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in the world's top headlines will go straight to turkey and two weeks police continue their violent crackdown on demonstrators and once again deploying huge amounts of tear gas this is the country's prime minister has called for an end to the protests now within twenty four hours of the ruling party saying it may hold a referendum on the controversial redevelopment plans forget. ultimately were all the troubles erupted about two weeks ago let's get details on this right now from. actually has seen the largest number of crackdowns than any other city in turkey for the past two weeks the wednesday was kind of the repetition of what happened before when several people have diverged from a group of protesters who were there initially and weird off towards the u.s. embassy where police have used tear gas and rubber bullets against them to squash

the momentum of the protests that has been happening in ancora obviously this is the capital that's where the seat of the government is so does look like this is the main cause for the police brutality that we're seeing there people from all walks of life having to have been arrested or somehow receive representation for their participation in the protests which everyone said will have to be over within twenty four hours at this point the protesters have to pack up their tents and abandon gezi park they were offered to carry out a referendum but of course the people out on the street said that is a joke that one kind of referendum could possibly talk about when we have already made it clear that we want the park to stay and they want to go. on said during the meeting with representatives of the protest movement although even within the people out in the park or there is an increasing feeling that the people who are actually meeting with their no one don't really represent them like the people haven't really been camping out there for weeks there seem to be some sort of dialogue which obviously seems to have led nowhere several lawyers have been

arrested for protesting the police crackdown on tuesday which have been in istanbul course they're. also going to the streets protesting those arrests as well saying that this is no kind of democracy where people can be arrested just for supporting a cause and to go even further than that we have to remember that there are several channels in turkey which have been fined for showing the brutal police crackdown on taksim square on tuesday so this again goes to ties in with one of the major grievances the protesters have with their two on and that is his suppression of free speech and a real crackdown on the on various media outlets in the country by the. doesn't seem like it's going to end anytime soon the protesters that we have spoken to insist that they will stay here until their demands are met and everyone obviously doesn't seem like he's going to. so we're in for some rather tense situation here

in turkey. and after a crackdown on demonstrators in istanbul's taksim many have retreated back into the square as gezi park a protester also got a book says that despite the brutal auction of the police and the government's demands she doesn't see any sign of the rallies ending anytime soon. and all of a sudden 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 purchase it from gas the park has left the park i think it's all asked to do with the police for the past two 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 sick feeling to it but as soon as the police was back and violence came back to the part that came back to the area around the park i don't think that the government is taking it seriously and sacked i don't like this blaming everything that's been happening in turkey on the artist's type of economy is getting affected by the fact that for some sectors getting back to us and the fact that the truck is

getting a bad image is affected by the protesters and he is the slowest possible figure for all of this. now talk as police have been heavily using tear gas often mis mixed with pepper spray on protesters over the past decade the country has increased its imports all of those chemicals by fifty four old and human rights groups have raised the alarm pointing to the excessive use of force by the security services auntie's party boycotts a look at the possible long term effects of the ongoing crackdown. an all too familiar sight to many europeans and here stereotypes protests in greece spain. and germany. gay marriage demonstrations in france and now antigovernment protests in turkey whatever the occasion these european governments tear gas is the answer tear gas was invented in part to shut people up

in thinking about you know this is where where communication meets politics we're talking about a technology a weapon that actually inhibits people from being able to speak that enters into the throat that enters into the lungs that forces people to kind of disperse so it is actually a technology that is the complete opposite of what freedom of assembly and freedom of speech look like vision of a convention perhaps it's the use of tear gas in international war and yet it's perfectly legal to use against civilian populations the problem with all of these agents is there talk system in the long term effects are worked out primarily on sort of if you like primate you had all males and we know very well that the d.c.s. and there's other gases affects differentially people all people who are pregnant people who are sick and children the past eighty years have seen reports of lost

eyes cranial damage and even deaths as a result of tear gas canisters it's still somehow legal somehow ok for companies manufacturing tear gas to call themselves non-lethal meanwhile the canisters come with labels on them that say this is deadly this could be deadly and that how is that even ok you see the tear gas being used increasingly being extensively particularly because of the intense civil unrest which is developing across europe as a result of the economic crises you see if you greece you see it in spain italy. it's not just what's been happening in turkey the. weapons which are inevitably the weapons of. a regime which is attempting to suppress the. approaches of people behind these gates is where it all began at the porton down military research base in england's rural will show c.s.

