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David Cameron plans for second coalition with Liberal Democrats

David Cameron has started planning for a second coalition with the Liberal Democrats after 2015, The Daily Telegraph has learnt.

David Cameron and Nick Clegg in the Downing Street rose garden announcing the 

formation of a coalition government in 2010. 

By James Kirkup, Deputy Political Editor

The Prime Minister has held private talks with Cabinet ministers over new Conservative Party rules which would make it easier to strike another deal.

Under the plans, backbench Tories would be consulted on the new power-sharing agreement with the final text being put to them in a vote.

Mr Cameron wants Conservative MPs to put their names to any second coalition agreement and “dip their hands in the blood”, a senior source said. Tory backbenchers unhappy at Mr Cameron’s deal with Mr Clegg have launched a string of rebellions since the last election, on issues including Europe, Lords reform and gay marriage.

Some rebels say they do not feel bound to back all the Coalition’s policies because they were not consulted about them. Mr Cameron is understood to want to avoid such a situation if he is forced to agree a second coalition.

It is hoped the new rules would help to persuade sceptical MPs to give their full backing to a new deal.

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Egypt protester shot at close range: 'we were sending a peaceful message but they shot me’

 

Exclusive: Shot at close range as he stood, arms aloft, in front of the tanks, Ahmed Hashem Rashwan had the makings of a martyr to Egypt’s military coup.

References to Tiananmen Square have proliferated in today’s Egypt, and as the video camera rolled unseen behind him, he appeared to be recreating a celebrated image from 24 years ago.

The result was startling different. Shots are heard ringing out; the slender figure in a white shirt crumples and folds over, rising from the ground and then collapsing again, writhing before becoming still.

Close examination shows the back of the shirt puffing out at the moment of impact. Whatever hit him came out the other side: this was live ammunition, not birdshot.

But tracked down by The Daily Telegraph yesterday, the figure was, remarkably enough, not only still alive but after two rounds of surgery even able to speak about his actions.

“I was hit by two bullets, one in my stomach and one in my leg,” he said.

“No one did any thing to provoke them, but it seems that they are intent on forcing silence on everyone, that anybody who says no to the coup will be killed or arrested. They are accusing us of being terrorists.”

^{Ahmed Hashem Rashwan}

Mr Rashwan, 34, an electronic engineer, was part of a crowd protesting in Ismailia, a town on the Suez Canal three hours’ drive south-east of Cairo.

The journalist who shot the video, Abdullah Shocha, who works for a pro-Islamist television station, caught the image of Mr Rashwan, whom he did not know before, approaching the tanks with his arms above his head in a gesture of surrender.

“After Friday prayers, the army besieged Saleheen Mosque, where the protesters were praying,” Mr Shocha said. “This man raised his hands, and as you can see he was not armed. They wanted to scatter the demonstrators.

First they shot into the air, and then they start to shot directly at the crowds.

“He was shot in his stomach, and another four people were shot at the same time. Other people managed to pull him to the mosque.”

Speaking just after being released from hospital, Mr Rashwan, who is not a member of any political or Islamist group, said he had reacted to the first sounds of shooting. “I approached them to send a massage that we were peaceful but they shot at me,” he said.

“I’m not a complete supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, but I’m afraid that the country is returning back to military rule and that is not a good future for my son, who I want to live a better life.”

As has repeatedly been seen in the last few days, the army’s methods of crowd control did not end with Mr Rashwan’s shooting. Mr Shocha said that shortly afterwards an army helicopter appeared in the sky above the mosque, and a gunman started shooting down on the crowd below.

In all, he said, ten people were killed, to be added to the more than 170 that fell in violence across the country on Friday, the large majority of them members of the Muslim Brotherhood and other opponents of the removal of the deposed president, Mohammed Morsi.

Exact death tolls have been hard to calculate, with the army, police and others surrounding mosques where bodies are being held and denying access to reporters. But doctors say that many people died who could have been saved if they had been allowed through police and army lines for treatment.

In another video, a man is seen being shot as he carries a wounded colleague away.

The Ismailia video is also evidence of the spread of the violence outside Cairo to provincial towns and cities across the country. Ismailia is the town where the Brotherhood was founded in 1928 – but it is also key for its strategic position on the canal, the western world’s oil supply lifeline and a vital source of income for Egypt.

Chelsea 2 Hull City 0

 

Jose Mourinho enjoys rapturous reception before

 Chelsea go on to beat Hull City thanks to goals

 from Oscar and Frank Lampard.

Google argues UK privacy laws do not apply to it

Google is trying to avoid a potentially costly bill in the UK for allegedly breaching the privacy of iPhone users by arguing it is not subject to British laws.

Google circumvented iPhone privacy settings 

By Christopher Williams, Technology, Media and Telecoms Editor

The company is facing a landmark group legal action by Britons angry over the way it circumvented settings on the iPhone to track their web usage. Google has already been fined a record $22.5m (£14.4m) by authorities in the United States over the practice.

In a submission to the High Court, however, Google has argued that as an American company it is not covered by British privacy laws. It said there was “no jurisdiction” for the case to be heard here because its consumer services are provided by Google Inc, based in Silicon Valley, rather than Google UK.

The move raises questions about the rights of millions of British internet users who rely on Google for basic services such as web search and email. Its rivals, such as Facebook and Microsoft, provide their consumer web services through European subsidiaries so could not make the same jurisdictional argument.

The claimants said it showed Google’s policies “don’t respect” British privacy laws and compared its stance to its controversial avoidance of UK corporation tax.

Claimant Marc Bradshaw said: “It seems absurd to suggest that consumers can’t bring a claim against a company which is operating in the UK and is even constructing a $1bn headquarters in London.”

Judith Vidal-Hall, another claimant, added: “What are they suggesting - that they will force Apple users whose privacy was violated to pay to travel to California to take action when they offer a service in this country on a .co.uk site?”

They argued that action by the Information Commissioner’s Office, Britain’s data protection watchdog, would be ineffective. It can impose a maximum fine of £500,000, less than 0.002pc of Google’s annual turnover.

Google was last year found to have circumvented privacy settings in the iPhone web browser software, Safari, by a researcher at Stanford University in California. By default, Apple prevents websites from installing small text files called cookies that allow advertising companies such as Google to track consumers across the web. Google, however, wrote software to work around Apple’s settings.

The company insisted that it did not use the cookies to collect personal data, but the Federal Trade Commission issued a record fine and said that “all companies must... keep their privacy promises to consumers, or they will end up paying many times what it would have cost to comply in the first place”.

Google’s application to dismiss the British case is due to be heard in October.