riot police lash out at protesters in turkey again after the prime minister orders an end to unrest within twenty four hours this is a fifth person is confirmed to have died in the hospital. spying on the e.u. european nations angered after finding out the u.s. secret surveillance program was monitoring them as well the n.s.a. defends itself saying it was preventing terrorism. a mass media strike underway in greece where unions are protesting the shutdown of the state broadcaster as part of a cost cutting measure. six pm in moscow i matter as a good to have you with us here on r t our top story

a man who had been on life support for days after reportedly being hit in the head by a police gas canisters become the fifth victim of a crackdown on public protests in turkey wednesday the country's prime minister said a twenty four hour deadline day and demonstrations in istanbul and the capital that runs out in the coming hours artie's arena has more. 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 it's quash 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 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 over the course the people out on the street said that is a joke that one kind of a friend 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 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 on with one of the major grievances the protesters have with everyone in that is his suppression of free speech and a real crackdown on the on various media outlets in the country by. 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 in the early one obviously doesn't seem like he's going to budge so we're in for some rather tense situation here in turkey r.z. be able as one of the protesters who says the brutal action of the police and the government's demands leave the room for compromise. and all of a sudden twenty four hours just because prime minister is 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 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 retreated from

jackson square there was no violence it was very peaceful it was very cheerful and in fact the park itself almost had like a festive feeling to it but as soon as the police was back by a lens 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 psych that i know 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 infected by this and the fact that a truck is getting a bad image that's affected by the protesters and he is just always possible figure for all of this. and i'm just really afraid that none of the compromise or any other kind of awesome ice is going to be on the table anytime soon they're going to riot police raining tear gas on protesters and they have plentiful supply with imports of the chemical having increased fifty fold over the last decade artie's probably boyko takes a look. 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 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 eva convention prohibits 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 work primarily on sort of if you like prime age i don't. and we know very well that the d.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 death 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 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 and see it in in spades. you know 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 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 number of companies or for those companies it's obviously extremely profitable to be to be selling the more civil unrest the more issues the more the selling of the 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 by all stopping

suzy. supplies of money to gas where there is a clear risk as in the case currently in turkey that goes back to. the suppression of a few minutes 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 and 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 want take out machine guns and tanks against them what how. until all the other range of things that exist between having a conversation and poisoning a population plenty see london. the secret global

surveillance program revealed by cia whistleblower edward snowden has left many european states rattled after they became aware they were being spied on as well among the most watched nations germany a fact chancellor merkel could bring up when president obama visits berlin next week a german member of the european parliament said the surveillance reminds him of the infamous stasi secret police in east germany his colleague from neighboring austria says he was appalled accusing washington of doing whatever it wants italy's privacy chief also expressed concern which he said would be illegal in his country than gyptian freedom activists was shocked at how much his country was targeted for more on the reaction i'm joined now by me and dre of our a spokesperson for vivian a reading the european commissioner for justice thanks very much for joining us here on r t so many europeans were shocked by the revelations but did this really come as a surprise to officials like your boss. well the european union

and the european commission has been negotiating with the united states now for over two years in order to have a stable you u.s. data protection agreement for law enforcement in place that would protect the rights of citizens in their you opinion but also in the united states so in this negotiations we've been constantly and systematically raising our concern that u.s. law enforcement authorities want to access the data of e.u. citizens that should only be done within an established and existing legal framework and we have that we have the e.u.'s legal assistance agreement that is in force now since two thousand and ten this is the right channel involving traditional oversight to check are there any individual cases are is there and you clear suspicion involved or is this just access to a mass of data which would not be compatible with the spirit of the european legislation that protects privacy of citizens no moves are adding stress that the new data privacy legislation would have stopped this kind of surveillance why did

nobody seem to listen and it was apparently voted down. there are two tracks we're working on to enforce data protection within the european union the one track is our negotiation for an e.u. us data protection agreement with which we've been working with the americans now for two years and where this issue of access requests to data of european citizens has been evolved constantly for the past two years the second issue is the proposed you data protection reform that applies to the european union which was give us the right rules for the digital age because today's large dates back to pretty internet times in one thousand five the current law on the table beefs up the protections for citizens and european union because it makes clear for the very first time that also u.s. companies will have to play by the european rules if they want to offer their services to european consumers and if they don't well there are very effective

sanctions forseen in our law so this is a clear improvement that is now being negotiated by the call legislators the european parliament and the council of ministers and the prisms cando shows very well why data protection is not a luxury but it's a necessity and it's high time that we move up a gear that member states move up a gear in order to agree what on what has been on the table now since eighteen months so you're saying there is legislation that is currently in the works that can help scale back. you are surveillance of european communications. we must be better equipped in the future and this is exactly what they were commission has been trying to do with the e.u. data protection reform but also on the negotiations with the united states for an e.u. us data protection agreement this is the track we're working on because we do want to be better equipped in the future we want to assure citizens that their data is handled properly within

a clear legal framework because there should be judicial authorities involved of course we need to help fighting terrorism and ensure national security but we have the instruments let's use them to go assistance agreement with the united states is that leave go to and would give would make sure that their traditional authorities who can have a close look if all this data is reading needed to fight terrorism but now that the door has been opened pandora's box has been opened sort of do you think that we can get it closed with new legislation from the e.u. a window of opportunity has been opened because what we've been had having on the table now since two years it shows that this is really a necessity and it's urgent to act because it would equip their opinion better and it would reinforce citizens' rights for data protection in a better way and it would also open for companies about to possibility to do business in their opinion so everything is now on the table and it needs to be

