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very warm welcome to you from all of us here. with you worldwide headlines the. life police already facing widespread criticism for using excessive force and now being accused of being behind the killing of a young man. as the details. twenty two year old man did die after his sustaining a head wound during the night protests in the south of turkey in the city of kentucky and now out of the protesters are saying the shocking apparently from a police car however this information we have to stress this hasn't been confirmed yet so we have to wait and see for at least somewhat official results whether or not this indeed was a case of severe police brutality earlier on sunday there was a young man also died after a car slammed into a crowd of protesters so far these are two confirmed deaths but the people on the
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street that we have been speaking to they're saying that they have personally seen least four or five people are dead more than sixteen hundred people have already been injured and more than a thousand arrested there is more and more people coming out on taksim square going to get the park just in istanbul alone the numbers think racing and most of them are really peaceful protesters and we have talked to one of the young lawyers association representatives who explained to us why people continue to flood the streets in turkey voicing their protest of the current government have a lot of groups who not only low years here are some doctors which is the organization of the community of the nation they're asking the government to resign they become a union here due to do to do illegal acts of the government now their decision is somewhat different in a different part of the city just a couple of kilometers from here in the road just as there are actually targeting the prime minister's office says the police are retaliating with tear gas water cannons rubber bullets plastic bullets prime minister erdogan is actually out of
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the country he's on a trip to morocco and speaking on monday he said that the situation in the country in turkey is calm he has also disregarded the words of the turkish president good who called off to end police brutality and is actually meeting with the representatives of the top opposition parties in turkey in order to try and solve the situation however prime minister erdogan has said that he doesn't understand what the president says when he says. that the protestors message has been heard to members of the public sector also going out in protest today so this ad just adds to the magnitude of protests that we are seeing so really the protest movement in turkey does look like it's only gaining momentum. right there she is. closely watching the events nationwide as well and you can follow her on twitter for the updates and of course the latest developments as well. now widespread protests in turkey pose a real challenge to the government of activists demanding his resignation let's get
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more on this now from opposition members who now joins us live from istanbul and a big hello to you from moscow thanks for joining the program today the turkish prime minister actually blaming you and the rest of the opposition for causing the on russian violence or are you buying what he's selling. this whole i'm not buying what he's selling we have started this to protect this park you know it's started with protecting the last small green area of istanbul which is in the middle of taksim square a small park and we've started this with or i'm a part of kind of collaboration between different environmental list need to write a speech and their organizations want to now three years ago i was not for my pool party but i was i took this platform as their nature and there by then we were blamed we were told you know. many poles we. would not be anywhere don't
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join this don't join this movement however right now it is not a political movement quality political party moment not anymore this demonstration has turned into all the battles individual freedoms about how we live . especially the youth and you can see the age average is very very low it's about sixteen seventeen you know some sort of jump. start as you mention of a moment ago with with it with the idea of the governments idea of re-using of this green park in istanbul so the question i was you were alluding to there that was a catalyst but actually exacerbated a problem that was brewing already people were upset as you said the youth or lack of democracy personal freedoms what else are they angry about. well there i think
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in general and actually author their work and. people also join i think this is a middle class. together with their youth and elderly as well as the middle age i think this is this is a moment. by those people who have felt for so many years now since the government came into power. who have felt that in every way we understand we understand there is a lot of resentment towards the one government at the moment but if i may for a moment here you know for five days now excessive unrest going on and a huge use of force by the secu security post now the police there and do i want to show a picture to you and our viewers on our t.v. this shows a picture legit lee showing a police with the back of the helmets we can see it right now the police identification numbers on the back of the helmets have been obscured or even covered now without speculating too much is there any reason why you can think the
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police would have to hide their identities. yes i think they are also i will tell you even for their more than one thing their identities we are very sure from all the reports coming from across the country from the protesters peaceful protests that is why being used. definitely in order this proportion of the vine in spite of police on them that actually police is collaborating with. the gruelling government government branch in civil war and they are actually beating up. holding up the protesters together hand in hand. it is amazing what. scenes you can see in the back streets especially yesterday very late in the square we have seen actually ahead me to the quarter has dropped gas on us i have been affected along with two other and we are hearing also
