with. the shutdown of the state. with the journalists continuing their program. the u.s. eases restrictions on exports from opposition controlled areas in syria looking to help. the rebels. iranians are preparing to head to the polls on friday we look at how the presidential race in the islamic

republic is. the world's top headlines. this is. welcome to the program. so two weeks on and turkey's prime minister claims the protests will be brought to an twenty four hours out of the one downplay the crackdown claiming no major violence happened but. security forces will respond differently. to the focal point of the. square following brutal clashes with police which left around a thousand people injured. there on tuesday firing tear gas and

rubber bullets a crackdown which the international called president and the government rallies were triggered almost two weeks ago over the police response to a peaceful demonstration against the demolition of a park earlier my colleague andrew farmer spoke to watch these are going to go. there she reports the tensions are still there boiling. there's a police presence all over this is here especially and it's actually a square area there literally on every single corner and every new can clearly there is a policeman or a police officer and it's riot police and they're fully prepared so we're looking at it's a very serious tension a very you know sort of a brewing confrontation at this point the protests were dispersed yesterday very violently so a lot of people ourselves included are actually expecting to see something very similar so everybody's kind of on the edge of their seat and while in the temperatures over this crisis we do know that it has been trying to talk to the protesters has any as is anything come of that. absolutely not you

can say there is a first of all we have to mention the fact that there is there is word out there and does the park which is kind of the home of the protests is that if you were there at the meeting where there don't really represent the people who are here on the square or who are out there in the park and that actually has been the problem from the get go is that way every time there's a government official meeting with members of the opposition you say they don't really represent us yes they're members of the of the acknowledged opposition but they're not people who have spent hours upon days here in the tents under the open sky protesting or letting their voices be heard and after a crackdown on demonstrators in istanbul. many have retreated back to the square is gezi park the whole unrest started almost two weeks ago a protester. says that despite the brutal action of the police she doesn't see any sign of the rallies ending anytime soon. and all of

a sudden the twenty four hours just because prime minister was willing so he has been actually talking about this for the past two weeks and none of the protesters none of the original purpose of from gas to park has left the park i think it's all asked to do with the police for the past few weeks once the police were to get from jackson square there was no violence it was very peaceful it was very cheerful and in fact the park itself almost like a sieve feeling to it but as soon as the police was back at mile and came back to the part came back to the area around the park i don't think the government is taking it seriously and sacked i don't is blaming everything that's been happening in turkey on the protests type of economy is getting affected by the fact that for some sectors getting affected by this and the fact that the truck is getting a bad image is affected by the protests and he is the slowest possible figure for all of this.

it's good of you to join us here on a hot seat today as we come to you live from moscow and still ahead for you and that's all i thought of taking champa and we examine how americans are protecting themselves from sweeping government surveillance and out of their reaction various security revelations are posing around the world. and the race to rule is monitoring the upcoming iranian elections with the country preparing to go to the polls that will be on friday. here on our protests amounting in greece off to the government pulled state t.v. and radio off air in its latest cost cutting move the labor unions launched a twenty four hour strike at midnight oil journalists across old greek media have pledged to walk out of their jobs indefinitely now stauffer the abruptly closed china load trying to continue programming on the internet defying the governments to. thousands have been rallying outside the company's headquarters in athens in

support of us more than twenty six hundred employees who have all lost their jobs and more rallies are being called on for later on thursday. clogging of the broadcaster has triggered a revolt in the ruling coalition some members condemning the government's promise to relaunch the channels within weeks george cottle gallus a force for constitutional law believes your authority is a clearly losing control. the majority of the. good news soon as a blow to democracy of course to the independent source. for our society in my opinion it's actually an act of very very soon the government is free. to do to distract the political appearance from towards another goal as you know

we are living now we know very dire economic situation so. the government for its inability to control the situation. to act like about you know this is wrong that even its allies. do other parties. political disapproval. and while greece is struggling to meet the targets of its e.u. bailout there's a faceoff brewing between europe's major financial hubs germany's a buddhist but it is buying time to say it's challenging the e.c.b. planned for unlimited buying of deaths from the crisis stricken economies analysis on that coming your way just a few minutes here on out. but for now on the program washington is eased restrictions to opposition held areas in syria u.s. officials say it'll. help facilitate oil sales from the rebels giving their much

needed funds washington says the decision has no effect on the provision of arms to the rebels the u.s. is currently deciding whether to send weapons that's after the e.u. lifted its arms embargo two weeks ago dealing a blow to the prospects of peace talks this comes as reports claim rebels could be behind the killing of more than sixteen she muslims in the syrian village of heartland sparking fears more and more extremists are joining opposition fighters both civilians and pro assad fighters are fallen victim to what the militants themselves of labeled as cleansing political analyst a mother walked up to leave the opposition is not interested in a peaceful outcome. those people have the power to stifle or kill any political process to their aura of invisibility should be reduced it would be good for the political representatives of the opposition to have any meaningful say in

