:00:09. > :00:16.Tonight and ten, violent protests in Turkey have to the country's worst
:00:17. > :00:19.mining disaster. Water cannon and tear gas are fired at protesters
:00:20. > :00:24.taking part in a national strike against poor safety standards and
:00:25. > :00:29.cost-cutting. Funerals have been held for some of the victims. More
:00:30. > :00:35.than 280, as families express anger. TRANSLATION: The mine is dangerous
:00:36. > :00:43.but there are no other jobs here. We are angry at the people at the top.
:00:44. > :00:48.We will have the latest in the search for missing miners continues.
:00:49. > :00:53.Also tonight, more clarity needed on statins as experts admit a major
:00:54. > :00:56.study on side-effects was flawed. At the Rolf Harris trial, a woman
:00:57. > :01:01.alleges that he sexually assaulted her when she was seven or eight will
:01:02. > :01:06.stop Mexico's war on drugs, a special report from one of the
:01:07. > :01:10.country's most feared cartels. And why two of Britain's best-known
:01:11. > :01:15.retailers are joining forces, driven by mobile technology.
:01:16. > :01:20.On BBC London, flood victims claim an honours document supports their
:01:21. > :01:26.cause to dredge the Thames. And the row over plans to build a
:01:27. > :01:44.cancer centre next to Saint Barts Hospital.
:01:45. > :01:48.Good evening. There have been violent protests in Turkey following
:01:49. > :01:55.the country's worst mining disasters. Demonstrators in several
:01:56. > :01:58.cities claim that privatisation of mines as lead to cost-cutting and
:01:59. > :02:02.poor safety standards. 283 people are known to have died after more
:02:03. > :02:06.bodies were discovered during the day. More than 100 are believed to
:02:07. > :02:11.be still missing with the search focused on two areas of the pit.
:02:12. > :02:15.Trade unions have held a strike in protest of the government's handling
:02:16. > :02:24.of mine safety. Our correspondent has just sent this report.
:02:25. > :02:31.At the cemetery in soma, the cotton is kept coming. To an area they call
:02:32. > :02:35.the markers plot. -- Coughlin is kept coming. Miners who work
:02:36. > :02:50.together and died together were laid to rest side-by-side. Relatives
:02:51. > :02:54.consumed by grief. They wept for victims of what some are calling
:02:55. > :03:03.industrial homicide. This woman lost her nephew. He was 26. He had just
:03:04. > :03:12.become a father. TRANSLATION: The mine is dangerous. But there are no
:03:13. > :03:14.other jobs in Soma. Of course, we are angry with the people at the
:03:15. > :03:21.top. The graves are being are angry with the people at the
:03:22. > :03:28.here one by one. This community is saying goodbye to husbands, fathers
:03:29. > :03:32.and sons. For some, the grief is compounded by anger. By a belief
:03:33. > :03:38.that all of this could have been avoided by better safety standards
:03:39. > :03:43.at the mine. And at the scene, the struggle to recover the victims has
:03:44. > :03:48.continued. Slowly. Rescuers say that they have been hampered by hellish
:03:49. > :03:52.conditions below ground. TRANSLATION: Imagine a black
:03:53. > :03:58.tunnel, there is water mixed with coal dust coming up to your knees.
:03:59. > :04:02.It feels like wet cement. We have built bridges in their so that we
:04:03. > :04:07.will not have to walk in it. And the dirt will not fall into the mix when
:04:08. > :04:13.we carry people out. This man survived. But he lost 30 friends. He
:04:14. > :04:23.helped to save three of his colleagues. He tried to save more.
:04:24. > :04:30.TRANSLATION: I went home to see my kids after I'd got out. But then I
:04:31. > :04:37.went back to help my friends. I cannot feel happy that I am alive
:04:38. > :04:42.because hundreds are dead. The huge loss of life has sparked
:04:43. > :04:50.anti-government protests which have spread to several major cities. This
:04:51. > :04:55.was is mere, two hours from Soma. Police were out in force but the
:04:56. > :05:02.anger would be hard to quench. -- Ismir. It was on view during the
:05:03. > :05:10.Prime Minister's visit yesterday. He had to be hustled into a shop for
:05:11. > :05:14.refuge. In the hustle, he appeared to slap this man in the blue shirt.