gas was developed and tested is secretly in the one nine hundred fifty s. since then it's become a profitable industry sold to police forces the world over in the form of tear gas and pepper spray in the past four years britain has sold almost as much tear gas to europe as it has to the middle east so it's a weapon system is manufactured by a number of companies or for those companies it's obviously extremely profitable to be to be selling for more civil unrest more issues and more the selling of more money that make america what we would size arms to use that profit must never ever ever come before human rights and what we really need is governments to ensure that when the last thing the stuff they all stopped paying to see any takers supplies of any tickets where there is a clear risk as in the case currently in turkey that goes back to. the suppression of if human rights westminster is currently reviewing the export licenses to turkey in light of the istanbul disturbances that for those worried

about it seen creasing use c.s. gas is merely a symptom of more fundamental issues surrounding democracy in europe why are there so many people dissenting right now why is it that we've had such a breakdown in supposedly democratic countries that we can no longer have any kind of mediation or dialogue with their population what kinds of failures of representative government are we seen that that where we go is should we poison them with tear gas or should we what take out machine guns and tanks against them what hap. and to all the other range of things that exist you know between having a conversation and poison in a population. london. and from turkey to greece where protests are mounting after the government pulled state

t.v. and radio off air in its latest cost cutting move the labor unions lowered to twenty four hour strike at midnight while journalists all across the greek media have all walked out of their jobs indefinitely stuff for the abruptly closed broadcaster of trying to continue programming on the internet and defying the government's decision meantime thousands have been rallying outside the company's headquarters in athens in support of its more than twenty six hundred employees who have all now lost their jobs more rallies though are being called for later today. well little started on tuesday night when television presenters were cut off right in the middle of their broadcast and the screen went blank right across greece with transmitters gradually closing down a few hours after the government made an unexpected decision to shut down the country's main broadcaster well the dramatic unplugging of tea has triggered a revolt in the ruling coalition some members condemning the move and georgia

professor of constitutional law he believes your thora he's clearly losing control . the majority of the group. this is you and often we may soon as a blue democracy of course do the independent source. for our society in my opinion it's actually an act of very very soon the government is facing i fear you will. need. to do to distract the political appearance you want towards another goal as you know we are leaving now we know very dire economic situation so it's good government for its inability to control the situation. to act like about you know decisions that even its allies that we have to other part of this. political coalition are

disapproving mean all greece has been downgraded from a developed economy to one of the so-called emerging markets by morgan stanley governments are tending to make huge mistakes as they are trying to tackle the financial woes but still managing to profit from it that explanation to max kaiser and his program before we get to it is a preview. my. economic theory of hoops my bet creates expensive facts on the ground and normalizes what otherwise would have been willingly accepted by citizens and consumers a complete rubbish many new markets are opened and told was erected by those with the connections to get away with. my bad economics is too bad for everyone else so let's move on to another giant story many have covered this but it's interesting to compare it to the whole global financial and banking system

banker falls asleep on keyboard at work accidentally transfers two hundred ninety three million dollars a german bank employee was supposed to transfer just sixty two point forty euros from a bank account belonging to a retiree but instead fell asleep for an instant while pushing on to the number two on the keyboard making it a huge two two two two two two two two year order. thanks for joining us here on our team today still to come for you on the program deep on the internet we examined how americans texting themselves from sweeping government surveillance and the reaction security regulations are causing around the world.

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world update time but for now here on the program edward snowden's revelations of world wide surveillance by the u.s. has many americans taking protection into their own hands they're turning to encrypted online communications to prevent the n.s.a.'s prism program tracking them tens of thousands of also signed an online petition calling on congress to reveal the full extent of domestic spy programs and more on this with correspondent. america's national security elektra onyx surveillance program known as prison has no doubt ignited global outrage however the pervasive 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. getting. the

road is being ripped into. every newspaper should be seen in this way now is the realization how we can go first and foremost who. joins us. now poured into the guardian journalist glenn greenwald and n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden set up a secure encrypted communication system back in january which snowden would later use 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. organizations that are. legislators. tale the n.s.a.'s program civil rights advocates are encouraging individuals joined by. watching. website had garnered sixty

