fires cries and tear gas but another night of violence in the turkish capital with protesters blaming heavy handed police said an aloof prime minister. was probably manning's trial opens prosecutors betray him as the tories and treacherous his defense insist exposing alleged u.s. war trustees meant he simply wanted to make the world a better place. so brace for washington's latest manhunt this for the informant to expose the parallel surveillance network that spying on the lives of hundreds of libyans in america alone. and keep your tweets sweet british police urged twitter users to tone it down after a series of arrests for abusive online messages. hello

very good evening to you for just joined this money was kevin i mean this is the weekly our top stories of the last seven days we start in turkey where protesters and police clashed and running battles for a ninth night tear gas and water cannon were again deployed as tens of thousands of demonstrators defied a call by the prime minister for immediate end to the unrest the capital ankara witnessed an especially harsh crackdown with squads of riot police something protesters down alleyways after breaking apart the main rally crowds of thousands also demonstrated in istanbul with record numbers now the report campaigners nationwide refused to back down from their demand for prime minister edwin to quit accusing him of being authoritarian and attempting to wisdom is the government. has been following the week of turmoil and reports now from his. bull. government

i felt that i was hit so i put my hand on the got to get away and there was blood gushing down my hands everywhere i saw my friends and asked them to get me out of the 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 and photojournalist duckman cheek was there when a peaceful protest spiraled into an all 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 trial they change their plans about the park and give us our freedoms to talk to her. earlier i think that 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 law 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 and 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 to ignored by the turkish media. from c.n.n. and to the nation the old protectors you get the polies the people and then you take c.n.n. turk there was a pain in the commentary so it's. actually it's 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. . well the e.u. has been among those demanding a thorough probe into the use of excessive force to crush the demonstrations the promise to rebuke that saying the protesters would be treated much more harshly if they're really european state videos and images of emerged on the internet though throughout the week showing riot police firing tear gas using pepper spray and

beating campaigners its soul supreme reported that turkey brought six hundred twenty eight tons of crowd control munitions in just over a decade mostly imported from america increasing its stock fifty fold its cost turkish taxpayers around twenty one million dollars r.t. spoke to one man who felt the full force of that heavy police. as a protest sir i am one of the most that has been exposed as i did cheer gas and water cannon it reduced my weakness and caused crying and sneezing and a c. s. i had asked him out during the events i had multiple severe ask him x.x. and i can say that the name provoker police and government they want to create fear and anxiety ordination they cannot scare us we are the people we are to the nation we are turkish we are turkish they cannot change that they know that and this is i can say that i mean i love to explain that this is

a peaceful event we do not do any harm to anyone or anything. but however provokers such as government the police officer calls us and shows us that we heard every word without any reason that's we cannot accept that. thousands of government supporters of gathered in the airport outside the capital ankara to welcome promise to write a well meantime waving banners and chanting slogans the people though say they want to counterbalance the anti government protests taking remains deeply evenly split it's along religious lines with a promise to enjoy muslim support for a policy expert barbara slave in a senior fellow at the atlantic council told us it's his failure though doing gauge the other half a society that's at the root of this problem. what it showing is that there is a great deal of opposition to heir to one personally and to the kind of creeping islamization that he's trying to promote in turkey it comes just a couple of weeks after he had a trip to washington where he bragged about turkey's economic success and again

talked about turkey as a model so i think it has done damage if you look at what's happened to the stock market in turkey to the value of the turkish currency we've heard talk about legislation that would limit when people can buy alcohol and consume it in public talk about restricting abortions he's urged women to all have three children. of course you know his wife wears a headscarf all the rest there's kind of a pushing of that you know that as well and i think that there are a lot of turks who are still loyal to the memory of auditor and who do not want to have this forced down their throats they want it to be a choice not something that the government tells them to do. now on a website we've got more how the anger against the government's been progressing across turkey at all to go call we also find images and photos more crew in istanbul which is closely following the unrest we've played a bros there footage in the invision section.