:05:15. > :05:19.His office told us that whatever happens, it was a reaction to a
:05:20. > :05:24.tense moment. And then there is this, the Prime Minister's aids,
:05:25. > :05:31.kicking a protest in the town. Critics say the government is, once
:05:32. > :05:37.again, showing contempt. Back at the cemetery, the parade for victims.
:05:38. > :05:42.Many demand justice for the dead. This human tragedy is becoming a
:05:43. > :05:49.political crisis. Live to Soma. Given the grief and
:05:50. > :05:54.anger in the report they, what do the next few days hold, do you think
:05:55. > :06:00.the back this has the potential to become a major political problem for
:06:01. > :06:04.the embattled Prime Minister. And he is a politician who has faced many
:06:05. > :06:09.problems already. He is a polarising figure and in the past few days, he
:06:10. > :06:16.has managed to alienate many of his countrymen with his response to this
:06:17. > :06:20.tragedy. You saw the video of him appearing to slap a look, and in a
:06:21. > :06:24.supermarket. That has been played on local television here and it has
:06:25. > :06:27.gone viral one social media. The man himself has come forward to say that
:06:28. > :06:31.he would like an apology. Of course, all of this follows those
:06:32. > :06:38.photographs we saw of the Prime Minister's aide kicking someone in
:06:39. > :06:42.the town. There is a strong sense that while this community has
:06:43. > :06:47.suffered the most profound loss, the government, the Prime Minister in
:06:48. > :06:51.particular, as exhibited extreme insensitivity to the plight of those
:06:52. > :06:55.here, and all of this at a time when the search is still continuing and
:06:56. > :07:01.rescue teams are back inside the mine. There are more than 100 men
:07:02. > :07:06.still unaccounted for. Many in this community feel that they have been
:07:07. > :07:15.badly let down. Both before this disaster and by the response to it.
:07:16. > :07:18.The British Medical Journal has acknowledged that two academic
:07:19. > :07:22.papers which questioned the widespread use of statins were
:07:23. > :07:28.flawed. The author's claims that up to 20% of patients on statins
:07:29. > :07:31.suffered harmful side-effects have been withdrawn. More than 7 million
:07:32. > :07:35.people take the drug in the UK to reduce cholesterol. There are calls
:07:36. > :07:41.for urgent clarification for patients.
:07:42. > :07:46.This is a bitter pill to follow for one of the most respected of all
:07:47. > :07:51.medical journals. It has had to admit failing to spot a basic error
:07:52. > :07:56.in two articles on statins, and taking seven months to put it right.
:07:57. > :08:02.The BMJ's editor said her response had been speedy and she denied that
:08:03. > :08:07.the affair was embarrassing. Both articles contained a single sentence
:08:08. > :08:10.referring to another paper and misinterpreted the information in
:08:11. > :08:14.that paper. They did so in a way that exaggerated the extent of
:08:15. > :08:18.side-effects of statins, compared with what we know from the clinical
:08:19. > :08:25.trials. But the controversy about these articles as sown confusion
:08:26. > :08:29.about the safety of statins. 7 million people in the UK take them,
:08:30. > :08:35.and they prevent around 7000 fatal heart attacks and strokes every
:08:36. > :08:41.year. The benefits for patients at high risk are undisputed. The BMJ
:08:42. > :08:43.article criticised plans to extend their use to most adults from their
:08:44. > :08:50.mid-50s. Saying that the benefits for helping people were outweighed
:08:51. > :08:54.by side-effects in 20%. The BMJ now admits that this figure was
:08:55. > :09:00.incorrect and a misreading of an earlier trial. Statins can cause
:09:01. > :09:05.muscle pain and trigger type two diabetes. But a leading expert on
:09:06. > :09:12.the drug said that the articles exaggerated this risk twentyfold.
:09:13. > :09:16.And that this could cost lives. The anxiety is that these claims will be
:09:17. > :09:18.believed and that people on statins might stop taking them,
:09:19. > :09:24.believed and that people on statins are not on them, may not start. So
:09:25. > :09:27.that they will avoid the benefits of taking treatment and there will be
:09:28. > :09:28.unnecessary heart attacks and strokes as a consequence.
