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have to protect the National Health Service, and build a stronger

country, we will have to be focussed on every single pound we spend.

The US demands that Iran and its allies in Lebanon, Hezbollah, pull

forces out of Syria after the militant group helped Government

troops retake the town of Qusair. The former editor of the News of the

World newspaper, Andy Coulson, pleads not guilty to phone hacking

charges. The former head of communications at

Number Ten, pleaded not guilty to charges related to payments to

public officials. Later we have a statement from the

Government on the victims of the Mau Mau uprisings.

That announcement is coming up shortly. Before all of that, we are

checking out what is happening in the world of sport.

Dan is our man. The ICC champions trophy is under

way in Cardiff with India playing South Africa. Prince Charles

declared the tour open via a message, beamed around the ground.

Apology for the loss of subtitles for 144 seconds

from Syria in the 1967 war. It is a demarcation line a ceasefire line

that we are talking about. The reports are that the rebels seized

from government forces, the crossing point at the area that goes to the

Israeli-held area fr the Golan Heights but also reports that

government troops may have taken it back. This has happened at several

other border crossing, that they are seized one day, then taken back the

next. In the meantime, the Israelis are watching not overworried. There

are reports that summer of the Israeli -- army wounded have been

taken to hospitals in Israeli. So the Israelis are apparently not

taking sides in that respect. They are basically watching this

fighting going on, creeping closer to the area that they cholesterol.

This border crossing is manned by the UN? This is a ceasefire line. It

is, there are UN observers at that ceasefire line But the Israelis are

on one side and normally the Syrian army on the other. It seems that the

Syrian army positions were overtaken by the rebels.

But there has been a lot of fighting in the whole area in recent weeks.

There have been incidents when Israeli incidents have been hit,

either deliberately or by stray fire. They have responded to the

sources of fire. The is are watching carefully and responding locally

when something happens. They are not looking for a fight but they are

concerned that it could spill over further.

Jim Muir speaking from Beirut. The Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep

Tayyip Erdogan, is due to return from a foreign tour as mass protests

against his government 's continue. There were demonstrations that were

fed by widespread discontent with the government. The police in Izmir

in western Turkey have been rounding up people who posted messages on

Twitter. About 30 people were arrested an tweeting messages in

support of the protests. A crowd on the move in Turkey, but

they are not protestors, they have come to find arrested family

members. Here they are. The government accusing them of misusing

social media. Some 30 young people have been

arrested. They are being taken away. The government accuses them of

inciting antigovernment protest using social media. They say that

the government is scared of social media, as it cannot shut down

Twitter it is going after them instead.

Family members are left distraught. Dozens of police took part in raids

on their homes. There is anger too, these arrests are politically

motivated, they say. This man tells me his friend was

arrested for two tweets that gave the location of riot police.

If they arrest them, they have to arrest thousands, maybe 10,000 or

more people, because I also tweet the same kind of tweets. Most of the

people here are doing the same. How old is your daughter? 246789

24. Imagine the people inside. They are boys, girls, they are all young

people. 18, 19. There is not any old people there, you know? Turkey's

Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has declared Twitter a

menace, but in a country where the media is intimidated and controlled

it is a vital source of news. TRANSLATION: We think that the

entire world would be surprised when they hear that the things that have

been shared on Facebook and Twitter and the conversations of young

people on social media are accepted as a crime and their communication

is then banned. The young say that the government

does not understand them. The attack on sorely media shows how

disconnected both sides are in the country.

So to catch up on the other stories today. : North and South Career are

to talks after months of tension. The North proposed the meeting on

The UN imposed tough sanctions on Pyongyang following a nuclear test.

The police in India have arrested men accused of raping an American

tourist. The 30-year-old woman had accepted a lift in a truck. After

struggling to find a taxi to return to her hotel. The police said that

the men drove the woman to a secluded spot where they raped and

robbed her. A building has collapsed in

Philadelphia. Rescuers worked through the night to find people

trapped. At least 14 people have been pulled out alive. The operator

of Japan's Fukushima power plant say it is has found a leak of radio

active water. Tokyo Electric Power said it spotted drips coming from a

tank used to store radioactive water at the site.

News of a massed hunger strike among some 166 detailis at Guantanamo Bay

led President Obama to recently repeat his 2008 elects pledge to

close the -- election pledge to close the facility. The prisoners

are continuing their protest, but the authorities are fighting back.