betraying his nation that's one of the accusations bradley manning was hit with during his trial this week manning who leaked secret documents revealing the u.s. army could be responsible for hundreds if not thousands of civilian deaths during the iraqi and afghan campaign faces nearly two dozen charges and possibly life in prison video you watching right now indeed supposedly shows an american helicopter crew hitting a group of civilians in baghdad including reuters news style of his one important has more now on america's apparent fondness of secrecy over transparency. to 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 in prison 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 that bradley manning. thought of himself at the times and whistleblower that he did what he did because he thought he was making the world a better place he's in no way to take american has never expressed anti american sentiment soon anyway in fact he's always said that he. it is it was driven by a certain sense of patriotism prosecutors however are pursuing

a court martial 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 julian a songe addressed washington's allegations that manning aided the enemy by going to wiki leaks if that precedent is allowed to be erected it will do to things for a slightly. it means it's a potential death penalty for any person you know attributes pretty. sensitive to other secondly it also remember orioles the journalist and the publication train of communication that 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 that was the. u.s. but latter part is part of the u.s. attack. including myself 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 u.s. 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 that the government doesn't want. truth about government crimes or 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 maureen up or not our t.v.

. show the graph from the current affairs web site wide awake news says the focus should be on the information manning leaks and not his personality. media in general is looking at i think this all wrong you know let's look at the information that bradley manning put out there i don't care if he was manipulated by a song or if this was don't feelings or or he was just frustrated because he saw these things occurring you know you keep put this information out the information is indisputable the information speaks for itself you know the reasons that he claims for it is because it was a conscience decision and more power to him i think history will build him as he hero if you report on the government you're going to prison or you're going to die this is the message that that i pick up that i infer from the acts of this from this administration is was previous if you dare to stand up and say what we're doing is wrong you're going to pay a lot of cases the ultimate penalty and more the big news of the week u.s.

spy chief for no hunting for another whistleblower the one who leaked the existence of the mega surveillance network that's unparalleled in scope details of the seven year old prison system of slowly emerged under-vote outrage at home and abroad phone call records internet browsing history of the credit card transactions of almost all of the u.s. population is reportedly being tracked and logged in real time and suspected that hundreds of millions of others worldwide are also having their information intercepted by washington to president obama's adamant saying privacy should be sacrificed in return for security when benny worked for the national security agency for thirty years and told us the power of the organization has been given only though encourages abuse. it's a direct violation of the constitution and always has been that's why i left n.s.a. in two thousand and one they started to do this and of course the congress and the administration at the time was being baboo bamboozled by the intelligence community saying that you have to collect all this data is so we can find the bad guys and if

we don't do that we won't be able to achieve that and their budgets have been almost tripled i think since nine eleven so what they're really doing is saying we have to we have to use what we have which was that which is the problem with power when you give power to to an organization or to people they tend to use it and assembling this kind of information about all in all the citizens in the united states or anybody else for that matter gives you power against them you have leverage now and you can use that power against them and across the atlantic details of the surveillance net coal shock with e.u. officials demanding clarity over what they call the monstrous allegations of total monitoring brussels longwood suspicious of american internet giants which were believed to be too flippant with regards to previous see some government figures even call for a boycott of some corporations and britain's also been implicated with sources saying its intelligence services had direct access to prism a fact that human rights lawyer katrina smell of it sees as dangerous and a warning to people around the world. i would say if the wakeup call for all

europeans and everybody living in other countries as long as we are using us based companies we are not from surveillance on the company we have to assume that we are under surveillance and not because we are suspects not because we are guilty of anything just because u.s. is running a war on terror because we talk about surveillance of oh well internet communication like e-mails like files we sure like information we exchange is our life it's a lot of information about me those of people and the possibility of creating profiles on that base that was the ability of guessing our next move of controlling our behavior is huge it's really this they did or will described in his books and we have to be aware of this risks more than ever. after the latest u.s. drone strikes kill seven in pakistan washington still saw the doctor who was targeted for the few minutes that we look at the collateral damage and meet some of the civilians caught up in what's supposed to be a war on terror plus. find and democracy penalty for two british soldiers who abuse

civilians in afghanistan we report to on why the punishment could be put the stigma against the u.k. military in the country. another obstacle in the closing guantanamo bay congress votes to make it more difficult to release prisoners now even as more than one hundred inmates continue to starve themselves over their indefinite detention that's ahead as. the civilized world produces more foods and it needs. well people die of hunger in other countries. millions of victims every year. where a meal is the most about trade. was. is flood or droughts to blame. it was

a bad year for the train. we couldn't find anything on. but there was great hunger. as it did help comes too late and with no good intentions. charity diplomacy and business on elsie. and pakistan's new sworn in prime minister is redoubled his call for u.s. drone strikes to stop after friday's attack that killed seven in the tribal region

