Car bomb rocks Nigeria's capital

2 May 2014 Last updated at 10:00

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Will Ross reports on fresh security fears over next week's World Economic Forum in Abuja

A car bomb attack has killed at least 19 people and injured 60 more in the Nigerian capital Abuja, officials say.

The explosion happened in the suburb of Nyanya, close to a bus station where at least 70 people died in a bomb blast on 14 April.

Witnesses said the explosion targeted a police checkpoint near a bus station.

No group has said it carried out Thursday's attack. The Islamist militant group Boko Haram said it was behind the fatal explosion last month.

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Around Abuja there are mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers and friends searching for missing loved ones.

With this, the second attack in less than three weeks, there are mounting worries over the nation's insecurity. It is not clear why the suburb of Nyanya was targeted once more. If it was Boko Haram again, it could be the Islamist insurgents' way of saying: "You cannot stop us even where you put your checkpoints."

On top of the dreadful insecurity in the north-east and the plight of the missing schoolgirls, this is more bad news for the government. Abuja is hosting the World Economic Forum on Africa next week, so leaders from across the world are expected in the city. They will not be mingling with the crowds at bus stations but the worry is that cursory security checks are unlikely to stop another car bomb from being detonated elsewhere in this city.

There is of course anger with the government, especially as the annual security budget has almost doubled over the past five years to $6bn (£3.6bn) and people are asking: "So why are we not safer?"

The BBC's Will Ross in Abuja says Nyanya is a religiously mixed area and it is not clear why the area has been targeted.

Fears over security

Charles Osueke, who was in the area at the time of the blast, told the BBC that it was just 200m (650ft) away from the 14 April explosion.

"People in the crowd were saying that a man parked his car, walked away and the next thing they know, the car blew up," he said.

"I'm worried about our security here. After the last explosion, the president said he would increase security," Mr Osueke added.

"There were policemen around when this explosion happened and they didn't manage to stop it."

The head of Nigeria's Emergency Management Agency, Abbas Idriss, told the BBC that 19 people were killed in the blast and 60 others were injured.

Most of Boko Haram's attacks have been in the north-east of Nigeria.

But the bombing on 14 April raised fears that the militants could be trying to expand their area of operation.

In a video message after that attack, the group's leader Abubakar Shekau said: "We are in your city but you don't know where we are."

The latest attack comes just days before Abuja is set to host the World Economic Forum on Africa. Figures released last month showed Nigeria is now Africa's biggest economy.

Insecurity will be a major concern: Several world leaders, including Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, are due to attend the event.

Correspondents say the blast comes at a terrible time for Nigeria, which is also dealing with the abduction of 230 schoolgirls that happened hours after the previous Nyanya attack.

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for international military assistance to be offered to Nigeria in the hunt for the girls.

"We could provide military help to the Nigerians to track down the whereabouts of the girls before they're dispersed throughout Africa - like air support, for example, if that was thought necessary," he told the UK's Guardian newspaper.

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A 60-second guide to Boko Haram

Last week, an advisor to Nigeria's president said the government would welcome international assistance.

The Boko Haram insurgency has led to the deaths of some 1,500 people this year, human rights groups say.

The group has hit Abuja several times before, including an attack on the United Nations national headquarters in 2011.

But before 14 April, there had not been an attack in the capital for two years.

Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is forbidden" in the local Hausa language, has been waging a campaign of gun and bomb attacks since 2009.

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Dozens hurt in S Korea subway crash

2 May 2014 Last updated at 10:19

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Reports say the train was leaving Sangwangsimni station when it was rammed from behind

Dozens of people have been injured after two subway cars collided in the South Korean capital Seoul.

As many as 170 people were hurt - and a number were taken to hospital for treatment - but no-one suffered serious injuries, officials said.

The accident happened after one train ran into the back of another that had stopped at a station in east Seoul.

It comes as the nation continues to mourn the deaths of about 300 people in last month's ferry disaster.

