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turkish press has to show the door to the prime minister over the ongoing crackdown by police who are going to leash tear gas pepper spray and plantains on unarmed civilians. so this is have resumed on moscow's metro after a short circuit on the blaze paralyzed traffic in the capital for hours and left at least sixty one people injured. and saying before you tweet especially if you're in person where police are throwing people behind bars for crossing the line without social media post.
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international news and comment live from moscow this is all here with me you know. thanks for joining us. turkish protesters are ramping up calls for the resignation of prime minister at a one over a brutal police crackdown on demonstrations that left thousands injured at the ones deputy has said sorry for the initial excessive use of force but people want a personal apology from the prime minister a police unleashed more tear gas and water cannons on demonstrators in istanbul overnight and amber homes were reportedly raided by offices dozens of new york arrests have been made and some acts were even taken in for inciting protest some tweets either one is out of the country or what could visit. the demonstrators as extremists and dogs while the local media also rouse public fury by turning a blind eye to the rest as arena cover calls the revolution will not be televised
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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 all hell was breaking loose in taksim with police trying to victim by mentalists and their supporters from gives you park last weekend but when turkish audiences flipped on their t.v.'s they saw something entirely different. from c.n.n. international to take to get the police to people and then you take c.n.n. turk there was a painting entry. it's a complement. produce a print 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
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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 the international journals sharing this information and we have to find out about it on the international turn also 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 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 but the growing magnitude of protests some of the privately owned channels caught on to the event and tried to make up for lost time when there's one news channels which is the director of one said that they were sorry and they made a mistake for not covering. their covering its quite well but the boss the state
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media is not. saying that it's. misguided. it's by some extreme risk groups a far fetched stance it may be but those on taksim justice thousands of people on streets and squares all over turkey don't really seem to care anymore they don't need a t.v. broadcast to show them what's really happening where they are it in english go r.t. istanbul. x.-rays say using social media to spread fresh predictor of police brutality like this video reportedly showing a civilian kick to the ground and been stomped on by federal offices despite pleasing from mercy agency abruptly has been on top of the latest developments in the company providing exclusive footage and interviews one person they spoke with a local baker said he was randomly targeted by police despite having nothing to do with the protests. i went out to buy the cigarettes the police
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didn't ask me anything they just beat me. demonstrators in are demanding a ban on tear gas in the country the excessive use of force by police has also drawn sharp criticism from human rights groups and some foreign officials including the u.s. secretary of state but most of the tear gas and pepper spray being used on the streets of turkey was and for made in america is imported six hundred twenty eight tons of crowd control chemicals over the cards doesn't get his meaning it now has fifty times more than before a u.s. firms also have been selling gas to some other countries where brutal police crackdowns have been headlines like egypt and bahrain is marina portnoy reports now who's cashing in on the cheers. for six days the world has seen video and images of turkish police cracking down on thousands of anti-government protesters and want an arm activists of all ages have been targeted indiscriminately with tear gas and
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pepper spray critics say that behind closed doors the united states has long played a major long wall 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
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activists have taken to the streets in new york city rallying across from the turkish consulates to condemn what they call the government's brutal and deplorable use of tear gas against its own citizens they are not zeus for protesting are and are pro cycling are humans they are not no use for destroying our human who's just askin for their freedoms freedom of 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 gershon worse worse and worse chemicals 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
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the world that aim to repress freedom of speech and democratic movements of reading from new york marina fortnight r.t. . and go katyn was one of those tear gassed by police and ankara but he's vowed to be back out on the streets with the dons traitors standing up for freedom and democracy by under one or two more that has been exposed as i did cheer gas and water cannon it reduced my weakness and caused crying and sneezing and says i have asked a month during the event i had multiple severe assem x.x. and i can say that may improve booker is police and government the arch higher up the school in government would corrupt media we don't have any freedom of speech tax seem this matter has become a matter of more than just silly bunch of trees this is a protest against ignore it can tell they that hurts its own people they cannot
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scare us we do not do any harm to anyone or anything. but however provokers 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 the country is stock exchange plummeted in reaction to the unrest and this could eventually lead to more instability for an already volatile region according to turkish news. turkey in the last couple of years very very proud of its economy and its for the benefit of the turkish people if the economies go on those darned end is the stability of the economic stability and of course political stability and way to be might be in danger it's an interest as you know we are in we're in such a conjecture that there is syria but there are also internal and international
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events happening so the disability. is weakened or damaged in turkey might have regional and maybe global ramifications actually. fired the peak of the morning rush hour on the moscow metro has left sixty one people needing medical treatment seventeen of those had to be taken to hospital but he's health now from the corpus christi all. the movement of train says now been easy to do in moscow as much although we did take several hours to fix that faulty power cable four and a half thousand people have been there vacuum waited in toward all over sixty passengers who needed medical assistance including one six year old boy most of the injuries are connected with smoke inhalation and three people are being treated in
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intensive care units now it all started to add to. eight more school time the study keep going the morning rush hour when the metro is used by hundreds of thousands of people and this is exactly the time when there's main power people short circuited inside a tunnel linking to central metro stations this is one of the saudis had to suspend the movement of trains for the first time and started evacuating people. it didn't take them with two hours to fix that cable and shortly after we received the movement of trains then the shorts are going to go on at the same exact spot but thankfully bad time there were no passengers in the train so they were quickly able to properly fix it and resume operations but needless to say the metro in moscow is the good most heavily used rubber transportation system in the world after the ones you talk to your and even though authorities do you would additional buses and trolley buses. of muscovites if not more head to massive
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problems getting to work or to school this wednesday. and coming up later this hour and i'll see indefinite detention shut down denied the u.s. congress throws another photo at french efforts to close gone tunnel a day where prisoners have been hunger striking for the past four months sometimes break.
