really shouldn't why you should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. truth become a bottle filled brush assume talk it spread nationwide following at least qualm down on demonstrators turning against the government. meanwhile turkish medics a around a thousand people were injured and to code as amnesty international calls police actions disgraceful and accuses it of targeting individuals homes and businesses. on the bottoms of the e.u.'s banking capital to where hundreds of demonstrators were arrested in frankfurt for and until seventeen message which is being echoed in spain and portugal. also in other stories the trade this week syria's opposition refuses to tending to national peace talks just a day after the lifting of the e.u. is always in bongo opens the door to lethal weapons being supplies to the rebels.

plus a man got shot seven times while being interviewed by the f.b.i. over his alleged connections to the bookstand bombing suspect reports address he was unarmed. the latest news and the week's top stories this is the weekly here on r.t. with me here. and welcome to the program. at least two people have been killed and more than a thousand injured according to the international. clinchers with police have continued for several days now and hundreds have been arrested all started as a peaceful sit in against. the public in central istanbul has spiraled into a nationwide display of anger against the government going to reports now from. the

protests have been raging throughout the night visitor in fact my hotel faces the square and i woke up around two thirty am because of the extreme noise and the smell of something burning coming in from the street and it was really a sight to behold in the middle of the darkest night you saw those red flashes of fires burning in the middle of the square now the protesters have been burning a lot of things around the square starting from kiosks and vendors booths and ending mostly with calls now among those vehicles were police the police trucks that i have personally seen but also they seem to have been targeting. these satellite. trucks the media companies a lot of people are incredibly distrustful of the media especially of the state controlled media and this matter of fact that is largely the reason why i'm actually sitting in the studio today and not out on the square because the companies that were doing live transmissions from the square yesterday today said

it's too dangerous to go out there but to go back a little bit the police did withdraw from texas and square in the early afternoon on saturday and that is of thousands of people started pouring into the square despite the fact that it was essentially permeated with tear gas and pepper spray and there are still puddles of water everywhere from water cannons being used. to this square and one point it did seem like i was not in istanbul but rather in egypt or in tunisia during the protests and you have to understand that the protests began because the government plans to. get rid of a park in the middle of the city it was a peaceful sit in until the police started to break it up using tear gas and essentially excessive force and that is when people have gathered over their multitudes and they worried that that point protesting not the plans to demolish the park but rather they were saying they wanted to save the country from aragon

and his policies which are becoming increasingly unpopular with the people in turkey some of the most of the people that i've spoken to said they you can see there is three things that they're unhappy about guns policies and toward syria the increasing islamisation off the country and basically a crackdown on old freedoms particularly in areas concerning media and journalists turkey remains the number one country when it comes to the number of journalists when it comes to international reaction we should mention a report by amnesty international which offers happens to be really close to ducks and square and they have said and i'm quoting this was disgraceful use of excessive force demonstrated by police in istanbul having said that the police did seem to be targeting individual protesters there have there are some reports that some people may have lost their sight because of the tear gas being fired at close range there's also reports of police targeting individual shops and stores and cafes which were trying to help out the protesters on the square and the police were seen

to be throwing the tear gas canisters inside but there were also reports medical very medical association has tried to set up sort of camps within a so they could help those who were injured in the protests but they couldn't do so because of the tear gas permeating the streets i could smell the tear gas coming into my hotel two kilometers away the streets were blocked off i had to walk around in that area it was really difficult to breathe in fact the first thing that a lot of tourists were handed out when they came to istanbul were a little mouse to cover their faces and really i saw a lot of people with their i did see like their eyes were burning and they were suffering from the effects of tear gas so we can talk about the excessive use of force and still waiting for any reaction from calls by amnesty international to stop the police brutality. and we can now go live to stumble and talk to political columnists to abide misstep by to thank you very much indeed for joining us here on r.t. first of all do expect the pros have to calm down or will they continue and grow

until the protesters demands are met. first of all this there was a mild rain this morning which before of course affect the number of participants protesters to to join the square metallurgy on one side but that aside i think a lot depends now how do you with or at least will behave or not look there it is that is. to come down the settled the mood saw that there will be an investigation of excessive guess usage and hospitals need to be revisited perhaps to clarify who is was wounded in to what extent etc but also the political authority non-corrupt what sort of rhetoric and approach will the rain from from today so it's can be said that mood of the beaten will continue for some time don't be an aftermath there will be some calculations

