:00:15. > :00:19.You are watching BBC World News. The Army has taken control of Thailand.
:00:20. > :00:29.31 people are killed in an attack on the market in China. Violence has
:00:30. > :00:36.again flared up in the East of Ukraine. California police have
:00:37. > :00:40.arrested a man on suspicion of kidnap, rape and false imprisonment
:00:41. > :00:58.of a woman who says she was forced into marriage.
:00:59. > :01:04.We will begin this bulletin with breaking news, because there has
:01:05. > :01:06.been a military coup in Thailand. It was confirmed within the past few
:01:07. > :01:15.minutes, was confirmed within the past few
:01:16. > :01:21.Tell us more. Yes, I am at the Army club, where we have had, tick scenes
:01:22. > :01:24.in the last hour or so. Talks have been going on between the political
:01:25. > :01:27.parties and the various demonstrating
:01:28. > :01:31.parties and the various Bangkok. Those talks came to an end
:01:32. > :01:36.in what were fairly chaotic scenes, as the military tried to exert their
:01:37. > :01:40.control over this compound, locking various entrances and exits. The
:01:41. > :01:45.protest leaders were taken away in minibuses, surrounded by soldiers.
:01:46. > :01:48.It is not clear where there have gone. Blocking. We knew that
:01:49. > :01:53.something had happened but it was not clear what. Then came the
:01:54. > :01:56.announcement on Thai television, across all of the free channels, at
:01:57. > :02:00.the army had taken full across all of the free channels, at
:02:01. > :02:04.power. We have been expecting this over the past couple of days,
:02:05. > :02:09.power. We have been expecting this it is perhaps a surprise
:02:10. > :02:10.power. We have been expecting this changed very quickly
:02:11. > :02:15.power. We have been expecting this of days ago, when the Army insisted
:02:16. > :02:15.power. We have been expecting this that the imposition of martial law
:02:16. > :02:22.was so, that the imposition of martial law
:02:23. > :02:25.achieve? Well, the Army that the imposition of martial law
:02:26. > :02:28.is doing it to guarantee peace and stability in the country,
:02:29. > :02:31.is doing it to guarantee peace and by doing this could they exert that
:02:32. > :02:35.control. Their calculation is that they simply could not bring the two
:02:36. > :02:39.sides together, and they would have to impose some kind of solutions.
:02:40. > :02:42.But this is likely not to be the end of things. All of
:02:43. > :02:44.But this is likely not to be the end voted for the elected government,
:02:45. > :02:48.the redshirt movement and their supporters,
:02:49. > :02:50.the redshirt movement and their not take this lying down. We have
:02:51. > :02:52.already had some suggestions that they are going to gather their
:02:53. > :02:59.forces together and perhaps they are going to gather their
:03:00. > :03:03.rally in Bangkok. It is very fluid, it has only happened in the last
:03:04. > :03:06.hour or so, but I think most people believe this will lead to more
:03:07. > :03:12.tension and quite possibly more confrontation. Would you expect more
:03:13. > :03:18.arrests TEC also, tell us leader of the anti-government
:03:19. > :03:24.protest movement is it possible to confirm yet whether he has been
:03:25. > :03:32.arrested? I cannot tell you what has happened to any of the protest
:03:33. > :03:39.leaders. Whether he has been taken away for his own safety, or he has
:03:40. > :03:45.been detained, we do not know. We simply cannot confirm anything. It
:03:46. > :03:52.would be surprising if they had arrested him, as, broadly speaking,
:03:53. > :03:56.his movement is regarded as having a good relationship with the Thai
:03:57. > :04:05.military. It would be more likely that they would be arresting
:04:06. > :04:13.somebody from the other side, rather than Suthep Thaugsuban. This will be
:04:14. > :04:16.the 12th military coup here, and I think people are now bracing
:04:17. > :04:20.themselves for what could we are very angry reaction from the red
:04:21. > :04:24.shirts. What about the overall population, who do not necessarily
:04:25. > :04:31.have those very strong feelings towards either pro or
:04:32. > :04:40.anti-government, what would their reaction be? It is hard to say.
