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clashes in Istanbul, hundreds of police enter the city's Taksim

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Square, occupied by protesters for more than a week.

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State media in serious a 14 people have been killed by two bombs in the

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centre of the capital, Damascus. The battle in the skies as the

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European commission takes on National air traffic controllers.

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Three Chinese astronauts have just taken off on their longest ever

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police have forced their way into Taksim Square in Istanbul. They used

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tear gas and water cannon to try to clear the area, which has been the

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focus of protests against the government. It has been occupied for

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more than a week now. These are live shots from Taksim Square. You can

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see a number of protesters on the street. We have seen many of them

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being hit by tear gas and water cannon in the last few minutes and

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hours. The authorities have said that the initial protest in Gezi

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Park will be allowed to remain, but as the protest has spread through

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the square, the authorities say they are determined to clear them. Some

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tear gas is again being fired, protesters are running back from

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that smoke that is very difficult to cope with. We can get the latest

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from our reporter, Dan Johnson. Police this morning moved into

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Istanbul's Taksim Square. It was a show of force, using tear gas and

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rubber bullets, and came as a surprise. The organisers of the

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protests were due to hold talks with the prime minister tomorrow. Police

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said the intention was only to remove signs and barricades from the

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square, not to break up the protests. Many of those who have

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been camped here for 11 days now did not believe it, they fought Aqua

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with fireworks, petrol bombs and stones. We can still hear tear gas

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being fired. 20 minutes ago some people were injured in this area and

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carried to an ambulance. At least one person with a head shot wound,

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taken away by the ambulance. Lots of people being affected by the tear

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gas. Officers reclaim parts of the square they had been forced to pull

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back from ten days ago, but stopped short of entering Gezi Park. Bands

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to redevelop that space prompted these protests but they have grown

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to be about much more -- plans to redevelop. There were disturbances

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in Ankara, three people have died since protests began and more than

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5000 have been injured or treated for the effects of tear gas. It is

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not clear yet what impact this advance by the police will have on

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tomorrow's planned talks. Prime Minister Erdogan used a televised

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statement to Parliament to call for protesters to leave busy park. His

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deputy has said it legal protests will no longer be tolerated, but for

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now the stand-off goes on -- to leave Gezi Park.

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40 people have been killed by two car bombs in the centre of the

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Syrian capital, Damascus, according to state media. At least 41 people

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are reported to have been injured in explosions in the commercial

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district. A bombing in the same square in April left 13 people dead.

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My colleague in Beirut gave more details. At the beginning the state

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media said this was just bombs in bags put near the shop in that busy

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square in the middle of town. They later said it was two suicide

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bombers who exploded themselves among the crowds in that square,

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which is always a busy place. Now they are saying the casualties

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figures, 14 killed, 31 wounded, according to the officials. That may

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change later. TV has been carrying pictures showing not massive damage,

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not the kind of damage after really big explosions but the kind of

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damage, superficial relatively, two shopfronts, glass broken, debris

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scattered, some cars damaged and blood on the pavement. Some reports

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indicate that one of the bombers managed to get into a police station

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near where the bombs went off, and so it is possible, but not being

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reported officially, that there are policemen among the casualties.

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Let's take you back to Turkey and this is the live shot in Taksim

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Square. Mark Lowen is there in Istanbul. Tell us what has been

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happening. I just went down to the square to see what was happening.

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While we were speaking to a protester, the water cannon and tear

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gas arrived back on this square to disperse protesters. If I look to my

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left, it is a big cloud of tear gas against them I am beginning to feel

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it again in my throat, I will keep the gas mask close to me, I may have

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to try to talk through it. You can see the cloud of tear gas beginning

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to rise. That is a water cannon lorry as well from the police. You

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can hear the odd bang as projectiles are thrown at riot police. If we

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plan to the other side, two more water cannon trucks, ready to spew

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water across the square. Riot police stationed in the central part. It

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had seemed calm since this morning, when the clashes were serious, but

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they seem to be back in action again. One chap is throwing

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projectiles at the riot police. This is very much the marginal element of

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the protest movement, this violent, hard-core element. This does not

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represent what we have seen in Istanbul for about ten days, 12 days

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since the unrest began, which is largely peaceful protests. Young

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people who have been occupying the park. They have been tweeting that

