protests spread nationwide this following a police. where hundreds of demonstrators were arrested in. the week syria's opposition refuses to attend international peace talks just a day after the lifting of the. supplied to the rebels. shot. by the f.b.i. over his alleged connection. reports.

with me wrong welcome to the program almost a thousand people have been arrested in turkey after protests in fierce clashes with police that continued for several days and what started as a peaceful sit in against plans to revamp. all has spiraled into a nationwide display of the government a rage was fueled by what's seen as heavy handed police action who used. water cannons to disperse the protesters many injured during the scene right there. filed this report from istanbul. most of the roads have been blocked off to i had 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 on the syria where and it gives you this sort of us 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 claimed to raise down a park this seat and was just cursed 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 of 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 the 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 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 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 you hate have chosen to what some already calling the turkish bringing a sort of a sister or a continuation of the arab spring revolutions that toppled 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 of the t.v. trucks around here they're paid to spray painting it with graffiti saying that the

. the sole government. in the class basically they're destroying the government property because basically represents everything that the government media is about it's just they're saying it's just to pay our way for the government to make it sound like nothing is really happening in the country you 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 journalists imprisoned in the world. and earlier here in our two we heard from a local reporter of my heroes and although he believes the unrest would not have gained such traction if indeed the police had not waited in such a heavy manner. it was very cool they were camping there full of three days and the police use the pepper sprays and even not to go in and then just every day just. tens of thousands of people joined the protests it's amazing to see how very small . body. clashes and demonstrations so it's

that the government thought that these are the more groups are trying to. trying to block. structure but it turns out that's wasn't the case the police continue to use excessive force and your demands you know going beyond the park and in the meantime talk is prime minister. he has admitted the police may well have used excessive force but he called the protesters to stop the demonstrations because the changes to the park are going ahead anyway international relations professor mark allman from bill kent university he says a lot of the ones actions resemble those of leaders that were 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 erdogan 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 do think we need to calm the situation because if he insists on carrying on with this project which is very unpopular still going to the protest going we suppose relations disaster with huge economic implications. now we are following the developments in turkey on air and on line if you can even watch our lives stream from istanbul get all the latest updates from our column and for the meantime you can also head there to let us know how you think it's all going to pan out let's bring up the voting for this hour from the web site and see how the name is of numbers of change and they certainly have changed over the past forty eight minutes here on r.t. still though the top position thirty five percent saying it's perhaps this violence

will turn into a full scale turkish spring. thirty three percent now are saying it will result in a harsh crackdown and let's skip want to go right down to the minimum but up by one percentage point thirteen percent now are saying this will simply die out by the end of the week well r.t. dot com we are certainly checking your pulse getting your reaction to this so we do get involved at r.t. dot com. for now it is a weekend of unrest in a german financial capital frankfurt where police used battens and pepper spray against thousands of anti austerity demonstrators several people have been injured in clashes around four hundred detained protesters have been blocking the e.u.'s main financial institution for two days now this report from frankfurt and our correspondent peter all of. a planned march that was supposed to go right through the middle of all germany spine until capital only really lasted five hundred meters before police intervened splitting the demonstration in several different

parts now the police have told us that this is because they asked people to remove the mosques who were marching in the green put on c austerity and the fascist campaign is they refused to do that then paint was thrown police responded with with pepper spray this will keep my front twenty c. demonstrations were mostly peaceful but that all changed on saturday now this then ended up with a always long standoff in the sense that all the front. with so many people being caught up in the clashes that broke out sporadically between the police and protesters. was.

out. there. we were standing there suddenly police moved some of us and i will stop a street there was no reason for that i managed to get out. from work oh this is your policy not ours now away from me paying throwing in the pepper spraying the idea behind blokey pie was supposed to show the political leaders of europe that then not happy that they want change and they said that they had a clear message to those leaders in the european union this is book i frankly have been came alongside the release of unemployment figures for the eurozone countries and they made a pretty desperate reading almost twenty million people are out of work in the eurozone most of them young we're hearing that over almost one in four under twenty five's don't have a job and that's what resulted in many people coming out here on the on the streets

