rage against the regime turkish police continue their crackdown on protests now into their fourth day as demonstrators vent fury at what they call an authoritarian government. u.s. army private bradley manning goes on trial facing a possible one hundred fifty four years in prison for blowing the whistle on the alleged wrongdoings of the american army and action prosecutors view is aiding the enemy. becomes the first global t.v. channel to a score of one billion you tube views or you could some of our online video hits you like most.

on screen online international news and comments live from moscow this is our t.v. twenty four hours a day. nationwide protests in turkey a raging for a fourth day as demonstrators clashed with police in several cities protesters are demanding concessions from what they call the authoritarian regime of the prime minister and his party. is in istanbul with the latest. people are just as determined to go back out on the streets whether they work whether they go to school whether they're any other way busy with their lives no they're still out here in huge numbers especially considering the fact that we now have a first officially confirmed death that is related to protests we have to mention the fact that yes that is on sunday. when the protests were underway a group slammed into a car has slammed into the group of protesters as a result of these injuries one man has died and this is the first officially

confirmed death there have been reports of at least two other deaths which have happened because of police brutality this is a separate entirely separate subject of course considering the fact that police have been you can see with the way they have been dispersing protests that is they use water cannons tear gas rubber bullets plastic bullets pepper spray basically all the arsenal that they have it's going all against the protesters which are now of course the protests are now spreading old over turkey the major ones that. and of course in the. happening all over the place but of course the epicenter all the entire action remains gezi park and they seem square people are out there at this point the prime minister erdogan is out of the country right now but he did earlier slam the protesters alcoholics extremists and. basically

polluting the city and said that they are undermining the principles of democracy by going out on the streets in rather peaceful protest most of them are peaceful protests that is this fight that has already gone into pressure from several of human rights groups and several countries which were saying that the crackdown on protesters in such a brutal way is really not acceptable. and activists being correct she has been taking part in the protests in and crossroads a little early and she says the police have been attacking demonstrators for no apparent reason on the fourth day off the. protest is a park which was very peaceful people were just reading books or like you know eating stuff or just like communicating just normal ways and then police started to use. excessive tear gas and pressured while their own to the demonstrators onto the protesters and then it started to just grow this is how it goes in the morning like around noonish people start to get together and police

start to troll tear gas as we doubt any indication from the protesters right like there has been tear gassed like in the year all day long but it never stops. human rights groups including amnesty international have also his heart at the police brutality and excessive use of force or did you go to prison or has the details and you may find some of the images in his report disturbing. water cannons do gas and rubber bullets what started as an environmental protest provoked a full scale showed force from the police footage shows disoriented protesters slammed into the pavement by powerful water cannons and often the water's yellow because these are deliberately mixing in pepper spray people who are down on the ground trying to return to their senses here a young woman appears to be having a seizure and the police in action aid the people. racist

against the police. they never just act why lately. they don't use anywhere else but the police attacked severely using excessive force i wouldn't call it excessive force it's a monster torture actually similar footage is coming from around forty cities and towns across turkey there are claims the police are diluted pumping tear gas into residential homes these are among the most violent protests turkey has seen in decades each day more people are wondering whether the government remembers turkey is a democratic republic. because i was wrong. that. they did not think. this poll tests this is not only for tax and gives a fuck this is the whole policy of governments under pressure.

for. for about ten years but according to prime minister erdogan the government is the one being oppressed he slammed the broadest as anti democratic and illegitimate accusing those on the street of being extremists organized by outside forces but protests on this scale take on a legitimacy of their own and human rights organizations are already severely criticizing the government's actions he would be r t. observer said the unrest has been brewing for a long time as the government's actions have been seen by many turks as an oppression of democracy. it is like an eruption north of all conall concerning the policies for the prime minister have done in the recent years and in the recent months he has been mostly involving in the private affairs of the citizens and his way of speaking he's very of doing things. also consider to