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they are against hard-core protesters who they believe are

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provoking the police, many believe that some of them are the

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authorities in disguise. They say this hard-core fringe does not

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represent a largely peaceful protest movement. Do you know who are in

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this hard-core fringe? It is always difficult to say. I am usually based

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in Athens. I have seen this countless times. You have very large

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demonstrations in Athens. Then there is a fringe of violent protesters

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who take to projectiles and petrol bombs against the police. Some are

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anarchists, some are there to stir up emotion, who has long harboured

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anger against the authorities. It is simply very difficult to tell. The

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prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan against two these protests are

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largely focused, has been speaking again -- against whom. He says it is

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part of an international conspiracy against Turkey, he has criticised

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the foreign media for launching attacks against the Turkish state.

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He says it is an attempt to try to manipulate the Turkish economy. You

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have a sense of paranoia building around the inner circle of the prime

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Minister. This is very heavy-handed prime minute -- heavy-handed police

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action, a day before the prime Minister was supposed to have talks

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with some of the protest leaders. That was seen as an olive branch,

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but given what has happened today, those talks planned for tomorrow may

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be thrown into jeopardy. You say it is paranoia but is it at all

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possible that you have outside influence or agitation in what is

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going on in Turkey right now? very difficult to say. The country

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is on the Fault line of the Middle East but Turkey has been seen as a

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kind of peacemaker in the middle east, an ally of Israel and other

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Middle Eastern powers. What he means when he says it has been agitated by

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international powers is difficult to say, because by Minister Erdogan has

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been warmly welcomed on the international stage -- Prime

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Minister Erdogan has been. He has been seen as a peacemaker in the

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Balkans, an important ally on both sides of the Middle East conflict.

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Difficult to see who would be plotting against Turkey. He has

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launched attacks on the foreign media, we have tried our best to

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portray the most balanced, impartial view of what is going on. It is

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difficult to know what he means by that. I am watching a police truck

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sweeping through, trying to clear up some of the barricades. More of the

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water cannon is being sprayed. At the other side of the square, a

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heavy jet of pink spray is coming from my waterjet, -- from a

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waterjet, it has taken a few people down. The riot police said they were

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not going to enter the park which joins the square, the development of

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which about these protests ten days ago. A lot of the protesters are

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massing in the Park. More water cannon and tear gas fired? Yes, more

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tear gas and probably stun grenades. I can see a petrol bomb

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being thrown from the protests against the police and I can see a

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water cannon on the far side of the square. The confrontation is really

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going on and the worst clashes for over a week looked like they are

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building. We will leave it there for now, back to you soon I am sure.

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Air traffic controllers in France have began a three-day strike.

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Widespread travel disruption is expected across Europe, with

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colleagues in other countries joining the industrial action on

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Wednesday. They are striking over plans by the European Union to

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centralise control of Europe's airspace. What will this mean if you

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are trying to fly this week? It will not be a good day to fly to France,

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that is the shore. We are hearing from the civil aviation authority

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that 1800 flights have been cancelled today. Some of the biggest

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carriers, easyJet for instance, 128 flights cancelled, Ryanair, 102

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flights cancelled, Lufthansa, 125. We are not seeing chaotic scenes at

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the airport, they have put a lot of plans in place for these three days

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of strikes and it seems to be working at the moment, things are

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running pretty smoothly, albeit a lot of disruption to the people who

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are trying to move around France and probably elsewhere in Europe later

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in the week. This is about trying to bring together control of the

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airspace to make it more efficient? Yes, it is called the European sky

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project and the European commission will set out its plans today. It

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believes it can deliver greater efficiencies by amalgamating

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air-traffic systems that are managed by each member state. Whereas you

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have the air-traffic controllers in France looking after the airspace

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above France, they will amalgamate it into nine functional airspace

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locks. -- blocks. They believe they will be able to move traffic more

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easily around Europe, cutting pollution and costs for the

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consumer. The roots will be managed by a central authority so much

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easier to coordinate where the roots go across European airspace. The

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main union looking after the air-traffic controllers in France

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believe it is an attack on national sovereignty, believes it is less

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safe and working hours and pay will be affected. You will see strikes

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not only in France but ten other countries joining the demonstrations

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tomorrow, so lots of disruption across the European Union.

