c.n.n.'s. clashes erupt for a third day in a string of anti-government protests marked by what demonstrators claim is excessive brutality on the part of the police. the european central bank in frankfurt is surrounded by barbed wire wired police we report from the scene where several thousands have been demanding an end to austerity. a prominent sunni. islamic jihad against president assad branding him an infidel worse than jews and christians just days after syrian rebels are reportedly caught smuggling. a chemical weapon banned by the u.s. . thousands of supporters of the u.s. military whistleblower private bradley manning continue to protest at the gates of

army base fort meade on the eve of the soldier's court martial which will determine whether he spends the rest of his life in prison. and broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is thomas glad to have you with us street battles between riot police an anti-government protesters have resumed for a third night in the turkish city of clouds of tear gas and pepper spray have been flying across the. district where up to five thousand demonstrators have gathered people there have put up barricades and started throwing rocks and firecrackers at police security forces responded with water cannons injuries have been reported at the scene. has been following the events. this is the third night of protests in

turkey and unfortunately for the people here this isn't it earlier we have seen the police and protests broken. and one of the stumbles that main squares investigation in fact we do know that there is some confrontation going on there still at the moment at least we have seen clouds of smoke and of course puddles from the water cannons and tear gas being used but that doesn't stop people neither in istanbul or in any other cities and in fact there is almost too little to have them which have seen people coming out on the streets and protesting the government we're still surrounded by people in istanbul and still people are gathering here and they show absolutely no determination to go anywhere they're going to stay here for as long as it takes like i said there have been protests which have been broken up by police investigation but this is not the only thing that happened in turkey on sunday orally or in october almost two thousand people were a word chased away from the square by police as well again using tear gas and water

cannons people are wondering why exactly what is happening to police they're using such excessive force after a day of protest people in the morning come out and they start to gather in the trash devery that's left over from the protests because they obviously want to keep the area clean now what is taking these people out on the street here is the report that we have filed earlier the streets of istanbul look like a scene from war burnt cars makeshift barricades broken shop windows not exactly what residents of the city are used to this cortez is not only for taksim gives a park this is the. policy over government under pressure. for for about ten years the current chaos is the aftermath of the protests that gripped not just istanbul but some other cities and towns across turkey prime minister recep tayyip erdogan is policy on syria increasing islamisation of the country and a major crackdown on the media these are just

a few of the problems turks have with their government many feel it doesn't serve the people butter. rather it works against them when you my daughter was beaten because of what she was wearing because her attackers were affiliated with the government the police to bar and did nothing but old. cars from television they moved from here i said why don't you move they got the reaction from the police they couldn't make a. life interview with me and this is the problem that's. what happened in turkey was called a disgraceful use of excessive police force by amnesty international water cannons tear gas and pepper spray were all used against mostly peaceful protesters once the police are treated however the crowds turned their anger against the t.v. trucks of the state media accusing stations of failing to broadcast the reality of square hundreds of people wounded and talk of several deaths this is the human toll

of the clashes on the street politics is the hottest topic of conversation even an attempt to record an interview turns into a heated debate this is a very strange experience for me and. i can explain. i will explain my son my grandson. after after maybe ten years or five years it began as a quite simple sit and decide because the park people were trying to save some trees in the middle of the city but now they're saying they're trying to save turkey from aragon and his government and they say they won't leave until the prime minister does in istanbul. r.t. . and this international has condemned the excessive use of force by the turkish police saying some protesters have been left blinded by tear gas this is a video which appeared on the internet showing people trying to find shelter at a local university you can see massive quantities of tear gas are being used by the

police in the background toluene a former journalist at the economic press agency says the current. in turkey their response to the wants failed policies both domestic and foreign. third. before out of dongo where one was never interfering with our neighbors internal affairs but. it seems that under the un the our government towards the main is starting to u.s. interests. interests. also besides this there is a deep rooted in turkish probably because before our government so-called kurdish separatists and kurdish separatists in the circular saw that he did by the great middle east you need shoot the united states is that i was able to see if government does not correct its policies or if it is normal. and

