tens of thousands of enraged turks fill the streets of istanbul demanding the government immediately resign with crowds further angered by a no holds barred police crackdown. the mood it turns ugly in frankfurt as the euro zone's financial capital becomes a battlefield between furious protesters and wielding officers firing tear gas and pepper spray in an attempt to disperse the crowd. and american and british citizen are killed in the syrian war fighting alongside the opposition amid fears that the pro rebel rhetoric is pushing westerners to international front lines.

and broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our thomas glad to have you with us we begin in istanbul where protests continue into the night we have live pictures here from istanbul's taksim square where demonstrators have started fires demanding the government's removal earlier some activists reportedly tried to break through police blockades aiming to storm at the prime minister's office the violence was sparked after a local rally was brutally dispersed by police there now let's take a closer look at the scene that we've witnessed in the last two days we saw a swelling police presence in the city on saturday with riot police numbers seemingly matching those of protesters water cannons have been used to disperse the demonstration 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 campaigners over fifty people have been wounded and more than nine hundred have been arrested across. the country are in

a group that has been following the rush for. most of the roads have been blocked off to have 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 was beating 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 on the syria 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 people started off with a sit in in the taksim square where the government planned to raise down a park seat and was dispersed by police who used tear gas after they did at least several dozen people that were there in the first place were replaced with 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 the park was just an excuse for them to finally pour out on the streets of istanbul and let their opinions 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 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 or continuation of the arab spring revolutions to topple shaken the middle east this is in a city truck the government's television channel and this is what people have been doing to majority. i have the t.v.

tracks around here they're taking spray painting it with graffiti 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 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 mark here is in all of them believes the unrest would not have again to such traction if the police had not weighed in so hard. it was very cool they were camping there full of three days and the police used the pepper

sprays and you not usually and then just the everyday 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 that's something that wasn't the case the police continue to use excessive force and your demands you know of going beyond the pork. minister wretched to one has acknowledged excessive force against protesters at taksim square and has ordered an investigation into the misuse of tear gas and by the police international relations professor mark allman from cars bill kent university says prime minister might see

a repeat of what happened to leaders ousted by the arab spring. massive police action. and this is a very dramatic moment for the prime minister who sort of has had for the first time to step back he was extremely aggressive in his initial statements that he wouldn't tolerate protest and now the man who was the first world lead to call president mubarak to resign is now talking well that you really learned 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 do think we need to calm the situation because if he insists on carrying on with this protest which is very unpopular to the protest going we suppose it will ations disaster with huge economic implications. dot com you can get updates on the unrest in turkey including the live pictures and photos of the clashes and of course tell us what you think is how this is all going to pan out here's how you are voting so far the biggest responses right now so far

is from those who think we might witness a full scale turkish spring not far behind or rather are voters who expect the unrest to incite an anti democratic crackdown nineteen percent here this little sliver of yellow say this will force a major changes in the country and then the remaining thirteen percent say that the unrest will fizzle out by the end of the week of course you can head to our t.v. dot com and have your say. scuffles between riot police and enraged protesters have spilled over into a second day of anti austerity protests in the euro zone's financial capital frankfurt is home to the european central bank and institution that has increasingly drawn the discontent of protesters peter all over reports. 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 paying throw in 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 and 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 ensued and to 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 army barracks than a then i felt a banking headquarters 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 have this particular corner to disrupt the demonstration i know not for. the police might try and disrupt the demonstration at the school and they were here in large numbers this is a bridges that the doing is illegal and suspected suppose that they would do this is to try and put across the wrong story about. one high prices you want to fight for the people of europe in favor of europe and nothing ever on the back. on flights it is with the 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. and we want to bring victims into the spotlight as well as the main sources of this crisis and the main souless of banks big companies and corporations and loose financial controls but not the people.

