turmoil.
The generals who've ruled for the last year have repeatedly accused foreign hands of stirring up protests and trying to
destabilise
the country.
A new campaign has been launched in Saudi Arabia to urge women to legally challenge the ban on them driving. The woman who's led efforts to overturn the ban, Manal al-Sharif, made the announcement on her website. There she explains how other Saudi women can follow her example in seeking legal action.
Much of Europe continues to suffer from freezing temperatures and heavy snowfall. Stephen Evans has been monitoring events from Berlin.
Ukraine has been hardest hit with temperatures falling to -33C. The government there said that more than 130 people had died, many of them homeless. In Bosnia, helicopters have been ferrying food to isolated villages and also moving sick people in the capital Sarajevo, where the transport system has literally frozen to a
standstill
. In neighbouring Serbia, officials said that 70,000 people remain cut off. Even in Rome, there's been snow, the heaviest fall in more than a quarter of a century.
At the Vatican, the Pope greeted pilgrims in an overcoat and said he hoped spring would come soon.
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A fire has broken out at a nuclear research centre in Moscow. Officials say the blaze started in an area where cables were housed away from any
fissile material
. However, environmentalists have expressed concern about the incident.