why you should care about humans. this is why you should care only on the r g dot com. tonight hundreds of turkish riot police again storm istanbul's taksim square with a crew from r.t. to a big channel port up in every crack. of edward snowden the whistle blood suppose the true extent of america's vast surveillance network plead for washington not to prosecute as he disappears from his hotel in hong kong. two suicide attacks rocked damascus killing fourteen and wounding dozens more as the u.s. considers approving lethal supplies to the syrian opposition.

you're watching around the world this is our international it's kevin with you this hour at r.t. h.q. and first that no more tolerance for the protests in turkey that pronouncement comes from prime minister after hundreds of riot police stormed istanbul's taksim square raining tear gas and rubber bullets down on the protesters who've injured nearly two weeks of heavy policing now there is a car is unoccupied gays are protesting he was out during this morning's police crackdown he told. what he witnessed. through to a to go nervous stumble send a message that they're not going to intervene in the gezi park but the only texan square so they want to remove the barricades and they said they're not going to intervene in the peace of protesters but what the scene in the following hours that they came in the square and they started to intervene in gezi park and now the texans square the central center of istanbul is it's all over tear gas and even

myself have been tear gas while i was coming here while i was on the way to the studio but the scene today is actually going worse for example in the in the biggest courthouse of istanbul today there were around fifty lawyers who were possessed protesting against the police winds and they were all arrested a few hours ago rubber ballots have been used by the police today and one people might have been dead although i should state that this is not an. official information denise said just how father protests as a willing to go now that you've mentioned that unofficial reports that there might be a death involved from today's protests and that police trying to get everybody out seems when. are you ok can you please repeat i can't hear you how far are you willing to k. how far are you willing to go. well the. as you might heard more of the prime minister is is is is to meet with

the a representation group of the protests in gezi park so there were some certainty months that that gezi park protest is or put that they put onto the table so the prime minister the government will will absolutely discuss with them but they are possible to be met these demands or what kind of. concessions can be made through the negotiation process so we'll see what's going to happen tomorrow tomorrow's meeting is i think it will be very pretty much will be a turning point. when his you see unpredictable saying is there a crew from artie's arabic network was among those caught up in a violent crackdown if it was. the start of the crackdown on protesters or attack seems where early in the morning or used tear gas and broke the tents tear gas canister hit the camera and broke into our cameramen fell to the ground i also

suffered badly from the tear gas violent clashes are happening right now in the streets of istanbul it's like a war zone. our correspondent really kalisch has just returned from istanbul after reporting on the anti-government rallies elisha told having more to say about her experience there. taksim is the unique place absolutely because it was nothing like any of the protests that were ever seen before it was going to be feeling like of camaraderie 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 it obviously had to somehow end and obviously the protesters weren't given any of their any of their demands or any of their aspirations at the same time you had the prime minister who first left for four days just when the protests started just when people really have stated and angry that he came 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 not make a shopping mall that's as far as the government has gone and even now i mean yes there have been some semi apologies from the mayor or from the ministry of interior when it came to the excessive use of force and this is something that the government was criticized for in turkey but they haven't really they haven't really promised any was to geisha into that this started off as an environmental protest and it's now gotten into what will be in these pictures why do you think that people are so angry well because you have to understand that even though everyone never ceases to repeat that you know he won by what half a percent margin or something like that there is still about half of the population in the country who are extremely unhappy with the direction that he's taking they're saying that there is an increasing islamisation there saying that he has absolutely no no regard for the freedom of speech we have to remember that 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 other countries for not quite

living up to the european standards which is that 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 ottoman ideal whether he actually wants to join the e.u. 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. well we'll be following it now for his part promise to read and slam the protesters as morbus in a speech to parliament he also blamed the media and social networks for staring the unrest journalists know clark's been following events in turkey told me that one doesn't feel threatened by the protests of international backing and one hundred feels emboldened really trapped in a very hard where gets the protesters uneasy and bold and to proceed a member of nature i mean u.s. ally and i think he acts very interesting to see just how mutiny criticism of murder and it's been over the last week in the west john kerry made some mutterings about not using too much force but william hague for example has been silent the french have been silent and i think mission bolen's down to clamp down hard on

protest putting the police putting the water cannons that the plastic bullets etc his deputy had said that he wants to meet with the protesters the protests is therefore hoping that maybe something could be sorted out reasonably amicably and then today we see this force absolutely i think go home field really that there's no real pressure on him to actually negotiate to meet with the protests why should he think because he's got the backing of nato and the u.s. the u.s. will do everything to stop him from falling from power and i think that's what that's a very important factor the other thing is of course elections are here in turkey for two more years the opposition is divided so he thinks he's in a very strong position. the day's big stories now the egg cia man who blew the lid off america's vast n.s.a. public surveillance nets promise of more explosive revelations edward snowden supporters are mobilizing to with tens of thousands signing