leave the democratic values to leave the republican values of the contrary but i think this is the first time in the last eleven years that the turkish government has experienced such a strong public your reaction the protesters only one to remind the government in democracy the politicians can not do things taking the people against them turkey is a democratic society and by about gandhi's trying to get turkey into much more islamist structure based on the state. experience and this is a strong reaction i think the badness of democracy and islam is understanding clashing now it will be not civil war but it will make the lives to prime minister very difficult in coming days. and early in my calling you to ship out of a heard about the financial ramifications of the turkish and rest from artie's

business present to keep moving the markets the investors the allies and also be happy about it and they will welcomed that desk this morning with the downfall of six percent on the main takesh stock index of cars bonds a consensus that tech is that they've got she spat. by the most it's two thousand and nine which is very significant indeed so really the debt is a can more ted talks like these protests are awful and obviously the reaction of the markets seems to be quite logical but when we talk about and when we see the protests in the euro when this time that they are very sort of economically release it's because yeah because of both stories here that counts there and let's look at turkish economy it looks totally yeah it looks there to be compared to i was and i grew up in cyprus you're right only in comparison it is for a struggle day has actually been posting on average five percent growth since about two thousand one can tell you since two thousand and one growth of that she

quadrupled here we go you can see it hisself it's evident to see so we've got this strong growth going on just a particularly high in two thousand and four that managed to keep that right here this is the financial crisis which affected most of the globe they did plummet four point eight percent just that but what is impressive is the resilience just here that they demonstrated just fighting back with nine point two percent a right here we're looking at stable growth that the economy is performing well and we can say that it was relatively unscathed by the financial crisis which as you say is in stark contrast to what is happening in europe as to why the process of going over. are to live here in moscow still ahead in the program reaching a moyl stone solti's you tube has crossed an historic billion views mark we look at

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download the official. language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. he's continues here in altie the trial of the american whistleblower bradley manning who handed classified military data to wiki leaks is now under way in marin at the army private faces a list of charges among them aiding the enemy which could land him in prison for the rest of his knife. as more. it was a video that shocked the world footage of a u.s. apache helicopter killing twelve iraqi civilians including two journalists collateral murder the cold blooded brutality of the occupation captured on film it

was leaked by a young american soldier army private bradley manning the video was uploaded to wiki leaks but it would prove to be just the tip of the iceberg the former army intelligence analyst leaked more than seven hundred thousand documents containing classified information to that whistle blowing web site they included reports of torture abuse higher than acknowledge civilian casualties in short an unvarnished view of america's wars now known as the afghanistan and iraq war logs in may arrest seeking approval for his actions manning began a dialogue with a hacker named adrian levo chat logs that turned over to the government leading to manning's arrest and subsequent confinement now what came next was what proved to be one of the longest military pretrial detentions of a u.s. soldier since the vietnam war bradley manning was held in maximum security solitary confinement in a cell his attorney says was no bigger than six by eight feet and as the number of

charges grew against manning to twenty two he was allowed to plead guilty to ten lesser charges this in exchange for a maximum sentence of sixteen years now by december two thousand and twelve when he took the stand to testify about the conditions that he endured he had been in confinement for more than one thousand days now the freedom of the press foundation broke court perscribe rules it released bradley manning's explanation of his action in his own words to the public today june third bradley manning's court martial will pursue the remaining more serious charges including aiding the enemy judging by what manning has already said that are a prisoner of a maximum security facility and a hostage to your conscience of course the question of whether the young man will spend the rest of his life in prison will be answered at this trial. we can fix spokesman kristinn hrafnsson says that the clampdown on freedom of speech in the us

will not stop people from blowing the whistle on the government's wrongdoings this is a. strategy tendency that is extra you can sue the phone records that were taken for twenty general should be associated press the folks rose in tears well. let's not forget that the obama more whistleblowers have been persecuted. all other presidents of the second world war combined it will not stop. there will always be great people there who filled with the right ideas and. sometimes they need to break the rules to get information out to the people because the people have the right to know. before morning story we're now joined live by united nations torture investigator one mendez who conducted

