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geographic ins and jackass trade unions join the nationwide protests against all they called state terror by the regime the violence has claimed two lives with the latest killing being blamed on the families. washington says it will send hatred missiles would at sixteen fighters to jordan for exercises and maybe base them that afterwards just a couple calls the border from conflicts triggered syria. prosecutors move against us on the private bradley manning saying he knew well that hundreds of thousands of state secrets leaked by him a good fall into the wrong kind of. international
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news live from moscow this is us here with me here national thanks for joining is leading talk as trade unions representing two hundred forty thousand workers have begun a two day strike against the government is the latest force to join the nationwide protests that have gripped the country with police a burst of a cracking down on demonstrations a second fatality has been confirmed the fatal shooting of a protest which some are blaming on the also our shoes as arena going to sound from istanbul. 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 i'm talking now of the protesters are saying the shot came 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
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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 street that we have been speaking to they are 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 number of sing creasing 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 there were looking for groups who not only low years here are some doctors it is the organization of the community of the nation they're asking our government to resign to become a union here due 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 and noticed is there are actually targeting the
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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 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 don has said that she doesn't understand what the president says when he said. that the protestors message has been heard members of the public sector are also going out in protest today so this ad just adds to the magnitude of protests that we are staying for so really the protest movement in turkey does look like it's only gaining momentum. and let's not cross live to for reaction from professor demir professor dimia welcome to all see great to see you so despite the police crackdown turkish authorities have so far failed to surprise
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the protests what actions do you expect them to take next. the protests realistically triggered the more the polish police force intervenes and uses force it's just going to get out of control in stumbled the first day of the protests had only thirty people in taksim and. the next day people became three hundred people and the next day it was treat hours and now there are thousands of people protesting so the best course of action probably would be for the government to step back and look what do demands of the protesters are and act accordingly but i'm afraid there are no signs that they are drawing government will taking a side step just yesterday before prime minister lifted the country. put all the blame on twitter and social media and called people who drink alcohol is alcoholics and that he doesn't have a support base among them yet but do you think anyone will be held accountable for what's being called the excessive use of force against protesters. i really don't
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think so i had this is just the last tipping point disadvantage in continuing for the last three years i think the turning point was the two thousand and ten referendum on constitutional changes and. demand and i would fifty eight percent positive support for the changes and i am afraid they are growing government misinterpreted those results and toward it fifty eight percent of the country are supporting him so since two thousand and ten his actions became more and more authoritarian he broke the law several times police brutality just became a fact of life in daily routine and nobody has been brought accountable for that just to give an example today turkey has most journalists in jail among other countries according to press freedom index we have more journalists in jail than china or any other country on earth and just two months ago he called openly in public. firing off a journalist we have thousands of politicians kurdish politicians mostly in jail
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again for expressing their opposition to the current government and just made a last month on the celebrations it was again mass police brutality was in play the entire city of the was under martial law in a sense the. bridges were lifted the ferry and boss and metro transit transports were stopped to prevent people from going to taxi to protest or go on and when he was asked why did he put this bends the restrictions on people's mobility said well they were not there to celebrate the media but you protest against our government so i'm really not sure and i don't think there'll be any accountability regarding the police brutality against this quite peaceful mostly protesters yet and i was just downtown. ten minutes ago and protesters are mostly peaceful i haven't seen any any violence by the protesters but there are two times more policemen than the number of protesters in downtown cairo right now i see and
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as you mentioned before the prime minister has pretty much sidelined but the country's president says they have a right to speak out and their concerns will be address why has the ruling elite. i feel there's a split already the president already came. to prime minister statements and cochairman of party also said that they are back stepping especially regarding the controversial shopping mall in taksim square but in his press conference yesterday he only said that they will have the shopping center to be up there on top of the day velocity which it was again a controversial issue so i don't see him back stepping now there is a chance that he may. he may draw his opposition to the demands of the protesters we doubt really getting it he likes to show himself as a strong man and he's not happy for accepting defeat years or so that might be
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a chance that his own party may push him to reverse some of his policies but about it i think dependent of the individual particularly issues regarding their dalgleish shopping mall or not the broader issue that protesters are bringing up and this is again it was brewing for the last three years is the increase in the two italians and top down management of his government that he seemed to handle the makes decisions that affect the lives of millions of people in this country and he thinks that majority rule means that the majority becomes a dictator of the country so i'm going to hopeful that this actually protests are good signs for. health health and signed it just a couple blocks away from the presidential palace people can go out and express their opinions i have talked to several protesters today many of them are first time protesters they have never participated in political organization to be in any group or organization but still they're on the streets and protesting because they feel that their life style of life and their culture and traditions are under
