thank you you thank. police arrest despite a government apology for the harsh crackdown in the meantime the media has been accused of turning a blind eye. to keep the guantanamo bay prison open indefinitely undermining president obama's promise to lift the transfer of restrictions for detainees. and social media. twitter trolls by british police. the freedom of speech.

international headlines live from moscow this is with me live from the russian capital where it's now a just off to hear. in. what the government in turkey has apologized for the violent response by security forces towards protesters there that didn't stop police water cannons. night protesters made fresh attempts to reach the prime minister's office with at least fifty being arrested reports also suggest dozens of homes were sixteen people detained for using social media the internet has been used to share information. against the government. prime minister has condemned its role in the riots. to. the people. on the turkish television.

that is according. and indeed the protests have gone largely unnoticed by the state media here in turkey however people did have the last word by destroying the satellite trucks of local state media channels if not to prove a point then at least to vent out their anger and frustration at the media that did not cover the events at home pepper spray water cannons tear gas only hell was breaking loose in taksim with police trying to evict environmentalists and their supporters from disney park last weekend when turkish audiences flipped on their t.v.'s they saw something entirely different. from c.n.n. international the old protectors do you get the polies the people and when you check in and turk there is there was a penguin in the commentary so it's a compliment. participants of the protests though disapproving of the lack of

coverage by the turkish media nevertheless believe news outlets have good reason for tuning out when things take a turn for the unexpected actually it's the pressure of the prime minister that is reflected on the media and we think it's unfair other channels international channels sharing this information and we have to find out about it on the international channels it's unfair to the people but many believe there is a certain responsibility that comes with being a provider of news and those in turkey have failed at it i don't know what will happen in the future but we have only one channel which shows everything in this country and it's really really our company says they cannot stand in for example my mother she lives in a little village if i don't call her she will know nothing with the growing magnitude of protests some of the privately owned channels caught on to the event and tried to make up for lost time i think there's one news channel which is the director of. that paper story and they made

a mistake for not covering. their covering it's quite well but the boss the state media has not yet heard. they're saying that it's. misguided. by some extreme risk groups a far fetched thinset maybe but those on taksim just as thousands of people on streets and squares all over turkey don't really seem to care anymore you don't need a t.v. broadcast to show them what's really happening where they are it in english go r.t. istanbul protesters on eyewitnesses have been giving their accounts of the brutality of turkish police this is one of the latest examples of an excessive use of force in the capital at the video right here showing officers beating a bystander around the head with battens until he falls to the ground. ruptly video agency spoke to a turkish baker working in ankara he said even though he wasn't protesting he was still targeted any. i went out to buy cigarettes the

police didn't ask me anything they just beat me. human rights groups and some foreign officials including the u.s. secretary of state they've all come out to condemn the excessive use of force by the turkish police however the u.s. which is one of the main export has of tear gas and pepper spray to turkey in fact the country allegedly sent over sixty tons over the past decade that's worth more than twenty million bucks america also sells tear gas to countries like egypt and bahrain. marina portnoy reports on who's cashing in amid the rivers of tears. for six days the world has seen video and images of turkish police cracking down on thousands of anti-government protesters and want unarmed activists of all ages have been targeted indiscriminately with tear gas and pepper spray critics say that behind closed doors the united states has long played

a major wrong all in aiding the least brutality that is currently unfolding in turkey he's reporting to reports turkey has bought twenty one million dollars worth of tear gas and pepper spray in the past twelve years and the united states is listed as a main provider to the us is one of the world's largest manufacturers and exporters of tear gas and whether sold or given tear gas shipments from the united states to anywhere in the world must be approved by the u.s. government the three big american tear gas manufacturers nonlethal technologies defense technology and combined systems inc have reportedly exported tear gas to dozens of nations rocked by widespread protests including egypt bahrain tunisia and yemen and now as the uprisings in turkey grow more dangerous by the day dozens of octopus have taken to the streets in new york city rallies across from the turkish

