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it's tumbled taksim square you sparked with and to government demonstrators for the third day in a row and made fears and west could return with renewed vigor to the turkish city police move in. the south to two western days with tear gas water cannons and spray used to while the public fury which reported in the two people dead and sent strongly vibrations all across turkey. last barbed wire and on the override police surround the european central bank in frankfurt laying into clouds of protesters will report from the scene where many thousands demanded an end to austerity. also a prominent sunni cleric calls for upon islamic jihad against president assad branding him an infidel one of them jews and christians just days up to seaward
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rebels were reportedly caught smuggling sarin gas a chemical weapons so perfect it's been banned by the you are. the i suspect shot multiple times during an interrogation all sources claim it was self-defense while according to latest report it's unclear whether he was even all . this is that we're clear on r c hello and welcome to the program. crowds of anti-government protesters are poor ing into istanbul's taksim square sparking fears of the unrest in the turkish city following two days of fierce street battles at least two people have been reportedly killed and more than a thousand injured that after a riot police moved in to discuss the rally with tear gas water cannons and
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a trick shot barton's what was initially. peaceful sit stay and snowballed into a nationwide involving almost. isn't a stumble. 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. protesters have been burning a lot of things around the square starting from vendors booths and ending mostly with. 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 to go back
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a little bit the police did withdraw from text him square in the early afternoon on saturday and that is left 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's still puddles of water everywhere from water cannons being used. to the square and one point it did seem like i was not in istanbul but rather in egypt 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 when people have gathered over their 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 most of the people that i've spoken to said they. things that they're unhappy about policies and toward syria the increasing islamisation off the country
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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 jailed when it comes to international reaction we should mention a report by amnesty international which offers happens to be really close to jackson 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 a sort of camps within a so they could help those who were injured in the protests but they couldn't do so
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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 seem like their eyes were burning and they were suffering from the effects of tear gas so we can talk about the excess of use of force and still waiting for any reaction from calls by amnesty international to stop the police brutality. comeau an independent journalist also on the middle east feels the unrest across turkey could be the direct result of prime minister to once potus is approved. i think this is quite ironic that one of the leaders that has been pushing for. syria to step down is now quietly being confronted with massive popular protests in his own country genuine protests or like the armed
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insurrection that he's wandering around stoking in syria i don't think this is the . leader of the arabs you negotiate with anyone who doesn't seem to listen to anybody on the ground. washington and tel aviv this is a this is a puppet leader. pretty much. the last few years back in one of the wars i think it's a genuine uprising that will spread and at our website you can find a live updates on the rest including footage photos and a witness accounts from that also take part how side wild and show your own ideas on the story with us in the comment section on a town called. demonstration in the german financial capital of frankfurt this week took a turn for the was when hundreds of riot gear clad officers tore into the marching protesters spraying tear gas at well police then drove the marchers into
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a time and time to area a suppression tactic known as kettling piece all of our staff for us. 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 into 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 see austerity and i don't see fascist campaign is they refused to do that then paint was thrown police responded with with pepper spray now this then ended up with a i was long standoff in the sense that all the front. with many people. in the clashes that broke out sporadically between the police and protesters. was.
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out. there. we were standing there suddenly police moved some of the sniper spree that was the reason that i managed to get. to work oh this is your policy not ours now away from me paying throwing in the pepper spraying the idea behind glow coupon i was supposed to show the political leaders of europe that they not toffy 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 well pretty desperate really saying almost twenty million people are out of work in the eurozone most of them young we're hearing that over almost one
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in four under twenty five don't have a job and that's what resulted in many people coming out on on the streets of france but to demonstrate. and turns a thousands also to come bombers across spain and portugal on sunday to make yet another stand against austerity. channel watch footage from madrid in lisbon the capitals of the two nations among the worst hit by by card. details have emerged this week of the killing of a church in the us immigrant by an f.b.i. agent ibrahim to dash it was shot dead during questioning over his alleged link to one of the boston marathon bombing suspects there have been reports suggesting he was unarmed at the time that contradicts the f.b.i. is earlier claims that he had time to agents with a knife or a metal rod to doshas father says it's hard to believe he was killed in self defense. from the photographs that were sent to me it's evident he was shot
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six times to the body wants to the head at the back of the head because good 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. and investigative journalist and veteran police officer microcode believes to dash of skating leaves a lot open to interpretation. but i will hearken back to my days on the streets in
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one nine hundred seventy six in los angeles when 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 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. egypt's legislative body is ruled illegal by the country's supreme court while on these trees a brutal execution has become a common sight. is the lack of police of the signed leaves into a spread of vigilante justice that's ahead for you. upon islamic
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jihad has been called against syria with a prominent islamic cleric granting the assad government quote more infidel the jews and christians so the call to arms was made by use of. the rhetoric reaches millions into our wallets through the al-jazeera news network which has made him stop meanwhile seaward rebel groups have refused to attend an upcoming peace conference in geneva they signed them going fighting in the syrian province of government has been the troops have mounted an enormous afonso one that analysts say you could change the course of the civil war under that my corner grocery so show discuss the past week with the company has been closely following about and watch our 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 though the group itself is highly divided there's questions as to whether they have the syrian opposition have
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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 in bargo in syria 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 al assad some western powers lucio accusing russia at this point of hampering peace efforts with the whole argument about russia supplying assad with weapons how does moscow justify this let's. 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 of 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
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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 these are russian made at 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 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 all 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 media 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
