G20: No charges over Ian Tomlinson demo death

A badge administrator who was filmed blame a man to the arena during the G20 protests will not face accuse over his death.

Ian Tomlinson, 47, died afterwards actuality bent up in the clashes on 1 April 2009 in the City of London.

Director of Accessible Prosecutions Keir Starmer said there was no anticipation of confidence because experts could not accede on how Mr Tomlinson died.

Mr Tomlinson's son Paul King declared the accommodation as "outrageous".

The administrator who was filmed blame Mr Tomlinson has been called as Pc Simon Harwood from the Metropolitan Badge territorial abutment group.

Mr Starmer said there was a "sharp altercation amid the medical experts" about the account of death, which led to three post-mortem examinations actuality conducted on Mr Tomlinson.

The aboriginal assay by Dr Freddy Patel - currently beneath analysis for declared delinquency over four different post-mortem examinations - begin he died of accustomed causes affiliated to coronary avenue disease.

The additional pathologist, Dr Nat Cary, begin he died of centralized bleeding as a aftereffect of edgeless force trauma, in aggregate with cirrhosis of the liver.

The third assay agreed with the allegation of the additional test. It was conducted on account of the officer.

Mr Starmer said there were clashing differences amid the affirmation from Dr Patel and the two consecutive post-mortem examinations.

Dr Patel already faces antidotal proceedings, and could be addled off, by the General Medical Council over declared failings in his administration of four abstracted post-mortem examinations amid 2002 and 2005.

Mr Tomlinson, a bi-weekly agent who was not complex in the protests, was walking home back he was bent up in the demonstration.

The video footage showed him actuality allegedly addled by a billy and again pushed to the ground.

He was apparent affective abroad afterwards the adventure but was begin burst 100 metres abroad in Cornhill.

Mr Starmer additionally said that Mr Tomlinson was apathetic by a badge dog anon afore the clash.

Setting out the capacity of the decision, Mr Starmer said: "After a absolute and accurate analysis of the evidence, the CPS (the Crown Prosecution Service) has absitively that there is no astute anticipation of a confidence adjoin the badge administrator in catechism for any answerability arising from the amount advised and that no accuse should be brought adjoin him.

"In the face of this axiological altercation amid the experts about the account of Mr Tomlinson's death, the CPS boarded on a abundant and accurate assay of all the medical affirmation and captivated a alternation of affairs with experts in attack to resolve, or at atomic narrow, the areas of disagreement.

"This accordingly took some ample time," he added.

He added the CPS had advised advance accuse but prosecutors acquainted that they could not prove the advance essentially afflicted the bi-weekly vendor.

A allegation of accustomed assault, which does not crave affidavit of injury, could not be brought adjoin the administrator because there is a six-month time limit.

Mr Starmer said: "Common advance does not crave affidavit of injury, but it is accountable to a austere six-month time limit. That placed the CPS in a actual difficult position because inquiries were continuing at the six-month point and it would not accept been accessible to accept brought any allegation at that stage."

The CPS additionally absitively not to allegation the officer, who charcoal abeyant from duty, with delinquency in a accessible offence.

Mr Tomlinson's son Mr King said: "It's taken 16 months to get a no-charge adjoin this officer.

"The CPS are acutely acceptance the badge administrator assaulted our dad.

"We feel like it wasn't a abounding analysis from the beginning. It's been a big camouflage and they're incompetent.

"Why isn't there an advance charge? We feel actual let down, actual disappointed.

"We accustomed a charge. It acutely shows our dad actuality assaulted by a badge officer," he added.

Mr Tomlinson's ancestors adviser Jules Carey said the ancestors will accede whether they can address adjoin the decision.

He said: "The CPS accept accustomed the conduct of the administrator was unlawful.

"We now allegation to acquisition out if there has been a abridgement of will or incompetence, and bluntly there needs to be an analysis into that."

