breaking news at this hour turkish police use water cannons and tear gas on protesters in istanbul tax him a live pictures it comes just hours after the prime minister threatened to use force to remove them. elsewhere moderate cleric. takes almost fifty one percent of the vote to become iran's new president the question now for the outside world is whether he'll change the country's nuclear ambitions. syria calls u.s. claims that use chemical weapons fabricated while russia which is also unconvinced condemns washington's decision to rebels as an undermining of the peace efforts.

welcome to r.t. coming to you live from moscow breaking news at this hour to gas and water cannons of being used by police to disperse crowds of protesters gathered in istanbul's taksim square live pictures from the scene where demonstrations have been raging for weeks for more than two weeks now becomes shortly after the turkish prime minister issued yet another warning to protesters saying security forces will intervene if they don't clear the square by sunday out of one addressed tens of thousands of his supporters earlier in the one for suburbs any attempt to counter demonstrations labeled the protest as traitors and vandals accusing them of being in the pay of foreign forces from our correspondent who's been in a few minutes.

moderate cleric is iran's new president the reformist but former secretary of the supreme national security council. negotiator won fifty one percent of the vote in the election to avoid a runoff he will inherit a country with an economy badly hurt by western sanctions aimed at tehran's nuclear program. was following the vote and reports from the capital people have taken to the streets of tehran to celebrate their victory all. mixed feelings. specially in terms of greater freedoms. in the country has been on the job sanctions for years now. during his campaign

rouhani has promised civil rights. economy and improve. his. many time for making remarks that cost the country. the same time. they're on realize that the system works. by. the president can do little to change things. the supreme leader has been. serious for example. president. tom. bowman chief nuclear negotiator. conciliatory approach. well the west will now be hoping that

a reformist president in iran changes the direction of the nation's nuclear ambitions former u.s. national security council and state department officials hillary mann leverett shared the predictions with my colleague sean thomas there's a constraint in washington not not in terror on that at this point many of the saying sions have been written into u.s. law and president obama even if iran did everything the u.s. wants it to do on the nuclear issue he's not able to lift many of the sanctions now and last he also was able to certify that congress that iran is cut off all ties to groups that the u.s. government insists on calling terrorist organizations and is basically become a secular liberal state obama and the united states are now him then on sanctions and so even if iran offered up some concessions which is hillary said i don't think it's going to do it's not really clear iran would get much in return

a new round of u.s. sanctions are coming into order on july first how do you see the next leader handling this long standing issue each of the candidates that have been put before the iranian public each of them has expressed concern about the sanctions each of them has expressed real concern about the economy and as such has come up with various plans to address the economic points on iran's agenda whoever is the next president is going to put the economy very close to the top of their list and to addressing the sanctions but it would be a mistake to believe that the next president even if it is someone that would be more to washington's liking that next president is going to make any substantially different concessions on the nuclear issue chip it appears washington to ease the sanctions. you're watching r.t. just on five past ten on saturday evening here in the russian capital and still ahead for you this hour it was. world leaders can expect a frosty welcome as anti capitalist protesters in the u.k.

come together ahead of a g. eight meeting to claim banks and corporations are responsible for the country's debt and should be paying up. plus we report on how the man who blew the whistle on american government espionage against his own citizens is getting a lot of public support. for. syria's government has condemned claims by washington that it used chemical weapons as a caravan of lies based on a fabricated information damascus also accused the white house of double standards in dealing with terrorism after it announced it would send weapons to rebels the u.s. could also impose a no fly zone over parts of syria artie's gun a chicken has more details. the white house says it's the session to arm syrian rebels is based on intelligence that the assad government has used chemical weapons the mask denies the allegations washington cites its own intelligence community as

well as french and british intelligence a u.s. official who declined to be identified told the media here that according to a cia report the u.s. has acquired blood urine and hair samples from two syrian rebels one dead and one wounded and according to the cia report those two rebels were exposed to nerve agent sarin brian becker he is here with me today to talk about thank you what the administration tries to present as definitive evidence that the assad government has used chemical weapons we don't know much about the evidence that they have but this report about two rebels do you think that could be enough for the cia to come up with definitive conclusions well no the evidence is dubious it's very scant in fact but it's really not about the evidence it's not even about weapons of mass destruction it's not about sara nerve gas there's been an acknowledgement in washington that if you want to take this country to war either by bombing another

