i ran over there. with spying on e.u. european nations angered after finding out america's secret surveillance program was monitoring them to the n.s.a. defends itself by saying it was preventing terrorism. by ministers deadline for an end to public protests looms in turkey with threatening an even harder response despite accusations that police have already resorted to unprecedented brutality. and a mass media strike is underway in greece where unions are protesting the shutdown the state broadcaster as part of a cost cutting program. hello

good evening and watching r.t. with me andrew farm. america's 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 too among the most watched nation is germany a fact that chancellor angela merkel could bring up when president obama visits berlin next week a german member of the european parliament said this surveillance reminds him of the infamous stars the secret police in east germany his colleague from neighboring austria was appalled accusing washington of doing what ever it wants italy's privacy chief also expressed concern which he said would be illegal in his country and in the gyptian freedom activist was shocked at how much his country was being targeted. well the european commission however has been aware of america's surveillance program for years and even attempted to come up with laws to protect

data but that was abandoned reportedly after lobbying by washington i mean a spokesperson for the european commissioner for justice says e.u. lawmakers must do more to protect their citizens there are two tracks we're working on to enforce data protection within the european union that one track is our negotiations for an e.u. us data protection agreement 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 that currently on the table beside the protections for citizens in the 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 their prism scandal 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 following edward snowden's disclosures online users became acutely aware of just exactly how closely they are being watched and sparked a search for ways to get around the system and keep their web surfing private parties marina porter has this report. america's national security elektra onyx surveillance program known as prism 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 safari and skype and switching over to alternative proprietary software that's anonymous not indexed and leaves no cyber footprint 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 you can go to the regular and be in. where you're coming from. and everything you are doing or you. living. the road is being encrypted. it really should be thinking this way now is the realization how we can 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.a. 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 that website had garnered. four thousand signatures reporting from new york marina r.t. . on the n.s.a. scandal along with international reaction and analysis are available for you on our website dot com. a man who had been on a life support machine for days after reportedly being hit in the head by

a police gas canister has become the fifth fatality of the crackdown on public protests in turkey on wednesday the country's prime minister set a twenty four hour deadline for an end to demonstrations in istanbul and the capital that runs out in the coming hours. has this report. actually have seen the largest number of crackdowns than any other city in turkey for the past two weeks or wednesday it was kind of the repetition of what happened before was the real people have diverged from a group of protesters who were there initially weird off towards the u.s. embassy where police have used tear gas and rubber bullets against them to which quashed 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 it 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 what we have already made it clear that we want the park to stay and they want to go. along 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 that 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 brutal police crackdown on tuesday which have been in istanbul force 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 to ties in with one of the major grievances the protesters have with that is his suppression of free speech and a real crackdown on on various media outlets in the country but it 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 budge down so we're in for some rather tense situation here in turkey. is one of the protesters and she told us here at r.t. the brutal action of the police and the government's demands leave no room for compromise. i don't see it 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 part though so from gezi park have left the park i think it's all i have 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 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 so i go out 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 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 any time soon when he's receiving from the pictures to police have been raining to gaston on the protesters and they have got a plentiful supply with imports of the chemicals having increased fifty followed over the past decade artie's porty boyko now that the possible long term effects of these so-called non-lethal gases. 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 iva 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 agencies is there talk system in the long term effects are worked out primarily on sort of if you like prime age i don't. 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 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 you see if you greece and see it in spades. it's not

just what's been happening in turkey and 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 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 are for those companies it's obviously extremely profitable to be to be selling for more civil unrest more issues the more they're selling america more money that make america what we would

size arms to use that profit must never ever ever come before human rights so what we really need is governments to ensure that when the last thing the stuff by all stopping 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 want take out machine guns and tanks against them

what. up until all the other range of things that exist you know between having a conversation and poisoning a population party boy i see london. you're watching on t.v. saving there's plenty more to come including greek state t.v. plugs back in greek unions walk out in protest of the closure of the state broadcaster as a european media company keeps the signal alive via satellite and as a rainy and prepare to elect the next president on friday we examine a race which pits the need for reform against a strict adherence to tradition but offer short break.

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anytime anywhere. welcome back mass protests are taking place in greece after the government told state t.v. and radio off air as part of its cost cutting drive leaving more than two and a half thousand people without jobs labor unions launched a twenty four hour strike which has been joined by various members of the greek media greek state t.v. went live again today after broadcasters across europe stepped in to try and keep on geneva base european broadcasting union took the feed from a studio thessaloniki and retransmitted it back to greek homes over satellite link mass rallies are taking place in a number of greek cities of the r.t. triggered a revolt in the ruling coalition with the prime minister's allies furious they were insulted george cukor call us

a professor of constitutional law believes the authorities are trying to distract the public from the real problems. the majority. of soon as a blow. to democracy of course to the. shores of new for our society in my opinion it's a clear act of very very soon the government is free. to do to destruct the political appearance run towards another goal as you know we are living now in our very dire economic situation he's so. good government really 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. in other news a huge explosion at a chemical plant in the u.s. state of louisiana has left a blaze complex and reports are coming in on the number of casualties at the facility which is about one hundred kilometers from new orleans there are suggestions up to seven people were killed and dozens more injured the blast led to a mass evacuation and locals have been advised to keep their windows shut well if you remember this comes less than two months after a similar incident in texas where an explosion and fire at a fertilizer plant killed fifteen people almost two hundred more were injured the explosion also left one hundred fifty buildings destroyed or damaged the plant in the city of waco reportedly had not been inspected for almost three decades and had been violating safety regulations authorities have launched a criminal investigation however the cause is yet another. iran is getting ready to elect a brand new president six candidates are in the running with the first round of

