the prime minister's 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. is the european commission gave up on legislation which would have protected its citizens from the secret american surveillance program exposed by cia washington reportedly lobbied europe hard to access. the mass media strike is underway in greece where unions are protesting the shutdown of the state broadcaster as part of a cost cutting program. international

news and comment watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow. turkish protesters are defiantly packing tax. but perhaps with a sense of extra nervousness the prime minister's twenty four hour deadline for an end to demonstrations is a bank to pass no one has threatened an even harder response should the unrest continue there has already been widespread accusations of police brutality over the past few weeks that joins us now live from scene i mean what is the situation where you are right now what's the atmosphere like presumably it is tense. i would describe it as an incredibly tense as a matter of fact because just about forty minutes ago they the police have congregated on the square the house built into a sort of a lie you can probably see it behind me the police are there they're kind of at the ready the main force however is on the other end of the score and that's where we

have several several heavy duty police vehicles as well as water cannons and so we're basically just. here waiting for four for a for some sort of assignment to the the wipeout of protesters will start any moment now we do have helicopters hovering overhead as well so really really everybody's only as if they received just waiting and waiting and waiting there is a lot of people in the square there weren't that many yesterday. there have been rumors flying around we went into gezi park and into a tech scene earlier in the day and people were telling us that there's rumors flying around that they are going to clear out the area the entire area as a matter of fact people in the in the in the office buildings which are in the neighborhood were told to go home slightly earlier today not to a sit in the office until too long so right now it's all it's all about waiting we do know that the the things here minister has said that the park must be cleared of protesters in the morning there were about a thousand of them still camped out in tents there's actually

a full blown tent city in gezi park right now but it does look like a lot of those people have actually poured out of the park and onto the steps by taksim and they're out there and we have seen a perhaps not maybe a maybe you apply a worker to it but not much else so it's this moment of inspiration when everybody knows that something is going to happen the interior minister said that he's not going to he doesn't he doesn't know for sure if he's going to want to perform the operation. for clearing out the gezi park today or maybe tomorrow or maybe in the early hours of the morning but he said it will be done for sure because these people who have been out there the have to go there really unhappy with it the interesting part about it of course is the behavior of the turkish prime minister throughout the entire ordeal obviously hasn't backed down he hasn't changed his plans to cut down all the trees and gezi park and erect a shopping center the interesting thing however is that he came under serious fire from the european parliament. and just on wednesday the european parliament said

that they're looking at again the thinking of it basically having second thoughts about turkey's bid for europe the european union. ship and they're not happy with the way they're going on this handle the crisis to which everyone expects i responded that who are they to give me such a lesson of course this is what you suasion of what heats up he said so really a very tense situation the country prime minister continues to press on with this point and the protesters are not backing down and so you know we're waiting we're waiting for what is going to happen next and of course the operation started at any moment ok thanks arena we're also hearing that it might actually talk to protest is this evening so we'll keep an eye on that as well thank you. live from the. well of super bowl is one of the protestors and she told r.t. the brutal action of the police on the government's demands leaves 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 or the so from gezi park has left the park i think it's all asked to do with the police for the past two 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 like a festive feeling to it but as soon as the police was back file and 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 terms of the protests type of economy is getting affected by this the fact that for some sectors getting affected by this and the fact that a truck is getting a bad image is 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 mice is going to be on the table anytime soon. well it's been seeing that police have been using tear gas on the protesters and they have got

a plentiful supply too with imports of the chemicals having increased fifty fold over the past decade artie's pretty boy care now looks at the possible long term effects of these so-called non-lethal gases. 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 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 prime age i don't mal's and we know very well that the p.c.'s and those other gases affects differentially people all the people who are pregnant people 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 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 in spades. it's not just what's been happening in turkey and. weapons which are inevitably the weapons of. a regime which is attempting to suppress the. purchase 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 it's manufactured barring a number of companies for those companies it's obviously extremely profitable to be

to be selling the more civil unrest the more shoes the more they're selling american for 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 by all stopping distances of any tear gas supplies ready to swear there is a clear risk as in the case currently in turkey goes back to be used in 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 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. and to all the other range of things that exist between having a conversation and poison in a population party boy. london. the european commission failed to put in place laws which would have protected the data of its citizens from america's spying on ice it came as a surprise to many in europe that the u.s. secret global surveillance program exposed by cia whistleblower edward snowden was watching them to washington had reportedly lobbied hard for access and they have a spokes person for the european commissioner for justice says not enough

protection is in place there are two tracks we're working on to enforce data protection within the european union the one track is our negotiations for an e.u. us data protection agreement which has 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 to give us the right rules for the digital age because today's large dates back to pretty internet times than one thousand five the current law on the table beside the protections for citizens and their opinion because it makes clear for the very first time that also us 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. well i would snowden the man behind the revelation says he's putting his future in the hands of hong kong's authorities marjorie cohn professor of law at the thomas jefferson school of law says political relations between china and the u.s. will settle his fate this is not just a legal issue and certainly the relationship between china and hong kong the relationship between china and the united states will play into it edward snowden has recently said that he has information showing that the united states is hacking into government communications in hong kong and china so that could also that's true or if it could be shown to be true that could certainly upset china and hong kong in terms of cooperation with the united states on the other

hand there is a question recent to have closer relationships between the united states and china so it's very it's still very fluid situation we don't know which way it's going to go. following edward snowden's disclosures online users became acutely aware of just exactly how closely they are being watched and sparked to search for ways to get around the system and keep their web surfing private marina portnoy has this report. america's national security elektra next 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's safari and

skype and switching over to alternative for a pyre 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 you are doing or you. reading see the road is being ripped into your system every newspaper should be seen this way now if you google realization how we can see first and foremost. join this. thing called 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 to move. tale the n.s.a.'s programs civil rights advocates are encouraging individuals to join a call by signing off stop watching dot us as of wednesday evening website had garnered sixty four thousand signatures reporting from new york marina r.t. . to remember all the latest updates on the n.s.a. scandal along with international reaction and analysis are available for you on our website you'll call that coming up here on our to you in just a minute greek state t.v. . greek unions are protesting the closure of the state broadcaster as a european media company keeps the signal alive by satellite. and is iranian.

