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clashes between the security forces and supporters of the deposed

President Morsi. Demonstrators claim hundreds are dead, after the army

tried to clear two protest camps. The authorities say the death toll

is much lower. I have been on the streets of Cairo

this morning whether fighting has been fierce.

The latest from our correspondence in Cairo.

Also this lunchtime. Another fall in the number of people out of work,

but youth and long-term unemployment has risen.

The 90-year-old who has left more than half a million pounds to the

Government. Now the Tories and Lib Dems say they will put it into

public, rather than political coffers.

In prison in Peru, the women arrested on suspicion of

drug-trafficking say they were forced in to it by a criminal gang.

And chatting with children, Prince William returns to Anglesey for the

first time since becoming a dad and describes his son has been pretty

loud and extremely good-looking! Later on BBC London. "A catalogue of

failings," the verdict on Whipps Cross Hospital, after unannounced

inspections. And quieter nights for thousands of

Londoners, during a trial to alter BBC News at One. Egypt's security

forces are clashing with supporters of the deposed President, Mohammed

Morsi, as they try to clear two protest camps in Cairo. The Muslim

Brotherhood claims hundreds of people have been killed, but the

authorities say the death toll is much lower. One hospital is

reporting that several thousand have been injured in the running battles.

The two camps have been occupied by protestors for the past six weeks,

since President Mohammed Morsi was removed from power by the military.

Our world affairs correspondent, James Robbins, reports.

On the barricades, Moslem Brotherhood supporters have known

for days what was coming. -- Moslem Brotherhood. Egypt's 's security

forces determined to establish authority over the country and break

up protest camps six weeks after the military forced President Morsi and

the Brotherhood from power. Army bulldozers demolish barricades and

moved deep into the main camp frequent, sometimes prolonged. In a

deeply polarised Egypt, there is huge disagreement over weapons used

and casualties. Although many windowed and covered in blood have

been seen on the streets. -- injured. The government says it has

tried to rely on tear gas and to minimise Bachchan. Dashboard chat.

Witnesses say they have seen live rounds, and they have displayed what

they call proof and have talked of a massacre of hundreds killed. They

accused the military, backed by Washington, of deliberate murder. A

television station backing the government has shown this infrared

footage which the authorities say show but the hard gunman firing on

police as they entered one camp to clear protesters. -- militant

gunman. The Egyptian government is urging protesters to listen to the

voice of reason and to stop violence. The government has praised

the security forces for showing what it calls self restraint. The

government said it would press ahead with commenting an army backed

political transition plan. -- with implementing. But supporters of the

deposed President Morsi denounced what they see as the theft of their

democratic right to rule. They reject government insistence it will

try not to exclude any political party from participation. The

Brotherhood is convinced their exclusion and the exclusion of

Islamic and from Egypt is the aim. With reports of clashes spreading to

others -- to other towns and cities across the country, Egypt, still

utterly divided, has again been plunged into violent crisis.

Our correspondent, James Reynolds, has been out on the streets of Cairo

today. He has seen the operation to try to clear the streets of Morsi

supporters. The rate has been going on for more

than 2.5 hours. -- the raid. Security forces have taken control

of main roads towards the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque encampments. This

is the target. The Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque whether pro-Morsi supporters

are is beyond that black smoke which is essentially the burning of tyres

which protesters started when the violence began just after dawn. You

can still hear explosions, some of them on tear gas. We felt the sting

in our eyes and we have been hearing intermittent and occasionally

frequent white fryer. We just heard a deep explosion so it is very clear

the security forces are trained to finish the raid and clear out the

area. -- they are trying to. We can join him live now from Cairo, what

is the situation now? We understand security forces have

cleared a smaller encampment in Nahda Square near Cairo University.

From the place I was speaking, the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque, security

forces have not finished their operation. I spent about three hours

and I heard extended and prolonged gunfire and explosions. We have seen

pictures suggesting thereon more people there and we understand

casualties are being treated at a field hospital inside that area.

When you look at the images coming out of Cairo today and the reports

of deaths and injuries, you wonder how this will end.

A lot of people will be asking that question. On my way back from Cairo,

I saw armoured personnel on bridges and outside foreign embassies, I saw

policemen with pistols drawn trying to move back a crowd.

Security forces will want to re-establish control over the

country. The British Foreign Secretary William Hague has said he

is deeply concerned by what is happening in this city.

The number of people out of work has fallen again, by 4,000. Just over

2.5 million people are out of work. But youth and long-term unemployment

both rose between April and June. Almost 8% of the work force are

still without work, that is well above the 7% target set by the Bank

of England. Last week, its new Governor, Mark Carney, said interest

rates would stay the same until that target is reached. Here is our chief

economics correspondent, Hugh Pym. It looks like an office where

workers from any section of the economy work, but these are

job-seekers in what is billed as the job centre of the future. Designed

to help claimants look for work on mine in a friendly environment.

