breaking news here on r t hundreds of turkish riot police a swarm into its symbols taksim square demonstrators with tear gas and water cannon with a crew from artie's our big sister channel among those caught up in the action you're watching live pictures right now from outside seems to work in is to. at least two people are reported killed and twenty six injured as a double suicide blast rocked a mascot in the latest terror attack in a war torn syria. on the streets and online supporters of edward snowden the man who blew the whistle on america's most internet surveillance operation called for him to be pardoned as he disappears from his hotel in hong kong where he was hoping to avoid prosecution by the u.s.

. it's just gone up past midday here in the russian capital you live with us on our team with me to be on with say it's good to have your company with us to our top story target police are now in control of taksim square after repairing protesters with tear gas and rubber bullets hundreds of police in riot gear cleared barricades of from the square in istanbul many protesters are fled to get the park where the unrest started over a week ago. details hundreds of riot police have stormed istanbul's taksim square the which has been the site of ongoing demonstrations against the government for more than a week now the white police easily broke through barricades that had earlier been put up by protesters who anticipated this police action the police were backed by

armored vehicles they fired tear gas canisters and rubber bullets prompting many of the demonstrators to actually move away from the square interbike gives the park where many of them have in any craft been camping for several days now the police also used water cannons and in response the demonstrators some of them fired fireworks and fire bombs and hold stones the police have also begun taking down large damages that protesters hung on a large building on the edge of the square now before all of this morning the protests appear to be diminishing with the smallest number of demonstrators turning up last night in the past twelve days in taksim square prime minister erdogan has taken a defiant stand against these anti-government protesters but he does say that he is willing to meet with some of the leaders of the opposition and this follows a request from some of the protesters but at a-kon has indicated and is not

expected to make any concessions three people have died and more than five thousand have been treated for injuries according to the government figures some six hundred police officers have also been hurt in these clashes the turkish police have been accused of using excessive force and earlier the deputy of prime minister erdogan apologize for this but the prime minister himself has been defiant saying that many of those protesting are just really and thousands we do know that ed are gone is planning to hold a pro-government rally so for the moment at least is that seen as if the tensions are not quite over. argues a remote village who has been reporting on the ongoing unrest in turkey and has just returned from istanbul she is here to tell us about her experience in the arena it's good to see you here with us but i mean we've been seeing t. i guess water cannons all of that on taksim square you've been this firsthand

experience what does it feel like to be amongst there while i have to say that just to make a slight correction that most of what we've been seeing it when it comes through tear gas and water cannons all that a lot of it has been happening on gras taksim is the unique place because it was nothing like any of the protests that were ever seen before it was going to be feeling like of comradery a lot of people were there but there were so many people and they were there night after night that i couldn't help but ask the question that at some point we had to stop and and obviously the protesters weren't given any of their any of their demands or any of their explanations at the same time you have the prime minister the first left in four days just started just really actually to break the back and said we're not going to budge we're not going to make any concessions everything's going to be just like it was and then just a couple of days later that said fine if you don't want the park to be demolished we'll think about it but we will mark make a shopping mall that's the spot as the government has gone and even though i mean

yes there have been apologies from the mayor or from the ministry of interior when it came to the sets because of course and this is something that a big government was criticized really tricky but. they haven't really promised any into that they haven't really looked into it somehow trying to alleviate any of their. missteps in that direction more over the mayor just a couple of days ago promised the police intervention will not happen again it looks more gezi park and these are the pictures that you're seeing which are happening this started off as an environmental protest and it's now gotten into what we're learning as in these pictures why do you think the people are so angry well because. you have to understand that even though erica one never ceases to repeat that you know he won by what like half a percent margin or something but there's still about half of the population in the country corps extremely unhappy with the direction that taking they're saying that there is an increasing islamisation they're saying that he has absolutely no regard

for the freedom of speech we have to remember the turkey does have an incredible number of journalists jailed and it does come under scrutiny under fire from a lot of international organizations and from other countries for not quite living up to the european standards which it aspires to live up to but i don't want just doesn't seem like he really can make up his mind whether he wants to go with the ultimate ideal with if he actually wants to join the so so it's interesting to see how this situation will develop further because i think there's going to be a lot of pressure there we actually have. exactly how things were happening there i was there with the with our colleagues. they are big channel and this is what he told us about what he was happening there today. the start of the crackdown on protesters are trying to seem square early in the morning they used tear gas and broke the. tear gas canister hit the cameraman break our cameramen fell to the ground i also suffer badly from the tear gas violent clashes are happening right