of trying to demonstrate. also there must rallies taking place in spain and portugal on saturday both nations among the worst hit by crisis and austerity are thousands marched in madrid demanding an end to the hard hitting cuts and in portugal fifteen thousand protesters surrounded the international monetary fund's local office chanting i am out of my pinto he was there for us. the focus of people thank you here did to dish a little to the front do european can be said and do you mean central bank they are the big. deal on strike and she's like practical reason ireland's here in lisbon many hundreds. we are here protesting like we are in all the cities in europe we are protesting against the policies of posterity the policies of the reich and the policies that are destroying people's lives. 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 not on a democratic way we want the voice to come back to rule the world to the people these people idea amending the resignation of the party's government and also the austerity which has already nearly two forced more than a million portuguese people out of a job and then all these cars report there's always a unique take on europe's financial woes and those responsible for them all the programs available for you a click away twenty four seven on the r.t. you tube channel. ati's you tube channel rocketing to a billion views for the world spirit of funny disasters that continue to change our lives join me kevin zero in for more on how you helped make the first global news channel to reach you choose.

the joining us for the weekly here on r t thank you very much indeed this week saw the prospects for russia u.s. brokered peace talks on syria where they ran into some pretty major hurdles of damascus has agreed in principle to take part or syria's main opposition group rejected the idea while accusing hezbollah of fighting alongside government troops i mean what a group of syrian militants reportedly detained in turkey were found to have stocks of the highly poisonous sarin gas those arrested believed to be members of the al qaeda linked al nusra front earlier this month the u.n. investigators voiced suspicion the nerve agent was being used by opposition fighters russia's foreign minister says the case must be investigated and not to be used in political gain. we've warned repeatedly of provocations connected with chemical weapons we've also insisted on investigations

into any case related to their possible use including the incident reportedly took place near aleppo we're very disappointed that because of political games the u.n. has failed to act on this we expect our turkish colleagues to quickly provide a full report on this latest case this issue ation is too serious for those who constantly talk about the chemical weapons problem to keep playing games around it each and every incident needs to be investigated. now the reports of sarin gas found in the possession of rebels well it's fallen on deaf ears in the west that's the belief of all through and historian gerald horne he told us earlier that not even the threat of chemical weapon use can shake the support for the syrian opposition if the syrian government had been caught with certain gas we would have her work who is from washington london and paris but of course this should not come as a surprise to anyone been paying attention we know that the internationally respected

civil servant carla del ponte they had basically made a similar discovery and revelation on behalf united nations jets weeks ago which then was refuted by the white house we also know that in recent days senator john mccain of arizona entered syria illegally and news reports indicate that he consulted with the white house before answering syria this is a very dangerous turn of events it's clear that there are those in washington who would like to intervene in syria on behalf of the rebels which is quite curious since al nusra front which has been designated as a terrorist organization by washington is at the tip of the spear in the opposition against president al the saudi. also this week the e.u. lifted its oms and boggo on syria and that means that any member state can now supply the syrian rebels directly with weapons u.k. and france spearheaded the initiative winning over the majority of countries who were originally opposed the move over concerns that would actually fuel the

conflict. that is going to take a look at the syrian opposition and those who might be on its behalf. since britain and france blocked attempts to extend the e.u. embargo on supplying arms to the syrian rebels there have been growing fears that the weapons could end up in the wrong hands and this is why the syrian opposition is made up of many divided and often competing factions and truly there is no force that can represent it as a whole there is the syrian national council the national coalition for syrian revolutionary and opposition forces the supreme military council the free syrian army the international coordination committee the job of the brigade and many more like to point out that only the n.c.c. says it's open to dialogue with the authorities while all the others have officially proclaimed their goal is to topple the regime the only difference being how extreme their approaches are and here is where these two rebel groups stand out

. is officially recognized as a terror organization by the u.s. it's also known for its links to al qaeda and for being among the most highly trained rebel forces currently on the ground in syria and the fire brigade perhaps just as notorious after one of its leading commanders was shown eating the body parts of a dead syrian soldier on video but despite warnings raised by international human rights groups including the international and human rights watch the rebels have been receiving weapons for some time now according to western media reports the rebels have received one hundred sixty planeloads of arms shipments from jordan saudi arabia quarter via turkey and then with a cargo smuggled across the border here with syria but no matter which rebel group or the arms may be destined for it's also widely recognized that they usually end up in the hands of the best trained and most radical brigades. thanks for joining