After trials which are said to raise the success rate, the plan is to

start converting job centres around the country.

It is assisted job search. We help clients and we sit down with them

and we cried them how to claim in the first instance and most

importantly how to look for a job -- we cried them.

One job-seekers Nigel said he could drop in any day and there seems to

be a good choice of jobs -- job-seeker.

It is in front of you every day so there is more opportunity, and it is

the way forward. Unemployment fell slightly, although

Wales saw an increase. There was a drop in the total claiming

jobseeker's allowance, the lowest in four years. Detailed figures showed

the total in work rose by nearly 70,000 over three months to June,

youth unemployment was up by 15,000 and there was a 7,000 increase in

long-term unemployment, those out of work more than one year. This man is

watching unemployment figures closely, Mark Carney, the Bank of

England Governor said he and his colleagues will not raise interest

rates until the unemployment rate falls to 7% of the workforce. Today

's figures showed it was unchanged. On the basis of today, it would be a

slow grind towards 7% which is what the Bank of England seems to be

expecting, although if the economy were to pick up more strongly, it

could be the case in return to faster reductions of unemployment.

A complex picture in the world of work, jobs are being created but the

workforce is expanding, so although the economy is growing, generating

enough employment to bring the total down is still a work in process.

When 90-year-old Joan Edwards died last year, she left more than half a

million pounds to whichever government was in office at the date

of her death. And so the money went straight into the political funds of

the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. But then questions were

raised about how exactly she had meant the money to be used. Now both

parties have announced they are giving it to the Treasury instead.

Our political correspondent, Robin Brant, is in Westminster.

This was a bumper bonus for the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.

We learn just a day that John Edwards, of Bristol, not known to

anybody in Westminster, had given half �1 million to the parties in

the coalition government -- Joan Edwards. But there was confusion,

was it meant to go to the party in government or to the nation? Nobody

knew whether she was a political person. We have been to Bristol and

we spoke to a friend and a neighbour.

Not that I know of, I know she would write to the paper if she was really

upset about something, she would write to the paper, but other than

that, no. A sizeable sum of money, she was the

biggest donor in the three months up to July. But this confusion has led

the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives to effectively refuse

the money. They believed the threat to the damage of their reputation

was too high and they believe lots of people here are very cynical

about how politicians raise their money, so the one thing that is

clear this lunchtime is that the national debt is that little bit

less now! Two women held in Peru over

suspected drug trafficking say they were forced to try to smuggle

cocaine out of the country by a Colombian gang who threatened them

at gunpoint. Michaella McCollum, from Dungannon in County Tyrone, and

Melissa Reid, from Lenzie near Glasgow, were stopped by customs

officials at the airport as they tried to board a flight to Madrid

last week. Approached by a journalist at the

police station in the mill where they are held, both girls are coming

to terms with the seriousness of They were arrested last week at the

Peruvian capital 's airport trying to board a plane to Spain, accused

of smuggling 11 kilograms of cocaine with an estimated street value of

�1.5 million. Did you know it contained drugs?

Melissa Reid told police after their arrest they were not aware of the

drugs, but in an interview with the daily Mirror, the girls say they

were coerced into travelling to Peru from the booth -- from the beta and

forced to be drug mules. They were categorical they were not

smuggling for greed for an expensive holiday to South America, but their

lives. They genuinely felt their lives were in danger and the men

responsible had carried out kidnappings and would carry out the

threats. The judicial process is likely to be

lengthy and difficult. Drug suspects face severe penalties.

A lengthy period of pre-trial detention lasting up to three years

in poor conditions. And once the trial starts, the trial process can

be extremely lengthy because Peru is known for its very slow

administration of criminal justice. Both girls are receiving consular

help from the British and Irish embassies.

They are in better spirits than before and they are looking forward,

we understand family members may be coming soon.

As they await formal charges, Melissa Reid says she is resigned to

the fact her situation could take years to resolve.

Our top story this lunchtime. There is more bloodshed in Egypt, amid

clashes between the security forces and supporters of the deposed

President Morsi. Demonstrators claim hundreds are dead.

And still to come, the Afghan interpreters who helped British

forces fighting for the chance to be allowed to resettle in the UK. In

London, one in four people now rent in the capital, despite rising costs

and poor housing standards. And on the trial of our more elusive

nocturnal neighbours, making London the people of Anglesey for looking

after him and his wife for the last three years. Prince William is

visiting the Anglesey Show in one of his first public engagements since

becoming a father. He has had two weeks of parental leave from work as

a rescue helicopter pilot at RAF Valley on the island following the

birth of his son, Prince George. Our Royal Correspondent, Nicholas

Witchell, is on Anglesey. Nicholas? Yes, it is three years since William

began his tour of duty here on Anglesey and three years in which he

got worried and became a father and white, this has been his main home.