now in the streets of istanbul it's like a war zone. right now we've just heard they obviously a very difficult situation to be a journalist but you're here with us sharing your experience and hopefully you continue to tell our viewers out there what is happening there tomorrow as a matter of fact so we have we will be keeping updated with you. in the studio with us. a double suicide attack has rocked the syrian capital damascus or the explosions went off in the city center near the old into interior ministry building and a hotel local television report says two people were killed and twenty six were injured the attack it comes as washington debates whether it should arm the syrian rebels after assad forces made recent advances and recaptured a key city the u. was a could approve lethal aid for opposition fighters in a matter of days a no fly zone could also be under consideration the syrian government forces are

making gains in the country's north preparing for a major offensive against rebel held areas in aleppo that's amid reports of new atrocities by extremists fighting in the ranks of the opposition it comes weeks before an international peace conference on syria is planned for july russian foreign minister sergey lavrov as the u.s. should review its double standards on terrorism. this is a tragedy what what must be done and that's why the u.s. and russia see eye to what it is to do everything to stop it you know that alongside with the opposition which is called three syrian army terrorist organizations fight. one of them was the clear the terrorist of the nation by the united states. and the media to be political leaders of the producer was a mistake and betrayal because apart from mr cannot be used against terrorist organization as long as it fights the regime. i don't even need to think to

qualify this kind of. what is going on i see double standards if you wish your eyes or deny terrorists any acceptance in the international life or you make your double standard policy work to weight has been working i don't like this guy in this country so we would be calling him a dictator and talk with you this guy in another country is also dictatorial but he's always dictator and you either make you or you know picking on the basis of whom you're back and who. wore you agree that there is a common enemy. in the person of international terrorism to the u.s. now more significant revelations are yet to be published following the leak of the secret to you was the ravens program that's according to the journalist to receive

the initial classified documents from x. cia installed by edward snowden meanwhile tens of thousands have signed an online petition urging president obama to pardon the whistleblower web there's also been a fundraising effort to pay for his defense and already in new york art is worried about bio was at the demonstration. braving some very whites and chilly weather dozens of new yorkers have come out into the street to show their solidarity and support with n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden this of course coming just twenty four hours after the twenty nine year old revealed himself as the man who handed over classified documents to the guardian which then exposed the national security agency's program prism i think the public is owed an explanation of the motivations behind the people who make these disclosures that are outside of the democratic model now prism allowed the national security agency's extensive internet spying on records of digital communication and allowed the government agency to surveil us

citizens in real time now the revelations that have come about through snowden's legal course challenges the ongoing war on terror for nearly twelve years the u.s. government has changes policies change legislation in the name of which they said was to keep americans safe for wars waged overseas and our privacy a roading here at home those american citizens that we've spoken with say that snowden sacrifice should not be in vain and there needs to be a bigger dialogue about the way in which the u.s. government is acting behind the backs of its own citizens now of course this blockbuster story has caused many to wonder if the u.s. government will still move forward on lecturing and pointing fingers at other countries such as iran and china for the way in which it deals with its citizens

after now it has been revealed to the entire world that the u.s. is keeping very close tabs on everything that americans are doing at home and even abroad reporting from new york marina r.t. . make sure you also log on to our website our common because we're bringing you all the latest updates and global reactions to the national security agency right to the twenty nine year old whistleblower has meanwhile dropped out of sight in hong kong ahead of a like a push by the u.s. government to have him extradited to face charges he's been holed up in the hotel that you can see there off them making his identity known to the media soden is hoping to avoid prosecution by being in hong kong the chinese territory has an extradition treaty with the u.s. but exceptions can be made in certain cases the process could take months or even year as michael retna is an attorney for we can exchange in

a son joe who says that young americans are willing to go to great lengths to reveal how the u.s. government really operate. this shows you how bad the situation is and how much kurds these people are after the u.s. is hit these people would say jammers manning a songe i am and you still get people like like snow like were snowed in coming out again so it indicates that there's a tremendous amount of courage of young people to try and reveal the criminality and surveillance and the state that we have here the legal part has to do with laws that this country passed post nine eleven in particular courts that are essentially hand picked over and decided to old ghost and a president who is willing to or so terribly approves just massive surveillance i think the terrorism is used as an excuse to be able to surveil and keep tabs on every single american to prevent or really a change in government what's happening is they've hired thousands tens of