:09:29. > :09:35.unnecessary heart attacks and Cardiff have some side effects of
:09:36. > :09:39.aching joints, but these have subsided. While he is confident
:09:40. > :09:45.about statins, he is worried that the controversy may put others off.
:09:46. > :09:49.It is hard and it could be confusing for the public to accept that things
:09:50. > :09:54.might be right for them. If people are taking statins, and they then
:09:55. > :10:00.here that there is the potential problem with them, then clearly they
:10:01. > :10:03.here that there is the potential will be concerned. Doctors say those
:10:04. > :10:09.at high risk of heart disease or stroke should continue with statins.
:10:10. > :10:14.But the debate about whether healthy middle-aged people should still take
:10:15. > :10:17.them is set to continue. Two more women who claim they were
:10:18. > :10:21.abused by the entertainer, Rolf Harris, had been giving evidence at
:10:22. > :10:26.his trial. One told the jury that she was seven or eight when she was
:10:27. > :10:31.assaulted in the late 1960s. Rolf Harris denies 12 charges of indecent
:10:32. > :10:43.assault involving four girls between 1968 and 1986.
:10:44. > :10:47.It was the late 1960s. Rolf Harris was a star. Off-screen, according to
:10:48. > :10:54.the youngest alleged victim, he was a dirty old man. Accompanied by his
:10:55. > :10:58.daughter and niece, Rolf Harris made his way into court to hear evidence
:10:59. > :11:04.from a woman who claims that he assaulted her when he -- she was
:11:05. > :11:07.seven or eight after she asked for not a graph. She told the court that
:11:08. > :11:10.she met the entertainer at this community centre, and she alleges
:11:11. > :11:13.that suddenly, out of nowhere, she felt his hand go down the back and
:11:14. > :11:27.up between her legs. Rolf Harris denies ever visiting the
:11:28. > :11:30.community centre here where the alleged assaults took place. He
:11:31. > :11:37.denies all 12 charges against him, including a second alleged victim,
:11:38. > :11:42.to give evidence you today. It was here in the mid-70s that that woman,
:11:43. > :11:46.then aged 13 or 14, alleges that Mr Harris in decently assaulted her.
:11:47. > :11:48.Giving evidence from behind a screen, she said that whenever she
:11:49. > :11:50.sees him on television or in the papers, to this day I have a
:11:51. > :11:58.physical reaction to it. Asked whether she was sure it was
:11:59. > :12:08.the defendant who assaulted her, the woman replied: It was Rolf Harris,
:12:09. > :12:11.without a doubt. David Cameron says his message to
:12:12. > :12:15.Scottish voters ahead of the referendum on independence is
:12:16. > :12:19.unrelenting the positive. Speaking at an army base in Glasgow today he
:12:20. > :12:24.said that keeping United Kingdom together made sense in economic
:12:25. > :12:27.terms and for security. But as our special correspondent reports, the
:12:28. > :12:32.Prime Minister faces constant claims that he is alienating my not
:12:33. > :12:37.persuading Scottish voters. Where better to argue the virtues of
:12:38. > :12:41.the unified Britain? At the intended message is unmistakable. The Royal
:12:42. > :12:48.of Scotland, proudly Scott but part of a greater whole. And this is
:12:49. > :12:53.light touch intervention in the referendum debate. If Cameron, whose
:12:54. > :12:56.party is unpopular in Scotland, cannot afford to give the impression
:12:57. > :13:01.he is taking control here, so he must tread softly. Think I am one of
:13:02. > :13:05.many voices. As Prime Minister, I have a role to play in this debate.