But it is time to move on. Dash-macro got married. His life is

undergoing fundamental changes, recessional and personal. And for

William, this is a moment to savour well to the community of Anglesey,

which will contain three years ago and which has sheltered him and

Catherine from prying eyes since. Foremost among the changes to his

life is the fact that he is a father. It is three weeks since he

and Catherine gave the world a first glimpse of their newborn son. Kate

and the baby have remained at the family home in Berkshire well

William has returned to Anglesey to work. But that also is changing.

Williams tour of duty as an RAF search and rescue pilot at RAF

Valley ends next month. It is not clear what he will do then. The

options are to transfer to another search and rescue base, return to

his household regiment or begin full-time duty as a working Royal

Family member. On Anglesey this morning, questions about baby George

were politely deflected. There were presents for him, clothes and

playthings. A toy tractor, for example. He is pretty loud and

extremely good-looking! I have to say that I thought that certain

rescue duties over Snowdonia where physically and mentally demanding.

But looking after a three-week-old baby is right up there! I know that

I speak for Catherine and I say that I have never in my life known

someone -- somewhere as beautiful and welcoming as Anglesey. Wherever

he moves on with his wife and son, William is unlikely to find the

relatively relaxed life he has enjoyed here. He will miss it. And

he certainly sounded in that speech as though it will be a considerable

range when he and Catherine leave when his tour of duty ends. He said

that we will miss it terribly and from the bottom of my heart, thank

you for making Catherine and Mesa welcome because it has been a very

significant haven for them. He pursued his duties and she set up

their first home together and it is unlikely that young George will ever

spend significant time here but for both of them, they will look back

upon their time here as a golden period in their lives. Thank you

very much. After 18 months, the Eurozone has finally emerged from

recession, largely thanks to solid growth in its two biggest economies,

France and Germany. The 17 countries that use the euro saw their

collective economic output grow by 0.3%. Our correspondent, Steve

Evans, is in Berlin. Some relief? the right direction, you are

absolutely right. 18 months of decline and the shrinking economy

and Britain's biggest customer and that looks to be going the other

way. Germany leading the way and France, surprisingly, also pulling

the whole thing up. German consumers seem like they are starting to spend

and that is good news for the British, who might sell to them, and

also for people in Greece and Spain and the rest of the Eurozone. The

crisis remains in Greece and we are not out of the woods but the

direction is up rather than down. Thank you. Israeli and Palestinian

representatives are meeting in Jerusalem for their first direct

negotiations in three years.26 Palestinian prisoners released as

part of the process were given a jubilant welcome last night by

waiting crowds. But Israel's announcement at the weekend that it

is to build 1000 new homes in East Jerusalem and the West Bank is

expected to cast a shadow over the talks. In India, several sailors

have been killed in an explosion on a submarine docked in Mumbai. It is

thought that 18 crew members were on board the Indian navy submarine at

the time. Firefighters spent four hours putting out the blaze.

Officials say the diesel-powered vessel has been badly damaged. A

group of former army officers, including a great-grandson of

Winston Churchill, have been to Downing Street to demand that all

Afghan interpreters who helped British forces be allowed to

resettle in the UK. They delivered a petition signed by more than 50,000

people. Ministers say only those who served on the front line for more

than a year and were still employed last December can be resettled.

Jonathan Beale reports. They risked their lives serving on the front

line beside it strips. The fact that we cannot show their faces

highlights the fears of what might happen to them when UK forces leave.

They have already braved the bullets of Helmand Province but they are

still a target for the Taliban. This morning, a group of former army

officers delivered a petition to number ten calling on the government

to give all Afghan interpreter is the right to come to the UK. Present

policy only analysed some of them to resettle. Among the campaigners, the

great-grandson of Winston Churchill, who fought in Helmand Province and

is battling for those who served alongside. Winston Churchill would

be shocked at this policy and you must remain loyal to those who stand

up and fight side-by-side with us. As these guys did and we are leaving

them behind. They are being targeted by the Taliban and they chose to

come here, we should show them the commitment they showed us.

government has offered help to around 1200 Afghans employed by the

British and the result promise of money and educational training for

those who stay. Around half of those who served on the front line are

judged to be at greatest risk and will be given the chance to come to

the UK. But only those who worked for the British for over one year

and two are still employed in December are relatively -- are

eligible. It means hundreds of men like this one will get no help at

all. He worked as an interpreter for four years but left his job in 2010.

