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The Turkish government moves against those it suspects of having

Around 3,000 soldiers are under arrest and over 2,500 judges

crowd had taken to the streets in support of their president after the

violence, which left 265 dead. Five people are arrested

in connection with The French President has called

for "national unity". The Interior Ministry calls of

thousands of police reserve list to help bolster interior security.

The Prime Minister of Turkey has described an attempted

coup as a "black stain" on Turkish democracy.

addressing large crowds of supporters.

He claimed the country is now under control and that nearly

many of them civilians, were killed during the violence

In London, the Foreign Office is advising British people in Turkey

It's estimated there are currently 50,000 Britons on holiday there.

Our correspondent Katy Watson reports from Istanbul.

Less than 12 hours after the attempted coup began,

walking from tanks with their hands above their heads.

Last night, the parliament building in Ankara became the focal

The country's President took the video messaging,

urging people to come out onto the streets to oppose

This was the Bosphorous Bridge in Istanbul.

The rebel soldiers stood firm against protesters

Some mounted the tanks, grabbing guns from soldiers's hands.

This man went down to the bridge with his pregnant wife.

He showed me the photos of the tanks and the crowds.

Army members were brutal, they were sending bombs

to people from tanks, passing by people, my friends

who were on the bridge, on Bosphorous Bridge,

This morning the bridge was reopened.

The reminders of last night's action removed from sight.

Life here may be starting to return to normal, and the government says

they have things under control, but they are still asking people

to remain on the streets the protest until all of this is over.

The Prime Minister has condemned what happened.

TRANSLATION: What happened on July 15th was a black stain

The people who attacked the civilians with the bombs, tanks,

planes and helicopters of the state are worse than the PKK terrorists.

More than 2.5 million Brits visit Turkey every year.

Those currently in the country have been told to stay indoors.

The new Foreign Secretary said the UK remains very concerned

They're working very hard, as you can imagine, to do the best

for the many Brits that are there, and who are there on holiday.

They should follow the travel advice and we will do our best to update

Meanwhile, flights in and out of the country are still chaotic.

Some have been cancelled, others diverted, until

Well, as we've been reporting, for several hours last night

hundreds of Turkish soldiers appeared to have taken control

of key areas of the main cities of Ankara and Istanbul.

There was little sign of Turkey's political leaders

as the plotters took over buildings and media outlets.

But crucially, they needed to secure the support of the public

and especially the majority of the military

Zira Meral from the Centre for Historical Analysis

and Conflict Research examines for us now why the coup failed.

Turkey's Armed Forces have Turkey's Armed Forces have

interfered in politics. They have taken control of the country several

times in the last 50 years, forcing governments to step down twice. This

is why this coup did not work. No public support. Others started with

media campaigns and organised protest. That did not happen here.

Even the government's faces critics have come out against the

attack. Two, number bashed macro not enough soldiers. They had not nearly

enough and their actions were quickly condemned by other parts of

the armed service. No bureaucratic support. Physically

taking control of a building does not mean you are in control of the

state. You need the support of the judiciary and the bureaucracy. The

government has suspended people to prevent that.

No international support. All governments have expressed their

condemnation. And the biggest problem was the

contradiction in their aims and methods. They claim they were

supporting democracy. Given the thousands of people out on

the street, waving the Turkish flag as celebration over -- for the

ritual democracy. Not just supporters of President Erdogan,

also people who support various opposition parties have been

celebrating the defeat of this coup attempt. Those were pictures from

Istanbul and this is Ankara now. This is the scene live there. As you

can see, people out in force, and celebrating what has been seen by

some commentators as a victory for people power. And a victory for

democracy in Turkey. But clearly, huge questions ahead for political

stability in Turkey and for the nature of President Erdogan's rule.