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attack by doing and they also example just you see yes could this nationwide protests from your point of view grow into a more powerful uprising like the one that toppled mubarak in egypt for instance. well i really don't care why comparisons with do we do. here is the difference mr do you like him or not or you agree or disagree with his policies democratically elected he got twice more than forty percent of the world in free and fair election according to most international observers so his government is a legitimate government like mubarak or bashar al assad in syria or. he was democracy go elected so i don't see the protesters targeting to child topple his government now this doesn't mean it's not going to grow further i think in a social movement it has its own dynamics and it is growing in
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a snowball fashion and i think it's going to spread yesterday night although iran could ever protest and even housewives did. not evolve. i am sorry i have to interrupt you here live from uncorrupt that was professor of herat thank you very much indeed for your insight thank you thanks for having me and human rights groups and some foreign officials including the u.s. secretary of state have condemned the excessive use of force by turkish police the country's deputy prime minister claims tear gas and other means of crowd control are only being used in self-defense but first test is and images from the scene paint a different picture and for instance this photo that has now become a symbol of the protest shows an unarmed woman being pepper sprayed in the face in istanbul witnesses say the police are increasingly resorting to force without any provocation and water cannons and tear gas are being used on crowds in several cities where some described as bystanders including women and children are often caught in the crossfire police officers are also being accused of trying to mask
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their identity and this photo here apparently shows personal numbers on police helmets have been obscured or covered up and the journalist andrew finkel has written extensively about the region things the protests were mainly a response to the crackdown. it's clear that there is an opposition movement forming against the government willy outside the confines of the traditional political party outrage a feeling which we're seeing on the streets is very much the result of the way the police handled you know sit down tree hugging protest in the center of an istanbul square had they not gone in with tear gas and stepped on some fire and batons blazing a lot of this outrage which we're seeing would not have happened some of the outrage would have happened a lot of it is frustration at the way the government has been ruling by its government and what is the solution to this problem the solution to this problem is
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not you know people standing on tanks and. you know the storming the presidential palace the solution would be for the government to go to a poll meanwhile has been revealed that board sixty two tons of tear gas in just over a decade mostly imported from america and that's now got reaction from texas professor carr a childish con who's been taking part in protests in istanbul professor thank you very much for joining us now is so when the stand you were tear gassed by pleas during a demonstration can you describe the effects of the gas. we began to is unbelievable right now i can say that turkish people in some movie in others and in other cities should it's hard all to get there to vote and which is not democracy. what people are doing trying to do is to put the tree in the public park and show
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the government. getting fifty percent of the people there to move the current surge and doing things that the prime minister cannot cut the trees of at the park and building them and you're talking about the we need the consent of the most important city of turkey stumbled. into confirms there has only one public policy to green clee it's a place where people gather believing earthquake people are people going to children. that we care and people do not want because to be given to a construct to come. yet and we're mentioned before tech is reportedly important sixty two pounds of tear gas mostly from the u.s. why would they possibly need that much we are on a trade couldn't hear the left part of the question and guess what gas of course that reportedly techie have imported to fix
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a tons of tear gas and that we know it's mostly from the u.s. from your point of view why would they need that much. why do people need to get paid me to use the edge when they don't want to turn to the people people are shouting in the streets that they don't want to support and the government say no we're going to go along with this park we know the park one day gets them they spend fifteen million dollars on which a boy changes for us from perea for many others and which is not a beach is not public democracy looks like. why you yourself have gone out of our task that was how you would demand. why it needs to read this one particular thing that the the. this public park can make you read the news the sequel doesn't want the government to tell them when they should be or
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we're going to gauge your motion or not need prime minister decided to get a bunch of motion in turkey to do you learn to complicate tensions from. where the government and. the army is run by the government you killed thirty four to be and when to take their lives instead of apologizing. they decided to ban abortions. came it came home to them seemed very harmless where for the first time in turkish history a whole district home equals zero two of which most districts in turkey was bombed most of. the one people and one people were discussing that but the government has greater goal and that you should do something about it the government decided to join other been defeated it done it cannot buy or sell or promote alcohol in turkey they cannot buy and sell local certain they cannot even promoted will
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fully develop advertise these are not democratic nation and it is not allowed to government government people land a role today of the rich human system being given a criminal system to go on to alcohol ban abortions and we don't want to do that they want to transfer or make it clear solution in the country and bring presenters to and no one wants presenters who seem one on one ban and what is more important no one wants the prime minister to child people should leave the children they should sit and eccentric people the entire unit or demonstration units god could. demand the government to step back from their plan be right on the public ok professor cory very much indeed that line over the phone from uncorrupt thank you very much.
