BBC News with Marion Marshall.

Finance ministers from the 17 countries using the euro are making last-minute attempts in Brussels to prevent the collapse of the banking system in Cyprus. The European Central Bank has warned it would suspend emergency funding for Cypriot banks unless a new plan is agreed by Monday. Christian Fraser is in Brussels.

The Cypriots feel they've been very badly done, too, in the words of, as one Cypriot MP, they feel like they're

negotiating

with a gun to the head. But the equally strong rhetoric from the Germans. Wolfgang Schaeuble, who came into the meeting tonight, said that he wanted to help the Cypriot, also said that he wanted a sense of realism from the Cypriots. And up to all that, in the financial times tonight, difficulties have been reported in the relationship between the IMF and the European commission who were the two key brokers in these bailout deals.

Rebels in the Central Africa Republic have taken control of the capital Banqui seizing the presidential palace. A spokesman for the Seleka rebel

coalition

Eric Massi spoke to the BBC. "Seleka occupies all strategic points and has taken control of the capital. The chairman of the Seleka will make a statement to the nation in the coming hours. Our priorities for now, to reinstall security throughout the national territory, we called on all forces of the nation to unite, to rebuild the country." President Francois Bozize has fled the city. Government officials in the neighbouring Democratic Republican of Congo said the president and his family had arrived there. A humanitarian worker in Banqui described the situation as chaotic.