:13:06. > :13:11.-- I think. I'm passionate about the UK and the future of our country. I
:13:12. > :13:15.think we can achieve extraordinary things together. Think of what we
:13:16. > :13:21.share as members of NATO, the G7, the G20. Think of our role in the
:13:22. > :13:25.world. There is an anxiety in the prounion campaign as support for
:13:26. > :13:29.independence has grown. Better to gather changed the tone of their
:13:30. > :13:34.campaign this week, trying to encourage affection for Britain. --
:13:35. > :13:37.Better Together. David Cameron knows he runs a risk by coming here, the
:13:38. > :13:41.risk that he will make things worse rather than better for the prounion
:13:42. > :13:45.collars. A succession of government ministers have come to Scotland to
:13:46. > :13:49.warn of what they see as the dire consequences of a yes vote. There is
:13:50. > :13:53.strong evidence that it just does not work and the Scots are not
:13:54. > :13:59.buying it. The yes campaign say that they are buoyed by private polling
:14:00. > :14:04.which they say shows many Scots on a journey towards trusting the
:14:05. > :14:08.Nationalists message about Scotland's economic strength. The
:14:09. > :14:13.movement is about the democratic choice of the people in Scotland,
:14:14. > :14:17.that they are entitled to. That is to choose a government of our
:14:18. > :14:21.choosing, that we elect. To have a country that is more prosperous but
:14:22. > :14:25.also fairer and more equal. David Cameron will make more visits year
:14:26. > :14:28.before September. But he needs the leadership of the prounion campaign
:14:29. > :14:36.to come from Scotland itself, and not Westminster. Mexico's war on
:14:37. > :14:39.drugs has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people in the past
:14:40. > :14:42.decade. Countless attempts by authorities to stem the violence
:14:43. > :14:45.have so far failed. Between 2006 and 2012 more than 120,000 people are
:14:46. > :14:51.thought to have died, largely in drug-related violence. The illegal
:14:52. > :14:55.trade is thought to be worth around $30 billion a year. The Sinaloa
:14:56. > :14:58.cartel is one of the biggest and most powerful in the country and was
:14:59. > :15:03.led by Choackeen Guzman until his arrest in February. But the cartel
:15:04. > :15:05.has continued its operations, and the BBC has gained exclusive access
:15:06. > :15:10.to this feared criminal organisation. Our correspondent,
:15:11. > :15:20.Paul Wood, and cameraman Fred Scott, report from the city of Culiacan in
:15:21. > :15:23.the state of Sinaloa. This report does contain some flash photography.
:15:24. > :15:29.Welcome to Culiacan, Mexico's drugs capital. Drugs mean guns and there
:15:30. > :15:35.has just been a shooting here. As many as 120,000 people have died in
:15:36. > :15:38.six years in the war on drugs. That term is not used by the new
:15:39. > :15:45.government, it's the wrong image for Mexico. The body count has fallen
:15:46. > :15:48.but not by much. Often the violence is one cartel against another, or
:15:49. > :15:53.just as likely, violence between different factions of the same
:15:54. > :15:57.cartel. What seems to have happened here tonight is a shoot out between
:15:58. > :15:58.a local policeman and a gangster of some kind. Regardless, a shooting
:15:59. > :16:09.isn't exactly an unusual event here. Fallen gangsters are remembered
:16:10. > :16:14.here. With so much money at stake, life counts for little.
:16:15. > :16:23.The shrines dedicated to the bandit saint, who was killed a century ago.
:16:24. > :16:26.The drugs business has thrived in Sinaloa that long. Crime has deep
:16:27. > :16:36.roots here. Sinaloa has Mexico's oldest and
:16:37. > :16:41.richest cartel. Hector is a long-standing member. The code of
:16:42. > :16:45.silence covers this secret world. He agreed to give us a rare interview.
:16:46. > :16:53.He misses the old days of smuggling marijuana. A new drug, crystal meth,
:16:54. > :16:58.is lucrative but soaked in blood. TRANSLATION: When the crystal meth
:16:59. > :17:02.boom started, the war started, the jealousy started, he says. The
:17:03. > :17:12.cartels recruit people who have never seen a Kalashnikov. They give
:17:13. > :17:16.them drugs. That makes an crazy. The new generation is sick. The ones who
:17:17. > :17:23.kill, the ones who send them to kill.
:17:24. > :17:31.You could drive right past a safe house for cartel gunmen and not know
:17:32. > :17:37.it. We were told there were more than 100 in Culiacan.
:17:38. > :17:45.They are known as sicarios or blades. Hit men who kill for the
:17:46. > :17:51.cartel. They wear masks for the camera but they wait like this to go
:17:52. > :18:00.to war at a moment's notice. No wonder some talk of a narco
:18:01. > :18:06.insurgency. Raphael, aged 18. He joined the sicarios at 14, comitted
:18:07. > :18:13.his first murder at 15. He felt nothing, he says, just adrenaline.
