:00:03. > :00:09.have to protect the National Health Service, and build a stronger
:00:09. > :00:14.country, we will have to be focussed on every single pound we spend.
:00:14. > :00:19.The US demands that Iran and its allies in Lebanon, Hezbollah, pull
:00:19. > :00:24.forces out of Syria after the militant group helped Government
:00:24. > :00:27.troops retake the town of Qusair. The former editor of the News of the
:00:27. > :00:31.World newspaper, Andy Coulson, pleads not guilty to phone hacking
:00:31. > :00:36.charges. The former head of communications at
:00:37. > :00:40.Number Ten, pleaded not guilty to charges related to payments to
:00:40. > :00:47.public officials. Later we have a statement from the
:00:47. > :00:52.Government on the victims of the Mau Mau uprisings.
:00:52. > :00:55.That announcement is coming up shortly. Before all of that, we are
:00:55. > :01:05.checking out what is happening in the world of sport.
:01:05. > :01:08.
:01:09. > :01:13.Dan is our man. The ICC champions trophy is under
:01:13. > :01:18.way in Cardiff with India playing South Africa. Prince Charles
:01:18. > :01:28.declared the tour open via a message, beamed around the ground.
:01:28. > :01:28.
:01:28. > :03:53.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 144 seconds
:03:53. > :03:58.from Syria in the 1967 war. It is a demarcation line a ceasefire line
:03:58. > :04:04.that we are talking about. The reports are that the rebels seized
:04:04. > :04:08.from government forces, the crossing point at the area that goes to the
:04:08. > :04:14.Israeli-held area fr the Golan Heights but also reports that
:04:14. > :04:19.government troops may have taken it back. This has happened at several
:04:19. > :04:29.other border crossing, that they are seized one day, then taken back the
:04:29. > :04:30.
:04:30. > :04:37.next. In the meantime, the Israelis are watching not overworried. There
:04:37. > :04:41.are reports that summer of the Israeli -- army wounded have been
:04:41. > :04:45.taken to hospitals in Israeli. So the Israelis are apparently not
:04:45. > :04:50.taking sides in that respect. They are basically watching this
:04:50. > :04:57.fighting going on, creeping closer to the area that they cholesterol.
:04:57. > :05:07.This border crossing is manned by the UN? This is a ceasefire line. It
:05:07. > :05:08.
:05:08. > :05:13.is, there are UN observers at that ceasefire line But the Israelis are
:05:13. > :05:16.on one side and normally the Syrian army on the other. It seems that the
:05:16. > :05:21.Syrian army positions were overtaken by the rebels.
:05:21. > :05:26.But there has been a lot of fighting in the whole area in recent weeks.
:05:26. > :05:29.There have been incidents when Israeli incidents have been hit,
:05:29. > :05:35.either deliberately or by stray fire. They have responded to the
:05:35. > :05:39.sources of fire. The is are watching carefully and responding locally
:05:39. > :05:44.when something happens. They are not looking for a fight but they are
:05:44. > :05:48.concerned that it could spill over further.
:05:48. > :05:53.Jim Muir speaking from Beirut. The Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep
:05:53. > :06:02.Tayyip Erdogan, is due to return from a foreign tour as mass protests
:06:02. > :06:07.against his government 's continue. There were demonstrations that were
:06:07. > :06:11.fed by widespread discontent with the government. The police in Izmir
:06:11. > :06:16.in western Turkey have been rounding up people who posted messages on
:06:16. > :06:20.Twitter. About 30 people were arrested an tweeting messages in
:06:20. > :06:25.support of the protests. A crowd on the move in Turkey, but
:06:25. > :06:29.they are not protestors, they have come to find arrested family
:06:29. > :06:35.members. Here they are. The government accusing them of misusing
:06:35. > :06:41.social media. Some 30 young people have been
:06:41. > :06:44.arrested. They are being taken away. The government accuses them of
:06:44. > :06:49.inciting antigovernment protest using social media. They say that
:06:49. > :06:53.the government is scared of social media, as it cannot shut down
:06:53. > :06:57.Twitter it is going after them instead.
:06:57. > :07:02.Family members are left distraught. Dozens of police took part in raids
:07:02. > :07:08.on their homes. There is anger too, these arrests are politically
:07:08. > :07:12.motivated, they say. This man tells me his friend was
:07:12. > :07:20.arrested for two tweets that gave the location of riot police.
