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protesters showed the door to the prime minister over the. police tear gas pepper spray and. civilians. services have resumed. in the blaze paralyzed traffic in the capital for hours and left at least seventy six people injured. and think before you tweet especially if you're in britain where police are throwing people behind for crossing the line with their social media posts top stories.
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on screen and international news and comment from moscow this is r.t. within twenty four hours a day. the third fatalities been confirmed in the turkish man who received head injuries during clashes in ankara has died in hospital protesters are ramping up calls for the resignation of prime minister erdogan over a brutal police crackdown on demonstrations that left thousands injured and against deputy has said sorry for the initial excessive use of force but people want a personal apology from the premier himself fresh clashes have erupted between protesters and police dozens of new arrest to be made and some activists were even taken in for inciting protests on twitter and on who's out of the country in a working visit has branded the demonstrators as extremists and. the local media has also rounds public fury by turning a blind eye to the unrest as reports. the revolution will not be televised
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that is according to. and indeed the protests have been noticed by the 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 sprayed water cannons tear gas only hell was breaking loose in taksim with police trying to fix environmentalist and their supporters through 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 shake scene and turk there is there was a penguin documentary so it's i can't comment. participants of the protests disapproving of the lack of coverage by the turkish media nevertheless
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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 to other channels the 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 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 called on to the event and tried to make up for lost time i think there's one news channels which. said that they were sorry and they made a mistake for not covering the event they are covering it. well but the ball state
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media is not. saying that it's. misguided. some extreme. groups a far fetched stance at me but those on tax seem 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. r.t. istanbul. activists are using social media to spread fresh footage of police brutality like this video reportedly showing a civilian kicked to the ground and then stomped on by several officers pleading for mercy on his video agency ruptly has been on top of the latest developments in the turkish capital providing exclusive footage and interviews one person they spoke with a local baker says he was randomly targeted by police despite having nothing to do with the protests. i went out to buy
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a cigarettes police didn't ask me anything they just be. demonstrators are now demanding a ban on tear gas in the country the excessive use of force by police is also drawing 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 in fact made in america. 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 but is more important reports on who is 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 want
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anon 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 according to reports turkey has bought twenty one million dollars worth of tear gas and pepper spray in the past twelve years in 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. curves non-lethal technologies defense technology and combined systems have reportedly exported tear gas to dozens of nations rocked by widespread protests including egypt bahrain tunisia and yemen and now as the
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uprisings in turkey grow more dangerous by the day dozens of activists have taken to the streets in new york city rallies applause from the turkish consulate to pin down what they call the ordinance of 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 who's just asking for their regions treating all the problems 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 worst worst and worst 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
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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. r.t. . middle east expert thinks that the reconciliation rhetoric from some turkish officials is designed to please foreign observers role the opposition. international community puts now a lot of potential on the protests especially in east but. some here still much to do with the demonstrators and so we can say this because these demonstrations we with this now are not very new with the new ones in the situation since because it's in six states now when you start. going on demonstrations in turkey. specially in the south thirty percent these is the truth usually peak's syria that
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aggressive turkish politics against syria there were many many demonstrations and protests for our western media coverage and. limitation attention so you see i think this you were already this addressed to the european union to us and to the west and for your nation but not so much to their own demonstrators. at the peak of the morning rush hour in the metro has left seventy six people needing medical treatment seventeen of those had to be taken to hospital however all services have since been restored the details now from. did take several hours to fix that faulty power cable for now thousand people have been there vacuum waited in total over sixty passengers in need of medical
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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. eight 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 this main power people short circuited inside a tunnel linking two essential metro stations this is one of gordie's 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 he received the movement of trains then his short circuit began at the same exact spot 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 rubber transportation system in the world after the
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ones in tokyo and even north thought eastwood additional buses and trolley buses tens of thousands of moscow bites if not more head massive problems getting to work or to school this one state. fair moskos still ahead this hour pushed what you think and get busted using social media may get you arrested in the united kingdom where the targeting of abusive twitter trolls by british police leads to concern over the freedom of speech this is a much more after a short break. we
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tweet which could these days lead you in jail that's increasingly the situation in great britain where social media users have to watch what they post online abusive comments have led to arrests across the country and activists worried that the law 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
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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 artesian 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
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the technology needs to change absolutely fundamentally one needs to change is the attitude that leaders have towards 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 skill. 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 case of say some of the say good things when it comes to say show me that it is that you bad thing they say well i'm afraid twitter simply isn't the right thing
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for me there is face book on your activities. but that's never been before so. the advice is be extremely tough for. sara. london. a syrian peace conference has been postponed until next month top diplomats to be meeting in geneva to push the country's government and the opposition to come to the negotiating table you're going bloody war is getting more drawn out costing dozens of lives daily ortiz time bomb explains what is hindering the talks. lakhdar brahimi the u.n. special envoy to syria spoke of the terrible situation there and all around the table at this preliminary meeting agreed of the desperate need to try and find a solution however that said they failed today to manage to organize a conference for june which was earlier what had been hoped it may now be held in
