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This is BBC World News Today with me Zeinab Badawi. Dozens dying in

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homes and on the streets of Europe. As the severe cold weather claims

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more lives today, we ask why the authorities seem an able to stop

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the deaths. Tensions high in Egypt as the

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football stadium deaths give fresh impetus to political protests.

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Have we vastly underestimated the number of malaria deaths worldwide?

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A new study claims the disease is killing twice as many people as we

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think. Also coming up: Footballer John

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Terry is stripped of the England captaincy. He will not lead the

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squad until his trial over racial abuse allegations is over. He

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denies the charges. And the critics of Russia's

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Vladimir Putin who claimed the country's voting system is loaded

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Hello and welcome. Many countries in Europe remain covered in snow

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and ice and the number of people dying from hyperthermia is

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continuing to rise. The intense cold has caused around 100 deaths

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in Ukraine in the last week and at least 37 people have died in Poland.

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Most of the dead are homeless or poor people living in rural

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villages. Steve Rosenberg in Moscow it takes a look at the big freeze

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gripping Europe. Southern Russia is looking more

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like the North Pole. Heavy snowfall has blocked the main roads. Dozens

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of cars and lorries are stranded. This ambulance driver says he

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urgently needs to get his patient to intensive care, but they are

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stuck in snow with no idea when they will reach a hospital. There

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are travel problems in the Russian Far East where temperatures in

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places have fallen to minus 50. The big freeze has caused big problems

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for anyone needing a fairy. The Pacific has frozen over. The ice is

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more than a metre thick. You have to find another way across if you

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are brave enough. The colt is more than just an inconvenience. It is

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claiming lives. Officials say that last month's 64 Russians died from

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the cold weather. Emergency teams will now be patrolling the streets

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to make sure the homeless are not in danger. But the situation seems

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even more desperate across Eastern Europe. In Ukraine more than 100

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people have died in the past week as a result of the freezing weather.

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Most of the victims had been living on the streets. Hundreds more have

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been hospitalised suffering from hypothermia and frostbite.

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Emergency crews have set up special heating and food shelters. More

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than 30 people have died in Poland. One of the coldest places was this

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city. Across Eastern Europe the cold is causing power shortages. It

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is forcing schools to close, sparking transport chaos and

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endangering lives. Let's talk a bit more about this

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and Freik Spinnewijn is a director of the European Federation of

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National Organisations working with the homeless, an organisation known

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as Feantsa. Do you think, I know it is difficult you cannot get

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evidence, there will be more deaths from hypothermia because there are

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more people homeless as a result of the financial crisis? There is

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definitely more people that are homeless because of the crisis. If

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there are more people dying, it is difficult to see, it not only

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depends on the weather, but it is important because we have seen an

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increase in the number of homeless people. How can you tell that? Are

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there people presenting themselves are to hostels? Each country is

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starting to collect data and there is an increase, but we also know

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from our members that there is quite an important increase in

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demand for services like Shelter and accommodation and we see that

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especially in countries that have been hit by the crisis such as

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Greece and Spain. What happens with homeless people in severe cold

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weather conditions? Surely they do not try to sleep on the streets

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because they know that could kill them. Exactly, it's basically comes

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down to a shortage in emergency accommodation, a simple shortage of

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beds where people can find shelter from the cold. It is a question of

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political will. I do not think it could be that difficult to make

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sure there is sufficient bed space available for these people. Are you

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calling on governments across Europe to try to do more? It is not

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the cold weather killing them. Sweden is a very cold country, but

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people do not died on the streets. It is interesting to see that in

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countries where it tends to be cold they do not see so many homeless

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people dying from the cold. It is possible to address it. It is not

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just Feantsa calling for countries to do enough to make sure people do

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not die, but it is also the European Parliament that has on

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repeated occasions asked for things to be done to make sure people do

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not died due to lack of accommodation. Anger is boiling

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over again in the Egyptian capital Cairo over the deaths of the 74

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people in football violence on Wednesday. These are live pictures

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from Tahrir Square where thousands have been gathering all day. Just

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off the square there have been running battles between police and

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protesters and our reporter in Cairo says one protester, maybe two,

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have died from tear gas inhalation and two others died earlier in Suez.