organizers say some twenty thousand protestors had attended the march while police think it's about seven thousand earlier my colleague kevin owen spoke to antonius roddy's of the occupy london movement who believes that the frankfurt protest is a milestone in itself. but the big story is a very good sort of a little bit of both and it does serve a level in voters' rights usually going to deal with things are going very well and obviously. a growing thing over there. would be a good thing because the consumer groups the old nobles and. the pricing become more and more centralized and there it is given over the years in prison the single figure like kind of figure that rich i mean over the last couple years i've talked at length to 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 sister is against it i

think about to do a lot about the fact that frankfurt happened at the same time more traditional should just be put aside just greece perhaps where they need to do two years ago you know strings are different shows it looks let a little biased. and mass rallies also took place in spain and portugal on saturday both nations are among the worst hit by the economic crisis and austerity thousands marched in madrid demanding an end to hard hitting cuts in portugal fifteen thousand protesters surrounded the international monetary fund's local office chanting i.m.f. out so was there for us. the focus of people thank you are here day to day salinity funds do european commission and do you pinsent all banks they add the backbone they want stock and she's like practical reason ireland's here in lisbon many hundreds i live. a mass will cost. a lot of math this is one of the

protesters and also one of the members of buckskins who panted right at 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 laws are made on the back of the people and lots of on 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 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 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 forced to do the government do rethink some of the main or or some of these more extreme plans that even the budget to revise the budget will mean more gets to spending on health services enough for our departure these main workers union to play an ad general strike for june. twenty seven it's a soulmate pinto reporting there for our team but it's not just the public that seems to be angry even the bureaucrats are saying they've had enough. coming up we report on brussels taking britain to court over substandard welfare for foreigners

with the u.k. once again telling the e.u. it has overstepped its boundaries. and guantanamo bay detainees on hunger strike have made another heartfelt plea issuing a letter calling for an independent doctors to be allowed into the prison to put an end to what they condemn as abusive painful and inhumane treatment so what they have to say in a few minutes time. wealthy

british style it's time to. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer on no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds of reports. and welcome back here with our team human rights activists have reported that at least three foreigners including a british man and an american woman have been killed along side rebels in of the syrian war they were shot dead during an ambush near the turkish border amid clear

signs both were taking part in military action the woman is thought to be a thirty three year old single mother from michigan more details from marty's report. 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 of 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 in syria earlier this year eric broun a former u.s. soldier made headlines when he posted videos of himself online in which he appeared

to be fighting with rebel groups holding weapons and driving with fighters through contested parts of syria there's your old saw your days are numbered you're going down in flames you should just quit now while you can 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 marina fortnight party. got more news of for you just a click away including the f.b.i. might have gone too far in its war on terror and is being sued an american muslim of sudanese origin says the f.b.i. has tortured him for months for refusing to serve as an informant more details on our website. plus astronomers around the world have been mesmerized by a magnificent sight as a giant asteroid large enough to do it destroy the city's flies at near earth headed to our t. dot com for the full story. a group of hunger strikers are guantanamo bay

prison have written an open appeal for an end to force feeding procedures calling for independent doctors to assess the best treatment for them thirty six inmates are now being forced fed out of one hundred three detainees some have been starving themselves for almost four months now so let's take a look about what inmates say about a procedure the u.n. labels a torture and let's look at it in their own words the prisoners say they don't wish to die but are prepared to run the risk after more than a decade of inhumane and degrading treatment the detainees say they try to refuse the treatments it is forced upon them sometimes even violently they say the procedure is extremely painful and done in abusive conditions the letter also accuses medics of performing a treatment experiment on an unprecedented scale and richardson an attorney for a guantanamo detainee describes to r t what her client is being subjected to. if

you to knees 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 talk with them on the telephone. it is just humiliating it's been 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 s. it's just then. brussels is taking the u.k. to court for refusing to provide european citizens with the same benefits it bestows on britons but westminster is vowing to fight every step of the way to protect its own laws our two states are still is following the story for us. the european commission is once again looking more closely at the affairs of its member states now one that's making particular noise especially among the citizens of that country is the commission's decision to launch a case against the u.k. at the european court of justice because the commission says that the u.k. has been discriminatory against nationals of other e.u. countries and 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 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 be 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 and it says that it has received complaints that the e.u. insurance health card which is supposed to entitle citizens to free health care in public hospitals while they're traveling to other countries with a walk 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 good way you can have a 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. protests in support of bradley manning are gaining momentum worldwide just two days of before the trial over the accused whistleblower is set to open thousands have staged a demonstration at the gates of an army camp in fort meade where the court martial is to be held artie's andrew blake is there for us. we're at fort meade maryland in baltimore on monday the court martial against by the first class bradley manning will finally begin private manning twenty five year old army intelligence officer is accused of the biggest leak in the history of the united states according to army prosecutors manning is responsible for the lion's share of material that's been shared by the anti-secrecy wiki leaks in the last two years u.s.

