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>> thanks for being with us. more an 70 people dead. another 1,000 or so injured. that's the toll after clashes broke out among rival football fans. many poured on to the pitch. the security forces are being heavily criticized for failing to step in. three days of mourning are following. >> supporters of the football club gathered late into the night welcoming back injured fellow fans and received some of the bodies from port said. they angrily vowed revenge for the deaths. and some of the al-ahly players

were received. >> with the results of this investigation, each one will take his punishment and we will know why and who caused this tragedy. >> the deadly violence broke out at the end of the game between al alive and a team from port said. as the gahm ended supporters from the al-masry side stormed the al-ahly fans and many were killed in the stampede trying to get out. questions are already being asked about whether it was incompetence or worse. the muslim brotherhood, egypt's

brotherhood accused remnants of the mubarak to be behind the scenes in a dark attempt to provoke chaos. they played a heavy role in confronting security forces but violence between rival football supporters are also common and the police were chased off the streets in the revolution, and egypt is becoming a country that is very hard to govern. >> this is the morning after the night before. the stadium in port said where the violence broke out as we have been telling you more than 70 people dead as a result. many who died were actually caught in a crush. some say after gunshots were fired in the air that led to a certain level of panic leading

to crushings and a how the st. injured as -- and 1,000 injuried as well. i spoke to a political columnist in cairo to get his view as to how all this came to pass. he told us why he felt the police hadn't taken a more active role during the violence. >> well, i will give it one single reason. that was the police force is not make what's supposed to do in such occasion. and that's happening because of the numbers of the audience in the patch. and -- audience in the match and also they are very much curtailed in using their abilities in dealing with these kind of mass moves. >> i'm sorry, i'll interrupt you there.

is that a case of inadequate manpower, incompetence or a political element? standing back and letting it happen? >> it is a political element to the contrary of what you're saying, because the police force has been under a great stress in here, going around the country with little financial and all other capabilities around the things continue week after week after week, and a lot of criminal acts, and many criminals that were open and prisoners came out and burning buildings, so their powers are scattered thin in one hand and also they are faced with a media, plus trials. usually it ends in exonerating them from using excessive

force. however, it takes time on the police and their families. so then the result is that the police don't know exactly what they should do, should they use power or not to use it? and they didn't come to the right balance. and also they are blamed. second importantly, i guess is now we have a sickness in the country, i will say that everything is always by mass groups. not to mention, of course, the soccer matches, but as to the sense that you get to have a kind of revenge. >> thank you, just got a picture here of parliament in cairo. an emergency session to consider what happened, how it happened, who might be at fault, muslim brotherhood with the majority in parliament has

laid the blame at the door of security forces and indeed mubarak supporters. that is the word coming from the muslim brotherhood. three days of mourning in egypt on the back of the violence there in port said. other stories for you now on "bbc world news." 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. the government insisted the president has immunity from prosecution while he is head of state. more details for us now. >> yes. it looks like the prime minister will be in the dock soon. he's been told to appear in person on the 13th of february to answer these contempt charges. he did make a previous appearance in january. at that time he relied heavily

on the argument that while in office he enjoyed immunity and i'm sure that's why he will explain to the court why he didn't follow orders. the supreme court told the government here to take action to revise these old corruption cases, particularly the case against the president. that goes back more than a decade. these charges were in switzerland. the president and his late wife were convicted back in 2003 of laundering millions of dollars and in kickbacks from swiss companies. they appealed against that conviction. it was set aside on appeal and the case was rising, but then the pakistani authorities instructed the swiss legal authorities to drop the case. the supreme court here subsequently said no, we want that case reopen. it struck down a controversial amnesty that had been introduced which allowed that case and thousands others to be

shelved. now the prime minister has to go to court and explain why he did not follow that order. it's the latest twist in a political crisis which has been brewing other the past month and could see the government brought down. >> as many as 350 people have sunk off the eastern coast of papua, new guinea. more than 200 survivors have been pulled from the sea. that's the good news. the operator of the ferry says it lost contact with the rebel queen after it sent a distress signal. our correspondent is watching from sydney and says it's impossible to know what happened to those unaccounted for. >> the numbers range from 300 to 350. the latest rescue numbers we have are about 219, which even if you take the conservative figure of 300 means 80-plus people are still missing.