:04:41. > :04:43.There are not a huge amount of neutrals here in Thailand at the
:04:44. > :04:48.moment. People over the years have had to take quite a strong political
:04:49. > :04:53.position. This is quite a polarised society in many ways. But obviously,
:04:54. > :04:58.the possibility of violence and unrest will be of deep concern to
:04:59. > :05:07.many Thais macro, who might have hoped that this martial law
:05:08. > :05:12.imposition would be a way out. But that has not come to pass. In fact,
:05:13. > :05:19.the Army has simply decided to dispense with all the consultation
:05:20. > :05:25.and take control. Is it not also in part to blame the Army for the
:05:26. > :05:28.instability in Thailand? Every country that has this continual
:05:29. > :05:34.history of short-term democracy, interrupted by a military coup, and
:05:35. > :05:44.then the same again, it does not lead to long-term stability? That's
:05:45. > :05:48.right. The Army is without doubt the strongest political force here in
:05:49. > :05:54.Thailand, it is just a question of when and where they decided to exert
:05:55. > :05:56.that power. Over the last couple of years we have had Yingluck
:05:57. > :06:03.Shinawatra in power with her government, she was removed a couple
:06:04. > :06:09.of weeks ago. But throughout her time, she could not really: The Army
:06:10. > :06:15.to restore order. The Army could have intervened at various points
:06:16. > :06:19.when this anti-government movement was marching through Bangkok,
:06:20. > :06:23.seizing government buildings, holding huge rallies, but they did
:06:24. > :06:28.not do so, they chose not to step in to support the elected government.
:06:29. > :06:30.They stepped in when they felt that the unrest, or the violence which
:06:31. > :06:36.was linked to some of these protests, had gone too far. Now,
:06:37. > :06:41.they have declared that they have taken over full control. We will
:06:42. > :06:49.have to wait and see what they map out as to where we go from now. It
:06:50. > :06:51.could be a couple of years of rewriting the constitution and the
:06:52. > :06:57.political system, ahead of elections. That is what the
:06:58. > :07:04.anti-government demonstrators have wanted over the last few months. One
:07:05. > :07:08.would imagine they would have restructured the political system in
:07:09. > :07:13.a way which gives them more power. Do you possibly see this as the
:07:14. > :07:18.beginning of the end of the Shinawatra political dynasty and the
:07:19. > :07:26.party which that family essentially controls? Anyone there? I am not
:07:27. > :07:34.sure if Jonah can hear us. Has the line dropped... ? He clearly cannot
:07:35. > :07:45.hear us. Just a reminder that in the past 15 minutes or so, the army
:07:46. > :07:55.chief in Thailand has appeared on television to say that the Army is
:07:56. > :08:03.taking control of Thailand. In Ukraine, reports say at least 12
:08:04. > :08:06.people have been killed in clashes with pro-Russian separatists in the
:08:07. > :08:12.east of the country. Journalists working for the AP newsagency say
:08:13. > :08:15.they counted 11 bodies. They also saw three burned-out Ukrainian
:08:16. > :08:21.armoured personnel carriers. In a separate incident, one colder was
:08:22. > :08:29.killed -- one soldier was killed and two were injured. I asked our
:08:30. > :08:35.correspondent when these latest attacks happened? One attack
:08:36. > :08:38.happened early in the morning in a village which had not been near the
:08:39. > :08:46.centre of the recent violence. There was a checkpoint and it was attacked
:08:47. > :08:49.by pro separatist militants. Several armoured personnel carriers were
:08:50. > :08:55.destroyed, with a big loss of life due to the munitions exploded during
:08:56. > :09:00.the attack. According to the security chief, there were four
:09:01. > :09:07.attacks overnight, and one is still ongoing. So it all intensified very
:09:08. > :09:11.seriously. As you say, this is all because of the upcoming presidential
:09:12. > :09:14.elections, which the separatists have vowed not to hold in those