:07:20. > :07:25.If they arrest them, they have to arrest thousands, maybe 10,000 or
:07:25. > :07:31.more people, because I also tweet the same kind of tweets. Most of the
:07:31. > :07:36.people here are doing the same. How old is your daughter? 246789
:07:36. > :07:45.24. Imagine the people inside. They are boys, girls, they are all young
:07:45. > :07:48.people. 18, 19. There is not any old people there, you know? Turkey's
:07:48. > :07:52.Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has declared Twitter a
:07:52. > :07:59.menace, but in a country where the media is intimidated and controlled
:07:59. > :08:03.it is a vital source of news. TRANSLATION: We think that the
:08:03. > :08:07.entire world would be surprised when they hear that the things that have
:08:07. > :08:12.been shared on Facebook and Twitter and the conversations of young
:08:13. > :08:16.people on social media are accepted as a crime and their communication
:08:16. > :08:20.is then banned. The young say that the government
:08:20. > :08:27.does not understand them. The attack on sorely media shows how
:08:27. > :08:36.disconnected both sides are in the country.
:08:36. > :08:41.So to catch up on the other stories today. : North and South Career are
:08:42. > :08:49.to talks after months of tension. The North proposed the meeting on
:08:49. > :08:55.The UN imposed tough sanctions on Pyongyang following a nuclear test.
:08:55. > :09:00.The police in India have arrested men accused of raping an American
:09:00. > :09:05.tourist. The 30-year-old woman had accepted a lift in a truck. After
:09:05. > :09:10.struggling to find a taxi to return to her hotel. The police said that
:09:10. > :09:15.the men drove the woman to a secluded spot where they raped and
:09:15. > :09:19.robbed her. A building has collapsed in
:09:19. > :09:26.Philadelphia. Rescuers worked through the night to find people
:09:26. > :09:31.trapped. At least 14 people have been pulled out alive. The operator
:09:31. > :09:35.of Japan's Fukushima power plant say it is has found a leak of radio
:09:35. > :09:38.active water. Tokyo Electric Power said it spotted drips coming from a
:09:38. > :09:44.tank used to store radioactive water at the site.
:09:44. > :09:50.News of a massed hunger strike among some 166 detailis at Guantanamo Bay
:09:50. > :09:56.led President Obama to recently repeat his 2008 elects pledge to
:09:56. > :10:01.close the -- election pledge to close the facility. The prisoners
:10:01. > :10:04.are continuing their protest, but the authorities are fighting back.
:10:04. > :10:11.Despite President Obama's renewed commitment to close down this prison
:10:11. > :10:18.camp, the hunger strike goes on. Now in its fourth month. Of the 166
:10:18. > :10:23.prisoners kept inside, 103 of them are refusing food. Of those 38 are
:10:23. > :10:27.being force-fed. You get the sense that there is a battle of wills
:10:27. > :10:32.going on here between the military authorities who have introduced
:10:32. > :10:37.stricter rules and the detainees stepping up their protest. The
:10:37. > :10:41.atmosphere, I would say it is more tense than I have been on previous
:10:41. > :10:46.visits. In the past we have been allowed to see the detainees from a
:10:46. > :10:51.distance, never to film faces nor allowed to speak to them but on this
:10:51. > :10:55.visit we have been kept well away. We have heard their protests
:10:55. > :11:04.occasionally. You can take part in a Twitter Q and
:11:04. > :11:10.A session with him. A French activist has been left
:11:10. > :11:16.brain dead after an attack. The attackers have not been traced
:11:16. > :11:21.but investigations are focussing on a far-right group. Left-wing parties
:11:21. > :11:25.were called to a demonstration in central Paris on Thursday evening to
:11:25. > :11:29.denounce what they call far-right violence.
:11:29. > :11:34.Central Europe's worst floods in more than a decade are continuing to
:11:34. > :11:38.wreak havoc. 16 people are known to have died. Floodwaters have receded
:11:38. > :11:46.in southern Germany but the focus of the flooding is shifting north. In
:11:46. > :11:51.the city of Halle, the Salo reached the highest level in 400 years.