early election in turkey these incidents on these protests may repeat itself several times in thirty and i think one should watch out. meanwhile anonymous hacktivists have launched a digital attack on the turkish government they've brought down the websites of the president and of the ruling party find out the details on r.t. dot com. also there you can find live updates on the unrest in turkey including footage photos and witness accounts and you can take part in your web site on our website vote and share your own ideas on the story with us in the comments section . and the demonstration in the german financial capital of frankfurt this week it took a turn for the worse when hundreds of riot gear clad officers barged into marching protesters spraying tear gas at will police and then drove the marchers into a tighter and tighter area and suppression tactic known as kettling all over was

there for us. a planned march that was supposed to go right through the middle of all germany's financial capital only really lasted five hundred meters people police into the splits in a demonstration in several different parts now the police have told us that this is because they asked people to remove mosques who were marching in the green put on c n n c fascist campaign is they refused to do that then paint was throwing 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 so many people. in the clashes that broke out sporadically between the police and protesters.

who 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. 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 eurozone countries and they made well pretty desperate really almost twenty million people are out of work in the eurozone most of them young we're hearing that open almost

one in four hundred twenty five stones have a job and that's what resulted in many people coming out on on the streets of france but to demonstrate. peter all of our reporting for us there now tens of thousands also took up to banners across spain and portugal on saturday to make yet another stand against austerity on our you tube channel you can watch footage from madrid and the lisbon the capitals of two nations among the worst hit by its. you said all the rocketing to a billion viewers from the world spirit of funny desire to continue to change join me kevin owen for more on how you helped make the first global views to reach you chub. thousands of people

have rallied over the weekend at the gates of army base fort meade in the american city of baltimore where the anticipated court martial for whistleblower bradley manning kicks off on monday the u.s. military a private faces dozens of charges after sharing a huge cache of secret documents exposing alleged american atrocities committed abroad with wiki leaks artie's andrew blake was at the rally for us. 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 cheney assessment files on iraqi and afghan war logs have all been attributed to private manning and for the 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 finally get three years after manning was first brought into custody it was late 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 filing to get a 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 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 is being in support of private manning now his court martial will actually begin on monday more than three years is after

its 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. tola who has written extensively on the case of bradley manning thinks that the leaks harmful influence on u.s. security has been grossly exaggerated. well i haven't seen any proof that it was dangerous to us security yet nor do i expect to see it for two reasons one if they do present any proof it's probably going to be behind closed doors during the trial as it'll be classified information a but also from listening to bradley manning's lawyer david coombs speak he has said that what he's been given shows that for the most part there wasn't any sort of damage he's gotten evidence back that said there there were there was something but they're not quite sure they're looking into it and there's nothing conclusive that bradley manning did harm national security. for me this is

a subtle it is. hard. and coming up later in the program killed in interrogation later in the hour we bring you new details into the death of a chechen immigrant during an f.b.i. questioning session. and he got the details on an open letter written by guantanamo bay hunger strikers who have been starving for change for over a hundred days of this and more after a short break right here on our team. we'll look at. sunny's technology innovation hall believes developments from around russia we've got the future covered. you know sometimes you see

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and live from moscow this is our teams that have you back this week the details have emerged of the killing of a chechen u.s. immigrant by an f.b.i. agent ibragim todashev was shot several times in an interrogation over his alleged a link to one of the boston marathon bombing suspects reports that the man had attacked an f.b.i. agent with a knife or a metal rod have come under question today father says it's hard to believe he was killed in self-defense. from the photograph that was sent to me. time to the body wants to the head at the back of the head it's a beach 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 one happened there until there is an official investigation the agents say my son attacked and then there were several armed and

well trained men even if he lost his temper and became violently they could have restrained him that wounded shoot him in the leg will be on the whole the shoulder but what happens was murder complete with a finishing shot or maybe my son knew something the police didn't want to come out and they killed him to keep him a sign of good does now. and we've got more news for you just a click away including thousands have rallied in tokyo against the use of nuclear power a little over two years since the deadly fukushima disaster you can head to our t.v. dot com to find out what prompted the mass protests in japan's capital. expected beginning to the russian region of siberia where locals. got photos and you tube videos for you on our website. a pan islamic jihad has been called against syria with a prominent islamic cleric. government quote more infidel than jews and christians

the call to arms was made by sheikh yousef. whose rhetoric reaches millions in the arab world through the al-jazeera news network which has made the sheik a star meanwhile syrian rebel groups have refused to attend an upcoming peace conference in geneva they cite the ongoing fighting in the syrian province of qusayr where the government and lebanese hezbollah troops have mounted an enormous off of one that analysts say could change the course of the civil war early on my colleague discussed in the past week with our tees off who has been closely following events in the war torn 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 holding

