pakistan's newly elected prime minister once again calls for the u.s. to end drone strikes in the country we take a look at the many civilian victims of america's war on terror. a major u.s. cell phone networks forced by a top secret court order to hand over the phone records of millions of its clients to the national security agency. back to the brink the turkish prime minister is set to return to the country to face demands for him to resign over a brutal police crackdown on demonstrations that's left thousands injured our top stories this hour.

on screen online international news incoming live from moscow this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day. u.s. drone strikes on pakistani soil must end that's according to the country's newly elected prime minister who is once again demanded washington respects his country's sovereignty this comes amid mounting reports of the many civilian casualties in america's war on terror. that some of them report contains some graphic images. the locals call it death in the skies in pakistan's northwest tribal region an american drone as seen from the ground it's become the weapon of choice in the u.s. war on terror and this is the damage it can wreak under president obama more than three hundred such strikes on pakistani soil against alleged al qaeda and taliban suspects. but ordinary civilians also pay a price this man is one of them i mean a lot was on his way to work at

a mine near his village when a drone struck the area he lost his leg in the attack three other miners who were with them lost their lives we live in constant fear of another strike we are simple villagers who are stuck in a war that we didn't ask for it's a hopeless feeling to be death is above our heads all the time although the attack took place three years ago i mean a loss says the pain is still severe the sight of his injuries upsets his four children meanwhile depression anxiety and lingering fear have pushed him to take up tranquilizer pills and modify it in the same arrogance should be able to tell an ordinary person from a television leader what they should know who they're killing what did we do to deserve this. this isn't my ex any grown arctic it's a question echoed by now darren who lost part of his hearing his short term memory and nearly his foot when. the drone shockwave was so intense that it threw us outside far from the place where we were sleeping after several minutes there was

another strike and it killed many more people attorneys out of bar has sued both the u.s. and pakistan on behalf of the civilian victims he says they're the voiceless people of the zeerust on isolated by geography and politics simply call it a concentration camp that you have build a wall of. military and militants and behind that wall you keeping more than eight hundred thousand people who are not allowed to come out and no one from the rest of the country is allowed to go in and that's a kind of tree which u.s. is using to use and test its drone program in many ways the epicenter of the cia's highly classified drone program is a black hole on the map a region of pakistan off limits to outsiders especially westerners now evidence of the drone strikes is almost impossible to get but these were smuggled to islamic bought from the tribal areas there are believed to be fragments of actual hellfire

missiles retrieved from a war zone most americans never get to see the fragments collected by norbu a local journalist who spent years documenting the civilian toll of drones especially on children just images of the living and the dead for nor it's personal . to me whenever my three year old daughter hears a plane she runs inside and won't sleep that night the children here have been traumatized by the drones the sound of a door banging shut is enough to terrify them. and that fear can turn to anger a new generation radicalized by the war by carrying a drone strikes killing innocent people who are not part of the conflict you just why did the conflict. you're giving a reason to people who were not part of the conflict to become part of the conflict . of course this is made me hate the americans we're angry and want revenge they've destroyed our lives my parents my wife my children we all see america as our worst

enemy now while promising to rein in their use the white house says drones are both legal and effect at. all on. us. when translated by defense that's cold comfort for the victims. are pakistan and while the u.s. authorities claim drones only hit military targets american media has been reporting that classified documents indicate the cia did not always know who they were killing jury attacks let's take a look at some actual numbers here but according to the bureau of investigative journalism up to eight hundred eighty four civilians have reportedly been killed it's estimated two hundred children are among these victims meanwhile the number of drone strikes has increased six fold since president obama took office chris woods

from the bureau of investigative journalism says with these figures in mind there needs to be much more transparency in drone warfare. 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 opening quantity but also for the cia to share the information me as one who it believes it's killed in places like pakistan president obama's speech the other we did seem to promise more openness but unfortunately we don't seeing signs of that just yet in pakistan we now have an incoming government that's making absolutely clear to the united states that it doesn't want these drone strikes i don't think they're going to stop most of the strikes there in pakistan these days i'm really not related to al qaeda and to those terrorist activities but really to the war across the border in afghanistan and the drone war has changed quite significantly over the ten years or so it's been running we see