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we seen the footage also police helicopters using essentially rocket launchers to dispose tear gas amongst the crowds along of course with the police on foot if i if i may i'm running so low on time here the prime minister has said that these protests are nothing like the arab spring and events on surulere square in cairo do you agree. it may not be internationally the says being named another spring but the velvet revolution so i would like to see what feels underneath i don't know yet we are going to see but this is definitely a demand to live without the being insult that right now the government's so-called mentor will propaganda and slogan has turned into not only an insult on people which has been going on for so many years but we it turns into have violence on others which doesn't think like the majority of the people of course and the prime
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minister came up on the t.v. before leaving the country yesterday and said big thread he said i'm holding my fifty percent of the majority very difficult i'm there to be you know what i mean me already he's the ones coming out of criticism for for suddenly jumping out of town during these unprecedented protests the biggest protest in living memory as many as telling us now what do you say he's back in town it's more about see if you can deal with this ongoing crisis a suffix a member of a turkish opposition party thank you for joining us on our last day. it is good to have you with us here and i'll see today i'm rory sushi washington is deploying patriot missiles and f. sixteen fighter jets to jordan the u.s. central command says they'll be used in military drills first but then they can
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remain off the woods in a nation which borders war torn syria because it's fueling concern that tensions in the region could escalate even further. paula slips at what's behind a move that the u.s. insists is only aimed at helping. well it's certainly not really about jordan what we do know is that the deployment of a patriot missile battery and if sixteen fighter jets to jordan comes amid escalating international tension over the syrian conflict what the u.s. is saying is that the weapons are meant to be part of a military drill but it has said that they could remain in jordan afterwards to counter the threat posed by the syrian civil war now this comes several months since nato deployed patriot missile batteries in turkey along its one of the border there with syria and although the back police are designed to intercept scud missiles they could potentially be employed to enforce a no fly zone and certainly this is the indication from recent reports that say that the white house has asked the pentagon to draw up plans for
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a no fly zone inside syria that would be enforced by the united states and other countries such as silence and britain according to old contracts with the syrian government moscow is planning to send its three hundred anti aircraft missiles to syria to balance the situation there as a deterrent against foreign military intervention syria is reportedly planning to place orders for make fighter jets as a follow up to this now this has made the u.s. and its allies furious the latest move by syria is being seen as a bid to challenge the european union powers who recently lifted the arms embargo on the syrian rebels this is our prosecutors on day one of whistleblower bradley manning's trial so that he knowingly aided the enemy by handing over secret cables to wiki leaks the army private responsible for the biggest security leak in u.s. history is facing life in prison or more all this from our blog. private bradley
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manning twenty five year old army intelligence officer is accused of giving military files to the web site wiki leaks in turn aiding the enemy according to military prosecutors those prosecutors said that when private manning uploaded files anti-secrecy website wiki leaks he did so with the intent of harm that were to protect now supporters of manning gather here to a rally in support of the soldier who that they deem a whistleblower but prosecutors painted a much different picture by the end when army prosecutors delivered their opening remarks they said that private manning was someone who knowingly and willingly went to wiki leaks with the purpose of bringing harm to the united states now something that was very very significant that we saw here after three years of waiting for the court martial finally get underway was that prosecutors really tried to bring a connection between private manning and julian assange the publisher of wiki leaks
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now in his attorney michael ratner and have spoken at length for years now about how this trial the trial against american soldier is going to be used to bring charges against wiki internal assad to be executed u.s. and perhaps even sentenced to die so the way things wrap up here and perhaps twelve weeks time is going to really play an important part in deciding how the u.s. goes against wiki leaks in the last couple of weeks we've actually seen more and more examples lately of u.s. prosecutors pulling against journalists and other news agencies for so-called leaks defense attorney for private manning portrayed him as a hero david bloom's hopes that the u.s. government will realize that this is a person who had no intent on aiding the enemy and simply wanted to expose crimes that he thinks the world has better from. naughty dot com supporting on the manning trial has made it the target of a hucker attack our website was taken down for around five i was up before coming