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july possibly even later than that there is talk of another meeting later this month just to try and get that conference on the road central to the problems for this conference divisions divisions at various different levels between the u.s. and russia russia are accusing the u.s. of two stronger support for the rebels and the u.s. and other members of the international community accusing russia of too strong support for our side in his forces there also divisions on the ground there assad's government has outlined its intention to come to a peace conference the rebels though fighting against assad's forces many divisions within their ranks we've seen. videos purporting to show some rebels eating the internal organs of some of their competence that they've been fighting against also evidence emerging of chemical weapons use in syria sarin gas
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the french foreign ministry saying it has found traces of that sarin gas the u.n. however saying it needs more evidence to try and work out what exactly where and by whom those chemical weapons were used. the hacker who turned whistleblower bradley manning in said he believes there was never any indication the army private was pursuing the goal of aiding the enemy by leaking hundreds of thousands of state secrets to wiki leaks his statement came on the second day of manning's trial that could result in the twenty five year old having to spend the rest of his life behind bars another whistleblower jesselyn radack believes authorities are trying to use manning to get to the ultimate target. bradley manning very much is being politically used as a way to try to reach a sancia and there have been rumors of secret indictments on julian of songe here
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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 and 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 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 a silent in order to try to go after julian assigns. you bradley manning that's what a campaign in support of the how the whistleblower is also came with
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a list celebrities offering this support. right now to find out more and that. also online this invincible genetically modified crops take food job loss trying to explain how wheat it was supposed to be destroyed back in two thousand and four has found its way to a field in oregon the details on a website. barack obama's latest promise to close guantanamo bay has been met with tough resistance in congress because in the no one house or voted in favor of keeping the facility open indefinitely and that means more suffering for all the detainees held there without charge most of them to be starving in protest 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
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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 itself as the
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thirty yemeni prisoners wait for the u.s. president's promises to come true the four month long hunger strike against their indefinite detention continues prisoners 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 forced out i can tell you that and they have described being forced bad 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 their homes but hope dies
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last. page him a son in yemen. u.s. military lawyer lieutenant colonel barry wing god he represents one of the hunger strike has not spoke to him earlier and he believes the white house says it remains to end the crisis at guantanamo but is failing to take the initiative. under the national security was great he can do what the secretary to the content of the tower and it's time for the straight into you to report up or to at least tell us what's really going to happen the president does have the authority to release from guantanamo bay like shock or armor back to london. ally of the united states the hunger strike there's no sign that there's any time to. sort of hunger strike i mean my client reports that all of his personal possessions are still confiscated his toothbrush is so good letters from home his attorney client. privilege
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particular that's what music is going to each other it's all been taken and not returned he asked me he said hey what teeth or vote to fund prison that's ninety five percent full of men who haven't been charged with a crime after eleven after years have to tell you and you can answer for them straight to me what kind of person don't care if you've done your city guantanamo bay it's just on the ground here on one side i'm ok here's no change whatsoever and everybody is sort of waiting for washington to jump some leadership. some other international news in brief the u.s. soldier robert bales he's accused of the death of sixteen afghan civilians in march twenty two world has pleaded guilty to murder it means the staff sergeant will now avoid the death penalty for the massacre of what were mostly women and children relatives of the dead of expressed outrage that he will escape capital punishment.
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building collapse in the center the american city of philadelphia has left at least thirteen people injured up to ten more still thought to be trapped under the rubble all of those rescued were taken to nearby hospitals it's as yet unknown what caused the building to fool. it's tough to be the first man in space and tough to make the first feature film about the first man in space but russian movie makers have finally taken on the challenge and now a new movie dedicated to eureka gallant is set to open in theaters across the nation on thursday before world wide audiences were limited to documentaries of the guards who wrote journey but now they'll be able to see how the son of a carpenter and a dairy woman was picked from among three thousand candidates for the coveted role of braving the cosmos it took russian filmmakers three years to just approve the script five more to deliver it to fears and over nine million dollars to make it
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all happen so buckle up for the tribute to the man who became a symbol for all humankind and visit our web site www dot com for more details. with europe struggling to dig itself out of its part of debt its leaders are trying to find ways to prevent vital cash slipping out through cracks in the system. looks into the problem. so david cameron is summoning ten overseas territories in his mission to stamp out attacks of asian and it's not just a british problem but a global one at least according to the latest estimation global wealth held abroad in offshore accounts grew over six percent just last year to a total of eight point five trillion dollars and britain which is accused of creating a tax haven in the first place so here we are we've got senior ministers from jersey go and see the isle of man all heading to westminster as cameron tries to
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convince them all to sign agreements to share tax information i asked mike ingram from b.b.c. partners if he thinks targeting the states is the right way to cameron to solve the problem of tax evasion and he could be opening pandora's box because the end of the day the legislation which has allowed these these institutions these people to exploit these loopholes were created by the politicians themselves so yes the numbers boy add up but actually resolving this without being politically embarrassing might be extremely tricky what do you think is the motivation behind this at the moment my read is actually it's more domestic pressure i mean this is scarcely a day that goes by the u.k. with newspaper headlines t.v. programs about you know who corporate profitability executive pay but you know an enormous amount of tax avoidance going on by both and you know in the
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years that the economy was booming this is less of a hot issue now the man on the street is seeing real wages squeeze and there's an awful lot of resentment about the election in two years in the u.k. it's an easy vote winner for him and going forward that it's crucial that cameron gets the cooperation of these offshore zones before the g eight summit kicks up in northern ireland later on this month in order to strengthen his case to the global community that tax evasion will not be tolerated. kitty pilgrim now will be back with a new team of morphine half an hour from now in the meantime return to be ongoing unrest in turkey and it's possible developments that seem cross-talk with present help right after this short break.
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