It was a huge challenge to his authority, this coup attempt. But

some commentators say you might have been strengthened by the fact that

the coup attempt was put down. And as we are hearing, the country now

under control of the authorities. Almost 3000 soldiers arrested and a

death toll of around 265. Many of them civilians, killed during the

violence in Istanbul and Ankara. The Turkish President has called

on the United States to extradite a Muslim cleric he accuses

of being behind the country's President Erdogan said US should

hand over Fethullah Gulen, because the segments of the army

which had carried out the attempted President Erdogan's government

officially designated Gulen's religious movement a terrorist

group in May. Fethullah Gulen, who lives

in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, has

denied any involvement. Speaking from the United States,

he said he condemned the attempted The two men were once allies,

but President Erdogan has frequently accused the cleric of trying

to seize power from Dr Henri Barkey is the Director

of the Middle East programme at the Woodrow Wilson International

Center for Scholars in Washington. He's currently in Istanbul

and he joined me a short time ago. He told me that those behind the

coup took a huge gamble. They thought that if they started

a coup, that the rest And unfortunately

for them, they did not know their history -

there were two such coups in 1962 and 1963

where junior officers tried thing and in both of these

cases they lost. In Turkey, if you are going to have

a successful coup, it is the top generals who have to take

the initiative and control So junior officers do not

have a successful track record. We are looking at the rebel soldiers

surrendering. What motivated them, what was it

about President Erdogan's government that made these soldiers

want to try and overthrow him Look, the military, given

the institutional prerogatives, given its history, has always been

posed to Islamic tide leaders. -- has always been opposed to

Islamic type leaders. To the extent that President Erdogan

has won elections but still pursues what they think is a very

religious agenda. That has always been

problematic for them. The fact that he has consolidated

power and trying to change the constitution, there are a lot

of people that are upset about this but they don't try to mount

a coup, they fight it The problem is that when you have

officers and soldiers and they have access to guns,

they think they can do things This is a humiliating

defeat for them in a way. Because, as I said, things that have

happened in the past in Turkey, you realise that they don't

learn their lessons. Let's turn our attention to the

aftermath in Nice. France's interior minister has called up 12,000 police

reservists to boost security over the summer. Let's show you some of

the pictures from one of the makeshift shrines that has grown up

there. You can see people lighting candles in memory of the dead and

injured. In memory of the 84 people killed. President Hollande has

declared three days of mourning from Saturday to remember the people

killed. Flags at half-mast. Let's get our report from Lucy Williamson

with the latest. What makes a local man turn

on his community and kill? This is where Mohamed Bouhlel

planned his attack. This quiet block of flats

on the outskirts of Nice. A blue patterned towel

still hanging form the railing. Inside a neighbour showed us

where he lived, alone, French officials say

he was probably radicalised, but Jasmine told us that she had

seen no sign of it. I saw him during Ramadan,

with a young woman cuddling him. Jasmine's 14-year-old daughter

rang her from the promenade on Thursday, weeping

terrified into the phone, not knowing that she was running

from the man who lived upstairs. The promenade has now reopened

and the brutal reminders of what happened are fading under

the buzz of normal life. But this attack left France

with some uncomfortable questions, Committed jihadists,

or just isolated, angry residents Police are questioning five people,

and so-called Islamic state has claimed responsibility

for the attack, but France's interior minister says this appears

to be a new, much looser kind of affiliation, much harder

for the authorities to predict. The far-right leader Marine Le Pen

quickly took to social media, France is a great country,

she said, and it has the means to defend itself,

but because its leaders are puny they don't know how to do

this, or even want to. France's leaders say the country's

values are the target. Security, liberty, brotherhood -

how to honour them all? So 84 people died in the attack and

more than 50 others including five children are still in a critical

condition in hospital. My colleague has been speaking to the family of

one victim. A mother who was hit by the truck as she saved her children.

A devoted mother, a victim of the Bastille Day attack.

She leaves behind a family consumed with grief, including

She was killed trying to save the little one,

he says, she pulled him towards her but was hit

She died in ten minutes on the way to hospital.