and maybe analysis of why these protests history of all has erupted. and do we say they stumble the project started as an environmental one but they want to really fueling people's anger across the country that it has nothing to do with the economy so all the comparisons of tunisia and egypt are irrelevant totally irrelevant actually because doors were about dictatorships of corruption of enough is enough kind of mood with their different types of regimes this one. if anything could be compared to the riots recent riots in stockholm sweden where is single incident led to five or six. days of writing burning of cars etc etc in an equally economy stable country like like turkey so the authorities here particular to prime minister add on will need to. do some soul

searching about what caused this indian demain kohls is of course it has to do with the lifestyles has to do with the stumble it has to do with the. heritage of diversity this country has from ottoman empire also during the republican time a lot of people have been sending the message by these revolts apart from the destruction etc to the government to add to one particular person that should be no more pattern as a should there should be nor more humiliation that respect must come back to the political approach and implementation it's not about a park anymore it's much more about the lifestyle is about culture about diversity about living together in peace in urban environments because this isn't everybody of old and tested due mainly exclusively that culture and it has brought together

for the first time in the public sr e people mainly youngsters but also other ages from even opposing political views liberals and artists gays islamicists. chemists seculars non-secular is etc together this means that that has to do something with the way people feel fed up with the interference micromanagement of their lifestyles here point out what's your view. homes to the protests is being defiant as we notice in the past days yesterday there was clearly mainly a defiant prime minister who although admitting that there was wrongdoing from police side will. still pledge that there will be construction projects you know around taksim square and there will be. retaliations if these

drop their son challenges continue and one. raising phrase was of course at the moment of emotional outburst saying that if these people can bring out to the square hundred thousand we can bring certainly one million people this is certainly going to be perceived as a threat. of course will not be helpful at all you know right country political columnist to live from istanbul thank you very much indeed for your time and following developments in turkey on air and online and you can watch a live stream from istanbul and get the latest updates at all t. dot com and also ahead that to let us know what you think and how do you think it's going on to be there and if you go and you will see our online vote and let's now have a look at how your opinion is divided so far roughly a third of the those five percent of you think that we might witness

a full scale turkish spring that about the same number expect the unrest to inside a full scale quiet down on democracy in the country just about eighteen percent of you think that the process will continue for several more weeks and might major changes in the country while a little more than ten percent say the rest will fizzle out by the end of the week and add your voice as r.t. dot com if you haven't already. so we can go to rest in the capital frankfurt where police used bottles and pepper spray against thousands of demonstrators several people have been injured in clashes under around four hundred were detained protesters have been blocking the e.u.'s main financial institutions for two days all she's piece on of our reports now from frankfurt. 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 masks who were marching in the green put on see also it's a announce a fascist campaign is they refused to do that then paint was throwing police responded with with pepper spray this walkie pie from food twenty to thirty demonstrations were mostly peaceful the whole changed on saturday now this then ended up with a hours long standoff in the center of all the front. with many people being called in the clashes that broke out sporadically between the police and protesters .

who were standing there suddenly police moved in and they beat some of us and i was pepper street there was no reason for that and then it's 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 open 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. mass rallies also took place in spain and portugal and since i both among the west paid by crisis and austerity are now you tube channel watch footage from madrid and there's been as crowds demanded and then too hot hazing caught. you said i'll teach you to channel rocketing to a billion views from the world spirit of funny disasters to events that continue to change our lives join me kevin owen for more on how you helped make the first global news channel to reach you chub. this is all c and with more news for you shortly after this break.

i'll talk about language at all but i will only react to situations i have read the reports for like the pollution and no i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point. to secure a car is on the job here no. job no more weasel words. when you made a direct question be prepared for a change when you when you should be ready for a. critical speech and a little down the freedom to. you . know.

thanks. to. to. this is the wiki on aussies great to have you with those a powerful car bomb in damascus exploded near a police station reportedly killing at least eight security officers and comes a band of a week which saw the prospects of russia u.s. brokered peace talks on syria hit some major hurdles and i had my colleagues very socially discuss the past week with he's losing confidence has been closely following a bounce in the water on country. the leaders of the syrian opposition had in fact announced they will not be participating in the u.s. and russian sponsored peace talks they are saying that has the laws involvement in the bloody civil war really complicates things a little the group itself is highly divided there's questions as to whether they have the syrian opposition have credibility with the syrians on the ground

