violence and circus street shows no sign of abating riot police again used tear gas water cannon against anti-government protesters who are rallying for a ninth night while prime minister to one refuses to address the demonstrators demands. and other stories that shapes the week private bradley manning accused of leaking u.s. military documents faces a possible life sentence as he goes before an army corps we look at how washington destroys attempts to unveil its secrets. the trial comes as a fresh bombshell drops revealing the massive scale of u.s. surveillance with documents proving that government has been secretly collecting people's phone records and spying on their online activity for years.

and saying before you tweet police in britain are being accused of crossing the line with an increasing number of arrests for comments on social media. as to piano moscow you're watching r t with me maureen and josh welcome to the program. and that was start in turkey where police have again to use force to quell protests that have been raging for over a week across the country tear gas and water cannon were deployed us thousands marched in turkey's two major cities defied the prime minister's call for an immediate stop to the unrest at stamboul remains the most restive city the protests started there is an environmental campaign in

a spiral into the biggest anti-government drive in decades violence erupted in several areas of the city overnight with crowd numbers surging their highest so far in the capital ankara there were clashes near the u.s. embassy and tear gas returns to the central square where thousands of demonstrators gathered to the matinée and tear to one's rule party's revolution has been following the week of turmoil and reports from stamboul. i felt that i was hit so i put my hand up to get away there was blood gushing down my hands everywhere i saw my friend and asked them to get me out of that so he put me in a taxi i don't remember what happened next because i passed out i woke up in hospital where i stayed for the next day. photo journalist ahmed sheikh was there when the peaceful protests spiraled into noël out standoff between the police and protesters in taksim square more than forty seven hundred people are said to have been injured

during clashes with police over the past week with amnesty international calling for an investigation into how the turkish police handled the protest rallies spread to squares and parks all over the country by then the message was no longer just about the trains. i will go on to have they change their plans about the park and give us our freedoms. ergo i think that they are. but the prime minister knew exactly who he wanted to blame for the ever growing protest movement there is a problem called twitter right now and you can find every kind of lived there the thing that is called social media is the biggest trouble for society right now according to everyone the thousands and give the park are looters of alcoholics being spurred on by foreign spies who infiltrated crowds of demonstrators to spread dissent among the turks reportedly fifteen foreigners were arrested for their alleged role in the protests. i know what he's thinking when he says what he does

he wants to show that he's still got power to those who support him but he doesn't know what to do with the protest as large as they were for the first couple of days the demonstrations went ignored by the turkish media. from c.n.n. international the old protectors you get the polies the people and then you take. those there was a man three so it's. actually the pressure of the prime minister that is reflected on the media and we think it's unfair other channels international channels sharing this information and we have to find out about it on the international channels it's unfair to the people at this point the protests are so huge they're impossible to ignore pretty much just like the barricades that people continue to build a lot over the city to keep the police out and gets everyone insists that the destruction of the park will continue to go on as planned and that leaves one to wonder what exactly is in the future for the turkish prime minister with his

seeming disregard to the opinion of hundreds of thousands of people in istanbul and in r.t. . human rights groups and foreign governments rushed to condemn how turkish police dealt with the protesters however reports suggest some of those countries were actually supplying turkey with a tear gas that the security forces used well let's have a look in the past twelve years turkey's imports of tear gas and pepper spray has grown fifty times to more than six hundred tons ankara has spent more than twenty one million dollars doing that as a country that's cashed in the most is the u.s. not a stranger to selling tear gas and other crowd control munitions to places rocked by protest including egypt bahrain and tunisia. while the spy the violent protests turkey's ruling party has rejected all calls for snap election prime minister to want a stake in a combative stance dismissing the demonstrations as the opposition's attempt to

topple the government accusing the protesters of looting and vandalism foreign policy expert barbara slaven a senior fellow at the atlantic council says or no one's position is damaging turkey's image as a model of islamic democracy so far i don't think he's doing a very good job and this is a huge blow to him personally to his image and also to the turkish model which he has been touting around the middle east as something that arab countries should emulate he wants to change the constitution to create a sort of imperial presidency and then run for two terms as president this kind of behavior is alienating people who are religious as well as those who are secular so i think he's taking a big big risk. among turks and he really should i think quit while he's ahead because obviously the longer he's there the more people even people who were predisposed to like him at the beginning begin to tire of his manner of governing

