They are mistaken, because the more your president is being beaten, the more he fights back, especially if he is protecting the poor and the downtrodden."Removing the President would require one-third of congressmen and two-thirds of the Senate to support the impeachment motion, but Mr Estrada's government holds a majority in both houses."It is us who have the numbers," congressman Danilo Suarez of the ruling coalition said. "When voting time comes, the impeachment case will not fly."But the presence on the streets of large numbers of demonstrators is an important omen in a country where Cori Aquino's "People Power" movement of 1986 brought down the former dictator, Ferdinand Marcos.. In the latest bizarre twist in the case of Lucie Blackman, the English bar hostess who went missing in Tokyo, a man alleged to have inducted her into a religious cult has been revealedas a real person, employed in the nightclub district where she worked, rather than a made-up character, as first thought. In the latest bizarre twist in the case of Lucie Blackman, the English bar hostess who went missing in Tokyo, a man alleged to have inducted her into a religious cult has been revealedas a real person, employed in the nightclub district where she worked, rather than a made-up character, as first thought. The day after Ms Blackman's disappearance, her best friend received a telephone call from a man calling himself Akira Takagi, who claimed that she was undergoing "training" with a religious group and would not be seen again. At the time, the call was assumed to have been a hoax, intended to throw investigators off the trail. But it turns out that there is at least one Akira Takagi, working as a barman in the Tokyo district of Roppongi."Frankly, my behaviour is not always the best, and that's why somebody came up with the idea of using my name," Mr Takagi, who is described as being in his fifties, told the Japanese news agency Kyodo.Japanese television news programmes have also broadcast interviews with another man named Akira Takagi, said to be a former bank employee turned translator.

He also denies any connection with Ms Blackman, who disappeared on 1 July after going for a seaside drive with a man she had met at the bar where she worked.The existence of the various Takagis is symptomatic of the confusion surrounding the case, which appeared to be reaching a conclusion a week ago when police arrested Joji Ohara, a property owner aged 48. Mr Ohara, who is said tobe denying the accusations against him, has been held by Tokyo police since Friday, for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting a 23-year-old Canadian four years ago.He is suspected of having drugged and raped as many as 20 women, Japanese as well as Western, at a seaside flat in the town of Zushi. From his various properties, in Tokyo and along the coast, police have recovered 2,000 individual items, including home-made videos of apparent rapes and sleeping drugs. Mobile phones he is suspected of having used as gifts to lure his victims into his apartment have also been seized.More sinisterly, they have also found blonde hairs superficially resembling those of Ms Blackman. Japanese media have reported the existence of a motorboat hastily bought by Mr Ohara shortly before his arrest, provoking speculation that he may have murdered her and disposed of her body in the sea. But, at least in their leaks to Japanese journalists, thepolice do not appear to have established any positive connection linking him with Ms Blackman's disappearance..

Street battles that have claimed more than 100 lives in ethnic rivalry since the weekend flared again yesterday in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, as dispossessed youths known as "area boys", looted and settled personal scores. Street battles that have claimed more than 100 lives in ethnic rivalry since the weekend flared again yesterday in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, as dispossessed youths known as "area boys", looted and settled personal scores. In the morning, authorities ventured out to collect dozens of charred corpses and clear burnt vehicles from the rubble-strewn streets of sub-Saharan Africa's largest city, of 10 million people. Paramilitary police dispersed crowds by firing into the air near the Central Bank in the main business district. Shops, offices and schools closed and the normally bustling Broad Street area was deserted.Later, the fighting that had flared between Yorubas, the majority tribe in the southwest, including Lagos, and Hausa-Fulanis originally from the north, appeared to have moved to the Abule Egba district, about 25 miles from Lagos. Witnesses there said one person had been killed but police could not confirm this.Lagos police chief Mike Okiro said members of the militant Odua People's Congress (OPC), which wants autonomy for the economically-mighty Yoruba south-west of the country, had moved into Abule Egba, where there is a substantial population of Hausa-Fulanis.