with darkness now in the area. i spoke to the emergency authorities a few moments ago asking if the rescue operation will continue into the darkness. they have had eight ships and helicopters and one australian ship. whether they can all operate at night or if they want to operate at night, the people i spoke to simply didn't know but a major rescue operation encouraging with more than 200 rescued but still an awful lot of people unaccounted for with the sinking of the ferry. >> how the happened, it's difficult to know. the prime minister papua, new guinea said the cause of it was unknown. earlier i spoke to a different emergency rescue worker. he said it could be one of three causes, bad whether,

weather, an overloaded ferry or a combination. the weather at the time was said to be bad although now it's much better, which is why i think they rescued so many people but he simply couldn't look at the prime minister and say why it happened. ferries in those areas are known to be overcrowded, but whether that played a part in this plarp accident, we don't know. >> facebook has gone ahead. it's offering itself for sale. but at least an understanding of what we can buy into. >> saying he might come up with some sort of unconventional way but doesn't seem so. unlike google who was a little more daring. he is going very straightforward on his i.p.o. wanting to make the world a more open and connected place. but when it comes down to finances, it's pretty

straightforward. what also he did reveal is how effective he was at making money. some thought perhaps revenues weren't quite as high as they ought to be. facebook takes about 28% of all online advertising in materials of quantity. in terms of actual advertising spent it only takes 16%. that's quite a lot less. so people think perhaps it's just not making the most of the kind of advertising that's coming its way at the moment. the moment it generates about $5 per active user on its site. compared with google, it generates $27 per active user. >> that makes you feel good as it has a lot more to develop. >> and under world business news. >> thank you. >> to beijing as the german

chancellor is on a visit to china where she wants to use their influence to persuade iran to give up its nuclear program. angela merkel will be updating those on the euro crisis and is expected to call for more chinese investment in europe. let's move on. on saturday, tens of thousands of are expected to march and demand fair elections of vladimir putin. if he goes beyond moscow, there are farther signs of more support for mr. putin. to the heart land of the euro mountain finding out what those there think of mr. putin. >> here every day looks like

arm feden. this is a -- arm geten. this is a town which never stops burning. churning out iron and steel. the snow here is black with pollution, but people's lives depend on the factory and instability which they fear most. the new evgeni kozlov has worked at the plants for 50 years and set up a workers committee to back vladimir putin for president. the protests in moscow don't reflect the mood of russia, evgeni says. working people don't want revolution. we want stability. that's why we support putin. at the tank factory up the road they pledged their loyalty to mr. putin live on tv. >> coming to moscow with his meat to take on the anti-government protesters. evgeni and the metal workers

aren't marching on moscow but today they are taking the train to the capital. there they join how the st.s of other workers across the euros at a pro putin rally. there are no white ribbons, the trademark of mr. putin's oppositions. they wear the worker's glove. >> this is protesting against those protesting against the government. showing away from the capital, russia's working capital still has faith in vladimir putin. >> but the crowd here was smaller than organizers promised, and some of what we saw seemed staged panged. 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 said

they only traveled to the rally because they were offered extra days off work and free train tickets. so just how popular really is vladimir putin? in rush a's industrial heart sfland 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. >> we'll see. well, you're watching "bbc world news." i'm david eades. plenty under still to bring you not at the least more prices for petrol. it's making fortunes for some people in the gulf state. we'll have more on that. >> six people have died. more than 70 have been injured after a bomb exploded outside the police station in colombia. it occurred in the port and happened at lunchtime. the area was packed with

people. the bomb appears to have been planted inside a motor bike. no group has claimed responsibility. the creator and host of the long running american music show "soul train" has been found dead. don cornelius is said to have shot himself. he was one of the first show casing black musicians. including marvin gay and aretha franklin. >> and transporting ice in pat goenya, police suspect the ice was going to be used to make gourmet ice cubes for use in up market bars in isn't a yeaho. >> you're watching "bbc world news." i'm david eades. the headlines this hour. a riot at a football match in egypt has killed more than 70 people and left up to 1,000

injured. a three-day period of national mourning has been declared. pakistan's prime minister yousuf raza gilani will face charges over his failure to reopen a corruption case against the president. here with news of a name which resonates through boxing. muhammad ali but angelo dundee, not far behind. >> the man credited with helping muhammad ali to become champion has died at age 90 of a heart attack. you can see him there. his face highlighted. always in allie's corner. just two fights he missed between 1960 and 1981. and just last month he was at muhammad ali's birthday celebration. last year he was talking to the bbc about his career with muhammad ali.

