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charity diplomacy and business. tonight tens of thousands of enraged turks filled the streets of istanbul demanding a government immediately resigned with crowds further angered by a no holds barred police crackdown. move turns ugly to have frankfurters ranks of baton wielding officers plow into protesters arresting hundreds steering a second day of paralysis for the eurozone financial capital. and american other british citizen are killed in the syrian war fighting alongside the opposition made fears that the pro rebel rhetoric is pushing westerners to foreign battlefields.
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good morning to you just joined us this is kevin oh in here tonight it's midnight now just after in moscow and it's eleven pm in the evening in istanbul turkey where our top story continues to top the hour thousands of people have swarmed into istanbul's taksim square in one of the largest displays of public anger the country's seen in years the protesters are asking for the government's removal after a local rally was brutally dispersed by police earlier triggering violence indeed now all across turkey let's take a closer look at the scene showing small pictures this is been unraveling now for the last forty eight hours or so we saw a swelling police presence in the city earlier on saturday with riot police numbers simply matching those of protesters water cannon was used to disperse the demonstration with jets strong enough to not be pulled down the amount of tear gas used against the crowds has reportedly seen around a thousand people seek medical help pepper spray and rubber bullets were also used to clear the streets of angry campaign is over fifty people who were wounded more than nine hundred has been arrested across the country police later with brutal.
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protest in istanbul the city traffic those people from neighboring towns had agreed to join the and to cover. the two scores for the ridiculous because before the rest . most of the roads have been blocked off to how to walk quite some way to my hotel and i've seen people who have also been arriving from the airport along with me would pick up their suitcases and somebody who would be meeting them would give them their masks so they could continue on their way to the hotel but would have to suffer basically you can love this tear gas almost area where and it gives you this sort of out of history feeling in your throat this is all the result of the protests that have been going on in istanbul for the past you can say forty eight hours or so people started off with the sit ins and to taksim square where the government planned to raise down a park this seat and was just burst by police who used tear gas after they did at least several dozen people that were there in the first place were replaced with
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hundreds upon hundreds were stranded thousands people in the same place in the square who were protesting but this time they were not protesting just the governor's decision to get rid of the park they were protesting the government all together people that i have spoken to say the park is just something that set off a major event and part was just an excuse for them to finally pour out on the streets of istanbul and let their opinion be heard i see absolutely no determination of these people to leave in fact it seems that most of them are keep coming in and in on who knows how this will progress because there has already been a dispersal of the protest using water cannons and again tear gas in fact the prime minister has already said that perhaps there was too much force excessive force being used to get rid of the protesters but even that excessive force obviously doesn't seem like it has done enough to make people leave a place that they have chosen to what some already calling the turkish spring a sort of a sister. a continuation of the arab spring revolutions didn't happen world shaken
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the middle east this is in a city truck the us government's television channel on this is what people have been doing to majority of the t.v. tracks around here they're paid to spray painting it with the city saying that this is a sold government they're bashing in the glass basically they're destroying the government property because to them it basically represents everything that the government media is about it's just that they're saying it's just to pay out our way for the government to make it sound like nothing is really happening in the country we have to understand that we are in turkey and turkey even though it's vying for a spot in the european union actually has the highest number of journalist imprisoned in the entire world and it's interesting to note that this is another canister come here and actually it actually says that it is either in the united states non-lethal technology it's good to know home or city pennsylvania made in the usa local reporter my his analysis leaves the rest wouldn't against struction
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if the police had weighed in so hard. it was very cool they were camping there full of freebase and the police use the pepper sprays and you not. and then just the every day just got bigger and bigger you know tens of thousands of people joined the protest where it's amazing to see how very small focus the move into a nationwide. clashes on demonstrations so it's that the government thought that these are the more you groups are trying to. trying to block. the construction but it turned out that something wasn't the case the police continue to use excessive force and your demands you know of going beyond the pork. so he's promised to reject the words of miller's excessive force against protesters at taksim square and has ordered an investigation into the misuse of tear gas by
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the police international relations professor mark ullman from bill kent university told me promise to anyone not see a repeat of what happened to leader is ousted by the arab spring. massive police action of course it has backfired and this is a very dramatic moment for the prime minister mr own has had for the first time to step back he was extremely aggressive in his initial statements that he wouldn't tolerate protests and now the man who was the first world leader to call for president mubarak to resign is now talking rather eerily like mubarak did shortly before his own fall he's now saying he's going to investigate the police he's got the people he wants to carry on the project so he's managing to in a sense muddy the water but i don't think really to calm the situation because if he insists on carrying on with this project which is very unpopular still going to protest during the supposed relations disaster with huge economic if. not more coverage this online at r.t. dot com we invite you to get live updates on the unrest in turkey including footage
