It’s interesting the police have clashed in this way before with protesters but this time it seems they’ve gone in with massive force. One Turkish journalist I know, who’s said he’d never seen so much teargas used in a single moment in the city. In the picture I’m watching at the moment here in Ankara showed that there are now armies of people clearing up. The tent camp which developed in Gazi Park next to Taksim Square and most the people who’ve been protesting there from the last two weeks clearly been pushed back by what need to be described as a show of overwhelming force.
Officials in Pakistan say a lengthy standoff between militants and the security forces at a hospital has finally ended. Gunmen had seized control of the hospital in Quetta and Baluchistan where survivors of an earlier attack on a university bus were been treated. Fourteen female students died in the bus attack. Another ten people including nurses and a senior government official die during the hospital siege. An extremist Sunni militant group says it carried out both attacks.
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A passenger plane traveling from Cairo to New York has made an emergency landing in Britain after a threatening note was found on board. The aircraft was escorted to the ground at Prestwick by British military aircraft. James Shaw reports.
The Egyptair Boeing777 was escorted to Prestwick by two RAF fighter jets which had been scrambled to deal with the emergency. The plane was moved to an isolated part of the airport and surrounded by police vehicles. Later passengers were allowed to leave the plane and kept in a secure location so they could be questioned. The passenger who found the note and alerted the crew said it was on a paper napkin and written in what was almost like child’s handwriting. It read ‘I will set this plane on fire.’