point. Opposition protestors, who first

marched to the Presidential Palace several days ago, I have lengthy

clashed with supporters of President Morsi and members of his

political party, the Muslim Brotherhood. Riot police were

called in, after stones and petrol bombs were thrown and witnesses

also reported hearing gunfire. And it is not just Cairo - the Muslim

Brotherhood offices were attacked elsewhere.

Security forces were deployed to protect the party's offices in the

capital. Earlier in the day, activists from the Muslim

Brotherhood arrived at the focal point for most of the protestors,

Tahrir Square, and began to dismantle the tents of opposition

activists who had been there for a fortnight. President Morsi's

critics want him to abandon powers he gave to himself. They are

calling for the draft constitution, which is being put to a draft

constitution later this month, to be dropped, saying the articles are

influenced by Sharia law. In the face of several high-profile

resignations, there are signs the Government is trying to find a

compromise over the constitution, but only after it has been voted on.

TRANSLATION: The door is open for people to reach an agreement and to

come with initiatives and alternatives. That's not good

enough for the opposition, who blamed the strife at the

President's door. TRANSLATION: What is happening at

the Presidential Palace at the moment - the violence - is an

announce frment the country and from the -- and from the country

and the President is they do not have this to the protection of the

country. Egyptians have suffered much since the Arab Spring first

began two years ago. As they take stock on Thursday, many will wonder

where they go from here. The next step from the President

will be a nation-wide address n which he is expected to call for

calm and adialogue with his opponents. Our correspondent in

Cairo says this probably will not impress the opposition.

They are expecting this statement will not make such a difference.

The President has not shown any signs of backing down. Yesterday,

they replied to the response from the Vice-President's initiative.

They said that they cannot accept this initiative because they said

they would ask for the cancellation of the decree that the President

issued and said it gave him a lot of sweeping power. They said they

want President Morsi to postpone the referendum, which will be held

on 15th of this month. Before this, they won't have any dialogue with

President Morsi or his Government. So the opposition here see this

will not make such a difference. Especially after the bloodshed that

continues until the early hours of this morning.

It has been confirmed at least 325 people have been killed by Typhoon

Bopha. The typhoon which battered the southern Philippines. Another

400 or so people are missing. Much of the damage seems to have been

concentrated in Compostella Valley, in eastern Mindanao. Aid workers

are trying to get to the most Three years old, yet a surviver of

the storm with speeds of 200kms per hour. Like many others, he's been

badly injured by Typhoon Bopha some people are still being found barely

alive among the mud and debris. Amid the relief, there's fresh

grief. The dead are also being found in the rubble. Compostella

Valley bore the brunt of the typhoon's force. It came through

the province, bringing heavy rains and floods across a vast area.

Officials are astonished at the scale of the damage. TRANSLATION:

We are all surprised. This is the first time we've had a super

typhoon like this. For those who survived, makeshift centres in

schools and halls provide temporary food and shelter. The survivors

face long-term problems too. These banana trees were someone's

livelihood. Now they are gone. Along with about 70% of all the

crops in this province. Right now, it's the human cost of this

disaster that's of utmost concern. From isolated corners of the

province, people are still arriving for medical care, food and water

and all the time the death toll continues to rise. So a lot of

people clearly in need of a lot of help. Joining us is Anna Lindenfors

from Save the Children. Anna, thank you for joining us. What is your

single biggest challenge at this point? Some of the areas are still

isolated due to landslides, so therefore have no electricity. It

is very difficult for us to reach them. That is the crucial thing now

- water and shelter for the people who are there. I suppose, until you

have reached all the isolate areas, we cannot get a full assessment of

how damaging this typhoon has proved to be? We have people on the

ground for two days. We are starting to get a good picture.

Most of the crops have been destroyed. It is likely this will

take a long time for people to get back to their normal lives. 25-30%

of the kids are normally under weight. In a situation like this,

we are very worried about the children, especially the youngest

ones. Anna, thank you very much. Sorry for the quality of the line

there. It was quite difficult to make out what Anna was saying there.

