turkish standoff riot police break up large crowds of protesters in ankara with tear gas after prime minister ariel want to urges an end to ongoing protests within twenty four hours. but undefeated mass drugs and rallies held in greece against the shutdown of the state broadcaster to cut costs with journalists continuing programming online. as iranians ready to head to the polls on friday we look at how the presidential race in the islamic republic is different from the rest of the world. to be of in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story

this hour two weeks on and police are continuing their violent crackdown on demonstrators this time and again deploying tear gas as turkey's prime minister says authorities will raid is stan bowles taksim square what he called troublemakers within twenty four hours the ruling party though says it may hold a referendum on controversial redevelopment plans for gezi park which sparked the unrest to start or he's a renewed show has the details from istanbul. actually have 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 it's quassia 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 though 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 i 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 over the 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 have only 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 there are now 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 ties in with one of the major grievances the protesters have with everyone and that is his suppression of free speech and a real crackdown on the on various media outlets in the country by the. does it seem like it's going to end any time 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 budge so we're in for a rather tense situation here in turkey protest or are you gay boy so despite the brutal action of the police and the government's demands you doesn't see any sign of the rallies ending soon i don't see it and all of a sudden twenty four hours just because prime minister willing so he has been actually talking about this for the past two weeks and none of the protesters none of the original purchase if i'm guessing has left the park i think it's all asked

to do with the police for the past few weeks once a police retreated from jackson square there was no violence it was very peaceful it was very cheerful and fact the park itself almost like a festive 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 the government is taking it seriously and psycho 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 back to bite us and the fact that a truck is getting a bad image that's affected by the protesters and he is always possible figure for all of this turkish police have been heavily using tear gas often mixed with pepper spray on the protesters over the past decade the country's increased its imports of the chemicals fifty four human rights groups are very is the alarm pointing to the excessive use of force by security services or he's probably boyko looks of the possible long term effects of the crackdown. an all too familiar sight to many

europeans and your stereotype protests in greece spain. and germany. gay marriage demonstrations in france and now antigovernment protests in turkey whatever the occasion for these european governments tear gas is the answer here 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 their talk sisterly and the long term affects are worked out primarily on sort of if you like primary job all males and we know very well that the p.c.'s and those 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 the 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 and you see it in greece you see it in in spades. 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. protests 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 has 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 number of companies or companies it's obviously extremely profitable to be to be selling the more civil unrest the more shoes the more the selling american for more money that make america what we would say is amnesty is 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 by all stocking works and susan any tear gas supplies of any two camps where there is a clear risk as in the case currently in turkey those got to be used in the suppression of if human rights westminster is currently reviewing the export licenses to turkey in light of the istanbul disturbances but 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. until all the other range of things that exist between having

a conversation and poisoning a population plenty. edward snowden's revelations of world wide surveillance by the us has many americans taking privacy protection into their own hands turning to encrypted online communications to prevent the n.s.a.'s prism program from tracking them tens of thousands and also signed an online petition calling on congress to reveal the full extent of domestic spying programs artie's more important i was more. america's national security elektra onyx or veil as program is known as prison has no doubt it 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

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the road is being ripped into. this that you should be thinking this way now if who goes to the realization how we can go first and foremost on the house 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 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 prison is also one of the organizations that are demanding for legislators to curtail the n.s.a.'s programs civil rights advocates are encouraging individuals joined called by. stop watching. evening

website had garnered sixty four thousand signatures reporting from new york marina . geneses boundless informant program which tracks information collected from around the world caused outrage across europe the color coded map shows germany was among the most spied on nations with chancellor angela merkel expected to discuss the revelations with president obama in berlin next week a german member of the european parliament said this surveillance reminds him of the infamous stasi secret police in east germany his colleague from neighboring austria says they were appalled by the revelations saying washington is doing whatever it wants italy's privacy chief also expressed concern over the actions saying it would be illegal in his country and egyptian freedom activist says he was shocked at how much his country was targeted for info and other european he told my colleague henri sushi earlier that he is worried that nobody knows what exactly the u.s. is doing with the global data. the data is supposed to be about potential security

threats but is it possible though that the american national security agency is using the spying to get clandestine information perhaps like economic secrets for example that the real problem at this moment we don't know exactly what the americans are doing with our darpa and especially that i will try. and i think they are exaggerating a little bit in there are a security policy if they want the data of the american citizens for me it's ok but no european data without our approval according to a number of different international analysts america's national security agency does not report to anybody even the president of the united states aid someone that it should be held to account towards it's very strange that you collect data

especially of european citizens and that at the end nobody is responsible for the collection of data so at least the united states and president obama has to make clear to you be in union what they are doing with. how they stalk them for how long and what is the purpose of their a collection and i think we have to correct this the european citizens have to be protected for foreign secret services will stay with us here on our t.v. still to come a t.v. and radio blackout in greece as all media workers go on strike in support of the state broadcaster shut down by the government and journalists meanwhile have taken their television programming online and director finance of authorities orders move on that more on that after a break. speak