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including photos of the clashes and also what are you to tell us what you think where you think this is going to go how it's going to pan out well this is what you're telling us so far thanks for voting by the way if you have the biggest response thirty five percent of those of you who think we might witness a full scale turkish spring not far behind thirty three percent of you expect the unrest to insights and democratic crackdown we've seen but worse nineteen think that the protests have got a big future might spur some major changes the minority if you think this unrest are going to fizzle out by the end of the wake so plenty of time to argue your voice have your say at r.t. dot com. this is urgent in the. world. if. you. take a look at some other news now four hundred people have been detained in the euro zone's financial capital after clashes broke out there on
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a second day of anti austerity protests from further home to the european central bank an institution that's increasingly drawn the ire of protesters here all over reports for r.t. from their. what had been a peaceful protest is turned into a series of ongoing scuffles between riot police and demonstrators here in frankfurt as part of the twenty third same plucky pie then. we see paint throwing the police here we're seeing the police return with pepper spray as protesters try and break through police lines now only started after during a march that was supposed to go to the center of front foot police they demanded that demonstrators remove a mosque that they were wearing and they refused apparently paint was throwing around several hundred riot police moved in and forcibly moved but the demonstration in c. into several groups basically shutting down most of downtown central front in front of the european central bank headquarters that bank headquarters looks more like an
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army barracks than a then i felt a banking headquarters but it doesn't show any sign of letting off but it's just it's every now and again we're seeing sporadic outbreaks of pushing shoving occasionally paint being thorough and we're going to isis of the event we were right at the front of the march told me that they believe that the. that this was planned all along by the police that the large police presence that was out here on saturday was designed to this particular corner to disrupt the demonstration i know in the form. of the police might try and disrupt the demonstration at the school and they were here in large numbers before this is our bridges with the doing is illegal and suspected sick of that they would do it to try and put across the wrong story about this. one high prices you want to fight for the people of europe in favor of europe and nothing ever all back. on flights it is with the
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democrats democracy is being curtailed and we're protesting against that but we're especially focusing on the suffering of the people in lisbon athens madrid in berlin on. hyland who want to bring victims into the spotlight as well as the main sources of this crisis and the main sources of banks big companies and corporations and loose financial controls but not the people. organizers say some twenty thousand protestors have attended the march while police say it was more like seven thousand earlier spoke to antone's rather some of the occupy london movement who told me that the frankfurt protests is a milestone in itself. but progress is taking place in the woods the first with the most advanced country does so the level of approach it does have a level of involvement even in countries where we think are doing very well and of issuing crimea or just growing more kind of them. because it would be political because it constantly goes beyond national borders but also. becoming more and more
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centralized and authoritarian and obviously moved for years in prison in a single figure like a figure or action i mean over the last couple of years i've taught at length as so many of our guests about the demise of the euro but end of the day the euro is still there and so the truck just is against it i think about a little order and the fact that we're trying to tap into the same time when more traditional church big broad aside just greece perhaps or even egypt two years ago you know strings are definitions there's a lot of flare a little bank is still going on. last well it's also took place in spain portugal on saturday both nations among the worst hit by the crisis of austerity thousands marched in madrid demanding an end to hard hitting cuts meantime in portugal fifteen thousand protesters surrounded the international monetary fund's local office chanting i am there for out so a pinto is there for us. the
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focus of people thank you here the international monetary fund do european commission and do you pinsent all banks they add the backbone they want stock and she's like practical reason ireland's why many hundreds i live. a massacre are. not just one of the protesters and also one of the members of this group and to try to get my god why you are here protesting. we are here protesting like we are in all the cities in europe we are protesting against the policies of austerity the policies of troika the policies that are destroying people's lives of europe and we are here in lisbon in front of the i.m.f. where the walls are made on the back of the people and lots of in a democratic way we want the voice to come back toward to move to the people getting this to use ration will have any result of course all demonstrations have
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results right now unfortunately we have massive demonstrations that would stop someone there to organise and it is an issue where i want to say. go away right. away european central bank or a austerity you heard about the people to get back on the democratic regime these people are demanding the resignation of the party's government and also the us are easy which has already nearly to force more than a million portuguese people out of a job because additional card table ready and force it to the government to rethink still mostly the main or all some of these more extreme plans that even the budget to revise the budget will mean markets to spending on health. services in half far depart cities name work is union to plan and general strike for of june