country or intervening or occupying raise the specter of weapons of mass destruction and that's the ticket in order to get massive media coverage justifying an escalation and that's what's going on there's been a decision taken by the white house to escalate this is just a red herring not a red line the phrase that we often hear in washington these days is we need to tip the balance seen the other direction meaning in the direction of the rebels but behind that technical sounding phrase tipping the balance is a lot of killing that would have to be done to achieve that goal right to what lengths do you think the u.s. is ready to go to achieve a desired outcome in syria tipping the balance is just a euphemism and in fact bizarre and ridiculous the fact of the matter is this civil war which has taken ninety three thousand. according to the united nations was fueled by outside forces got there turkey saudi arabia who are they are the proxies or allies of the united states and britain and france nato powers they've been

funneling arms into syria creating the conditions for civil war in fact promoting civil war i would say they have a lot of blood on their hands senator mccain is a very active supporter of of an aggressive u.s. intervention in syria and he's everywhere now on all news channels applauding the administration's decision to arm the rebels in one of the interviews he suggested that he'd talk all the way to extremists taking over syria because they would not be allied with iran and it's not just him who constantly mentions he ran in the context of these discussions how much of this is about you ran in your opinion well john mccain's comments are very interesting but not unusual if you look back the last thirty years the united states has made the my enemy's enemy is my friend the theme of its foreign policy. being against the afghan government because it was a socialist government and aligned with the soviet union mccain is a cheerleader for war but what is the real goal yes iran is the target iran

ultimately because of its alliance with syria its alliance with hezbollah in lebanon ultimately the u.s. wants to destroy it. weaken hezbollah and finally destroy the islamic republic of iran not because it wants a more democratic iran but because it wants a puppet government or proxy like they use they have when they have the shah. the fear is that the message that the rebels will receive with the weapons is not go sit down and talk the message will be go fight and kill which kind of kills the chances of a political solution doesn't it brian becker anti-war activist in washington i'm going to. well i will be keeping you fully up to date with the chemical weapons allegations involving both sides of the syrian conflict among other things our website looks at the u.n. commission report from a month ago that revealed suspicions that the opposition not the government was behind the use of sarin gas in syria had to dot com for that's a much more. now back to our breaking news story police are moving in against

protesters in istanbul's taksim square alton's arena joins us live now from the turkish it's a good evening to you arena exactly what can you tell us is happening in istanbul right now. well i can tell you that where we are definitely having another police. police action here are just about half an hour ago there were the square was teeming with people i would say several thousand were out there you also have to remember that there are still a lot of people camping out on taksim square in tents now all of this comes before were rather after yet another day of statements from prime minister erdogan who says that he will not tolerate the protesters in the park he has called on them several times to get out he said i'm calling to your mothers i think you can see live pictures hopefully right now what's happening now the square was filled with people just half an hour ago then we could see the police i guess you can see right now there are still some people leftover out there i'm seeing opulence is now we don't know exactly what's happening hopefully nobody has been hurt but i have to tell you gas today has been especially especially bad. i missed still actually

hoping to hear from the rest of our crew because as far as i know one of our cameramen as well as our spanish correspondent went into the park just minutes before all of this all of this started happening and i'm actually kind of worried about about their condition. from what i can sell for money can see their people their police according off the streets they're cordoning off the square there's no tear gas at the moment but the water cannons are certainly at the ready i so. this is this of course is the second time this week that the protests in turkey have been broken up but you have for example in one car this is sort of sort of an ongoing thing because process in turkey hour and on parole has been going on for basically you know not without end for two weeks they have been dispersed with water cannons and tear gas almost on a daily or nightly basis and. this is the second dispersal istanbul after tuesday's

tuesday's events of course we have to understand that the prime minister to one remains defiant he does not want the protesters in the park and if i can just get the he does not with the protesters in the park he made it absolutely completely clear he wants the park gone but the people inside are saying they're not going anywhere so we're at a stalemate right now with neither party willing to let go and the situation in the country and especially in istanbul as well is an anchor eyes especially tense right now so we'll be keeping a close eye on what's happening basically on taxi man in gezi park and we'll be bringing you more as we get it thanks very much irene both stay safe in his arena says she will be keeping us up to date with developments throughout the night on a close to a specialist on the middle east who's covered on the rest in the region says the protesters had little chance of getting their message across unless they unified. what we see here is it isn't been primarily phenomenon from said you know western

face it's the kind who used to having a berry in a lobster roll over to see china having allowed a place a more powerful voice than that presence in the countryside and the think the the rise to power of the islamists was upset this now and then you know this is a really positive element to the protests in and the sort of the young kids in just . who you know we in the west and elsewhere around the world can identify with that yearning for greater freedoms but there's a real danger that if the if the jesse kids don't get there to get a set of state that they what they're going to do is end up mainly benefiting the generals and the old school secular authorities.

