[01:26.21]Turkish police have evicted protesters from Taksim Square and Gazi Park in Istanbul
[01:32.48]with a show of overwhelming force hours after the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan again demanded they end the occupation.
[01:40.14]The security services moved in swiftly using water cannon and teargas.
[01:44.43]After the raid, thousands took to the streets in the capital Ankara waving Turkish flags and chanting ‘dictator resign.’ Chris Morris has more from Ankara.
[01:53.53]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.
[02:03.03]One Turkish journalist I know, who’s said he’d never seen so much teargas used in a single moment in the city.
[02:10.96]In the picture I’m watching at the moment here in Ankara showed that there are now armies of people clearing up.
[02:16.20]The tent camp which developed in Gazi Park next to Taksim Square
[02:21.87]and most the people who’ve been protesting there from the last two weeks clearly been pushed back by
[02:26.62]what need to be described as a show of overwhelming force.
[02:29.88]Officials in Pakistan say a lengthy standoff between militants and the security forces at a hospital has finally ended.
[02:37.16]Gunmen had seized control of the hospital in Quetta and Baluchistan where survivors of an earlier attack on a university bus were been treated.