trees become soaked battlefield processing bread make sure wide following a police squad down on demonstrators turning anger against the government. in the world turkish medics say around a thousand people were injured and sued kayode as amnesty international calls police actions disgraceful and accuses it of targeting individuals homes and businesses. on the buttons are out in the e.u.'s banking capital soon where there's a demonstrators were arrested in frankfurt on tuesday was the message which is being echoed in spain and portugal. also in other stories the trade this week is serious opposition refuses to attend international peace talks just a day after the lifting of the e.u. his arms embargo opens the door to lethal weapons being supplied to the rebels.

and the church on monday at short seven times while being interviewed by the f.b.i. over his alleged connections to the boston bombing suspect reports suggesting he was unarmed. launching the weekly here on r.t. hello and welcome to the program. again descending on taksim square in istanbul as onto government protests and fierce clashes continue in the country and there are the latest pictures from the city right now you're seeing at least two people have been killed there and more than a thousand injured during three days of. quitting to amnesty international and she is really going to reports now from istanbul. the protests have been raging

throughout the night visitor in fact my hotel faces the square and 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 vendors booths and ending mostly with vehicles now among those vehicles were police the police trucks that i have personally seen but also they seem to have been targeting the. 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 to go back

a little bit the police did withdraw from texas and square in the early afternoon on saturday and that is legit of thousands of people started pouring into the square despite the fact that it was essentially permeated with tear gas and pepper spray. bottles of water everywhere from being used. to the 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 a protest 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 what people have gathered over there in multitudes and they weren't at 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 it's early 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 that 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 that 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. to his prime minister recep the one admitted police may have used excessive force but called on protesters to stall the demonstrations because the punk changes are going ahead and political columnist. says the authorities must first of all understand what's really behind the protests and change the attitude to the people in the street one. raising phrase was of

course at the moment off emotional outburst saying that if these people can bring up to the square hundred thousand we can bring certainly one million people this is certainly true it is perceived as as a threat and of course we will not be helpful at all a lot of people have been sending the message by these rebels apart from the destruction etc to the government to add one particular person that should be a normal pattern is a show there should be norm or 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 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. journalists 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 lifestyle . and of course we're following developments in turkey owner and on line for you and you can watch our live stream from istanbul and get the latest updates at r.t. dot com and also going to have to let us know what chu you think about what's going on there so our vote is open for you right now let's not have a look at how you are pinion is divided so far and roughly a third of those who participated who voted think we might witness a full scale turkish spring that thirty five percent of you almost the same number expect to be addressed inside a full scale crime down on democracy in the country around eighteen percent of you think that the process will continue for several more weeks and might spur major

changes that while a little more than ten percent say the rest will fizzle out by the end of the week so vote at r.t. dot com of you if you haven't done it already so it's so we can do the rest in the german financial capital frankfurt where police used buttons and pepper spray against thousands of demonstrators several people have been injured in clashes and around four hundred were detained protesters have been blocking the main financial institutions for two days now on of i 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 all sarah c n n z fascist campaign is they refused to do that then paint was

thrown and police responded with with pepper spray this walkie pie from food twenty to thirty demonstrations were mostly peaceful but all changed on something they know this then ended up with a hours long standoff in the center for front. with so many people. in the clashes that broke out sporadically between the police and protesters. and. we were standing there suddenly police moved in they beat some of us and i was a street there was no reason for that they managed to get out. come 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 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 is book if i frankly have been came alongside the release of unemployment figures for the euro zone 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 open almost one in four under twenty five don't have a job and that's what resulted in many people coming out here on on the streets affront to demonstrate. mass rallies also took place in spain portugal on saturday both nations among the was tied by crisis and austerity and on our you tube channel