Despite President Obama's renewed commitment to close down this prison

camp, the hunger strike goes on. Now in its fourth month. Of the 166

prisoners kept inside, 103 of them are refusing food. Of those 38 are

being force-fed. You get the sense that there is a battle of wills

going on here between the military authorities who have introduced

stricter rules and the detainees stepping up their protest. The

atmosphere, I would say it is more tense than I have been on previous

visits. In the past we have been allowed to see the detainees from a

distance, never to film faces nor allowed to speak to them but on this

visit we have been kept well away. We have heard their protests

occasionally. You can take part in a Twitter Q and

A session with him. A French activist has been left

brain dead after an attack. The attackers have not been traced

but investigations are focussing on a far-right group. Left-wing parties

were called to a demonstration in central Paris on Thursday evening to

denounce what they call far-right violence.

Central Europe's worst floods in more than a decade are continuing to

wreak havoc. 16 people are known to have died. Floodwaters have receded

in southern Germany but the focus of the flooding is shifting north. In

the city of Halle, the Salo reached the highest level in 400 years.

40,000 people have been told to leave their homes. Residents are

bracing themselves for the water to peak later on today. Steve Evans

reports from Berlin. The focus of the flooding shifted to

the north. In des den in eastern Germany -- Dresden. Locals formed

human chains to hand sandbags down the line to protect their in Halle,

there has been efforts to shore up the barriers as the Zala river rose

to its highest point in 400 years. After an anxious overnight wait, the

efforts seem to have paid off. TRANSLATION: The worst seems over.

They put up a second damn in front of the first one. Now we are very

hopeful. In the south in Bavaria, the waters

are subsiding to leave mud and pain. Part of the difficulty here is that

insurance costs are high in an area of rivers, which often flood. Though

never in modern times this badly. TRANSLATION: You can't get

insurance, you cannot ensure your home in a floodplain.

Those whose homes have been spared still face the difficulty of moving

about in an area which is often under water. In Bratislava in

Slovakia, the waters of a complex of rivers, including the Danube, rose

to the highest level in living memory. People found they could not

get home. Fast-flowing rifr -- rivers mean

barge cannot move. They cannot cope with the torrent. The bridges are

too low. So a swathe of commercial life is at a stand still. There are

also political recriminations, people are asking why it has been so

bad. In the south of Germany, the leader of Bavaria said that part of

the problem was that land owners had resisted engineering schemes that

would have allowed floodwaters to escape safely.

Stay with us here on BBC News, still to come.

# Take me to the drive-inpicture show... 08 years of the

drive-incinema but just how many survive today? Steve Schachlin is a

remarkable man a musician, a composer and a long term AIDS

survivor. In the 80s, many who contracted the virus died very

quickly. Thanks to medication, Steve has been living with AIDS for many

years, but looking at the early years of the virus in an exhibition

in New York, he is worried that the young people of today, born after

that time, do not understand the risks.

# Somebody took a trip to Chinatown... I have AIDS. I was

tested positive in 1993. Back in the 80s, people died so

quickly, that they would get the virus, a week later they looked like

they were dead. The next week they were dead.

In San Francisco, there were newspapers with columns every week

with hundreds of names of people that had died. It was a Holocaust.

People were afraid of people with AIDS. Afraid if they were in the

same room that the virus could come out and catch them.

This poster here it is early, 1983. It was one of the first exmregss of

people coming together to make a public statement about the losses

that they were suffering. This is an exhibit it is the first five years

of AIDS in New York. 1981-1985. It opens on Friday on June the #th.

medication is better than before. Nowadays, when I tell people I have

AIDS, their work is one more of compassion -- their look.

Back then, we had organisation after organisation that were all committed

to education, there were flying at and pamphlets, then it all stopped.

-- there were flyers and pamphlets. They thought nobody was dying any

more so they did not need to do that. We are doing it because people

under 40 do not realise what it was like when people started dropping in

the streets and their friends were dying around them and people are

getting careless again. The struggle is to get that education and

information out to younger Watching BBC world News. The latest

headlines. Fierce fighting is taking place across a border fighting in

the Israeli-occupied territory. And after more clashes overnight,

Turkish protesters call for the Prime Minister to resign, ahead of

his return from a four day foreign 's decision to pay compensation of

thousands of pounds 2,000 of Kenyans who say they were tortured more than

a century ago under colonial rule. William Hague is expected to make a

statement shortly. Negotiations have been underway for several months

following a court case in London. More on this with Peter, as we were

saying, this has gone on for years. What sort of figures are we looking

at and what of the complaints of abuse against Britain? A number have

been coming to Britain since 2009 as representatives to bring the case to

the court here. They were tortured, all manner of torture, including

sexual abuse in the camps where they were taken. That is why they are

claiming for compensation. Mau Mau represented a fight for

independence from colonial rule, were they the principal army

involved or were there other groups? There would have been other groups

in different parts of the country, but during colonial times, the

British preferred to settle in their so-called White Highlands and where

they settled, that is where they would face backlash and it would

mean people operating in central Kenya, that is where they were

based, but other people would have been pushing to independence in

different ways -- ocean for independence.