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Activists have declared today a day of anger and many are blaming the

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security forces for the deaths in the Football station in Port Said.

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They believe the fans from Cairo were deliberately targeted because

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of their prominent role in the revolution. Let's get more from

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Yolande Knell. Other protesters still out there? They are still out

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there in large numbers in Tahrir Square itself where people are

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seemingly planning to camp out for the night. They have re-established

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the campsite in the middle of the roundabout. Things are relatively

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calm, but if you go onto the side streets approaching the Interior

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Ministry and that is where we are continuing to see these

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confrontations between angry, young fans, mostly young men, hurling

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rocks at the please and the police responding by using large

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quantities of tear gas. That is what we could see through the day

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and field hospitals around Tahrir Square say they have seen it many

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injuries from the use of the tear gas. Perhaps one person has been

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killed we understand. The death toll from today stands at two

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people killed from the latest clashes and two people killed in

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Suez overnight who were shot. Hundreds have been injured, the

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official figure from two days of violence in different places around

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the country and its stands at around 2300 according to the health

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ministry. The biggest single incident of violence since the

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revolution. What is the focus of those people in Tahrir Square? Who

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is the focus of their anger? Directly their anger is focus at

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the police who they believed were negligent, who stood by and were

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deliberately negligent on Wednesday night in that violence at the Port

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Said football stadium. Certainly from the television pictures from

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that night you could see there was a relatively small deployment of

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police officers and they stood by while hundreds of thousands of al-

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Masry home fans stormed the pitch and targeted the al-Ahly fans and

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Pune players. People are also very angry at the ruling military and

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they are continuing to demand a faster transfer to fall, civilian

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rule. Up to now the military has been keeping to a timetable and it

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will hand over full power to a civilian led Government by the

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middle of the Year after presidential elections have taken

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place. People want that timetable speeded up. There have been many

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protests about continuing military rule, but now we also have a new

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parliament partly elected, and these new parliamentarians, mostly

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Islamists, have had been using the latest events to put more pressure

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themselves on the Military Council and have been making accusations

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about their poor handling of affairs and the lack of law and

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order in the country. Now some other news. The growing tensions

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between Sudan and South Sudan, President Omar Bashir says the

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climate is closer to one of war and peace with neighbouring South Sudan.

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He was speaking on state television a day after the south Sudanese

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President Salva Kiir also warned that renewed conflict could erupt.

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The United Nations has declared the Thanet in Somalia is now over. They

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have downgraded the situation to a humanitarian emergency. Conditions

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have improved because of a good harvest and significant

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international aid, but a third of the population needs emergency

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support. The hacking network Anonymous has released a recording

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of a phone call between the FBI and British police in which they

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discuss efforts against hacking. The FBI says it has launched an

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investigation. But Cabinet minister Chris Huhne has quit his post as

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Energy Secretary after learning he will be charged over allegations

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that he asked his ex-wife to take a speeding penalty for him to escape

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a driving ban. They are being prosecuted for

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allegedly perverting the course of justice.

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NASA has released new pictures of a galaxy which could tell us more

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about where we lived. The Hubble space telescope has taken pictures

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of a barred spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way.

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One of the world's most deadly diseases, malaria, is killing twice

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as many people than previously thought according to the Lancet.

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The research suggests the total number of people dying from the

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mosquito borne disease is declining. The study by researchers in the

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United States and Australia was funded by the Bill and Melinda

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Gates Foundation. We already knew it malaria was a

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killer, taking hundreds of thousands of lives each year, most

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of them are young children in sub- Saharan Africa. According to this

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new study the number of victims may be higher still. The researchers

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say 1.2 mean the end people died in 2010. That figure nearly doubled

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previous estimates from the World Health Organisation. The research

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also shows 42% of deaths from malaria were in older Jordan and

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adults, much higher than previously thought. Trying to accurately

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estimate the number of deaths caused by this mosquito borne

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disease is extremely difficult due largely to the poor quality of the

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data kept in those countries where malaria kills most. The authors of

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this new study used a new data and complex computer mapping to try and

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build a more precise picture. They also looked at deaths which they

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believe have been wrongly attributed to other causes.

