>> hello and welcome to the journal coming to you live from dw. >> i'm richard volcker. thanks for joining us. coming up -- >> police rounding up and they call an urgent meeting with protesters. >> a standstill in greece. the closure of the national broadcast sparking a strike. >> the fallout spreading to brussels and beijing. the turkish prime minister has

summoned a group of protesters to meet this evening. we will have more on that coming up. they have warned that the focus of the ongoing protests would be cleared of troublemakers in the coming hours. >> hundreds of police are assembling in the areas around the parks. >> tensions are high where they are facing off against protesters. they say that they are staying put even as riot police in masks are on the nearby streets. one day after they stormed the square, where no one is threatening to do the same. -- erdogan is threatening. he issued a dramatic warning. >> i say, mothers and fathers

take control of your children and get them to withdrawal. we can wait no longer. the park does not belong to forces but to the people of istanbul and the nation. >> demonstrators have thrown up demonstrators -- barriers around the square. they say they are determined to continue the protests, whatever comes. >> it never and us. we are always here. >> erdogan is entitled to his opinions and we are entitled to our rights. >> just a day after he seemed to anhint on progression, the signs are for an ever deeper polarization. they say it's an attempt to distract from the politics.

>> we are joined by dorian jones on the line. prime minister erdogan has summoned the leaders of the protest to meet tonight. what do you know? >> a dramaticall movement. a representative of the trade union has called a nationwide strike in support of the protest in a number of well- known actors and actresses have been reporting the protests. no one knows quite what the prime minister has said, but earlier in the day, he did make an incredibly tough statement saying he would clear the park of terrorists. no one knows why but it is a

germanic move in these few weeks of unrest. >> you have just been to gezi park. what do you make of this? >> it's very much like the reprieve of a condemned man. up until this dramatic move from the prime minister, it was a very worried atmosphere but for now, it is like a carnival. there are thousands of people. there is music flaying, drums. protesters have arrived to support. it is feeling like a largely middle-class crowd like the movement had been for the last two weeks. in the square, there are thousands of people. there is a piano recital going on and people are quietly sitting and listening but not the same time surrounded by riot police.

in the side streets, i saw dozens buses filled with police. >> the white house has called on the turkish leadership to uphold the freedoms of expression. how close is the prime minister listening? >> it remains unclear. he is under pressure from some leading members of his party expressing concern about what will happen if the protest ends in a violent way. >> dorian jones, thanks. >> the united nations says at least 93,000 people have died in this. civil war and the toll is probably higher. 5000 people were dying on average every month and the bloodshed shows no sign of stopping. this unverified footage is said

to show the city of homs under assault on wednesday. there are talks land in geneva this july. >> the german defense minister coming under increasing pressure to resign over a failed project to develop reconnaissance drones. for the first time, the main opposition has called on him to step down. he was forced to scrap plans to buy euro hop drones after saying they failed to meet german safety standards. -- eurohawk drones. >> germany is counting the cost of the floods that have been diminished -- dominating the headlines. they will set up a fund of 8 billion euros. >> they will face claims for another 3 billion euros despite the high cost. they do not expect the economy to suffer. still on the ground, the

immediate crisis is far from over. >> rescue workers in lower saxony are on high alert. walter levels are not rising. floodwaters remain an enormous threat and rescuers are doing what they can to save the village from inundation. >> since there is the threat of the levy bursting, we decided to erect an additional emergency dike behind the one already existing. >> elsewhere, water levels are gradually receding. many hope the worst has passed. meanwhile, chancellor angela merkel met to forge a long-term plan to deal with the flood damage. the cleanup bill is expected to run into the billions. >> on top of emergency aid, we

have decided to set up a national fund worth 8 billion euros. the financing will be's flip between the federal and state governments. >> the 8 billion euros in aid will have to be barr road. further help will from a european union program designed to provide aid to area affected by natural disasters. >> we do not know how much the funds are worth yet, but it is safe that they will also be made available to us. >> they tend to make the funds readily available land keep bureaucracy to a minimum. the plan is for victims to have access as soon as the beginning of july. >> a train crash in argentina has killed three people and injured at least 70. rescuers in the argentinian capital have been trying to flee free the trapped the victims.

a double-decker commuter train slammed into a stop train. it happened on the same line where a crash killed 51 people last year. imagine the news programs are >> that's what's happened in greece after they shut down the public leaving only commercial channels. >> unions have been holding a general strike to get the network back online. click the train stations rmc. a standstill on the transport network. it's become a familiar scene in a country unhappy with government cut tax. this time, they have walked off the job and congregated at their officers. they are angered at the decision to pull the plug on the broadcaster. some journalists continue to go on air on the internet, but hopes are fading. >> we are scared they will go ahead with the shut down.

