well welcome to. the week. now at least two thousand people have been killed and more than a thousand have been injured in turkey all amid protests and fierce clashes with police that have continued well for several days now almost

a thousand have been arrested and what started as a peaceful city in against plans to revamp park in central istanbul has spiraled into a nationwide display of anger against the government very shortly here on r.t. will be getting live with correspondent. in istanbul to give us the latest on this story do stay with us for that a bit earlier in the program though we did hear from a local reporter. he believed the unrest would not have gained such traction if indeed the police had not weighed in such a heavy manner. it was very peaceful they were counting their full of three days and the police use the pepper sprays and even knock you guys usually and then just the every day just got bigger and bigger tens of thousands of people join. the protests clear amazing to see how very small talk is the move into a nation by. clashes and demonstrations so it's that the government thought that

these are the more you groups are trying to. trying to block. the construction workers but it turned out that that wasn't the case and the police continue to use excessive force and your demands you know going beyond the park. and in the meantime turkey's prime minister. has now admitted that police may have indeed used excessive force but he called on protesters to stop their demonstrations because the changes to the park going ahead anyway international relations professor mark allman from bill ken university he says over the ones actions resemble those of leaders that were ousted by the arab spring. police action. and this is a very dramatic move for the prime minister to the first time to step back he was extremely aggressive in the show statements to do with preachers. who

mubarak to resign there's no talking role that you. did. you know 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 going to calm the situation because if you insist on carrying on with these protests which is very unpopular to create just doing we suppose. or let's delve deeper into the story here and not see the ongoing violence and protests in istanbul there is also now joining us live here on the program marina hard to you what can you bring us up to speed on anything happening overnight where you are. almost definitely there were more clashes breaking out overnight in fact my hotel is essentially on taksim square so it around two thirty i woke up because of the noise and because of the weird bell that was coming into the room and i saw the cars on the. on the square were burning and

. most of the cars of course were police vehicles and also the television trucks which were abandoned by local media early on just the beginning of the protests and you have to understand this violence which was exhibited throughout the day and over the nights directed those to be. trucks was because the majority of people in turkey did not trust the media they call them sell outs they're saying they're the media is working for it on money and they have course exacted their frustration and their anger at those police trucks hammering away burning them throughout the night it was really a mind blowing scene it's like something out of a i would say island out of apocalypse movie just all of these all of these fires in the midst of a really dark. square now you have to understand that of course people were out on the streets when i arrived to istanbul you could smell the tear gas in the air it was really hard to even walk to the hotel a lot of a lot of the streets were blocked out so i literally had to walk around to

kilometers but even even that far from where you could still feel tear gas there have been reports in fact that police have been using helicopters to disperse the tear gas i haven't seen any of that happening but there are serious was a lot of that in the air quite a pleasant very unpleasant people all the people thousands of people in the square where equipped with gas masks. just even just the simplest kinds just to keep that area smell and sense out of the out of their mouths and noses and there were tens of thousands of people and they looked like they were determined not to go anywhere we spoke to some of them and said we've only gone goes and they called current government of government there's increasing slant towards islam is a sin there's too much crackdown on all sorts of freedoms and they do not want to see that happening any more it started out with the trees they said but now the park and the trees are merely sort of a sort of very

a push of the felons to move forward and try. and government. to ready arena saying that this kind of tension has been bubbling out of the service for quite some time now as you were saying there are going to go many using the whole changes to a regional paul as an excuse to really tell their frustration against the government when it comes to the days of there in istanbul witnessing what about reaction to the unrest. well we do know that according to live in various reports of course. we do we know that at least a thousand people have been wounded of course that is according to the doctors association of turkey if you ask the thirty's they say only dozens have been wounded but i saw people with bloody nose bloodied faces obviously injured most of the injuries were sustained to the faces the reports according to various reports including that from embassy to national those words came from gas canisters and

literally exploding into people's faces there have been there have been lesions that police have been firing those that to a close range to people and of course there has been there has already been an out of international court which has called there's a disgraceful use of excessive police force in the stumble just judging by what i've seen there was. a range of conflict the. range of all that happened there in the. group it was mind blowing it off was really good for them from istanbul. well there we are following developments in turkey on air and online you can actually watch a live stream from istanbul and get the latest updates to you dot com and if you head there right now we can get involved in our online global poll to see well we gauging how do you think it's all going to turn out with the ongoing violence in

and around istanbul in fact it's nationwide now across turkey let's see how the opinions are divided this hour still there the majority there in the blue saying it will develop into some version of a full scale turkish spring and very very nearly the same amount of voters expecting the unrest to inside a full scale crackdown on democracy perhaps are nineteen percent saying it could force some major changes at the bare minimum it's lost a percentage point down to twelve now saying it's all right it all die out by the end of the week where we always do or invite your participation with the stories we cover here at r.t. just to have a click at r.t. dot com. well for now here on our weekend of on rest in the german financial capital frankfurt where police used batons and pepper spray against thousands of anti or sturdy demonstrators several people injured in clashes around four hundred handcuffed and detained protesters have been blocking the e.u.'s main financial institutions for two days of reporting from frankfurt sees peter all over. a

planned march that was supposed to go right through the middle of all germany's financial 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. see. the fascist campaign is they refused to do that then paint was thrown police responded with with pepper spray this walkie pie front twenty c. demonstrations were mostly peaceful that all changed on saturday now this then ended up with a always long standoff in the center or front. with so many people being called in the clashes that broke out sporadically between the police and protesters .