meanwhile president bashar al assad in an interview this week said only a referendum would decide whether he should leave power further complicating things is the decision by the european union which agreed not to renew a weapons embargo in syria potentially paving the way the way for weapons deliveries with such a massive announcement such a big development in the past several days regarding syria so the e.u. weapons and bug has been lifted now the doors can fling wide open for all sorts of e.u. members to stuff funneling their weapons straight to the opposition the rebel fighters what's it a decision embraced by all e.u. member states or just a few absolutely not rory i mean the u.k. and france really led this push to dismantle the cargo which prevailed despite opposition from other european union member states those two countries are saying that this would have somehow helped to ratchet up pressure against president bashar al assad the other states are not so not so clear on that although we should note

that the british foreign secretary has said that there's no immediate plans to ship weapons into syria but still certainly a cause for concern in a conflict that has claimed more than eighty thousand lives to date some western powers lucy accusing russia at this point of hampering peace efforts over the whole argument about russia supplying assad with weapons how does moscow justify the slots a complex issue russia's plan to ship s. three hundred anti-aircraft systems to syria caused a stir this week after president bashar al assad in an interview said that russia will be honoring its defense contracts further complicating things with the israeli elements the israelis have said that they are strongly opposed to this that they are prepared to use force if those weapons are delivered but we have to keep in mind these are contracts were signed roughly a year before. the syrian civil war broke out in twenty eleven russians are not prepared to console the contracts although the deputy foreign minister has said that this is seen as a stabilizing factor that will deter quote what he called some hotheads from a considering to send in foreign forces to intervene in the syrian conflict i do

think that russian made s. three hundred i myself others are supposed to be for defensive purposes not offensive but what about the issue of the use of chemical weapons it came up again this week can you tell us more about it's a bit murky but according to local turkish media reports the turkish government has rounded up about twelve people with suspected ties to the aisle and those are fronts this is one of the rebel groups that's affiliated with al qaida that's been fighting bashar al assad on the ground and at least according to one we do know reports they've discovered what they said two kilograms of sarin gas a powerful new york talks and now these are not confirmed reports but they do come amid growing concern of the use of chemical weapons by both sides and the united nations human rights investigators have in fact and obtained testimony from on the ground witnesses who allege that the rebels had to used sarin gas now again unsubstantiated testimony but we should it did prompt a response from a russian foreign millet minister sergei lavrov. 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 so there you have a the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov calling for an investigation into what obviously is a murky but but serious issue of concern. an interview turned in the u.s. when it chanced romano a shot in the head while being questioned by the f.b.i. over his alleged links to the main suspect in the boston marathon bombing reports abraham to done show was unarmed however their thought is have claimed they hit a tug adrian's with a knife something his father find it hard to believe. from the photographs that

were sent to me it's evident he was shot six times to the body and 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's 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. and investigative journalist and veteran police officer mike roper believes the dash of scanning leaves a 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 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 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 us somebody is going to sign a confession for triple murder you have a minute jailhouse in

a secure setting and the police officer the officers won't foresman 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 in the u.s. thousands have gathered outside on account in maryland to support private bradley manning he's accused of aiding the enemy by passing classified documents to whistle blowing website wiki leaks but acts of it's a man is behind bars because he exposed a war crimes he's i'm sure break off half our earth. we're at fort meade maryland in baltimore where 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 courtroom here in fort meade in the back with supporters and prosecutors attorneys on both sides waiting for the court martial a final against the 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 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. and our special coverage of bradley manning's case starts here on monday meanwhile you can follow the live updates on the pretrial protests. so that's right at all. to some other international news and bring you this hour the latest series of tornadoes that swept through oklahoma has left at least nine dead and dozens injured some critically three people have died as

a result of flooding caused by this storm in the state of missouri oklahoma has barely had a chance to recover from lethal twisters two weeks ago that killed twenty people. more than a thousand people most of them civilians were killed in iraq last month according to the yuan it makes may the bloodiest month for the country since two thousand and seven some are worried that the recent sectarian violence could become a full scale civil war. thank sex on a bike around one of the five days of the world's political play that's human. distractions one thing the media does very well we all tend to focus on one space

the issue of the moment and ignore the rest jill those 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 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 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

just other bad stuff but that's just my opinion. carob seals are born and bred on the ice fields of the white sea. throughout the twentieth century the patrick hunted for their snow white fur. russia imposed a ban on this trade and hunters have since been replaced by tourists goodwill these pups stay safe forever. saving seals on our t.v. . 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 universally 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 philip on the gaggle and secretary general of the council of europe mr young to be appreciated your being here and now i think what is manned usually manned by human rights and western political discourse are political rights rights having to do with political activity freedom of speech freedom of expression freedom to protest and i think some countries in particular russia and china argued that that ability to brand their citizens full political rights is conditioned on. the economy on a canal make prosperity and i think for some time these sort of argument was brushed off as.