a fourteen month investigation into the treatment of manning after his arrest in may two thousand and ten while i understand you formally accuse the u.s. government of cruel and inhumane treatment of manning saying it might have constituted torture so tell us exactly what you know about the conditions he's been held in. well they actually intervene in the first eight months of his dance on. and i inquired with the united states that we can call again but i certainly in the united states government who want to help me understand why he would be held in solitary confinement first in iraq and then in the quantico marine corps base you know we were watching. the end of that and. manning was transferred to fort leavenworth and at fort leavenworth

he was not the sort of very fine but much the explanation that i was given for the first eight months i considered insufficient. and i i issued a report that i submitted to rights council of the united nations in which i said that his eight months of solitary confinement was unjustified. and i'm just sort of tree confinement does constitute torture. well it depends on. i was in solitary confinement under all circumstances constitute torture. because it creates a pain and suffering that can be severe enough to constitute a poorly no one hundred rating treatment or in some cases torture which is a higher gravity yes it is in this case it's prolonged for the very confined and what are you thinking why do you think he was treated like that. the u.s. government. it was pursuant to the regulations of the military applies in court

martial proceedings and that it had to do with the gravity of the charges against him which seems to me that before someone is found guilty it's a reason to apply such an extreme regime. only because it's hard to say i'm serious you know you know they gave me was when they called invention of arms but they did not explain what kind of harm was really good and that is self harm or harm blunders no wrong war bases on the. good. will is not going sunday confinement. or the bases of all i knew at the time i found that his own very confined men were not justified. he was then and i know because i am in touch with his. lawyer. if he has

ever been in solitary confinement again or any other kind of. what merits my intervention i will be told as of now i am not. making any progress but have your intervention really achieved anything but some response have you had from the u.s. government i mean this. well i think it wasn't only my intervention of course there were many people and then use an institutional calling for a change of status but when he was transferred to fort leavenworth or. regime of detention does not include so that in his own mind and i think there was a positive change but of course that's not. under torture convention they are not in the government always has the obligation to investigate prosecute and punish learn may be responsible for something amounts to torture well let me quickly ask

you these are serious allegations by the u.n. could it in any way have an impact on the outcome of his trial. and i would hope so unfortunately in the pretrial motions in which this matter. the defense offer. as a as a as a witness. the military court. did not allow me to send my views to the court and as you know. he was given credit for only a few days in which not only solitary confinement that was actually a more extreme version of it was imposed on him sometime in march. two thousand and eleven. i would have. thought and i hope i live his conditions of detention for the full eight months of the heinemann

reconsider both in mitigation of any penalty that he may receive but also to investigate those who may have ordered this extreme form of treatment as i said they didn't just call them and that's un special rapporteur for torture thank you very much indeed for talking to us live on. well manning is admitted to being one of weaken leaks sources but pleaded not guilty to violating the eps benard act worldwide protests were staged in support of him people saying the u.s. government is clamping down on freedom of speech using the twenty five year old to set a threatening example to other potential whistleblowers. as more. the military court martial against private first class bradley manning begins at a complicated time for the obama administration u.s. journalists have been spied on an unprecedented number of whistleblowers have been imprisoned and access to the truth many say grows increasingly harder by the day we

have a severe problem with transparency and secrecy in this country that's for sure our problem is a cult of secrecy extreme levels of dystopian secrecy washington classified ninety two million documents in the year two thousand and eleven that's the last count we have to put things in perspective what bradley manning leaked is less than one percent of that manning pleaded guilty to ten of the twenty two charges he faces the twenty five year old said he wanted the public to know how the u.s. military campaigns in iraq and afghanistan had little regard for human life it should be clear did anybody paying attention to bradley manning. thought of himself at the time of the whistleblower that he did what he did because he thought he was making the world a better place he's no way to tame american and has never expressed anti american sentiments in any way in fact he's always said that he is and was driven by this sort of sense of patriotism and prosecutors however are pursuing

a court martial on the remaining charges including the espionage act and aiding the enemy which carries a life sentence in prison in an interview with democracy now julian assange addressed washington's allegations that manning aided the enemy by going to wiki leaks if that president is allowed to be erected it will be interesting closely. means it's a potential death penalty for any person in the military speaking to a journalist about a sensitive matter secondly it also remember oils the journalist and the publication in that chain of communicating that they would say to the enemy and therefore making them susceptible as well to the espionage act which also has a capital offenses and that is part of the. us but latter part is part of