a negotiation table and actually being able to keep their words afterwards but as long as there are promises of weaponry and support towards those rebels on the ground without that they would go to the table to the more top in fact with the ideology behind what they have been doing since the very beginning is specially. affiliated groups they are not interested in negotiating with the regime anymore or the syrian government at all they see it as an infidel regime that must be toppled no matter what. so here in moscow and edward snowden's revelations of world wide surveillance by the u.s. many americans taking previously protection into their own hands at turning to encrypted online communications to prevent the n.s.a.'s prism program from tracking them tens of thousands of also signed an online petition calling on congress to reveal the full extent of domestic spying programs more on this with artie's more

important. america's national security elektra onyx or fail as program known as prism has no doubt ignited global outrage however the pervasive and top secret spying system approved and allowed by the obama administration also appears to be motivating journalists and average internet users to immigrate over to the deep web where the national security agency's almighty virtual reach purports to be powerless whether users can break out of prison by opting out of apple's safari and skype and switching over to alternative for pyar terry software that's anonymous not indexed and leaves no cyber footprint some of those online companies include tor browser bundle duck duck go crypto cat and a bit message given president obama's indefinite war on whistleblowers and the justice department's recent a.p. and fox news scandals experts say that now is the time for journalists most

importantly to learn how to scramble their phones and dive into the n.s.a. free deep web and then from there to the regular and. where you're coming from you're just. living. the road is being encrypted. it really should be thinking this way now who goes to the realization how we can first and foremost when he. joins us. now according to the guardian journalist glenn greenwald and n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden set up a secure encrypted communication system back in february which snowden would later used to send the top secret documents belonging to the n.s.a.'s prism program the electronic frontier foundation has published an online guide indicating

a significant amount of ways in which people. can opt out of. is also one of. four legislators. tale the n.s.a.'s programs civil rights advocates are encouraging individuals joined by. watching. website had garnered sixty thousand signatures reporting from new york. bound informant program which tracks information collected from all around the world has caused outrage across europe of a color coded map showed germany was among the most spied on nations with chancellor merkel exposed to discuss those revelations are with president obama in berlin that will be happening next week now a german member of the european parliament said that this surveillance reminds him

of the infamous stars the secret police in east germany in fact his colleague from neighboring austria was appalled by these revelations saying that washington is basically doing whatever it wants italy's privacy chief also expressed concern over those actions which he said would be illegal in his country and gyptian freedom activists was shocked at how much his country was talking for from nation well now a british political activist says many in europe are angry with the u.s. for infringing on the privacy of their citizens there is a lot of criticism in society law which i think what is a bit disturbing about the attitude of our government to the moment is that they are. really there resting on the laurels of the americans i think well this is great we've got a close relationship with the americans who are benefiting from the intelligence we get from them so let's not rattle the cage too much i think that doesn't apply for instance of the german government in the same way or many of the european

governments who have a more respectful relationship with their own laws and expect to respect the privacy rights of their citizens and have been really quite shocked by what the americans are doing in germany in particular they've had such experience of what surveillance really means for them to society that they do their absolute best to stop it from happening within germany so when they find that the americans are spying on them pretty much more than any of the european country then of course they're going to be very shocked and angry. stories we're covering on our website. for example. taking.

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thank you for joining us here on our. just a moment on the world update but for now though iranians are preparing for a changing of the god the country will be welcoming a new president for the first time in eight years six candidates are vying for that position in the islamic republic the first round of voting to begin that will be on friday about election campaigning in the process itself some noticeable differences from most other nations. for national experience. hours away from presidential elections stick around looks like it's usually done business p.t.b. the people have a traffic it's barely noticeable but iran is a special moment with history you will not see many benner as

a posters in iran ahead of the country's eleventh presidential vote but that's not because the forbidden the way people vote in the run is significantly different from what western people used to experience. if people see a campaign poster they'll start thinking they spend lots of money on that where does it all come from and they will draw the conclusion that someone a bank or an organization funds to candidate that means when a candidate takes power he will have to give back the money he will owe them and with such strings attached he'll be never free people will never vote for a politician like that but the reason we for candidates to run low cost grassroots based campaigns with people handing out flyers advertising different political programs. some voices to complain they face obstacles in reaching a larger public intellectual peoples who have real world access to internal.

things more than two hundred million people low using the internet so. it is much easier to communicate with them but the people in more rural areas we need more more trying to get through them this is the. weak point. this year for the first time ever iran had live t.v. debates between candidates to for months to face some internal and external criticism but the disappearance maintained that despite being new for iran it's still better to give it a try rather than have no debate a toll. started presidential legs above from thirty years ago three decades so you know we had you know. so it's all new so we're learning and trying to. make better and better every year following

a muslim dominated traditional guidelines is also essential to winning hearts and minds of the voters if you're a candidate cannot go against our religious or cultural traditions you cannot change the way women where he jobs and asked for taboos on foreign policy issues you cannot come out and say iran will become a friend of the us or israel mohammad says these restrictions are aimed at protecting the national character of the elections and have to deal with considerable pressure from outside the country you cannot go against values even democratic countries can do that but perhaps if we weren't under so much pressure from foreign countries that only want to change the government of iran our campaign could be different but not all agree. by the heart of five politicians become more and more distanced from people the gap is wider and wider and who elections look more and more like an apartment this is why i will not vote . to protest that followed to do thousand and nine elections is to freshen the