the united states talking about using drones in syria for example we have heard of course from iraq and wanting to recently for the u.s. to use drones that so there's a concern among some that the u.s. will start to use these drones as an easy plank in the view of foreign policy that's now further discuss this with steven simon back his electorate stanford law school and co-author of living and drones stephen what is life like on the drones well thank you very much for having me on your show. life under jones i think your clip is illustrated very well many people use the word war when they were describing what it was like to live under duress live with drones in the sky above and above them many of the individuals that we spoke to talk to us of feeling as though they were in a state of war and this is very different from how the u.s. typically describes the drone program to the casual observers or to the citizens of

the country now the military never report civilian casualties so is it very difficult to bring anybody to account to the civilian death. well again as you met as you mentioned in that in the report it is extremely difficult for outside observers to have access into the area into north waziristan and other areas affected by drones and that's not to say though that there are incredibly credible lawyers and activists and journalists who are active on the ground who are bringing this information out. to the world to see it and there are a number of different organizations that make their make their business of make the business that are in the business of aggregating this data and bringing it out for other people to see for example to your of investigative journalism that you that you know you mentioned. but again there's also another actor who has very good evidence or very good intelligence about. who is being struck and that's the military itself the military presumably has very accurate or detail video or at

least we're told of each drone strike before and after and so one could imagine a system where those claims that very few or no civilians have been struck could be verified by an independent monitor who has access to those currently completely classified or completely confidential videos this is the so-called war on terror tragically people die in times of war that's a consequence of collateral damage if taliban leaders all putting humans in front in effect use them as human shields in front of these drone attacks it's not necessarily them and it was full of it. well that's true so what your what your question presumes is that we're in a state of war and in international humanitarian law there are a number of conditions that have to be met before you can claim that we are at war the american population is led to believe that the us is currently ending all of its military engagements or its war its war efforts in afghanistan iraq elsewhere

and unfortunately though as i mentioned before the people in pakistan certainly don't perceive that to be the case in their country and if we are behaving as though we were at war with pakistan we're at war with with elements in pakistan then we have to there's a whole different paradigm from what we're seeing as as the american population if the pakistani government were able to stop these drone attacks would have improved relations between then and taliban leaders could there be a positive consequence that. you know to be completely honest with you i'm not i'm not familiar enough with the internal dynamics of north waziristan politics what i do know or what i've been told is that the relations are incredibly strained and have been prior to the to the to the drone attacks and will presumably continue even after the drone strikes and there's a very large pakistani military presence in north waziristan and as you're as you're you're probably aware. the the laws or the politics of the

political arrangements that govern north waziristan are very different from those that govern the rest of pakistan so i think that's i think the drone program is one factor in that relationship but i don't think it defines the entire relationship but just briefly the u.s. says that this is legal and drone attacks are effective the world is a safer place though isn't it as a result of these effective drone attacks. yeah well one of the comments that rings particularly poignantly for me is the statement that i think you also reported on which says that the drone strikes have now become the recruiting tool and they've actually replaced one time on. recruiting to use recruiting tools for terrorist organizations who intend to harm american interests or american citizens that to me is worrisome and i think that sort of little back effort needs to be secret into the strategic analysis of the value of the drone program stephen thanks very much indeed for your thoughts on this stephen soderbergh lecture at stanford law school

and co-author of living on the drones death injury and trauma to civilians from the u.s. during practices in pakistan that's the full top of the book great to hear your thoughts thank you very much thank you the obama administration has acknowledged it's collecting an amount of telephone records from at least one cell phone provider britain's guardian newspaper named the network as a rise in in its report does not get the latest from marina. summer and america's domestic surveillance seem to be gathering momentum bring us more on these latest revelations. huge revelations and revelations that clearly increased the amount of distrust that is surrounding the obama administration as you mentioned the obama administration has acknowledged that it has been collecting the telephone records of millions of arisan customers and senior officials are defending the practice as necessary to protect americans against terrorist threat now this marks the first time that u.s.

