drags. down and the domestic media is accused in the meantime of. us to keep the guantanamo bay prison definitely undermining president obama's promise to lift the transfer. detainee. and social media posts result. of abusive twitter trolls by british police. over the freedom of speech.

with the world's top headlines live. in moscow welcome to the program the government apologized for the violent response by security forces towards protesters didn't stop police unleashing their water cannons and tear gas for a fifth night the protesters made fresh attempts to reach the prime minister's office at least fifty of them were arrested reports also say dozens of homes were raided at least twenty five people using. the internet though has been used to share information. against the government so the prime minister has its role in the riots. in particular. lost people. why they are on the turkish t.v. news station. the revolution will not be televised that is according to graffiti

spray painted all over istanbul 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 fix environmentalist and their supporters from the park last weekend but when turkish audiences flipped on their t.v.'s they saw something entirely different. names from c.n.n. international the old protectors you get the polies the people and when you check c.n.n. turk there's there was a painted green documentary 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 journalists sharing this information and we have to find out about it on the international tournaments 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 it 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. said that they were sorry and they made a mistake for not covering. their cover. the state media is

not. saying that it's. misguided. as some extreme risk groups a far fetched stance it may be 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. istanbul . and i would have been giving their accounts of the brutality of turkish police this is one of the examples of an excessive use of force in this video showing officers beating a bystander around the head with batons until they fell to the ground roughly a video agency spoke to a turkish. he said even though he was protesting he was still targeted anyway.

i went out to buy the 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 and they've all come out to condemn the excessive use of force by turkish police however it's the u.s. which is one of the main exporters of tear gas and pepper spray to turkey it has brought. me six hundred twenty eight tons over the past decade that's a fifty fold increase worth twenty million dollars of the u.s. also sells to countries like egypt on basra in. reports on a who is also mostly cashing in on the rivers of two years. for six days the world has seen video and images of turkish police cracking down on thousands of anti-government protesters and 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 major wrong all in the aiding police brutality that is currently unfolding in turkey he's reporting from 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 c. the u.s. 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 teargassed manufacturers non-lethal technologies defense technology and combine systems 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. they dozens of the activists have taken to the streets in new york city rallies across from the

turkish consulate to pin down what they call the government's a brutal and deplorable use of tear gas against its own citizens they are not zeus for protecting our lands are prosection are humans very not no use for destroying our human too just asking for their regions freedom of speech the problem is that they're using to tear gas that expired since two thousand for their pictures of it there's evidence of that that is a problem every day they're using gerson worse worse or 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 reporting from new york. r.t. . and was one of those gassed by police in the talkies capital ankara explain exactly how it feels to be targeted by the heavy hand of the old thor's. i am one of two mos that has been exposed as i did gas and water cannon if you were to use mine we can and cause crying and sneezing and since i have asked a month during the event i had multiple severe assem x.x. and i can say that it 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 to matter has become a matter of more than just say the bunch of trees this is a protest against ignore it can tell it it hurts its own people they cannot scare us we do not do any harm to anyone or anything. but however trouble course

such as government and police officer holds us and shows us that we heard every word without any reason that's we cannot accept that. now it's not just in turkey but online activity could also get you in trouble in britain as well later on here on r t we report on how you can be arrested for twitter posts in the u.k. as british police turn their attention to abuse posted on social networks. for not 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 on hunger strike at the facility now into its fourth month and some long suffering relatives of the inmates

from yemen is skeptical they'll ever see their loved ones again despite obama's promises to send them home. he met one such family. yeah some might argue there's not all that much difference between the physical torture that many prisoners undergo in one town of mode and the emotional toll meant their 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 bomb 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 away 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 are 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 are going

to believe another word from president obama until they see this 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 that homes but hope dies last. page him a son in yemen. all right still to come here on out say that of a truth on the stand in the trial of whistleblower bradley manning approaching a day many believe the high profile proceedings are merely part of a plan to get their hands on the wiki leaks founder julian assange. and jumping aboard of the euro not fears about to join the single currency despite the financial rocking europe more about for you just ahead.

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stories for you. visit. from the russian capital this is thank you for joining us today there are reports now of more smoke in the moscow metro train services were about. a restart following a tunnel fire during the morning rush hour at least fifty five people suffered from smoke inhalation thousands were evacuated let's get the latest details now from go to pierce going off now joining us live here on the program good to see you go to what do we know now about this latest smoke being reported. by this point six metro stations on the same line of the metro have been shut down temporarily due to new smoke detected in the same area of the same line where this

fire took place earlier the way ssion is currently under way emergency services say there is no panic and all the trains were stopped at a metro station so thankfully no one's stuck in tunnels at this moment and throughout the day since morning in total four and a half thousand people have been evacuated several dozen passengers needed help from doctors including one child all due to smoke inhalation now the first happened at around eight am. two central metro stations this is the time where the metro is believed to be used by hundreds of thousands of people getting to work and get to school. pretty much since then. there have been these significant problems with the movement of trains they have been suspended in the launch of the squall line so you can imagine the sort of problems these people are

having getting places where they need to go authorities did deploy additional public transport like buses and trolley buses but well we'll keep you updated as the situation develops and like i said apparently there's now a second fire or a second short circuit which may have taken place on the same line. i know to you but it was going to the latest on the moscow metro fire thank you. thanks for joining us here on r.t. today british twitter users now have to watch what they post with social media now being scrutinized by police in a number of investigations offensive or abusive posts and comments have led to arrests one across the country activists are worried the lore is becoming too zealous about hunting down tweeting trolls correspondent sarah firth investigates. we trust our officers with a baton we trust some of the c.s. 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 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 or saying half the time ha ha ha ha.