>> boxing is a great sport, and i'd like to see it flourish like it did when i had a great time with muhammad ali and sugar ray leonard. i feel blessed and lucky and i'm happy i got the life i had. give it a shot, whatever you got going for. you got to give it ooh shot. if you don't, you can't look back and say hey i should have tried it. if it's not going to be, it's not going to be. but give whatever you're doing at the time a good shot. >> well, even at 89, you get it all, don't you? so full of energy and full of stories. >> and such a character as well, and that's what we're hearing from the boxing world. that he was just full of life and an intragoodwill part of muhammad ali's career and 15 other world champions he worked with including sugar ray leonard and george foreman. >> yes.

thank you. >> well, the man known as the godfather of dutch crime has voweded to stay in amsterdam after being proceed to from the prison in the netherlands. there's a hollywood version in the making of his life. more from amsterdam. >> a fictionnal adaptation of a real-life crime. the man who unwith itingly inspired this movie has been released. he is recognized as one of the most powerful figures in the dutch underworld and as far as the crime fiction goes apparently he makes the perfect criminal. >> he has this aura around him of being almost untouchable. we are attracted to -- by people who do things like that. one way or another, we think they are exciting. >> away from amsterdam,

torturists friendly surface, this hides a dark and murky past >> during the late 1970's and 190's, money trafficking was big business, but it was the later crime that made it one of the most notorious in dutch hith. >> this was the abandoned warehouse where they terrorized the beer company owner anheiser. >> there was a scene with a mock execution. they put the gun to heineken and he said they had to stay in the dark chained up. >> eventually after three weeks in captivity, heineken and his

driver were rescued from police. most of his colleagues have been locked up, killed or fled country. for many it's safer on the inside than out here. >> military officials in the philippines say they have killed three top leaders of the al qaeda linked terrorist groups. a military operation took place early on thursday on the island. one of the leaders, a malaisian had $5 million reward put up by the u.s. for his killing or capture. the past year has been pretty tough on the global economy. european and debt chris siss and the tsunami in japan that didn't help and then the turbulence of the arab spring all pushing up oil prices to well over $100 a barrel. now reporting from the united arab emirates. ♪ the best things in life are

free but you can give them to the birds and bees i want money ♪ >> none this part of the world is a national pastime whether it's shopping in one of the world's biggest malls or a multimillion dollar penthouse. for those with the pocket there's plenty of temptations. >> with a nice combination. >> a and one man who knows a thing or two is can a does he have, he dines rolls-royce's for the elite including this one inspired and has a camel themed interior. >> from inside when you open the door, you see the combination. so if we will not break here. >> he heads up the biggest selling department for rolls-royce. interested? it comes with a price tag of

nearly half a million dollars. people here still have money. oil is more than $100 a barrel and oil exports is relationshipping the benefits. >> this area has the largest concentration of wealthy in the world. >> we see growth in welfare and wealth in the middle east. it's over 10% individuals more than if i region in the world other than africa, it's even higher growth rate than asia. >> usually when oil prices rise, that's translated into higher spending in government both at home and abroad, but with so much political turmoil going on, spending is being focused domestically, governments are keeping people happy. >> there's been a significant increase in public growth and salaries. you can translate that the

effect of higher oil prices. the benefits that come from being a winner in a game of rising commodity prices. >> yes. absolutely. like usual. [laughter] >> for him, it's good news for him and his government. their faces say it all. >> you will find smiling faces, but the price is you got more confidence for the future, because it's the time to spend now. >> the region can't escape global turmoil forever but the super rich can definitely keep the party going far little bit longer. from the united arab emirates. >> very nice, too. i want to take you back to the situation in egypt. really the aftermath of the violence at port said at the stadium there. if we have a look inside the stadium, you will just get a sense, a rather haunting sense of watched there to remind you

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