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visit arabic. it's called. thanks for staying with us sixty minutes past the hour now protests mounting in greece after the government told state t.v. and radio off the air in its latest cost cutting measure labor unions launched a twenty four hour strike at midnight while journalists across all greek media have walked off their jobs indefinitely staff at the abruptly closed broadcaster who had been struggling to continue their programming on the internet saying their signal and i think. by his own sources thousands rallying outside the company's headquarters in athens was important it's more than twenty six hundred employees who lost their jobs it all started on tuesday night when television presenters were cut off in the middle of their broadcast screen suddenly went blank all across greece were transmitters. gradually cosying down

a few hours after the government made an unexpected decision to shut down the country's main broadcaster dramatic unplugging of yar t.v. is triggered a revolt in the ruling coalition with some members condemning the move george catcher gallus professor of constitutional law thinks authorities are clearly losing control the majority of the. good we may soon as a blue book was of course to be independent. of society in my opinion it's a very very soon the government. attempts to do to distract the political appearance young towards another goal as you know we are leaving now we know very die of economic situations so it's good government. it's not be. to walk like about

you know this is or that even its allies that we have two other parties. the political coalition disapprove and. meanwhile 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 their financial woes but still managing to profit from it as max keiser explains in his latest show here's a preview. of the economic theory of. mind. 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 those erected by those with the connections to get away with. my bad economics is too bad for everyone else 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 hoops 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 onto the number two on the keyboard making it a huge two two two two two two two two year order. one more stories are a click away on our website r t dot com including this. a threat to the skies al qaeda link mali rebels could possess missiles left over from the war in libya capable of taking down large aircraft also online. long runs the devastated texas town of west won't get much of the federal money it needs to deal with damage caused by

a massive fertilizer plant explosion two months ago but already dot com to find out why. in iranian is preparing for a changing of the guard the country will welcome a new president for the first time in eight years six candidates vying for the position amuse lawmakers public with the first round of voting due to start friday but election campaigning and the process itself do have some noticeable differences from most other countries artie's worry if an ocean explains. hours away from the presidential election stick around looks like it's usually done this is c t b c people have it traffic it's barely noticeable but iran is that a special moment in history you will not see many years of posters in iran ahead of the country's presidential front but that's not because the. do we people vote in the run is significantly different from what western people used to experience and . if people see campaign posters do start thinking as they spend lots of money on that where does that all come from and they will draw the conclusion that someone

a bank or an organization funds to candidates and that means when a candidate takes power he will have to give back the money he will oldham and with such strings attached you'll be never free people will never vote for a politician like that with. us but the reason we for candidates to cost grassroots space to change with people like you is that the times in different political problems that. some voices to complain the place obstacles in reaching the larger public. people's right. to include things more than two million people alone no use an interlude. so. it is much easier to communicate with. but the people in more rural areas we need more more trying to get through them this is the. weak point but. this year for the first time ever iran had live t.v.

debates between candidates of the form and still faced some internal and external criticism but big decisions maintained that despite the need for iran you know it's still better to give it a try it's the rather than has a name do they were told is start the presidential legs above from thirty years ago three decades so you know we had there no monarchy. so it's all new so 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 the meaning hearts and minds of the voters and all you have to hit your 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 that you had but not all agree one hundred five of the politicians become more and more distanced from people the gap is wider and wider and hold elections not more and more like an apartment and this is why i will not be the protests 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 her. injuries others injured thousands arrested after people staged rallies calling into question to me just speaks for me 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 as positive development is just as significant as down the nation he knows law makes

note saudi arabia nor can they ever have elections like we have in those countries it's more like someone has appointed them to a post to the outside to the actions in the run may seem unusual a different medical it from what's come to be the norm in the west but if you look closely you can see it that is for many in many countries the public divide is in who they want to vote for and forced to make a tough decision. to run iran. the pros and cons of the iranian election system take center stage and are worlds apart program with oksana boyko the full episode of the debate show airing in a few minutes here on our t.v. stay with us compared to on days the iranian system is not the best but it's not the worst either but what did she leave that constitution to do on people the best thing you can lose the truth which we cannot under the current regime.

turning first or some other stories making global headlines this hour beginning with afghanistan where six police officers believed to have been shot dead reportedly by colleagues at a checkpoint in the southern helmand province two other police assigned to the checkpoint missing along with their weapons and vehicles earlier this week a policeman opened fire and killed seven fellow officers in the same province so-called insider attacks among afghan and nato forces have become a common part of the insurgents' campaign to win back power over the unstable country. and the u.n. says at least ninety three thousand people killed in syria since the start of the conflict the world body estimates at least five thousand of them die every month but critics say the figures could be considerably higher as many deaths go on reported yesterday alone there were claims syrian rebels could be behind the killing of more than sixty shia muslims in the syrian village of sparking fears more extremists are joining opposition forces. if you're traveling in europe today

look out disruptions intensified as railway workers staged a strike of their own follow the muzammil of air traffic controllers whose protest has caused more than eight hundred flight cancellations in the last couple of days railway workers oppose the reorganization of state rail companies up to seventy percent of train service is expected to be cancelled. north korea's blamed the south for thwarting fresh dialogue that aims to calm tensions on the peninsula this after talks proposed by the north were called off just a day before they were set to start seoul and pyongyang have been trading accusations since then over who was responsible for the cancellation negotiations intended to reopen a joint industrial zone that scene is a symbol of the last remaining remnants of cooperation between the rivals young yang's offer to sit down with the south came as a surprise after seoul said the u.s. after seoul and the us held military drills earlier this year. up next we'll look at the cost of the two thousand and eight financial crisis by left thousands of

homeowners homeless in the u.s. our king takes a look. into his secret lover a tour to mccurry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and world this is why you should care only on the r.-g. dot com.

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