he's somebody who lectures who sermonize is he doesn't listen very well in my experience and i think this is really not a good model for a country that purports to be a modern islamic democracy while we are keeping our eye on events unfolding in turkey gathering eyewitness accounts an expert opinion for you on our website so go to our t. dot com for live dates a timeline of the protests and the most dramatic foods. now the stakes are high at the court martial bradley manning accused of leaking sensitive military data to the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks the soldiers charged with aiding the enemy and found guilty faces life in jail id's marine a fortnight explores now the u.s. government's attempts to silence those who feel they have to speak out. military

court martial against private first class bradley manning begins at a complicated time for the obama administration u.s. journalists have been spied on an unprecedented number of whistleblowers have been imprisoned and access to the truth many say grows increasingly harder by the day we have a severe problem with transparency and secrecy in this country that's for sure our problem is a cult of secrecy extreme levels of dystopian secrecy washington classified ninety two million documents in the year two thousand and eleven that's the last count we have to put things in perspective what bradley manning leaked is less than one percent of that manning pleaded guilty to ten of the twenty two charges he faces the twenty five year old said he wanted the public to know how the u.s. military campaigns in iraq and afghanistan had little regard for human life it should be clear to anybody paying attention to bradley manning. thought of himself

at the times in whistleblower that he did what he did because he thought he was making the world a better place he's in no way a time american and has never expressed anti american sentiments in any way in fact he's always said that he is and was driven by this sort of sense of patriotism and prosecutors however are pursuing a court marshal on the remaining charges including the espionage act and aiding the enemy which carries a life sentence in prison in an interview with democracy now julia songe addressed washington's allegations that manning aided the enemy by going to wiki leaks if that president is allowed to be erected in boulder in two things closely. it means it's a potential death penalty for any person you know attributes preaching to. the sensitivity about them but secondly it also orioles' the journalist and the

publication shereen of communication they would say to the enemy and therefore making him susceptible as well to be espionage act which also has capital offenses and that is why it was the. us but let a positive part of the us attack. including ourselves broadly we hope this letter finds you healthy and strong daniel ellsberg known as the original whistleblower leaked seven thousand government documents to the press in one thousand nine hundred ninety one revealing the truth about the vietnam war more than a war decades later he says the us government is going to even greater lengths to keep the public in the dark call it a war on truth telling truth telling specifically about truth the government doesn't want. truth about government crimes or laws that the public needs to

know. if military prosecutors successfully prove that whistle blowing is aiding the enemy then bradley manning could spend the rest of his life in prison a verdict handed down under a president who promised to usher in an era of transparency when he stepped into the white house according to new york marina are sitting. down now the ranks of prosecutor whistleblowers in the u.s. may about to grow even larger the national security agency is pushing for a criminal probe into the leak that revealed the scale of its top secret surveillance program earlier this week british and u.s. papers published a leak or order that authorized the collection of all phone. records from one of america's major phone companies further disclosure was uncovered the existence of a program code named prism granted u.s. agents access to e-mails videos documents and other material from at least nine internet giants the massive scale of the spying cause outrage at home and abroad

but president obama defended the methods siding national security needs ivan eland is a fellow at the end of pen in his youth and says such policies are against the founding principles of the united states i think this is a real by a lesion of the u.s. constitution even the democrats are saying well this is legal it's been checked out by congress. but that's doesn't wash when it violates the direct persian provisions of the u.s. constitution which state that any warrant can't be a general warrant in other words they can't go mining for things which is what they're doing and also there has to be probable cause that there's been a crime committed well every citizen in america can't be. suspected of being a criminal now they're say they're not listening into the conversations of. conversations but the constitution doesn't say anything about that it just says if

it's a search and this is a search and it's clearly unconstitutional even though the patriot act which is unconstitutional portions of it. ok's it so i think it's a very bad thing and also this other program that goes that actually does capture the content of e-mails of photos that sort of thing on people overseas also captures americans as well. and coming up later in the program they call a death in the skies. there believed to be fragments of actual hellfire missiles retrieved from a war zone most americans never get to see. we witness evidence of u.s. drone strikes in pakistan and speak exclusively to the victims of the attacks. president putin is set to become officially single after he announces his thirty years of marriage are over. the brutal

murder of a soldier and will it inflamed millions of conversations in the social media but for some the online chats resulted in legal hurdles abuse of commons have led to arrests across britain and many worry the law is becoming overzealous in hunting down internet users are the sarah first investigates. trust the officers with a baton we trust some of the c.i. sprit and yet for some reason we can't trust them with 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 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 crossed the line looking back. to. the 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 and with another public sectors but it really is more about

leadership than technology you know the technology needs to change absolutely but 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 skills. the great level establish new guidelines set to be made final by the criminal prosecution service in the coming weeks but with the explosion of say show media leaving british little fighting to catch up many in the legal profession a warning that social media eases no need to tread very carefully sarah say london and i'll be back with more news really after this break stay with us.