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 on syria 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 somehow help to ratchet up pressure against president bashar al assad some of western powers lucy accusing russia at this point of hampering peace efforts with the whole argument about russia supplying assad with weapons how does moscow justify this it'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 determine quote what he called some hotheads from a considering to send in foreign forces to intervene in the syrian conflict i do these are russian made at three hundred i myself others are supposed to be for defensive purposes not all friends 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 old those are fronts this is one of the rebel groups that's affiliated with. that's been fighting bashar al assad on the ground and at least according to one that we do know reports they've discovered what they said two kilograms of staring down as 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 when you're looking at him a bit of the 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 it the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov calling for an investigation into what obviously is a murky but but serious issue of concern historian and middle east expert eric ali says some groups of the syrian opposition are trying everything to provoke

a military intervention. i think one of the aims off some of the fight has combating 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 day in iraq they will all sorts of propaganda week with you mostly shown to be completely false such as the iraqi soldiers said you know got all supplies to babies in hospitals and so many babies died or no largescale the. saddam hussein and iraq had weapons of mass destruction so i expect anything from people closely allied to the west if the a mr. mr green intervention you weapons

could start reaching syria by august after the european union lifted an arms embargo against the war torn state spearheading the initiative were britain and france despite opposition from other states who were wary those very weapons could be turned against european europeans artes you got a piece going off takes a look at the syrian opposition and those who might be armed on its behalf. since britain and france blocked attempts to extend the e.u. embargo on supplying arms to the syrian rebels there have been growing fears that the weapons could end up in the wrong hands and this is why the syrian opposition is made up of many divided and often competing factions and there's 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 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. he's going off reporting for us earlier now several hunger strikers at guantanamo bay have issued an open letter to the facilities military doctor seeking independent medical evaluation over half of the detainees are now in their fourth month of starvation in an attempt to bring attention to their indefinite detention without charge and you main treatment and force feeding now despite president obama's promising once again to speed up the closure of the camp situation there 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 additional inmates are receiving medical help as well r.t. spoke to the father of a guantanamo prisoner who also heads of the kuwaiti detainees in guantanamo

committee colleague he told us what happened to his son after he resorted to starvation my son being there for eleven years no charges again it's against him it is very difficult for him to tell me what's going on there because it is the district shoes for all the detainees not to talk about the conditions inside the camp box i can tell by the way he looks was so skinny this is the famous 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 very concerned about his life and this week saw britain embroiled in

a row about its own guantanamo clone it was revealed that up to ninety afghan nationals are being detained in secret and without charge at the camp bastion base it is our teaser for doubt some have been held there for more than a year. e.-k. lawyers described this is a secret facility that was completely off the radar leading some to describe this as the u.k.'s kuantan image in afghanistan but it was a firm and speedy response that we saw from the other eighty one from defense secretary philip haven't just the details emerge of the detention facility in count bastion and of the legal action launched by u.k. lawyers on behalf of some of the detainees there were some pretty damning revelations from these lawyers these detainees being held for fourteen months now the ministry of defense and the defense secretary admitted that between eighty and ninety detainees being held that they were very quick thing to try to move away

and quash these comparisons with one kind of my. main difference is number one the afghan detainees they said were being held. in safety and the second reason that 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 and the u.k. ambassador spoke out 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 has been the most enduring controversy since the u.s. led military campaigns in afghanistan and iraq and certainly until these transfers have made this controversy and these compare parazynski. they don't look like they're going to go away surfer london british m.p.