Jenny Jones, a affiliate of the Metropolitan Badge Authority, said: "It's acutely an aftereffect that satisfies absolutely cipher and everybody comes out of it badly.

"The acceptability of the badge is poor, and assurance won't be actual acceptable if accessible acumen is that the badge consistently get abroad with crimes and are never brought to justice.

"If everybody had confused a bit faster we ability accept absolutely been in the time-frame for an advance allegation to be brought," she added.

Expressing "regret" for Mr Tomlinson's family, a Metropolitan Badge spokesman, said: "There will, of course, be an delving area the facts will be heard publicly. This is important for the ancestors of Ian Tomlinson as able-bodied as Met admiral and Londoners.

"We now anticipate the IPCC's analysis address afore actuality able to anxiously accede adapted delinquency proceedings," he said.

Deborah Glass, from the Independent Badge Complaints Commission, said the affairs of Mr Tomlinson's afterlife will now be "rightly scrutinised" at an inquest.

She said: "We will accommodate a address on the officer's conduct to the Metropolitan Badge aural the abutting few days.

"The Met will allegation to accommodate us with its proposals apropos misconduct."

Troops to stay in Afghanistan until 2014 says minister

The government has restated a ambition of removing UK troops from Afghanistan by 2014.

Leaked abstracts to a Sunday bi-weekly appropriate a calendar for a phased alteration to Afghan armament could activate aural months.

But Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox said 2014 remained the ambition for the handover of aegis ascendancy to Afghan forces.

Earlier, it was appear that aid to the country is to be added by 40%.

During and account on the Andrew Marr Show, the defence secretary banned to animadversion on the Independent on Sunday's address on an accelerated calendar for troop withdrawals.

"It has consistently been our aim to be acknowledged in the mission, and the mission has consistently said that the Afghan civic aegis armament would be able to accord with their own aegis by 2014," he said.

Blueprint for withdrawal

But he said alone action troops would be accepted to be aloof at that time, with a connected attendance acceptable for training.

Mr Cameron's aim of 2015 was "quite bourgeois by comparison", he said.

Dr Fox went on: "As you would apprehend I would not animadversion on any leaked certificate but a leaked abstract certificate for a abeyant communique of a appointment that hasn't yet happened is, I think, absolutely a leak."

It has been appear that Afghan President Hamid Karzai will use a accessible all-embracing appointment to broadcast a adapt for the abandonment of all-embracing troops by 2014.

Meanwhile, All-embracing Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell categorical affairs to access spending on aid projects in Afghanistan by 40%.

He told the Politics Show the government had been attractive "very carefully" at the way money was actuality spent in Afghanistan.

"We've begin some added allotment from beneath acceptable programmes, so in assumption we accept an added 40% money activity into the development budget," he said.

It is believed the money for Afghanistan would be acclimated to stabilise the best afraid areas, with added policing, emergency aliment and medicine, and bags of job and training opportunities.

Shadow All-embracing Development Secretary Douglas Alexander alleged on the abbot to analyze absolutely how the aid money would be spent.

He said: "Thanks to the efforts of the aftermost government, the UK was already the second-largest donor to Afghanistan and Helmand is already amidst the best heavily aided regions on earth.

"The primary claiming in those areas afflicted by the affront has not been a abridgement of money but a abridgement of security."

BBC agent political editor James Landale said the government is "using adopted aid, not aloof to advice bodies about the apple but additionally to added British adopted policy".

"That's absolutely a change. It's additionally an answer, perhaps, to MPs who ask why aid budgets are actuality adequate back so abounding others are actuality cut," said our correspondent.

The UK afterlife assessment in Afghanistan back operations began in 2001 now stands at 322, with four British serviceman dying back Friday.

At atomic three bodies were dead on Sunday by a suicide adviser in the Afghan basic Kabul.

The bombing came admitting acute aegis beyond Kabul advanced of the all-embracing appointment of adopted ministers on Tuesday.

Foreign Secretary William Hague, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon are amid those appointed to attend.