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Although 2010 may look worse than it was thought, the new study

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suggests malaria deaths peaked in 2004 with a decline since

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attributed to major investments in prevention and health care made by

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international donors like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. More

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bed nets, and better disease monitoring are having an impact,

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even if far too many children and adults are still dying.

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We can speak to the co-ordinator of the strategy, economics and

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elimination team at the World Health Organisation's global

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malaria programme. I asked why there was a discrepancy in the

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figures. The major difference arises because of the number of

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deaths attributed to those aged five and over in sub-Saharan Africa.

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If you look at the other age groups, the under fives, the differences

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are not that substantial and the uncertainty by which these things

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are measured is great. The Rangers of the two sets of estimates

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overlap quite a lot. Statistically they are not different. But is it

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not different for children over the age of five and adults? Is that not

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where you have not got your figures right? Well, I think you have to be

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careful because these are estimates. It is very difficult to estimate

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the numbers of people who died from any cause of death, but that is

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particularly true of malaria, because the systems for recording

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deaths from malaria are weakest where malaria is most common. In

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order to derive the number of deaths we have to estimate rather

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than count. When we estimate there is always a large amount of

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uncertainty around those estimates. Is it not possible that people are

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dying as a result of malaria and it is compromising the system, making

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them more vulnerable to illnesses which may be recorded as the cause

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of death? Your way of trying to work out who is dying from malaria

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We need to improve systems for recording of malaria and every

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suspected case of malaria should get a diagnostic test. And secondly

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we advocate the strength Lane of surveillance systems, better

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recording and reporting of cases and deaths and we work with the

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various countries to do this. When it comes to the estimates in the

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Lancet we think it has been -- there has been over diagnosis so

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many of the deaths counted as malaria were not in fact malaria.

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There was the World Health Organisation in Geneva. The English

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Football Association has confirmed that John Terry has been stripped

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of the captaincy of the national team until after his trial over

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allegations that he racially abused a black player during a match last

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year. John Terry has consistently denied the charge. Mihir Bose is a

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Sport Correspondent for the Evening Standard and he joins me now in the

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studio. This would have dogged England's every move, it was

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inevitable? It was and the f eight have to show it is governing the

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sport. Later on this month the FA will report to the British Sports

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Minister on governments and not long ago the same minister said

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football is the worst governed sport in the country. In the

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context of what was happening, a sensitive and a serious charge,

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John Terry is innocent until proven guilty but the charges serious. A

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trial soon after the European Championships, the trial hanging

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over it and having made the nature of the captain seat so symbolically

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important, it gives the wrong message and the FA did not want to.

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The man he is accused of racially abusing Anton Ferdinand, Rio

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Ferdinand has been named as a possible successor. Rio Ferdinand

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defeated he does not want it. There is a question whether Anton

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Ferdinand would shake the hand of John Terry. No handshakes took

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place. These are symbolic gestures taking place. It is a background of

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the emergence of racism in a way which has surprised the football

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authorities. They are trying to share their governing the sport and

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are in charge and making the right decisions. He will succeed him as

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captain? At the moment, difficult to say. Fabio Capello the Italian

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coach is surprised how important English football took the captaincy.

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He would decide, John Terry -- Rio Ferdinand could have been a choice

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but says he doesn't want it. John Terry denies the allegations but

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how bad is racism in football today? Recently I looked at

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grassroots football and there raised a lot of racism. It is

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complex racism, the sort of racism that disfigured English football in

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the 1980s, that has gone, monkey chants and throwing bananas but

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there is still some racism. This does not mean John Terry is guilty.

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He is still an innocent man but there are elements of racism

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problems in the game which has not been eradicated.

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Tens of thousands of people are expected to march through Moscow

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again tomorrow as part of the ongoing protests against fraud in

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December's parliamentary elections. With only a month to go before the

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Presidential poll, Russia's voting system is still a raw topic for

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some as the Prime Minister Vladimir Putin tries to return to the

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presidency. Our Moscow Correspondent Daniel Sandford has

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been investigating why some people claim his ruling United Russia

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There has been a backing off in the new year in the battle to clean up

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Russia's elections. This was a raid by democracy activists where

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hundreds of signatures were being forged on the nomination papers of

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a presidential candidate. With the presidential elections only a month

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away, hundreds of volunteers are training to be election observers,

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many are fired up by the stories about cheating in December's

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parliamentary vote. Stories like that of these students who were

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approached to join a carousel, a group of young people paid to go

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around illegally voting again and again for Vladimir Putin. They made

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sure the whole thing was secretly filmed by an undercover journalist.