:11:51. > :11:55.40,000 people have been told to leave their homes. Residents are
:11:55. > :11:59.bracing themselves for the water to peak later on today. Steve Evans
:11:59. > :12:05.reports from Berlin. The focus of the flooding shifted to
:12:05. > :12:12.the north. In des den in eastern Germany -- Dresden. Locals formed
:12:12. > :12:18.human chains to hand sandbags down the line to protect their in Halle,
:12:18. > :12:24.there has been efforts to shore up the barriers as the Zala river rose
:12:24. > :12:29.to its highest point in 400 years. After an anxious overnight wait, the
:12:29. > :12:34.efforts seem to have paid off. TRANSLATION: The worst seems over.
:12:34. > :12:38.They put up a second damn in front of the first one. Now we are very
:12:38. > :12:44.hopeful. In the south in Bavaria, the waters
:12:44. > :12:49.are subsiding to leave mud and pain. Part of the difficulty here is that
:12:49. > :12:57.insurance costs are high in an area of rivers, which often flood. Though
:12:57. > :13:04.never in modern times this badly. TRANSLATION: You can't get
:13:04. > :13:07.insurance, you cannot ensure your home in a floodplain.
:13:07. > :13:13.Those whose homes have been spared still face the difficulty of moving
:13:13. > :13:18.about in an area which is often under water. In Bratislava in
:13:18. > :13:21.Slovakia, the waters of a complex of rivers, including the Danube, rose
:13:21. > :13:29.to the highest level in living memory. People found they could not
:13:29. > :13:33.get home. Fast-flowing rifr -- rivers mean
:13:33. > :13:38.barge cannot move. They cannot cope with the torrent. The bridges are
:13:38. > :13:41.too low. So a swathe of commercial life is at a stand still. There are
:13:41. > :13:46.also political recriminations, people are asking why it has been so
:13:46. > :13:52.bad. In the south of Germany, the leader of Bavaria said that part of
:13:52. > :13:58.the problem was that land owners had resisted engineering schemes that
:13:58. > :14:04.would have allowed floodwaters to escape safely.
:14:04. > :14:12.Stay with us here on BBC News, still to come.
:14:12. > :14:21.# Take me to the drive-inpicture show... 08 years of the
:14:21. > :14:26.drive-incinema but just how many survive today? Steve Schachlin is a
:14:26. > :14:32.remarkable man a musician, a composer and a long term AIDS
:14:32. > :14:37.survivor. In the 80s, many who contracted the virus died very
:14:37. > :14:41.quickly. Thanks to medication, Steve has been living with AIDS for many
:14:41. > :14:45.years, but looking at the early years of the virus in an exhibition
:14:45. > :14:51.in New York, he is worried that the young people of today, born after
:14:51. > :14:57.that time, do not understand the risks.
:14:57. > :15:04.# Somebody took a trip to Chinatown... I have AIDS. I was
:15:04. > :15:08.tested positive in 1993. Back in the 80s, people died so
:15:08. > :15:13.quickly, that they would get the virus, a week later they looked like
:15:13. > :15:17.they were dead. The next week they were dead.
:15:17. > :15:22.In San Francisco, there were newspapers with columns every week
:15:22. > :15:27.with hundreds of names of people that had died. It was a Holocaust.
:15:27. > :15:31.People were afraid of people with AIDS. Afraid if they were in the
:15:31. > :15:37.same room that the virus could come out and catch them.
:15:37. > :15:41.This poster here it is early, 1983. It was one of the first exmregss of
:15:41. > :15:45.people coming together to make a public statement about the losses
:15:45. > :15:55.that they were suffering. This is an exhibit it is the first five years
:15:55. > :16:03.
:16:03. > :16:06.of AIDS in New York. 1981-1985. It opens on Friday on June the #th.
:16:06. > :16:16.medication is better than before. Nowadays, when I tell people I have
:16:16. > :16:16.
:16:16. > :16:23.AIDS, their work is one more of compassion -- their look.
:16:23. > :16:28.Back then, we had organisation after organisation that were all committed
:16:28. > :16:32.to education, there were flying at and pamphlets, then it all stopped.