president on friday weeks. the need for reform against a strict adherence to tradition whereby. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you. are welcome to the big picture. will be. funny and technology innovation told news developments from around russia we've. covered.

download the. application yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch your ti any time and you were. welcome back broadcasters across europe have been working to keep greek state t.v. am radio the government pulled the plug on r.t. leaving more than two and a half thousand people without jobs and causing mass demonstrations the geneva based european broadcasting union decided to take the station's feed from a studio in thessaloniki and retransmitted it back to greek homes over satellite

link the unplugging the v.r.t. also triggered a revolt in the ruling coalition with the prime minister's allies furious they weren't consulted officials say the broadcaster is just too inefficient and costly or in an order to used to be a chief news editor at the r.t. believes while the network has had difficulties in the past it still should not have been sacrificed. he has his other problems and i would say that many of the problems that. at some point with. had to do with over the years over thirty years every government about greece head tried to manipulate tried to to have a say in the national television of greece and that shouldn't happen so yes he has probably. should be a big. this probably this can be fixed but i believe that that should happen with any of these really also. we're going to see that it's ok.

on there also wonders if people can see it in every corner where they cannot see any other television any private television they can see only the national television channels and all the efforts to have a better national television in greece as there is therefore to have a greater degree to the financial crisis should be done with the national television talent. a huge explosion at a chemical plant in the u.s. state of louisiana has left is a blaze at least one person was killed and dozens were injured at the facility which is about one hundred kilometers from new orleans the blast led to a mass evacuation and locals have been advised to keep their windows shut it's not yet known what caused the explosion however it does come 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. well r.-t. dot com is following events in louisiana you can find a complete timeline on our web site and also there don't know what you got till it's gone former u.s. president george bush wins back the hearts of americans for years after leaving office plus. the keys of putting public safety at risk by handing over prison is on probation to private companies in order to save some cash. but also there are gold in them awarded monte carlo coverage of meteorite which smashed down in siberia earlier this year you can log on to r.t. dot com for more on all of these stories.

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 reformers. examines what is at stake. hours away from presidential elections stick around looks like it's usually just busy busy people have a traffic it's barely noticeable but iran is a special moment in history you will not see many better as opposed to as in iran ahead of the country's eleventh presidential front but that's not because the effort beaten the way people vote in the run is significantly different from what western people used to experience. if people see a campaign poster do start thinking as 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 feel will have to give back the money because 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 status some voices to complain they face obstacles which in a larger public intellectual peoples who have the right access to internal things more than two hundred million people learn no 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 two faced some internal and external criticism but but dissidents maintain that despite real need for iran you know it's

still better to give it a try it's the rather than having them do they were told in the presidential legs above from thirty years ago three decades so you know we had the monarch in the middle so it's. all new so we're learning and trying to. make better and better every year iran is one of the cutely slanted states in the world full of in a muslim dominated traditional guidelines is also essential to the meaning hearts and minds of the voters to his jaw up a candidate who cannot go against our religious or cultural tradition of you cannot change the way women where he jobs and asked for taboos on foreign policy issues you cannot come out and think iran will become a friend of the us or israel mohamad 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 would be different if you had but not told me where the heart of five of the politicians become more and more distressed people because the gap is wider and wider and who election is not more and more like a for them either this is why i will not have been given that the protests that followed the two thousand and nine elections 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 trailways calling into question national 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 has to consider the election a positive development is just as significant as tell me nationally known as la mix they know it saudi arabia nor could they ever have elections like in those

countries it's more like someone has appointed them to a halt to the outside to the actions in iran may seem unusual but different medically from what's come to be the norm in the west but if you look closely you can see a picture that is familiar to many countries the public divide isn't who they want to offend and. forced to make a tough decision. we've seen a run in iraq. a quick look now to some other news happening this hour somewhere around ninety three thousand people seventeen hundred children among them have been killed since the beginning of the civil war in syria that is a united nations estimate although it's reported minutes the real figure could be higher and earlier u.n. study described the level of killing as unbearable and suggested both sides use children as a means of warfare the armed conflict between began sorry 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 countryside if it's suspected that two of their colleagues who are missing may have killed them and fled if proven it would be the latest in a series of so-called insider attacks where taliban insurgents infiltrate acuity services and the french railway system has been crippled by a workers' strike up t. seventy percent of train services are expected to be cancelled until friday the strike was triggered by plans to reorganize the state and train operators which protesters fear would lead to job cuts this just a day after air traffic controllers walked out and even thousands of flights grounded. but next it is the kaiser report in a couple of. 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 what their bosses were in town a century 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 give them ploy used to put a smile on for the cameras so they wouldn't lose their jobs you know 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 r.t.e. 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 actually you know improving the local economy seems like doomed economic practices to me but that's just my opinion. welcome to the kaiser report max kaiser. my.

economic theory of hoops. 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. yes max this kind of goes hand in hand with disaster capitalism this is like connected guys whether politicians or financially make giant mistakes and they say oh my bad well we'll have to use my you know month santo roundup weed killer to fix the whole problem well the first time we're going to start off with a political my bad costs soar.