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TRANSLATION: We would go into each polling station and go to table one

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or two and show the passport. When the person saw it he knew what

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to do. And gave us a ballot paper without the usual explanation about

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how to vote. This was one of the many polling stations where the

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young couple voted that day. It was on a list of over 40 in this area

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alone where they were told to save the game. It gives you an idea of

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the scale of the institutional conspiracy to rig the election.

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Although he was an official observer, par felt watched as the

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result that his polling station was changed after the count. The ruling

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party gained 80 votes, the other parties lost 20 votes each. It was

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my first time but it was much worse than I expected. I was so upset

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that on the night before the elections I could not go to bed so

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I took time writing a report and was posted on the internet. It was

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these examples of blatant cheating that brought tens of thousands of

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protesters out onto the streets of Moscow in December and will

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tomorrow. He is a statistician who says the overall effect of the

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fraud was critical to the outcome. The official result was 49.3% and

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statistical analysis gives us something between 34 and 39%.

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percentage points cheating. Yes. It is cheating and this means Russia

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has no majority. Vladimir Putin has been tainted by his party's crude

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vote rigging. A giant banner appeared reading Putin go. He is

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still Russia's most popular politician and a little can stop

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him returning to the Kremlin. Over the past fortnight we've been

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taking an occasional look at the lives of the super rich. Well today

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we're joined by someone who certainly falls into that category.

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Jamie Johnson is one of the great- grandsons of Robert Wood Johnson

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the First the co-founder of the Johnson & Johnson consumer product

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company. He's made two documentaries about wealth and the

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rich, and he currently writes a weekly online column for Vanity

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Fair called "The One Percent". He joins as naff all New York.

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Della kits at Davos said the gap between the haves and have-nots was

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the defining issue of our day. Do you agree? I do agree. More and

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more people are becoming aware of the disparity in wealth between the

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people at the bottom of the ladder and the people at the tops. In the

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United States to see more tension over the issue. Occupy Wall Street

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really has forced people to recognise there's a great disparity.

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And nothing more and more we will hear more about it as the election

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evolves for the run-up to the White House. And you personally, you are

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one of the heirs to this great fortune, do you feel a bit self-

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conscious about being a member of the super rich?

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Personally I do not. In my case I have made films about wealth and

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social class, I have included myself in the films. I have been

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straightforward about wealth in my own life. I have also thought a

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great deal about it and some of the privileges that go along with

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wealth and some of the attitudes towards rich people. They can be

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negative and positive. It is not something I am uncomfortable with.

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What things did you come up with? What are your attitudes towards

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rich people like yourself? What are your reflections on having a huge

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amounts of wealth? Well in my case it is a great

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privilege. It has done amazing things for me but more than

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anything It provides choices, the ability to pursue a career that is

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interesting, I do not have to worry about paying the bills. That makes

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a big difference. And the main point is there is a sense of

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freedom. Do you think because of what is going on, the gap between

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the haves and have-nots, conspicuous consumption and the

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ostentatious flaunting of wealth is something the super rich really are

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avoiding or are they still doing that? I think people are aware of

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it in terms of some of the things they do with their public relations

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save people are conscious of it and want to create the perception at

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times they are not as rich as they are. On the other hand, what you

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are really seeing his people that are super rich are not really

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experiencing it as a recession. I think if you go into affluent

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circles in the US life seems to be going along as usual, where you see

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people hit the hardest of the low end of the economic spectrum.

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Briefly, is it fair, unfair, what do you think? Well, it is not fair,

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nobody would make that argument. You would not hear me make that

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argument. OK, thank you very much for talking to us. And for being so

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frank! Before we go, the main news: the

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death toll from the extreme weather continues to rise as the Continent

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remains blanketed by snow and ice. More than 100 people have died in

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the Ukraine and 37 people have died in Poland. Crowds of protestors

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have gathered in Tahrir Square in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, to

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