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Istanbul occupied by hundreds of protesters for almost two weeks.

They fire water cannons and tear gas to try to clear the park. The

Turkish prime minister warned he will show no more tolerance. This is

the scene now. We will be getting the latest from our correspondent in

Istanbul in a moment. Also this lunchtime: Lloyds banking group

admits issues with the handling of customer complaints after camp --

reports that staff were told to ignore fraud. Toughening up the

GCSEs, subjects could become harder with less coursework and more focus

on exams. Sir Henry Cecil has died at the age of 70. And honoured at

last, the villagers in France who saved thousands of Jewish children

from death camps in Nathalie Germany. Later in London, the plea

for more investment to cope with growing population. Police around a

building in Soho occupied by anti-G8 news. Hundreds of police in riot

gear have pushed past improvised barricades in Istanbul and fired

tear gas and water cannon at protesters. They are trying to clear

Taksim Square, which has been occupied by anti-government

protesters for the past 12 days. The Turkish prime minister said what

began as road tests against building on a park has become a deliberate

attempt to damage the image of Turkey. Our correspondent is in

Istanbul now. It has been a dramatic morning. We felt the sting of tear

gas throughout the morning. The Prime Minister has called on the

protesters to withdraw, and the police have moved into Taksim Square

behind me. This morning in Istanbul, Turkish police decided to take back

Square, a place held by protesters for more than a week. Demonstrators

had been waiting for this moment for days. Some decided to fight back.

One man was hit. The fire was quickly put out. The government has

described the protesters as looters and riffraff. The protesters accused

the government and police brutality. Right now, it is hard to

imagine all this ending with a negotiated agreement. The protesters

wanted to stop the police from getting into their main stronghold.

It is Gezi Park next door, where thousands are doubt. -- thousands

are staying. The police say they are not raiding Gezi Park, they want to

tidy up the outskirts of the square. But the protesters do not believe

them. Here, one group tried to break up the clashes. This protester told

us they were trying to make a human chain. It did not work. This older

man was cot by tear gas. He struggled to breathe. -- at packed

with tear gas. The police have not pushed the protesters from the park.

Too many here, there are advances into the square feel like a turning

point. I have just what threw Gezi Park which is next door to the

square. I have seen hundreds of people standing around their tents,

holding gas masks. They are waiting to see if the police will going to

undergo major changes to make them more demanding. Children currently

in year seven will be the first to take the new exams. Michael Gove

told the Commons that young people deserve an education system that can

compete with the best in the world. The changes mean coursework will be

largely replaced by exams as our education correspondent reports. The

exams these pupils will set at 16 have become fought over territory.

Ministers have called the current system discredited, saying the

current GCSEs are badly designed and not demanding enough. Today new

proposals have been unveiled. A major changes to the grading system.

The present system, it is suggested, should be scrapped. It will be out

with coursework and modules, instead, most subjects will have end

of course exams. The new look GCSEs will feel very different from now.

These first-year pupils will be the first years to set them. Personally,

I don't think they are bad. Even though they have changed, it could

be for the better. It should be good, but I would prefer if it

happened to a different year. Everybody knows the system, it will

not make much of a difference full up I don't know why they're changing

it. -- much of a difference. changes will be to our core set of

subjects. Students will study a Shakespeare play and a 19th-century

novel, and in mathematics they will do more probability and algebra. The

headteacher thinks there is a case for reform of GCSEs but is not sure

this is the right way to do it. cautious about these. They need to

be debated in fool and work out what good parts can be taken out. I am

worried that a rushed implementation will result in a education system.

-- worse off education system. Michael Gove insisted this was about

making exams more rigorous. Young people deserve a better system. The

reforms are essential. These changes are for English pupils only. Wales

and Northern Ireland are sticking with current systems. MPs expressed

alarm at the difference. We think this is a mistake. We should at

least discuss it, debate the downsides. As of today, different

exams in different nations looks increasingly likely. Let's speak to

Norman Smith. Is there going to be opposition to these changes?

would think Michael Gove might be in favour of exam resets because he has

had repeated attempts to reform it and be rebuffed. This time, you

sense it could be very different. The Liberal Democrats are on board,

they favour more rigorous examination systems, Labour have

concerns but are not threatening to undertake the next system, and the

teaching unions are unhappy at the pace of the change but not

threatening to challenge them. We could be on the edge of a different

exams system, and this looks very much like the old all levels.