:16:32. > :16:37.-- there were flyers and pamphlets. They thought nobody was dying any
:16:37. > :16:41.more so they did not need to do that. We are doing it because people
:16:41. > :16:45.under 40 do not realise what it was like when people started dropping in
:16:45. > :16:50.the streets and their friends were dying around them and people are
:16:50. > :17:00.getting careless again. The struggle is to get that education and
:17:00. > :17:08.information out to younger Watching BBC world News. The latest
:17:08. > :17:12.headlines. Fierce fighting is taking place across a border fighting in
:17:12. > :17:16.the Israeli-occupied territory. And after more clashes overnight,
:17:16. > :17:26.Turkish protesters call for the Prime Minister to resign, ahead of
:17:26. > :17:36.
:17:36. > :17:43.his return from a four day foreign 's decision to pay compensation of
:17:43. > :17:47.thousands of pounds 2,000 of Kenyans who say they were tortured more than
:17:47. > :17:56.a century ago under colonial rule. William Hague is expected to make a
:17:56. > :18:02.statement shortly. Negotiations have been underway for several months
:18:02. > :18:06.following a court case in London. More on this with Peter, as we were
:18:06. > :18:13.saying, this has gone on for years. What sort of figures are we looking
:18:13. > :18:18.at and what of the complaints of abuse against Britain? A number have
:18:18. > :18:27.been coming to Britain since 2009 as representatives to bring the case to
:18:27. > :18:34.the court here. They were tortured, all manner of torture, including
:18:34. > :18:40.sexual abuse in the camps where they were taken. That is why they are
:18:40. > :18:44.claiming for compensation. Mau Mau represented a fight for
:18:44. > :18:48.independence from colonial rule, were they the principal army
:18:48. > :18:52.involved or were there other groups? There would have been other groups
:18:52. > :18:58.in different parts of the country, but during colonial times, the
:18:58. > :19:06.British preferred to settle in their so-called White Highlands and where
:19:06. > :19:12.they settled, that is where they would face backlash and it would
:19:12. > :19:15.mean people operating in central Kenya, that is where they were
:19:15. > :19:20.based, but other people would have been pushing to independence in
:19:20. > :19:26.different ways -- ocean for independence.
:19:26. > :19:31.Is this something of national priority in column -- in Kenya?
:19:31. > :19:40.It is, it is an issue of human rights in this day and age. It is of
:19:40. > :19:47.national importance, particularly because of the figure mentioned, the
:19:47. > :19:51.majority of enlightened people think this is too small an amount given
:19:51. > :19:55.following the torture of these people.
:19:55. > :19:58.Will prosecutions be mounted against any individuals, because presumably
:19:58. > :20:04.some people are still alive who were working with British authorities
:20:04. > :20:07.during this period? Not as an individual. It is the
:20:07. > :20:11.British authorities, not an individual.
:20:11. > :20:16.But there have been rumours and controversy about what files and
:20:16. > :20:21.what government files were available and have not been disclosed.
:20:21. > :20:25.-- what files, what government files. That is one argument, one
:20:25. > :20:29.argument presented by the British government. The British government
:20:29. > :20:39.was arguing that that was to do with the government then as not the
:20:39. > :20:44.current government. -- and not. The lawyers representing Mau Mau were
:20:44. > :20:48.somehow able to get the files they needed to present a formidable case.
:20:48. > :20:51.But there was talk of what files were available and which could be
:20:52. > :21:00.relied on. We have pictures of people
:21:00. > :21:08.celebrating the decision. Perhaps people of this age group would have
:21:08. > :21:12.been taking part in the Mau Mau, just reminders about the period of
:21:12. > :21:20.fighting when they were challenging the British authorities.
:21:20. > :21:28.We know that Kenya became British around 1885 and much later, when
:21:28. > :21:33.they started fighting the British authorities, they demanded land and
:21:33. > :21:38.Freedom from the Crown. That went on up to the time Kenya got
:21:38. > :21:41.independence, around 1963, or wrap -- although many of the Mau Mau
:21:41. > :21:46.fighters had been suppressed. And what happened is now what is coming
:21:46. > :21:51.forward at the moment. And what is the translation of Mau
:21:51. > :22:01.Mau? It is a coded word. In Swahili, it
:22:01. > :22:03.