UK soldiers killed by rogue Afghan named by MoD

Major James Joshua Bowman, from Wiltshire, Lieutenant Neal Turkington, from Craigavon, and Corporal Arjun Purja Pun, from Nepal, served in 1st Army The Royal Gurkha Rifles.

The Ministry of Defence appear their names as ancestors associates and assembly said they were "selfless" and "brave".

A above manhunt is beneath way afterward Tuesday's advance in Nahr-e Saraj.

Maj Bowman was attempt as he slept, while Lt Turkington and Corporal Pun died back a rocket-propelled armament was accursed into the command centre.

Maj Bowman's ancestors said he had been the "best accessible son and brother" who "loved the Army and was actual appreciative of the affectionate assignment that he and his aggregation were doing".

Lt Turkington's ancestors said they were "devastated" by their accident and said the soldier had been "relentless and abiding in his following of those causes he believed in".

Cpl Pun's wife, Durga, said her bedmate had been "proud to be a soldier and died accomplishing a job he loved".

Lt Col Gerald Strickland MBE, Commanding Administrator 1st Army The Royal Gurkha Rifles, said that with Above Bowman's death, the army had absent a "brave" and "truly courageous" administrator who had led with a "rare determination".

The 34-year-old from Salisbury had abutting The Light Infantry in 1999 and served in Northern Ireland and Sierra Leone afore abutting 1st Army The Royal Gurkha Rifles in May 2009.

Lt Col Strickland said Lt Turkington, 26, had been a "courageous and bent army commander" who was admired for his "integrity and raw ability".

Lt Col Strickland said Cpl Pun, 33, a father-of-two from Khibang apple in Nepal's Magdi District, had been a "true Gurkha... abiding and loyal", and a man who had "immediately becoming the account of his men".

'Not forgotten'

Earlier, Nato said it was application every "asset" aural its ability to acquisition the Afghan analgesic and those who may be acceptable him.

Defence Secretary Liam Fox said the "despicable and treacherous" act would "not cavity the boldness of the colleagues they leave behind".

He said: "The efforts of 1st Army the Royal Gurkha Rifles accept anon bigger the aegis bearings in the Nahr-e Saraj district; their adventurous acts accept bigger the lives of the Afghan bodies and their mission to accomplice and alternation the Afghan National Army is basic to our success.

"I extend my centermost condolences to the families and admired ones of the servicemen asleep in this awful attack, their cede will not be forgotten."

A Royal Marine was additionally asleep on Tuesday back he was attempt asleep in a abstracted adventure in Helmand province, demography the cardinal of British cadre asleep in Afghanistan back 2001 to 318. He has not yet been named.

On Wednesday, the Ministry of Defence appear that Gen Sir David Richards is to be the abutting arch of the defence staff, the UK's best chief aggressive officer.

He will alter Air Arch Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, who is abrogation the column after this year.

US and Russia reach agreement on 'spy exchange'

A adjudicator in New York ordered their actual displacement afterwards they pleaded accusable to spying for a adopted country.

More austere money bed-making accuse adjoin them were dropped.

Russian account letters say President Dmitry Medvedev has pardoned the four Russian prisoners.

The mother of Anna Chapman, one of the 10 Russian agents, said she accepted her to fly home to Russia on Friday.

The 10 pleaded accusable to "conspiracy to act as an unregistered abettor of a adopted country".

Their New York cloister actualization was the aboriginal time they had all appeared in accessible calm back actuality arrested aftermost month.

Prosecutors said the accused had airish as accustomed citizens, some active calm as couples for years, and were ordered by Russia's External Intelligence Service (SVR) to access authoritative circles and aggregate information.

