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[00:00.10]BBC News with Iain Purdon.
[00:04.44]Thousands of protesters have converged on Taksim Square in Istanbul hours after the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rejected demands to drop a plan to redevelop a park in the city.
[00:15.41]He said extremists who were manipulating demonstrations which began as an environmental protest last week.
[00:21.55]James Reynolds is among the protesters in Istanbul.
[00:25.14]A lot of them just sitting on the verges of the park, others are chanting as one group which have been dancing a tango,
[00:32.48]other people are buying slices of watermelon and having barbeques.
[00:36.35]Most people here say that they will continue to protest and to come here in order to stop the government for redeveloping this area.
[00:44.72]And people here say that they were disappointed but not surprised by the Prime Minister's comments.
[00:49.79]People here say that if he's been stubborn their point of view, then they will be stubborn as well.
[00:56.13]One man said we would stay here till the ends; if they want to get us, they would have to use an awful lot of tear gas.
[01:02.17]Austria says it will withdraw its UN peacekeepers from the Golan Heights after fighting between Syrian government forces and rebels.