The Sewol ferry sank with 476 people aboard - most of them high school students and teachers - off South Korea on 16 April.

The emergency response to the disaster has been heavily criticised as too slow, and has led to the resignation of the prime minister and a public apology from President Park Geun-hye.

Friday's crash happened at around 15:30 local time (06:30 GMT) at the Sangwangsimni Station on one of Seoul's major subway lines, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reports.

Yonhap said the stationary train had stopped because of mechanical problems when the second train ran into the back of it.

A witness said many passengers ignored an onboard announcement telling them to stay inside and forced the doors open, escaping on to the tracks.

One official said 170 people had complained of feeling pain after the accident, and 32 were taken to a nearby hospital, but no-one was seriously hurt, the Associated Press reports.

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Syria attack 'kills 11 children'

2 May 2014 Last updated at 12:11

At least 18 people, including 11 children, have been killed in two suicide bombings in the Syrian province of Hama, state media has reported.

It said the "terrorist explosions" took place in Jibrin - north-east of Hama city - and al-Humeiri.

The attack comes days after scores of people were killed and injured in explosions in government-controlled parts of the central city of Homs.

An agreement was reached on Friday for rebels in Homs to withdraw.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that about 1,000 fighters were expected to pull out from rebel-held areas of the besieged city under the terms of a ceasefire.

Rebel fighters have long held onto districts in and around the Old City of Homs. The city has seen some of the worst fighting in the three years of the Syrian conflict.

City stormed

There has so far been no claim of responsibility for the Hama bombings, correspondents say, but al-Qaeda affiliated rebels of the Nusra Front have carried out several car bombings in recent weeks.

Both Jibrin and al-Humeiri are under the control of the government.

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The popular market in Aleppo was reportedly packed with shoppers at the time of the air strike

Human rights groups say that both the government of President Bashar al-Assad and rebels fighting to depose him are killing civilians.

Hama saw some of the largest demonstrations against Mr Assad in the first months of the Syrian uprising after March 2011.

But in late summer 2011, security forces stormed the city and have maintained control ever since.

Hama's main city occupies a significant place in the history of modern Syria.

In 1982, then-President Hafez al-Assad, father of Bashar, sent in troops to quell an uprising by the Sunni opposition Muslim Brotherhood. Tens of thousands were killed and the city flattened.

Outraged

The violence in Hama province comes as the government subjects rebel-held areas in the northern city of Aleppo to fierce aerial bombardment as its forces try to end a long-standing stalemate in the city.

On Thursday at least 33 people were killed in an air strike on a market in the northern Halak district of the city.

The strike outraged The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) which described it as the "latest wave of indiscriminate attacks perpetrated against schools and other civilian targets" across the country.

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Rebels down Ukraine helicopters

2 May 2014 Last updated at 12:18

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Sarah Rainsford in Donetsk says the scale of clashes on the ground is not yet clear

Pro-Russian rebels have shot down two of Ukraine's army helicopters during an "anti-terror" operation in the eastern city of Sloviansk, Kiev has said.

It said a pilot and serviceman had been killed, four suspected separatists held and nine rebel checkpoints seized.

However, separatists at three Sloviansk checkpoints told the BBC they were still in control there.

Russia said the use of the army by Kiev against its own people "is leading Ukraine to catastrophe".

Describing the military operation as "punitive", the Russian foreign ministry also urged Western powers to give up their "destructive" policy on Ukraine.

The ministry earlier warned that any assaults by Ukraine's troops in the region would have "catastrophic consequences", triggering fears of an invasion by Moscow.

Separately, several foreign journalists were reportedly detained in Sloviansk and some of them were released later.

Sloviansk is a stronghold for pro-Russian separatists who are exerting increasing control in the region.