:18:14. > :18:18.It can be anyone, says the boss, about their targets. A traitor, a
:18:19. > :18:26.snitch, a thief. Someone who hasn't paid the cartel. They aren't worried
:18:27. > :18:34.the police will burst in. They work with the police, they say. Sinaloa's
:18:35. > :18:39.police chief denies that. He was himself accused of working for the
:18:40. > :18:44.cartel. There was a five million peso reward for his arrest. The
:18:45. > :18:52.warrant was eventually withdrawn and now he is back in charge.
:18:53. > :18:55.TRANSLATION: We are not in bed with the cartel, he says. That is a myth.
:18:56. > :19:03.We don't back one cartel over another. We arrest all the
:19:04. > :19:06.criminals. People in Sinaloa don't believe that. They don't speak
:19:07. > :19:09.publicly about it either. The mothers accused the police of
:19:10. > :19:17.investigating cases because of links with criminal groups. Maria says her
:19:18. > :19:24.son was arrested by the police and handed to kidnappers. Just tell me
:19:25. > :19:25.where my son is, she remembers asking police. She never saw him
:19:26. > :19:33.again. Many police officers have died
:19:34. > :19:39.fighting the cartels. The traffickers have co-opted parts of
:19:40. > :19:44.the state. You never know who you are dealing with. For Mexicans, that
:19:45. > :19:56.is another reason the drugs war is so dangerous.
:19:57. > :20:03.BBC News has learned that Google has received many requests to remove
:20:04. > :20:09.information from its search engine. It follows the rule by the European
:20:10. > :20:13.information from its search engine. of -- the European Court of Justice
:20:14. > :20:16.earlier this week that an individual had a right to be forgotten. Those
:20:17. > :20:19.making the requests include a former politician and a man convicted of
:20:20. > :20:21.possessing child abuse images. Our technology correspondent, Rory
:20:22. > :20:28.Cellan-Jones, is with me. The potential for this is enormous. Not
:20:29. > :20:33.just Google but organisations like the BBC have received quite a lot.
:20:34. > :20:36.We know that Google has received one from an ex-politician wanting
:20:37. > :20:46.material about his behaviour removed. From a man convicted of
:20:47. > :20:52.possessing child images. He wants that taken away. It is unclear
:20:53. > :20:56.whether some of those people being in public life, they have to obey
:20:57. > :21:01.that. It will probably end up with the Information Commissioner having
:21:02. > :21:06.to act as an adjudicator. Opponents say it is evidence of creeping
:21:07. > :21:10.censorship. Supporters say, finally, giant, powerful, American web firms
:21:11. > :21:13.are finding they are not beyond the law. Five contenders for the most
:21:14. > :21:16.powerful position in the European Commission have taken part in a
:21:17. > :21:20.televised debate. It's the first event of its kind in the history of
:21:21. > :21:23.the Commission. The debate was dominated by the economic problems
:21:24. > :21:27.of the eurozone. It is experiencing a much weaker recovery than the UK
:21:28. > :21:30.and other major global economies. The countries which share the euro
:21:31. > :21:33.grew by just 0.2% in the past three months. Our Europe editor, Gavin
:21:34. > :21:44.Hewitt, watched the exchanges. Scroll back over the past five years
:21:45. > :21:49.and you can see why Europe is proving a tough sell. The riots, the
:21:50. > :21:57.Eurozone bailouts, unemployment lines, still in some countries 25%
:21:58. > :22:03.are out of work. And, for many, the hard times are not over. Today, in
:22:04. > :22:07.France, there were no tests against a public sector wage freeze and
:22:08. > :22:10.there was sobering news that the Eurozone economy are scarcely
:22:11. > :22:13.growing with stagnation in France. This was the backdrop to one of the
:22:14. > :22:19.main events of the European elections. A TV debate tonight,
:22:20. > :22:23.involving candidates for Europe 's top job, president of the European
:22:24. > :22:26.commission. The idea is that the candidate of the largest group in
:22:27. > :22:30.the European Parliament should get the prize of leaving -- leading the
:22:31. > :22:39.EU. Heads of government will also make their choice. None of these
:22:40. > :22:46.politicians are well known. But their vision for Europe might
:22:47. > :22:49.matter. In the European Union, 6 million young men and women are