i've been here for two days and nights now. we are fighting for our survival. >> it is still largely business as usual in downtown athens. >> i support the strike. it's not just about the sudden shutdown of the station. that's just the tip of the iceberg. >> it's not good that they were all let go, but the station had too many employees and it has to contribute to making savings. >> there are fewer newspapers today. many print journalists have joined the strikes. there is no good news on the jobs front. new data shows greek unemployment rising to over 27%, the highest level in the eu. >> the european union has launched an official complaint with the world trade organization over tariffs china imposed on european produced stainless steel pipes.

the latest move is a developing trade war between the two powers. the eu imposed tariffs on the import of chinese solar panels claiming that chinese firms were unfairly undercutting rivals. eu trade with china is worth hundreds of billions of euros. >> these are jumpy times. on the markets today, the dax had another very big fall in tokyo but it ended up clawing back some of its losses. stephan wolf has the story. >> there are two the fears to keep investors from buying shares. the first is that federal reserve and the ecb could step on the brake and and the policy of low rates and cheap money. on the other hand, it is the fear that the world economy may lose its momentum and they will not be able again to backup the positive trend trend in the stock markets. the world bank lowered forecasts for the world economy

for this year, but in the end, better than expected economic data from the u.s. helped the share market to rebound slightly. unemployment has been better than expected and consumer confidence rose. click stephan wolf there. let's take a look up the market in some more detail starting off in germany where the dax ended the day down after having lost quite a bit more ground earlier. the euro stoxx 50 had not to terrible of a day. right now, the dow is looking healthy up one percent on the back of the numbers stephan was talking about and the euro continuing to make gains against the dollar. >> the u.s. supreme court says human dna cannot be patented but they allow the anonymous court ruled that they are reserved

for human innovations only in the u.s. biotech company brought the case to enforce two patents on cancer-causing genes. genes, they say, they discovered. the eu commission has presented a new plan to speed up the process of getting help to the scene of an accident. >> no one will any longer have to call by an ambulance -- an ambulance by phone. as of 2015, every new car is supposed to be equipped with the emergency button. >> every second can count for car crash big ones. often, people have no way to call for help. the european parliament has passed legislation requiring automatic crash alarms. the european commissioner for transport says the new program will save lives. >> the emergency sensors will be able to handle these calls

efficiently. they will be able to send an ambulance to the accident site much more quickly. >> a crash survivor can trigger the alarm or the airbag triggers it automatically. the signal is then sent to a mobile telephone network. a local call center receives the information and sends help. the technology has already been developed. now eu member states have to adjust to the reforms. >> of course the program will cost member states money. they have to restructure them to handle the sorts of calls. >> and they don't have a lot of time. starting in 2015, every new car will have to have the new emergency call system. >> when we come back, we will be looking at the iranian election. >> as the nsa revelations keep coming in, is your video cam

spying on you? stay with us.

>> campaigning in the presidential election has ended before they go to the polls on friday. most of the candidates are hard- line conservatives in the vote is not expected to produce a major shift in policy. >> didn't last election had protest after mahmoud ahmadinejad was returned to power. after two turns, he cannot run. lexicon judicial figure will soon lead the world stage. who will replace them? will it make a difference? >> he has been a thorn in the side of the west. mahmoud ahmadinejad. his presidency characterized right brinksmanship and endless tirades against israel. he has not just aggravated

western powers. most recently, he fell out of favor with the ayatollah kemeny. they determine who can stand for election. the guardian council whittled down from almost 700 to eight. >> they are all hand-picked candidates who are very part of the islamist republic establishment. they are well connected within of the clerics. none of the candidates have a strong power base in parliament. that is how the ayatollah wants it. he wanted president he can keep on a tight leash. >> the televised debates offered a new controversy. the difference between the all- male candidates were hard to discern. they shared the same basic views. among the best-known are the former foreign minister and the

chief nuclear negotiator. what are the chances of a new president bringing a shift in foreign-policy? >> not much will change. the iranians will insist on their right to enrich uranium and they won't accept western demands to halt enrichment above five percent. he just to see what the west might offer them. those conditions are not acceptable for a ron so there's no doubt the nuclear disputes will continue. >> as it drags on, so to do the sanctions. long forgotten are the protests dubbed the green revolution following the last election. the opposition leader was quickly silenced and is under house arrest. many other activists are in prison. support for the opposition is

mainly found among the urban middle class of tehran. >> the majority of the population who live in poverty, the poor and the disenfranchised have and they don't care about a pants a patient for women -- emancipation for women. they fight for the survival of their families. jobs with the revolutionary guard, then they will receive loyalty in return. >> that leads many to believe that mahmoud ahmadinejad's successor will be little more than a new face playing the same role as president. >> a short while ago, i spoke to martin weiss in tehran and i asked him about the state of the country on the eve of the vote. for more on the story, we are joined by martin weiss in tehran. what's the mood like in the country ahead of the elections?