thousands of young people into this network of there is the surveillance network and a lot of the people have contact it still takes courage once you have conscience but we're seeing rather happen not snowden manning and i am and those are heroes. and this latest explosion of u.s. government surveillance is among the issues taking center stage on the kaiser report here's a quick preview while you can catch the full version in just twenty minutes out of smith warned that people of the same seldom made together even for merriment and diversion but for the conversation ending in a conspiracy against the public or in some contrivance to raise prices that's fricken adam smith who said that stacy max for proof of this we're going to look at an image of man of the same trade getting together for the purposes of merriment and diversion it would look like from the photo in this is barack obama in february twentieth eleven meeting with steve jobs to his left mark zuckerberg of facebook to

his right then you see the c.e.o. of twitter the c.e.o. of yahoo across the table is the google c.e.o. eric schmidt mary alice and the president of stanford university the last supper. you know it's an undertaker's convention it's the moment when barack obama complicit league bed with these guys who run prism essentially that's the moment i mean look at that dinner look at that image this is when barack obama so actually took the constitution and wiped is but with it and it's the moment of supreme treasonous action by the president eyes states america is dead seventeen seventy six prism thanks barack you kill the country. some u.s. intelligence officials are allegedly making no secret of the fact that they want the n.s.a. whistleblower to disappear make sure you log on to our dot com to read all about it

. also while you have a week's founder julian assange praises snowden's whistle blowing acid's as saying the n.s.a. leaks to confirm what he's been saying for years all the details are just a click away and we'll be interviewing the world's amazing famous whistleblower live on r.t. at fifteen hundred g.m.t. and more news coming up do stay with us for the. killing of a kid with no information. she was going to consider. to use the great. choose the stories to. choose to excess.

download. so. stream quality joy your favorite. if you're away from your television well it just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch your t.v. anytime anywhere. thanks. welcome back you're watching r.t. the u.n. is preparing to deploy a new peacekeeping force in mali amid warnings that on separatist groups in the north pose a serious red to security across the region this is the modern government and the

two reg rebels negotiated a deal to allow elections to go ahead next month but as our teaser maria financial reports many believe an early military campaign by france only opened the door to more bloodshed. france says it's done its job well in mali killed most of its islamist insurgents destroyed the infrastructure and pushed the rest out of the country but the people who gathered here in the center of the northern city of gal think france's mission isn't complete. the french are making excuses because our enemy is holding kadar they must resolve this before any elections or negotiations take place france should defend our community not try to keep us in our place. the desert capital of kiddo has been out of governmental control since last year first it's been captured

by terrorists indigenous african people fighting to create a breakaway state in the north of mali than the radical islamists came the un sardine group believed to have ties with al qaida the two factions came to an agreement to establish an islamic autonomy when the french military came they drove out most of the islamists but tour except protist are still there mali and forces haven't been able to enter the town for months now something that's never been a problem for french troops who have an air base in the baltic or the i think them in a lot we have contacts with the separatists but we don't have coordination with them we don't discuss things with them they don't attack us and we don't consider them enemies but we don't have any reason to attack them. what the touring separatists do attack is the mollen military the areas around and kid else to witnesses heavy fighting yet the french army so far refuses to engage with the rebels and can tell regardless of the threat they may pose to molly's territorial integrity and next

month's presidential election palmer they will bore you with your match our military part is over the rest is merely an internal problem. the mali tour of conflict is indeed very much a local fight after independence from france the torrence usual territory across more than mali and algeria was divided in mali it led to years of violence but our exit mostly populate the north of mali here in the southern part of the country you will not find many whites this is how other ethnic moland groups with significantly darker skin call their nomadic neighbors and this geographical division only deepens antagonism but some believe this internal conflict could never stay as intense without outside help france has been openly supporting what it regards as an oppressed and discriminated minority shortly after the french intervention the defense minister in paris suggested ethnic tour rigs in northern mali should have

some autonomy even get a few political muscle the war will begin all over again because of the behavior of the french the support of the torah group bailey and against all the tribes and cities in the north of mali which just alienated them from the rest even more. to separate groups which claim there is so aim is to defend the towns from the armed to riggs what they say their own belongs to them but we don't agree so with take up arms to defend our homes you know. they came first then the islamists arrived after them they opened the door for radicals to come to our land . last week president a laundry sieved a peace prize for the operation in mali but it's still unclear whether what the french troops will soon leave behind can truly be described as peace and what peacekeepers officially coming to the scene this july will have to maintain.