Michael Gove insists this is not a return to those because these will

be open to a lot more students. They will continue to be called GCSEs.

That tells us something, Michael Gove has learned from his repeated

attempts to reform the system that you have to build a consensus.

Therefore, he has avoided any sort of inflammatory name change which

might have galvanised opposition to these changes. You can find out more

about the GCSEs changes in England on the website, where there is also

shortcomings in the way complaints about the mis-selling of payment

protection insurance had been handled. The problems had been

highlighted by an undercover reporter from the Times who worked

that one of its centres. The reporter said he was told to ignore

possible fraud by Lloyd's salesman, and most people would give up if

their complaints were rejected the first time. A lot of this is people

who say they never agreed to buy PPI in the first place yet their

complaints are rejected. Yes, we also know this is the biggest

mis-selling scandal ever, but this goes to the nub of the issue, which

is many people who have complained about it are amazed to find they

have not ticked the box, and the undercover reporter alleges when he

was working in one of the processing centres, he was told by a trainer

that the staff had secretly ticked the box on behalf of customers, and

they were to turn a blind eye to that practice and assume Lloyds did

not mis-selling the policies. It is a very big issue and what is very

revealing is when you look at customers who had rejected appeals,

86% of those appeals were successful. Lloyds has already paid

out �4.3 billion in compensation. The question today is whether it

should have laid out a great deal more. Very serious allegations. What

are Lloyds saying about them? admit it is an issue. They say it is

isolated. The company that ran the processing centres said it acted in

accordance to the procedures. Victims of crime will be allowed to

prerecord evidence to avoid having to testify in court if they are

children. It arises from claims that some have been treated with

hostility. Until now, victims of serious crime have sometimes been

further traumatised by reliving their ordeal in court. Sarah Kelly

was abused by her father as a child and gave evidence that was

challenged with accusations of her not telling the truth. What was the

hardest ring for me was being told by a roomful of men with my father

standing opposite me that I was lying. It was heartbreaking full up

-- it was heartbreaking. There are already measures in place, for

example, evening evidence via video link and judges from moving their

wigs and gowns. This is one of three areas where the new proposals are

going to be tried out. At the centre of the approach, which is brought in

under section 28 of the use justice and criminal act, is the most

vulnerable can record cross examinations. -- use justice and

criminal evidence act. It is hoped that the trauma of court will be

reduced. The victim can give evidence sooner, they can sit down

with the judge trying the case, and the lawyer. They do not have to be

in the same room. The issue has gained prominence in recent months

after this violin teacher killed herself after being cross-examined.

The 48-year-old took her life during the trial of the choirmaster,

Michael Brewer, later convicted of abuse against her when she was 14

years old. In a separate development, new guidelines for

prosecutors and police officers dealing with cases involving child

sexual abuse have been issued, in response to the Jimmy Savile

enquiry, where victims did not come forward because they thought they

would not be believed. If somebody walks into a police station to

report a burglary, the first question is not whether they are

telling the truth. We need to have exactly the same mindset for victims

of sexual abuse. A significant change to the courtroom process,

with victims and their anxiety is being put a head of tradition.

Nelson Mandela remains in intensive care in hospital in Pretoria for a

fifth day. He is being treated for a recurring lung infection. Our

correspondent is in Pretorius. We were told he was serious but

stable, is there any official update? Still no official update.

What we have seen is a tightening of security. Just behind me you can see

additional police officers. That is just a fraction of those that have

been deployed. There is a chord and around the hospital. They are

searching vehicles that come in and out of the hospital. There was

expectation that Jacob Zuma might come to visit but he is in Cape Town

ahead of a major speech. Is this continuing as normal for government.

Meanwhile, there are prayers for his recovery. -- business continuing. At

the same time, leaders are preparing South Africa for a time in the

iconic digital presence of Nelson Mandela as a guiding symbolic hand

is no longer there. -- physical presence. Hundreds of police in riot

gear have fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters in Istanbul.

And why a lawn doesn't always have to be grass. The herb and flower

Park in West London. Later on BBC London - why Camden is

offering an amnesty to tenants fraudulently sub-letting their

council homes. And Kim Cattrall takes to the London

stage with her forthcoming role at mountains of France that kept an

extraordinary secret that saved lives. The people of Le Chambon took

enormous risk in sheltering thousands of Jews from the Nazis,

many of them children. A museum has opened to honour what the villagers

did. Our correspondent has been to meet some of those who owe their

lives to the kindness and courage of strangers.