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Stay with us on BBC World News. Still to come: Up, up and away.

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Three Chinese astronauts take off from the Gobi desert for a 15 day

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space mission. Is it a bird, is it a plane, is it a

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British actor playing an all-American superhero? For the

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first time, the role of Superman is lay -- being played by a

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non-American. Henry Cavill stars in a new film that premiered in New

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York just a few hours ago. The world premiere of Man Of Steel,

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one of the most eagerly awaited films of blockbusters season. It is

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a reboot of a very lucrative Hollywood franchise, complete with a

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British actor playing the iconic American superhero. If the world

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found out who I was, it would reject me. What do you think? Henry Cavill

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is is not -- is not exactly a household name. I think if you start

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worrying, it will have a negative effect. I try to live by the motto,

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don't worry about failure because failure will take care of itself,

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just focus on success. Man Of Steel is an origin story. Superman arrives

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as an alien from a dying planet who is adopted by an all-American

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couple. He is torn between his origins and his new home on earth.

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He has questions. Who am I and why am I? Then there is the question of

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these my people or not? Henry Cavill's acting colleagues,

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including Kevin Costner, are confident has the talent to make

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this movie fly. The movie doesn't work without him and he was

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incredible. Henry Cavill is the face of a Superman movie that is a

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gigantic promotional machine foot of it has cost more than $200 million

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to make and has already recouped much through the basement deals

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worth an estimated $170 million. Is it to keep the advertisers happy?

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They never said, put this into a scene. It was all after-the-fact.

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They said if certain people want to be involved, here is the story, we

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are not changing it. Warner Brothers have embargoed reviews until the day

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of release on Friday, heaping reviews under wraps until the last

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minute often means the studio doesn't expect critics to like it.

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But Man Of Steel is the latest instalment of a latest -- of a very

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popular franchise so it is probably critic proof and should do well at

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the box office. This is BBC World News. The latest headlines: Hundreds

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of Turkish riot police had moved into Taksim Square, firing tear gas

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and water cannon into the heart of the anti-government protests

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spreading across the country over the last 12 days.

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State media in serious save 14 people have been killed by two bombs

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in the centre of the capital, Damascus.

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Pictures of babies on milk formalin packs are expected to be banned

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later by the European Parliament. A vote could put a stop to any type of

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label that idealises bottled formalist, making them seem

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preferable to breast-feeding. -- bottle formulas. Feeding time,

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and somebody is hungry. George is on what all the milk. Formalin milk for

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newborns is already strictly regulated. Now, new Europe-wide

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rules aim to tighten up the law for follow-on milk formulas as well,

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which are aimed at six to 12-month-olds. The EU was to make

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sure that mums are not discouraged from breast-feeding, recommended as

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the best way to feed a growing child. Today, MEPs will vote on

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whether to ban pictures of infants from packets or tens of follow-on

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formula, and pictures or text which idealised it over breastmilk.

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Officials argue some woman may start to use follow-on formula milk

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earlier than they should. They say they are taking action because they

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want to see breast-feeding rates go up. George is happy enough.

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Campaigners, though, argue that most young children do not need formula

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milk. Industry bosses say new rules are needed to protect vital

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customers, but work needs to be done to make them clearer. -- vulnerable

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customers. The man who leaked details of a

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surveillance programme in the United States has disappeared in Hong Kong.

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Edward Snowden was a contract worker for the CIA. He has not been seen

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since he checked out of his hotel on Monday. If he returns to the US, he

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faces decades in jail. At the moment, nobody knows if he

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will leave the territory. After the revelations, a journalist --

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journalists have been scouring the world, trying to find out where he

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could be. There was a staff member at the hotel who mentioned there was

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a person by the name of Edward Snowden who had checked in and out,

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but it is not clear whether that is him. Hong Kong is a place where

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Westerners can come without visas. For Mr Snowden, as an American

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committee could come for 90 days on a social pass without a Visa. He is

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free to come and go. The American authorities had not asked for an

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extradition. They have not asked Hong Kong authorities to help out.

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The Hong Kong government says they are not going to comment on specific

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cases, but if there are requests, they will follow to the letter of

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the law in any of these cases. formal information. Anything from

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the Guardian newspaper that was running the interview with him? Are

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suitably they are involved in shielding him or have been involved

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in shielding him up. -- presumably. Certainly that is an avenue people

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are pursuing. At the moment it seems Mr Snowden is intending on keeping

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private. He had told the Guardian journalist that the ad hidden at

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this upmarket hotel for some weeks, only coming out eight few times.