The two boys, now motherless, are traumatised.

Many families take their children to the shrines to pay their respects.

It's a harrowing detail of the attack that the killer

could see that he was hitting youngsters -

Five children are still fighting for their lives in hospital.

It is of course the psychological trauma of the terrible events

of Bastille night that will be difficult heal.

For those children who survived, the work begins now to stop

We offer psychological reassurance, try a little to contain

the emotions, because I think we cannot completely stop them.

A mother just now asked me if I had some kind of magic pill.

Claire and her family, from eastern France, flew into Nice

They are on holiday, but the tragedy is a lesson in life

They must understand that our world is changing.

I hope that it will change for the best, but it is important

for them to be here to know that their world is changing

Bastille Day will always represent the moment the people

of France won their freedom, but for some it will now also

represent, because of the murderous actions of one man, fear

It's a big moment in the US Presidential race.

Donald Trump has been giving his first press conference

with the man he's chosen to be his Vice-Presidential running

mate - the Governor of Indiana, Mike Pence.

The two men have differed in the past on issues such

But Republican strategists are hoping the socially conservative

Mr Pence will help to broaden Mr Trump's appeal.

Speaking in New York, Donald Trump explained why he'd

chosen Mike Pence, before the Indiana Governor himself took

Governor Pence balanced the budget, produced a surplus, and maintains

a $2 billion reserve fund in the State of Indiana.

It's also rated AAA - their bonds are AAA.

The best, that's as good as you can get -

whether you're a company or a State - AAA.

Indiana was recently recognised by Chief Executive magazine

as the number one State in the Midwest for business - number

the frustrations and the hopes of the American people like no

We're tired of being told, we're tired of being told that this

We're tired of having politicians in both parties in Washington DC,

tell us we'll get to those problems tomorrow.

And as Ronald Reagan said, we're tired of being told that

a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can

plan our lives better for us than we can plan them for ourselves.

Donald Trump gets it, and he understands

That is Mike Pence. I have been asking Jane O'Brien what more we

know. The odd thing is that if you had

waited for Donald Trump to tell you, you would still be waiting. He spoke

for 30 minutes before finally introducing Mike Pence to the stage

which is really odd, because the whole idea of this form of highly

choreographed introduction is literally to do that, to introduce

the person who could become the vice president, to the nation. Mike Pence

isn't really well known by most Americans. But Donald Trump

effectively delivered his standard stump speech, taking sideswipes at

Hillary Clinton and seems to have to remind himself actually, he was

there to talk about Mike Pence. The reason that he once Mike Pence on

the ticket is because he is everything Donald Trump is not. He

has got great Conservative credentials, he is controlled, he's

disciplined, not a hothead. He certainly has good working

relationships with lawmakers on Capitol Hill and he is in effect an

insider. And Donald Trump made it very clear that that is the biggest

reason he wants him, because he is fed up with being an outsider. And

TV recognises that he needs to gain that credibility with wavering

Republicans who will be crucial in getting him into the White House. --

and he recognises. Allah is Donald Trump doing in the polls? Is it

possible to say how he's being viewed in America, not including

this announcement that Mike Pence is as running mate, it is he looking

like gaining ground across the country? The Pelz change -- the

polls change daily. The race is extremely close. But what is

significant is that in terms of general unpopularity, neither

Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump well liked by anybody. This is a campaign

when we are seeing the two least favoured now up for election. Which

makes the whole dynamic of this race very, very strange indeed and could

well affect turnout. If you are not enamoured by your Republican or

Democrat candidate, you might just stay home. So when picking Mike

Pence again, Donald Trump is hoping to boost its own figures and create

a ticket that appeals far more broadly to the disenfranchised

Americans who led the moment are throwing their weight behind Donald

Trump. Jane O'Brien reporting from Washington.

Now to check out all the sports news.