It is a steady climb up the old railway to the hilltop villages of

eastern France. Below, one of Europe's most beautiful landscapes.

Ahead, a community honoured for its part in a remarkable rescue effort.

Lucien Zinger and Willie Hene were brought here as children, spirited

away from another journey, a journey which took Jewish families to their

deaths in the concentration camps. At least 1000 children were brought

to Le Chambon, spending the war hidden in the village or nearby

farms. TRANSLATION: If someone had talked, it would have been all over.

It was incredible that the village acted like that. We went to the

school, I had pals who were not view -- not Jewish but Catholic or

Protestant, they knew I was Jewish but no 1's ever talked. -- no one

ever talked. The Protestant community, who had originally

settled here to escape persecution, took the lead, and at the heart of

it all was this church in Le ever hear, especially when the

surviving children gather to hear the old songs, to tell their stories

and to remember the families who risked everything to protect them.

Born here whilst his parents were in hiding, Jewish film maker Pierre

Sauvage went on to document Le Chambon's wartime secret. I always

thought religious people were little bigoted, narrowminded, so secure in

their beliefs that they could not let in the stranger. I found the

exact opposite was true here. Visitors to Le Chambon are absorbed

by its beauty and tranquillity. Now, at last, they can hear about the

acts of kindness that left so many owing so much. They saved our lives.

That is what it meant. We will always be grateful for that. Le

Chambon is in our hearts and in our Henry Cecil, has died of cancer at

the age of 70. He was named champion trainer ten times and was

responsible for 25 British classic winners. He trained Frankel who was

labelled the greatest horse in the world after an unbeaten record.

Sir Henry Cecil always said his success with racehorses was not down

to any particular method or strategy. He based it on feeling. On

some special level he understood horses. Between 1976 and 1993, he

was champion trainer ten times. As one owner put it in the 90s, if you

want to win a classic race, it is easy. Just buy a horse and send it

to Henry Cecil. I 2060 had been diagnosed with stomach cancer and

the winners had almost disappeared. Along came a wonder horse for him to

train, Frankel. 14 out of 14 committee makes his biggest

challenge look pretty easy. Frankel retired with a unbeaten record and

Sir Henry Cecil was well enough, just, to see it. The best I have

ever had, the best I have ever seen. I would be very surprised if there

has ever been better. Racing has the consolation of knowing that Sir

Henry Cecil's last horse was his greatest.

Sir Henry Cecil, who has died at the age of 70.

Protesters demonstrating at the head of the G8 conference are reported to

have occupied a former police station in central London. Around

100 police officers, some in riot gear, are at the scene in Soho where

demonstrators are occupying a building in beak Street. The police

activity is in response to a planned day of action ahead of the two-day

G8 summit in Northern Ireland X week.

If you live in England come EU are more likely to die early in the

north-west and anywhere else, according to a new website which

ranks areas according to your risk of buying before you reach 75.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says regional variations are shocking and

must drive action to improve public health.

Keep going, come up to where I am. These children from Lambeth in south

London live in one of the poorest and least healthy boroughs in

England. Lambeth is 121st out of 150 borrowers in terms of premature

deaths from avoidable illnesses like cancer or heart disease. But the

picture is complex was not when compared to areas with similar

levels of poverty, Lambeth is actually above average. A new

website shows which areas are winning the fight against ill-health

and which are struggling. We want to spur those areas which are

underperforming, to look at other similar areas and see what they can

learn, and save more lives as a result. Overall, the new website

clearly shows England's north-south divide implement your deaths, with a

traffic light system. Green to red showing best to worst. It looks at

deaths in those under 75, at your deaths caused by four big killers on

the heart disease and stroke, cancer, liver disease and lung

disease. The picture in the north-west of England is

particularly bleak. Manchester, Blackpool, Salford and Liverpool are

among the four worst areas in the country. Public Health England

estimate there are 103 thousand early deaths every year from

avoidable diseases and Blackpool is one of the worst places in the

country for lung and liver disease. It typifies the North South health

divide, but experts say it is not that simple. Plenty of areas in the

cells are really quite challenged, and areas in the North are doing

well -- there are plenty of areas in the south that are quite challenged.