consulate to condemn what they call the government's a brutal and deplorable use of tear gas against its own citizens they are not zeus for protesting are and are prosection are humans they are not no use for destroying our human who's just askin for their freedom treaty last speech the problem is that they're using food that expired since two thousand for their pictures of it there's evidence of that is a problem every day they're using gerson worse worse and worse chemical american activists also know what it feels like to be targeted with so-called crowd control technology tear gas. canisters were widely used against protesters participating in the occupy wall street movement and experts say that the corporations manufacturing those technologies are profiting at home and abroad by assisting governments around the world that aim to repress freedom of speech and democratic movements of reading

from new york or in a fortnight r.t. . and a neuron him go to canada was one of those gassed by police in the turkish capital ankara explain exactly how it feels to be targeted by the heavy hand of the authorities i am one of the most that has been exposed as i did gas and water cannon it reduced my weakness and caused crying and sneezing and says i have asked too much during the event i had multiple severe assem x.x. and i can say that may improve booker is police and government they are tired of dealing government with corrupt media we don't have any freedom of speech tax seem this matter has become a matter of more than just a the bunch of trees this is a protest against ignore it can tell day that hurts its own people they cannot scare us we do not do any harm to anyone or anything. but however trouble gears

such as government the police officer holds us and shows us that we heard everywhere without any reason that's we cannot accept that. well it's not just in turkey we are online activity could also get you in trouble in britain as well later on here when we report on how you feel rested for twitter posts in the u.k. as british police turn their attention to abuse posted on social. history to our breaking news for you this hour here on the thousands have been evacuated from a moscow metro station after a fire broke out at least seventeen people have been hurt two children among them four trains are believed to be stranded in underground tunnels near hockney riyadh

that's on the red line for the blaze broke out during the morning rush hour causing a big jam and surrounding stations were shut down as a safety precaution passengers right now are being urged not to use the moscow metro historic table may have caught fire due to technical issues and updates on the fire in the moscow metro right now a dot dot com. or in the meantime though ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital of the lower house of the u.s. congress has voted against closing guantanamo bay blocking the use of taxpayer money to house any detainees transferred from the prison hunger strike at the facility now into its fourth month and some long suffering relatives of the inmates from yemen as skeptical the lever see their loved ones again despite obama's promises to send them home. he met one such. now some might argue there's not all that much difference between the physical

torture that many prisoners undergo in one town a moat and the emotional toll meant that relatives are forced to deal with at home like the family of abdurahman ash batty a yemeni terrorist suspects held at the controversial detention center since two thousand and two after his arrest the whole family was accused of links to terrorists only man now we have them america's support for human rights is merely a show it only cares about its own people well it destroys the rights of all others who have been suffering for thirteen years now. and yemen president obama's recent promise to lift restrictions off get detainees specifically from the country was greeted with nothing but sneers. weird start of these nonstop lies a bum remembers about guantanamo only during election campaigns and on holidays he promised to shut it down several times and to forward their cases to their home countries these are all lies. meanwhile back in one town itself as the

thirty yemeni prisoners wait for the u.s. president's promises to come true the full month long hunger strike against their indefinite detention continues person is have been demanding fanaa military doctors to be allowed to treat them nearly forty out of more than one hundred protesters a reportedly being force fed something they claim is torture in itself they are close enough to death that the military sees a need to force feed them none of them enjoy being forced but i can tell you that and they have described being force fed in such terms of having a knife run down their throat. back in yemen the relatives all say they aren't going to believe another word from president obama until they see their sons brothers and husbands finally return home that's a love that i know more than this family's case is merely one of several dozen

where people can only suffer and cry helplessly inside their homes but hope to ice last. hey jim a son yeah man. still to come here. truth. of the. approaching day many believe the high profile proceedings are merely part of up. to wiki leaks julian. joined the single currency despite the financial. just ahead. technology innovation. developments.