In other developments:

• Unknown attackers seize a local railway control centre near Donetsk, disrupting train movement
• Moscow has reportedly re-established contact with Russian envoy Vladimir Lukin in eastern Ukraine, after saying earlier it had been unable to get in touch with him
• Pro-Russian rebels have left the prosecutor's office and TV centre in the eastern Luhansk region

'Full combat alert'

In a statement on Friday , Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said the "active phase" of the operation began at 04:30 local time (02:30 GMT).

He said interior troops and the National Guard were involved in the operation in the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk region.

"The terrorists opened fire with heavy weapons against Ukrainian special units.

"A real battle with professional mercenaries is going on," Mr Avakov said, adding that the separatists were using the tactics of hiding behind civilians in residential buildings.

Russia's state-run Rossiya 24 TV channel said the city was being "stormed".

It quoted Sloviansk's rebel leader Igor Strelkov as saying that the city was completely sealed off.

The fighting appears to be concentrating on the periphery of the city, says the BBC's Sarah Rainsford, who is in the regional capital Donetsk.

In a video posted on YouTube, Sloviansk's self-declared mayor Vyacheslav Ponomariov said "our city is under attack... and we have already suffered casualties".

"I would like to appeal to all children, women and the elderly not to leave their homes."

However, there were no reports of Ukrainian government troops entering the city itself.

Local residents were later quoted as saying that the situation in the city had calmed down but remained tense.

Earlier, Ukraine's acting President Olexandr Turchynov reinstated military conscription.

Mr Turchynov said his forces were "helpless" to quell the unrest in some parts of the east, saying the goal was now to prevent it from spreading.

He also said Ukraine was on "full combat alert" amid fears that Russian troops could invade.

Some 40,000 Russian troops are stationed near the Ukrainian border.

Monitors held

Eastern Ukraine has a large Russian-speaking population and was a stronghold for President Viktor Yanukovych before he was overthrown by pro-Western protesters in February.

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Moscow says it reserves the right to use "all means" to protect its citizens in eastern Ukraine

Russia then annexed the Crimean peninsula - part of Ukraine but with a Russian-speaking majority - in a move that provoked international outrage.

The crisis has plunged East-West relations to their lowest point since the Cold War ended in the early 1990s.

On Thursday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel asked Russia in a phone call to President Putin to help free foreign military monitors seized by rebels in Sloviansk last week.

For his part, Mr Putin reiterated his call for Kiev to withdraw troops from the south-east to open the way for a national dialogue.

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Kiev holds 'spying' Russia diplomat

1 May 2014 Last updated at 11:32

A Russian military attache has been held in Ukraine on suspicion of spying and ordered to leave the country.

The attache - who was not named - had been engaged in activities "not in accordance with his diplomatic status", Ukraine's foreign ministry said.

Kiev and the West accuse Russia of stoking a separatist unrest in eastern Ukraine - a claim Moscow denies.

Meanwhile German Chancellor Angela Merkel has asked Russia to help free foreign monitors held in east Ukraine.

The military observers were seized by pro-Russia separatists at a checkpoint in the flashpoint town of Sloviansk last Friday.

In another development, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a $17.1bn (£10.1bn) loan for Ukraine's beleaguered economy.

The bailout money is dependent on strict economic reforms, including raising taxes and energy prices.

'Full combat alert'

A spokesman for the Ukrainian foreign ministry confirmed to the BBC that the Russian attache had been detained on Wednesday and declared "persona non grata".

The spokesman declined to provide any further details.

The Kremlin has so far made no public comment on the issue.

This comes amid growing tensions between Kiev and Moscow, as armed pro-Russian gunmen continue to hold a number of government buildings in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

On Wednesday, Ukraine's acting President Olexandr Turchynov admitted that his forces were "helpless" to quell the unrest, saying the goal was now to prevent it from spreading.

Mr Turchynov also said Ukraine was on "full combat alert", amid fears that Russian troops could invade.

Some 40,000 Russian troops are stationed close to the Ukrainian border. Moscow has warned that its soldiers will act if Russian interests in eastern Ukraine - where a majority of the population are Russian-speaking - are threatened.

