(Vatican Radio) In Bangkok, at least four people are dead and more than 40 are injured
after police began breaking up camps housing anti-government protestors.
Violence
broke out when thousands of police tried to clear protest camps that have blocked
roads and parks in Bangkok for several weeks.
They used a bulldozer to break
up a stage the protestors had built.
There was gunfire and police said attackers
fired grenades at them.
Thailand's government says the protestors should go
home. It has told them it will end their blockade of government buildings this week.
On Monday, demonstrators responded by trying to cement shut the gates outside
the prime minister's office, while on Tuesday protesters reportedly hijacked two buses
and used them to block a rally site at the interior ministry.
The demonstrators
are demanding that the prime minister quit, despite an election this month which her
party was expected to win.
But on Tuesday Thailand's anti-corruption commission
said it would charge Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra with mishandling a state subsidy
programme for rice farmers -- a move that some analysts say could lead to her impeachment.
Listen to this report by Alastair Wanklyn