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received an interview that turned deadly in the united states when a chechen man was shot in the head while being questioned by the f.b.i. over his alleged links to the main suspects in the boston marathon bombing reports a. force on armed over there authorities have claimed he attacked agents with a knife something his father finds very hard to believe. from the photographs that were sent to me it's evident he was shot six times to the body wants to the head the back of the head it looks like a finishing shot of an assassination to me it looks as if they came to his house like bandits and shot him in cold blood from the photos his house looked like it had been robbed he was questioned for eight hours without witnesses or a lawyer no one can tell for sure what happened there until there is an official investigation the agents say my son attacked them but there were several armed and well trained men even if he lost his temper and became violent they could have

restrained him or wound him shoot him in the leg or the arm or the shoulder but what happened was murder complete with a finishing shot maybe my son knew something the police didn't want to come out and they killed him to keep him silent. investigative journalist and veteran police officer mike ruppert he believed to that killing that leaves an awful lot open to interpretation. there are two glaring problems and with what we have is as you can already contradictory account from law enforcement about how the events went down the first of which is the man was unarmed and i will hearken back to my days on the streets in one nine hundred seventy six in los angeles where an olympic medalist juan carlos got combative with a bunch of police officers not not one of those guns and we were getting thrown around like rag dolls and we were all trained and we were all very very fit at the

time so there's a there's an escalation of force scale which was obviously or apparently not followed in this case but my second huge problem with the law enforcement story is he was supposed to be signing a confession to a triple murder i don't care even if you are the f.b.i. which doesn't have a good reputation us somebody is going to sign a confession for triple murder you have a minute jailhouse in a secure setting and the police officer or officers won't horseman personnel around him are not armed because he's in a secure static this was at best for the f.b.i. . horribly mishandled but it sounds to me very much like they went there with the intent to provoke him and stay just shooting standard police procedure everywhere in the world was not followed here and in the united states thousands of gathered outside and on the campaign maryland to support private bradley manning is accused of aiding the enemy by pausing classified documents to the whistle blowing web site

wiki leaks but activists say that manning is behind bars because he simply exposed a war crimes play was that. we're in 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 guantanamo bay 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 court room here and for meeting with supporters and prosecutors attorneys on both sides waiting for the court martial of finally get three years after manning was first brought into custody it was late

may twenty town with 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 to finally begin 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 to demonstrators this is the largest bradley manning really that has ever happened in the three plus years sense of 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 across the world in the next coming days seoul south korea 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 now his court martial will eventually begin 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 i was special coverage

of our bradley manning's case are starting here on monday you know you can follow the live updates on the pretrial protests don't go. very busy with. the world update time now illustrate to oklahoma where the latest series of tornadoes that swept through the area neighboring states have left at least nine dead dozens injured three died as a result of flooding caused by the storm in the state of missouri oklahoma barely has had a chance to recover from lethal twisters two weeks ago when a mile wide tornado killed twenty four. more than a thousand people mostly civilians killed in iraq last month that makes may the bloodiest month for the country since two thousand and seven but the search comes

after a pause raid by the security forces on a sunni protest. and the largest prison in capital has been attacked according to officials an inmate grabbed a gun from a security officer and shot three gods members of the islamist militant group movement for jihad in west africa who were outside the prison stormed in when the troops that were arrived the gunman fled. but less than a year until the winter olympics the organizers of the games of give an athlete something to dream about the medal full of russian tradition and local flavor have been unveiled in some. points. now holding up one of these will be the dream of every athlete competing in sochi twenty fourteen which begin in just a month's time and here in st petersburg the medals were revealed for the very first time to the public the designers hope to capture russia's sense of national identity and character and they've tried to do that by showing the warm waters of

the black sea crashing into the ice of krasnaya polyana up in the mountains and if you look very closely you will also notice a patchwork quilt thing here and that is meant to represent the multi ethnicity of russia a record thirty eight hundred of these will be produced and that is because sochi twenty fourteen will be the biggest winter olympics in history and also if you win one of these you will need a very strong net because they do you weigh in at something like over five hundred grams i spoke with jimmy for tuna shanker who chairs the sochi organizing committee and he hopes that when someone does game one of these they will also take away the spirit of russia on a more serious note mr chernyshenko also addressed security concerns and said that the government had taken exceptional steps to guarantee the games would be safe and secure he also talked about the possibility of a lack of snowfall because sochi has experienced a very mild winter but he has said that tons of snow is now being stored under

thermal blankets up in the mountains to cover any shortfall essentially the message is so cheap is ready andrey farmer for some pictures but. and i just ahead there are two you can meet a woman on a mission to find families for about abandoned children a lie from moscow this is. 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 the 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.

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