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nations human rights investigators have in fact obtained testimony from on the ground witnesses who allege that the rebels have used sarin gas. historian and middle east expert terry gunnies says some groups something syrian opposition are trying everything to provoke a military intervention i think one of the aims off some of the fight has come battering the regime is to try and create maximum havoc and produce a situation where everyone says we have to have an intervention i mean i recall very well during the first gulf war in iraq there will all sorts of propaganda week was due mostly to shown to be completely false such as that the iraqi soldiers said you know got off supplies to babies in hospitals and so many babies had died or no on a larger scale the lie that saddam hussein and iraq had weapons of mass destruction
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so i expect anything from people closely allied to the west if the a mr craig or. mr crean intervention. thousands assemble to support whistleblower bradley manning ahead of his d.-day the soldier finally faces trial of the three years waiting in homs confinement often leaking top secret documents showing alleged u.s. atrocities committed abroad details coming up shortly. for me this is a summit with some of the persian. gulf. played
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a family jazz band together. hijacked a plane together. most of them from music to terrorism. twenty five years old the question still remains. just bad hi jack. when you take three. three. three. three. three. three balls video for your media. free media r t v dot com. this is that we can all see welcome by some thousands of people gathered in the american city of baltimore in support of bradley manning on the evil while the most
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decisive days of his life the soldier faces dozens of charges often eking top secret files including footage of a u.s. helicopter attack on civilians during the country's iraq a campaign then no anticipated military trial is expected to begin on monday blake was at the rally. we're reporting in 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
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supporters and prosecutors attorneys on both sides waiting for the court martial of finally against the three years after manning was first brought into custody and it was late may 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 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 these men 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
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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. a group of hunger strike in gone tunnel bay detainees have sent an open letter to their military doctor saying they want independent medical treatment while the one hundred eighty maids have been refusing food for months now in a bid to put an end to indefinite detention without charge poor treatment and conditions there despite president obama promising once again to speed up the closure of the camp the situation that has only deteriorated more people are being force fed a procedure considered as torture by the un with the number currently standing at thirty seven more in maids are receiving medical help as well and also you spoke to the father of a gone time a prisoner who also has the kuwaiti detainees in guantanamo community and order told us what happened to his son after he resorted to starvation. my son been there
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for eleven years nor charges against him it is very difficult for him to tell me what's going on there because there is the district shoes for all the detainees not to talk about the conditions inside the camp but i can tell by the way he looks was all skinny this is the first time for him to put some glasses on his eyes. looks he looks horrible. he could not concentrate while he's talking to me he has. affected his. thinking we are very concerned very concerned about his life. this week also saw brisson embroiled in a round about its own gone time a clone it was revealed that up to ninety afghan nationals are being detained in secret and without charge at the u.k.'s camp bastion base and there's actually some
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first found out some have been held there for more. ek lawyers describe it this is a secret facility that was completely off the radar leading some to describe this as the u.k. square in afghanistan there was a fan in speedy response that we saw from the other eighty and from defense secretary philip haven't dusted details emerge of the detention facility in count past the end and of the legal action launched by u.k. lawyers on behalf of some of the detainees there are some pretty damning revelations from days away. had been held for months now the ministry of defense and the defense secretary admitted that between eighty and ninety detainees were being held that they were very quick thing to try to quash comparisons with one kind of the. main difference is number one that the afghan detainees were being held. in safety and not the second reason that
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they gave was that this wasn't a secret this is the first time that many in the british public will have heard about this detention facility of the u.k. ambassador. after these revelations saying that this was a principle of national serenity and that the detainees should be handed over to the afghan security forces as soon as possible the question of how to handle detainees this being the most enduring controversy since the u.s. led military campaigns in afghanistan and iraq until these transfers have made this controversy in the paris to guantanamo bay look like they're going to go away . london egypt's supreme court has ruled the country's islam is dominated house as well as the panel behind the current constitution are invalid however they
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can only be dissolved after a new election the date which has yet to be said confusion on the high levels of power is bridging chaos on the streets with huge learn to trust spreading as police look the other way and you might find some of the images and troops reported disturbing. viciously drugs or young street sets his corpse strings. video clips like these have become boringly frequent in brule egypt since the revolution two years ago. increasingly take justice into the . stuff for thirty one year old civil servant from the delta is one such victim he was brutally murdered and hung from a tree in broad daylight. the crowd thought that he was a thief because he's mentally ill the first blow came from behind on the back of his head and then part of his skull was hacked off the second hit was to his chest and they caught him open arms up three story is not unique since the two thousand
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and eleven revolution have been at least seventeen similar lynchings in this region alone the most high profile victim who was killed last week was the son of a leading member of the missing brotherhood's political party security forces for their part say they are unable to control the situation particularly when entire villages are involved in these bitter lanty mobs however local party leader ahmed shah hearts who personally knew one of the victims maintain security is improving post revolution egypt has experienced one of the best revolutions in history the country's being healed very quickly we're almost in a stable situation there will be security we have a plan for the economy and security of bridges but this is little consolation for the families of victims like. who have seen no justice. the local security chief said just give me one legged dog and arrest him in twenty four hours
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now was to offer has been dead for fifty days and security director has done nothing. against the backdrop of escalating civil unrest off the revolution many fear this violence is here to stay and that the worst could be yet to come true for our team show came. an officer when herschel news and bring this our heavy rain has caused flooding across central europe leaving can stranded and houses and undated in germany two people have tried and over the last couple of days and local authorities are scrambling to put up defenses against the rising horses as all. isolated flight landing in poland near the border with the czech republic where number of people have been evacuated from their houses. a powerful earthquake measuring six point three on the richter scale has shaken taiwan triggering world falls that left one person dead eighteen others have been injured upon its residents have rushed out into the streets when the child's began the quake also
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sparked a gas explosion in the center of the island taiwan t.v. reported. coming out but gripping story of a popular teenage sons turned international terrorist. 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 something like
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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 tele band and those mujahideen fighter guys and look how that turned out the u.s. government seems way to. 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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