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with me thank you for joining us this morning british twitter users now have to watch what they post with social media being scrutinized by police. offensive or abusive posts. all across the country so the lower is becoming too zealous about hunting tweeting trolls investigating ferrazzi correspondence. we trust our officers with a pattern we trust some of the c.i. sprit and yet for some reason we can't trust them a twitter account in the wake of the recent will it murder a number of arrests were made across the country after police responded to tweets it was the latest clear sign that police are in placing seychelle media in a way they never have before twitter might be in need police territory but their actions tread a fine line already some unfamiliar with the legal ramifications of their tweets

felt the full force of the law was one notable example came after a tweet to footballer james mcclean joining in online anger at the footballers decision not to wear a remembrance day poppy katie aiden look he tweeted he deserves to be shot dead alongside a picture of bullets two weeks later and he was arrested by manchester police do you feel like you cross the line looking back on their. work a searing hot coffee here is the time i think you ought. to consequences they katie's cases since being dropped it's easy to see the cyber threats can cause real fear and often is deserving of punishment but other cases have ranged from the confusing to the downright ludicrous and figures obtained by artesia steadily rising number of prosecutions in person under the communications act two thousand

and three including phone calls emails and social media pastes i think the fundamental problem is that there is over policing in the police or have been recent times far too willing to take seriously or complaints and investigate them instead of using commonsense new guidelines set to be made final by the criminal prosecution service in the coming weeks but with the explosion of social media leaving british law fighting to catch up. many in the legal profession a warning that say she'll mediate eases no need to tread very carefully i mean it is very deep you can say anything really expected and i guess it would be interesting to see your advice to people that actually even though it's ok to say somebody say things to when it comes to the station media that. they say well i'm afraid twitter simply isn't the right thing for. me that was face book and

your activities. that's never been before so. the advice is be extremely tough for. sarah. lunde. bradley manning did not hand over classified documents to the u.s. and wiki leaks with the goal of aiding the enemy they two of us trial that was the testimony of the convicted hacker who actually handed a man we spoke to just one radical another whistleblower she thinks the government's ultimate goal is simply to get the wiki leaks founder julian assange. bradley manning very much is being politically used as a way to try to reach a songe and there have been rumors of secret indictments on julian of songe here in the united states so the extent that this government has way over charged way over prosecuted and is going after manning you know as if he was

a devil in carney speaks volumes to not only making an example out of manning but also the vitriol and contempt that they have against julian assange engine wiki leaks even though bradley manning has testified that he didn't know with whom he was dialoging on the other and it could have been a song during anybody had no reason to think that it was a songe and he was not he didn't understand it to be a saw and she thought it was someone from wiki leaks i think the government very much wants him to say that he was dialoging with julian assange in order to try to go after julian assigns. ru bradley manning that's what a campaign in support of a hounded whistleblower is asking a list celebrities offering their support r.t. dot com right now the full story. why you're online right now for this hour you can check out this story as well in america everything sells even top secrets from the

israeli military and the u.s. unveiled every tiny screw of one of its allies top secret facilities on a federal business opportunities website and more on the web site right now. or a legal experts saying that pakistan is now in a great position to try and negotiate an end to u.s. drone strikes in tribal areas that's after the high court declared the operations a blatant violation of the country's sovereignty and human rights here at r.t. we spoke to. a lawyer representing drone victims against america it all us about some of the problems about the attacks. president obama often says that only kills a little and doesn't kill civilians but yet he feels to give me no danger to use those who have been killed in the use of strikes in pakistan now according to independent sources more than three thousand people have been killed in. pakistan

but not a single name has been given by a president obama or the cia which is occurring albeit strikes what we hear from news reports is just a few names of militant leaders who have been killed president obama still sure that he is killing militants and he has not killed any civilian then he used to give the names and details of all those militants who here school because of this money would be happy you know assumes that if you have killed all those people who are creating all dues in my cities if you kill all these people who work here let you go probably. a floor but at least i will be happy that you are making me so you would question here is that who are you killing. you can watch that entire conversation by tuning in to watch eight hundred forty five g c so let's get to some other international news for you here on r t time for

the world update starting with the syrian government says it has regained control of the city of course that's near the lebanese border and the area has been under the siege and fierce battle between rebels and assad's forces backed by hezbollah fighters for over two weeks it is considered a crucial supply route for both sides in the conflict. the deadly floods which have been lashing central europe of now shifted to germany as rain continues to cause rivers to break their banks chancellor angela merkel toured the region's devastated by the use of one hundred million euros in aid to the victims of the worst flooding in a decade since the weekend the waters of course at least twelve deaths and forced thousands to flee their homes water levels in the czech republic have now started to fall well hungary is still on alert. latvia is about to get the green light to become the eighteenth member of the euro zone the baltic country is likely to join the