The US and EU have accused Russia of failing to implement the terms of last month's deal agreed in Geneva aimed at defusing the crisis by disarming illegal militias.

They have both stepped up sanctions against Russia this week, naming more individuals and companies facing travel bans and asset freezes.

The sanctions were initially imposed after Russia annexed the Crimea region from Ukraine last month.

The IMF said $100bn (£59bn) would leave Russia this year, partly caused by the sanctions. The fund also warned that Russia was "experiencing recession" because of damage caused by the Ukraine crisis.

Yanukovych's assets

The IMF announced its decision on Ukraine on Wednesday.

The bailout would also make available $1bn in loan guarantees from the US, which was recently approved by Congress.

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The head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, said there would be regular checks on Ukraine's progress

"Today's final approval for the $17bn IMF programme marks a crucial milestone for Ukraine," said US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew in a statement.

He added that the bailout will "enable Ukraine to build on the progress already achieved to overcome deep-seated economic challenges and help the country return to a path of economic stability and growth".

Also on Wednesday, an international conference in London ended with a commitment to help Ukraine recover tens of billions of dollars worth of assets which were allegedly stolen by the ousted President Yanukovych and his allies.

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Deadly 'gas blast' at Florida jail

1 May 2014 Last updated at 12:07

At least two people have been killed and more than 100 injured in an apparent gas explosion in a Florida prison, local officials say.

Part of the prison in Pensacola collapsed after the blast late on Wednesday, forcing an evacuation.

About 600 people - inmates and corrections officials - were believed to be in the building at the time.

Officials are now investigating whether a recent flooding could have caused the explosion.

The blast happened shortly after 23:00 local time on Wednesday (05:00 GMT Thursday).

"There was an apparent gas explosion in the central booking area of the Escambia County jail," local spokeswoman Kathleen Dough-Castro said.

"We had approximately 600 prisoners in the facility at the time. Injured prisoners are being transported under guard to area hospitals. Uninjured prisoners are being transported to other detention facilities."

Parts of Florida - including Escambia County - have been recently hit by heavy flooding caused by a storm system in the region.

A number of roads have been badly damaged.

Florida Governor Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency in the affected areas.

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Unesco warns Australia over reef

1 May 2014 Last updated at 05:27

Unesco has threatened to list the Great Barrier Reef as a World Heritage in Danger site, amid controversy over a plan to dump dredged sediment.

Reef authorities granted permission for the dumping in January as part of a project to create one of the world's biggest coal ports.

But scientists have warned that the sediment could smother or poison coral.

Unesco said given "significant threats" to the reef, it should be considered for inclusion on the danger list.

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral structure, rich in marine life. It stretches for more than 2,600km (1,680 miles) along Australia's eastern coast.

'Other alternatives'

The dumping is part of a major development that would allow several companies to export coal reserves from the Galilee Basin area through the Abbot Point port.

Abbot Point lies south of Townsville on the Queensland coast.

Late last year, the government approved an application for the coal terminal to be expanded. The dredging is needed to allow ships into the port.

The approved disposal site for the dredged sediment is located approximately 25km (16 miles) east-north-east of the port, inside the marine park.

The disposal operation would be "subject to strict environmental conditions", the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority said when it approved the plan.

But the plan remains highly controversial.

In its report, Unesco said that the Abbot Point dumping plan was "noted with concern".

"Indeed, this was approved, despite an indication that less impacting disposal alternatives may exist," the report pointed out.

More widely, it said that a long-term plan for sustainable development due to be completed by Australia by 2015 had to result in "concrete and consistent management measures sufficiently robust to ensure the overall conservation" of the reef.

In particular, it had to address major drivers of reef decline "such as water quality and climate change, and the need to constrain coastal development and associated activities".