memory of many iranians during the unrest between thirty and seventy people were killed hundreds others injured thousands arrested after people staged rallies calling into question as many just victory with a majority of sixty percent many think less people will go to the polls this year as they fear violence but the number of those who is to consider the election a positive development is just as significant or it's going to be known as la mixtape not saudi arabia nor couvade would ever have elections like we have in those countries it's more like someone has appointed them to a post. to the old so i didn't the actions in the run may seem unusual a different way to collect from what's come to be the norm in the west but if you look closely you can see a picture that is familiar to many countries the public divide isn't who they want to offend and forced to make the tough decision. made national team they run iran.

ok straight to france to a part of the r.t. world update now travel disruption has intensified across europe as sort of a traffic controllers of the strike goes on now in france reaching its day and scorching over eighteen hundred flight cancellations and workers are outraged with plans to centralize control of europe's space claiming it will affect public safety and their working conditions but the european commission says the moves of vital to cut costs and reduce delays and railway workers are also expected to add fuel to the flames of traffic chaos as they join the protest later today. north korea has blamed south korea for thwarting a fresh dialogue which. to calm tensions on the peninsula that comes after told proposed by the north were called off just a day before they were set to begin solana pyongyang has been trading accusations since then over who was responsible for the cancellation negotiations intended to

reopen a joint industrial zone seen as a symbol of the last few remnants of cooperation between the rivals joanne's offer to sit down with the south came as a surprise of the soul of the us held military drills earlier this year. the european central bank and the buddha's bank have clashed in a legal battle over the controversial unlimited bond buying program and while the e.c.b. hales it is a plan to save the euro the germans are brought the issue to the constitutional court they argue that the plan to buy out the debt of the stricken e.u. members is beyond the e.c.b. mandate and it's too risky analysis now from artie's peter all of a. germany's constitutional court the highest court in the land has been hearing arguments for and against the european security mechanism or e.s.m. now what this would mean is this the european central bank would be allowed to buy bonds belonging to countries from the south of europe in trying to help them get

out of the debt crisis that they're in now its detractors say that this is well just not legal not within the framework of what the european central bank should be allowed to do in almost done right a legal it's a call to say it's one of the only ways that some countries are going to remain within the euro zone and keep it all intact now to talk a little bit more about this i'm joined by frederick rohde one of the co-founders of european students for liberty fred thanks very much for talking to us so this all sounds rather complicated what does it mean to the average layman in the street it basically means that in the past we have seen that no matter what was fed ex persisting in contract law those rules often have been violated because european leaders tried to stay on the machinery of powerful european union we have the same with bailouts of yours on member countries there was a no bailout clause you can you can read it in the treaties but it was just violated and now of the question is and that's trying what the constitution sort of

trying to figure out whether buying bonds so if you remember is also a violation off european draw or not now mario druggy the head of the e.c.b. is in linn later on thursday now he's not exactly set for a warm reception is he what's what's in store for him when he took comes here yes actually the interesting thing is drug use going to receive an award on responsible leadership it's via watered by university in berlin and responsible leadership cannot really be seen and blowing up the european bad by bailing out countries by buying bonds from congress which might not be even legal and by having negative interest rates so that young people are not even. able to save money because you lose money if you put it aside so that's something concerned citizens and especially young people in europe we have if you want to put out a bit of track more than twenty five percent in europe we wouldn't we don't really see that such a person should receive an award for responsible leadership thank you very much

that was frederick rohde one of the co-founders of european students for liberty so mario druggy picking up an award for responsible leadership it's really not winning over the hearts and minds of europe's young people well a very good morning to you from all of us here at r.t. moscow nearly half past eight here in the morning just to just around the bend for you now a house going to shareholders get revenge emotional money just a moment on our teams prime interest. world. science technology innovation all the moves developments from around russia we've got the future of coverage. nobody chooses to be homeless no one chooses to me and our sorrow. is that all

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good afternoon and welcome to prime interest and harry and boring and washington d.c. of get six a days had by. silicon valley if you up in the wake of the national security agency whistleblower scandal the american civil liberty. union is now involved attempting to reign in the n.s.a.'s alleged snooping but several tech giants are

being proactive as well do no evil google is seeking permission from the u.s. to disclose the volume and scope of federal requests for customer information which twitter officially white facebook won't join the fray asserting the disclosures would be vague and the meaningless and facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg face heat from shareholders yesterday investors angry at the forty percent drop in facebook's i.p.o. price a grilled him for thirty minutes and when asked about the company's accuser profitability the chief financial officer threw his hands up saying i wish i had a crystal ball. and the subject of government surveillance did come up and zuckerberg reiterated earlier statements that uncle sam doesn't plug into figures about servers really really promises. and finally the new york fed published.