a petition to pardon the whistleblower at his report i was at a rally in new york where scores have been marching in his defense. braving some very wet 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 national security agencies 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 wars waged over seas and 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 of a story has caused many to wonder if the u.s. government will still move forward lecturing and pointing fingers at other countries such as iran and china for the way in which it deals with its citizens 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. well. u.s. officials already in the process of filing charges against the twenty nine year old less than a week of the whistle blows revealed america's citizens spying to britain's guardian newspaper at the moment no one knows where snowden is he was last seen checking out of this so tell you said the screams now in hong kong that's where he remained indeed for a while of prevailing his identity to the global media it's thought he may still be in hong kong the chinese territory does have an extradition treaty with the united states but the process could stretch out for months and could potentially be blocked by beijing end of the day michael ratner is a lawyer for julian assange and he says there are many more young americans eager to show the nation of the world how washington really operate. this shows you how bad the situation is and how much kurds nice people have after the u.s. has hit these people would say jammers i'm manic my son i am and you still get people like like snow like edward snowden coming out again so it indicates

that there's a tremendous amount of courage of young people to try and reveal of 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 and decided to all those and a president who is willing to us that apparently approved this massive surveillance i think that terrorism is used as an excuse to be able to surveil and keep tabs on every single american to prevent really a change in government what's happening is they've hired thousands tens of thousands of young people into this network of erik's the surveillance network and a lot of the people have contracts it still takes courage once you have conscience but we're seeing we have happened now snowden manning stond ham and those are heroes. and the american surveillance program importantly has much larger goals than just spying on its own citizens as

a bowling correspondent peter all of us been finding at. among the information that was revealed by whistleblower edward snowden is a map that shows where around the world the united states was listening in to people's telephone conversations now this mops generated so that countries with minimum wire taps taking place in the color green and those where the most why it's happening was taking place are in red i would guess has thrown up a few surprises one of those is that right here in germany a lot appears in a looted orange on the map suggesting that it was the subject of quite significant why it's happening this shows that the u.s. has kept some quite serious tabs on just what was going on in the phone conversations of people here in europe's economic powerhouse it's been suggested that although these claims are made that they're trying to stop terrorism that these could be used for economic purposes to try and find out just what's going on inside of europe's only real economic success story at the moment well of course this caused some outrage here in europe and it's certainly going to raise some

serious questions when president barack obama arrives here in berlin next week for talks with angular merkel this is sure to be a major issue that dominates that summit just what was being listened to and exactly why these conversations were being listened to and it's also likely to raise questions on friday when the european commission vice president vivian reading talks with senior u.s. officials in dublin now the man here in germany who's in charge of protecting german citizens identity and personal data is called the u.s. actions unacceptable saying that the level of protection that was in place to look after u.s. citizens well was really far greater than those to look after a u.s. citizens and well aren't we all allies after all the social democratic party here in germany who are the main opposition party have said that they want to hear from the german secret service to find out exactly just how much and when they knew that

german citizens. we're being listened to during their phone conversations now all of this is caused outrage here in europe however at home in the united states well a poll by the washington post suggests that fifty six percent of americans currently think that this type of trolling for four wire taps is acceptable if it was to deter terror attacks while forty six percent saying that it was unacceptable so a majority saying that this type of action should be allowed by the united states government despite the well despite the the unnerving that it does towards their european allies are these people over in berlin then of course this is also humiliating blow to the internet companies building trust with the most private data is presented katie philbin takes a closer look at the ramifications for them now. web sites like facebook google and instagram have been mining the personal information of their hundreds of millions of users through their computers or mobiles every day from our favorite sports top

designers diets you name it we've talked about it they make a digital note of it on this personal data is big business most of all stick with grease some of what we can be used to our target our friends do use us to deal even the new revelations at our private data is being abused to make these huge companies even richer is doing little to quench our enthusiasm for them well at least for now take verizon for example the biggest u.s. cell phone network with one hundred twenty one million subscribers is accused of handing over millions of phone records to the u.s. government but as you can see despite the scandal the company's share price is actually managing to game still valued at around one hundred billion dollars i recently google with more than thirteen billion hits a month the company's street view service was fined seven million dollars in the u.s. because as well as photo mapping the streets their cars were scooping up data on

people's e-mails passwords web histories from their crypt at home and why for signals google is still wild almost three hundred billion dollars facebook with its one point one billion users is has more than a few privacy complaints in recent years there was the farmville breach back in twenty ten will face but was found to be giving out the game as identification numbers to bird party apps but the company is still worth nearly seventy billion dollars so all of these scandals appears to have dented the value of these companies so do we no longer care how intrusive they are that's what i asked leading media consumer than your lap. it's clear that certain privacy rights and norms have been have been violated but we have to see really how this situation pans out before we make any judgment it's very difficult for consumers to just

leave facebook or any other platform because it's not something about either google or facebook but it's something about the internet as such consumers would have little eternity of to move to other platforms because they have all been as it stands now complicit in providing data safe an hour just to switched into these sites but the more that is up on news days and more frustrated we're becoming and that grade might just make us finally log off from what a fast becoming anti social networks or two i'm going to tell on the latest exposure of u.s. government surveillance is among the issues of course taken center stage as you'd expect in the kaiser report it's on a just over two hours from now. smith one of the people of the same seldom made together even for a merriment diversion but for the conversation ending in a conspiracy against the public or in some contrivance to raise prices that's fricken out of. state. 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 looked 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 cross the table as the google c.e.o. eric schmidt larry ellison and the president of stanford university the last supper . yes this is an undertaker's convention it's the moment when barack obama complicit lay gotten bed with these guys around prism essentially that's the moment i mean look at that dinner look at that image this is when barack obama subtly 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 seven hundred seventy six to present thanks barack you kill the country.