"Given the range of significant threats affecting the property and the conflicting information about the effectiveness of recent decisions and draft policies, significant concern remains regarding the long-term deterioration of key aspects of... [the reef] and the completion of work to tackle short- and long-term threats," it said.

In the absence of "substantial progress", Unesco should consider putting the reef on the endangered list at a summit to be held in 2015, the report said.

Australia's Environment Minister Greg Hunt pointed out that the report highlighted progress in a number of areas, including water quality.

The approval of the Abbot Point development "was subject to rigorous environmental assessment", he said in a statement.

Queensland's Environment Minister Andrew Powell, meanwhile, said he was confident that ongoing work would mean the reef was not listed as endangered.

"We are committed to protecting the reef, we can continue to operate sensible, environmentally responsible ports adjacent to the reef," the Australian Broadcasting Corporation quoted him as saying.

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Tear gas at Turkish May Day protests

1 May 2014 Last updated at 11:09

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Police used water cannon and tear gas to try to disperse protesters, as Selin Girit reports

Riot police in Turkey have used tear gas and water cannon to prevent demonstrators defying a ban on protests on Istanbul's central Taksim Square.

The Anatolia news agency said several demonstrators were injured and at least five detained.

Intensive security measures were in place, and roads and streets near Taksim Square closed to traffic from the early morning.

Turkish media said some 40,000 police would be deployed in the city on 1 May.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier warned people they should "give up hopes" of gathering on Taksim Square - a focus of anti-government protests.

But a joint statement from the main trades unions on Wednesday said: "We will be in Taksim despite the irrational and illegal ban. All roads will lead to Taksim on May Day".

Mr Erdogan's party won local elections in March. That was the first vote since mass protests last June, and was seen as a barometer of his popularity.

The prime minister has been eyeing a run for the presidency in August - the first time voters will directly elect the head of state - or may seek to change the rules to allow him to seek a fourth term in office.

Elsewhere in May Day celebrations:

• A number of people are reported to have been beaten by security forces in Cambodia who were trying to break up an opposition march in the capital Phnom Penh
• More than 100,000 Russians have taken part in a parade in Moscow's Red Square, reviving a tradition last seen before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Inmate dies in 'botched' execution

30 April 2014 Last updated at 11:53

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Execution of Clayton Lockett (pictured): Journalist and witness Courtney Francisco describes what she saw - some may find this audio distressing.

A US death row inmate in Oklahoma died of a heart attack after his execution was halted because the lethal injection of three drugs failed to work properly.

The execution of Clayton Lockett, 38, was stopped after 20 minutes, when one of his veins ruptured, preventing the drugs from taking full effect.

The execution of a fellow inmate, due two hours later, was postponed.

Both men had unsuccessfully challenged a state law that shields the identities of companies supplying the drugs.

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Analysis

Since it was first used in Texas in 1982, "the triple-drug cocktail" has become the standard execution method in US states that have the death penalty. It was designed by anaesthesiologist Stanley Deutsch as an "extremely humane" way to end life.

The first drug, a barbiturate, "shuts down" the central nervous system, rendering the prisoner unconscious. The second paralyses the muscles and stops the person breathing. The third, potassium chloride, stops the heart.

But critics suggest that the method may well be painful. One suggestion is that people could be too sedated by the first drug to cry out, or that they might be in pain but paralysed by the second drug.

Another complication, as appears to have been the case with Clayton Lockett, is that intravenous drug use is common among death row inmates, meaning many prisoners have damaged veins that are difficult to inject.

Problems sourcing some of the drugs in the official protocol have also led to claims that states are using untested drugs in their executions.

The problems surrounding Lockett's execution come amid a wider debate over the legality of the three-drug method and whether its use violates guarantees in the US constitution "against cruel and unusual punishment".

Lockett was sentenced to death for the 1999 shooting of a 19-year-old woman.

'Botched'

Lockett writhed and shook uncontrollably after the drugs were administered, witnesses said.