Sweden's Henrik Stenson leads American Phil Mickelson by one

stroke, heading into the final round of the Open Championship

The pair traded blows over 18 holes on day three,

as Stenson carded a three-under-par 68 for 12 under overall,

one shot clear of Mickelson, who shot 70.

American Bill Haas is six shots off the lead after a 69, one clear

of England's Andrew Johnston, who posted 70.

He is a great competitor, one of the finest to play the game in the last

15 or 20 years. I know he is not going to back down and I will try

not to, either. So it is going to be tough tomorrow and I will stick to

my plan and hit my shots, pick my spots and hopefully I will be good

enough by the end of the day. As well as his playing, it doesn't

matter what other guys are doing. I have got to go and play a good round

of golf, something in the mid-60s to have a good chance.

Pakistan have built a useful lead of 281 in the second innings

of the first test against England at Lord's.

The tourists finished off England's tail with the addition of just

12 runs this morning - Yasir Shah took six wickets.

And while England got wickets at regular intervals -

Chris Woakes has eleven for the match so far -

many more runs for Pakistan on Sunday could see England

The first innings, we didn't bat very well and we want to put that

right. There is a lot of us who want to school some runs and hopefully

win the game, but it is going to be tough. They have a good bowling

attack and a good leg-spinner who will cause us trouble.

Mark Cavendish has underlined his status as the fastest sprinter

at the Tour de France, racing to his fourth victory

After a processional 200 kilometres through the Rhone Valley,

Cavendish hit the front with 150 metres

to go to claim the win on stage 14 - his 30th of his Tour career.

Chris Froome retains the leader's yellow jersey finishing

Britain have restored their 2-1 lead in the Davis Cup against Serbia

after Jamie Murray and Dom Inglot won the doubles this

The British pair won in four sets meaning they need to win just one

of the remaining two singles fixtures to reach the semi finals.

The day had started with defeat for James Ward to Dusan Lajovic.

It's great to really feel that you have finally come out here and put a

rubber in for the team. And serving it out was obviously a little bit

nerve wracking, but with the likes of Jamie and the net, you know that

even if you might miss the served by little bit, he will help you out,

and he did massively. He deserves a lot of credit for making me feel

good. You started well as a pair, but it got interesting when they won

that second set on a tie-break? Yes, I think we were unlucky to lose that

set. We didn't quite return as well as we could have. We were holding

serve constantly throughout the match. Dominic was serving

incredibly well and I was serving pretty smart, too. It was

unfortunate that we could not capitalise at the end of the second

set. We were a little unlucky in a couple of points in the tie-break.

It felt like we sell to our guns and kept getting the ball back and took

a good chance to win and proved that in the second -- third and fourth

sets. Premier League Champions,

Leicester City, have sold N'Golo Kante, one of their most

influential players from last The midfielder has moved

to the London club on a five year deal after reaching the Euro 2016

final with France this month. The deal is believed to be

in the region of ?30 million - Thank you very much. Let's take you

back now to Turkey. The situation there, where the government say they

are in full control and that the coup attempt has failed. A dramatic

24 hours in the history of Turkey. This is the scene live this evening

in Ankara. Supporters of President Erdogan waving their flags, the

Turkish flags. Supporters of his ruling party, the Justice and

development party. They believe that it was people power that partly

helps to turn the tide and defeat this coup attempt. Coming out onto

the street, many people, to block the attempts to overthrow the regime

of President Erdogan. There have been similar scenes this evening in

Istanbul as well. And we know that around 3000 soldiers are now under

arrest. More than 2500 judges have been displaced and many commentators

say that President Erdogan will use this as an opportunity to carry out

a purge of the military and the judiciary as well. But this was

violence that left more than 265 people dead. -- 250 people dead. So

what the future holds for President Erdogan and democracy in Turkey,

many people debating that this evening. But these people

celebrating in Ankara. That's the latest on the situation there. Thank

you very much indeed for watching.