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welcome back to r.t. coming to you live from moscow a mass rally has been held in belfast to challenge the policies and priorities of world leaders at the g eight summit in northern ireland on monday over a thousand people marched against big corporations accused of dodging the payment of huge sums of tuck's follows protests and then when riot police moved against demonstrators to disperse them after an hours long standoff. has the details. on zero stars the campaign isn't environmentalist have gathered here in what they call the penthouse suite of global capitalism otherwise known as canary wharf london's business district home to a number of banks such as j.p.

morgan and barclays now it's an event called they owe us and a day in the title is aimed squarely at g. eight leaders who are set to meet for the start of the g eight summit hosted by britain in northern ireland on monday the protesters gathered here come from a number of different organizations but they all say that they're concerned with one thing and that's the concentration of wealth and power that the g eight summit represents so next week at the g eight david cameron is going to be saying that he's saving the world he's come out with all these great policies that make things better for you know that's just not true he's making decisions and all those leads in fact making decisions that are in the interests of the financial institutions of these large corporations and the interests of normal people we've bailed that banks out so. quoted to me we've got to max out i mean is there a debt to us you know we're not a debt to them so this simple stuff earlier this week anti capitalist protesters clashed with riot police in central london and around sixty arrests were made one

was on the lips of many of the protesters are expected to today's inequalities while this business district is home to a number of investment banks several of the god a territory norm one of the. forest areas where four out of ten children have been focusing so with that the government spending cuts on the way protests disappointing the finger of blame at the banks and the politicians reporting from canary wharf in london. well the upcoming causes a report delves into the corporate dirty laundry that is so i'm going on to accomplish this he's a sneak preview of what knox and stacy discussed later today. sold down the river how thames water diverts its tax liability via the caribbean despite five hundred forty nine million pounds profit and six point seven percent price hike. yeah the stories got it all here you have a basic utility that was built for built by the taxpayer built by the people in britain through their taxes over the years as part of the common wealth part of the

public domain essentially that gets privatized through corruption in government what this government of the previous governor the previous government it's corruption then you've got private contractors and they destroy it they loaded up with debt and it doesn't even function anymore as an operating until the so people are swimming in their own fecal matter paying huge taxes and watching the price of water go up for the thames which is as you see right behind me flowing river through the city of london for thousands of years it doesn't require privatization and financial rape but nevertheless that's what britain gets strong from front fraud fraud that's all they do and you're a sucker. beside the standoff between the u.s. and china has taken a new twist in the revelations of potentially wholesale industrial espionage by washington the same system the spies or millions of americans is alleged to be

stealing the communications of countless chinese the idea of being spied on has led to displays over capitol hill well though even protesting is proving a challenge lieutenant michael battle with united states capitol police certainly you are demonstrating without a permit if you want to leave if you love those who are just losing that is what we are entitled to do was you right there what do you think about it until groups that were not more than twenty people in either group because apparently more than twenty people in the country are angry you can't have a demonstration without a permit so we're going to hamil over into the park maybe we'll just have themselves a moving press conference we're supposed to have the ability to congregate to address grievances to our government this is the one of the biggest scandals ever and we're not allowed to do that what does that say protesters here voiced their support for edward snowden the man who admitted to being the source of lincoln classified documents to the guardian he exposed widespread government surveillance

being conducted by the n.s.a. amid these revelations protesters here voiced their concern about unchecked government powers i think these discussions about snowden are really a distraction what we need to be focusing on isn't whether or not what he did was lawful it's whether or not what the agency did was lawful what we do or don't do as a society. this massive accumulation of power through the control and if we're mace information about people's personal lives as well as there simply was information gathered on every detail what chronic gadget is that american to us while protesters here celebrate snowden's actions calling him a whistleblower some calling him a hero government officials have condemned his actions including some members of congress snowden is believed to be in hong kong right now. here at the capital is while our team. in hong kong hundreds have also taken to the streets in support of