"We believe that a vein was blown and the drugs weren't working as they were designed to. The director ordered a halt to the execution," Oklahoma Department of Corrections spokesman Jerry Massie said.

But Lockett's lawyer, David Autry, questioned the remarks, insisting his client "had large arms and very prominent veins," according to the Associated Press.

The prisoner was moving his arms and legs and straining his head, mumbling "as if he was trying to talk", Courtney Francisco, a local journalist present at the execution, told the BBC.

Prison officials pulled a curtain across the view of witnesses when it became apparent that something had gone wrong.

"It was a horrible thing to witness. This was totally botched," Mr Autry said.

Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin said in a statement that she had ordered a full review of the state's execution procedures.

Calls for investigation

Fellow inmate Charles Warner, 46, had been scheduled to be put to death in the same room two hours later in a rare double execution.

Warner's lawyer, Madeline Cohen, who witnessed Lockett's execution, said he had been "tortured to death" and called for an investigation.

"The state must disclose complete information about the drugs, including their purity, efficacy, source and the results of any testing," she said.‏

Warner was convicted of the 1997 murder and rape of an 11-month-old girl.

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Lockett's last moments

• 18:23 - Sedative administered
• 18:33 - Doctor declares Lockett unconscious
• 18:36 - Lockett is restless and a doctor discovers a ruptured vein
• Curtain drawn
• Execution halted
• 19:06 - Lockett dies from a heart attack

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He and Lockett had unsuccessfully challenged an Oklahoma state law that blocks officials from revealing - even in court - the identities of the companies supplying the drugs.

The state maintains the law is necessary to protect the suppliers from legal action and harassment.

Lockett and Warner argued they needed to know the names of the suppliers in order to ensure the quality of the drugs that would be used to kill them and to be certain that they had been obtained legally.

In March, a trial court ruled in their favour, but the state's highest court reversed that decision last week, ruling that "the plaintiffs have no more right to the information they requested than if they were being executed in the electric chair".

US states have encountered increasing problems in obtaining the drugs for lethal injections, amid an embargo by European pharmaceutical firms.

Some have turned to untried combinations of drugs or have sought to obtain the drugs custom-made from compounding pharmacies.

The triple-drug cocktail, first used in Texas in 1982, has become the standard execution method in the US.

It was presented as a more humane replacement for lethal gas and the electric chair, but critics of the three-drug protocol say it could cause unnecessary suffering.

Several US states that still have the death penalty have since switched to a single-drug method.

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Thailand to hold fresh election

30 April 2014 Last updated at 11:17

Thailand has announced that it will hold a fresh election, after the Constitutional Court invalidated its 2 February poll last month.

The new polls will be conducted on 20 July, in an agreement reached between the Election Commission (EC) and the prime minister, officials said.

PM Yingluck Shinawatra called the snap election in February amid major anti-government protests in Bangkok.

Her ruling party was expected to win, but the opposition boycotted the polls.

The protesters disrupted voting, meaning the election was not completed. The court said the vote was unconstitutional because it did not take place on the same day across the country.

Political paralysis

"We agreed that the most suitable election day is 20 July and the EC will draft the royal decree for the prime minister to submit to the king for royal endorsement," Election Commission secretary Puchong Nutrawong said.

It is not clear yet whether the anti-government movement will attempt to sabotage this election or whether the main opposition Democrat Party will take part.

Thailand's political system has been paralysed since anti-government protests began in Bangkok in November 2013.

At the height of the demonstrations, protesters shut down key road junctions and blockaded government ministries. Numbers have fallen since, however.

The protesters, who are mainly urban and middle class, want Ms Yingluck's government replaced by an unelected "people's council".

They allege that her brother, ousted leader Thaksin Shinawatra, controls her administration and say money politics have corrupted Thailand's democracy.

Ms Yingluck and Pheu Thai remain very popular in rural areas, however, leaving Thailand deeply polarised.

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