of was it a stand now is sharif some of the american ambassador of the attack saying such breaches of sovereignty europe unacceptable well the latest right could add to a worrying tally of america's drone war in pakistan almost nine hundred civilians of died in the attacks which supposedly only target terrorists of those almost two hundred reportedly been children the number of strikes has risen sharply during barack obama's presidency six times more than under his predecessor. looks next that who exactly is getting caught in the line of fire. 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 in pakistani soil against alleged al qaeda and taliban suspects. but ordinary civilians also pay a price this man is one of them i mean all are 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 or to be death is above our heads all the time. although the attack took place three years ago i mean the law says the pain is still severe the sight of his injuries upsets his 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 taliban leader what they should know who they're killing what did we do to deserve this. this is in my. own 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 built 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 four smuggled to islam about 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 disturbing images of the living and the dead for nor its personal. enemies. 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 are just widening 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 make 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 politics all this on. us. when translated by defense that's cold comfort for the victims you see caffein of pakistan stuff and some of bugs a lecturer at stanford law school and co-author of living on the drones he says pakistan is no see the us is the enemy. any 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 a drone program in international humanitarian law there are a number of conditions that have to be met before you can claim that we are out of war the american population is led to believe that the u.s. is currently ending all of its military engagements or its war its war efforts in

afghanistan iraq elsewhere and unfortunately though 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 or out war with with elements in pakistan then we have to then there's a whole different paradigm from what we're seeing as as the american population. let's think twice before you tweet is the advice from police and media experts in the wake of a number of recent arrests in the united kingdom for positive posting offensive messages on twitter correspondence and offense reports now on how british police are playing catch up when it comes to laying down the law and how to counter abusive online comments. we trust our officers with a baton we trust some of the c.s. sprit and yet for some reason we can't trust some of the 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 social 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 felt the full force. 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 they're lying looking back on their. time think of. the 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 artesia 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 are to really display the great skills great problem solving skill. in the great leveller service new guidelines set to be made final by the criminal prosecution service in the coming weeks but with the explosion of social media leaving british little fighting to catch up many in the legal profession a warning that social media eases no need to tread very carefully i mean it is very

deeply concerning i think with 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 things to when it comes to the station media but it just such a bad thing they say well i'm afraid that twitter simply isn't my thing for. me there is facebook and your activities. but that's never been the focus so. the advice to be extremely tough for. sarah for a london. but what are you thoughts on the story online from us at r.t. dot com as well and while you're there we want you to take a look at some of the images of submerged central europe as the danube continues to do with the river swelling to record eyes hungary's fearing for its most intense floods check out the pictures from budapest they're awful for people going through that right now to talk. the swan song for russia's top ballet dancer has been

fired from the renowned bolshoi theatre on line to get details of the backstage back stabbing at the venue that's already rocked by that acid attack scandal. bus to refresh revelation about the red planet masses rover may have uncovered evidence of martian drinking water which may sustain life again will you up to speed on that one r.t. dot com. sarin gold does not come easy. radish by poverty a country torn apart to play to ethnic divides into golf's in a dirty war. when the peacekeepers leave one of the world's poorest nations as the calm to the next few really tearing catastrophe. why should special coverage buy you a few national malique african heat. on our team.

u.s. lawmakers threw up another hurdle to close on the ground tell them oh prison this last week the house armed services committee voted overwhelmingly to make it more difficult for inmates there to be transferred out of the prison first despite repeated promises from president obama to close the facility or the hundred made subpoena hunger strike for months now in protest at their indefinite detention many being held without charge or turn killed when god says that at the very least the u.s. government should be open about its plans for the prison. it's time for this straight into the 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 to include men like shakur aamer back to london. now i have the united states 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 to let us continue to keep each other it's all been taken and not returned he asked me he said hey what kind of vote to fund ninety five percent all of you who haven't been charged with a crime after eleven and a half years to tell you i am going to bring you all the number of hunger strike in guantanamo inmates being force fed has now reached forty one that's a quarter of the chems entire prison population the practice has been condemned as top shared by various international organizations including the u.n. and it's not just the detainee suffering while the prison stays open either of course but these are a big channel went to yemen to meet the family of one of the inmates. yeah some might argue there's not all that much difference between the physical torture that many prisoners undergo in one town of mouth and the emotional toll and their relatives are forced to deal with at home like the family of two rock monash patsy