Attempts to hell in the Philippines still going on -- help in the

Philippines still going on. The Duchess of Cambridge has been

discharged from the King Edward VII Hospital in central London. She has

been treated there since Monday for severe morning sickness. Here she

is coming out with her bouquet of yellow flowers and of course her

husband as well. A brief smile there. Also at the hospital still

for us is our correspondent, who has been following these last four

days for us. She seemed pretty happy when she left? Yes. A smiling

Duchess. I think she looked slightly tentative though.

Certainly not the energy that we have become used to seeing when we

see the Duchess at various events, but yes, she was smiling and she

paused here for a moment or two with Prince William, so that the

photographers could take their pictures. I took the opportunity of

calling out and asked how she was feeling. She nodded and smiled and

said, "skach much better." They were into their car and off to

Kensington Palace, where she will be staying to r a period of rest.

It has been quite a week. I reported on an event last week in

Cambridge. They were very happy, very relaxed. That is when I think

the speculation began behind the scenes that a baby might be on the

horizon, because Prince William was given a baby grow by a member of

the public and seemed delighted with and asked his aid to keep for

him. I think there was a lot of surprise on Monday when the

announcement was made officially that not only was the Duchess

expecting a child, but she had been admitted here, to the King Edward

VII Hospital, suffering with this severe form of morning sickness. It

seems she must have fallen ill over the weekend when she was staying

with her parents in Berkshire, in the countryside, because on Friday

we had seen her running around a hockey pitch in high heels at her

old school. So, certainly no indication then that she was

expecting, let alone that she was feeling under the weather. And here,

there must have been a period of concern for the couple, because not

only is this their first pregnancy, but she has been suffering with

this condition and then the added stress of having to come public

with this pregnancy before the crucial 12-week point of the

pregnancy itself. So, a concerning time, I think, for them. Yes,

confirmation from the hospital that a radio station in Australia had

succeeded in making a prank call to a duty nurse. Quite a rollercoaster

for the royal couple these last few days. Finally she has been

discharged and she certainly looked quite healthy.

Thank you very much indeed. Aaron Heslehurst is here. It is the

battle of the giant, Apple verses Samsung - �1 billion on the table.

She can talk, can't she! Boy! The smartphone Titans are at it. They

are back into court today. Back in August, a jury bay licksy agreed

with Apple and said Samsung has infringed on your patents, they

awarded, the jury awarded Apple �1 billion, to be paid for by Samsung.

No surprises, they want the judge to overturn that verdict or reduce

the damages. Apple wants the judge to increase the damages and also

ban some of the smartphones. What is interesting behind this is high

the judge is reviewing it. According to Samsung, the foreman

of the jury, they say acted with deliberate dishonesty. They are

saying this member of the jury didn't tell them 20 years ago he

was part of a lawsuit against a company. That resulted in a company

having to have bankruptcy. Samsung was the minority stakeholder. What

is interesting also is the ebgts perts have been telling us this bat

-- experts have been telling us this is not just Apple and Samsung.

It is a bigger tech battle. What is happening now has more to do with

Apple and Google waging a proxy war. Google makes no money off of

Android, but they can go after the manufacturer, who by manufacturing

handsets are making money. Others and Google are playing this secret

chess game. OK, let's move on. It would help if I had my microphone

on. Hopefully you can hear me better now.

A deepening recession - it holds its monthly policy meeting later

this Thursday. You may remember back in September, it predicted the

economy in the region would shrink by half of 1% this year. Now it may

say there'll be no growth in 2013. This will be bad news for small and

medium-sized companies struggling to survive in a deepening recession

and find banks will not lend them money. The boss said banks were

failing to do their basic job. banks they are getting revitalised

on one hand. They are getting money from the central bank, but they do

not use it to perform the basic task, which is lending to

businesses. That is why there is a credit crunch. There is not a lack

of money, there is a lack of credit. Therefore, even a supervision

procedure of how banks act in the market, it is required. Some other

business stories - Rolls Royce says it has passed information to

Britain's Serious Fraud Office relating to concerns about bribery

and corruption overseas. We are talking about the world's number

two. Rolls Royce requested information about malpractice in

Indonesia and China. Standard Chartered will pay to settle a --

settlement. It is on top of the $450 million it paid to New York's

financial services in the third China makes products from mobile

phones to televisions and computer products, but often it's for

foreign companies. One Chinese brand is trying to challenge that.