>> after eight euros with president ahmadinejad, they're looking forward to the elections. we spoke to some many people and they are really keen to go to the polls tomorrow. the question is if they really have a choice. if you look through the candidates carefully, i don't think there's choice. there are six candidates left and five of them are from the conservative side, from the strong, hard conservative side and there is only one that is a moderate candidate. >> what is going to change after the elections? >> without a supreme leader, there will be no major change, but any moderate president

besides ahmadinejad would be a small change. the winner will not be one of the hardliners, let's say, or another hardliner. then maybe he could win this vote. there will be a small change and every small change for the people, that their opinion is better than the status quo now. >> martin weiss speaking to us earlier. now to the latest mega leaks to hit. the fbi has now spoken out vowing to bring the whistleblower to account. >> revelations of massive surveillance have sparked a massive debate on both sides of the atlantic. the european commission has been drawn into the outcry. the head of the nsa, general keith alexander, has mounted a strong defense of the programs. >> all the attention on programs the u.s. did not want the world to know about and the man in charge.

general alexander said collecting large amounts of data was helping to protect, not harm citizens. >> it is dozens of terrorist events that these have helped to prevent. >> he said the revelations had jeopardize security for america and its international partners. >> there's no doubt in my mind that we will lose capabilities as a result of this and that not only in the united states but those allies that we have helped to will no longer be as safe as they were two weeks ago. >> meanwhile in hong kong, revelation from the former cia employee who fled there after blowing the lid on the program. edward snowden told a use paper that the u.s. government has been hacking computers in china for years. among those targeted, the chinese university of hong kong.

china, seemingly not wanting to refuse -- hurt ties it does not want to be brought in. >> we have seen press reports, but unfortunately we have information to offer you. >> a group of protesters gathered at the american consulate in hong kong to show their support for the whistleblower. snowden has fought any views to extradite him. likes it is front-page news and everyone is chattering chattering on the social networks about it. john, you've been looking at some interesting polling about opinions of germans about this? >> only one poll has been published so far and it's a very, very interesting. a weekly newspaper indicates from the pole that some 50% of people polled say they did not feel, despite the revelations,

that they are being spied on and that they would not change their habits on the internet. even more surprising, some 40% said they thought this kind of surveillance of the eu citizens by the nsa was justified in combating terrorism. >> there are also reports that the eu could have actually stopped this type of surveillance of eu citizens and did not. fill us in. >> when the eu was framing privacy laws, article 52 would have made this kind of activity by the nsa and european states illegal. there has now been a report that they were lobbied by the white house officials and dropped the clause for that reason. in fact, of course, the world wide web is an american hands and it probably would not have been able to do very much. it's way beyond the reach of

brussels lawmakers. >> computer game producers are being accused of spying on consumers. they think they are entering a different world. >> this has not sparked an outcry in authority, at least among computer gaming france -- fans. how are they getting spied on? >> hacking into telephones, video cameras, computers. how can they protect themselves from intrusions into their own computers? and has a mandatory

online mode and it can continuously peek in your living room. >> the invasion of privacy is great and it's important that these console manufacturers let them know they will do nothing with the data. >> they admit to analyzing the gaming habits of their customers. they say it is to improve the product. there are backdoors for strangers to gain access. >> we personally do not go in and spy on our consumers to figure out how they are using the products or what they are doing on a daily basis. we cannot control what the providers are doing since this is an android platform product. >> it's unlikely security concerns would attract most of the hard-core gamers at this conference from playing online. >> it's time for one bit of sports news.

in soccer, the german forward is set to become the firstnee after his return to chelsea. bayern leverkusen have confirmed the deal. >> he scored 11 goals in bundesliga and he will play in the premier league until 2018. the chelsea owner is said to be paying a cool 23 million euros for the transfer. >> not bad. >> thanks for being with us. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

hello there. welcome to "newsline." it's friday, june 14th. i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. intelligence analysts have been working for months to determine whether chemical weapons have been used in the syrian civil war. u.s. president barack obama wanted conclusive proof. now analysts say government forces have used chemical agents against opposition fighters. white house officials say forces loyal to president bashar al assad used the weapons on a small scale. they say the chemicals used include the nerve agent sarin. they estimate that 100 to 150 people are likely to have been killed.