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Hong Kong is a place where he decided to come because he said

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there is a freedom of press and in fact in news headlines today, it

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says that the former CIA worker is hiding in Hong Kong to save his

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life. They have highlighted that he chose Hong Kong because there is

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freedom of speech, unlike mainland China. His choice of Chinese

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territory is baffling because it has an exhibition treaty with the US. In

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the past they have been very cooperative. There are senior

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politicians here who are urging Mr Snowden, if he is still in Hong

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Kong, to leave the territory should the Americans then ask for an

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extradition. China 's latest manned spacecraft

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has blasted off into orbit. The ONE lifted off on schedule from its

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launch centre in the Gobi desert. It is carrying three astronauts,

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including china 's second female astronaut. Our science

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correspondent, Jonathan Amos, says it is a big learning curve for the

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Chinese. They have got a 15 day mission in

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prospect. We saw Wang Yaping waving there. She was in the left-hand seat

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as they went off. It was a nice, clean getaway. It is a nine minute

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ride to the initial orbit. The boot is will then come away and the main

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part will separate. That will lift them to a height of a couple of

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hundred kilometres above the Earth. Over the course of the next 40 hours

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or so, they will have to raise that orbit up to around 335 kilometres.

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That will bring them to watch the space laboratory they launched a

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couple of years ago. It is a single module. It is aid demonstration of

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the space station that they hope to build at the end of this decade. A

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much bigger construction, this will have three or four modules, all

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interlocked. It will be serviced by robotic vehicles, just as we have

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seen with the International space Station. It is a learning curve for

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the Chinese here. They have to understand how to do this. These are

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things the Russians, Europeans, Japanese, Americans have learned how

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to do. The Chinese are in the process of catch up here. They have

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to run fast to catch up. We are just going to take you now to

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the latest pictures from Istanbul. We are getting reports, and as you

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can see those are the protesters, we get reports that police are going

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into Gezi Park itself. You might be able to see, in the top right-hand

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corner of the picture, lots of men in black uniform. Those are the

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police. The Prime Minister, speaking to Parliament, has said he has no

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more tolerance for these mass anti-government demonstrations that

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have engulfed the country. He says this episode is now over. We will

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not show any more tolerance. If he is indeed sending his police into

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Gezi Park, and not just clearing the square, it could be seen as a

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significant move. Gezi Park is the original starting point of those

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peaceful demonstrations, which were an environmental protest. They have

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been joined by hundreds of protesters with much wider political

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demands. We have seen, in the last few hours, riot police forcing their

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way into the main square there in Istanbul using tear gas to try to

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clear the area. It has been occupied now for 12 days. There have of

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course been protests around the country, not only in Istanbul but in

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Ankara and many other cities. Just to give you a flavour of what the

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Prime Minister has been saying today, in the last couple of hours,

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he says, we are against sectarianism, we act at all shades

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of opinion, but the media, including social media, have incited violence.

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The prime minister also said, some of our opponents are behind inciting

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the protest is to engage in destruction. We have seen

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eyewitnesses and journalists saying there have been groups of protesters

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here, the more peaceful ones on one side, and inside Gezi Park itself,

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and on the other side, more radical elements, perhaps troublemakers. No

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clear picture of exactly who they are. Some tweets from some of the

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most peaceful protesters have been saying this has been hijacked, to a

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degree. The Prime Minister is using the images to try to show a strong

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government image. He is saying today that the protests are harming the

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Turkish economy and harming Turkey 's image abroad. What you are

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looking at here are live pictures from Taksim Square, with Gezi Park

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protesters there. The Prime Minister is due to be meeting the protest is

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tomorrow. Not clear now whether the move, a decisive move by the

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government to go in clearly and clear the area, whether that is now

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going to change the picture fundamentally. People across Turkey

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are watching this strong/of force by the government. -- this strong show

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of force. Still, although things became quieter in the square, we

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have seen a game big numbers of people returning to the centre to

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make their point. The Prime Minister is saying he will not change. He

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calls an illegitimate protests. I will not let -- bow before the

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