voting this friday the main divide is between hard line conservative loyalists and reformist artie's many with an ocean or examines what is at stake. 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 at a special moment for its history you will not see many vendors a posters in iran ahead of the country's eleventh presidential front but that's not because the off the beaten the way people vote in iran is significantly different from what western people used to experience. if people see a campaign poster do start thinking as they stand 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 or feel will have to give back the money he will hold them and with such strings attached you'll be never free people will never vote for a politician like that one. but the reason we for candidates to run most cost

grassroots space going to change with people handing out flyers advertising different political problem sad that some voices to complain the place obstacles in reaching the larger public intellectual peoples who have the right to access to internet the things more than two million people know 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 headlines 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 it's the rather than has

a name do they were told the presidential legs above from thirty years ago three decades so you know we had you know monarch amiable so it's. all new learning and trying to. make better and better every year iran is one of the beauties lennox tate's in the world full of in a muslim dominated traditional guidelines is also essential to lean in 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 your run 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 wanted to change the government of iran our campaign would be different if you had but not all agree to heart of five of the politicians become more and more distressed people that the gap is wider and wider and whole election is not more and more like an important matter this is why i will not in the protests that followed to two thousand and nine elections to freshen the memory of many iranians i during the unrest between thirty and seventy people were killed hundreds others injured thousands arrested after people states trailways calling into question asked 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 tell me mission 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 have called for the outside to the actions in iran may seem a new show

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 offend and. forced to make the tough decision. made notion our team to run iraq . a quick look at other world views now around ninety three thousand people more than seventeen hundred children among them have been killed since the beginning of the civil war in syria that is the united nations estimates although its report admits the real figure could be higher than the u.n. study described a level of killing as unbearable and suggested both sides huge children as a means of warfare the armed conflict began in twenty eleven when president bashar assad refused demands to step down. in afghanistan six policemen have been shot dead at a checkpoint in the country south is suspected that two of their colleagues who are missing may have been killed may have killed them and fled if proven it would be

the latest in this susan so-called insider attacks where taliban insurgents infiltrate the security services. and the french railway system has been crippled by a workers' strike up to seventy percent of train services are expected to be cancelled until friday the strike was triggered by plans to reorganize the state owned train operators which protesters fear would lead to job cuts this just a day after air traffic controllers walked down leaving thousands of flights grounded artie's katie pilbeam tallies up the financial damage. for the holiday industry these strikes are nothing short of a nightmare for europe which is in the middle of a financial crisis right now it is a paid money making season and the chance to billions of euros from terrorism these strikes coincide with e.u. commissioner for transportation calling for a faster cost cutting plans inefficiencies in europe's airspace are said to cost

airlines and customers five billion euros annually thousands of flights have been delayed or canceled as a result of the backlash to new e.u. air traffic control rules and all passengers will be expecting their hard earned cash back so i asked an aviation expert who is the most affected is certainly passengers will suffer a lot. alike and receive any direct compensation from the airlines because consolations are not to due to use of fault of airlines a subject of the fault of the controllers and so airlines will not have to compensate. which are prescribed by the law at best what they will receive. some of the from later flights is to me as a personal cost. of the passengers who have to see for two three days at the airport some of them bill waited holding some of them will be booked immediately some was unveiled wait for for a week maybe that is very hard to calculate and another big loser of course is

going to be airlines and airlines takes three million about this situation because they are losing directly revenues so during those days that airlines are not going to be operating on the rescheduling air passengers a later time so despite the air traffic controllers strike coming to an end the economic impacts that to continue so is the peak of the summer begins so does the chaos. up next here on a boy questions the objectivity of western coverage of iran's upcoming elections the new show will is upon them.

you know when i was in school they would tell us stories about that other goofy economic system in the eastern bloc and about why it was doomed to fail they tell us how terrified communist bureaucrats would work very hard to give the illusion of a fish and see when their bosses were in town essentially out of fear they would try to convince the state that everything was just fine they pronounce a fresh coat of paint on some stuff bump up their numbers in the books and get employees to put a smile on for the cameras so they wouldn't lose their jobs yeah this our teachers told us was a sign of true doomed economics rolling the clock forward twenty or thirty years the bosses of the current global economic system are in town and many locations around the upcoming g eight summit in northern ireland are doing their best to hide their economic downturn from the media according to our t.v. news the government of northern ireland has spent two million pounds dealing with derelict buildings some of these buildings have simply been knocked out but some have been spruced up like butcher shops with images of meat stuck over the windows to hide their barren interiors or the now famous local office supply store which

contains no office supplies at all but it sure does look nice and i guess that's what counts spending two million pounds to hype economic downturn from the g eight and other eyes whether than spending it on actually you know improving the local economy seems like doomed economic practices to me but that's just my opinion. how long of welcome to worlds apart iran's go to the polls to elect their new

president but before they even had a chance to make of them mind on the basque candidate western observers described the vote as a sham compared to other countries is iran selectional system really self lord or is it just another case of iran being held to an impossibly high standard to discuss that i'm now joined by reza pahlavi of the son of the last child iran and a project ocracy activist mr behaving thank you very much for being here on while the party correct me from wrong but as far as i understand your position is that the iranian voters should really disregard the choice of the candidates that they're being offered today is that correct indeed the basic premise of the problem from day one was a regime that is making a mockery of what they called elections were none of the circumstances in which. university recognized standards at the initial free have.