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back you're watching r t how the latest u.s. drone strike has killed at least seven people in pakistan's tribal region of a serious town no information has been released about the victims well this adds to the grim statistics of america's drone war in pakistan almost nine hundred civilians have died in the attacks that supposedly only target terrorists of those almost two hundred are reportedly children the number of strikes has risen sharply during barack obama's term six times more than under his predecessor are just losing often of looks at who exactly is getting caught in the crossfire of the drone war. 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 i 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 americans 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 is my ex and he did it in their own arctic it's a question echoed by now dar 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 they're 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 disturbing 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 out 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 complete . of course this is made me hate the americans we are 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 effective that's the target of all this on. us. when translated by defense that's cold comfort for the victims you see caffein of pakistan a latest drone strike comes just days after pakistan's newly inaugurated prime minister called for an immediate and to a manned flights and continue attacks completely undermine the authority of

pakistani government says retired three star general thomas suit. pakistan has been protesting and politically it has a very negative fallout in darkest hour and it fuse militancy what exactly is happening is that although it may have certain tactical advantage in the sense that you know if pakistan does not have control then the drones at least some to some extent may contain the militants but on the political side it lowers the image of their state in the eyes of its people it makes them feel helpless and then it also ruins the relationship between the u.s. and pakistan when it comes to the use of drones the americans have given the responsibility of using the drones to the cia as far as pakistan is concerned where is the rest of the countries apart from you your men have been given to the

pentagon so and they have also said that they would use that very discreetly but in the state of pakistan and afghanistan i think they don't even want to own it want to talk of using it you know discreetly. well later today we talk to activists a philosopher a professor noam chomsky homilies america is taking a fight fire was fired always see a bit too far here's a preview. a drone strike is what we don't talk about it but it is just imagine if you're walking down the street and you don't know whether in five minute. there's going to be an explosion across the street. from some place where up in the sky that you can see. somebody will be killed and whoever else is around will be killed. maybe you'll maybe you'll be injured if you're there that's just

a terror weapon it terrorizes. villages regions huge areas effects of the most massive terror campaign going on long. and president vladimir putin has revealed that his marriage is over and then months of speculation about his private life they can fashion came in a joint interview with his wife on russian state television where they called it an amicable split the two have been married for thirty years and have two daughters revelation to the public by surprise as lattimer put in as he usually been secretive about his private life. coming up shortly here in our program worlds apart.

new york magistrate judge gary brown has ruled that it's ok to track people's will cation via their cell phone but judge supports his decision by saying that there is no legitimate expectation of privacy in the perspective of a cellular telephone where the individual has failed to protect his privacy but ticking the simple expedient of powering it off this statement seems to hint that cell phones are some sort of luxury and that people are just too lazy to turn off their phones when they want privacy this ignores the fact that there are many people who have to be on call twenty four seven like surgeons and server technicians these people can't just turn off their phones so does that mean that certain professions can't have privacy also this presumption that people have no expectation of privacy what about people who send images of text messages of

a sexual nature to each other joy i think that all these people just assume it's all public goods i don't think so the fourth amendment says that people have the right to be secure in their persons houses papers and effects and i'm pretty sure that's cover cell phones too but that's just my opinion. hello and welcome to worlds apart crazy lunatic leaders erratic policies everything to do with iran is presented in the west through the prism of irrationality you get

anyone who has ever been to iran but it's in the country where science and education a simplistic or a national identity was really being irrational here in iran for its accusers well to discuss this analogy and why serve the child dolt and be born where you can boss it to run thank you very much for your time sir now you served in iran during the years one iran was probably the most call for to the international community on the west in particular on the nuclear issue they even suspended uranium enrichment for a year and a half do you think they guard their fair share of concessions and which aren't. yes i think they did but first to address your question about rationality or irrationality i believe that western countries russia and iran are all basically the same they have an ideology and times they need to serve that ideology they also have interests and most of the time they are seeking to serve those interests as mr

dalton i think you would agree especially a sincere. dedicated here entire career to diplomacy that reciprocity is the golden rule of a diploma stand if you want something from your partner you have to be ready to reciprocate and i think iran really feels that it is being asked to give up everything upfront we have out there whereas really committing to anything substantial well that certainly wasn't the case when i was involved in these negotiations from two thousand and three to two thousand and five the three european countries offered to iran the best deal in international relations that they had ever been offered and iran threw over the table and refused to negotiate but they didn't need jesus taken to do that mr dalton but they did suspend uranium enrichment for a year and a half on their own accord that's quite a substantial concession when it comes to iran when it was funded.