present barack obama has approved for the communication records of millions of u.s. citizens to be collected indiscriminately and in bulk regardless of whether any of those people are suspected of any wrongdoing now a senior administration official confirmed to r.t. that the secret foreign intelligence surveillance court order which was first revealed by the guardian was signed on april twenty fifth and it requires of rising to produce the daily phone records of its customers now the telephone records being handed over to the national security agency indicate the numbers of both parties on every call the location data the call duration unique identifiers and the time duration of all the calls whether they're made in the u.s. or made overseas now the order does not request that the contents to the contents of the calls be disclosed but for a rise in declined our request for comment and that's probably because the secret court order bans of arisan from disclosing any information to anyone other than

their own employees that are needed to comply with this secret surveillance operation under the obama administration now we should also mention that senior officials for the obama administration only made their admission after the guardian newspaper published the story and the classified order on its website that court order is marked top secret and it is due to expire on july nineteenth a less it's renewed but we are now finding out that apparently this top secret court order has been pushed up. on verizon dating back to two thousand and six the chair when chairwoman of the senate intelligence committee has said that this there's been a three month renewal that's been ongoing and according to reports it's been ongoing for many many years and it started under the bush administration so this appears to be something that is being carried over from bush to obama approved by

obama we should also mention that if we never found out about this top secret surveillance about verizon being forced to hand over it all their their records on their on their customers calls the the obama administration was ready to declassify this court order in april of twenty thirty eight that is when the u.s. administration thought that it would be timely enough to be honest with its citizens about what's going on with for aizen. citizens how much of a shock will loose before americans and the international community. i think that it's an absolutely huge shock i myself am a verizon customer and i was shocked to find out about this as were many of my colleagues and friends it's something that we are unaware of that's happening it's something that's being kept secret and it's also a revelation that comes on the heels of many other scandals that have been concerning the obama administration we have been reporting about the fact that the department of justice was secretly following the calls of reporters and journalists

at the associated press there was also a warrant that the obama administration filed to obtain the e-mails and phone calls of fox news reporter and it seems as though these journalists in the u.s. are being targeted or surveilled by the u.s. government now because the u.s. government is trying to find out who is leaking classified information we will probably find out a lot more in the hours to come because u.s. attorney general eric holder is currently on capitol hill to speak with the senate appropriations committee about the budget but he will likely be pressed on the n.s.a. surveillance revelations now dealing with verizon and i'm sure there's going to be a lot of backlash coming from the citizens through throughout the day and the days ahead so we will be hearing more from you from the state in the meantime reed important thank you very much indeed for that update more news stories of to short

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three. three. three. three. video for your media project the free media r t dot com. calls to apologize and step down will greet the turkish prime minister when he returns home after a working trip abroad later today protesters want out of a brutal police crackdown on demonstrations that left fell's and fresh clashes broke out overnight in ankara as police unleashed mortie and water cannons on back to it's three people have died in the unrest which began as a small gathering in istanbul but spread like wildfire across the country in response to unprovoked police brutality spotty largely peaceful nature of the

movement of the ones branded the demonstrators as foreign backed extremists the protesters say he's chasing ghosts i mean they're going to go now reports. there are kids in banners flags and tear gas turkey is going through a rough time right now so who's to blame but i'm going to consider the sincerity of these protests social media has been full of fabricated news baseless claims and accusations against me for days therefore we should hide these people from the trees they are accustomed to that these tactless people are tweeting and messaging that we are victims of violence and drawing police powers are crushing us and the people who share these retreat these claims are just hundreds of fascists said prime minister go on for dissing often african tour voices of dissent on istanbul's taksim square as well as many other squares and parks in turkey. but the turkish prime minister had by then already dismissed these voices as coming from drunkards

and extremists the only types of people quit and protests in turkey according to this to completely dislikes a position. he take this as a personal offense. he used he's used to have. agrees from the public for a lot of time because he gained a. waltz of to calm this time probably he didn't think that he didn't assume that there will be the protests will be so big everyone's feelings for the protesters however on mirrored by the people on texan who believe only one has lost touch with reality and cares mostly about one person's opinion his own everybody was here being and everybody where people were. trying to resist and people were trying to keep this park and he was telling that we are good he was saying