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back online last night the group which claimed responsible. he said they did it because of ati's coverage of bradley manning and julian of songe whom they call the traitor and cyber terrorist by the same organization carried out a similar denial of service attack back in august last year when the wiki leaks founder julian assange launched his own exclusive interview program right here on r.t. . or let's have a look at this video right here behind me showing u.s. soldiers shooting iraqi civilians children among them of course the video became infamous but bradley manning's leaks contain plenty of other information as well and the documents highlighted the operations of the notorious via ground detention facility in afghanistan for example they revealed the prisoner numbers and transfers at a facility where you're seeing widespread allegations of torture and there also are descriptions of unreported friendly fire incidents between coalition and afghan forces these leaks also showed that around fifteen thousand more civilians died in
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iraq than previously thought activists say they made up about eighty percent of all the deaths also it's been revealed that people not deemed a threat were held and tortured out guantanamo bay to extract intelligence and that's despite the u.s. claiming the prison is only there for dangerous militants or that mr david swanson a peace activist he says it wasn't at all about these documents doing any harm in the first place. this is an unprecedented legal case being brought by the government arguing that making secrets public through the media in dangers the united states people by aiding the enemy that is if you make something public any whistleblower any media outlet any were reporter or journalist because some enemy can get ahold of public information you have aided the enemy and they will they will bring evidence that osama bin laden had in his possession information that came out through bradley manning's leak they will not as far as anyone knows
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present any evidence that any harm resulted from this to any civilian or soldier in stark contrast to the harm being brought upon so many civilians and soldiers by the u.s. government's actions that this pushback against bradley manning helped end the occupation of iraq which was a great harm to the u.s. people as well as to the people of iraq i think that he should be awarded the nobel peace prize there's ition at many nobel dot org to do that he's one of the nominees he actually deserves that he actually qualifies under alfred nobel's will unlike some other recent recipients i don't think that whistleblowing should be punished. so they come for you here on the program including unfit and ailing and the u.k. health health care system it's taking the brunt of austerity patients are expected to suffer the government pressures hospitals and clinics to meet its savings
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all here. from the world talks of the ip interviews intriguing story for you. visit. with me rule re sushi world update soon for now though health care bosses are wired about the pressure being put on hospitals by that of austerity and they warn that patients will have to wait longer for treatment if indeed they can get any at all the government is trying to push through twenty billion pounds in so-called efficiency savings. to form a hospital executive and whistleblower he says target driven decisions are simply putting lives at risk. it's a system unlike any other one of the world's largest publicly funded health
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services but britain's n.h.s. is facing growing problems austerity means cuts to vital services at a time when demand for their services is that an all time high perhaps more concerning for many is a raft of scandals regarding substandard care at n.h.s. hospitals around the country february saw the publication of the francis report which looked into failings of care at the mid staffordshire hospital near birmingham where over one thousand people may have died needlessly as a result of patient neglect the outgoing head of the n.h.s. who presided over the scandal has even been dubbed the man with no shame and there's been accusations of failings of care at all the hospitals around the country gary walker is the former chief executive of the united lincolnshire hospitals trust he lost his job after trying to alert his bosses to the fact that patients were risk gary you tried to tell your bosses what was happening what went
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wrong at the hospital where you were. back in two thousand and nine like today we had hospitals that were. stretched we had something like ninety nine percent occupancies and we said well in that situation with so many patients we couldn't deliver the targets anymore the response back was well you need to deliver the targets whatever the demand and if you can't do it we'll get rid of you and anybody else who says. the very beginning it's about politicians. and it's about civil servants doing whatever it takes to do that now you say you were silenced why. because i raise concerns with david nicholson the head of the n.h.s. i raised concerns with senior people in the department of health and all of. that information never to become public we've got more cuts on the way what's the future of the n.h.s. can the national health service get over this i think unless you go on a study you can't convince people why there needs to be so you. i mean we know you
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that there needs to be twenty billion pounds a day in the n.h.s. now that's twenty percent of the budget so that means you know one in five hospitals potentially need to close so i think what's happening is this is a slight revolution with this stuff getting up in large numbers and saying we can't treat as individuals any more insight because you now have got too many people raising concerns you need to do something very welcome any thanks for your comment a new report out from the british medical journal says that patients are more likely to die if they have operations near the end of the week pretty boy see. the masters of global finance are finding it rather hard to prop up the idea that austerity is the answer to the world's economic doldrums boxcars are in so you hope but will they have a look and you for school. forget keynesianism or austrian school the only economic theory today is potemkin ism according to wikipedia the phrase potemkin village was originally used to describe