agreed on swiftly this case off the prism. is very clearly we need to have the clear legal framework with to dish oversight so briefly again you think that the u.s. . surveillance activities in europe should new legislation be passed. we need to beef up our own existing legislation because the problem that we have today where u.s. law enforcement authorities make direct requests to the companies doesn't take into account the guarantees european union citizens because ultimately this is about their privacy rights this is about their data so there should be ego and legal agreement used that exists in order to deal with such requests and not bypassing it by going directly to the companies already mean and dravot spokesperson for vivian writing vice president of the european commission thanks for your time following

edward snowden's disclosures about the prism program online users became aware of exactly how closely they were being watched and this sparked a search for ways to get around the system and keep web surfing private parties marine important has more on that aspect of the story. america's national security like tronic surveillance 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 safari and skype and switching over to alternative for pyar terry software that's anonymous not indexed and leaves no cyber footprint even 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 in the mood. and everything. is being encrypted. should be seen in this way now if you google realization how it can be first and foremost how. the electronic frontier foundation has published an online guide indicating a significant amount of ways in which people can opt out of prison the f.-f. is also one of eighty six organizations that are demanding for legislators to move to curtail the n.s.a.'s programs now civil rights advocates are encouraging

individuals to join a call by signing up at stop watching dot us as of wednesday evening the website had garnered six. four thousand signatures reporting from new york marina nine are to. remember all the latest updates on the n.s.a. scandal plus international reaction and analysis a click away at our t.v. dot com and still to come on our program greek state t.v. unplugged unions walking out in protest at the closure of the state broadcaster with no one but social media and video streaming online to report on the rallies plus. as iranians prepare to elect their next president friday we take a look at a race that pits the need for reform against a strict adherence to tradition that and more still to come.

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visit. thanks for staying with us nineteen minutes. the hour mass protests happening in greece after the government pulled state television and radio off the air as part of a cost cutting drive leaving more than two and a half thousand people with pink slips labor unions launched a twenty four hour strike that's been joined by various members of greece's media mass protests happening in several greek cities with very little media coverage because of the closures staff at the abruptly closed broadcaster are trying to continue with programming on the internet in defiance of the government decision but the company's phone lines and website both down and plugging of e r t triggered a revolt in the ruling coalition but the prime minister's allies derrius they weren't consulted for george got from gallos a professor of constitutional law thinks authorities are trying to distract the public from the real problems. the majority of the.

soon as a blue book. of course to the independent the shores. of society in my opinion it's. very soon the government is facing. this attempt to distract the police because of the words another. as you know we are leaving now we never did die of the situation so it's a good government. it's not be. to walk like about you know this is or that even its allies. do other parties. disapproving. iran getting ready to elect a new president six candidates running with the first round of voting friday the

main divide between hard line conservative loyalists and reformers artie's marie if you know she has more from tehran. hours away from presidential elections stick around looks like it's usually done busy busy people have a traffic it's barely noticeable but iran is that a special moment in 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 offer beaten the way people vote in the run is significantly different from what western people used to experience. if people see a campaign poster they will 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 one. but the reason we for candidates to run low cost

grassroots space going to change with people handing out flyers advertising different political problems sad that some voices to complain they face obstacles in reaching a larger public intellectual peoples who have the right to access to internet with things more than twelve million people low 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. this year for the first time ever iran had live t.v. debates between candidates for months to face some internal and external criticism but but dissidents maintain that despite the need for iran you know it's still better to give it a try rather than have a name debate or toll is the presidential legs above from thirty years ago

three decades so you know we had you know monarchy and you know 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 full of in a muslim dominated traditional guidelines is also essential to winning hearts and minds of the voters to his jaw up a candidate who cannot go against their religious or cultural tradition 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 to heart of five of the politicians become more and more distanced from people the gap is wider and wider and whole elections got more and more like an appointment and this is why i will not be the protests that followed to do thousand and nine elections just to freshen the memory of many iranians during the unrest between thirty and seventy people were killed hundreds others injured thousands arrested after people states dryly is calling into question to me just 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 miniature you know slum mixtape 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 call from the outside to the elections in iran may seem unusual a different medical 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 that public divide is in who they want to vote for and. to make the tough decision. the notion to run iran turning now to some other stories making global headlines around ninety three thousand people more than seven hundred children among them have been killed since the start of a civil war in syria that's a un estimate although the report admits the real figure could be higher if an earlier u.n. study called the level of feeling on bearable and suggested both sides were using children as a means of warfare the armed struggle began in two thousand and eleven when president bashar al assad refused a man from the opposition to step down. in afghanistan six policemen were shot at a check shot dead at a checkpoint in the country's south suspected two of their colleagues who are missing and may have killed them and fled if proven to be the latest in a series of so-called insider attacks where taliban insurgents infiltrate security services. the french were away system has been crippled by

a workers' strike up to seventy percent of train service is expected cancelled till friday the strike triggered by plans to reorganize the state owned train operators which protesters fear could lead to job cuts is just a day after air traffic controllers walked out leaving thousands of flights grounded. up next a look at the human cost of the two thousand and eight financial crisis how thousands of u.s. homeowners stay with us. sigrid laboratory to mccurry was able to build the most sophisticated robots which fortunately doesn't sound anything tim's mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and world this is why you should care only.

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