that there is actually no project here going on and then he changed his mind and he said there is of course a project. and i will do what i want to do and then the resurrection of spies spies everywhere and this commentary on the protests the prime minister insisted there are hundreds if not thousands of foreign agents working to upset the status quo in the country i don't insist that it's these very agents that have instigated the address in the first place and continue to work among the crowds encouraging dissent in turmoil today's news paper quoted a non named source in the government who claimed authorities have arrested some fifteen foreigners across the country in connection with the protests ironically many of them turned out to be nationals of iran a country which has been on early ones blacklist for quite some time but just a couple of months ago the prime minister cut a different picture delivering a heartfelt speech on the subject of human rights and freedoms. where there is no

justice there is no humanity because there is justice and justice is excluded its place has shifted to man's identity the identity of human beings to speak it is impossible to claim that these people can build a decent life but in everyone's turkey lately people have been busy putting up barricades to keep police at bay rather than building a prosperous future for themselves it isn't. istanbul. let's get reaction from a political expert. who is in israel will do on his vow to resolve the crisis when he returns to the country how do you think it's going to do that. well first the good inning blessings from the holy cd or jerusalem you know i happen to be a witness. undressed in turkey i spent sunday and monday with the demonstrators in you stumble this week and i can tell you. if we were talking two

years ago about arab spring so now we are facing to recuse or to this is exactly the opposite process so what were face to get egypt in many other places in our region we see that this wave of islam is and is becoming sometimes a really very heavy burden to the people and they don't want to continue with that and this what the turkish people were saying when you say or a monastery people can i just say who are among the szell say you say you are amongst those people you were there during the demonstrations what sort of people are they what sort of represent fire was also participating as an active. show but who was not participating in the or in any riots or demonstration i just was what i was an observer and they have to tell the truth and the truth is that an arrest was absolute discipline tanian suno people even didn't carry and in slogans in english

people were not prepared they're just came spontaneously from all parts of istanbul now it was not only the taksim square it was everywhere in the city you could even the see the demonstrators on the way to the airport just marching in a very very very restrained and a very peaceful way we might say now unlike you know i remember unrest in remanding i ninety eight and nine which was a result by the revolution against show share square and remember a moscow in one thousand won in ninety three for the m. on the people participating and. there had been real determination to reach of the goal in turkey is much stronger than any other place i saw in the world i mean their events there are really very serious and turkey is not going to be the same

to morrow as it was yesterday it's a different contrie already even if we are talking about certain parallels with paris and nine hundred sixty eight the culture atmosphere is different because we are talking about the people who are students intellectuals professionals they were all there they were all there and there was no sign in any part in istanbul that there was any even small as the gathering all for the government then the ruling islamist party supporters this was just amazing that this street was conquered absolutely by the protesters and even the police was sympathetic to them i saw it and what about the role of the military in all of this you say the situation is extremely dangerous now for the government with the military we haven't seen him at all. i mean three is waiting you you as you know many generals and even former chief of staff of torquay are in prison now this is

a very special situation when they are waiting for the developments because of the army will take. control if there will be a more serious disturbances their way they may be the prime minister and the president will start negotiating with the demonstrators maybe appeasing process i mean they're still waiting for something good to happen but if instead of negotiating with his own people the prime minister will keep conveying to them he's tough message even storing them up more then the you will see him next week a week after some thing from the army and turkey as you know has a culture all kind of which military regime democracy democracy military these things happen to them in the past and nobody will be surprised if it will happen again now live from jerusalem political expert having to thank you very much indeed

for your thoughts on this. thank you for that sort of out that's a bit of a delay there between our chat our communications there between moscow and jerusalem now what that brings you up to date i'll be back with the news team in about half an hour from now in the meantime mexico is it is next with the latest revelations from the world of finance that's after the break. the school board in batavia illinois has decided to punish one teacher for his bad behavior by putting him on a strict probation play or what did he do to be deserve be part of this probation plan to do so like punch a student in the face or to go on some sort of horribly racist or sexist ranted for the class no he just reminded the students that as americans they have the right to

not incriminate themselves to put it more simply he told the students that they didn't have to answer a questionable survey about drug and alcohol use and their emotional state since the data from this questionnaire would be sent back to the private company that created it this raises even more privacy issues than just the school knowing about the students personal lives i would like to commend this teacher john dryden for actually going above and beyond and telling the children something they need to dial you know if you're going to live in a society based on individual rights it would help to actually teach children what those rights are but that's just my opinion.

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