the us attack. so we hope this letter finds you healthy and strong daniel ellsberg known as the original whistleblower leaked seven thousand government documents to the press in one thousand nine hundred seventy one revealing the truth about the vietnam war more than are four decades later he says the u.s. government is going to even greater lengths to keep the public in the dark call it a war on truth telling truth telling specifically about truth the government doesn't want. truth for government crimes or that the public needs to know. if military prosecutors successfully prove that whistle blowing is aiding the enemy then bradley manning would spend the rest of his life in prison a verdict handed down under president promised to usher in an era of transparency when he stepped into the white house new york. city.

and we've also been following the developments in the case of bradley manning on our web site you can. find all the latest here's a quick taste of what else is waiting for you right now disaster in the air or twister ripped the doors on walls of the u.s. state of missouri and want to use you tube channel to watch this extraordinary footage from an area suffering at the hands of extreme weather. and mother nature is also working in mysterious ways elsewhere just a click away you can take a virtual trip to russia siberia with snow has blanketed the region at the very beginning of summer you can check out the stunning pictures on you tube. right now . well it's spectacular videos like these that you be watching on you tube hoping it's become the first global news channel to reach one billion views on these kevin has been looking at the ones which prove most popular

over the years to reach that incredible milestone and you can watch the full show right there on you tube channel but here's a quick taste. well if ever there was proof that pictures drive your interests is certainly something that captivated millions of you around the globe when you saw this. dramatic video who watched our you tube channel more than sixty million times it was a huge hit it was also a time of course when the world found out how many russians use those dash cams to record at a second's notice as you can see here pictures that would be world headline makers the truly global stories that captured your attention with the wave of mass protest movements around the world over the last couple of years our correspondents were always in the thick of it sometimes so much so they were caught up in it. i. think hair is complete may have been around us through what you in

a day keep filming keep filming and it was images like these as the world watched helplessly that became the most watched topic on artie's you tube channel it wasn't just the scale of the earthquake and tsunami that shocked the world but then also the catalogue of failures in accidents at the fukushima nuclear plant which resulted in the worst nuclear disaster since chernobyl artie's correspondence film to the fukushima area as those explosions struck some of the reactors we all recall those pictures. investigators say they are close to having a complete picture of exactly what happened in the murder of investigative journalist anna politkovskaya the prominent reporter was gunned down in an elevator of her moscow apartment building back in october two thousand and six moscow city quarters held a preliminary hearing in the case file defendants are accused of being behind the shooting and have requested trial by jury prosecutors believe one of the men in court organized political scars murder by hiring a criminal gang of three chechen brothers and a former police officer investigators say the group was closely monitoring in the

days leading up to the killing of two of the defendants were already acquitted in two thousand and nine but the supreme court overturned the ruling launching a new investigation. or some other world news in brief your this hour suicide bombing has killed at least thirteen people including ten schoolchildren and two u.s. troops in eastern afghanistan a bomber on a motorbike detonated explosives at a busy market impact a province on an american patrol was passing by the country see the recent surge of suicide bombings targeting government facilities and international personnel this comes as afghanistan prepares for the twenty fourteen nato withdrew. the slaughter house that claimed the lives of at least one hundred twelve people in northern china more than three hundred were in the building when the broke out in the early hours of the morning and it out of third managed to escape leaving scores still unaccounted for reports suggest the exits were locked trapping work is inside the burning building. and the flame for next month's university games is arrived at

the russian capital to be lit in france it came to russia in august last year and since then has traveled to sixteen cities in the nation in just two days of a go because then about hundred kilometers east of moscow and that is the city it will host the next university head games due to take place at the beginning of next month. more news in health and head of people event of these guests raise the temperature and yet another heated debate across town is coming up after the break . 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's no legitimate expectation of privacy in the perspective of a cellular telephone where the individual has failed to protect his privacy but kicking the simple expedient of powering it off this statement seems to hint that cell phones are some sort of 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. do you 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.