watch footage from madrid in lisbon as crowds demanded amends to hold that. set up to use you tube channel rocketing two billion viewers from the world spirit to finally disasters to events that continue to change our lives join recovery though in for more on how you helped make the first global view struggle to reach you choose. a powerful car bomb in damascus exploded near a police station reportedly killing at least eight security officers it comes at the end of a week which saw the prospects of russia you as a brokered peace talks on syria hit some major hurdles and my colleague the research i discovered the past week with all these loose accounts and of have been closely following events in the war 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 been 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. european union which agreed not to renew a weapons in bargo 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 embargo has been lifted now the doors can fling wide open for all sorts of e.u. members to stall funneling their weapons or straight to the opposition the rebel fighters what's it decision embraced by old e.u. member states or just a few absolutely not i mean the u.k. and france really led this push to dismantle the bargo 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 assad the other states that are not so not so clear on that although we should note that the british foreign secretary has said that there is 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 of western powers who see accusing russia at this point of hampering peace efforts will be a whole argument about russia's supplying assad with weapons how does moscow justify this let's a complex issue russia's plan to ship as 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 that 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 considering to send in foreign forces to intervene in the syrian conflict i do think that russian made s. three hundred i myself i reserve supposed to be for defensive which is 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 the. 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 allness or 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 the russian foreign 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 the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov calling for an investigation into what obviously is a murky but but serious issue of concern. and with the left and the theory and opposition still frank should this kind of took

a look at the three were in opposition and might be armed only. 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 clearly 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 jobber or 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 why we recognize that they usually end up in the hands of the best trained and most radical brigades. you know watching the weekly here on aussie will be back with more news for you in just

a moment. a clear image of iraq story inflation. twenty day taxi trip through the country. the roads. clear evidence from north to south. the route of iraqi tragedy. after the war waiting for peace. talks see all our t.v. . you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard luck and is a big picture. this

is the work you analyse welcome back i mean to gaitonde sadly in the us when a child chan model shot on the head while being questioned by the f.b.i. over his alleged links to the main suspect and the boston marathon bombing reports say abraham to doctor was unarmed however they also at his have claimed had tucked a turns with a knife something his father finds ought to be. from the photograph that was sent to me it's evident he was shot six times to the body and wants to the head at 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 agent 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 believes the dash of killing leaves a lot open to interpretation. there are two glaring problems and 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 will 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 the camp in maryland to support private bradley manning is accused of aiding the enemy by passing classified documents to whistle blowing web sites we can leaks but acts of the same awnings behind bars because he exposed the more crimes he's i'm sure break off bath water. we're in 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 on 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 belief that it would supporters and prosecutors attorneys on both sides waiting for the court martial 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 and 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 to 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 pearl in 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 he 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. special coverage or radley mining skase starts here on monday meanwhile you can follow the live updates on the pretrial protests as well. this is. some other international news in brief this hour the latest series of tornadoes

that swept through oklahoma have left at least nine dead and dozens injured some critically three people 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 when a mile wide tornado killed twenty four people and global whole community. more than a thousand people most of them civilians were killed in iraq last month according to the u. one it makes made the bloodiest month for the country since two thousand and seven some are worried that their recent sectarian violence between the sharon led government and sunni minority could become a full scale civil war the search comes after a falls raid by the security forces on the city protest camp near baghdad. with less than a year until the winter olympics the organizers of these sorts of games have given athletes something to dream about the medals have been unveiled in st petersburg and his and her family run to grab one. 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 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 theme here and that is meant to represent the multi ethnicity of russia a record thirty eight hundred of these will be produced matters because sochi twenty forty moved. 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 something like over five hundred grams i spoke with timmy 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 tuna shanker 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 sochi is ready and. some pictures but. up next a look at to move toward a run through the window of a turkey documentary is just a couple of minutes away just. 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 factions 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 us government itself as it started sounding 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 no. well the free syrian army isn't much better they seem perfectly happy to use rape and beheadings and genocide against christian l. white 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 us funded and armed the tele band and those mujahideen fighter guys and look how that turned out the us 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. visiting the general hospital in fallujah is like living it was a nightmare. children with two heads toomas wealth of nations missing limbs a macabre unbearable litany they say every family here is sheltering or hiding a deformed monstrous child.