and 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 only and now we have them america's support for human rights is merely a show it only cares about its own people well it destroys the rights of all others who have been suffering for thirteen years now. and yemen president obama's recent promise to lift restrictions off get most detainees specifically from the country was greeted with nothing but sneers. weird start of these nonstop lies a bum remembers about guantanamo only during election campaigns and on holidays he promised to shut it down several times and to forward their cases to their home countries these are 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 four month long hunger strike against their

indefinite detention continues person is have been demanding for nonmilitary doctors to be allowed to treat them more than forty out of more than one hundred protesters reportedly being force fed something they claim is torture in itself they are close enough to death that the military need to for speed but none of them enjoy being forced but 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 aren't going to believe another word from president obama until they see their sons brothers and husbands finally return home that the love that a militia 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. until is ease al hey jim. son yemen

and afghan colonel was arrested this last week over at least eleven deaths in the country's wardak province is thought he handed over locals to a death squad sort of working for u.s. special forces who then tortured and killed the victims a senior u.s. army officials confirm the alleged torture is did work with the americans in separate incidents a british court martials sentenced to u.k. soldiers who admitted abusing afghan civilians one of them was fined and the other had his rank reduced both the billions granted anonymity to keep their family safe or to contribute have she returns he expects the case to have a long lasting effect. this kind of but it will resign around around the world for in any country and amongst any groups of people that think that britain shouldn't be involved in afghanistan at all quoting to some parts of the case and reports of the case some of this abuse because amongst lots of soldiers so they're

abusing children in front of groups of soldiers these cases they've obviously have withheld the name soldier x. soldier why not just for reprisals against the families of the soldiers people will no doubt be trying to figure out who the soldiers were your sentiments towards the british military will be locked in stone and generations of afghans who despise not only the british military but everything britain is. cyber wars dominated the historic summit between the u.s. and chinese leaders to the program today we report on the blame game between washington and beijing over espionage and why a massive trade deals left them with a nasty yeah that takes us to the couple's fun and marriage president putin explains why he and his wife today thirty.

new york magistrate judge gary brown has ruled that it's ok to track people's location via their cell phone the judge supports his decision by saying that there's no legitimate expectation of privacy in the perspective of a cellular telephone where the individual has failed to protect his privacy but taking the simple expedient action of powering it off this statement seems to hint that cell phones are some sort of fun 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. need is the u.s. and china tried wrapping up historic two day summit on a lighter note but the state overshadowed by the side of us tonight cyber espionage president obama try to press his counterpart on the issue saying they should stop funding hackers which they're using vehemently denies doing china ruffalo said it's fallen victim itself to u.s. cyber backed attacks asia times correspondent pepe escobar thinks that countries with an axe to grind against washington should use cyberspace for their vengeance

even if they start talking about side or from china but before that u.s. had already lost but already does the vicious cyber war play of the stocks that virus against iraq so if we're going to have cyber war from now what it's like good at all the drug us or from china it's going to come from the european union as well some of our leadership is going to come from iran and for other developing countries that's well so if third country say that they are having extremely broad looks three problems financial problems did could counter attack and all cyberspace. as well as high tech china is also stirring up a merican strayed sector as well having agreed to meet in this to

a meat industry deal that could become beijing's biggest ever takeover of an american company the size of the transactions given some business experts the jitters but others see a massive opportunity on the rise and global strategy is judge who agrees is no reason to worry. there is always going to be a segment of the american politicians and pundits that are always looking for something to criticize when it's involving china and and sometimes of criticism comes from left field with no basis whatsoever certainly in this case. to blacken this deal by pointing out that chinese pork it's not safe for their dead pigs floating down a river in shanghai and so on and so forth the intention is to supply american pork in china to says the growing market there it's

a win for for the american industry and it's a boost for the american economy. protesters of storms a militia base which controls security in the libyan city garcia at least thirty one being killed it's not clear which side sustained most casualties though after demonstrators took on the former rebel fighters and still wield significant power in the area libyan government remains weak since monica duffy was deposed leaving it rival independent militias to enforce security. of the cleanups began after hundreds of riot his rampage through a city on the internet easy an island of sumatra angry the candidate lost narrowly in a mayoral election violence began when protesters reportedly blew up a business in the center of palembang before looting nearby shops two people have been arrested and troops have been deployed to the area. testers in spain voted against continued cuts to social welfare on going home of actions hundred filed through central madrid waving placards and chanting slogans against the unity of