Areas like Rotherham are doing better than expected given

socio-economic conditions. Grown-ups have as much to learn about healthy

living as children. Recent figures on early death show some improvement

but a new map shows the scale of the task facing those responsible for

improving health. If you want to find out more about

your area, you can visit Public Fridays Iranian presidential

election has dropped out of the race. The website of Muhammad Razor

RF -- Mohammad Reza Aref as announced his withdrawal which is

thought will help more moderate candidates.

China has launched its first manned mission into space. Three astronauts

are on their way to their countries space laboratory where they will

spend two weeks conducting experiments. It will take the crew,

including China's second female astronaut, 40 hours to get there.

The British Lions have trounced a semiprofessional Australian side in

a match in Newcastle, New South Wales, which they won 64-0.

A pride of lions up against part-timers. A mauling was the only

prediction. We can die and countries -- and electoral engineer was

marking the great Brian O'Driscoll. The tourists could not afford to

show any weakness. Seven minutes into the game they were off the

mark. The Welsh winger may be a starter against Australia and was at

the heart of the next score, two minutes later. Regardless of the

opposition, this was a move of real quality with Connor married taking

his chance to make an impression. -- Conor Murray. There were six tries

in a ruthless first half. The second half was more like a warm down in a

warmup. At times, the Lions were scrappy, relying on O'Driscoll to

provide the flare for a final flourish, as the Lions recorded

their biggest winning margin so far. Injuries have been able to concern

already and Warren Gatland will be relieved to see his layers come

through unscathed with the first test in 11 days time. -- to see his

players come through. The British are known to be proud of

their gardens, securely their manicure blondes. Scientists have

come up with a new idea to replace the corner of a little west London

park is designed to be walked on and even occasionally moan. It is a

mixture of leafy plants like thyme, chamomile and mint and colourful

flowers including daisies and red flowering clover. It won't stand up

to a game of football but the public is able to wander around it and sit

down with a picnic. The herbs release more of their scent when

they are squashed. The researchers who developed it say the biggest

benefits are to be is and butterflies. According to

scientists, floral lawns attract more insects than a traditional

patch of grass and the arm printable British weather has played a key

part in the design. The nature of the British climate is so variable

that at any one time, one type of plant is thriving. Sun lovers on the

sunny days, moisture lovers on wet days, low growers when it has been

moan, tall growers when you leave it for a month or so. The fact we have

such a hugely variable climate means that different plants will be

favoured at different times, almost on a week to week basis. Scientists

now hope more gardeners will opt for need sunshine for gardens like that.

Is summer over already? It is not all doom all gloom. The sun will

come out every now and again. There will be spells of rain, good news

for some of the gardens and the lawns. What we are seeing today is a

bit of a change. The weather looks quite different across the UK today.

We have seen the cloud rolling in and that brings a little rain, but

nothing very much. We are seeing a change of fortune. In Northern

Ireland it has been warm for a long time. At Castle Dirk, yesterday it

was 21, today noticeably cooler. Norwich has been really cold for the

last few days. It is seeing much higher to bridges, it will be much

warmer and there will be very little rain -- much higher temperatures.

This cloud brings the rain for tonight, this cloud brings rainfall

today and in between, there is a slot where the sunshine might come

out. A while we should see bursts of sunshine across the South West

England, into the West Country, the West Midlands and parts of Wales. In

these areas temperatures can rocket up to 20. Northern Ireland is much

cooler than recently. It may cheer up a bit in the south, rain is never

far away. Most of the rain today has been across south-west Scotland,

moving northwards across the country. Before the rain arrives in

the Murray first, 22 degrees is possible. Where we keep the cloud it

will be cooler. Tricky for the organisers at Queen 's club. There

will be a lot of cloud around and maybe a few spots of rain, making

the course -- the courts damp. Into this evening we will find rain

developing across western areas, it will turn wet again. A lot of clout

in Northern Ireland and quite a warm night, much warmer in eastern

England than last night. For most of us, a grey and damp start tomorrow.

Sunshine develops in Scotland and Northern Ireland. For eastern parts

of England it should brighten, sunshine and feeling warm, 20

degrees plus, 17 is more typical and we could see sunshine and sharp

showers. Wetter weather around the night and into Thursday. The rain

turns more Shari, the winds will be stronger and a cooler and fresher

feel -- more showery. The week ahead looks more unsettled than we have