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Speaker 1: Devin Gray's in the UK for US tonight. Hi, Gevin,

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Speaker 1: Morning round. Good to have you on.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Tens of thousands of protesters are marching across Turkey. This

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Speaker 1: is about the Urduwan arresting the rival or potential political rival.

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Speaker 1: What's the latest there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so a very very big protests overnight they're having

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Speaker 2: so far in the last three nights now been more

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Speaker 2: than seven hundred arrests. And this really ramped up yesterday

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Speaker 2: with some of the worst unrest the country scene in

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Speaker 2: over a decade. Police used tear gas, rubber bullets, water cannons,

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Speaker 2: and pepper spray at protesters. Rallies took place in at

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Speaker 2: least fifty five of Turkey's eighty one provinces, more than

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Speaker 2: two thirds of the country. And all this is about

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Speaker 2: the detention of Ekrum Immolu. He is the mayor of

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Speaker 2: istan bull and was due to be selected as the

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Speaker 2: Republican People Party's twenty twenty eighth presidential nominee. The current president,

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Speaker 2: Rejiptier Bird One, has been in power twenty two years

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Speaker 2: and his critics say he's desperate to cling on to

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Speaker 2: it whatever is necessary, So just on the day or

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Speaker 2: a couple of days before the Mayor of Istanbul was

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Speaker 2: due to stand as the presidential nominee candidate or be selected,

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Speaker 2: he was arrested. He's now been charged as well, formally

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Speaker 2: charged with quote, establishing and managing a criminal organization, bribes, extortion,

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Speaker 2: unlawful recording of personal data, and has remained in custody.

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Speaker 2: And of course that would suggest he will find it

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Speaker 2: very difficult to run. And now we learn as well

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Speaker 2: that the University of Istanbul is revoking his degree. Why

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Speaker 2: does that matter? Well, because if it is, all presidents

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Speaker 2: must have completed higher education to hold office, and if

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Speaker 2: he didn't complete it, then he won't be allowed to

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Speaker 2: hold office. So yet another attempt I think to stop

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Speaker 2: in gaining power.

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Speaker 1: Really interesting, Now, this Heathrow fire. When we spoke on

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Speaker 1: Friday afternoon, Friday morning your time, I assumed it would

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Speaker 1: have been the smoke and the giant flames that were

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Speaker 1: stopping the planes. Was it actually something to do with

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Speaker 1: the substations? What's the story with this?

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Speaker 2: Well, we've now discovered and this has come out as

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Speaker 2: they're starting to investigate what happened That electricity to Heathrow

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Speaker 2: was still available for using other substations However, it's revealed

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Speaker 2: that that was not considered to be an option because

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Speaker 2: it would have taken so long to close everything down,

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Speaker 2: restart it and test it, which the Boss of Heathrow

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Speaker 2: described as an enormous operational complexity requiring a significant challenge.

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Speaker 2: So they decided just to shut the airport, affecting almost

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Speaker 2: a quarter of a million travelers. It's been estimated now

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Speaker 2: this change of tach from there's been a fire, we've

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Speaker 2: got no electricity sort of tag has been quite startling

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Speaker 2: to lots of people who've been stranded around the world.

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Speaker 2: And I think now we've got two investigations under way

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Speaker 2: about what happened, one that the government is organizing, another

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Speaker 2: one that Heathrow Airport is organizing. And there are lots

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Speaker 2: of calls for the Boss of Heathrow to resign, saying

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Speaker 2: he made the wrong decision. At the very least he

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Speaker 2: throw should have tried to shut down and restart, even

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Speaker 2: if that delayed flights considerably. But Heathrow operates at almost

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Speaker 2: ninety five ninety six percent capacity. The moment something goes wrong,

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Speaker 2: it's a house of cards.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, and wonder what it will mean for REXL

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Speaker 1: Ruse planes to expand the thing, not even bigger, not

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Speaker 1: looking good, no givin. Thank you for Thatkevin Gray are

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Speaker 1: UK and you're a correspondent.

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