jeremy corbyn agrees that similarities between camp bastion and guantanamo bay are striking. people are collected all rested as enemy com but held for very long periods and not allowed normal judicial process. and i think that the legacy of two thousand and one of guantanamo. and the extraordinary rendition process is something that's going to live for a very long time international law has been seriously undermined by britain and the usa and never had a view over afghanistan for the past twelve years the afghan government is supposed to be in charge of the country and those british american and many other soldiers allegedly fighting to protect this government they claim they can't hold prisoners over to this government they will be tortured but instead they're held illegally in these two bases. still to come egypt's legislative body is ruled illegal by the

country's supreme court on the streets brutal mob executions become a worryingly common sight the lack of police oversight leading to a spread of vigilante justice. plus the new gold medals for the sochi winter olympics have been unveiled causing ripples of excitement with a less than a year before the event takes place russia and the world by storm these stories and more after a short break on a. new york magistrate judge gary brown has ruled that it's ok to track people's location via their cell phone the judge supports his decision by saying that there is no legitimate expectation of privacy in the perspective of

a cellular telephone where the individual has failed to protect his privacy but taking the simple expedient of powering it off this statement seems to hint that cell phones are some sort of fun luxury and that people are just too lazy to turn off their phones when they want privacy this ignores the fact that there are many people who have to be on call twenty four seven like surgeons and server technicians these people can't just turn off their phones so does that mean that certain professions can't have privacy also this presumption that people have no expectation of privacy what about people who send images of text messages of a sexual nature to each other joy i think that all these people just assume it's all public goods i don't think so the fourth amendment says that people have the right to be secure in their persons houses papers and effects and i'm pretty sure that's cover cell phones too but that's just my opinion.

and you're watching are to glad to have it back with us a schizo frantic man from kenya who claims to have murdered hundreds of people has been granted asylum in the u.k. bringing into focus the flaws of the country's immigration system as artie's political reports on the uphill battle for the british authorities looking to deport new arrivals who threaten public safety. he says he's murdered up to four hundred people with a machete and his native kenya killed police and taken part in female genital mutilation but a court ruled that twenty seven year old. is free to stay in the u.k. he arrived illegally back in two thousand and three but when the home office tried to deport him he appealed and an immigration tribunals ruled that he suffers from

schizophrenia and had made up the atrocities he was granted leave to remain in the u.k. because he's at risk of committing suicide if he returns to kenya. if you look at the. john. potentially dangerous individual that the home office of tried and failed to deport jordanian terrorist suspect abu qatada has avoided extradition for over a decade as lawyers argue it's against his human rights to return to jordan where he could face torture. people but it did to happen. to death in broad

daylight by two men wielding meat cleavers the country the suspects have been known to morrissey's and questions have been asked about whether or not the police could have done more to the men. and yes a week later we learn that a mentally unstable man who claims to have killed hundreds of people gets to stay in the u.k. the ruling once again raises questions about his safety the british immigration judges are protecting. ati in london. and egypt's supreme court has ruled the country is almost dominated upper house as well as the power behind the. and constitution are invalid however they can only be dissolved after a new election the date for which is yet to be set confusion in the higher levels of power are breeding chaos on the streets with vigilante justice spreading as police look the other way little bit of a warning you might find some of the images in bill trues report disturbing. angry crowds viciously drug a young man through

a street sets his corpse on fire and strings it up video clips like these have become boringly frequent in brule egypt since the revolution two years ago as citizens increasingly take justice into their own hands. on mistah for a thirty one year old civil servant from the nile 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 here it was to his chest and they caught him open i'm sorry story is not unique since the two thousand 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 able 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 one of the 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 egypt this is little consolation for the families of victims like i'm sabri who have seen no justice. the local security chief said just give me one legged dog and arrest him in twenty four hours now was darfur 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. see.

now is take a look at some international news in brief for you this hour at least six people have been killed and five others kidnapped in separate attacks in western iraq on barre province armed men shot three truck drivers and set their vehicles on fire close to the syrian border a civilian and a police officer were kidnapped from the site where the truck drivers were attacked while government abducted two more officers and a civilian north of the town in fallujah another attack occurred where armed men killed a cousin of the provincial chief and wounded his wife more than a thousand people most of them civilians have been killed in iraq last month according to the u.n. . at least sixteen people have been killed in clashes between hezbollah and the syrian rebel forces in lebanon not far from the border with syria one member of hezbollah and at least fifteen rebels died in the violence as a lot has also been involved in the blockade of the syrian town of qusayr a key logistical hub and supply route for weapons being smuggled into the country.