:09:15. > :09:22.areas which they claim under their control. And Kiev insists the
:09:23. > :09:27.elections will go ahead, so, for those soldiers who are there to make
:09:28. > :09:32.sure the ballot can be accessed except... ? This is part of the
:09:33. > :09:36.reason why they are there. According to the latest information, a third
:09:37. > :09:40.of the polling stations are under control of the separatists, but two
:09:41. > :09:44.thirds can be operational. Whether people will be brave enough to come
:09:45. > :09:48.out and vote... According to our correspondence on the ground, many
:09:49. > :09:53.want to exercise their right and vote, but many will be certainly
:09:54. > :09:57.intimidated. In places like Sloviansk, people will be afraid to
:09:58. > :10:03.come out and exercise their right. NATO has said that there is some
:10:04. > :10:06.sort of Russian troop movement going on among those troops on the
:10:07. > :10:10.Ukrainian border, that it could signify may be the start of their
:10:11. > :10:14.withdrawal - would this kind of incident be the thing which keeps
:10:15. > :10:19.them there? On the one hand a withdrawal has been reported, at
:10:20. > :10:22.least it has started. But on the other hand, the leader of the
:10:23. > :10:28.separatists in one region for example has asked President Putin
:10:29. > :10:33.today to send in peacekeepers. And the Ukrainian acting Prime Minister
:10:34. > :10:36.has called for an emergency session of the UN Security Council. Roasting
:10:37. > :10:45.we can go back to our correspondent in Bangkok. I have seen you on the
:10:46. > :10:48.phone in the past 20 minutes or so, have you got any information of
:10:49. > :10:55.troop movements around the rest of Bangkok? Nothing that I can confirm
:10:56. > :10:59.to you. There has been some suggestion that the soldiers might
:11:00. > :11:05.be moving to the different protest sites to disperse them, but I cannot
:11:06. > :11:08.confirm that to you. That is being one would imagine that might be one
:11:09. > :11:15.of the first things the Army would do, to try to negate any possibility
:11:16. > :11:21.of a reaction from the government supporters, the red shirts, on the
:11:22. > :11:23.outskirts of Bangkok. And what about former Prime Minister Yingluck
:11:24. > :11:27.Shinawatra, when she was forced to step down as Prime Minister by a
:11:28. > :11:32.court decision, but she stay in Bangkok, in Thailand, would she
:11:33. > :11:41.possibly be a target for arrest by the military? Quite possibly. I
:11:42. > :11:47.simply do not know the answer to that question. Vino that she did
:11:48. > :11:50.stay in the country after she was removed from power by a
:11:51. > :11:53.constitutional court ruling. Quite possibly she is in the north of
:11:54. > :12:00.Thailand, where her family is particularly strong politically. One
:12:01. > :12:05.would imagine that all of the leaders in what was the governing
:12:06. > :12:11.party until very recently might be fearing for their own safety, as
:12:12. > :12:14.indeed might the leaders of the protest movement. We do not know
:12:15. > :12:18.exactly what has happened to the leaders of the various protest
:12:19. > :12:28.movements. It has been reported that they have been detained. We saw some
:12:29. > :12:31.people getting is gritted away in minibuses, but I cannot confirm that
:12:32. > :12:41.those people have been detained, they might have just been taken away
:12:42. > :12:45.for their own safety. Can you confirm to us what is happening
:12:46. > :12:49.around where you are? This is the Army club, where the talks have been
:12:50. > :12:56.taking place over the last couple of days. Behind me you can see the
:12:57. > :12:59.military presence pushed up to this small area where the journalists
:13:00. > :13:04.have been forced back into. In the last hour or so, they moved to
:13:05. > :13:09.consolidate a military presence in the compound, blocking the entry and
:13:10. > :13:14.exit with military trucks. There was considerable chaos around the site.
:13:15. > :13:18.And then those minibuses came out, the atmosphere completely changed.