single currency in january next year decade after it joined the e.u. but with europe still struggling very badly to dig itself out of debt many believe latvia's jumping aboard a sinking ship. investigates. latvia will be officially swapping their lots to europe to adopt the single currency i love here reduced its budget deficit to blow the e.u. ceiling of three percent of g.d.p. last year which is actually of achievement considering latvia underwent one of europe's toughest austerity programs after the two thousand and eight crisis actually wiped off a fifth of its g.d.p. so now that the latin economy is back on track will entrance to the euro zone the rail its recovery will this take a look at the current members that are actually at risk of exiting the euro zone now we got slovenia they actually adopted figure in two thousand and four now this is actually the latest country in financial trouble now public debt has more than

doubled from twenty two percent of g.d.p. in two thousand and eight almost fifty five percent in twenty twelve just as a cyprus really the recent banking crisis did little to enrich their economy just sixty six percent of public debt to g.d.p. as for greece right here one hundred eighty nine percent that's actually nearly double of their actual d.d.p. is a quite phenomenal really if we actually take a look at a few countries that don't have the year i will be able to see that figure really isn't crucial to having a healthy economy as you can see just they're not bothered to read it so it's probably no wonder looking at the figure lot of years urgency is actually being questioned right now. it is hard to hear the monetary policy which is suitable for germany and that means that once the direction of the interest rates changes from the current very low to the historical averages and they will be your own they're. likely going to suffer

a significant contraction term investment for example the issues of slovenia greece cyprus or go and all the rest of the peripheral europe certainly in terms of the future instability in the euro valuations and in terms of the interest rates there . means for countries like north korea who are to have certainty in terms of the longer term investments especially infrastructural investment simply future that will result significant problems and significant course is also another issue that latvia will need to consider now since of social favorites like press hit the infamous banking crisis of course phones about xi been flowing towards latvia actually strengthening the small baltic states position as an unofficial bike he sends out but once a country adopts the euro the european ministers were as you have far more control over the country's banking rules and as a consequence dreams of becoming a tax haven might be over along with a lot harder must give you

a quick update here on this developing story or not the number of those hurt in a moscow metro fire now at thirty one at least two children among them they were treated for smoke inhalation with four taken to hospital emergency services say no one is now left in the affected station thousands were evacuated before trains stranded in the underground tunnels near a hot new that's on the moscow red line the blaze broke out during the morning rush hour causing quite a jam and surrounding stations were shut down as a safety precaution passengers are being urged not to use the metro story cable may have caught fire due to technical issues more details on the fire on the moscow metro at r.t. to own car. why for now it's time to crunch some numbers on ot see our financial programme prime interest it's coming your way off the.

wealthy british style. sometimes it's because. markets why not going to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on our. turkey in turmoil a sudden upsurge in intensity of protest against the turkish government has caught many by surprise and critically prime minister there gone oh we witnessing still another arab spring play out of course at more simple than that is it all about every country's politics and political style. choose your language.

of choice because we know if the generals going to say still some. choose to use the consensus you can. choose the opinions that you think great to. choose the stories that impact your life choose the access to your office. good afternoon and welcome to prime interest i'm perry and boring and washington d.c. let's get to today's headlines. and turn the fed is about three years after signing a hundred three to financial companies that were not banks were finally designated as too big to fail or more your your diet lead to similarly important financial institutions the newly christened so-called zippy's are. two thousand

a bailout fame capital another insurance giant and lender and prudential financial this is the first round in which entities are being placed under the if. they'll also have to submit a living wills that describe how they would be resolved should they become insolvent or in the case of a id and capital insolvent again so much for mailing for. target hank paulson goldeneye next treasury secretary he threatened to use a bazooka on the markets back in two thousand and eight but the european central bank said it won't be using any big bazooka intervention when it comes to sharp jump starting lending the euro zone market participants had hoped that e.c.b. head mario draghi would bust out with another large money printing scheme sterilized of course but it looks like no dice for the big banks and this is after we reported last week that spanish.