Is this something of national priority in column -- in Kenya?

It is, it is an issue of human rights in this day and age. It is of

national importance, particularly because of the figure mentioned, the

majority of enlightened people think this is too small an amount given

following the torture of these people.

Will prosecutions be mounted against any individuals, because presumably

some people are still alive who were working with British authorities

during this period? Not as an individual. It is the

British authorities, not an individual.

But there have been rumours and controversy about what files and

what government files were available and have not been disclosed.

-- what files, what government files. That is one argument, one

argument presented by the British government. The British government

was arguing that that was to do with the government then as not the

current government. -- and not. The lawyers representing Mau Mau were

somehow able to get the files they needed to present a formidable case.

But there was talk of what files were available and which could be

relied on. We have pictures of people

celebrating the decision. Perhaps people of this age group would have

been taking part in the Mau Mau, just reminders about the period of

fighting when they were challenging the British authorities.

We know that Kenya became British around 1885 and much later, when

they started fighting the British authorities, they demanded land and

Freedom from the Crown. That went on up to the time Kenya got

independence, around 1963, or wrap -- although many of the Mau Mau

fighters had been suppressed. And what happened is now what is coming

forward at the moment. And what is the translation of Mau

Mau? It is a coded word. In Swahili, it

would mean, the white man -- let the white man with so the African can be

independent! Thank you very much. -- let the

white man live. Written will start sending --

Britain will start sending Afghan detainees to a new place. The MoD

says it is safe to transfer detainees and the transfer will

start later this month. Michael Jackson 's 15-year-old

daughter Paris is in hospital in California after apparently trying

to take her own life. A spokesperson say she is physically fine but is

still receiving medical attention. -- says.

The family are describing her condition is physically fine,

although she is still in hospital getting medical treatment. She was

rushed into hospital in the early hours of the -- of Wednesday

morning. The precise nature of the medical emergency has not been

revealed. There have been a number of reports in the US media that she

may have attempted to cut her wrists or may have taken a drugs overdose.

The family is not confirming those details. A number of people

representing the family have issued statements and it is clear they do

not want to get into any detail and they are appealing for privacy for

the family. It is a great American institution

and today, it celebrates its 80th birthday, the first raving movie

opened for business in 1933. Over the years, they have provided

generations of moviegoers a unique experience. Their heyday was in the

1950s and the few remaining today do not find it easy making ends meet.

This report from New York. The Hyde Park drive-in in upstate

New York, one of 250 still operating in America. It opened in 1933 and

today, Mr Elder is still a draw! My grandfather used to take me when

I was around three. It is kind of like a tradition.

The drive-in has been immortalised in pop culture, in songs and films.

Moviegoers see it as a very American institution.

Absolutely, it goes with workers and fries and apple pie,

stereotypically. Drive-ins took off in post-World War

II America and more than 4,000 worth dotted across the land at one stage.

They proliferated rapidly. A number of technological and social

things happen. Americans with new babies, cars, looking for

entertainment, the drive-ins were perfect for that.

The routine is the same. At sundown, it -- it is showdown. People listen

to the soundtrack through car radios. This projectionist keeps the

crowds updated. Charles Smith believes the drive-in

is a bargain. The price of admission is $9 per passenger, entitling you

to more than one show. You can get a double feature, sit

and relax outside, eat and watch a second film.

Drive-ins declined in the 1970s and 1980s. One reason was the advent of

home entertainment which meant people could watch films in their

own homes. But also the move to more compact and fuel-efficient vehicles

meant going to the drive-in was not such a comfortable experience.

Now there is grave concerns. Hollywood studios no longer send

their films out as 35 and to Prince and they will be distributed

digitally. Drive-ins have to make upgrades.

Some of the existing drive-ins will not be still in business by the end

of this year because of the costs they are putting game, it is very

cost prohibitive. What may help is that older

Americans driven by nostalgia returning to the drive-in and young

people are reportedly becoming converts of the driving experience

once they sample it, and that is very good for business!

Maybe keep going for years! A reminder of the top stories. Syrian

rebels have seized a border crossing in Israeli-occupied land, fuelling

fears that the two year civil war may spill over into a wider regional

conflict. Fierce fighting is continuing around the town, the only