:13:19. > :13:23.We knew something was up at that point. Then the television stations
:13:24. > :13:28.went off air, and shortly afterwards it was confirmed what many of us
:13:29. > :13:34.suspected when we saw the chaos and confusion, that talks had ended and
:13:35. > :13:43.that a military coup was about to be declared. The general who we are
:13:44. > :13:47.watching now in his recent TV address, saying that he is taking
:13:48. > :13:52.over the government - he says he wants to restore order and push
:13:53. > :13:54.through reforms, that is a nice, convenient, open-ended game from
:13:55. > :14:02.him, but this could take a long time? Yes, and that is exactly what
:14:03. > :14:07.the anti-government demonstrators have been calling for the last six
:14:08. > :14:13.or seven months as well - reform, some change to the political system.
:14:14. > :14:16.The red shirts have said, well, fine, but let's do it in a
:14:17. > :14:23.democratic way, let's have elections, and then we can do
:14:24. > :14:26.reforms within that framework. But obviously, the PDR see, the
:14:27. > :14:31.anti-government movement, did not want that, they wanted and appointed
:14:32. > :14:47.government, and then at some point a further down the line, possibly,
:14:48. > :14:52.elections. But talk of reforms, well, I think many people will see
:14:53. > :14:53.that as really singing the tune of what the anti-government
:14:54. > :15:00.demonstrators have been saying for the last several months - reforms
:15:01. > :15:03.with what end in mind? Effectively, the anti-government movement seems
:15:04. > :15:08.to want reforms which destroy the opposition party, destroy their
:15:09. > :15:19.sources of funding, trying to effectively make a system in which
:15:20. > :15:25.the elite groups in Thailand, the PDRC, at least has a chance of
:15:26. > :15:29.retaining substantial amounts of power after the election. Every time
:15:30. > :15:33.there has been an election over the last ten years or so, the party
:15:34. > :15:38.broadly aligned with the elites in Bangkok has lost. That is why talk
:15:39. > :15:45.of reforms often in this context means reforms which will reduce the
:15:46. > :15:53.power of the democratic process, in a way, and put more power in
:15:54. > :15:58.institutions such as a constitutional court or a partially
:15:59. > :16:04.unelected Senate. When you look at Thailand's recent history of
:16:05. > :16:19.military coups, can the country expect some sort of stability? I
:16:20. > :16:24.think most people, when they heard this news, that the military had
:16:25. > :16:27.decided to take control, did not think, oh, good, that means
:16:28. > :16:33.stability. I think they thought, gosh, this means it is likely that
:16:34. > :16:37.we will be in for some serious trouble. Almost everybody thinks
:16:38. > :16:43.that the military taking full power will lead to the redshirt movement
:16:44. > :16:46.mobilising, trying to reassure it what they see as their democratic
:16:47. > :16:52.right to choose a government through the ballot box. It is likely that
:16:53. > :16:57.they at this very moment will be talking about mobilising and
:16:58. > :17:00.returning to street demonstrations. If you look around me at the
:17:01. > :17:03.military presence, and if the military is determined to stop those
:17:04. > :17:10.demonstrations, that could mean bloody conflict.
:17:11. > :17:14.Police in China say 31 people have been killed
:17:15. > :17:19.Details are still emerging,but Chinese media reports say two
:17:20. > :17:21.off-road vehicles were driven into a crowded market,
:17:22. > :17:26.The attack happened in the west of the country in Xinjiang,
:17:27. > :17:29.in the centre of its capital Urumqi, where the open air market was taking
:17:30. > :17:34.It appears to be part of a campaign by militant Uighur separatists
:17:35. > :17:37.In response, officials have announced new security measures
:17:38. > :17:41.Our correspondent in Beijing, Celia Hatton, has more
:17:42. > :18:01.He is calling for an investigation into the attack to be solved very
:18:02. > :18:05.quickly. He is calling for the attack is to be punished and
:18:06. > :18:12.crucially, he is calling for security to be tightened further in
:18:13. > :18:15.the Xinjiang region. This leads to a pattern which appears to be
:18:16. > :18:23.continuing over the past few years. We have seen some violent incident
:18:24. > :18:26.between the Uighur minority living in Xinjiang, many of whom are upset
:18:27. > :18:33.with what they see as the cultural and economic domination of Han
:18:34. > :18:37.Chinese migrants who are moving into the area. We have seen a security
:18:38. > :18:43.crackdown on the Uighur population by the Chinese authorities. It often
:18:44. > :18:47.involves some kind of religious suppression and then we see another
:18:48. > :18:57.attack. Today's attack is the latest in this pattern. You have mentioned
:18:58. > :19:04.security needs to be tightened. What else is the government doing to try
:19:05. > :19:13.to quell the uprising? It has been using various methods to try to
:19:14. > :19:16.crack down on Uighurs. It recently announced that ten thousands of
:19:17. > :19:22.Chinese officials will be moving into villages all across the region.