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a fig village built only to impress the phrase of values typically in politics and economics to describe any construction of a literal or figurative built soley to deceive others into thinking that some situation is better than it really is potemkin is policies include quantitative easing interest rate cutting market appeasing boondoggle building help to buy schemes george. well of course everybody's talking about this potemkin village in northern ireland built for the g eight northern ireland is building a fake town with government money to make it look like austerity work the butchers business has been replaced by a picture of a butcher's business across the road is a similar tale a spall business premises has been made to look like an office supply store so as you see as well from this image here this is the fake butcher shop it's not actually a thriving business it's a dilapidated rundown. and
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you can catch on much because it's full program throughout the day you're on. well . of course some of the other stories waiting for you right now on our website. for example go to. the militant organizations in northern syria. just like any other. story right there right now. if you like. company is offering a seventy percent discount for those. details on the website. for now u.s. federal prosecutors have shut down digital payment network liberal. and many fear the growing. could be next. which was shut down due to a six billion dollars money laundering scheme
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a bit coin is independent. in the wake of the investigation into the lives he was of bitcoin is now in the fire the knowledge of six change of the digital currency is now requiring all accounts to be verified as the u.s. paul special on the coins to get more insight into all of this i'm now joined by christopher hall from the institute of i'm a humongous highlights tina crisp ok tell me do you think that this demonstrates that the u.s. so threatens. the u.s. economy economy will no longer have the current say do you feel that's a threat going on here as well i think that the federal reserve isn't threatened so much by the loss of the dollar the reason they're there and because it's. not going to bring down the dollar i think they're more worried about alternatives to the u.s. dollar being out there and that kind of undercutting u.s. monetary policy actually taking away the anonymity quite removed one of the
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arguments that government has again right but you think that the whole point that people go to is a big coin is because the trust of of global central banks is getting is dwindling i would agree with that it's our really i don't think there is a global central bank actually coming out and saying we have a policy that is going to make your money worth less so we are looking for these other channels that work well or that are not meant to take you further off the grid but i don't think it's the only reason that people are attracted to the wind in these other you know the currency we really kind of started only just begun to tinker and experiment with the limit of the free banking of alternative currency they're going to be more creative they're going to be different than going and they're going to be better and tougher to get things. ok straight to afghanistan to open up the aussie walls up to now it's reported the afghan government has made
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a rare arrest of one of its senior holes and military officials are accused of illegally hunting over afghan prisoners to a man known as dr ryan khandahar he is the chief interpreter for u.s. special forces in the region and the arrest is being linked to multiple cases of torture and killing. almost ten thousand people had to flee giant floods in central europe torrential rains left at least nine dead many more missing as you can see right here the rivers are dangerously high levels in germany austria switzerland and the czech republic in fact in prague other troops in the historic the old town they're putting up protective barriers to try and keep the national treasures of. what's been a pleasure having you with us here at r.t. today just a moment on crunching the numbers our financial program prime interest coming your way after the break.
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good afternoon and welcome to prime interest i'm harry i'm boring here in washington d c let's get to the day's headlines. oh your mum and dad once in a while that's what the world's most powerful monetary manipulator told princeton grads over the weekend that would be chairman ben bernanke he was a princeton professor himself other pearls if you uniform isn't dirty you haven't been in the game well after four and a half years the nearest zero interest rate policy. to renting where every to see just how dirty the chairman's uniform is that this point but don't worry i've been channeling poet robert burns and forrest gump the chairman close and true truman
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ask fashion give him hell and that's about what we can expect when the fed tapers away the punchbowl i'll be talking about the fat and gold with peter schiff in a bed and prime interest producer justin underhill will present a chart to explain in just exactly what the fed has been doing these of the q e. and in the u.s. the big banks have had to submit to living a wills to regulators this is basically a blueprint for their wind down the should they become insolvent or maybe i should say more insolvent with the central banks of central banks which is the bank for international settlements just came out with its own plan for how to deal with too big to fail it's simple they say to solve the creditors of the positives take the onus of a what cyprus and force the creditors to recapitalize a new banking entity but this presupposes the creditors have the money to do this after all is too big to fail goes down worth doing.
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