have now. we were standing there suddenly police moved in they beat some of us and i was a street there was no reason for that and 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 i was supposed to show the political leaders old europe that they're not happy that they want change and they said that they had a clear message to those leaders in the european union this years booking five francs worth of ben came alongside the release of unemployment figures for the eurozone countries and they made well pretty desperate reading almost twenty

million people are out of work in the eurozone most of them young we're hearing that opel 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 on the streets of france but to demonstrate. not just germany but also mass rallies taking place in spain and portugal on saturday both nations among the worst hit by crisis and austerity thousands marched in madrid demanding an end to the hard hitting cuts in portugal fifteen thousand protesters surrounded the headquarters of the international monetary fund's local office chanting i.m.f. out and my pinto was there for us. focus of people thank you here did to their salinity fund do european commission and e.u. pm central bank they are the backbone they want struck and she's like practical reason ireland's here in lisbon many hundreds are alive. and that still cause we

are here protesting like we are in all the cities in europe we are protesting against the policies of austerity the policies of strike and the policies that are destroying people's lives through old 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 in knots on a democratic way we want the voice to come back toward tool to the people these people idea amending the resignation of the party's government and also the austerity which has already nearly to force more than a million portuguese people out of a job. in artie's cause a report unique take on europe's financial woes and those responsible for it all the programs available for you a click away on our you tube channel. ati's you tube channel rocketing to

a billion views from the world spirit of funny disasters 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 chew. thank you for joining us here on our show in moscow this week saw the prospects for russia u.s. brokered peace talks on syria some rather massive. about the massacres as agreed in principle to take part syria's main opposition group rejected the idea of accusing hezbollah forces of fighting alongside government troops now meanwhile a group of syrian militants reportedly detained in turkey were found to have stocks of the highly poisonous sarin gas and those arrested at least to be members of the al qaeda linked al nusra front this month 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 must not

be used in political games. 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. in the reports of sarin gas found in the possession of rebels well they fall on deaf ears in the west is the belief of author and historian gerald horne he told us earlier that not even the threat of the use of chemical weapons can shake the support for the syrian rebels if the

syrian government had been caught with certain gad's we would have her work 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 servants carla del ponte say basically made a similar discovery and revelation on be have united nations jets weeks ago which then was refuted by the white house we also know that in recent days sen john mccain of arizona interim 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 of the opposition against president of the saud. also this week the e.u. lifted its arms embargo on syria and that means that any member state canal funnel

that weapons to the syrian rebels are the u.k. and france they spearheaded the initiative winning over the majority of countries who had originally opposed the move over concerns that would feel the conflict. going to take a look at the syrian opposition and exactly those who they are that might be on its behalf. since britain and france blocked attempts to extend the e.u. embargo on supplying on's 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. brigade and many more and i'd 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. live from moscow this is odds here and still ahead for you in this hour friend or foe mass rallies are accusing the u.s. army of imprisoning private manning for uncovering its war crimes so they start days before school marshal. stories of the week after a short. film all told you my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports but i'm lucky i'm pretty sure i know i will leave them to the state department to comment on your letter play like a monkey it's a game to carry a car is on a dog you know gonna. take you know no more weasel words. when

you made a direct question be prepared for a chase when you have to punch be ready for a. printout of speech and down the street into costs. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. please. good to have you with us here on r.t. today an interview turned deadly in the united states when it checked chin man who 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 say. was on on and over the earth already claimed that they tried to attack the agents with a knife something his father finds very hard to believe. when the kid from the photographs that was sent to me it's evident he was shot six times to the body and once to the head at the back of the head because 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 then muttley but there was 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 of the jambo the shoulder but what happened was murdered 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. and investigative journalist and veteran police officer mike ruppert he believes that to dust ships killing leaves an awful lot open to interpretation but there are two glaring problems with what we have has as an already contradictory account from law enforcement about how the events went down the first of which is the man was unarmed and i would hearken back to my days on the streets in one nine hundred seventy six in los angeles where. olympic medalist juan carlos got combative with a bunch of police officers not not one of those drew our 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 stories

he was supposed to be signing a confession to a triple murder i don't care even if if you are the f.b.i. which doesn't have a good reputation you're us somebody is going to sign a confession for a trip home. you have a minute jailhouse in a secure setting and the police officer officers law enforcement personnel around him are not armed because he's in a secure setting 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 america thousands gather outside the camp and maryland supporting private bradley manning of course accused of helping the enemy by a pos in classified documents to wiki leaks but activists say manning is behind bars because he exposed war crimes and reports. 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 few 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 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 being twenty ten 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 demonstrators this is the largest bradley manning really that has ever happened in the three plus years sense these men but 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 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 now his court martial will actually 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. and now special coverage of a bradley manning's case a starts here on monday you know you can follow the live updates on the pretrial protests that are to you doug. this is.

just a moment here and then a time focus on a boy ruffling the feathers of the world's political power players are worlds apart just a song. distraction is one thing the media does very well we all tend to focus on one spicy issue of the moment and ignore the rest g m o's 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. 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 used 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 out putting a lot of poisonous food will kill you just as dead to 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 just other bad stuff but that's just my opinion.

thank. you. you can . they've been used as both a carrot and a stick a reason to bring some countries into the european fold and to keep others out human rights of thought to be universal you have their application is highly specific to the country's political social and economic circumstances is it time to redefine what is meant by human rights and should all countries be held to the same standard well to discuss that joined by foreign born gabble and secretary general

of the council of europe mr you're going to be appreciated your being here and now i think what is manned usually manned by human rights in the western political discourse our political rights rights having to do with political activity or freedom of speech freedom of expression freedom to protest and i think some countries in particular russia and china argued that their ability to brand their citizens full political rights is conditioned on. the economy on dire economic prosperity and i think for some time these sort of argument was. brushed off as authoritative ploy but i think now some of the european governments faced with the sterett see have some sympathy with this line of thinking what do you think how strong do you thing is the link between the country's economy and its ability to expand its citizenry political full political rights.