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. twenty seventh. selebi prince who reporting for us there but it's not just the public good or even a bureaucrat seem to vote enough to coming up on the program a couple of minutes before brussels taking britain to court over substandard welfare for foreigners with the u.k. once again telling the e.u. itself to step in the block and say they've been force fed the guantanamo bay prison of britain a heartfelt plea calling for independent doctors not to be allowed into the prison to put a dent to what they condemn is abusive painful and inhumane treatment see what they've got to say with us in just a couple of. children from want to have a special thanks. to. the child should live in an orphanage for a long child should be raised in
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he writes i. this is reported that at least three foreigners including a british man and an american woman have been killed fighting alongside rebels in the syrian war they were shot dead during an ambush near the turkish border amid clear sides both were taking part in military action the woman was thought to be a thirty three year old single mother from michigan or details from our reporter on . the american woman that killed fighting alongside opposition forces in syria has been identified as thirty three year old nicole lynn mansfield her driver license photo in which she's pictured wearing a headscarf was broadcast by a syrian television station mansfield reportedly converted to islam after falling in love and marrying an arab immigrants according to her family mansfield forced that man three years ago now the u.s. is reportedly working in the czech republic mission in syria to obtain more information about mansfield but this is not the first case of an american fighting
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in syria earlier this year eric rudolph for one u.s. soldier made headlines when he posted videos of themselves online in which he appeared to be fighting with rebel groups holding weapons and driving with fighters through contested parts of syria. your days are numbered you're going down in flames you should just quit now. and leave you're going to die no matter what where you go we will find you and kill you proport in from new york we're in a fortnight party. the news of westerners being killed of syria's battles bucks up on a recent report by europe's anti terror body it suggests that e.u. citizens have traveled to syria in their hundreds of the last two years many entering the country as jihadists the largest number of believed to come from something u.k. politics professor stephen june as told me it's common in wars where western interests are complicit. we saw some cases of this involving olivia and indeed in
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afghanistan back in the days of the anti soviet resistance there are a lot of muslims around the world who have been concerned about all the brutal repression coming down from the assad regime against the syrian people but unfortunately many of them have been up working up with some not organizations that are pretty nasty in their own right and this is it is fairly unusual though to actually have americans coming in in fact ironically just as there are some elements within the u.s. government pushing for greater u.s. involvement support the rebels we have other branches of the government that have actually been under stopping in prosecuting americans that have sought to join some of the more extreme elements of the opposition. some stories online to link you to cyber activists with a group anonymous say they've hacked into the site of agricultural giant monsanto now they briefly say they took the fight offline in a demonstration against what the say is the company's insidious growth into all aspects of the food industry but to get to speak more about that what's been happening is online from us also sort of russia too if you're a smoker here take
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a deep breath up to forty percent of the population now is to watch where they light up when you laws against puffing away in public buildings all details than about that to our website. a group of hunger strikers at guantanamo bay prison have written an open appeal for an end to force feeding procedures calling for independent doctors now to assess the best treatment for them thirty six inmates are now being force fed out of one hundred three detainees some of whom starve themselves for almost four months let's take a look at what the inmates say about a procedure that the u.n. labels as torture this is in their own words the prisoners say they don't wish to die but they say they're prepared to do so after more than a decade here of what's been going on of inhumane and degrading treatment the detainees say that when they try to refuse the treatments it's forced upon them sometimes violently they go on to say it's extremely painful and done in abusive
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conditions the letter also accuses medics of performing a treatment experiment as they put it on an unprecedented scale on them well and richardson's an attorney for a guantanamo detainee she described to me what her client is being subjected to. if you ginny's are really attempting to have treatment be restored to them as human beings and rather than being punished and treated like animals i have had my client tell me many times they treat animals better than they are treating the detainees my client has been kept in solitary confinement many of his items were taken away from him including attorney client mail he was not allowed to have a tooth brush toothpaste or so in his cell for many many weeks i don't know yet even if he's got nothing to this day. they have made the conditions a dime's very reason cold for them in the cells they are requiring that they submit to their humiliating searches of their genital area in order to meet with their attorneys or op with them on the telephone. it is just humiliating it's been
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difficult for them to sleep at night they are sometimes taken for their showers in the middle of the night so they have to decide between sleep and getting a little bit of clement us it's just then. one of the attorneys talking about earlier on reporting next this morning that brussels is taking the u.k. to court for refusing to provide european citizens with the same benefits of bestows on brits but westminster is voting to fight every step of the way to protect it so most of these tests are said as been following the story. the european commission is once again looking more closely at the affairs of its member states now one that's making particular noise especially when the citizens of that country is the commission's decision to launch a case against the u.k. of the european court of justice because the commission says that the u.k. has been discriminatory against nationals of other e.u. countries in receiving welfare now there's already been reaction from the u.k. particularly angry ones from the government i want to from the work and pensions