:19:23. > :19:28.It is not simply heavy-handed security tactics. However, we are
:19:29. > :19:34.seeing security tightened over and over again. China's top security
:19:35. > :19:38.chief is flying to Xinjiang now to oversee the investigation. Really,
:19:39. > :19:42.the first response from the Chinese government today was to announce
:19:43. > :19:50.tightened security measures. Thank you.
:19:51. > :19:53.A 25-year-old woman reported missing a decade ago, has told police she
:19:54. > :19:56.was drugged and kidnapped from the family home at the age of 15.
:19:57. > :19:59.The woman, who's originally from Mexico, has just been reunited with
:20:00. > :20:05.But police have arrested this man, 41-year-old Isidro Garcia,
:20:06. > :20:07.on suspicion of kidnap, rape and false imprisonment.
:20:08. > :20:14.Alastair Leithead reports from Santa Ana.
:20:15. > :20:24.Neighbours knew the couple as Laura and Thomas but no one suspected
:20:25. > :20:29.their grim secret. It was the latest town and the latest identity in ten
:20:30. > :20:38.years that police said the girl, kidnapped as a teenager, had been
:20:39. > :20:43.forced to macro she was forced to marry and bear a child. Ten years
:20:44. > :20:52.ago Isidro Garcia lived here with his girlfriend and child. Police
:20:53. > :20:56.allege after beating her up he kidnapped the child. He changed
:20:57. > :21:01.their name, usually the middle name, he had control of her life. But then
:21:02. > :21:06.she walked into a police station to tell her story. After connecting
:21:07. > :21:11.with her sister on Facebook and finding that the family had not
:21:12. > :21:16.abandoned her. We are not releasing the woman's identity but this is a
:21:17. > :21:21.picture of her with her baby taken by a neighbour. This is the couple
:21:22. > :21:23.in church. They were well-known in the neighbourhood as a normal
:21:24. > :21:26.couple. She did not the neighbourhood as a normal
:21:27. > :21:34.someone who was under pressure being held against her will. And being
:21:35. > :21:40.almost 25, she had a sense of, I can escape if I want to. She was not
:21:41. > :21:46.kept on watch 24/7. It is a little weird to think she did it. she would
:21:47. > :21:54.step out, have conversations, she always goes back inside her house as
:21:55. > :21:59.if he does not let her socialise. They act like a normal couple and
:22:00. > :22:04.they kiss in front of people. It is all weird and crazy to me. She
:22:05. > :22:08.clearly was not being held captive in this top floor apartment. The
:22:09. > :22:13.neighbours knew them as the couple and even went to the house for
:22:14. > :22:17.parties. She contacted her sister on Facebook. She walked into the police
:22:18. > :22:22.station to tell her own story. Clearly, the man who helped her had
:22:23. > :22:29.a real power and control over her for ten years.