and the fallout from an edward snowden expose that is developing rapidly we're crossing for you we've got across the latest updates in global reaction on a website called they were reporting online how is where a place maybe unknown but it could well end up in russia that lines came out today offer a spokesman for president putin said the country would consider granting political asylum to the whistleblower if he asked for it would be following that up for the coming days and british foreign secretary william hague is facing accusations that the u.k. surveillance agency was allowed to dip into american citizen spy net too that was another line to the story you want to get to speed on that one as well. as the place to do it. while here on this channel very shortly more violence in syria's capital damascus with peace efforts now in limbo after washington ponder sending lethal to the rebels what after the break.

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if you mean it's not the folks who lives in syria there are two suicide blasts rocked the syrian capital damascus killed at least fourteen people and wounded thirty one more explosions targeted a police station in the very heart of the capital with reports that one man blew himself up inside the building the attacks come off the syrian army took this picture and of course from the rebels last week it was seen as a turning point now in the war raging forces no plan to recapture aleppo in the north and the rebel held districts of homes. there are jitters in washington over the recent gains by assad troops who are now backed by hezbollah fighters the u.s.

could approve sending weapons to the rebels as early as this week with a no fly zone also among the options that's despite an international peace conference on syria still planned for july foreign minister sergei lavrov has been outlining russia's position on the latest developments to artie's tom bot. lever off spoke of double standards when it comes to the west's approach to various regimes saying that whilst they support it some dictators because they were considered their dictators in his words other dictatorial regimes were not considered worthy of support and therefore they were considered ripe for toppling this is a project do what must be done and that's where the u.s. and russia to go to work. every single step of. you know that the world so good the position which is called through syrian government there is the realizations for. one of their was the glue of the poorest nation to move the goods and job and the

need to be political leaders of both of them for the story through because europe and most of europe because there is because the ocean as well because of the words regime double standards if you wish to either move or on the buso whom you work and who you build or you agree on one. person of international gurus these comments come as the there are reports that the forces of bashar al assad are preparing for a massive assault on the city of aleppo currently held by syrian rebels that is one of the reasons that the u.s. is considering as early as this week possibly supplying weapons to syrian rebels they have suffered a defeat recently in the town of qusayr with assad's forces being helped by hezbollah militants from lebanon also could have a knock on effect to a planned peace conference trying to be organized by russia and the u.s.

with the military victories of assad's forces it's thought that assad may have less inclination to try and work towards a constructive peace the rebels also with splits in their ranks struggling it seems to. we get a delegation together for that peace conference also questions raised about possible chemical weapons use all of these factors affecting a possible peace conference coming up and possible intervention with weapons supplies to rebels by the west. i think seventy people have been killed two hundred fifty injured in iraq during just one day in the latest spike in violence the suicide blast roadside bombs and gun battles rocked the country monday continuing weeks of bloodshed which is claim ily two thousand lives and say pretty much of the violence is blamed on sunni insurgents after months of protests against the shiite led government. investigates next 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 have to travel to an area off limits to foreign journalists the end bar 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 scene 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 and closer to

healing the wounds in the divisions that have been on the least during that 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 sunny residents and arrested two of my cousins so i gathered my family and escaped a 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 migration 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 the 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 in iraq or of the sectarian basis like they made the proportions for the seventies for this. and for the dish and this is very little. those divisions have taken a toll on a rocky youth a generation separated by the threat of violence. really affects us and causes

a lot of problems between me and my friends especially if they form 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. r.t.e. baghdad. so we'll do stories in brief to a massive explosions hit the supreme court compound in afghanistan's capital f. sixteen dead and another forty wounded the taliban admits carrying out the attack which is the deadliest in the city since the end of twenty eleven of that blast took place just two of the meters from the u.s. embassy in kabul. china has launched a mom space flight on a fifteen day mission to dock with its space lab the capsule carrying the three astronauts lifted off from the gobi desert in the country's far west a crew of two men a woman taking part in china's longer space mission yet as part of work to complete the country's own space station by the end of the decade. thanks but mother speak

meg's talk to us up next oscar winning director oliver stone ruffles the feathers of america's most powerful he talks to r.t. right now. i. am abby martin i'm sitting down at the exclusive interview with award winning director all over stone and peter cosmic both co-authors and co-creators of the showtime series and book the untold history of the united states thank you so much for joining us so it took both of you four years to produce this series almost almost five. and you have a chapter called obama management of a wounded and prior where you give a harsh critique of the obama administration what in your eyes has been the most troubling aspects of his presidency. well i think that under the disguise of clothing he's been a wolf. because the.