Court abstracts appear - allegedly for the aboriginal time - the absolute names of bristles of the Russians involved:

* "Richard Murphy" and "Cynthia Murphy" accepted they were Russian citizens called Vladimir Guryev and Lydia Guryev

* "Donald Howard Heathfield" and "Tracey Lee Ann Foley" accepted they were Russian citizens called Andrey Bezrukov and Elena Vavilova

* "Juan Lazaro" accepted that he was a Russian aborigine called Mikhail Vasenkov

"Michael Zottoli" and "Patrica Mills" had accepted beforehand they were Russian citizens called Mikhail Kutsik and Natalia Pereverzeva, Anna Chapman and Mikhail Semenko had allegedly operated in the US beneath their own names, while Vicky Pelaez was built-in in Peru.

An 11th doubtable accepted as "Christopher Metsos" went missing afterwards actuality appear on bond in Cyprus, area he had been arrested.

The US accompaniment administration said afterwards the audition that there would be "no cogent civic aegis benefit" in sentencing the 10 to diffuse bastille terms.

"The arrangement of actionable agents operating central the United States has been dismantled," agent Mark Toner said, afore adding: "The United States took advantage of the befalling presented to defended the absolution of four individuals confined diffuse bastille agreement in Russia, several of whom were in poor health."

Moved to Moscow

One of the Russian prisoners accepted to be freed by Moscow is nuclear specialist Igor Sutyagin, who was beforehand transferred to Moscow from a bastille abreast the Arctic Circle.

He told his ancestors in Moscow that he would be aureate to Vienna on Thursday and appear as allotment of a accord amid the US and Russian governments.

Earlier, Sutyagin's advocate was quoted by Russian media as adage he had accustomed in the Austrian capital, but his ancestor Vyacheslav denied the reports.

Austrian admiral accept neither accepted nor denied the reports.

Sutyagin was confined in Russia in 2004 for spying for the CIA.

His brother Dmitry said Igor had been told by Russian admiral that his absolution would be allotment of a spy swap, and that US admiral had been present at a meeting.

Dmitry added that his brother had apparent a account of about 10 Russian prisoners that the US had accustomed Moscow - and that it included Sergei Skripal, a Russian aggressive intelligence (GRU) administrator bedevilled of spying for the UK in 2006.

Russian bi-weekly Kommersant said the account additionally included Alexander Zaporozhsky, a above agent of Russia's Adopted Intelligence who was confined for 18 years for espionage in 2003, and Alexander Sypachev, bedevilled in 2002 to eight years in bastille for spying for the CIA.

Obama and Netanyahu urge direct Mid-East peace talks

US Admiral Barack Obama has apprenticed the Israelis and Palestinians to resume absolute accord talks afore a adjustment benumb expires in September.

He batten afterwards Oval Office talks with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, who said it was "high time" for absolute talks.

The two leaders additionally played bottomward any advancement of a breach amid the US and Israel, with Mr Obama adage the band was "unbreakable".

Mr Obama accepted Israel for advertisement it would affluence its Gaza Strip blockade.

The US admiral said he hoped absolute accord talks would resume "well before" Israel's 10-month adjournment on architecture new settlements in the West Bank asleep at the end of September.

The Israeli prime abbot has been beneath burden from his bourgeois affiliation not to cavern in to US calls to extend the freeze.

"I accept Prime Abbot Netanyahu wants peace. I anticipate he is accommodating to booty risks for peace," said Mr Obama.

Mr Netanyahu said accomplish were actuality taken in the advancing canicule and weeks to added the accord process, but he gave no added details.

The Palestinians withdrew from absolute negotiations afterwards Israel launched the Operation Cast Lead abhorrent in Gaza in backward 2008.

Scheduled aberrant talks were alleged off in March this year back Israel accustomed affairs for 1,600 homes in East Jerusalem, area the Palestinians appetite the basic of their approaching state.

'Tougher' sanctions

That announcement, as US Vice-President Joe Biden was visiting to barrage the negotiations, triggered a crisis in relations amid Israel and its greatest ally, Washington.

The US admiral gave Mr Netanyahu a chill accession at the White House during their aftermost appointment after that month.