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neighboring syria the patriot batteries are designed to intercept missiles but it could also be employed to enforce a no fly zone all his policy outlooks knowledge also behind the move washington assists is only aimed at helping an ally. well it said it 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 very 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 a no fly zone inside syria that would be enforced by the united states and other
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countries such as france and britain the latest move by syria is being seen as a bid to challenge the european union power was recently lifted the arms embargo on the syrian rebels to british soldiers have admitted abusing civilians called marshall in germany both none have been granted under limits to to keep their families safe as joins us now live with the details hello there sorry nice to see you so what's coming out of this trial so far please give us the latest. well that court martial taking place in regards to incidents that took place in helmand province in afghanistan the tween the sixteenth of october two thousand and eleven and the sixth of january two thousand and twelve now three men appearing at that court martial two soldiers admitting abusing afghan civilians now one soldier a former army private referred to in court as a soldier x.
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admitted indecent conduct towards a child the second soldier still serving lance corporal referred to in court a soldier why and this is racially abusing a man was seen as serving in afghanistan now a third man also appeared at that court martial the patrol officer who was cleared of failing in his duty to deal with the offenses that as he said he meant admitting their guilt only spoken to the ministry of defense here in the u.k. and they told us they're not going to comment on this until sentencing takes place and indeed is thought the judge is going to be issuing those sentences fairly saying yes and what kind of what kind of reaction can we expect both from the public and the army itself what we've heard that all the men have been granted anonymity it's said for their own protection there are fears that were they named to the native these incidents that they would then be their lives would be put at
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risk in their family's lives politicize the you're going to see he's amounts of anger over this of course you got the british forces with touring from afghanistan next year i think you know the nature of these incidents and these revelations the admissions of guilt only get ads really see the general public's need of pessimism surrounding the afghanistan mission. right on live from london sour many thanks indeed. and all a shift in the case of radley mining is available online at altitude dot com and while you're there you might like to track some other footage we have that they could lead to to try to draw and show that unmanned aircraft passing interest to meters under the wing a one hundred passenger asinine eight years ago. and also online would you like a copy of your pad one south korea cloning companies offering at seventy percent
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discount those who can't let go of their furry friends find out their son bunch more on opposite or. so american army private bradley manning is now on trial using government secrets to wiki leaks and could end up spending a lifetime in prison because of it the prosecution suggested the twenty five year old had close ties with the whistle blowing web site something that could backfire on both money and a son as the case progresses and she is andrew blake has a story. private bradley 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 tell those prosecutors said that when private manning uploaded files to the anti-secrecy website wiki leaks he did so with the ten harm that more to protect now supporters of manning gather here to a rally in support of the soldier me that they deem
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a robot whistleblower but prosecutors painted a much different picture by the bed and 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 you know 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 joined us on the publisher of wiki leaks now asuncion his attorney michael ratner and i have spoken at length for years now about how this trial the trial against an american soldier is going to be used to bring charges against wiki internal assad to be extradited to the 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 all more and more examples lately of the u.s.
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prosecutors going 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 getting the enemy and simply wanted to expose crimes that he thinks the world has better. on the united nations to. go on men to spend money on suspects and money as detention condition detention conditions and said the treatment that he and the wind was unjustified. i don't think we can call them but i certainly engage the united states government who want to help me understand why he was being held in solitary confinement first in iraq and then in the quantico marine corps base here near washington the information that i was given for the first eight months i considered insufficient i issued a report that i submitted with the rights cause of all the united nations in which
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i said that his eight month old son until you can find them was unjustified we were swarming through that it was pursuant to the regulations that the military applies in court martial proceedings and that it had to do with the gravity of the charges against him we've seems to me that before someone is found guilty it's all grievous to apply. the next three hundred eighteen. only because the charges this or soon will the other men that they gave me. or they call the ones in the army but they did not explain what kind of harm would be grand. as coming out it's time to crunch the numbers our financial crime interesting is one of them breaking announcing.
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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 right to be secure in their persons houses papers
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and effects and i'm pretty sure that's cover cell phones too but that's just my opinion. good afternoon and welcome to prime interest i'm harry i'm boring here in
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washington d c let's get to the day's headlines. for you mom 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 of near zero interest rate policy a. friend doing it we're afraid to see just how dirty the chairman's uniform and but this point but don't worry i've heard channeling poet robert burns and the chairman close and true with truman 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.

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