state department cables watanabe detainee assessment files iraqi and afghan war logs have all been attributed to private manning and for leaking this material the u.s. government is charging him with aiding the enemy and he could spend the rest of his life in prison on monday however the courtroom here and for me to leave with supporters and prosecutors attorneys on both sides waiting for the court martial finally against the three years after manning was first brought into custody it was late may twenty town when manning was picked up in baghdad transferred to kuwait brought back to united states and spent three years of waiting waiting for this court martial the final again the sense december two thousand and eleven they've been having pretrial hearings here at fort meade and there's been really them all over the world in support of the soldier according demonstrators this is the largest bradley manning really that has ever happened in the three plus years senseis been what if the u.s. military custody people from all over the country gathered here today to really in support of the soldier but there's also demonstrations planned in more than two

dozen cities in four continents and across the world in the next coming days in seoul south korea berlin germany toronto ontario cities throughout the united states and across north america and the rest of the globe are all holding events this week in support of private manning his court martial wolfishly began on monday more than three years more than one thousand days after it was first brought into custody and by the end of the summer his supporters his family his friends are all finally going to know how he's going to spend the rest of his life. human rights activist greg murray believes that manning's alleged crimes are nowhere near to those committed by american soldiers in iraq. every time that demanding is discussed you get people from me american government people on the conservative side of the arguments say well he put individual lives at risk and those people of course have to do what all of the mainstream media at their service if they had been any evidence at all that any person any individual had been killed or harmed

as a result of these disclosures we can be one hundred percent certain but the politicians and the mainstream media would have been telling us about it all the time but in fact nobody has been able to point to a single instance of anybody being harmed as a result of these disclosures nothing badly manning has done in any way approaches the level of criminality or for example the american soldiers who were deliberately shooting out and killing journalists in iraq and the fact that is that the man who's on trial but i think that it's because he's been held in conditions which have been extremely difficult in the long periods of solitary confinement they little access to lawyers and others times is being kept naked in this small cells so clearly you know what he's suffered already has as being. a just before we even come to trial. for me this is so hard to.

keep our. eyes. on the some other international news in brief for you this hour three nato troops and a civilian have been killed in separate attacks in afghanistan one soldier was killed by a homemade bomb in the southern city of kandahar in the east of the country a shooting and a bomb blast killed two nato troops and a civilian worker for the international military coalition at least sixty eight nato service members have been killed in afghanistan since the beginning of two thousand and twelve. five al qaeda members working in bad. dad it to make a sailor and mustard gas have been arrested iraq's defense ministry says the extremists planned attacks on western targets and in iraq using remote controlled drones sarin is also suspected of being used by syria's rebels according to the u.n. . and coming up max kaiser and stacy herbert explore some of the more unconventional

ways of forcing people to pay back their debt that's coming up right after the break. a u.s. senate committee has passed a bill that if signed by obama will love the u.s. to put a lot of weapons into the hands of syrian rebels this seems rather odd because many of the factions that are revolting seem like bad people to be arming in fact one rebel faction al nasra which according to the guardian is an islamist organization with links to al qaeda is quickly becoming the most powerful rebel faction of all of them the b.b.c. even declared that al nasra has been designated as a terrorist organization by the u.s. government itself as it started something like a bad idea to ship weapons into syria on american taxpayers' dollars yet let's just

pretend that somehow all these weapons will magically not fall into the hands of al nasra well the free syrian army is that much better they seem perfectly happy to use rape and beheadings and genocide against christian alawite minorities with great glee to get what they want arming radical groups always has blowback if you remember back to just the one nine hundred eighty s. the u.s. funded and armed the taliban and those mujahedeen fighter guys and look how that turned out the u.s. government seems way too eager to arm radical foreigners and disarm average americans when they should be doing the exact opposite but that's just my opinion.

welcome to the kaiser report ties are you know there are more ways to skin a cat than choking with butter and there are more ways to kill a dog than hanging it but let's face it some ways are a lot better than others. max the cat we're going to skin in this episode is the debt cat and that is iceland gets tough with foreign creditors the failed banks iceland is a nordic free market democracy with glacier covered volcanoes and hyperactive geysers if you're into mind bendingly complex own lyrics there's bjork and sigur ros and the rarefied world of global finance iceland is also where local palms and central bankers trample on the interests of bondholders like a herd of marauding rain.