Lenovo. They've just overtaken Hewlett-Packard to become the

world's biggest seller of personal computers. Rory Cellan-Jones sent

China, A Place In Love With Technology, where millions of

consumers are desperate to have the latest gadgets. Foreign brands like

Apple and Samsung are hugely popular here. The biggest force in

personal computers is now our home- grown company. Lenovo has just

overtaken HP, Hewlett-Packard, to become the world's biggest seller

of PCs. Now the company wants to become a global household name.

goal is one day Lenovo can be recognised as one of the most

valuable brands in the world. the Beijing headquarters, an

exhibition describes the history of a company that began in a post from

a 1984, then made a great leap forward eight years ago when it

bought IBM's PC business. But all- conquering Lenovo still lacks one

thing, the cool factor. And this is the man supposed to change all that.

Dawdle Dyer is the head of design. When he talks about a product, it

is from an executive, not a Lenovo man. -- Yao Yingjia. It really

touches the customer, the demotion. The want me to get emotional about

your products? Absolutely. This new flagship store seems strangely

reminiscent of Apple's retail operation, although the crowds are

yet to arrive. I've been using a popular Chinese social media site

and have just posted a picture I took at Lenovo's headquarters. The

company has this philosophy called before P's. Plan, perform,

prioritise and practice, but recently its added pioneer, pioneer

new ideas. Lenovo are no longer wants to be seen as just a copycat

business. How is that going? In a Beijing apartment we assembled a

trio of gadget fans to find out if they saw Lenovo as an innovator.

They brought along their favourite devices, but all were made by big,

foreign brands. And you never show your friend a Lenovo product and

say, look at my Lenovo product! would brag about it but a me

because of the Chinese product. We have lower standards for home-made

products. Back in the store, I tried out a new Lenovo gadget

rather similar to Microsoft's X-Box Kinect, which is banned from China.

Lenovo has grown mostly by building on American innovations. Now in the

fast-moving battle for consumers, it needs to show it's got some

Rory's groin injury is on the mend, Thank you for watching BBC World

News. Stay with us. The Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer has died

at the age of 104. He designed some of the 20th century's most famous

modernist buildings. He rose to fame as the architect of the main

futuristic designs of the Brazilian capital, Brasilia. Oscar Niemeyer

at work, Skipton his thoughts, as he had done since he was a little

boy. He was one of the world's greatest architects. A modernist

master who added a tropical twist. The creator of beautiful buildings

made from concrete and curves. TRANSLATION: When you have a large

space to conquer, the curve is the natural solution. I once wrote a

poem about it. The curve I find in the mountains of my country, in

this new business of its rivers, in the waves of the ocean and on the

body of the beloved woman. After leaving college, Oscar Niemeyer

joined up with a group of Brazilian architect. They were working with a

famous French architect who subsequently took Oscar Niemeyer

and a his wing. After the war, they collaborated on the United Nations

building in New York. Oscar Niemeyer's name was made. In 1956,

he received the commission of a lifetime. The then President of

Brazil asked him to design the public buildings of the country's

brand new capital city... Brasilia, the City of the future. But the

good times turned bad when a military coup in 1964 meant that

the openly Communist Oscar Niemeyer felt the need to leave Brazil for

Paris. He returned some years later and then, shortly before his 90th

birthday, produced this. The Museum of Contemporary Art in it to Roy, a

spectacular saucer-shaped masterpiece. Oscar Niemeyer never

stopped working or stopped believing that architecture could

make the world a better place, which most would agree in his case

it did. A military plane carrying 11 BUPA has crashed in a mountain

range in South Africa. It was an old do court -- Dakota. It came

down in stormy weather in the mountains. It had taken off from

Pretoria, heading for the Eastern Cape. It is very close to the

village where former President Nelson Mandela and now lives.

