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on screen online international news and comment live from moscow this is twenty four hours a day. a third fatality has been confirmed in the turkish unrest a man who received head injuries during clashes an anchor has died in hospital protests as a ramping up calls for the resignation of prime minister erdogan over a brutal police crackdown on demonstrations that's left it at elian's deputy has said sorry for the initial excessive use of force but people want a personal apology from the premier himself while police unleashed more tear gas and water cannons on demonstrators in overnight a number of homes were reportedly raided by offices dozens of new arrests have been made and some activists were even taken in for inciting protests on twitter. out of the country on a working visit has branded the demonstrators as extremists and hugs on the local media has also aroused public fear. by turning

a blind eye to the rest as i mean it now reports. 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 evict environmentalists and their supporters from the 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 you get the polies the people and when you check out c.n.n. turk there is there was a painted green documentary so it's

a complement. 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 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 are on to the event and tried to make up for lost time when there is one news channel which could be. when

you said that they were sorry and they made a mistake for not covering. their covering its quite well but the boss the state media is is not. saying that it's. misguided. it's by some extreme. groups a far fetched stance it may be but those on tacks seem just as 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. r.t. istanbul. activists are using social media is to spread fresh footage of police brutality like this video here reportedly showing a civilian kicked to the ground and then stomped on by several offices despite pleading for mercy video agency ruptly has been on top of the latest developments in the turkish capital providing exclusive footage and interviews on person who spoke with a local baker says he was randomly targeted by police despite having nothing to do

with the protest. i went out to buy the cigarettes the police didn't ask me anything they just beat me. demonstrators and now demanding a ban on tear gas in the country the excessive use of force by police is 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 made in fact in america and prison ported six hundred twenty eight tons of crowd control chemicals over the past dozen years meaning it now has fifty times more than before and u.s. firms have also been selling gas to other countries where brutal police crackdowns have made headlines such as egypt and bahrain ortiz miniport reports on cashing in on the tears. for six days the world has seen video and images of turkish police cracking down on thousands of anti-government protesters and while 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 long wall in aiding the police brutality that is currently unfolding in turkey he according 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 activists 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 protecting our lands are prosection are humans very not no use for destroying our human to just askin for their freedoms freedom lost speech the problem is that they're using food 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 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 the world that aim to repress freedom of speech and democratic movements from new york marina fortnight r.t. . and you written could tell kim was one of those too gassed by police and corrupt but he's vowed to be back out on the streets with the demonstrators standing up for freedom and democracy under one of the mosques that has been exposed by did gas and water cannon it reduced my weakness and caused crying and sneezing and since i had asked a month during that event i had multiple severe assem x.x. and i can say that may improve booker is police and government but they are tired of dealing government with corrupt media we don't have any freedom of speech tax scheme is part matter has become a matter of more than just say the bunch of trees this is

a protest against ignore it can tell a day that hurts its own people they cannot scare us we do not do any harm to anyone or anything. but however provokers such as government the police officer holds us and shows us that we heard every word without any reason that's we cannot accept that the country stock exchange plummeted in reaction to this one wrist and this could eventually lead to more instability for an already volatile region according to turkish news editor. 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 dollars and it's the stability of the economic stability and of course political seventy points be might be in danger and as you know we are in we're having such a conjecture that there is syria but there are also internal and international

events happening so the disability if is weakened or damaged in turkey might be regional and maybe global ramifications actually. a fall at the peak of the morning rush hour on the moscow metro has enough sixty six people needing medical treatment seventeen of those had to be taken to hospital details now from ortiz equal personal. the movement of train says now been busy doing moscow's 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 total 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 intensive care units now it all started to add to around eight am moscow time the steady peak of 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 two essential metro stations this is one of the saudis had to suspend the movement of trains for the first time and started evacuating people. it did take them a few hours to fix that cable and shortly after we received the movement of trains then a short circuit began at the same exact spot but thankfully that time there were no passengers in the train so they were quickly able to drop all the fix-it and resume operations but needless to say the metro in moscow is of the good of most heavily used rapid transportation system in the world after the ones in tokyo and seoul and even though authorities deployed additional buses and trolley buses tens of

thousands of muscovites if not more ahead massive problems getting to work or to school this wednesday. auntie live here moscow coming up indefinite detention is shut down denied the u.s. congress tries another hurdle of fresh efforts to close guantanamo bay where prisoners have been hunger striking for the past four months all that in a moment we'll be right back after the break. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it. and then something else you hear see some other part of it and realize everything. i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

of. the world including. clearance technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've. covered. download the official application to yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. use continues here in r.t. an extreme opinion sometimes leads to an offensive tweet which could nice days manager in jail that's increasing the situation in great britain where social media

users have to watch what they post online abusive comments have led to arrest across the country and activists worry that the lord is becoming too zealous about hunting down tweeting trolls. 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 some of the twitter account in the wake of the recent willet 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 some unfamiliar with the legal ramifications of their tweets the 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 you feel like you crossed the line 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 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 and with another public sectors but it 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 to lourdes

social media many see as a huge risk what they feel to recognise is the fantastic opportunities and to really display the great skills great problem solving skills. on a great level of 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 little 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 legal perspective and i guess it would be interesting to see your advice to people that actually even though it's a cake to say some of the say things when it comes to the station media that it is . they say well i'm afraid twitter simply isn't the right thing for me there is facebook and your activities. that's never been for.