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speak your language. programs in documentaries in arabic it's all here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks about six of the ip interviews intriguing story to tell you. the arabic to find out more visit arabic. you're watching elsie's good to have you with us let's move on now and extreme opinions sometimes leads to an offensive tweet which could be the days land you in jail chris and labor situation in great britain west social media users have to watch what they post online abuse of commons have led to arrests across the country
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and activists worried the new is becoming too zealous about hunting down tweeting trolls on his staff investigates. we trust our officers with a baton 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 new police territory but their actions tread a fine line already someone familiar with the legal ramifications of their tweets that 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 lucky tweeted he deserves to be shot dead alongside a picture of bullets two weeks later and he was arrested by manchester police do
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you feel like they're lying looking back on their. time i think i 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 r.t. show a steadily rising number of prosecutions in person under the communications act two thousand and three including phone calls emails and social media posts within the police service of the other public sectors but really is more about leadership than technology you know the technology needs to change absolutely fundamentally one needs to change is the attitude that leaders have towards social media many see as
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a huge risk what they feel to recognise is the fantastic opportunities are to really display the great skills great problem solving skill. in the great leveller service 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 of fighting to catch up many in the legal profession a warning that social media uses no need to tread very carefully i mean it is very deeply concerning i think the legal perspective and i guess it would be interesting to see your advice to people that actually even though it's a case of say some of the say good things when it comes to say should media but it is such a bad thing they say well i'm afraid that twitter simply isn't my thing for. me the restraints on your activities so there's a. lot that's never been before so. the advice to be extremely tough
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for a. surfer. london be hacker who turned whistleblower bradley manning and said hey believes there was never any indication beyond a private who was pursuing the gold azing the enemy by leaking hundreds of thousands of state secrets to wiki leaks his statement came on a second day of mourning struggle that could result in the twenty five year old having to spend the rest of his life behind bars another whistleblower just erratic authorities are trying to use money to get to the ultimate target jordan a sandwich. bradley manning very much is being politically used as a way to try to reach asuncion there had 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. you as if he was a devil incarnate speaks volumes to not only making an example out of manning but
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also the vitriol in 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 dialoguing on the other and it could have been a song during the anybody he had no reason to think that it was a sign he was and 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. oh you bradley manning want to come pain and support will be hounded whistleblowers asking with a list celebrities bring their support at all to the home right now find out you know. and also online been visible chastity modified crops by attack through john paul sent out at last trying to explain wheat that was supposed to be destroyed back in two
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thousand and four has found its way to a field in oregon now website. barack obama's latest promise to close guantanamo bay has been met with tougher resistance in congress lawmakers in the lower house voted in favor of keeping the passivity open indefinitely and that means more suffering for all the detainees held there without charge most of whom have been starving in protest for the past four months the family a one yemeni inmates. now some might argue there's not all that much difference between the physical torture that many prisoners on the go in one town of know and the emotional toll and 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
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terrorists only and 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 allies 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 for nonmilitary doctors to be allowed to treat them nearly forty out of more than one hundred
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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 force fed 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 i love that i'm on a ship while the no 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 dies last. abilities al hey jim r t son yemen minutes after being elected for his third nonconsecutive term pakistan's prime minister nawaz sharif has called on the u.s.
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to end is drawn strikes in the country the high court earlier declared these operations a blatant violation of pakistan's sovereignty and human rights watch he spoke about who is a lawyer representing drone victims against the u.s. and he told us about some of the problems with that. president obama often says that it only kills a bullet and doesn't kill civilians but he feels to give names and identities of 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 resist on in pakistan but not a single name has been given by a president obama or the cia which is occurring or would be a strike what we hear from news reports is just a few names of militant leaders who have been killed president obama for 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 his money i would be happy you know assumes that if you have killed all those people who are
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creating all those are in my cities if you kill all these people who are here let you go probably for your well listen a floor but at least i will be happy that you are making me see what the question here is that who are you killing. and you can watch that entire conversation by tuning in to see at eight hundred forty five g.m.t. loss it will be granted entry into the euro one next january becomes the eighteenth state that uses the single currency but as she is kay to peel the reports many have doubts whether the baltic country will actually gain more from the union than it could potentially lose. 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
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toughest austerity programs after the two thousand and eight crisis wiped a fifth of its g.d.p. and despite its recovery the country still remains one of the purposed in the e.u. so now that the latvian economy is back on track well entrance to the euro zone 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 as a slight burst 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 that if we take a look at a few countries that don't actually have the euro we can see that the top two
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nigger is not crucial to having a reasonably healthy economy particular in the case of vogue area there with with twenty percent and this is got some experts wondering what the urgency is for latvia to join the common currency. it is tied to here their 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 of the mystic investment for example the issues of slovenia greece cyprus or to go 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 country is like lucky if you have to have certainty in london in terms of the longer term investments especially infrastructural investments and believe future there will be that significant problems and significant course and there's also another issue latvia will need to
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consider since offshore favorite cyprus hit the infamous banking crisis phones have been flowing towards latvia strengthening these small boat estates position as an offshore banking center but once the country adopts a year right european ministers will have more control over the country's banking rules and as a consequence dreams of becoming a tax haven might be along with that want your washing off the line from oscar the new diet of course we'll bring you more news in about a half an hour's time from now up next to investigate the desperate cycle of dependency and hunger across africa.
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