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secretary who says that he will want to cave in he says a brussels is once again launching a land grab and over reaching its areas of responsibilities and meddling into the affairs of national governments now we have spoken to a legal expert to explain to us why the commission has done what it has. a case where the commission. for feeling that. he wants to have a referendum in two thousand and seventeen you want to renegotiate the treaty. i mean. this latest move by brussels has once again brought to the forefront issues like sovereignty of member states immigration or the pressure put on social welfare systems the very issues that really have led to would increase and support for euro skeptic parties and countries like the u.k. the commission is looking also at another country spain it says that it has received complaints of the e.u. insurance health card which is supposed to entitle citizens to free health care in
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public hospitals while they're traveling to other countries within the block and it has been refused by some spanish hospitals so one the one hand you have the commission maintaining that it's simply implementing the rules on the other you have accusations that brussels is once again dipping into the affairs of national governments and in the context of a great economic crisis and very public displays of social dissatisfaction this is yet another stress test for the e.u. as a tries to move forward reporting from brussels i'm tester cilia. and coming up at twenty three thirty g.m.t. tonight max keiser and stacy herbert explore civil war and conventional ways of forcing people to pay back their debt. labor camps for poor taxpayers so if you owe back taxes and you don't have any money to pay it well the government is looking for an army camp in the attic or region two people who have debts to the tax authorities serving their sentence confirm the deputy minister for
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justice in the greek parliament now he's saying this is a more humane solution because they're building these unique death camps. camps at a former army base but there won't be any rapists and murderers and other sorts in there so let's just be these bad debtors but i seriously are going at this as compare and contrast here's a country like iceland maintain its sovereignty number one and then recapitalized and there are smooth sailing toward growth period with their currency intact unemployment is looking good greece unfortunately is locked into the euro and they're just they've been taken over they become a vassal state from the i.m.f. and the from the troika and these global institutions so they unfortunately lost their sovereignty. cover stories in brief you know this morning hundreds of english defense league members to hold rallies across great britain saturday with
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a largely peaceful police were forced to intervene in a number of gatherings in one thirty one anti fascist activists were arrested in london during a heated exchange with d.d.l. members jumping the islamic slogans the group experienced a surge in support in the wake of the gruesome murder of the british soldier and bullets ten days ago. five. members working in baghdad have to to make sarin of mustard gas have been arrested for we showed to the media iraq's defense ministry says the extremist planned attacks on western targets in iraq using remote controlled drones sirens also suspected of course being used by syria's rebels according to the u.n. . the leader of france's far right party could now face braces of charges the european parliamentary committee decided to revoke unity in a secret vote the move has to be confirmed by the full parliament but that's seen only as a formality two years ago the french government over the case against marie le pen after she compared muslims praying in the streets with nazi occupation. more bad
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luck for oklahoma city another tornadoes hit killing at least nine people and injuring around fifty this time some critically a mother and a baby are among the dead there is that storm smashed vehicles along a major highway the area's barely had the chance to start recovering from the lethal storms a fortnight ago when a mile wide tornado killed twenty four leveled communities. all thoughts of those guys tonight after the break to meet some woman on a mission to find families for abandoned children is a good soul we if shouldering. distraction is one thing the media does very well we all tend to focus on one space issue of
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the moment and ignore the rest geos are definitely worth the media attention but let's not ignore the fact that the food people eat around the world is an attack from multiple fronts antibiotics are often overused in cattle which can and eventually sadly will lead to anti biotics resistant bacteria evolving animals are also injected with various hormones which can make their way into our stomachs and speaking of mysterious things getting into our body pretty much any crops that you we are doused with all sorts of pesticides and sit on top of powerful fertilizers which can affect bodies of water far beyond the fence of the farm obviously technology has been and should be use. in farming so we all don't starve i get why pesticides exist and why they start giving diseased animals antibiotics but there comes a point where outputting a lot of poisonous food will kill you just as dead as slowly starving will there is a healthy middle ground out there somewhere but if we only worry about just the g m o's and only won that battle then we'll still be eating food loaded with bad stuff
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just other bad stuff but that's just my opinion. for me this is so hard with a child in it. if you close. their . eyes. they get a hello. my notice leon that me i'm so old. i'm sushi i'm six more i am vadim a phone's been in our french for a long time. and we don't buy these i had to mop the and should take care of me. and i need to do so because it is better because it's so so militant. in
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