Indirect talks assuredly got beneath way in May with US Middle East agent George Mitchell shuttling amid the two abandon in Jerusalem and Ramallah in the West Bank.

The Palestinians accept banned to sit bottomward with Mr Netanyahu until he agrees to benumb architecture in areas they appetite for an absolute state. But Israel afresh said it has no ambition of accomplishing that.

Mr Netanyahu warned during the White House talks that the capital blackmail adverse Israel was Iran's nuclear programme, although Tehran denies claims it is architecture diminutive weapons.

The Israeli prime abbot accepted new US sanctions on Iran that Mr Obama active aftermost week, but apprenticed "much tougher" measures from added nations.

It was Mr Obama and Mr Netanyahu's aboriginal affair back Israel's May arrest on a Gaza-bound aid fleet that dead nine Turkish activists and triggered a bounded adept crisis.

Mr Netanyahu was snubbed by Admiral Obama during their aftermost appointment in March, back the US admiral banned alike to acquiesce a photo of their affair to be released.

Afternoon tea

Correspondents say Tuesday's mutual appeared abundant warmer, with US Aboriginal Lady Michelle Obama agreeable Mr Netanyahu's wife, Sara, for afternoon tea.

As the two leaders emphasised how able their band was, protesters aggregate beyond the alley in Lafayette Park and chanted "No Added Aid [to Israel]. End the [Gaza] Blockade".

During his three-day US visit, Mr Netanyahu is additionally accepted to biking to New York, area he will accommodated UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and abode Jewish American leaders.

Palestinian adjudicator Saeb Erekat said Mr Netanyahu charge accept amid settlements and peace.

"We appetite to resume absolute negotiations, but the botheration is that the acreage that is declared to be a Palestinian accompaniment is actuality eaten up by settlements," he told the Associated Press account agency.

Meanwhile, an Israeli animal rights group, B'Tselem, says Israel's Jewish settlements accept now taken over added than 40% of all the acreage in the active West Bank.

The advancement group's address says Israel "systematically violates" and reinterprets international, as able-bodied as its own laws, to booty over clandestine Palestinian land, appropriately abrasive accord negotiations for a two-state solution.

Clinton seeks Nagorno-Karabakh deal on Caucasus visit

The US secretary of accompaniment has captivated talks in both Azerbaijan and Armenia in a bid to end a long-running altercation over the ascendancy of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Visiting both countries on the aforementioned day, Hillary Clinton told them that the US was accessible to advice accomplish peace.

The two nations accept been in altercation about the area back a 1994 armistice concluded a three-year war that claimed up to 30,000 lives.

Mrs Clinton additionally apprenticed Turkey to normalise ties with Armenia.

The US secretary of accompaniment is on a bout of Eastern European nations and the Caucasus region. On Monday she visits Georgia on the final stop of her trip.

'Necessary foundation'

On Sunday, Mrs Clinton visited Azerbaijan for talks with President Ilham Aliyev afore aerial to Armenia to accommodated President Serzh Sarkisian.

Speaking at a account conference, Mr Aliyev fatigued that the advancing altercation about Nagorno-Karabakh was "the above threat" to Azeri security.

He aloft the affair of indigenous Azeris displaced from the Armenian ascendancy by its unilateral acknowledgment of ability who accept lived back the 1990s in added genitalia of Azerbaijan.

"We appetite to acquisition a resolution as anon as possible," Mr Aliyev said.

In response, Mrs Clinton told him that accomplishing a accord accord was a "high priority" for the US - a bulletin she common afterwards talks with his Armenia counterpart.

"We apperceive this will not be accessible but we anticipate it is the all-important foundation for a defended and affluent future," she told reporters in the Armenian capital, Yerevan.

Ethnic Armenian-Azeri frictions aboriginal exploded into bent abandon in the backward 1980s in the aftermost years of the Soviet Union.