Defence officials said the wreckage The headlines. Five people died in

fighting on the streets of Cairo between the supporters and

opponents of President Morsi. The army, which is loyal to the

President, has sent tanks to the presidential palace. 325 people are

now known to have died in a powerful typhoon that swept across

the southern and central Philippines. The former Thai Prime

Minister is to face prosecution for murder. He and his former deputy

are being charged over the death of a taxi driver who was shot by

soldiers. This was during clashes back in 2010, which read should

supporters, who are opposed to his government. The taxi driver was one

of more than 80 people who lost their lives during months of

violence in central Bangkok. Our correspondent is in Bangkok. It's

the only case so far were the courts have actually ascribe

responsibility for any of those deaths. This has been the source of

a lot of criticism from human rights groups, that for all of the

talk about reconciliation, Thailand so far has been blamed for

those deaths, which human rights groups say were primarily caused by

soldiers being ordered to open fire and using huge amounts of live fire

to Bridcutt protests. Back in September, a court here did for the

first time adjudicate on this one case of the taxi-driver, they found

that soldiers were responsible, they had killed him using their

arms. This case follows from that. As a result of that, they have been

police in charge of the investigation saying they have to

go to those who issued the orders. Those responsible were the Prime

Minister and his deputy, who was in charge of the committee that was

overseeing this state of emergency at the time. They are saying it was

only natural for the charge to follow that court case. The

supporters are crying foul, saying the whole thing is politically

charged. Ultimately they believe the police are now under the

influence of the current government, which has led 5 Thaksin Shinawatra,

the man who was supported by those protesters. It's a politically

charged atmosphere and, frankly, it's impossible to imagine any

legal case going forward that will not be condemned by one side or the

other. This is the first charge relating to those deaths, the first

murder charge. It's got about as high as it can. Rescue teams

searching for seven missing sailors in the North Sea say the body of

one man has been spotted in the water. They say it's very unlikely

the others will be found alive because of the poor weather

conditions. Four other crew members have already been found dead. This

is after two cargo ships collided off the Netherlands Belgium Coast.

One vessel, the Baltic Ace, which was carrying cars, has sunk. The

second ship was not badly damaged. Three Dutch teenagers are appearing

in court in connection with the death of a football linesman, after

an amateur football match. He had been acting in a game between his

son's team and an Amsterdam club. He had gone on to the pitch to

shake hands when he was surrounded and kicked in the head by a group

of players. His son witnessed the attack. Two 15 year-olds and a 16-

year-old were arrested. Right, too late challenge that's been named

the coldest journey. It involves six months of crossing hostile

terrain in temperatures as low as minus 90 Celsius. From the Thames

at the Tower to one of the most inhospitable places on earth. For

some Ranulph Fiennes, this is an immense challenge. You go up 10,000

ft through the Carreras to the south pole and then take a dog-leg

that way, a 10,000 ft drop, over this huge eyes shaft where captain

Scott died 100 years ago, and then to the coastline here. We filmed

them training for this back in February, close to the Arctic

Circle. Two men will ski upfront, checking for crevasses. Behind them,

in the near permanent darkness, two bulldozers will drag their supplies.

And here they are being loaded on board. To get the permit to attempt

this, the team has to be self- sufficient. Dragging their supplies

is the only way they can guarantee that. Those bulldozers are going to

drag three of these huge sledges. On top of the sledges are going to

be three shipping containers, modified. This one is a science lab

and two of them have living quarters inside. If anything goes

wrong on this most dangerous of journeys, living inside these could

save their lives. The vehicles are a bigger potential problem than the

people. Minus 80 could be damaged to lung tissue when you are

breathing in and skiing, but in the vehicle's YouGov steel and rubber

which don't like minus 70, never mind when they are to win