major financial figures and institutions it's a year since spain asked for help from the e.u. and the i.m.f. to save them this is. the big story in the wake of surprise announcement from russia's first couple on thursday president putin's wife ludmilla of the divorce after nearly thirty years of marriage in the first joint public appearance more than a year the couple told russian t.v. why they calling it a day so much due to the sort of voters he was in the regions to my job and all my activities mean i'm an absolutely public figure some people enjoy this and some don't lose some people simply incompatible with such a lifestyle with my wife luke miller has done a nine year shift by my side basically the decision was mutual. cygnus like saddam i said it was in fact mutual decision on marriage is over because we barely see each other his job keeps him completely busy our children

have grown up they need their own lives in their fields i really don't like being in the spotlight all the constant travelling is difficult for me we simply don't see each other. now expect pakistan where the promise is once again called on the u.s. to stop its deadly drug strikes in a couple of minutes a lawyer representing the civilian casualties of the attacks tells us what the so called precipitous strikes really resulted so after the break. arguably at america's influence is much larger than that of iran so with power comes responsibility greater responsibility would you agree with that in every negotiation on a round table the parties are equal they may be different in the degree of that but on this issue each side is negotiating with the out and trying to reach an agreement.

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live. live . live live. live . for the united states armed drones have become the weapon of choice for the war on terror but you don't strikes offer a compelling option or do the controversy they generate outweigh the benefit since

nine eleven the u.s. has been carrying out drone strikes or killed suspected al qaeda members as well as civilians in a number of countries all without congressional authorization here in pakistan the remote tribal areas have been subject to the largest drone campaign to date but one pakistani attorney has been fighting back she's at a bar is a human rights lawyer who is representing victims in a criminal case against u.s. officials he's a director and founder of foundation of fundamental rights and a pakistan fellow for the british human rights organization reprieve he joins me now to discuss the u.s. drone war its implications in pakistan on the united states and across the world sir thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us how would you describe the fundamental issue with the u.s. drone program as you see it first of all the fundamental problem of the drone strikes in pakistan is that it's completely negating the right to life of citizens of pakistan. and that's the basis for

a whole campaign against drones the other issues like. soberly t. or not having proper. legal mechanism behind the drone strikes in pakistan that's also for me it's all so it's a dream or subsidiary issues the main issue here is that it's negating the right to lie to be able to focus on getting due process it's getting everything to civil life the site offers the demographics of space society offers to its citizens who it's against the law and this is and this is taking. lives and it's not just taking . militant good terrorists lives is taking civilians young children women literally and for those who would use wives as well but the drone program has been touted as a more. humane form of warfare in fact some of its supporters have said that it's more preferable to have for instance a few precision strikes as opposed to soldiers boots on the ground fighting

a traditional war i think when president obama tells people that drones of war humane and i think it's just trying to be a good salesman for of up and of the day which kills so if you kill people in a humane way or inhumane way the basic fundamental thing which you're doing here is killing and if that killing is illegal without the due process then that's what's wrong with it it's not about development it's not about the machinery it's about the the very thing what you do and that is killing so if you killing people without due process without any law behind you then you committing a crime u.s. president barack obama has said that these drone strikes do not result in a large number of civilian casualties he's in fact said that these are per site attacks that target al qaeda and their affiliates and he's also said that the program targets active terrorists what do you make of the u.s. president's assessment of the drone program president obama often says that it only

kills militant and doesn't kill civilians but yet he feels to give names and identities of those who have been killed in these are strikes in pakistan now according to independent sources more than three thousand people have been killed in brazil just on in pakistan but not a single name has been given by president obama or the cia which is carrying over the strikes what we hear from news reports is just a few names of militant leaders who have been killed vestas all gorse president of almost all sure that he is killing militants and he has not killed any civilian than he used to give the names and details of all those militants who he has killed because for his money i would be happy in a sense that if you have killed all those people who are creating all this in my cities if you have killed all these people who were killed let you go probably for your way lucian of floor but at least i will be happy that you are making me see if what the question here is that who are you killing you have no.