from mali. some of the news making the headlines of this hour starting with iran where only candidates among some of the result has left the presidential race and the second to quit in less than a day reports say he was also dropped out by behavioral recall miss movement most of the six remaining federal candidates in the poll conservative close to the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei i do see any chance that a moderate could win the elections on due to start writing. these two people have been killed and five injured after part of a residential building in the indian city of mumbai dozens of victims are feared to be trapped under rubble the block a house of a sixteen apartments and a caution room and soon the rains are being blamed for the collapse. at least seventy people have been killed and two hundred and thirty injured in iraq a during just one day in the late a spike in violence suicide blasts roadside bombs and gun battles rocked the

country on monday continuing weeks of bloodshed which have claimed nearly two thousand lives since a problem much of the violence is blamed on sunni islamist insurgents with the minority are protesting for months against a shiite led government arches and cavanagh one to investigate the sectarian tension. may was the bloodiest month seen in iraq in the past five years a surge in sectarian violence that's raised fears of another civil war sunni versus shia one country two sects. iraq has been through this before and that divide never really sealed tensions are growing between the shiite led government and minority sunnis inflamed by the raging conflict in neighboring syria to understand the divisions we had to travel to an area off limits to foreign journalists the anbar province following the u.s. led invasion this area was the heartland of the sunni insurgency today it's become

the focal point of the anti-government. protests. for several months now every friday this seen prayer on the highway to baghdad followed by protests against the baghdad government it's a situation that's reflective of the state of iraq today a country that has been torn apart by war but doesn't seem to be closer to healing the wounds in the divisions that have been very about occupation here the sunni protesters who have gathered behind me want a different kind of system they want to change they feel that the government doesn't represent them. is one of those protesters he's brought his son to almost every demonstration there for a residence but not by choice he says he was forced to flee baghdad for fear of arrest by the military and that his sect made him a target one day a military brigade surrounded the area where we lived in baghdad and started making arrests they were targeting sunday residents and arrested two of my cousins so i

gathered my family and escaped to flu jab. the demonstrators complain of discrimination arbitrary arrests detention even torture under the rule of prime minister nouri al maliki charges that the government denies. that the government systematically driving sunnis from baghdad this isn't a secret migrations is being done in the open cities are restricted in everything from where we live to the kinds of jobs we can have but in a shia neighborhood a different version of the story fearful of retribution for speaking out this resident prefers to hide his identity he tells us of the dangers iraqi shia face from armed groups. we also have been displaced by threats from al qaeda and other militias this used to be a mixed area but people have started exchanging houses between sunni and shia families to safety some analysts blame the united states for the divisions they build the new system political system and on the sectarian basis. like they made

the proportions for the sun news for this day and for the day this is very little. those divisions have taken a toll on iraqi youth a generation separated by the threat of violence. it really affects acing causes a lot of problems between me and my friends especially if they're from a different six we can't work together we'll hang out publicly in some neighborhoods i could get killed for being seen with someone from a different religious group ten years after the war iraq is still struggling to find peace as the ghosts of its sectarian past haunt the future you see caffein of r.t.e. baghdad. up next a look beyond the mainstream economic headlines to reveal what they know my main interest.

six san diego residents were thrown off of an airplane not for what they said but how they said it because they said it in another language russian in fact a paranoid and cowardly steward on the plane told them that they had to clear out just for speaking another language to be here yes of some group of people were to commit a terrorist act then speaking in a foreign language would be a good tactic i can't deny that and for those who come to america better get on the ball and learn to speak english adequately but there is a problem about fifty million tourists visit america every year according to the u.s. department of commerce and trust me not all of them are canadians if the u.s. is going to have millions of tourists arriving in traveling by air and don't be surprised when they speak their own languages if you're going to throw foreigners

off of airplanes just for speaking their native languages then you're going to have to basically throw people off of half of the planes flying over the united states but that's just my opinion. good afternoon. and welcome to prime interest i'm perry and boring and washington d.c. it gets your head like. apple is not snooping on you promise along with google microsoft and other tech giants this is after the now infamous security leaker edward snowden went public over the weekend allowing his name to be revealed

we reported friday that nine at tech companies face the whistle blowing allegations and the press they allowed directed government access to their servers which they now strenuously deny snowed in the twenty nine year old booz allen employee has drawn support from some unlikely that such as michael moore and glenn beck and microsoft's former chief privacy officer advisor at caspar bowden went as far as to compare crowded data outside the u.s. as the privacy guantanamo bay will dig into the fine print of the security of mobile payments and just a bit and while we're talking about apple they just are sure to lisa jackson through the revolving door she will become their environmental adviser the green hired gun was that once head of the environmental protection agency under obama she also served as john.