He says he is worried about his safety when the British leave.

anything happens after 3014, then, obviously, -- 2014, my life will be

in danger. The government says it has a separate policy to protect all

Afghans who have ever worked for the British and it says that in extreme

cases of threats and intimidation by the Taliban, it is willing to

resettle them in the UK. But so far, under the policy, only one Afghan

has been allowed to enter the country. More than 20 Afghan

interpreters working for the British have already lost their lives in

battle. Many more have been targeted by the Taliban along with their

families. And the soldiers who relied upon them say this country

owes them a debt that has not been repaid. The Olympic champion, Greg

Rutherford, is out of the World Athletics Championships after

failing to qualify for the long jump final. Rutherford, who has been

struggling with a hamstring injury, was unable to reach the qualifying

distance with any of his three jumps. But there's been plenty for

the Russians to cheer about after 31-year-old Yelena Isinbyeva won

gold in the pole vault. Andy Swiss has been following the events in

Moscow. Welcome to the stadium where I'm afraid it has been a

disappointing morning for Greg Rutherford, the Olympic champion in

London last year. This summer, he has been struggling with a hamstring

injury and he had to finish in the top 12 to make the final and he

could not manage that. Seven metres and 87, well below his best so hopes

of another title have ended in frustration. I woke up this morning

I thought this would be a very good day and I give it absolutely

everything and I made lots of and options to make this work and it did

not. That is the hard fact. What is appointment for Greg Rutherford. It

is totally former Olympic champion, Denise Lewis. Obviously, he has been

injured but what frustration for him? He will be very disappointed.

He will have come to this Championships hoping there was that

slight chance that he could make the final and he is the Olympic

champion, you do not take these decisions lightly and I know with

this feels like. But you always want that chance and he did not look

good. It was not the Greg Rutherford that we know, not that speed that he

normally has and not third jump, there was no way he would get

through with that distance. appointing for British fans but the

Russian fans are still excited after that extraordinary performance last

night from their superstar, Yelena Isinbayeva? Amazing celebrations?

was incredible and just as in innocent bystanders were able to

watch this Russian finally come alive, and she gave them a

performance to remember. Only four days left, where will the other

medals come from for great wooden? Perri shakes Drayton has a very

realistic chance and also in the women, they will be very strong and

Christine and any child is going in there. And the ladies have a very

good chance of getting a medal and obviously Mo Farah in the 5000

metres. Looking very strong. Thank you for talking to us. Plenty for

British fans to look forward to but disappointment today for Greg

Rutherford. I am afraid he is out. Time for the weather with Tomasz

Schafernaker. I followed your advice and looked up into the sky for those

tired! I don't think there will be -- there will -- there will be many

clear skies tonight with increasing cloud. We have some sunshine first

thing across eastern areas and are still some sunshine around but you

can see that cloud in bed in the UK. These Atlantic lives bringing some

rain. Across Scotland first of all, the Western Isles will be mostly

cloudy through the day with spots of rain and 19 degrees in the low lands

and in Belfast also. The basic message today is, across these

western areas and across the Irish Sea and Wales and the south-west and

the Midlands, basically this area of cloud will keep moving from the West

in an easterly direction, bringing rain through the day. As far as the

football goes, there will be some spots of rain on the way at almost

any time what it will not be cold. Tonight, we will continue to see

that muggy air coming in, quite warm with heavy rain around for Northern

Ireland and parts of Scotland, especially. Look at those

temperatures. These are the overnight temperatures. 17 degrees

as far north as Yorkshire and even northern Scotland. Pretty wet first

thing in the morning across northern parts and tomorrow, again, this book

and up area of cloud across the UK. There will be some sunshine around

but also rain and the idea is that further west, the more likely you

are to catch rain. But pretty sunny. Early on Friday, some rain around

across the South and the skies will brighten up and it looks like there

will be some sunshine around. Behind me, you can see the weather heading

our way for the weekend so the standard British forecast for this

weekend. But if everything - rain and wind with sunshine also. That is

exactly what we will get. Bursting on Saturday, brightness across

eastern areas and then this area of low pressure and these isobars

indicate the strength of the wind. On Saturday, not a write-off, low

pressure does not necessarily mean that but by the time we get to

Sunday, it looks like the weather will improve. Saturday is next and

on Sunday, brighter with sunshine and showers and quite breezy.

Perhaps too windy for kite flying but overall, it will be a mix of

is more bloodshed in Egypt amid clashes between the security forces

and supporters of the deposed president. Their message is clear

that hundreds are dead but authorities say the death toll is

much lower. And in the last few minutes, the British Embassy in

Cairo has announced that it will be closed to the public for the next