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 r.t. show steadily rising number of prosecutions in person under the communications act two thousand and three including phone calls emails and social media posts i think the fundamental problem is that there is over policing in that the police are have been recent times far too willing to take seriously all complaints and investigate them instead of using commonsense new guidelines to be made final by the criminal prosecution service in the coming weeks but with the explosion of social media leading british law fighting to catch up. many in the legal profession a warning that social media eases now need to tread very carefully i mean it is

very deeply concerning i think people expected and i guess it would be interesting to see your advice to people that actually even though it's a case of states and anything it seems that when it comes to safety media that it is. they say well i'm afraid. simply isn't the right thing for. me there is facebook and your activities. like never before so. the advice is be extremely tough for. sarah. london. and all she is coming to live from moscow as bradley manning did not hand over classified u.s. documents to wiki leaks with the goal of aiding the enemy a day two of his trial that was the testimony of the convicted hacker who actually handed him in here at all it's he we spoke to just lindh ruddock another whistleblower she thinks the government's ultimate goal is to get their hands on

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 the devil incarnate 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 the 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. you bradley manning that's what a campaign in support of a hounded whistle blowers with a list celebrities offering their support you can head to want to see which kind of getting involved. i'm. going to check this out as well in america everything even secret from the israeli military. group. secret facilities on a federal business opportunities website those details also what right now. legal experts say pakistan is now in a great position to try and negotiate an end to u.s. drone strikes in tribal areas softer the high court declared the operations a blatant violation of the country's sovereignty and human rights.

he's a lawyer representing victims against the u.s. he highlighted some of the issues with the. president obama often says that it only kills a bullet and then doesn't kill civilians but he feels to give me an identity use of the wars 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. the wrist on 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 sure that he is killing militants and he has not killed any civilian then he has to give the names and details of all those militants who he has killed because for the pakistani i would be happy you know assumes that if you have killed all those people who are creating all those in my cities if you kill all these people who

work here let you go probably for your lucian or floor but at least i will be happy that you are making me see if what the question here is that who are you killing. i mean watch out that entire conversation by watching r.t. at eighteen forty five g.m.t. . now a lot fear is about to get the green light to become the eighteenth member of the eurozone and the baltic country is likely to join the single currency in january next year a decade after it joined the e.u. however with europe still struggling massively to dig itself out of debt many believe that fear is simply jumping on board a sinking ship artie's kitty pilgrim explains. there will be officially swapping their laps for your eyes now to adopt the single currency latvia reduces public deficit to below the e.u. ceiling of three percent of g.d.p.

last year which is an achievement considering latvia underwent one of europe's toughest austerity programs after the two thousand and eight crisis what a fifth of its g.d.p. under spice recovery the country still remains one of the perras in the e.u. so now that the latvian economy is back on track well entrance to the euro zone the rail is recovery well let's take a look at the current members are our risk right now of exiting the eurozone we can see that slovenia which adopted figure in two thousand and four is the latest country in financial trouble now public debt as almost doubled to reach forty seven percent us to cyprus the recent banking crisis did little to enrich their economy as you can see there sixty six percent as for greece and that figure is nearly twice as much as the g.d.p. just if we take a look at

a few countries that don't actually have the euro we can see that the top two nigger is not crucial to having a reasonably healthy economy particularly the case of bulgaria though with with twenty percent this is got some experts wondering what the urgency is for latvia to join the common currency. it is tied to hugo 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 most likely going to suffer a significant contraction of the mystic investment for example the issues of slovenia greece cyprus or to go are long and all the rest of the peripheral europe certainly going to lay in terms of the future instability in the euro valuations and in terms of the interest rates means. the countries like last week were to have certainty in london in terms of the longer term investments especially infrastructural investments in the future that will result significant problems and

significant costs and there's also another issue not be able need to consider since all feel favorite cyprus hit the infamous banking crisis phones have been flowing towards latvia strengthening these small boat estates position as an sense of what was the country adopts a you're right european ministers will have more control over the country as banking rules and as a consequence dreams of becoming a tax haven might be along with that want. up next year on the program are we investigate the desperate cycle of dependency and hung go all across africa see it's coming to you live from moscow.

technology innovation all the developments around russia. the future covered. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images koch world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations around the day. according to the law usaid is allowed to procure up to seventy five percent american products and transport them only on american ships.

and that means that the shippers have a lot of interest in food aid policy and have been an incredibly effective lobby to fight for the status quo of sourcing in and shipping from the united states the u.s. government is the only government in the world that hasn't made substantial movements in the direction of enabling local procurement of food aid in developing countries in order to respond faster and more cheaply to food emergencies as they arise. so even today the food must first be balt then loaded on a ship in american harbor and then travel for several months in order to reach africa. that would be approximately four to six months from when it has been termed that we want to participate in in a particular appeal and so when the food arrives. the g.a.o. where mr leto works issued

a report which presented the problem to congress. president bush tried to change the system so that a portion of the food would be procured from local markets and arrive faster and cost less. they failed and they failed because of the lobbying efforts the highly successful and very sophisticated lobbying efforts of those who benefit from the status quo and u.s. food aid programs from the american taxpayers' money only forty percent goes for the purchase of food aid for the starving people in africa there are maining sixty percent goes to the shipping companies. oh god. yes.