Thai red shirt protests turn deadly
One soldier has reportedly been killed and several people have been injured in fierce clashes between security forces and anti-government red shirt protesters in the Thai capital, Bangkok. The clashes on Wednesday came after police and soldiers opened fire with rubber bullets and live ammunition in an attempt to halt a convoy of red shirts headed for a rally on the outskirts of Bangkok. The confrontation on a main highway in the city's north as the red shirts defied government warnings not to try and escalate their protests out of the centre of the city.