at least three people have died over the last couple of days and at least eight more were missing on sunday as heavy rain across much of europe has led to flooding poland and bulgaria have experienced high water levels homes have been evacuated across southern germany the czech republic austria and switzerland as rivers reach dangerously high levels of check the capital prague is on high alert and authorities fear a repeat of the catastrophic floods in august two thousand and two. a powerful earthquake measuring six point three on the richter scale shook taiwan killing two people and injuring at least twenty one others kind of the residents rushed into the streets when the jolts began the quake also sparked a gas explosion in the center of the island. such a winter olympic games are fast approaching with less than a year now until they get underway and the winners' medals were unveiled in st

petersburg this week with some of russia's best traditions and into them artes under farmer gave us a glimpse of the spoils that will go to the olympic winners. 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 designers hope to capture russia's sense of national identity and character and they've tried to do that by showing the warm waters of the black sea crashing into the ice of krasnaya polyana up in the mountains and if you look very closely you will also notice a patchwork quilt thing here and that is meant to represent the multi ethnicity of russia a record thirteen hundred of these will be produced and that is because sochi twenty fourteen will be the biggest winter olympics in history and also if you win one of these you will need a very strong net because they do you weigh in at something like over five hundred grams i spoke with jimmy fortunate shanker who chairs the sochi organizing

committee and he hoped that when someone does game one of these they will also take away the spirit of russia on a more serious note mr chernyshenko also addressed security concerns and said that the government had taken exceptional steps to guarantee the games would be safe and secure he also talked about the possibility of a lack of snow fall because salty 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 sought she is ready andrey farmer. simply just. after a short break or two speaks with the leader of the libertarian party in the netherlands about individual freedoms and what the party stands for. modern day exist christian communities in the greater middle east have been on the

decline for the past century particularly over the last decade what accounts for this arab nationalism the advent of the arab spring or the logical outcome of western meddling and outside intervention it's. seals are born to right on the ice fields of the white sea. throughout the twentieth century the poles were hunted for their snow white furs. russia imposed a ban on this trade and hunters have since been replaced by tourists but these pups stay safe forever. saving seals on r.t.e. . to least be tooling which. will use programs and documentaries in arabic in school here. reporting from the will talks books fifty yard p. interviews intriguing stories for you to. see than troy.

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darty dot com. i. it's been said that in life only two things that guarantee death and taxes my guest today has some issues with one of those i'm joined by two on monday as the leader of the libertarian party of the netherlands thanks very much for talking to us now for our view is that might not be completely ofay with libertarianism what is it that you stand for it's a political philosophy that once and maximize individual liberty and minimize government we believe in self ownership we believe that every individual owns his own life his own body the fruits of his own labor and that these are fundamental human rights that nobody should file it including the government so if libertarianism is trying to pay as little tax as possible deal find yourself in a situation where we get what you pay for well there are many reasons why we're

opposed to taxation the first reason is a moral reason we believe taxation is immoral we believe that every individual has a right to his own life and therefore rights to the fruits of his labor are right to his property and that it is morally wrong to take somebody's property against their will and that is what taxation is taxation to legalize the form of robbery what changes would libertarianism bring to your. well first of all would have a lot more freedom it would mean the people would now control their own lives they control their own destinies they can decide for themselves what it is they want to do with the fruits of their own labor their longer have a government that's taking half of what they earn what we get what do we get a return we get streets we get we get highways filled with traffic jams we get hospitals with waiting lines we get schools that are very expensive but the quality of these schools is not all that great we get. an army of bureaucrats whose job is

to make new rules and they keep making new roles all the time what are the main problems facing europe right now. the problems caused because. of our financial system because the government has created the monopoly of government employee of money creation there was a time when money was gold and when money was gold and good money was gold coins there was no inflation there was deflation in fact one one coin of gold could buy you more and more over time because. there were the production levels are rising much faster than the amount of gold in the world and that in those days there were no depressions there were no big recessions that started when. money sort of started changing when people.