thousand signatures reporting from new york. now the national security agency's boundless informant program which tracks information collected from around the world it's schools outrage across europe in fact this color coded map right here. but germany was among the most spied on nations chancellor merkel expected to discuss this with president obama when they meet in two weeks it might be a bit of an uncomfortable meeting to say the least. a member of the european parliament has said that this surveillance or reminds him of the infamous stasi secret police in east germany and his colleague from neighboring austria was appalled by these revelations saying that washington is basically doing whatever it wants to do and italy's previously chief also expressed concern over these actions which he said would be illegal in his country and an egyptian freedom activist was shocked at how much his country was targeted for information british political

activist jim killick he says many in europe are angry with the u.s. for ultimately infringing on the privacy of their own citizens there is a lot of criticism of law which i think what is a bit disturbing about the government of the moment is that they are. really there resting on the rules the americans i think well this is great we've got a close relationship with the americans with 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 to 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 see that they do their absolute best to stop it from happening with danger so when they find that the americans are spying on

them pretty much more than any other european country then of course they're going to be very shocked and angry many more stories for you we're covering on our website right now r.t. dot com including the likes of this threat to the skies al qaeda linked mali rebels could be processing mr ailes left over from the livio war allegedly capable of taking down big liners in the skies. also there blocked funds the devastated texas town of west will not be getting much of the federal cash it needs to deal with a massive fertilizer plant explosion that happened two months ago. iranians are preparing for a changing of the guard a country will be welcoming a new president for the first time in eight years six candidates vying for the position in the islamic republic with the first round of voting due to begin on friday but election campaigning on the process itself have some noticeable differences from most other nations where if an optional reports. hours away from

presidential elections stick around looks like it's usually done busy t.p.c. people have a traffic it's barely noticeable but iran is a special moment of history you will not see many benner years of posters in iran ahead of the country's eleventh presidential vote but that's not because the f. of britain the way people did 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 the candidate and 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 or a squid yes but the reason we for candidates to run low cost grassroots space to campaigns with people handing out flyers advertising different political program savvy some voices to complain they face obstacles and reaching

a larger public intellectual peoples who have the right access to internet it thinks more than two million people know using 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 of. this year for the first time ever iran had live t.v. debates between candidates for months two faced some internal and external criticism but the disappearance maintained that despite the need for iran it's still better to give it a try rather than have no debate a toll is thought the presidential election above from thirty years ago three decades so you know we had there no monarch in iraq so it's no. all new

we are learning and trying to. make better and better every year iran is one of the people islamic states in the world following a muslim dominated traditional guidelines is also essential to winning hearts and minds of the voters. a candidate cannot go against their 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 do 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 five the politicians become more and more distanced from people the gap is wider and wider and hold elections lot more and more like an

apartment this is why i will not support the protests that followed the 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 jobs victory with a majority of sixty percent may 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 as the army national known as la mick states not saudi arabia nor could they ever have elections like we have in those countries it's more like someone has appointed them to a post for the outside of elections in iran may seem unusual they differ rediculus from what's come to be the norm in the west but if you look closely you can see a picture that is familiar in many countries a public divided in who they want to vote for and force. make

a tough decision. to iran iran. and the pros and cons of the iranian election system taking center stage in our worlds apart program. of the latest episode of the program at nine thirty g.m.t. . compared to the iranian system is not the best but it's not the worst either that confrontation to the iranian people the best thing you can lose their true voice which we cannot under the current regime. now walled up a time starting with afghanistan where six police officers were shot dead by one of fellow colleagues at a checkpoint in the south of the attacker then escaped from the scene in a car earlier this week a policeman opened fire and killed seven other officers in the same province calling them a green on blue attacks afghan and nato forces have become rather common.

if you're flying in europe today look out disruptions intensified traffic controllers strike in france for its day causing of eighteen hundred flight cancellations workers out for a fifth plans to centralize control of europe's as space saying it will affect public safety and their working conditions but the european commission says the move will cut costs and save money railway workers are also expected to join the protests. up next the human cost of the two thousand and eight financial crisis left thousands of u.s. homeowners homeless this is also a. secret

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