the advice to be extremely tough for. sarah. london pakistan is sworn in its newly elected prime minister for his consecutive term minutes after securing his election victory last month and called on the us to end drone strikes in his country dumped by the high court as a blatant violation of pakistan's sovereignty nevertheless in a recent speech on national security u.s. president obama defended drone strikes as a justified means in the war on terror chris woods from the center for investigative journalism joins me live now from london chris we're hearing about precision drone strikes taking out terrorists but emerges civilians have also been killed with all the technologies involved one day precise. i think the missile is a precise in that the americans land them where they want the question is who they're actually killing on the ground in countries like pakistan with these kind

of strikes these targeted killings and of at least two and a half thousand people the bureau of investigative journalism thinks that killed in pakistan for example we think the cia has killed more than four hundred civilians i think that all concerns the the the u.s. defines civilian in a different way than is normally understood the international community but nevertheless they have proved to be effective in what the at high profile targets in this so-called war on terror. absolutely and the u.s. has rightly pointed out that al qaida central as they are called them the core al qaida that was based in pakistan is pretty much defunct now there are a couple of senior leaders the americans are still trying to kill most of the strikes there in pakistan these days are really not related to al qaida and to terrorist activities but really to the war cross the border in afghanistan and the drone war has changed quite significantly over the ten years or so it's been

running and you talking about the significant number of civilian deaths in your investigation can anyone they really be held accountable for civilian victims. i think that's a very good question with so many civilians reported killed and yet the cia claiming that it's killed no more than fifty or sixty civilians i think there is a need for an open not only an open inquiry but also for the cia to share the information meet kairos on who it believes it's killed in places like pakistan or there was a an article in the los angeles times today calling on the united states even to name the militant organizations it believes are fair game in the war on terror and the u.s. won't even name those organizations so president obama's speech the other week did seem to promise more openness but unfortunately we're not seeing so. i mentioned at the start the fact that pakistan is saying that this is a blatant violation of their sovereignty if people are saying isn't there

a chance that washington is in effect committing acts of war is there any international legislation that perhaps could perhaps say that they are responsible for breaking the law or in fact what they're doing is justified. one of the claims the u.s. has made it is that it carries the starts with the consent of the governments involved and that's certainly true in the case of yemen in pakistan we now have an incoming government is making absolutely clear to the united states that it does not want these drone strikes i don't think they're going to stall when in fact in his speech president obama in a sense gave himself a letter close by saying that where countries were intact against the people the u.s. intends to target the u.s. will carry air strikes anywhere and i think that he's going to be the fate that pakistan will suffer certainly going through to twenty forty there are indications that things might change when the u.s. main military u.s.

force draws from afghanistan which of course is scheduled for next year and there have been some pretty heavy hints dropped in washington that we might see a change in the u.s. targeting policy but i have to say for the moment at least it looks like it's going to carry on pretty much as we've seen it the last few years perhaps with less strikes certainly would less civilian deaths they do seem to be going to some effort to limit significantly limit civilian deaths but whether pakistan likes it or north and the new prime minister says he doesn't like it i think we're going to see those strikes carrying on and as a bomb that said less deaths on the part of the u.s. military any conventional warfare involves of course a greater risk for those troops are on the ground and so in a way with what we're seeing happening around the world we're going to see that drones the use of drones being cowards to use them even more because that would appeal to the electorate back in the u.s. when she. briefly i think this is a concern of many i know this that you were going to see the united states huge cost of the wars that the u.s.

is for to over the last decade trillions of dollars have been spent as they draw the american invention or forces there's going to be a temptation i think to reach more for drones and more for special forces neither of which are particularly accountable and also some of the which make the threat. told from military engagement more likely so we see the united states talking about using drones in syria for example we have had calls from iraq and wonder recently for the u.s. to use drones that so there's a concern about the u.s. will start to use these drones as an easy plank in their view of foreign policy of course what we don't what the long term consequences of that policy may actually be could lead to more radicalism it certainly was the case with the invasion of iraq for example but even a decade on we're still seeing the consequences of those actions so i think what we're seeing now with the drones we simply don't know what the long term consequences of that are going to be chris really interesting talk to you thank you

very much indeed for time chris wood center for investing in journalism live in london. barack obama's made his promise to close guantanamo bay is be met with tough resistance in congress lawmakers in the lower house of voted in favor of keeping the facility open indefinitely and that means more suffering for all the detainees held there without charge most of in the been starving in protests for the past four months the bereaved family of one yemeni inmate. 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 terror suspects held at the controversial detention center since two thousand and two after his arrest the whole family was accused of links to terrorists almost 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 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 for nonmilitary 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 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 are going to believe another word from president obama until they see this sons brothers and husbands finally return home. 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 haig jim the son of yemen. well i'll bring you more news for the team in about half an hour from now in the meantime it is breaking the set stay with us for that so if you can . call.

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the good guys i'm not a martyr and this is a break in the set so let's talk about drones you know those unmanned robots that have taken over almost every military operation abroad and are set to darken our skies in the near future well video footage just released captures the terrifying moment where a german drone almost collided with a passenger payne plane carrying hundred people over afghanistan but guess what this was no fluke for some march of this year another unmanned drone came within two hundred feet of crashing into a commercial jet flying over new york look these are just two examples of the horrifying reality that set to faces all near future flying robots of all shapes and sizes potentially quite in with real planes carrying human life right now as i

speak there are already at least sixty three authorized drone launching sites across the u.s. and according to the federal aviation administration there are three hundred twenty seven active operating licenses thus far and over fourteen hundred have already been granted to entities ranging from police to farmers to schools and of course private corporations the guys we ain't seen nothing. yet according to the f.a.a. is very own estimate thirty thousand drones could be gracing us skies by the year two thousand and twenty so if drones are already narrowly missing passenger planes what the hell do these people who are pushing them think is going to happen when there are thirty thousand robots flying above us collisions accidents even the potential hacking of these drones in the missiles yes last year a group of researchers from the university of texas says.