Nagorno-Karabakh declared itself absolute in 1991 - a acknowledgment still unrecognised abroad - heralding three years of absinthian fighting.

Today, admitting advance in 2008 and 2009, the affair charcoal unresolved.

Azerbaijan demands an actual abandonment of Armenian armament from the territory. Armenia insists on the enclave's independence.

Mrs Clinton additionally alleged on Azerbaijan to appearance added account for civilian liberties, and for advance on the normalisation of ties amid Armenia and Turkey.

The two abandon agreed in October to authorize adept links and accessible their bound afterwards decades of abhorrence affiliated to the 1915 killings of hundreds of bags of Armenians beneath the Ottoman Empire.

But acceptance of the accord has back faltered.

"We appetite Turkey to booty the accomplish that it promised to booty and that both abandon abide to try to acquisition the opportunities to accessible doors to adaptation and normalisation," Mrs Clinton said.

Obama Urges Immigration Reform in Keynote Speech

President Barack Obama has apprenticed for ameliorate of US clearing action in his aboriginal above accent on the issue.

Mr Obama has fabricated clearing ameliorate a antecedence amidst burden from bound states to accouterment actionable clearing and biologic violence.

He said the US had thrived as a nation of immigrants but ameliorate had been captivated earnest by "political posturing".

It was possible, he added, to "shape a practical, astute access that reflects our ancestry and our values".

He said the country bare one bright civic accepted but annihilation could appear unless Republicans and Democrats formed calm in Congress.

The White House said contempo developments afflicted Mr Obama's accommodation to accomplish his accent on Thursday.

Arizona afresh allowable a law which makes it a abomination to be in the accompaniment after clearing papers.

System 'broken'

In his speech, Mr Obama said the Arizona affair had disconnected assessment in the US.

"But everywhere bodies accept bidding annoyance with a arrangement that seems fundamentally broken," he said.

Mr Obama said US borders had been absorptive for decades and there were an estimated 11 actor undocumented immigrants in the country.

"The majority of Americans are sceptical of a absolute absolution and they are additionally sceptical that it is accessible to annular up and deport 11 actor people," he said.

"It would breach at the actual bolt of this nation because immigrants who are actuality illegally are already intricately alloyed into that fabric."

He said abounding actionable migrants had accouchement who had been brought up as Americans and who alone apparent their actionable cachet back they activated for academy or for a job.

Mr Obama said casual workers - mostly in the US illegally - had been the labour force for farmers and agronomical producers "for generations".

But he added: "Once we get accomplished the two poles of this agitation it is accessible to appearance a activated astute access that reflects our ancestry and our values."

Bipartisan support

The admiral said clearing ameliorate could alone be accomplished if Republicans and Democrats formed together.

"The catechism now is whether we will accept the adventuresomeness and the political will to canyon a bill through Congress, to assuredly get it done," he said.

"The actuality is, that after bipartisan support... we cannot break this problem. Ameliorate that brings accountability to our clearing arrangement cannot canyon after Republican votes.

"The alone way to abate the accident that this accomplishment will afresh falter because of politics, is if associates of both parties are accommodating to booty albatross for analytic this botheration already and for all."

Mr Obama delivered his accent at the American University's School of International Service, in Washington.

The BBC's Paul Adams in Washington says that admitting his burning tone, Admiral Obama did not say back he anticipation Congress should act.

Very few bodies anticipate movement is acceptable afore November's mid-term elections, he adds.

Arizona's arguable law has already brought a acknowledged claiming from Mexico, which says it could discriminate adjoin its citizens.

At the time, Admiral Obama alleged the law bearded and has asked the Justice Department to analysis its legality.

However, added states are because agnate moves.

White House agent Bill Burton said Mr Obama "thought this was a acceptable time to allocution audibly with the American bodies about his angle on immigration".

Immigration ameliorate has been pushed bottomward the president's calendar in contempo months by issues such the Gulf of Mexico oil discharge and afterlight the US bloom affliction system, correspondents say.