:22:30. > :22:33.We will return to Thailand in a moment but first we have some
:22:34. > :22:40.breaking news coming out of South Korea. It concerns a North Korean
:22:41. > :22:44.ship which is reported to have fired in disputed waters near the South
:22:45. > :22:48.Korean warships. This is confirmed by a Joint Chiefs of Staff Officer
:22:49. > :22:52.in South Korea. This officer is saying the North Korean ship fired
:22:53. > :22:59.artillery towards the South Korean navy ship which was engaged in a
:23:00. > :23:07.routine patrol mission. Significantly, another agency
:23:08. > :23:13.reported the South Korean military had returned fire but this official
:23:14. > :23:24.could not confirm that aspect. A North Korean ship has fired. We will
:23:25. > :23:32.bring you more later. Now we can talk more about Thailand.
:23:33. > :23:38.This is undoubtedly a coup, the army says it has taken control of the
:23:39. > :23:44.government. says it has taken control of the
:23:45. > :23:49.really. When the army took martial law, they said they were doing it so
:23:50. > :23:52.that the rivals could come together in peace, without being worried
:23:53. > :23:57.about demonstrators, so they could resolve their differences Thomas
:23:58. > :24:02.said the country could return to normality. You have got to rumba,
:24:03. > :24:06.these two broad political factions have been arguing basically for the
:24:07. > :24:12.last eight years or so. They have not been able to come to any
:24:13. > :24:16.conclusion. There has been turmoil and unrest throughout that period.
:24:17. > :24:20.It was unlikely that in a short period of time, they would be able
:24:21. > :24:24.to compromise and resolve their differences. Not many people would
:24:25. > :24:28.be surprised that the army has said after a couple of meetings, these
:24:29. > :24:33.talks have failed. The army has said in is enough, we will take control
:24:34. > :24:38.of the government. Do you think the army will be able to suppress the
:24:39. > :24:42.anger of the pro-government demonstrators who have been out on
:24:43. > :24:47.the streets? It has been reported that the soldiers have already fired
:24:48. > :24:50.into the air near where the pro-government supporters have
:24:51. > :24:56.gathered in Bangkok. Will it turn more violent than it has already in
:24:57. > :24:58.the demonstrations between pro-and anti-government demonstrators?
:24:59. > :25:03.the demonstrations between pro-and anti-government That is certainly a
:25:04. > :25:07.possibility. One of the first things the army announced was they were
:25:08. > :25:11.sending troops to protest areas. There were two basic areas, one in
:25:12. > :25:15.central Bangkok where the anti-government protesters are based
:25:16. > :25:20.and one outside of Bangkok where the pro-government protesters are. The
:25:21. > :25:25.army said it was sending troops to break up those protest camps.
:25:26. > :25:28.Obviously, it fears that large number of protesters gathered
:25:29. > :25:33.together could lead to some kind of violence and it wants to break those
:25:34. > :25:36.up. It is definitely a real possibility. Isn't one of the
:25:37. > :25:41.problems the self-interest in the two sides of this political debate
:25:42. > :25:46.are just so polarised and those interests are so entrenched on the
:25:47. > :25:52.two sides, that an army coup is not going to change that? That is
:25:53. > :25:57.exactly the case. The outlook looks pretty bleak. These broad alliances
:25:58. > :26:09.have been arguing. On one side, there was a pro government party. It
:26:10. > :26:15.holds great support in the north and east of Thailand. It is popular
:26:16. > :26:17.among poorer people. It has given various projects to help them if
:26:18. > :26:23.their lifestyles and give them more money. They are posed by the elite
:26:24. > :26:26.in Bangkok, people who have perhaps done better out of Thailand's
:26:27. > :26:31.economic growth over the last couple of decades. The position between
:26:32. > :26:35.these two are so wide that it is difficult to see how they can come
:26:36. > :26:44.together and it is difficult to see how the army can impose some kind of
:26:45. > :26:49.agreement -- solution without agreement. Thank you for coming in.
:26:50. > :26:53.That is it from us. We will keep you right up to date with this military
:26:54. > :26:56.coup in Thailand which is a very developing story, the announcement
:26:57. > :26:58.coming in the last half-hour or so from the Chief of Thailand's army.
:26:59. > :27:03.Goodbye.