edward snowden them straight as they go from the north to extradite the n.s.a. whistleblower lashing out at the u.s. scooping surveillance program who expires they also handed over a letter to the u.s. consulate accusing washington of allegedly conducting cyber warfare against hong kong on the rights of the people at around the world. of lost at a second a chemical plant in louisiana in as many days has killed at least one person and injured seven of those the accident happened as explosive nitrogen was being moved the kind of mop in from the international action center told us companies and politicians often accused of turning a blind eye to a disaster when profits are at risk louisiana is what's called a right to work state in the united states right to work being you know euphemism for being that workers are not allowed the form of close shop contracts and so there's hostile anti-union legislation that makes it very difficult for workers to

organize them to form unions so as a result of that it's much more likely that the working conditions in such factories where that are non-unionized in states where there's a culture of anti union politics it's much more likely that they would they would have these kind of accident really you know industries organize to make profits for a small group of people and the needs of the workers are last in the lives of the workers and their safety is last in the financial calculation the infrastructure of the united states is largely it's largely lacking and it's falling apart in many places. or turning to some other international news now starting with pakistan or at least fourteen people have been killed by a bus bomb or a university for women in the city of another blast was then reported at the hospital where the injured were being treated followed by a fierce gunfight in which at least four security officers and four attackers were killed and in a separate attack three rocket propelled grenades hit the former residence of pakistan's found on the harm of our original. there's more unrest in libya

city of benghazi where special forces have clashed with armed gangs outside a military base in the east of the city six soldiers have been confirmed so far on friday a group of men forced their way into a different on the compound to steal weapons tension between the population and the military has been on the rise in benghazi because the ousting of colonel gadhafi two years ago. a growing number of israeli strongly against their government's policies towards palestinians are refusing to serve in the army sometimes choosing prison instead not on blank is one conscientious objector who spent almost half a year in jail for refusing to pick up a gun artie's pull a slayer lays at the heart of their discontent. there should be some way out not like this just going to prison david plan son spent a hundred and seventy eight days behind bars he broke his radio record for the number of times he was really wasted and triage by law every israeli citizen woman

and man has to serve an idea this is the place where once you receive your point patzer come to register ready to serve out your two to three year draft. ton blank came here ten times but only to tell him he's not willing to join. were supposed to be inducted into the army in november and since then and he went there and refused to serve and then he was sentenced to ten days i think at the time and since then it's time he is released from prison he. goes back and again refuses to serve blanks crime refusing to be part of what he calls an occupying army the army does not acknowledge this kind of objection not even as a conscientious one and so if. recruit comes to the army and says i refuse to serve they will be tried and then when they go out of prison if

based on recruiting they will be tried again and again the idea of trying to be interviewed by our t. but sent us this written statement it says exceptions to military draft all gone to due to health related issues will it just reasons place of residence and more civilians who do not receive exemption from the i.d.f. but will fade from finding the little face the consequences of their actions this holds true in the case of nathan blank as well as a matter of conscience everyone has to make this isn't like this for himself. so i can't judge what he feels i think the general question of the occupation is is a serious concern for many people in this country and he is just taking it to its logical and the idea of trying to use blank as a warning to others considering following in his footsteps but his refusal to serve put the army in a delicate position by now releasing him they risk setting a precedent but keeping him under lock and key was also threatening to turn his

private protest into a public relations debacle policy r.t.e. television. more news in just over half an hour's time here on our table coming up abby martin takes our scalpel to the mainstream media in breaking the set that's next. six san diego residents were thrown off of an airplane not for what they said but how they said it because they said it in another language russian in fact a paranoid and cowardly steward on the plane told them that they had to clear out just for speaking another language to be here yes of some group of people were to commit a terrorist act then speaking in a foreign language would be

a good tactic i can't deny that and foreigners who come to america better get on the ball and learn to speak english adequately but there is a problem about fifty million tourists visit america every year according to the u.s. department of commerce and trust me not all of them are canadians if the u.s. is going to have millions of tourists arriving in traveling by air then don't be surprised when they speak their own languages if you're going to throw foreigners off of airplanes just for speaking their native languages then you're going to have to basically throw people off of half of the planes flying over the united states but that's just my opinion.

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