:22:03. > :22:08.would mean, the white man -- let the white man with so the African can be
:22:08. > :22:14.independent! Thank you very much. -- let the
:22:14. > :22:23.white man live. Written will start sending --
:22:23. > :22:27.Britain will start sending Afghan detainees to a new place. The MoD
:22:27. > :22:31.says it is safe to transfer detainees and the transfer will
:22:31. > :22:34.start later this month. Michael Jackson 's 15-year-old
:22:34. > :22:39.daughter Paris is in hospital in California after apparently trying
:22:39. > :22:44.to take her own life. A spokesperson say she is physically fine but is
:22:44. > :22:47.still receiving medical attention. -- says.
:22:47. > :22:52.The family are describing her condition is physically fine,
:22:52. > :22:55.although she is still in hospital getting medical treatment. She was
:22:55. > :23:00.rushed into hospital in the early hours of the -- of Wednesday
:23:00. > :23:06.morning. The precise nature of the medical emergency has not been
:23:06. > :23:11.revealed. There have been a number of reports in the US media that she
:23:11. > :23:15.may have attempted to cut her wrists or may have taken a drugs overdose.
:23:15. > :23:19.The family is not confirming those details. A number of people
:23:19. > :23:25.representing the family have issued statements and it is clear they do
:23:25. > :23:30.not want to get into any detail and they are appealing for privacy for
:23:30. > :23:34.the family. It is a great American institution
:23:34. > :23:41.and today, it celebrates its 80th birthday, the first raving movie
:23:41. > :23:45.opened for business in 1933. Over the years, they have provided
:23:45. > :23:49.generations of moviegoers a unique experience. Their heyday was in the
:23:49. > :23:57.1950s and the few remaining today do not find it easy making ends meet.
:23:57. > :24:04.This report from New York. The Hyde Park drive-in in upstate
:24:04. > :24:09.New York, one of 250 still operating in America. It opened in 1933 and
:24:09. > :24:19.today, Mr Elder is still a draw! My grandfather used to take me when
:24:19. > :24:20.
:24:20. > :24:24.I was around three. It is kind of like a tradition.
:24:24. > :24:28.The drive-in has been immortalised in pop culture, in songs and films.
:24:28. > :24:33.Moviegoers see it as a very American institution.
:24:33. > :24:38.Absolutely, it goes with workers and fries and apple pie,
:24:38. > :24:43.stereotypically. Drive-ins took off in post-World War
:24:43. > :24:51.II America and more than 4,000 worth dotted across the land at one stage.
:24:51. > :24:53.They proliferated rapidly. A number of technological and social
:24:53. > :24:58.things happen. Americans with new babies, cars, looking for
:24:58. > :25:04.entertainment, the drive-ins were perfect for that.
:25:04. > :25:08.The routine is the same. At sundown, it -- it is showdown. People listen
:25:08. > :25:13.to the soundtrack through car radios. This projectionist keeps the
:25:13. > :25:18.crowds updated. Charles Smith believes the drive-in
:25:18. > :25:23.is a bargain. The price of admission is $9 per passenger, entitling you
:25:23. > :25:27.to more than one show. You can get a double feature, sit
:25:27. > :25:32.and relax outside, eat and watch a second film.
:25:32. > :25:35.Drive-ins declined in the 1970s and 1980s. One reason was the advent of
:25:35. > :25:39.home entertainment which meant people could watch films in their
:25:39. > :25:44.own homes. But also the move to more compact and fuel-efficient vehicles
:25:44. > :25:51.meant going to the drive-in was not such a comfortable experience.
:25:51. > :25:55.Now there is grave concerns. Hollywood studios no longer send
:25:55. > :25:59.their films out as 35 and to Prince and they will be distributed
:25:59. > :26:04.digitally. Drive-ins have to make upgrades.
:26:04. > :26:08.Some of the existing drive-ins will not be still in business by the end
:26:08. > :26:12.of this year because of the costs they are putting game, it is very
:26:12. > :26:15.cost prohibitive. What may help is that older
:26:16. > :26:21.Americans driven by nostalgia returning to the drive-in and young
:26:21. > :26:26.people are reportedly becoming converts of the driving experience
:26:26. > :26:32.once they sample it, and that is very good for business!
:26:32. > :26:37.Maybe keep going for years! A reminder of the top stories. Syrian
:26:37. > :26:43.rebels have seized a border crossing in Israeli-occupied land, fuelling
:26:43. > :26:46.fears that the two year civil war may spill over into a wider regional
:26:46. > :26:51.conflict. Fierce fighting is continuing around the town, the only