:22:50. > :22:57.unemployed. They are paying with their future. You we cannot have the
:22:58. > :23:00.European Union where a whole generation is being lost and where
:23:01. > :23:06.people lose their faith and perspective in a better life in
:23:07. > :23:11.future. The candidates were asked about the growth of Euro scepticism
:23:12. > :23:15.and the Euro crisis. It should be a disaster for all the economies in
:23:16. > :23:20.Europe, in the north and the South, if we go back to national
:23:21. > :23:25.currencies. Candidates found themselves having to defend actions
:23:26. > :23:30.in the Eurozone crisis. TRANSLATION: Over years, I worked
:23:31. > :23:35.day and night are more nights than days to keep Greece in the euro. If
:23:36. > :23:40.the UK ends up trying to renegotiate its membership of the EU, the person
:23:41. > :23:43.chosen to become president of the European commission is of huge
:23:44. > :23:48.significance. The candidates here say they remain ready to negotiate
:23:49. > :23:51.with Britain and, they say, they are open to more being done at a
:23:52. > :23:59.national, rather than a European, level. The Government in the UK
:24:00. > :24:03.however will be wary. Almost all these candidates want closer union,
:24:04. > :24:19.more integration. The battle for Europe 's top job may prove to be
:24:20. > :24:22.long and divisive. Anti-government protests have been taking place in
:24:23. > :24:26.cities across Brazil, with less than a month to go to the World Cup, In
:24:27. > :24:29.Sao Paulo, main roads into the city were blocked and demonstrators
:24:30. > :24:32.marched to the stadium where the tournament will open. Protesters are
:24:33. > :24:35.angry that billions of dollars have been spent on the World Cup instead
:24:36. > :24:39.of social projects, transport and housing. Two of Britain's biggest
:24:40. > :24:43.retailers are merging to produce a new chain in a deal worth ?3.5
:24:44. > :24:46.billion. Dixons, the owner of Currys and PC World, is joining forces with
:24:47. > :24:49.Carphone Warehouse, to form Dixons Carphone. The company will have more
:24:50. > :24:52.than 1,000 stores and, as Emma Simpson reports, the company hopes
:24:53. > :24:54.to harness the full potential of new mobile technology. Currys and PC
:24:55. > :24:57.World, two big high-street brands that are owned by Dixons. They are
:24:58. > :24:59.now joining forces with Carphone Warehouse, creating Britain's
:25:00. > :25:10.biggest electronics empire, Dixons Carphone.
:25:11. > :25:16.Why are they doing it? Well, whether it is your TV in your living room,
:25:17. > :25:18.the cooker in your kitchen, or your washing machine, both companies
:25:19. > :25:21.believe that, in the future, there will be a lot less hassle when it
:25:22. > :25:25.comes to controlling the equipment around our homes because we will be
:25:26. > :25:35.doing it through a smartphone or tablet. They hope this merger will
:25:36. > :25:43.eventually make it easier for consumers to get connected in just
:25:44. > :25:46.one shop. Increasingly, customers want to think about the mobile
:25:47. > :25:51.device, connectivity and the rest of their lives as one seamless whole.
:25:52. > :25:56.Nowhere on the planet are they able to do that. From when this merger
:25:57. > :26:01.concludes, we will be able to tell that story in a way in which I think
:26:02. > :26:04.is completely unique. There are lots of devices that are already
:26:05. > :26:10.connected to the internet, like this aerial camera. The smartphone is
:26:11. > :26:13.being used as a remote control. It looks amazing but does the merger
:26:14. > :26:20.make sense? Shares fell sharply in both companies today. Whilst they
:26:21. > :26:23.are building a futuristic vision of the reasons for this merger, in
:26:24. > :26:26.terms of the connected home and the internet and things, it's really
:26:27. > :26:29.more of a defensive play. Dixons are coming under strong attack from the
:26:30. > :26:32.likes of Amazon and Carphone Warehouse have their own issues with
:26:33. > :26:38.regard to the carriers, the networks they do business with. These big
:26:39. > :26:43.names will stay the same. They have more than 1,000 UK stores between
:26:44. > :26:46.them. It is not clear if there will be the same number of shops in
:26:47. > :26:50.future. This is an industry that has seen plenty of failed tie-ups
:26:51. > :26:57.before. The question is, is this one destined to be a perfect match?